us ~ beach ~ fabulous

Happy Sunday! I had a great day yesterday at Archivers seeing old friends and meeting some new friends.

I even managed to get a few things done ~ in between the talking, eating, shopping, and more talking and eating.

I created the following layout for this weeks sketch challenge over at  The Scraproom Blog.

This was such a fun sketch to play with and I thought my October Afternoon papers were perfect. This is a picture of my son Justin and his fiance Melissa. I took the picture when we were up in Wahpeton, North Dakota visiting my oldest sister Sharon.

Now I have a card for you using this weeks card sketch at Twisted Sketches. I used some Neenah natural white cardstock, along with some Cosmo Cricket "material girl" paper, PTI "butterfly" die, and some A Muse "creative candy".

My last project I made while at Archivers is a little mini book  of Micah's first time at the lake. The entire family went along with his cousins who live in North Dakota. I think making mini books is my favorite way to scrapbook. Sorry I didn't take time to crop the photos.

Well that is it for me today ~ I will be back tomorrow with another card or two and maybe another layout.

Enjoy!

hi ~ on the farm

It was the perfect summer day here in Minnesota today. I had a few errands to run and just spent some time enjoying the day.

I stopped in at Archivers to get the new BasicGrey 6x6 pads Olivia and Oliver and all I can say is they are too cute as is the Woolies for Olivia.

You know I had to try out my new stuff and I thought it went perfect with this weeks sketch challenge over at LimeLight Papercrafts. Besides the sketch the challenge was to use string or twine on your card instead of ribbon. I hope black floss counts as string or twine.

I also took a little time to watch a movie and do a scrapbook layout for the Design Team call over at Twisted Sketches.

And this is the sketch that inspired my layout.

For this layout I used Bazzill  and Neenah cardstock, Yellow Bicycle patterned papers, Jolee's embellishments, American Crafts "thickers", and handmade rosebuds.

Enjoy!