ScrapFIT #45 - Around the House & Sketchy Thursdays :)

It's June 1st, which means it's time for another awesome workout at ScrapFIT! This challenge is about using thing around the house to aid in your layout, card, or other project. You have to get creative with this one!

I wanted to scrap these pictures of Reese running around, enjoying the nice sunny weather. I used her sandal to make shoe prints...just like she ran right across the page. I love how this turned out!


I also created a banner from patterned paper...LOVE banners!

I added some more clouds and some cute buttons to the sun :) I stickled the clouds, which made the paper kind of buckle, but I think it looks more realistic this way!


Our amazing sponsors from last month are back again this month to shower you prizes!

SCRAPBOOK CIRCLE -- Garden Party Kit



Scrapbook Circle is a monthly kit club that has been creating kits for almost 5 years and loves getting to share these kits each month. We offer a 2+ month subscription which means that you only commit to receiving two kits and then you can go month to month and quit at any time.

We combine multiple manufactures each month for a unique kit that you won't find anywhere else. We also include a Scrapbook Circle custom printable page that coordinates with each monthly kit.

Our May Kit, Grandma's Attic, is filled with brand new products we ordered at CHA and we are excited to share it with you.
This month is Scrapboook Circle's 5th Anniversary and they are also offering an Anniversary Kit with a huge discount to any of their subscribers.

Be sure to visit the Scrapbook Circle Idea Page and Blog for daily inspiration. You can also join us on Facebook where we do kit giveaways and you can follow us on Twitter too.

Our second sponsor this month is Chelle's Creations!


Chelle's Creations is our very first DIGI Sponsor!!! I am so excited to offer all our digi scrappers an opportunity to play along for a great prize - a $7.00 gift certificate to Chelle's Creations! This will easily get you one great kit of your choice from her store!

You have until June 30th to link up your creative 'Around The House' layout to our Mr. Linky on the ScrapFIT blog. Winners will be announces on July 1st.

I also wanted to share my layout for this week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch. I used two pictures of my little Paige and her obsession with Dora! She used to love to get as close as she could to the TV and stare up at it...thank goodness she doesn't do it anymore! I loved the sketch this week...hop on over there and check it out!



Thanks for looking!

The Scrappiest

Talk about in the nick of time! I just have finished this layout for the latest challenge at The Scrappiest. I had the perfect photos for it, too!



Here is what I made...my favorite part (other than the adorable photos) is how I was able to make my border curvy. I love the effect it has! I stamped the flourish border around the edges, did a lot of misting and inking, and finished it off with a few buttons, ribbon & stitching.



Thanks for looking!

Silly Slicker

Happy Memorial Day! I have a page to share with you. This is my little "Silly Slicker." When Paige was teething, she constantly had her fingers in her mouth, gnawing away on them. Her hands would be wet with slobber, and she'd touch the top of her head and slide her hands down her forehead. Her hair would be wet and it would be stuck to her head...so we'd always say how her hair was "slicked" down.

I've been in a "banner" mood lately...I love the look of them, streaming across the top of pages! You can't really see the "silly" part of the title unless you enlarge the photo...it's very subtle. I did a little stitching as well.


I love lollipop flowers! They're so easy to make.


A new reveal from ScrapFIT will be up on Wednesday! Yay! Stay tuned...

Scrapbookers Anonymous Challenge

I finally got to take part in the Scrapbookers Anonymous blog challenge! I always seem to run out of time and miss so many challenges. This one was so good...you were to use stamps to create patterned paper, and then use three more stamps somewhere on your page.

I created the pattern on the yellow piece of paper at the bottom. The date box, the text & flourish at the top, and the "Hello Darling" are all stamped. The flowers with the buttons in the center are also stamps. I don't use my stamps as often as I should...so this was a GREAT way to force me to use them!



Reese was playing on her bed one day, and I followed her in there with the camera. She tried to hide from me and gave me looks, like "Seriously, mom? Again with the camera?" I have to admit, I am always taking her picture. I can't help it!

Thanks for looking!

Paper Thrills Challenge #11

The next challenge at Paper Thrills is up...and it's a cute sketch! Here is what I made for the DT. Be sure to head on over and check out the other layouts!

I started off by misting a large circle and then stitching another one around it. I loved the salmon color of Paige's outfit, so I used some papers from and old DCWV stack...Whimsy. I always used to think I had to use birthday papers for birthday photos...that is so not the case!


I embossed a few chipboard flowers with my Cuttlebug and then inked them.


Thanks for stopping by!

This face & Almost 1

Here are few "Paige" pages I'd like to share today. I used a new stack of papers from DCWV...The Playground Stack...for "This Face." All the papers are paper bag colored with muted colors...love them! The really make the photos stand out. I used a scalloped border punch, and even broke out my old deco scissors! You never know what you may pull out of your stash...haha!

These pictures are of my silly Paige last year. We always used this hook-on chair at restaurants, and she was being so funny here! I think she looks like she's had too much to drink...haha!


I don't sew by machine...AT ALL...but I wanted that "look" of machine stitching. I got creative and drew circles, and then just punched holes around them using a thumb tack. Up close you can tell, but when looking at it in an album, it looks real!


Talk about different styles of scrapping! If you browse through my pages, they are all so different...this one here doesn't even resemble my usual style. These are some of Paige's 11-month photos, and I wanted a soft & sweet page without a lot of crazy misting and randomness. I had seen this pleated paper idea before and wanted to give it a try. I love how it turned out!



Thanks for looking! I've got a few DT reveals coming up, so I've been working on those layouts. See you soon and happy scrappin'!

I won the Page Maps Contest!!

I was half asleep just a few minutes ago, checking my scrappy blogs, and I noticed that the winner had been chosen for the Page Maps contest. I literally said out loud, "Well, don't get your hopes up...you know you didn't win." And then I clicked on the page and saw my Mama's Little Flasher layout!!! I WON!!! I can't believe it!! I get a $35 to A Cherry on Top...my FAVORITE online scrappy store!! WOO HOO!!! That totally just made my day!!

Go HERE to see the post!! Yay, me!! Thank you, Becky Fleck, for creating such awesome sketches & having these contests!