in your heart

It is a beautiful day here in Minnesota and I have a quick card to share with you.

I created this card using October Afternoon papers and embellishments from the "holiday style" collection along with a sentiment by Penny Black.

Well you know I just had to play along with this challenge since I love making rolled flowers and could probably do it with my eyes closed.

Thanks for stopping by to look. I will be back later today with a couple of scrapbook layouts that I have done for my online class.

rainy day layouts

We have had hot, humid and rain off and on for the past three days. When it wasn't too hot to be upstairs in my craftroom I spent time working on some scrapbook layouts.

This first layout is for the online class I am taking. We were to do some paint drippage on our layout. I did it but still not sure I care for it. 

It kind of looks like the bucket Ryder is sitting in sprang a leak and water is spilling everywhere. lol

The journal card will be empty until his Mom can fill it in. I usually do the titles and she does the journaling.

This next layout is done with 3 photos that Micah's mom texted to me last night to show me how he combed his hair after his shower.

I had so much fun creating this layout and I love the middle photo of Micah. He reminds me of one of the lollipop kids in the "wizard of oz".

This last layout was also sent to me in a text message yesterday of Micah and his favorite dump truck. 

I used the Echo Park "toy box" mini-theme kit for this layout along with some thickers I had in my stash.

Well that is it for layouts for me today. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my blog.

happy holidays

Yep, two cards in a row. My mojo is definitely back.

I haven't played along with the sketch over at Clean and Simple for awhile and when I saw the sketch today while blurfing I decided to play.

Since I still had my Christmas bin on my desk I decided to turn this sketch into another Christmas card.

I used an old Penny Black sticker along with a rub-on, button and twine from my stash. It was a really quick card.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Thanks for stopping by to look. I am on my way out the door to go and pick up a few things to make a bridal shower invite for a friend.

Don't forget if you play along let me know so I can stop by and see what you create with this great sketch.

deck the halls

It's Monday and that means time for another sketch challenge over at Merry Monday and it also means another Christmas card added to the done pile.

For my card once again I have used papers by October Afternoon from the "holiday style" collection along with an old embellishment by K&Company that has been in my Christmas bin for about 4 years now.

I have never done a card with a topper and when I saw the sketch i knew I had to play along with them.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

So are you playing along with the Paper Players this week? If you are let me know so I can come and check out what you created.

Thanks for stopping by.

dad

The Paper Players are celebrating their 100th challenge this week and this weeks challenge is to use any previous sketch and create a card.

As soon as I saw the challenge I was off to look at the blog and to take a look at all the past sketches. I chose to work with sketch #69.

I used some new My Minds Eye 6x6 pads that I picked up on Friday at HomeGoods. I had never been to that store before but when I found out they had 6x6 paper pads for $2.99 well I just had to go check it out. I picked up 7 new MME pads that I had not seen before.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

So are you going to play this week? What sketch will you pick?

Thanks for stopping by.

lets ride...

Here is another layout of my great-nephews Ace and Ryder along with their Dad and Geema. They took a trip to the Equestrian Center to watch their Geema ride her horse Santana.

I used October Afternoon papers and embellishments from the "Sasparilla" collection. I am trying to decide if the layout is too busy looking.

Let me know what you think and thanks for stopping by.

aunt cake

Here is another layout from my online scrapbooking class that I am taking that entails using only the products you put into your kit.

This time it was a sketch challenge using a mask on your layout.

This is a layout of my god-daughter Kate and my great-nephew Adrian. Adrian calls Kate "auntie cake". This photo was taken when she went down to Texas to visit a few months ago.

I have had that canvas flower for awhile now and was glad I could finally use it on a layout.

Besides spraying the mask with some green Mr. Huey's spray I also used some white and black paint.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

favorite layouts

I have been scrapbooking a lot lately and I wanted to share a few of my favorite layouts that I have done before I hand them over to Micah and Cassie's Mom and Dad.

This first one is probably my favorite. I love how I captured Micah doing his somersault and how it looks like he is standing on his head. He has really gotten good at doing them and it is so fun to watch.

As you can see I am still loving the splattering on the pages and do it on almost everyone that I create.

These photos are from Easter and I used some new die-cut picture frame stickers by K&Company. The package comes with an assortment of black and white frames which are so fun to put on your pictures.

This next one is Micah trying to blow up a water balloon. If you have never done it, it is almost impossible to do. It was fun watching his face as he tried though. This is another of my favorites from this batch that I did.

This last one is from a few weeks ago when I staye over and watched Micah while his parents were at work. It was really hot so we went outside and had homemade popsicles (juice and water) that his Dad had made for him.

Thanks for stopping by to look. You know I love your comments and feedback on my layouts.

ho ho ho

I had so much fun creating a card yesterday that I decided to give the sketch over at "merry monday" a try this morning.

I pulled out my favorite holiday papers by October Afternoon from the "holiday style" collection and got to work creating this card.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

I will definitely be using this one again and again, as it was easy, with lots of possiblities for different styles of cards.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

hello "mojo"

Oh yes, you read that right, my card making "mojo" is slowly returning and I owe it all to the Hero Arts June Sketch challenge.

