Queen/Mother

My mum is turning 70 next month and I have been working on an album for her, well I haven't gone very far since I noticed today that I only had 2 LO in her album, do in an effort to catch up I did 2 LO today using 2 different sketch for 2 different challenges for a 2 pager. This is heavy on the inque board, I love using them, the PP is American Craft, flowers were cut using my bigshot.

Page 1 was done sketch 178 at the the Pencil Lines ,

For page 2, I use the sketch from the Scrapbook Challenge,

Let's Ride

 I was able to get 2 projects done after work today, I was so stress after being in meetings all day and this was just what the doctor ordered.

The Scraproom blog had a beautiful sketh for week 11 Challenge and I couldn't wait to use it. I will also be submitting this LO for my second entry at The Practical Scrappers - Use Chipboard

Then for the second project, I use the free digi image from A Gem of a challenge but then forgot to use the sketch provided by Janet, just went about trying to use up scraps and I thought the cutout square was perfect as a frame for the heart.

I will also be sub,itting this card for Crafty Creations #50 - Spots and dots,  Creative Card Crew #46 going Dotty, Flutter by Wednesdays #101 Green + Butterfly and Cupcake Craft #82 Going Green

So I went ahead and made another project using the beautiful Moosetrack Monday Freebie from Paper Popsicles and the sketch from A Gem of a  Challenge to make another card

Love Makes the World Go Round

Challenge #3 at Simon Says Stamp Challenge over at PCP is a recipe use the colors Dark Brown, Vanilla and Teal and The Scrappiest had a sketch #53 for this week, so recipe plus sketch equals what you see below.

 

 

I use Momento Desert sand on the Inqueboard bur it came out a little darker than I wanted

Bird Watching - Wood

The Twist on the Twisted Sketch # 39 was to use wood, I knew which PP I wanted to use as soon as I saw the challenge , just because I wasn't quite sure how I was going to use it. So using the PP that look like tree veins from Poppy Ink and some cardstock, real wood alphas that are got from the dollar store I created a LO using the sketch below. The PP is interesting it has the same pattern on both side.

 

 

This is the Practical Scappers Friday Sketch, the PP is really hard to work with, actually I think the whole kit is hard to work with, the PP are double sided but they have the same pattern on both side. PP Poppy Ink, alphas Angelas Ash, inqueboard.

You can see my Christmas Cactus in bloom in the back, tends to bloom year round so most like the location, had it for about 7 years now.

I am still working on the LO for my 2009 races actually I am not even done with 2008, but yesterday finished  up the LO for my last half marathon of 2009 which was also my first away race using sketch #87 from the Creative Scrappers

 

The PP is from Making Memories Scrapbook Project Pad Note Worthy, found at Tuesday Morning last year for $2. I use an orange gel pen to outline the flower in the PP for more dimension, cut out the flowers using my Big Shot and the Hello Kitty Hibiscus Flower Die.

I have been following the 2010 CHA via Two Peas in a Bucket and have been quite amaze at some of the new things coming out, so now when I grew up I want to be a scrapper and a runner. Life is good.

pent the day working on this weeks challenge from The ScrapRoom Blog but that was after crusing a couple of Walmarts, Michaels and Tuesday Morning, I think I enjoy the shopping as much as the scrapping. Picked up the Cosmo Cricket 8x8 box for $14 for my nieces, they are coming over next week, I gave the oldest a started album with supply for Christmas and she gets to fill in the rest but the two youngest ones also wants theirs so they all will be coming over to play.

 

For Sketch 181 at Scrapbook Challenge, I pull out 2 fun pictures of my boys, the funny thing about their baby picture now that they are both grown is that it brings back lots of fun memories  not only for me but alo for them when I explain to them what was going on or where the picture was taken.

This was also entered for the use lot of notions challenege and also paper cutting challenge. The top flower on the right was stamped on the cardstock then on scrap paper and then cut out. Then bottom right was an idea from an old copy of a scrapbooking magazine, just a bunch of different size circles using decorative scissors to cut them out, crumpled and edges inked. The PP is from a K&C company stack I think it is called Roam and the yellow flower on the left is from prima, edges inked using Marvy Le Plume II 82. Persimmon.

I found the Marvy Le Plume II markers on clearance at M, since 1 or 2 was missing so I bought the victorian and bright set for about $9, really enjoy using them so far.