Scrapping A Road Trip

Let's Scrap Sketch

I have begun scrapping a road trip I took with Matthew last year.  We stopped at a state park in Kentucky to explore some caves.  Fun!

Our next stop was St. Louis.  I bought the premade pages in the gift shop.  I thought I might cut them apart to use on my pages.  I decided just to slap the pictures on them. 

It was super easy.

The B/W pages were meant for kids to color, but I decided to just leave them B/W.  I think it makes the pictures POP!  Matthew discovered I had continuous shooting on my camera so we had a blast jumping and

running around the arch.

Matthew enjoys talking with EVERYONE!

 He asked the ranger if he could get a picture with him. 

He was happy to do it. 

Then it was time to go to the top of the arch.  They stuff you in a tiny capsule for the ride to the top. 

Let's Scrap sketch

There was a great view of the city.

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Scrap Goodies

I entered some July challenges. The layout below is for a site called Once Upon A Sketch.

I flipped the sketch and hid my journaling behing the circle on the left side.  This is a picture of all the ladies I crop with in Ocean City.  We gather for a weekend of food, fun and friendship!  I can't wait till this November for our next get together!

 Next is a card I made for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ.  Each week they give us a challenge to make a card.  This week was Clean & Simple. 

 This card took me 10 minutes to make! 

 The next challenge is from Scrapbook Challenges.  This months theme is patriotism.  We were to make a card using our countries colors.  Since I am from the good old US of A, I made this fun pinwheel card. 

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Word Filled FRIDAY!

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Scrap Prize

I joined a great site called Let's Scrap. I enter a sketch challenge each week and my layout was randomly drawn for a weekly prize. The week I won, Club SEI was

the sponser. Look at all the goodies I received in

 the mail this week!

22 pieces of double sided papers.  Theme: Mayberry Road Trip

Puffy stickers, buttons, chipboard, tags, brads...

These stickers are fabric!  Corigated cardboard dies.

A bag full of arrows and decoative tags/dies

So of course I had to make my first layout with a Let's Scrap sketch.  Matthew and I drove to Colorado last year.  So these papers are perfect for this set of pictures.

I used something from each part of the kit.  The little buttons are so cute! 

I put the little puffy cars along the border.

It was great trip and we saw many sites.  I look forward to sharing my pages with you over the next few weeks.

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Challenges

I have been checking out many different scrapbooking sites this week.  So I decided to combine all of their challenges and make a couple of cards. 

The color pallet comes from SCRAP FIT.

The sketch for the first card comes from

 TRY STAMPIN' ON TUESDAY.

Papers: MME Quite Contrary
Stamps: Studio G $1

The next card was made from a sketch at LET"S SCRAP and the word art is from WORD ART WEDNESDAY.

I have loaded all my scrapbook pages from 2012 on a seperate page.  Just click the tab at the top of my blog to see all the layouts from this year. 

Also there is a tab for all the cards I have made. 

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First Time Featured!

I was featured in Mynnette's Mid Month Motivation on

Technique Tuesday Card Challenge. 

 You can go check it out HERE!

Card Challenge

Today I want to share a card I made for

 the monthly card challange at Technique Tuesday. 

 It is called a cascading card. 

 I almost gave up on this one.  The card itself is fairly easy to make, if you follow the directions on the site.  It was the decorating of the card that stumped me. 

First I made rosettes.  They didn't look right.  Then I used silk flowers, nope.  Then I found this paper that had these cute flowers and butterfies on it.  So I cut them out and made branches on my Cricut.  Then I tucked them in putting the larger ones in the back and taping the leaves behind them.  I added the little butterflies to the branches.  I think that is my favorite part.

Of course I had to add a verse to match the card. 

I think this one is perfect do you?I am sharing this over at Word Art Wednesday.

Have a blessed day.

Getting my Craft ON!

Today I worked with the sketch from Let's Scrap.  It is a great site, go check it out!  I have run low on family pictures, but I always have FLOWER pictures laying around.  So I decided to use them for this layout.

If you have ever read my photography blog you know that I am addicted to taking pictures of flowers.  I drag my husband to gardens when ever we travel.  Sometime I even creep onto private property to get a picture of their gardens.  So if you see a strange lady with a camera in your front yard, please don't shoot it's just me. 

I used the Summer Fresh papers by Simple Stories. 

As I was making this page, I realized that I need some more edging scissors.  They would make some really cute strips.  I didn't have an 8x10 picture so I just made a collage with my photos.  I added some pop dots under the title.  I love pop dots!

Then I just used the stickers that were in the kit to add to the other page.  A little doodling and I am done.  This layout went together quickly. 

Here is sneek peek of what else I am doing in my craft. room.  I am making another jean rag quilt for someone special. If you missed the first one, you can find the tutorial HERE.

 

I am making a wall quilt using the page from my art journal as inspiration.  My friend Jule is making a baby blanket with these little birdies too.  So cute.  Stay tuned for a tutorial on this quilt.

Vancouver Day 3

Today was public transportation day.  We grabbed our city map, bought an all day transport pass and headed out to explore the city.

The library building reminded me of the Colosseum.

We went downtown and saw the cathedral and public library. 

Then we hopped on the bus to Granville Island Market. This market reminded me of Seattle’s Public Market.




 

We had to stop for a crepe.  I LOVE them!

Of course there were a bunch of different variety acts around the market.  This guy was taking so long to get out of his chains that we got bored and left. 

I loved all the colorful fruits and vegetables.

I love how they stacked the fruit!  I just wanted to go pick one from the bottom.  Just kidding;)

We found this guy carving a totem pole!  Very cool.

Then we took the little ferry over to the beach and park area.  We sat on a bench and watched people enjoy the beautiful sunny day. 

Then we hopped a bus, and then a train, and then another bus to get to the Queen Elizabeth Park.

It is located at the highest point in the city.  It had beautiful gardens and trails. 

A view of Vancouver and the mountains, beautiful!

We spent a few hours wandering the trails.  I, of course, spent most of the time taking pictures of flowers.  My hubby is so kind to let me take hundreds of flower pictures.  Thanks goodness for blackberry games, hee hee.... 

 

After the gardens we headed back to the hotel.  Then it was a long flight back home.  This was an amazing vacation!  Now it is time to plan our next adventure.  Hmmm, where should we go next?

Have a blessed day.

Word Filled Wednesday

I am posting this over at Word Art Wednesday.  Go take a peek at all the great art people are creating with God's word.