REMEMBER ALWAYS

This is my latest project for Creative Inspirations using the following sketch.  For this project, I used one of my favorite pictures taken of my daughter and her best friend at their senior prom.  I heard all those clichés when she was younger; that we will blink and she will be off to college.  It's not a cliché; it is truth.  These two have grown up together.  I can't believe we are at this point.  I hope these two always remember the fun they've had together; the support they've given to each other throughout the years.  I hope that these two always have each other to lean on throughout their adult lives.  Since this sketch called for one, larger picture, I decided it would be the perfect picture for this project.  To pull out the bluish hues in my daughter's prom dress, I used a sheet of paper from 49 and Market's  "Sweet Reflections" line along with the collection's corresponding embellishments.

BASKETFULL OF JOY

This is my latest project for Let's Scrap using the following sketch.  For this week's challenge, I was inspired by Easter pictures I took of my daughter and her cousins coloring Easter eggs.  It's become a tradition that the kids get together the day before Easter and see who can make the prettiest egg.  I don't know what we did different with the coloring this year, but almost every egg we dyed was a vibrant color.  And they tasted quite good too when they became egg salad (although it was a funky colored egg salad...)  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from Authentique's "Abundant" collection.

THE PERFECT SUMMER DAY

This is my latest project for Sketchy Board Challenge using the following sketch.  For this project, I was inspired by the colors and the bricks in the background.  Last summer, my daughter and her good friends went to a local town known for the art scene.  She had her picture taken in front of a colorful brick wall, and I immediately thought of it when I saw the inspiration for this sketch.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of scrap papers I had on hand from Bella Blvd's "Illustrated Faith" collection along with a sheet of white brick paper from Michaels's "Recollection" line.

MAGICAL

This is my latest project for Use Your Stuff.  For this challenge, we were asked to use yarn, string, or twine on a project.  Recently, my mother gave me a batch of pictures of my oldest flying a kite when she was two years old.  She's now seventeen and getting ready to graduate from high school.  Needless to say, I've been a little nostalgic here lately, so I decided to use one of my favorites for this project.  To mimic the kite in the picture, I used a gold die cut, added a gold brad to the die cut, and strung a piece of gold and white baker's twine through the brad to make my own kite on the project.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from Crate Paper's "Carousel" line along with its corresponding embellishments.  

SALTY BUT SWEET

This is my latest project for Sketches in Thyme using the following sketch.  With the sketch calling for an 8x10 picture, I knew I needed to find a terrific snapshot.  I decided to use a picture taken from one of my favorite photoshoots.  When my girls were small, we had family beach pictures taken at Sullivan's Island, South Carolina.  As I was going through my CD of pictures, I came across this one.  I hadn't seen it in a long time, and it literally took my breath away. My sensitive older daughter was walking along leaning on me while my happy go lucky younger girl skipped along the ocean's edge holding her Dad's hand.  We look so happy, so relaxed.  It's a picture that I never looked closely at until the other day.  And with my oldest graduating this year and my youngest finishing Middle School, it made me realize how fast time flies.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from Authentique's "Sea Maiden's" collection.

SO MUCH FUN

1. This is my latest project for Creating Inspiration's April Mini Crop.  My task was to create a project with an Easter theme.  I decided to use untraditional colors for this project.  Recently I discovered Amy Tangerine's "Shine On" collection.  Part of the paper line is a black sheet of paper with bunnies in a variety of shapes and colors.  I was completely inspired by the paper and used a few of my favorite pictures from Easter 2017.  It was a gorgeous Easter Sunday, and my daughter and her cousins had a blast looking for Easter eggs and playing with my puppy Penny. I decided that the "Shine On" collection would be the perfect backdrop for an Easter project even it if wasn't intended to be. To pull this project together, I used a past Creative Inspiration sketch.
   

A WOMAN IS MOST BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE SMILES

This is my latest project for Let's Scrap using the following sketch.  I was completely inspired by the pictures featured in this layout.  My friend recently took incredible photos of my daughter on a gorgeous late winter's day.  We had so much fun posing my girl in a variety of places around our town.  These are some of my favorite shots from a local walking trail.  I loved the field of wheat she is posing in front of for several of the pictures.  But my favorite is of her in her yoga pose at the bottom of the page.  That's my girl; she can be serious one minute and a hoot the next.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from Authentique's "Poised" collection along with "shiplap" paper from Hobby Lobby's "The Paper Studio" line.