Busy, Busy, Busy

The past few weeks have been soooooooooooooo busy! I have barely had time to blink, much less scrap. I finally found some time today and finished this layout:

 

This was completed for last week's CSI challenge and a PageMaps contest. I used the color scheme from CSI and the PageMaps sketch. I am in love with the colors. That October Afternoon cloud paper in the background is going to be making plenty of appearances in my layouts for a while, as I'm totally in love with it.

The pictures are of my little guy, who is no longer so little. I was watching him run around and practice soccer kicks on a bouncy ball this summer, thinking "Where did my little one go?!?!?!?!?". He's definitely growing up on me, and Momma is not taking it well. Sniffle.....

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CSI Case File 29

Hello everyone. I have a couple of layouts to share. The first is for this week's case file at CSI. The color scheme this week is just beautiful:

I will admit, though, that the pink threw me a bit. Scrapping boy layouts with pink is so tricky. I decided to use the pink as a accent color and keep the amount small. Here's my page:

 

I had so much fun with this page. When I was at my LSS a few weeks ago, I found some adorable polka dotted felt on clearance. I am absolutely loving it and hope they still have some when I make it back over that way. 

My next layout is a just-for-the-fun-of-it page: 

 

Yup, that's wood grain paper... again. I found that in Hobby Lobby the other day and bought it in several colors. I absolutely love that paper and I'm sure I'll use it way too much. :) 

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Layouts to Share

Hello everyone. I have a few layouts to share. This first one is for CSI case file #27 and also for Scrapfit's Warm Up # 29.  Here's my layout:

I had a ball with this layout. I adored the color scheme from this week's case file and was intrigued by the idea of using a long title. I tend to do short, one or two word titles, so this was different for me. It's titled "Why am I losing teeth? I'm not old!". Journaling reads: "When you started losing teeth you thought you'd need to get false ones like "an old guy". You, my dear, are a mess!"

This next layout was from last week's CSI case file # 26. I struggled with the color scheme but wound up happy with the way it turned out:

 

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July Sketch it Out

 

Happy fourth, everyone! I just wanted to quickly share my take on the July Sketch it Out challenge from Club CK.  Here's the sketch:
I loved this sketch. As has been my habit lately, I only used one photo. For some reason I am recently obsessed with one photo layouts. I have no idea why. I changed the other photo spots into blocks of pp and fabric. Here's my layout:

 

I love that picture of my little guy. :) He had a ball dressing up for old timey photos and flirting with the young photographer that day. lol. Thanks for stopping by! 

Another Coptic Stitched Journal...

If you were looking for the red, white, and blue blog hop click here.

I finished another coptic stitched journal tonight. I think I may be getting a wee bit obsessed with coptic stitching. This time I covered the binding with felt so the stitches don't show on the sides. Here's the cover:

I used a brown paper bag for parts of the journal. I crinkled it and then smoothed it back out before attaching it to the covers. The covers are made by tearing the cardboard backing off a stack of patterned paper and covering with the bag, paper scraps, and some felt. Here are some shots of the inside:

I wanted this journal to have tons and tons of little pockets for stashing junk. For some reason I seem to accumulate a lot of junk that requires stashing.  Thanks for looking!

Red, White, and Blue Blog Hop

Welcome hoppers! :) You should have arrived here from Jordan's blog. If not, you might want to go back to the beginning at Amanda's blog.  For this hop, we all created a new project with a red, white, and blue theme. I did not go with a patriotic theme, but I did go red, white, and blue. Here's my project:

I created a coptic stitched notebook. If you've never done coptic stitching, it's really not that difficult to get the hang of. I learned by watching a youtube video and am now hooked. I started out with these cheap-o folders from the Dollar Tree:

I trimmed them down to size, covered them with pretty paper, inserted some printer paper to make my signatures, and stitched away. The folders were actually quite cute to be cheapies and I probably could have used them without covering them..... but that would just make entirely too much sense. lol

Thanks for stopping by for the hop! Your next stop will be Lorri's blog. Here's the order of the hop in case you get lost:

Amanda   www.lovejoypaper.com

Adele  www.dleebugscraps.blogspot.com

Megan  http://creativitybymeg.blogspot.com/

Robyn  www.cozienookhomestead.wordpress.com
Devra www.mycreativeview.blogspot.com

Mandi http://mjskraze.blogspot.com/

Jordan http://www.creativelyloving.wordpress.com/

Sindi  http://smokeyscraps.blogspot.com/

Lorri http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/blogs/lorri1970/default.aspx

 

Stop by again some time! :) 

Child's Play Challenge Entry

I decided to play along over at Child's Play. One of the June Challenges was to do a page based on the theme "Where the Wild Things Are". That has always been a favorite read aloud at our house. I had this picture of my boy in the river and decided it fit the theme, since he goes completely nuts in the water. Here's my layout:

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