Peace Love Joy Layout

Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend.  I enjoyed my weekend as it was my birthday and my family spoiled me with cake and dinner so I had time to create this two page layout of my parents, my husband and three kiddos from last Christmas.  Last Christmas was pretty special because my two older children both work shift work and it has been about ten years since we were all together for Christmas.

It has been at least a year since I have created a two page layout, but I was inspired by a sketch designed by Debbie Sanders that I saw in the October 2014 issue of Scrapbook Generations Create.

This is my third layout with the Oh Deer Collection by Fancy Pants Designs.  I'm pretty sure I will use every morsel of this collection.  I pretty much followed the sketch and added some machine stitching, some flair from A Flair For Buttons and some cute little holly wood veneers from Creative Embellishments.  I chose kraft card stock as a background because I love that it coordinates nicely with so many colours.  Here are some more closeups.

This post if photo heavy because it is difficult to photograph a two page layout and see the details close up.  I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Have a wonderful day!

Sketches In Thyme Sketch #94 Team A & B

 It's time for another sketch at Sketches In Thyme and both Team A and Team B are participating.


This layout is of my niece and nephew this past Halloween.  I used October Afternoon's Witch Hazel Collection for the papers, stickers and buttons and my trusty Silhouette Cameo to cut the large spider web die cut.  Don't they look scary?

Sketches In Thyme Sketch #94 

Left Page

Right Page

You can find the sketch at Sketches In Thyme here.  Come play along and the November winner will win this cute 6X6 Harvest Lane paper pad from Simple Stories.

Have a great day!

Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #320

It's November and it's Monday so it's time for another reveal of Sketch #320 over at Scrapbook Challenges.

This sketch, designed by our own Chanell Rigterink,  is great for lots of photos of halloween, birthdays, vacations and other events where you want to scrap a lot of photos.

SC Sketch #320 Single

SC Sketch #320 Double

I chose to do the double sketch with all halloween photos.

I used the new Witch Hazel Collection from October Afternoon.

Here are some closer images of the layout:

Left Page

Right Page

Title

Haunted houses and ghost

Spider web and spider

October 31 and spider web

This was so much fun to create.  Several of the diecuts are cut with my Silhouette Cameo. I can't tell you how much I love my Silhouette Cameo!

I am so glad you stopped by my blog!  Come play along with us at Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #320 and have fun!

Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #289

My Beautiful Family

Happy Monday!  Today I have a two page layout to share with you of my beautiful family.  The photo is of a digital calendar that I designed of my husband, my son and daughter in law, my daughter and her boyfriend (now her husband) and my youngest son and my parents.  It was back in 2008.  The summer of 2008 was an eventful summer as my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in July 2008 and my oldest son got married in August of 2008.  There was lots of scrapbooking to do that summer!

Basic Grey's Sweet Threads Collection came to the rescue for this particular two page layout that I designed for Sketch #289 at Scrapbook Challenges. There is a  lot of machine stitching on this one too.

Here is the sketch I based my layout on.  I chose to do the double page layout as it takes me out of my comfort zone.

Sketch #289 One Page Layout

Sketch #289 Double Page Layout

Come play along with us and partake in this fun sketch and challenge.  There are lots of challenges every week to have fun with.  Hop on over to Scrapbook Challenges to see what else is going on.

Have a wonderful day!