The men in my life

 Today I am sharing a layout created for the Once Upon A Sketch August Challenge. 

The theme was the men in our lives. Well I have three fabulous men in my life. My layout is based on the beautiful sketch by Nadia. I have however, flipped the sketch. This was after a slight oops with the glue gun. 

I love the colors of the BoBunny Somewhere in Time collection

I have some journaling at the front and back of my layout. 

A little of it can be seen at the bottom of my husband's picture. 

I also included some fabulous chipboard pieces from Creative Embellishments. For this layout I used the Retro Square Panel. 

I used some of my Prima Color Bloom sprays, along with Dreamweaver paste, and two beautiful stencils from Memory Box. 

Chic Chevron

Stardust Mini Stencil

Have a fabulous Saturday! 

Thank you for stopping by 

My love, my heart and my soul

On May 15th, Nadia from Once Upon A Sketch wrote a very personal post about taking time for herself and her family. It was a very moving and touching post. It got me thinking about my own life and everything that has happened in the last couple of years. And the "anything" I have chosen for my layout is to scrap about my husband Dave. My journaling is very private to him and on the back of my page. What I will say is my husband is amazing. I am lucky to have him. He is my love, my heart and my soul. 

This is the sketch that I based my layout on.

I used Prima-Time-Travelers-Memories and Creative Embellishment Moroccan Lattice Panel and a this amazing stamp. I also used Prima Color Bloom sprays. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

Lynn

Memories

Happy Monday! A quick post before heading off to the park with the kids! The weather is beautiful, the air is crisp and fresh! It has been a long, sticky, humid summer! Which is why I love FALL! So today's layout is based on the sketch by Once Upon A Sketch and the focus is season. 

The challenge on the BoBunny blog is white spaces. Which is very hard for me to do! So using the fall harvest collection (still one of my favorites) I created this page of my middle son Casey.

For my back layers I used BoBunny Market place papers. Then layered my picture with leaves created with my Close to my Heart cricut cartridge again with Harvest papers. I did some distressing and inking to give the crisp look.

In keeping with the journaling aspect of Once Upon A Sketch I created a little card on the top left hand corner that I am going to print and insert. (Holiday weekend I am out of ink for my printer and everything is closed!... argh) I can't tell you were the memories sticker comes from I'm still trying to go through my stash and found this cute sticker but don't know who's... oops sorry! But hope you are enjoying a fabulous Monday!Off to play outside with the kids!

I AM - Once upon a sketch

I AM, a mommy, wife, sister and daughter. The theme challenge of Once Upon A ... Sketch, is all about me. Using Pink Paisly paper still working from my stash used the above sketch as inspiration. I did lots of fussy cutting and distressing. Background stamping, made the tickets and used my butterfly punch. 

The journaling reads, I am a mommy, wife, sister, daughter. Not always an easy balance but it is me. Scrapbooking has given me something I never thought possible. A way to to relax, de-stress, unwind, channel some creativity and get it all out! 

Butterflies are my favorite scrapbooking embellishment. I fussy cut a few flowers and butterflies from the Pink Paisly paper. 

Stamped and fussy cut the tickets from Tim Holtz. added my roles in life...he he he. Layering distress square over distress squares. 

I love Prima letters and used some distress ink and Viva decor to bring them up. Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day.

Once Upon A Sketch Challenge -New Years Eve

This month's challenge/theme at Once Upon a Sketch  is New year's Eve. I flipped the sketch to the side.

And this New Years Eve meant that my baby Charlie was now 16 months old. He is growing so fast. And one of my many New years resolution was to complete more journaling. Up till he was 9 months I kept a monthly journal of all my kids and what they were doing and little stories...then I stopped... I was just busy. 

I also made myself a promise to journal more on my pages. Although I have been told that I have teacher hand writing I don't like the way it looks on my pages. So... the resolution: complete more hidden journaling. Such as the tag I have tucked on the top left hand corner of the photo. 

Another resolution is to use up my current stash of paper. This including scraps and current stock. I love BoBunny so much that when they release a new line I buy two packs. Seriously, yes I do this! The plan was to keep a pack so that when my craft reached the level that I wanted it to be I would use it. Now I've realized that my craft is ever changing...so I will never reach that perfect craft spot. So live for now. I cracked open last years Bobunny winter paper!! Which complimented the picture taken by Barb Weir.

 

I am also looking to work on various techniques such a layering and fussy cutting. I had just finished a layout for a challenge at Stuck on You Sketch for die cutting snowflakes and I loved how it turned out on that page so I tried my hand again! I love my CTMH cricut cartridge. 

I still love distressing and added some stickles to my snowflakes. Thank you for taking the time to stop by!

Once Upon a Sketch

DSC07974 (1280x960), a photo by lynnshaffer7 on Flickr.

One of my biggest issues is journaling. My intentions are always well and good...but I get so wrapped up in the creative process that sometimes I forget to journal. Recently I've been creating peek a boo journaling or adding tags. However, I Love the concept of Once Upon a Sketch as it really does force me to journal. The sketch this week (as always) is amazing and the minute I saw it I knew what I wanted to do! Journalling Criteria: This time you need to journal at least 2 SENTENCES on WHEN you started scrapping and WHY?Although I seem to always find inspiration from my beautiful children it was because of my husband that I started scrapbooking and simply put it was because I wanted to record our life together. My first page was of us back in 2006 but I just couldn't get into it ...until 2009 after I had been blessed with children.
For this page I did some stamping using a Kaiser stamp, Prima flowers and bling. Pion paper and various cardstock.

A perfect day is ...

Once upon a sketch is having another fun challenge! This time it is to use the title A perfect Day is... and well I have to add two lines to that! I chose to feature two special people in my life! Chris and Nicole are my neighbours and are such an inspiration! I love this picture of them. Friday night is slushy night and we enjoy back yard BBQ's, playdates and well they are just an all around fun couple.

Products Used: Kaiser Craft Paper, AC cardstock, Tim Holtz Ink, Forever in time Bling, Viva Decor Black Pearl, Martha punches, Co ordination cardstock! Thanks for stopping by :)