NEW SCRAPPER - JOSEPH PARKER

Ok...so I'm on the Scrap Our Stash Design Team... and I do challenges every week and Joseph knows all about that...so he told me he wanted to do a scrapbook page this week.  He actually did that twice this week.  This is his 2nd layout this week...  (I'll post the other one later)...  I submitted it to my SOS DT challenge for May which is to scrap something "outside your box" and it was posted on that blog today.  I wanted to post it here too.   Below is the verbiage and his layout:

Hi, my name is Joseph and my momma is a scrapbooker. I wanted to do a scrapbook page this week so I asked Momma to help me. I picked pictures of me and Kyle playing Super Soakers. I asked for half white paper and half blue paper. Momma made me pick out the blue. Then I got crayons out of my homework box and melted them like drips of water.

Momma (Joni Parker) here...noting that 1) he is done explaining... 2) I held the heat gun 3) the rest of the story is..... he dug through my extensive alphabet collection to pick out letters that were "kind of cursivey" (his words). And then wrote (with pen) the "journaling". 

The reason we are submitting this layout is because when my 6 year old son decided he wanted to "do challenges" with me, I felt that the more the merrier!! So, I figured this was a good place to start. Talk about "outside the box"!!! 6 year old, MALE...melting crayons on a scrapbook page? Yep!

And...I encourage you to get your kids involved in your "ART" -- I had a total blast just watching him be creative and telling me what he wanted next. After an hour (or less), he was done and I was able to get back to work.....INSPIRED by my own son!!

Thanks for letting him share!! I've told him that he gets to read the comments that you guys leave about his layout, so PLEASE leave him some love!!

Frosted Designs PHOTO challenge

This week at Frosted Designs our challenge is to use this photo for inspiration ....

I did this layout first..using the colors for inspiration....

But I wasn't totally happy with it...so I did another one...  making this big flower .. (My dh, John said it looks like a coffee filter.....whatever!!) All I know is that looking at the layout posted...man it looks like everything is crooked....  yea, I meant to do that... yea, that's the ticket..lol!!

Nikki Sivils Cards

Ok...so now that I've made a few cards, I'm starting to like it a little...even though I think it's harder to do cards than layouts.  I'm having fun making Easel Cards... so.... Nikki Sivils is having a card challenge this month and since I won some really cool papers from her lines, I thought I'd better give it a shot.

This card I made for my son...he's graduating from Kindergarten this week...so I made him a little "congrats" card from the Henry's Brillance line.

And I made this card for a friend's birthday..although if she sees it here, I guess I'll have to make her a different one!!  Erika...don't read any further...look away!!

  Using Ellie's Day out line.

Living Proof

I used sketch #65 from The Scrappiest which looks like this:

And with the new MME line So Sophie...created this:

Like Mother Like Son

Sketch #63 from The Scrappiest is this little treat.

And I used the new MME So Sophie line to create this little gem!!  I was so thrilled to find this photo of MYSELF...and then within 10 minutes of just randomly flipping through photos, I found this one of Joseph.... ahh...love it when it all comes together like that!!

Monkeys Doing Time

Another layout using Sketch #64 from The Scrappiest  -- certainly not my best work... but I still like that I have documented this strange picture.

Monster Truck

Ok, I started this layout as 6x12, but it wasn't working... then I saw sThe Scrappiest sketch #64 sitting right in front of me on my SB table and WAA-LAA...   

4 Misc Layouts

Here are 4 layouts I've done so far this week..

2 SHOE layouts

This week at Frosted Designs we had to do layouts with SHOE as the theme...here are mine.

Extra layouts & projects

Here are a few random projects that were not for challenges or anything...

This frame was just a little fun 8x10 layout of one of Joseph's little friends that I got this fun pic of...so I framed it and gave it to his parents.