Monday, March 16, 2009

Challenges and Mixers!

I have been trying to get Sarah's chronological albums caught up so I can START Jessa's. I have the pictures and paper and all that caught up until May of last year in Sarah's (when Jessa was born) but none of the journalling is done, even back to her birth album! So I have been plugging away at that, trying not to get mixed up with Jessa's. LOL I did get a few challenges done this weekend from LIITD, and this weeks Mixer at MIU. It's the first one I completed, even though I still have the very first mixer sitting here waiting for embroidery thread. Maybe I'll do that this afternoon.

Here is the Layout I did for Mix It Up. Melanie has created an amazing inspiring blog to get the creative juices flowing. There is a new Mixer every week, with a sketch you can use if you want, and beautiful examples from the Design Team. I used the sketch this week, and took inspiration from the colors and floral theme of the pattern that was the inpiration. I've been trying to get better at embellishing, and clustering. I really like the results I got here.





This is the Layout I did for the Monthly Prize Sketch over at my favorite scrap chat on the web! It was the first time I have shrunk (shrank? Shrinkded??) a sketch, so it was very interesting to do.



This Layout was for the Product Challenge at LIITD. Chelsea challenged us to use glitter on buttons. I thought this would be a great thing to get Sarah to help me with, the glitter on the buttons. It became apparent very quickly that it was going to be SARAH doing the whole thing! SO I made this one 6x12 too, and let her go at it. She wanted to "circle" the corners, so she had a lot of fun doing that.


That's it for now. I havet o get this back room cleaned up before I can do much more scrapping. Hopefully I can tackle that today, I have some pretty intense work ahead of me for the next Magical Memories Design Team project ;) I only have until next TUESDAY to get this TECHNIQUE down. ;) ;)

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Hello scrappers!

Hi! I am starting this blog because I want a little place on the web to call home for my layouts! I hope to have fun with it and share my work with others. Not because it's particularily incredible, but I like it. And that's the beauty of the web!

I'm not particularily GOOD at computer stuff, so I am hoping to get better over time. I really want one of those cool personalized headers, but I'm not sure how to make one? Can anybody help me?

I'm going to start off with a few layouts of myself. I took a lot of pictures of myself in my second pregancy, because I wish I had more in my first. Most of these layouts are from then. :)


Happy Scrapping :)
Shanna