playing catch up!

Yeah, I know I've been MIA. I've been busy, I tell ya! Now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays is over, I'll try to catch up and post my latest creations. These first few layouts were for the challenges at Scrapperie. Challenge #5 was to create a layout with dimension and photos that showed motion. The pictures of Ethan jumping on the trampoline worked out great, and I used pop dots on the chipboard letters to add dimension. I'm not exactly thrilled with the end result, but I suppose that's what I get for waiting until the last minute :(

Challenge #6 was to come up with a song that reminds you of a specific person and do a layout of that person including the song lyrics and journaling about why it reminds you of them. I have already scrapped this pic of Kristi, but it suited this challenge too well not to use it again! I had ran out of photo paper at the time, so I used cardstock to print it on. Turned out pretty good!

Challenge #7 was to make a photoless layout about any topic. This is what I came up with.

And lastly, this being the final week, challenge #8 was to create a layout with red, green, & gold being the dominant colors. Yet another waiting until the last minute here, so I'm not really liking this one either.

Now, on to more projects!! :) I got my first kit to design with from The Embellishment Studio,
so here are the things I've created using it.

ta-dah!

whipped these up tonight 'cause I was just itching to scrap!!

a few cards....

There was a bonus challenge at Scrapperie this week to make 4 "just because" cards out of scraps. The two blue cards and the black & pink one were made mostly out of shtuff that was laying around on my desk! The other one I got into my patterened paper scraps to make. I actually enjoy creating cards out of my scraps. If only I'd send them to people instead of letting them accumulate into a huge pile, I'd be doing so much better!

another week, another challenge!

Challenge #4 at Scrapperie this week.....create a layout using 4 photos, a 4 word title, 4 embellishments, and 4 colors. I actually love these types of challenges, but this one proved a little difficult for me. I mean c'mon, only 4 embellishments?? Actually, while I was writing out my description to upload into the gallery, I realized I had one too many embellishments on my layout, so I opted to pull off the Heidi Swapp cherry bling I had on there....it was the easiest to remove! LOL And this is the end result (although I'm not totally digging this one at all!)

Scrapperie Challenge #3

This week's challenge was to create a layout that had the title "This is True Beauty". Here is my take....

lost in the shuffle.

This layout was on my scrapping desk forever....while I was still looking for my mojo!! I eventually finished it, but for some reason, forgot to add it to my collection here. It's another 6x12 layout....fun, fun size!!

Scrapperie Nov/Dec Challenge #2...

do a monochromatic layout, and whoa!! was this ever a challenge for me!! I just don't do monochromatic! I mean, the more colors I can use on a layout the better! After I got to digging around in my stuff, and knew I had all kinds of things green, it came together. Still not something I would have done on my own, but that's the whole idea of challenges, huh?