A few Sketches from Nuts About Sketches!

I love the uniqueness of Shawn's sketches at Nuts About Sketches.  Here are a few recent sketches and layouts!

And here is my layout:

 

And another recent sketch:

And my layout:

(Funny story and side note about this layout - The boy on the left with my husband . . . not a member of my family.  My husband saw him and just invited him into the picture!  And he did!!!  His family just laughed and said that they could see their family doing the same thing!  Phew!  At least they didn't see my husband as a creeper!)

New CUC Theme for April!

Another new Cookin' up Creations theme awaits us for the month of April.  This month's theme is Around the World in 30 days where the DT gets inspiration from other countries and cultures.  I can't wait to post one of my top (someday) vacation destinations and how it inspired my layout.  Come join us for April and get into a drawing for some awesome prizes!

The Leprechauns are Upon Us! - Show and Tell Saturday

And with them they brought a rainbow and a pot of gold!  I thought that I would just share a Pinterest inspired layout this weekend with St. Patty's Day soon to be here.  I loved this layout from Carolynn at Designer Digitals.  I loved the way that the rainbow colored patterned paper peeks out from around the cardstock and the cute little arrow.  So without further ado, the layout:

And my scraplift:

Happy St. Patty's Day everyone!  I hope the leprechauns share their gold with you this weekend!

Lovin this Month's Theme!

I don't know about you but I am a Pinterest addict! I love all the ideas, inspiration, tutorials, embellishments, and more and can't seem to get enough so this month's theme at Cookin' Up Creations is perfect. Every Blue Plate Special Challenge is inspired by amazing Pinterest finds! Check it out!

Nuts About Sketches 250 & 251

Around Christmas my brother found a cute little gift (gross but cute) called BEAN-boozled.  It was a crazy game where you spin a spinner that shows you a jelly belly.  Now you choose a jelly belly of that color and the trick is one flavor is yummy and the other gross.    So you choose Peach or Vomit, Strawberry or Centipede, Licorice or Skunk-spray, well . . . you get the idea.  So on Christmas Day I had to take pictures of the "fun."  The circles in Nuts about Sketches sketch 250 reminded me of the spinner and I had to scrap.

And here is my family playing:

Next, as Spring Break draws nearer, I began to think about Disney (and all the photos that I have yet to scrap!)  So when I saw the Nuts About Sketches 251 sketch and the large photo, I decided to change it up a bit and scrap a few 5 x 7's that I had lying around.  Secret:  I also wanted to try "paper piecing" with clip art on my new Silohuette Cameo.  Here is the sketch:

And I rotated the sketch to create this layout:

 

Hope you are inspired!  Thanks for looking!

A Few More Sketches!

I just wanted to share with you a few more sketches and layouts from this month!  Thanks for looking!

This layout if of my nieces and was based on the following sketch (rotated) from Nuts About Sketches!

This layout is based on a sketch from the same site - I just love this place - though I only did the left side of the two pager.  Unfortunately, our Walgreens had some issues with their photo machine so I didn't get to scrap the photos intended for this challenge but I still love the results!

This photo is of myself and my daughter on "Dress like your parent" day at school!  We look so much alike here!!!

Out with the Old!

This is one of my favorite time of the scrappy year!  I love that all of the Christmas gifts have been created and dished out and now I can refocus on my scrapping!  I also love that each year, Cookin' Up Creations has their month of challenges that focus on using (and reducing) your stash.  I love to challenge myself to use my scraps on a daily basis and can't wait for the challenges to begin!  Come join us!