ScrapFriends Sketch Challenge #19 and Some Catching Up!

Hello everyone!

I'm back from vacation and it was WONDERFUL! Me and the hubby celebrated our 10 year anniversary by going on a trip to Cambodia and Vietnam withOUT the kiddos (oh thank you, oh thank you, oh thank you mom for watching them!!). I'll share some photos before parting adieu but on to other fun things as well!

ScrapFriends has another fabulous sketch challenge up and I hope to encourage you to play along!

I stayed pretty close to the sketch because it was such an awesome one and had one of my favorite trends on it....feathers!

It is a wordless ode to some of my favorite scrapbook things and as I wanted to make those things standout, I kept the background neutral.

Here's some close ups.....

And as promised, here are a few photos from our trip...

Angkor Wat at sunrise....need I say more?

Ta Prohm 

New travel hats :)

Eating street food...yum yum!

Hiking in Sapa

Ha Long bay on our private junk boat!

I always forget this part....

Papers: SODAlicious, ILS

Washi tape: Freckled Fawn, Gauche Alchemy

Feathers: Silhouette

Pens: Zig Writer and Zig Photo Signature

Paints: Luminarte Twinkling H20's, Angora watercolors

Hope everyone is having a grand week!

Might As Well Jump! - Scrap Friends Color Challenge

Hello everyone!

There's a new color challenge up at Scrap Friends and it's such a pretty one! Of course there's nothing pretty about my interpretation ;) We love to do these jumps wherever we travel. In this case we were in the middle of nowhere Iceland, heading towards a glacier when we decided to get out the car, go exploring, and as the Van Halen lyric says....jump!

Now let me show you those pretty colors before I go on:

Doesn't it truly look yummy??

Hope you get a chance to play along with this month's colors!

Having Fun With Embossing Powder!

Hi everyone!

I wanted to get this post out a bit sooner but it's been busy, busy here with work, friends visiting from out of town and prepping to leave on holiday this Thursday!

Anyhoo, I've got my first tutorial up for Scrap Friends here and it's on using embossing powder. I'd love for you all to go check it out of course and tell me what you think!

Here's the page I made:

Again, I've got all the "how to's" over at Scrap Friends, hope you find it fun! Cheers!

Friends - ScrapFriends Sketch Challenge #17

Hello everyone!

It's time for a new sketch challenge at ScrapFriends! Angela makes such amazing sketches and this month's is full of energy and fun!

I feel there's a grungy energy to this but what I love about sketches is the endless different ways to interpret them. They can be suggestive, or inspire or guide you. I wanted to scrap these super adorable photos of my youngest daughter and one of our pooches. It was going to be all about girly and sweet with a dash of grunge...here's what I came up with..

I used Prima flowers and UmWowStudio hearts for the girly feel and of course I had to try and match that tutu's color. Faber Castell gelatos came in handy to get just the right colors in the background. 

I hope you play along! Thanks for stopping by!

"This Moment" for UmWowStudio

Hi everyone!

September is a busy month in my household because 3 out of the 4 of us share September birthdays. But not this little one, she gets a month all to herself! I snapped this photo back in May, one day before my baby girl turned two. Busy busy little thing she is and I love capturing the random moments.

This is my latest page up at UmWowStudio. I really wanted to put their new masks to use. On this page I used the Star Confetti Mask to create my background.

I colored the mask with Faber Castell Big Brush pens, spritzed the mask with water, and randomly pressed down on paper (like a stamp really). 

Here's flair from the Black and Blue set dressed up with Heart Confetti...

And of course some chipboard! I've used Star Confetti here.

Thanks as always for the visit!!

ScrapFriends Color Challenge #17!

Hello everyone!

ScrapFriends has their Color Challenge #17 up and it certainly is a yummy one!

Aren't those colors gorgeous?

I had fun with this one..........!

And the story...my daughter discovered the meaning of photobomb during our trip to Iceland and she made it her mission to, how shall we say..."practice" the act of photobombing as much as possible for a time. Here she jumped into the pic, enthusiastically blocking her younger sister.

I used the 7Dots paper from the Love Is In the Air collection...wow I love those papers! I just went and added some gesso stenciling, water colors, and stamping and the background pretty much made itself!

And these Studio Calico mistable cameras came in very handy considering the topic of the paper...

The challenge runs through until October 14th so why don't you come and have a play?

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!!

My Exciting News!

Hi everyone!

I've got some very happy news that I can finally share (actual I'm a bit late sharing here but as the saying goes, better late than never!):

... I've joined the design team over at ScrapFriends!

When I was asked to join, I did a little happy dance :) I've been following their blog for some time and I love their gorgeous sketch and beautiful color scheme challenges! And if you haven't visited their store, you should. It's full of anything you could want to make your pages and projects!

And speaking of sketches, the September Sketch Challenge #17 is up right now! You have until September 30th so go to it!

My take.................

I threw banners across my page, a little splitter, splatter here and there of distress stains, stamps and paints.

OK, every time I see that photo above, I. Crack. Up. That squished up nose? That's little one "blowing" out her candle...except her mouth is closed and she's forcing air out her nose! She had never blown out a birthday candle before and she thought that's what the big girls were doing! Hee hee!, so funny, forever precious.

That was a little long of a post so I'll say goodbye and invite you once again to play along with this month's sketch over that ScrapFriends!