Trey's Monster Mash

Here's Trey's Halloween page. If you're wondering what he was.....I couldn't tell you! He wanted to wear his Anikan Skywalker costume, and be scary. So, drew on his face, made him happy, and that's how he went. My neighbor asked what he was that night. Eight year old boys, what can I say?! LOL!

The sketch came from Jeanette Lynton's book. I love those books for scrapbooking. It used tearing in the sketch, so I did follow that, because I thought it created a perfect touch with the Halloween theme. The bats are from a set of stickers I found on clearance.

This page also uses the Happy Haunting cartridge that I borrowed from my neighbor. She's gonna be impressed when she sees these pages. The title is a predesigned phrase on the cartridge. It cuts out in one piece, the m's where combined, but I separated them to fit better on the page. The phrases even have a shadow element, so I took advantage of that and grounded the phrase.

I cut out the monsters and layered them up to create their faces, hair and clothes. Cool thing about them, they matched one of the papers I used. How cool is that?! I love matchy matchy stuff with scrapbooking. I love that mummy! Such a cool cartridge. Another one I'm gonna have to grab one of these days!

Gabi's Haunted Scrapbook Pages.

Been scrapping like crazy. I'm behind, working on photos from the fall, and even from last Halloween, like 2009 Halloween. Because I did more cricut cutting on these pages, I'm gonna showcase them separately. Normally, I to put up more than one page at a time, but with details from the cricut, gonna slow down a little and show off a few parts from the cartridges.

This is Gabi's Halloween page from Halloween 10. She was Dorothy, and took a webkin with her as ToTo. She loves her webkins, so she loved taking the webkin along for the walk. I went all out with the Halloween themed papers and embellies. I had gotten some stickers on clearance from Target, and Michaels, and using them up on these pages.

The coolest parts of the pages were cut with Happy Haunted cartridge. I borrowed this from my neighbor. I cut out the title from it's phrases section. It's shadowed out in purple cardstock. The tree is also cut out in layers. The yellow is the bottom layer, black tree the middle, and the grass is the final part. I ran it thru the Xyron sticker maker, and it left some strays of glue. I than poured glitter on it, and rubbed it around the edges, so it's sparkly in person. Perfect for Gabi. I added stickles to the moon, mouth, and grass. I also cut out the cauldron, and layered it up. I ran the flame thru backwards, so I dumped glitter on it too. The coolest part didn't photograph well, but the gate to the graveyard. Very cool! That is layered with the gate, sign, beware, tombstones, and grass. I added some purple rhinestones to the iron gates. Very fun page to make!

I've more of these coming in the next few days, hopefully! Baseball starts, so that might cause some scheduling issues.

Take Out Those Images #9.

Another image that I colored without having papers picked out ahead of time. My friend, Kim, from Sunshiny Days sent me this image ages and ages ago. Seemed like a great spring time image to play with. We've had some warm weather lately, and feels like spring is coming. I followed the sketch from The Sweet Stop.

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Other supplies: nesties, Martha punch, SU cardstocks, copics, stickles, primas.

Flutter By Wednesday #143, Anything Goes!

It's an open challenge today at Flutter By Wednesday. Means you just need to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your card. I hope you all will play along with us at Flutter By Wednesday and link your creation up at the blog. Don't forget to peak at what the other designers made. You can get to their blogs by clicking on their names to the right, or by going to the Flutter By Wednesday blog.
I pulled out neglected Pink Cat Studio Enchanted Lily, colored her with copics, cut her out and added some stickles. Followed the sketch off My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge.
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you play along!
Other supplies: Nesties, Basic Grey Green at Heart pack, primas, stickles, SU Rich Razzleberry ink, SU cardstock, PTI die.

Take Out Those Images #8

Cute image to show off today! How sweet is that doggie? I have no idea where this image is from, thought Whipper Snapper but not seeing it there. I sent it to a sweet friend who's been ill, along with her little one. Figured the sweet image, and fun colors would brighten her day. I had so much fun coloring the sofa, and pulling out whatever color markers. Normally, I color based on paper, but I sat down the other day and just colored a few images. Should be interesting to see how the other images turn out when I make cards with them.

Supplies: DCWV Mango stack, SU cardstock, stickles, nesties, Martha punch, scrappers floss

Two More Pages Done!

Finished up two more pages for Gabi. This first one is from her ballet routine last summer. She was part of the Diamond's group. They had rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and sapphires. I have to admit, I was disappointed with her costume, because the year before, her ballet costume was also grey. I would have loved a different colored tutu. Lucky for me, she looks wonderful in grey. And if you noticed with her other scrapbook pages of her routines from last year, the majority of her costumes were all black and white. You can see them here, here For a person who loves color in her scrapbook pages, this was painful! For a girl who love hot pink, that killed Gabi. I had found a lovely K and Co pack of papers in the wedding section at Michaels, but I swear I've used them on just about every page from her routines last year.

This was Gabi's lyrical routine, and this costume was full of colors! Yea for me...and Gabi! I was pleased to scrapbook something from that year that was more than just black and white! I pulled out Mariposa DCWV stack, because the colors seemed to blend beautifully with her costume, and well that's a beautiful stack of papers.

I borrowed my friend's Wall's Decors and More Cricut cartridge to cut out my beautiful dancers, if you can see them in the photo. I've used this cartridge several times, I think I'm gonna have to buy it soon! LOL! I think it's been at my house more than hers lately!

Supplies: Prima, Prima pearls, stickles, cricut, reflections bling, SU ink, Martha punch,

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Catching Up On Scrapbooking.

Two pages to show off today. One is of Gabi's dance recital from last year called Fosse. This was a big group routine, where all the dancers were in the routine. They all had the same black bling body piece, but different accessories depending on which part of the routine they were in. At the end, they all came out in just the black piece. Fun little routine for the girls. She's taken dance with her friend since preschool, so we always snap a photo of them together. Her friend is a fantastic dancer, so she was in the older girls routine part. Her outfit had a white shirt, and tie.

This page is full of bling swirls, but it's not showing up so well in the photo due to the loud papers.

Than I took the kids to see the Buford Dam in Ga when we visited in Aug when my father passed away. Family still lives very close to the dam, so seems odd they've never been before last summer. My family went every year over the summer. Always funny to go back to something when you're grown, and see how different it is from what you remember. I remember this thing being huge! Being able to see the dam very well from this one over look. I don't recall the bridge that was there now. My in laws said it was different now since 911, and had been built around to keep it safe. The kids enjoyed it, but liked the water area they walked down too over the actual dam.

Both pages I used my cricut to cut out the titles. I used Sure Cuts A Lot software to do my titles in any font on the computer. That program is very easy to use to shadow a title. The Buford page I used a cartridge called Life's A Beach. I used Jeanette Lynton's books Cherish, and Imagine. I pull those two books out every time I scrapbook. They give me a great starting place with a wonderful sketch to work with. I'm always so happy with the end result.

Thanks for stopping by! I'm hoping to get a few more pages done this weekend, since the kids are out of school on Monday.

Other supplies: SU corner punch, stickles, DCWV Summer stack, and Currant stack, Reflections brads, and bling, primas, PTI ribbon,