Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone is enjoying Valentine's Day!

My Valentine is at work all day but when he gets home he will be making a delicious meal for us! It's NY Strip Steaks with brandied mushrooms and brandy sauce! YUMMY! He's also making his red potatoes roasted in olive oil and onion soup mix YUM! I can't wait!!!

I am truly blessed to have this wonderful man for my husband and best friend. Here's the layout I finished last night of one of my favorite pictures of him :)


I hand-cut the scallops, did lots of distressing and inking with two different colors of distress ink, covered chipboard hearts with paper from the layout, and accented throughout with coordinating Stickles. I had fun making this one!



I submitted this layout for a sketch challenge as well as for a guest designer contest. The sketch was designed by Julie Bonner:


Well I'm off to do another sketch challenge! Thanks for stopping by :)

A Layout and a Card

I had intended on doing several of the sketch challenges that are going on this weekend over at Scrap My Memories but I was only able to finish one of them. I just haven't been feeling too well lately which is affecting my creative energy.

Anyway here is the one that I finished


I was thinking about entering this for the guest designer call which requires a layout about the one I love, but I'm not sure yet if I will enter it!


The challenge was to do a layout based on this sketch


As I was cleaning up my table I thought, "hey why not use the leftover scraps for a quick card?!" Besides I was in the mood to make another one of those super cute lollipop flowers. So instead of putting all the leftovers away, I used some up on this card. I am hoping to stay in the habit of that.


Hope your weekend was great!

Moose!

Well after a week of not feeling very creative, I sat down at my table today and made a layout that I'm happy with!

I am so excited about this one because Dan and I had been hoping to see a moose ever since we moved to Wyoming 2 years ago. We finally found one during our trip to Yellowstone over the summer! We had such a fun time together.




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So Happy

"So Happy" is the title of my latest layout, but I am also so happy that I finally got this photo from my wedding day scrapped!


It is one of those photos that I have been wanting to scrap for a long time, but I could never find paper that I felt was just right for it. Has that ever happened to anyone else??

In any case when I got the Crate Paper Mia collection I knew I wanted to use it for this photo. The cut-work took quite a bit of time but in the end I think it was all worth it!



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Another New Layout to Share

I know I said this already but I am just so happy that I have been getting pages of Dan and me done lately.

Here's one that I finished up last night of a photo from our visit to Jackson Hole, WY last spring. It's kinda hard to see us in the photo LOL but that's okay because the point was to get that whole antler arch.


I made this layout for a challenge to use products by Basic Grey. As for the ribbon, I have been seeing projects around lately with ribbon pleated like that and I have been wanting to try it. I really like the dimension that it adds to the layout. I think I'll be doing that a lot!


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