Dog Tired

Sorry I haven't posted for a few days. I've been waiting for blogger to help me with the problems I was having.  A very nice gentleman gave me some suggestions some of which worked but couldn't figure out why I was still having trouble with correctly spelled works being highlighted.  So he has referred in on further.  I haven't heard any more so thought I would go ahead and try posting again.  You can be sure I won't be touching any spell check buttons. So here is what I was up to yesturday.

The challenge last week over at Let's Scrap was to do a layout about an ordinary day.  I decided to do it on my two dogs Harley and Daisy.  An ordinary day for them is sleeping, sleeping and sleeping some more.  Often they can be found curled up together on a chair or our bed but if one or the other isn't available they  well  sleep with my  pink puppy slippers.

I followed one of Cheri's great sketches to do the layout. Here is her sketch.

And here is the layout I did about my two lovable pets.                

   

Although posting still wasn't as easy as it had been under the older version of blogger it looks like this time it has worked better.  Hopefully it will continue that way.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and Happy Scrapping.

                                                              

Mom's 75th Birthday Layout

Recently they had a challenge on Let's Scrap to do a layout in honor of Mothers Day, this challenge was to make a LO having to do with mothers. Either yourself as a mother, your mother or mother in law, could be a Mother to a litter of puppies or even Mother nature! I've had pictures of my Mom's 75th birthday from the year 2000 that I had really been wanting to scrap. The pictures mean a lot to me because Mom had been very ill prior to her party and we didn't expect her to be well enough to be discharged from hospital. Fortunately a couple of weeks before her birthday things turned around and she not only was able to attend the party but would have 3 more wonderful years with us.

I used this sketch from Let's Scrap as my inspiration.

Here is the layout






I used SEI's Juliette paper line to do the layout. I just love their paper especially this line. I also added some pearl bling and little fabric flowers that I had picked up quite some time ago. I was really please with the way the layout turned out.
The other part to the challenge was to make a card from the scraps left over from making the layout and this is the card I made.
It always feels good when you can make something from your scraps.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my layout and Happy Scrapping.

Give away from Studio Calico

I hope everyone is having a fantastic National Scrapbooking Day. I have been very busy today entering challenges at Lets Scrap
I still have a few to do before tomorrow night and then hopefully I will have a chance to show you some of what I did.

I just wanted to take a second to tell you about a contest Studio Calico is having. They are giving away 2 free - 6 month subscriptions. What you have to do is go to Studio Calico and register. Once you have done that then go to this link and tell them I referred you (my user name there is Bettyanne and then give your name. If your post is drawn we can both win a free 6 month subscription. The contest ends tomorrow night (Sunday, May 2nd) so don't miss out.

I'm So Excited I Won A Prize

In the group Lets Scrap they have prizes for their challenges. Anyone who puts in a layout for one of the challenges gets there name put in for a draw. If you do a two page layout you get your name in twice. My name was drawn for the challenge I did the "In My Easter Bonnet" layout for. The prize I won was the Basic Grey Lime Rickey Collection Pack, complete with all the paper line and a sheet of card stock stickers. I am so excited, I've never won anything like that before. I really like that they do the prizes by draws rather than for the best layout because then everyone has a chance at it whether you're just new to scrapbooking or been doing it for years.

I've been busy today trying to work on a couple of layouts for the challenges this week but can't decide exactly what I want to do with them yet. One of the challenges is using up a bunch of your embellishments and older papers. So I'm trying to pick pictures that I can do that with. It should be fun to do.

My grandson Jacob, is spending the night with us while his Mom and Dad have a much deserved night out. He has been a perfect angel but he sure keeps you busy now that he can crawl. He moves faster then I can, that's for sure. We have two Jack Russel dogs that are about 8 1/2 years old and they aren't to sure about him yet now that he can get at them. One of them kept running around the couch to keep away from Jacob but it wouldn't take long for him to catch up to him again. I had to make sure I had the house baby proofed before he got here because he likes to play with cords and get into the dog food lol.

It has been really nice having him here. His surgery has been rescheduled for Wednesday so hopefully it will go through this time. Will I guess this grandma better get to bed as I'm sure the little one will be up early wanting to play.

In My Easter Bonnet

I have been having so much fun over at Lets Scrap doing their challenges. I am getting the hang of using sketches to do my layouts and I'm finding that it's not taking me near as long to finish them. In the last week I have done 3 two page layouts and it would have taken me at least a month to have done that before. I also like how friendly everyone is and all the positive comments they make about everyones layouts.

The group have 3 types of things going on each week. On Monday they have a question of the week for us all to give input to. On Wednesday they have a sketch challenge. The sketches are usually 2 page sketches which is part of the reason I really like the group because its hard to find 2 pagers. If you only like to do one page then you can use just one side of the sketch. Then on Fridays they do a design team challenge. In this challenge one of the design team gives you rules to follow in doing your layout and you can use any sketch in the group folder to follow. I made the layout "In My Easter Bonnet" for last weeks design team challenge.

Here is my layout








Some of the things we were to follow for the challenge were to use a vintage photo, use 3 patterned papers, have homemade details or some souvenir or special embellishment, and use some of your favorite colors.

The pictures are of me at Easter when I was little, I think that alone makes them heritage lol. I used 4 patterned papers which were from my stash so I don't know what the brand names are but they all seemed to go together will and the bunny paper worked will for an Easter layout. Although purple isn't a color I would pick to wear it seems to be a color I gravitate to when buying scrapbooking paper. I tend to have a lot of it. I also love the shade of green I used. Lastly I made the flowers out of different size circles using the papers I used in the layout and then put a button in for the centre.

At first I wasn't that pleased with the layout as it just seemed to plain but it has grown on me. I hope you like it.

Jacob's First Easter

My Grandson Jacob and his Mom Katie flew out to British Columbia for a two week vacation with his Nana and Papa (Katie's parents). This is Jacob's second trip by plane. He was born in B.C. but moved to our little town in Ontario when he was a month old. They had a fantastic visit and were there for his first Easter. I wanted to scrap his Easter picture taken while he was away and also ones I took when he returned and got his gifts from us. The sketch from a Lets Scrap challenge was perfect for the pictures. Here is the sketch




and here is my layout





I was really pleased with how it turned out. The paper and rub ons were from my stash and the eggs I cut using my Cricut and SCAL. Jacob is wearing to different bunny ears because he received a pair from both sets of Grandparents.

Will I better get moving I have another layout I'm trying to do for a Lets Scrap challenge. It's giving me a bit of trouble so not sure if I will get it done in time for the deadline but going to give it a try.

I hope you are having a fantastic day.