a layout for the american crafts blog challenge

ok so i only own one american crafts pen, so i couldn't go crazy, but i did use it for the line under the title and the journalling and for the date on the photo!



supplies:

cardstock: colorbox and bazzill
pp, rub-ons & thickers: american crafts
brad: unknown
pen: precision pen by american crafts

tfl and good luck to everyone who enters!

oh happy day!

first reason to be happy is that i went to pick up lisa, dom and the girls at the airport today from their 3 week vacation in germany and the girls were so happy to see me they kept calling my name in the car all the way home. and of course i was very excited to see them too, because i missed them so much!

second reason is that i was chosen as the readers submission on scrapbook & cards today, well actually elki was since she took all the photos, i just scrapped them! ;)


i leave you with a layout i did a couple of weeks ago about some of the birds that have been coming to visit our back yard this year.

another week almost over...

here we are already thursday, where does the time go? the summer so far has been the pitts as far as weather is concerned but it has been quite good scrapping weather i must say. here are a few layouts that i did recently. elki turned 4 in june and this was one of the cutest photos from that day, she had just received this homemade necklace from one of lisa's friends.

and this one of course is justin's school photo from grade one, finished just in time for him finishing school and now they already have their list for supplies to start school again! sorry about the shadowy scan but some of the elements are pop-dotted.

a layout for the american crafts blog challenge

this week's challenge was for a red, white and blue layout, and here is mine!

supplies:

cardstock: colorbox

pattern paper, thickers and rub-ons: all american crafts

journalling spot: jillibean soup

pen: sakura

seed beads for the butterfly attenae

june's photo-a-day challenge layout

since the month of photo challenges is over, i got my layout done on the weekend. i used the mosaic maker to print up my photos, but then cut it all up because i wanted to lay my photos out like a calendar like i usually do, and the month started on a monday. not sure i like the way i did my journalling, might have to do that part over maybe with some hidden journalling!

friday already!

it seems that only yesterday it was monday, oh well, time flies when you're busy, right! i wanted to upload these layouts on monday, but what can i say, it's friday and i'm just getting around to it! this first one is justin's loves at his age, but i put what i know that he loves, but he also made a list and there are different things on it, so i might have to do another one for him!



this next one i scraplifted from a layout by heather bowser that was in scrapbook etc. mag. i just loved it so much that it's pretty darned close to the original! the interesting part about this is the polka dotted pattern paper that i used is the cut out piece from the layout above and i didn't want to cover it up.



a funny story about this last one. is that both times that elki came over to sleep lately we would go downstairs to my scrap room and while i worked on a layout, she would make a b-day card or father's day card. when i finished this one, i held it up to her and asked if she liked it and she put her head to one side and really took her time and thought about it and then said 'try it again!' well reg sometimes says that a layout may not be my best work, but i must say that elki is my harshest critic! :)