Don't you just love all 3 of these sketches? The one that had me at "hello" was the one with the fish tails. I love making them lately so it was only appropriate that my first card be made with them.

I used PB&J by BasicGrey. It is one of my all time favorites by them and I want to use it on everything.

It is hot and humid here in Minnesota so I have been trying to stay indoors where it is a just a little bit cooler.

Thanks for stopping by and I will be back soon with another card to share.

Enjoy your day!

yee-haw

This layout is one that I created this morning for my online scrapbooking class. It was a sketch challenge and we were to use pattern paper in the background, along with a painted section for our cluster of embellishments.

The class I am taking is one where we build our own kit to use and then for all of the challenges in the class you only use the supplies that are in your kit.

I am really enjoying the class and am learning quite a bit from our instructor Patty.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

You are Amazing!

Here is a layout from the first challenge from my newest class I am taking over at Studio Calico called "Washi Tape Workshop".

The first challenge is to create to different types of layouts and one card using Washi Tape based on the first week handouts we were given.

I figured I better start using some of the 50 - 60 rolls of washi tape that I own. This picture of my great nephew Ryder was just perfect for this challenge.

What do you do with your Washi tape?

Thanks for stopping by, I need to get busy and get dinner on the table and then drive my 2 guys downtown so they can attend the Lynx game tonight. Justin has two season tickets and usually him and Dad go to those games together.

New Class

I am taking an online scrapbooking class that is all about putting together a kit made from your own supplies and using that kit in the class.

We did our first challenge this week and it was to use a pattern paper as the background. Well as most of you know I am usually a white background kind of girl so this one was a little tough for me.

I do have to admit that after doing this challenge I am definitely going to be using more pattern papers in my backgrounds. I have already done two other layouts using this challenge.

All items on this page are from the kit that I put together for this class. I will be doing this more in the future as well. It helps to use those embellishments and papers that are just sitting around in your stash.

Thanks for stopping by ~ I appreciate your support.

morning

It is the one hour scrap over at Creative Scrappers and I just had to play along to see if I could get a layout done and posted within an hour.

I am happy to report that I did it all in 45 minutes.

I used papers and chipboard from the BasicGrey "pb&j" collection along with a star punch.

Here is the fabulous sketch that I followed.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

hump day

It is hump day and I have a couple layouts to share of you of my two great-nephews Adrian and Ryder.

Look I actually used something other than a white base for my layout. *grin*

I used papers and embellishments from the Authentique "glory" collection. These will be perfect for 4th of the July photos as well.

This next picture is of Ryder at the beach yesterday. Isn't he just adorable? I used papers from the Echo Park "sunshine" collection.

Thanks for stopping by to look. 

friends

Back again with another layout that I did this weekend.

This one is for the newest sketch challenge over at Creative Scrappers. 

Notice that real polaroid photo that I used. It was taken in the early 90's and I am the tan girl in the back with the crazy curly hair. The photo is of me and my online friends that finally got a chance to meet after talking on the computer for a couple years.

I used papers and embellishments from the 9 to 5 collection by October Afternoon along with my watercolors. I am totally loving splattering on my pages and can't seem to do a page without them.

Here is the great sketch that I used as my inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog. I appreciate those of you who left sweet comments on my post yesterday.

be back soon

While I am enjoying my blog break I will hopefully be back soon. I have fallen in love with scrapbooking again and have been spending all my time doing that lately.

I signed up for an online class and our first challenge was to use leftover papers that had been previously punched out and used on something else.

This is the layout I created and I used a piece of paper that I had punched stars out on and then in that same pile of scraps I found the reverse image of a heart, which I think just goes perfect with this layout.

Hoping to be back June 1st with lots of scrapbooking layouts in my future and maybe a card once in awhile.

Thanks for waiting for me to get over this little slump that life hands people.

ACE aka Adrian Charles Eckblad

As I said earlier I have been busy scrapbooking like a maniac and here are a couple of the layouts that I created.

All of these layouts will be heading to Texas along with quite a few others.

As you can see by each layout I am totally loving splattering paint onto the pages.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

joy

I'm back! Did you miss me or didn't you even realize I was gone? I have been busy scrapbooking and have completed about 15 layouts so far this week.

I have a card to share with you today that I created for this weeks Merry Monday challenge.

I used papers and stickers by Fancy Pants along with a Spellbinders die and alpha stickers by October Afternoon and Jillibean

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Thanks for stopping by and as always I appreciate those of you that leave your comments. So I am thinking of shutting down my blog here, what are your thoughts? Will you miss me? Do you even really care?

play ball

I have been enjoying scrapbooking so much lately, I may never come back to card making!

Here is a layout I created this evening using photos that my son took my at a recent Minnesota Twins game.

I used papers by October Afternoon and We R Memory Keepers along with some brads by Crate Paper, Mister Huey's mist, stars are cut with my Spellbinders dies, Font is Bella Blvd., and October Afternoon.

Thanks for stopping by to look.