SKETCHES IN THYME DESIGN TEAM CALL

I love being on the RCS design team!  I love it so much, I'd really like to get involved in some more design teams as well.  So, the latest team I'm applying to become a member of is Sketches in Thyme; a sketch based design team.  I love working with sketches; I love having a pattern to go from and then tweak it in a way that reflects my style.  We were asked to create a layout based on one of the three sketches featured in the month of April.  I chose this sketch...

And I created this based on the sketch....

I love this picture of my daughter goofing around in a souvenir shop in Charleston, SC.  She put on these octopus fingers and acted like the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz with them.  I loved this sketch because it was a single picture sketch.  Slanting it a touch really helped set off the picture.

I so hope that Sketches in Thyme decides that I would be a good fit for them.  I feel like I'm a dependable team player when it comes to groups I'm involved in at work and within the scrapbooking world.  Plus with summer on the horizon, PLENTY of time to scrap and make all sorts of goodies!  Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!

OLD, NEW, BORROWED, & BLUE BLOGHOP!

Welcome to Day 2 of the Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue Blog Hop!

Wedding bells will soon be ringing as the wedding season is almost here, and the design teams of Red Carpet Studio and The Paper Nest Dolls have teamed up to provide you with some beautiful wedding inspiration by creating projects using Paper Nest Dolls digital stamps! If you've just come across the hop and would like to start at the beginning, please visit Red Carpet Studio.

Red Carpet Studio is a movie-themed challenge blog that runs weekly challenges, alternating between layout and card challenges each week. All of their challenges are inspired by either a movie or aspect of Hollywood!

The Paper Nest Dolls is a brand new digital/rubber stamp shop that sells adorable stamps inspired by the designer's children. Their stamps are sold here and they just started a challenge blog as well!

For my project today, I made...

 

For this project, I decided to make a favor a bride-to-be could use at a wedding shower as a centerpiece for a table.  I used the digi stamp entitled "Wedding Couple" from Paper Nest to build this project.  First, I took a simple, inexpensive frame from the Hobby Lobby to give the "directions" for those attending the shower.  The poem inside the frame reads, "Because you are OLD pros at marraige and we are very NEW, we would like to BORROW words of wisdom so we are never BLUE."  Surrounding the frame are two envelopes where guests can write their messages to the bride to be.  I kind of wish I would have had something like this when I got married....something like this could have possibly made that first year with my husband a little more tolerable...Hee Hee!  Fourteen years, two kids, four pets later, we are still going strong!  Thank you for participating in our blog hop!  Enjoy checking out everyone's wedding theme projects!

The Paper Nest Dolls owner and artist, Christine, is very generously providing us with some blog candy from her online stamp shop and her brick and mortar scrapbooking store! To be eligible to win you must comment on every stop of both days of the hop. 

Two $20 Gift Certificates

Prima Flower Prize Pack

Ready for the next stop? It's Candice's blog! Red Carpet Studio
The Paper Nest Dolls
Ashley
Nikki
Rochelle
Katrina
Robin
Jasmina
Stephanie
Candice
Olga

Happy Hopping! :)

LOVE MY GIRLS

This was a layout I made for a design team call a few months back for the Nuts About Sketches blog.  Although I didn't make the team, I did get the chance to make a layout using my absolute FAVORITE pictures of my girls my dear friend and former neighbor Scherry took for me back in October 2012.  It was one of those layouts that came together very quickly.  The sketch was easy to follow, and I absolutely loved the Little Yellow Bicycle Acorn collection I featured in this layout.  My husband bought me an easel for Christmas to display my favorite layouts; this one is out quite often!

SILLY GIRLS

This was the most recent layout posted to the RCS challenge blog.  The inspiration for this blog were movie reel.  In other words, we needed to make a layout featuring a frame.  Whenever I think of movie reels, I think of those old projectors my elementary teachers used.  And when I think of old movies, I think of film stars from the 1930's like Charlie Chaplin.  To be a fly on the wall of my brain....Anyway, I took this picture of my girls and my neighbor girl posing at our local amusement park wearing their Charlie Chaplin mustaches they won playing a game of some kind.  I've been looking for the perfect pictures to use my October Afternoon "Midway" paper, and suddenly I found myself "framing" this silly picture of my girls with all the fun patterns found in this collection.  I guess they have actually "been framed!"

TINY DANCER.

This week's RCS challenge was inspired by movie reels.  The catch; incorporate ribbon on thelayout. When I think ribbon, I think of ballet shoes.  A very long time ago, my tweenager took ballet class.  The song to her routine was "Animal Crackers in my Soup."  I thought her costume was going to be animal themed, but instead, her teacher selected the most dainty costume.  It was the most beautiful dance costume I have ever seen.  I found this picture in my stash of "to be scrapbooked" pictures. It originally wasn't a good picture; way too bright, but I wanted to keep this picture because she was smiling at her Dad who was off to the side.  I turned it into a black and white picture just to see what would happen, and I loved it!  I sure do miss this tiny little dancer, but I'm enjoying the wonderful, creative girl that my ballerina is turning into these days.

HOPPY EASTER

Red Carpet Studios was given a wonderful gift from Verve Stamps; these beautiful Easter themed stamps.  I have not worked with stamps in years, and honestly, I was a little intimidated at first.  But working with this product was an absolute blast!  I decided to fore go a scrapbook layout which is my usual MO for RCS and decided to make a paper craft.  So my daughter and I made a field trip to JoAnn's...And this was the end result!  A small brown planter, a handful of Easter grass, a tiny bit of foam, a small amount of pink tulle, and lots of dumdum pops to make an Easter bouquet.  The final touch was my Verve stamp bunny, flowers, and "Hoppy Easter" greeting.  It took little time at all to put this project together, and it's made a cute centerpiece on my kitchen table.  That is if it survives my daughter plucking out a dumdum pop here and there.....Happy Easter everyone!

CUTE AS A BUTTON

This RCS challenge was based on the movie, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."  In other words, we had to use buttons in some way on this layout.  In December, my nephew Noah was born.  This is a new one for me....While I did have nephews prior to Noah being born, they live in Hawaii, so I've never really been around  baby boys.  My house is a bit estrogen dominated, so this is a new one for me   What I've found is there is not much difference between a baby boy and baby girl......Well, I know I'm biased, but I think my Noah is cute as a button.  And I hardly ever get to do a boyish layout, so I decided he would be the perfect subject for this challenge.  That and I came across this adorable baby boy Doodlebug paper at Archiver's, and I just had to buy it.  In summary, this is the curious case of how my button layout came to be....ENJOY!