Life .....the greatest Adventure

Good evening all...I wanted to share my latest layout....as most of you know I I do most of my pages of my Daughter Stephanie...Some are for her Memorial album...this is one of them...I choose the picture from last summer because Stephanie was being kind of goofy and she was wearing her favorite scarf and jean shorts...even in the middle of summer she had that darn scarf on ....I have so many of her things that I just don't know what to do with but I just can't get rid of them.....so since this layout was for my special album I decided to use her favorite shorts some how.....

as you can see I use a bit as a layers and then cut up some and made the flower... there is hidden journaling about a couple of her favorite things on the journal card on the right..
  I used the new sketch from lets get sketchy..... I decided to use the sketch and the criteria from scrap your story (which is Favorites) plus I also used Kelly's Criteria from the flying unicorn which was things with wings....

Here is the sketch ...

thank you for coming to take a peek.....

a time to remember

I thought I would share a page I did for skissedilla's challenge....I used a picture from the last trip we took with my daughter Stephanie,not knowing it would be our last. We travel every year from Wisconsin to Maine to visit family and friends every year...we tend to take our time...for one because I am deathly afraid,I was in a sever accident years ago and this is still the side effects .....and two we like to stop at weird places LOL so there is no rush....most of the time I would forget to take pictures just because we were having so much fun or I was asleep (that's just how you want me in a car fast asleep) anyway on this trip we managed to get quite a few pictures some I've already scrapped but this one was one of my favorites...the sun was setting and the colors were awesome....too bad we were in the car moving at the time!

 I have all these cards that I received a few months bad and I can't seem to bring myself to just throw them away,so I thought that is I used them for Stephanie's Memorial album I could keep them and they would still have meaning,does that even make any sense? anyway I fussy cut the flowers from one of the cards and the small saying( I'm thinking of you and wishing you a peaceful heart) from the same card....I'm not sure if I really should of used them for this layout but I really like the final product....

here is sketch # 203 from Skissedilla

 as an after thought I should have made a couple more flowers LOL I was kind of surprised at how nice these ones turned out!

I added a bit of green glitter to the fussy cut flowers.......

Thank you for coming to take a peek!

Sea Stacks

Good afternoon all...I wanted to share my latest page....I used another wonderful picture from my penpal,the picture just doesn't do the beauty justice....These ghostly formations are called "Sea Stacks" eroded from the shore on the pacific coast,its also a part of the Olympic National Park. I used the latest sketch from Keeping the best and am also linking up with S.W.A.T for their basic training-playing with mists.
I really love the idea of having script in the background,I know they make stamps but I haven't been able to get my hands on one just yet so I decided to try something a bit different.....if you know me at all I love my photo shop and have a ton of brushes,well one happens to have love letter,postcards and stuff like that ...I used one,made sure to reverse the lettering and printed it onto Parchment Paper(one side is parchment and the other is foil) then I just placed it where I wanted it and rubbed the back and ta da...it gave me just the effect I wanted..the misting was a whole other story LOL

Here is the sketch......

 I used a bit of Gesso because I wanted a bit of texture when I misted....

I knew what I wanted but wasn't quit sure how to achieve it...like I said  a bit of gesso,then I used a light metallic blue mist,I sprayed the same spot until there was plenty then just moved the paper so the mist would roll around...I wanted a marble like effect...its trial and error until I got what I wanted....but still ran into a problem....the metallic blue was a bit too shiny for me....I decided to use a golden yellow to tone it down a bit....I waters down the paint and just brushed a bit where I wanted it...it still shiny but not as much LOL

thank you for coming to take a peek,I appreciate all comments,they always bring a much needed smile to my face!

Appreciation

I just wanted to share my latest page with all of you...I used another one of the photo's from my penpal,I really love this view...I wish I could wake up to something like this....

thanks for coming to take a peek....:D

Moon Flowers

as most of you know I do most of my scrapping about my youngest daughter Stephanie to help create a memorial album....this post is no different...Stephanie spent many hours in the new garden she even pick out some very special flowers....Like the ones in this layout they are moon flowers and she was so darn excited to see them bloom,but fate took her away before she had a chance to see them! It seems silly to cry over something like this but its the everyday little things that just make me break....that was the whole point of the album to remember the little everyday things,when I look at these pictures of the moon flower blooming I also remember her knee deep in dirt yelling at Alex (her best friend) and his brother Keagen telling them they were doing it all wrong....those are the thing I want to always remember her sassy bossy side! I did a whole lot of journaling on the backside of this one...just random things I want to remember.

I kind of combined two challenges for this page.....I will link it up with
S.w.a.t and also over at {my sweet earth}

swat-scrap warriors advanced training sketch

my sweet earth bloom challenge

thank you so much for coming to take a peek!

