2 BROKE GIRLS DESIGN TEAM!

Boy, this month has been full of good news for me!  I found out this afternoon that I was accepted as a member of the 2 Broke Girls Design Team!  Their site has become one of my favorite go to sites when I need some sketchy inspiration, so I'm beyond thrilled that they selected me to be part of their design team!

SUMMER AT LAKE ERIE

This week's RCS challenge was inspired by the movie "Mystic River."  In other words, use spray ink on our layouts in some way.  I LOVE spray ink!  It's so messy, but SO MUCH FUN! For this layout, I finally used a picture I took of my daughter at Lake Erie over eight years ago.  She was get her toes wet, and I loved the water and sand in the picture.  Then I found the net paper in my stash of scrap paper, used it as a mask for my spray ink.  When I was done using it as a mask, I added it as a texture layer to frame my picture.  To add a nautical look to this, I made the tag using Little Yellow Bicycle Splash collection, jute ribbon, and baker's twine.  I had so much fun making this layout, even if my scrapbooking desk has a permanent blue tint to it!

NATIONAL ZOO

In January, my student Tyler passed away from complications from the flu.  It was one of the most awful experiences of my life and my career having to navigate my students through the death of a classmate.  When my colleagues and I went to pay our respects to my student's family, his parents, who are the most amazingly strong and selfless people I've encountered, asked us to bring this bear with us to Washington DC in honor of Tyler.  We told the students of our plans, and they had a blast posing the bear all over monuments and places we visited in Washington.  This picture is from our first stop in Washington DC at the National Zoo.  We placed Tyler's bear on a statue of a panda bear.  When I saw that this week's challenge for Child's Play was the children's book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See..." I immediately thought of this picture.  I plan to give the layout to Tyler's parents along with other layouts I'm making commemorating the bear's trip to Washington.  If you would like to look at other layouts based on this challenge, please follow this link back to Child's Play Challenge. http://childsplaychallenges.blogspot.com/ Thanks for browsing!

I LOVE TO KNIT

For this week's RCS challenge, the movie theme was Lilo and Stitch; in other words, add stitching to your layout.  Sewing is the one skill I wish I had.  I own a sewing machine; I just have no clue how to operate it.  So, turned to the faux stitching on this one.  And the knit stitch!  My other hobby is knitting.  I'm a novice.  It's a joke among my co-workers when they ask me what knitting project I'm working on.  I make washcloths and scarves like nobody's business!  I learned how to knit from my oldest daughter who took a knitting class at our local Senior Citizen center.  She taught me, and I taught my younger daughter.  She loves to sit with me watching TV working on her knit stitch.  For this project, I included yarn on my tag and wrapping it around my chipboard letters.  I found some paper scraps in my stash that reminded me of vintage fabric and go the rest of the papers from Hobby Lobby.  A little baker's twine and buttons, and the layout was finished!

CHILD'S PLAY CHALLENGES DESIGN TEAM!

Earlier this week I learned that I was selected to be a member of Child's Play Challenges' Design Team!  I am so excited to be a member of another group of people who love scrapbooking as much as I do. This blog asks participants to make a layout inspired by a classic childhood toy, book, movie, etc.  I've played along with them in the past, and am so honored that they selected me to get people's creative juices flowing!  I can't wait to post my first design for them; STAY TUNED!

123 GET SCRAPPY DT CALL!

Hello everyone!  If you are visiting my blog, this is a shout out to a brand new design team that is entering the cyber world.  If you are a teacher, you are going to LOVE this one!  Why?  Because if your district differentiate's curriculum, this challenge blog does EXACTLY THAT!  Participants will get a list of items on a tic tac toe board, and you get to pick the combo of 3 items you want to include on your layout. Talk about an awesome concept!  The teacher in me thinks this would be an exciting blog to become a part of and follow in the scrapbooking world.  Check it out!

MOUSTACHE LOVE

This is a layout I did for the Simple Sketches design team call.  We were to create a layout based on the sketch found below, and this is how I interpreted it. First, I found these pictures of my girls sporting "moustaches" at our local amusement park, and the sizes of the pictures fit the sizes needed on the sketch.  In addition,  I love chevron's, and the Valentine paper from Bella Blvd not only had chevron paper that fit this sketch to a "T", but also was double sided and had moustaches on the back of it!  I tweaked the sketch slightly by using an actual moustache sticker rather than letters as the title at the top.  I thoroughly enjoyed working with this sketch, and I really hope that Simple Sketches selects me to be one of their layout designers.  Crossing my fingers!