Best Friends Forever

It's rare that my best friend, Michelle, and I get pictures taken together. As soon as I saw these, I knew I'd be scrapping them. It still took me a couple years to get them on a page though. Go figure!

I used various papers and embellishments from past Noel Mignon kits, and from my stash. I had fun playing with this page. I had a sketch originally, but I didn't follow it much, so it's kind of my own creation. I did complete this page for a challenge for the Facebook Group SG Scrap Squad. I had a great time creating it.

I love this background paper. Michelle and I have been best friends for the past 21 years. I love her like my sister; to the stars and back! 

I used Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Primrose to add large drops and some speckles to this page. Lots of fun! 

This heart clip was the perfect accent. The little blue scallop ribbon was some of my favorite ribbon ever. It was self-adhesive, and I had just a tiny bit left. I was able to put some above and some below the pictures, but it looks like a full strip of ribbon. I love saving on my supplies! I layers lots of patterned papers because it's one of my favorite things to do, and as usual, I doodled on nearly ever scrap on the page.

I added my journaling to the card in the envelope under the pictures. That way it's still there, but it's not the primary focus of the page. I love this little flair embellishment cluster!

Thickers are some of my favorite supplies. I love these new phrase Thickers. I used phrases from two separate packs to make the title. Perfect!

I hope you enjoyed looking at my page. Please leave me some blog love and let me know your thoughts. Thank you!

Sweet Miss Meila

Pictures of my sweet granddaughter are some of my favorite things to scrapbook. How adorable is this little girl? I just can't resist her!

I used bits and pieces from past Noel Mignon kits for this layout. I picked the papers and colors to match Meila's outfit in the picture. Pink and Black together are so much fun! I created this page for a challenge on a FB group SG Scrap Squad. The challenge was to scraplift a beautiful layout by another talented scrapbooker. I loved her layout and this is what I made from her inspiration.

I could not resist pairing silver with all this pink and black. This bow has been calling to me for a long time, and it was finally time to use it! I paired it with other silver accents throughout the page, including this adorable little heart stickers.

I also used silver Thickers for the title. Silver is my favorite metallic color, so I was happy to get to play with it. I love using mist on my pages. I've just started being brave enough to put large drops on my page. I like how the white Dyllusions Color Mist contrasted with the black cardstock. In this picture you can see some of the luscious layers of patterned paper that I used. It was so much fun to put them all together. I try to doodle on my pages, and on this page I used black, white, and pink pens.

These little silver heart stickers were too adorable to pass up! I also used enamel dots and hearts to round out the embellishments.

I found this little silver heart clip in my stash and just threw it on the corner of the picture. Such a good detail to add! I also used a piece of flair that I found in my ever growing flair collection.

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Love This

 Good afternoon! I finally got a chance to scrapbook yesterday for the first time in months. It took me a bit of time to get back in the grove, but I finally got there. I loved getting to play with my papers and pretties again! This is a picture of my daughter, Crystyl, and son-in-law, Dominick, at her first Mariner's game. They are adorable!

I used Sketch #131 from Let's Capture Our Memories for this layout. I loved the simple lines of the sketch that allowed me to follow it as much as I wanted while still adding my own flair. I used papers and embellishments from my Noel Mignon kit, as well as a few items from my own stash.

Embellishments make me happy. I added enamel dots and hearts, clips, ribbons, chipboard pieces, buttons and flowers to this layout. I also used my black recollections pen to add doodles in different areas around the layout.

I had this ribbon in my stash, but I loved it with the other details in the page. Here you can see the embellishment clusters I created.

These little cards are from Heidi Swapp I believe. They were also in my stash. I hadn't planned on using the card as the title, but when I got ready to add another title nothing looked right. This one said it all!

Thanks for taking the time to look at my layout. I had fun making it, and I hope you enjoyed looking at it. Please leave me some blog love and let me know your thoughts.

Dinner Time

Good afternoon! This is my last layout that I completed back in May. It's nice to finally get it posted!!

These are pictures of my darling granddaughter, Meila, having dinner. She was so adorably chubby!

I used a sketch from ScrapMuch? for this layout. I also used my Noel Mignon kit for the paper and embellishments.

I loved this little mason jar clip the moment I saw it. So cute! I hand sew these on my pages to get them to stay in place. I find that works better than adhesive. I added the little sparkly enamel dot in the heart. I don't normally use many bows, but this page called for one. So cute!

Meila really gets into her food. I love this series of pictures. I added lots of layers of patterned paper to show these pictures off. I kept the most distracting patterns farther from the pictures.

These pink glitter Thickers are perfectly "girly". I added parts of circles at the top and bottom of the page. These help offset the squares on the page. I love using flair and other embellishments to draw the eye to things I want to be seen. 

Thank you for looking at my layout. Please leave me some blog love and let me know your thoughts.

Our Silly Girl

Good afternoon everyone! I think my latest layouts has to be one of my very favorites that I've done in a long time. Once again it features pictures of my adorable granddaughter, Meila. 

I used my latest Noel Mignon kit for this layout. I love the yellow and pink together, and they go perfect with Meila's little jacket. I used Sketch 432 from Scrapbook Challenges for this layout. I was able to use my new Canon Selphy to print the pictures in the sizes I wanted (after a bit of trial and error). I love the way everything just came together.

I used two pins that I had in my stash to make these adorable flags. The flair was also something I had in my stash. I love all the buttons and enamel dots together.

The title couldn't be more perfect! These were in a set of Thickers with all sorts of colors. I got lucky enough to have all the right letters in the pink and yellow colors. Well, I actually didn't have enough of the letter "L", but I sacrificed a letter "E" to make one. You can't tell the difference when you look at it.

I added this little rubon in the lower right corner. It's barely visible, but just enough to make a small statement.

My journaling strips are pieces of washi tape. I used a bright pink pen to write on the strips and then let them air dry so they wouldn't wipe off. I love how it turned out! I'll definitely be using that method again. I knew that if I messed up on my writing I'd be able to just take the tape off and try again. Ahhh..the freedom!

I hope you enjoyed looking at my layout as much as I enjoyed making it. Please leave me some blog lovin' and let me know what you think. Thank you!

I Love Who You Are!

Hello everyone! This week's challenge from Lasting Memories Challenges is Anything Goes. That's right...create whatever you like! Sometimes those can be the hardest to do. I always love having a sketch or colors to boost my inspiration. And that didn't change for this project. I had so much fun making this layout! And, I used scraps to create it. What an awesome way to use up all those little bit of paper I have laying around.

My daughter is beautiful; she always has been. But beyond that, she is so much more. I absolutely love who she has become. She's nearly 20 now and really coming into the person she was meant to be. I'm loving watching her grow up.

To create this layout I used a free sketch from Scrapbook Generation's July 2014 CREATE magazine. I loved the idea of the strips of paper creating this background. I used their sketch and made it my own as well. Lots of fun!

I used October Afternoon Mini Market alphas for the title. Sometimes the little letters are just what is needed. The stars are Heidi Swapp embellishments. The flair and sequins were little things I had in my stash.

These strips of paper are so much fun! Inking all the edges was a bit messy, but it adds so much detail.

This large tag was left over from a kit from Noel Mignon. The papers come from that kit as well. I love the little bits of Washi tape as well.

Don't forget to head to Lasting Memories to take on this challenge. Play with your supplies and have fun! 

I hope you enjoyed looking at my layout. Please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts. Thanks!