My Hero

Hi All....I was digging around in my box of pictures and found one I didn't even realize I had....Its from this past summer ...Its a Picture of My wonderful Aunt Patty and her three kids,Maggie the oldest standing next to my Aunt,then Jaden standing next to her and finally Teagen sitting on the arm of the chair with my Grandmother.
I titled this page My hero because that's just what my Aunt is to me, she inspires me to be a better person...I have always looked up to her and she has been there for me through out my whole life!But that's not why shes my hero......She is one of the most selfless compassionate person I have had the pleasure of knowing!
My Aunt couldn't have kids of her own so she always took care of everyone else....when a family friend was in an accident she went and took special classes so she could foster him there is a special name for this since its not a normal foster home type thing but I can't remember what its called...lol Once she got involved there was no stopping her, she was asked if she ever thought about being a spacial needs ( autistic,drug addicted,aids) foster parent at the time there weren't many of those around and most times the babies had to stay in the hospital....Of course she said yes and her journey began...I remember each and everyone of her babies....My three cousins in this picture were a part of this process...she got them when they were all new born and she has adopted all three, I swear if she had her way she would of kept them all! My Aunt has the biggest heart and I love her so very much!

I used the new sketch from Scrapping Everyday Miracles

 I was sad, I ran out of brown distress ink...that's what I get for letting Sam use it..so I used just a bit of paint and water and just did a quick wash over it...

I am also linking this to Lasting Memories- you had to use numbers on your project!

thanks for coming to take a peek!

The Queen of the house!

This here is the queen of the house,her name is Oreo and she is the devil LOL she rules our house....from the humans to the poor dog! the only one to get away with anything is her King who also happens to be MY fiancé ...she just adores him!

doesn't she look sweet..haha... I used one of the few pictures I have of her laying down ( shes always on the move) along with the sketch from Skissedilla # 198

thanks for coming to take a peek!

Signs of Spring

Good Morning...I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend...mines been a pretty quiet one Sam is off with friends for the weekend so its super quiet around here...who would of thought just one adult child could make so much noise LOL I've been keeping busy.....trying to figure out how I wanted to use the sketch from C'est Magnifique....have you seen the sketch for February? its beautiful and the frame they use oh man I really wanted to get it but at this time its so not a possibility :( so I tried to come up with my own solution haha it doesn't even come close to their beautiful frame but I have to use what I have!

this picture was sent to me by my Aunt who live in New England this was taken in the middle of Nemo...she said it gave her hope that Spring was on its way!so to make my idea of the frame I used my photoshop program and then printed it out...colored /painted added some glitter....then to give some depth I cut out some card board about the same shape....used some Gesso I love that part!
Here is the wonderful Sketch.....

Well that's my interpretation of the sketch.....thanks for coming over to take a peek!

Explore

More beautiful pictures from my pen-pal, these are from Mt. Rainier National Park....I swear I will visit there one of these days...its absolutely beautiful. I used a sketch from Scrap Africa

the bottom two papers are My Minds Eye...the journal cars are from Prima the rest is just from my stash of bits and pieces.....here is the sketch....

hidden journal on each side, I really love these cards...so pretty.....

thanks for coming to take a peek.

All Smiles

its funny when you look at a picture and all those memories come flying back.....this picture was taken one thanksgiving weekend,we had taken a road trip from Maine to Connecticut to visit my family...both girls loved these trips..me not so much lol I hate being the car for any length of time!

I used the sketch from Creative Craft World

thanks for coming to take a peek!

Love U

Evening scrappers.....I wanted to share a layout I did today all the papers I used are from quick quotes. I used a a wonderful picture of Stephanie....shes pouting because my girl friend Ginny kept tell her to smile so she could take more pictures lol they were at the lake for one of the boys birthday parties....she looks like a drowned rat~
 I used the sketch from Lets Get Sketchy and I am also linking up with Zeus and Zoe for their February LOVE challenge...

I really need to learn how to take a straight picture.....

 I love the pieces that were included the this kit...I didn't want to hit the saying under the picture so I cut some of it out to make it overlap :)

thanks for coming to take a look!

Watch the flowers Bloom

Here is yet again another picture from my penpal...I cherish these pictures so much because there are so many places out there that I want to see but sometimes its just not possible to get to all of them....he says these are from "Views from Butchart Gardens ( yes he numbered the pictures and then wrote out what each and everyone was from there are 18 in total from this batch most are from Seattle some are from Vancouver Island, Britsh Columbia,Canada) I just loved the fountain in the background!

I used the sketch from Skissedilla #196 and I also added the rosettes that S.W.A.T showed me how to make this morning...she made it sound so easy!

sketch #196

 see the little white rosettes, I used a flower punch for the bottom instead of a circle....it makes it look like an open rose and I didn't add a center because I made them small and the looked just fine the way there were.. I also used a dab of hot glue to hold the knot in the center( I couldn't get my other glue to hold it) but used the other glue on the rest. I think I was just to impatient and couldn't wait for it to take hold LOL

thanks for coming to take a peek!