You Light Up My Life (SOS Jan DT layout)

JANUARY's challenge at Scrap Our Stash is to use something we "got" for Christmas.

Here is my Design Team submission:

The green raffia on the ornaments is from a package of sweets on a gift from one of my husbands clients (he was smart enough to just put the raffia on my scrapbook table instead of throwing it away!!). The red border across the top was made with my new Martha Stewart Loopy punch that I got as a Christmas gift (from my mother..thank you very much!!)  --- I used my Scrapbook Circle Kit for Dec '09 and a sketch from The Scrappiest.  And if you can't tell from the photo, it's Joseph with Christmas lights wrapped all around him...a fun accident as we were decorating the tree!!

Your Future? (Creative Scrappers #84)

I did all 4 sketches this month at Creative Scrappers.
This is post 4 of 4 (all layouts in separate posts .. see sidebar to navigate to other posts)
And please do so, because this is NOT the best layout of the 4!!!

Lasso an Angel (Creative Scrappers #83)

I did all 4 sketches this month at Creative Scrappers.
This is 3 of 4 (all in seperate posts).

Cowboy "in action" - (Creative Scrappers #82)

I did all 4 sketches this month at Creative Scrappers. 
This is the 2nd of 4 (all in seperate posts).

A Grape Day (Creative Scrappers #81)

I did all 4 sketches at Creative Scappers this month!!!
Here is the first of 4:

And my layout:

This is an older photo of Joseph when we first moved into this house and were enjoying our new backyard (we still are).  The photo is metallic although you can't really tell from this photo.  Kit is from Personal Scrapper & is Dream Street Sam line.

Sizing it up (ScrapFit #10)

The challenge at ScrapFit is to use Cosmo Cricket and also to "spell" out a Christmas word.  If you know me, you know I'm an "over achiever"..(ok, no snickering here)..  So, I decided to use the word CHRISTMAS.  So, I jotted down everything "scrapbook related" that I could think of for the letters - C, H, R, I, S, T...etc.

So then I just kept working off that piece of paper adding as many things to my layout as I could.  I think I ended up being able to spell the word CHRISTMAS 3 times?.... ok, let's put up the list and see if that's right.  oh, and sometimes if one way the word was used, it wouldn't work in another word, but if you did all the combo's it'd still work out...  Example... The clock could be C or T (for Time)...but I wouldn't use both of those in the "same spelling".  (does that make sense?)

C - Cosmo Cricket, Cardstock, Chipboard, Circles, Clock
H - Half-Circle, Hand (on clock), Handstitch, Heart,
R - Round, Rhinestones, Red, Rub-on, Ribbon (brown), Ruler
I - Ink, Inch, Invisible (clear heart)
S - (see below where I've listed all the S's)
T - Title, Time, Tape (Brown Heidi Swapp), Thickers, Three X's, Twill (ruler), Triangle (yellow metal sign)
M - Mat, Markers, Metal embellie,
A - Angle, All Cosmo, Alphas, Arrow
S - Staples, Stripes, Sticker (peachy border), Stitching, Stickles (green in lower border), Scallop, Sheer (Maya Road)

Ok...here's the layout:

The Race (Practical Scrappers sketch)

Here is the sketch for the weekend at Practical Scrappers ...

And this is my interpretation.  I loved the large circle and then how the designs came across on the right, so I kept that flow.   I journaled inside the word BOYS. 

Xmas Card 09 Layout

Here is the layout of this years Christmas Card.  I used sketch #61 from Little Shop of Sketches.
The circle with Merry Christmas is a transparancy that I won from that site earlier this year!! 

You Did What? (Dirty Shoes Layout) - Capture #22

This is my third post in a row for sketch challenges I've done for Lets Capture These Sketches.  (I think I love this blog!!)
Here is sketch #22.  A bit daunting at first!!!

But this is what I came up with.  I used an older photo of Joseph that had been sitting on my table for a while...I've been wanting to scrap it, but just couldn't quite get there.  GOT THERE!!!

Papers & embellies are Scenic Route from an old Personal Scrapper kit.

This was going to be my DT submission for ... well I can't say without giving it away.  But it's not due until "after" this challenge is over.  So I guess I'll be doing that DT assignment again, since I love how this turned out and wanted to be sure it was posted here for the sketch!!!  TFL.

Grateful 4 u 2 (Capture 21)

This is another sketch challenge at Lets Capture These Sketches:
Here is sketch 21:

And here is my layout:

PP's are Bo Bunny Flutter Butter.  For the large die cut, I acutally cut out the center with my fiskars fingertip knife since I liked the bracket, but didn't want the pattern that was inside.  (Now I've got a scrap for a future layout).   I journaled on the inside edge of the upper bracket.

TFL.