my new look

Yes I know pretty shocking for a teacher to post a bathing suit picture on her blog. Oh well!
I needed some cheering up after all the cruddy slush and snow that has been flailing down on us the past 2 days. Looking ahead to posting all of my Dominican Layouts!

r u a Pool Shark?

another productive night in the studio!

Well

I gotta tell ya. this layout barely took me about 30 minutes and most of that time was in cropping the pictures! I knew what the title was going to be, so I placed it in the middle of the photos and voila!

instant success story.

The pattern paper is from Game On by Close to my Heart, which happens to also be my paper of choice for my son's hockey layouts . The clips are also CTMH.

and of course, the lettering has been in my stash for some time... do ya think it's time to use it??

I got the journalling "library card" from Lasting Memories last week. Wow. I actually bought and used something for scrapbooking right away! No more squirrelling away, I promise!

My dad had fun taking the teens and I over to the Retirement Rec Center for a few games at Christmas. Of course, I played terrible and sunk a total of about one ball. It was still fun.

circular elements

For this layout I had 6 pictures I wanted to use, all vertical .
I starting out by using a simple background of 4 by 12 pieces and just laid them out side by side.
I wasnt going to add much, just keep it plain and simple and clean, green on green.
Then I started tracing different size circles with a pencil over parts of the layout
I added the brads onto the circles and pre-pierced the paper to make it easier to insert the brads. That looked great so then some
stickers and some stamping were added, and gone was the "Simple Clean " layout.
as if ... lol . when have i ever done a really simple layout?

Evergreen Trees

the preprinted background paper for this layout was in my stash. i added the stamped trees, from Evergreen by ctmh in sweet leaf and ponderosa pine.

Chloe looked so cute in her new yummy pajamas and matching sockettes holding Lana. I actually got a real smile out of her too (not Lana, Chloe)

we visited my aunt and uncle after boxing day while Colton played in the Toronto Jr Marlies Holiday Classic.

sometime layouts have to be uncomplicated. and that's okay with me.

Nestled among the Decorations

I have wanted to do a "decorations showcase" for a while since I love my eclectic collection of odds and ends.

I collect glass, angels, babies, butterflies, shiny baubles and anything unique. I try to get one new decoration each year. I really delight in decorating the tree . Colton helped this year with stringing up lights and ornaments.

so this layout combines that idea, with the even more important idea that my two children are the biggest blessing in my life.

Nestled among the decorations are my very best ornaments.

Their happiness means more to me than any Christmas gifts, pretty baubles and trinkets.

I cut out and mounted a few decorations with foam squares to give the page dimension.

I stamped the title and subtitle using ctmh acrylics. It took me a while to think of the right words for the title but once i hit on it I was rocking and rolling.

Christmas in the Air 08

you can click on the image to see details close up.

Long time no see , yes I know.

there were no posts in March.

I just kept piling up more and more little groups of projects to do on the big table downstairs.

The inspiration hit me last week, after coming back from a vacation, to get caught up so I can scrap the holiday layouts! (does that make sense to anyone else?)

I will post these in the order they were created.

I used a ton of buttons on this one from the ctmh Holiday collection and a paper pack I bought at the Town Scrapper in Petrolia from my friend Phebe M. I couldnt resist the quaint designs on it!

Ialso used it in the Noel layout (next post) I made the tags with an oval punch and scallop scissors. The layout just falls into place around the sled and large cirlce on the background paper.

I can never bear to cover up the pretty artwork on fancy papers!

Happy Birdy

The Language of Love stamp set helped me create this card... for my auntie's 70th birthday.

the inside says :

Happy Birdy .. which i thought was cute !

I used the cuttlebug I got for Christmas to create the background .