Journey

I just love when I find a beautiful sketch and inspiration to do another wedding layout for my album. My beautiful daughter has had quite the journey in life so when I saw that Bird Is The Word new word was "Journey" I knew that would be the title for this layout. Nicole's tragic accident and her triumphs following made her into the beautiful, confident, kind, loving person she is today. Sometimes we don't see when something happens to us what the outcome will be down the road. She had to give up a professional ballroom dance career after her accident and decided to focus on school. With a reduced course load and having to spend and extra year and a half in university she graduated with Distinction and a 4.0 GPA. That's my girl. When something happens, God is just putting you on a different path. I love this girl and am so proud of her. The layout is based on a sketch at C'est Magnifique. It's my first challenge with them, so I'm excited to be a part of their community now.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I love reading your comments and I appreciate your scrappy support! Have a wonderfully happy scrappy day! Lynn

Supplies: Bo Bunny Enchanted, Enchanted Evening, Harlequin, Recollections Flowers, Metal Plaques, Bridal Bling Butterflies, Wilton Doily

Wooohoooo I made the Top 15!!

This is just too much fun! I just made the Top 15 at Practical Scrappers . This is my new layout for the next round. It's your support and votes that are keeping in this competition, so once again I'm going to ask ( I know I'm getting to be a pain, lol) for you to take a moment if you can and stop by and vote! The link to vote is http://www.practicalscrappers.com/2012/01/3rd-round-layout-contest-vote-here.html  Our challenge was to use these beautiful photos of quilts. I chose the design of the quilt rather than the color.

I got the inspiration from the sketch at Stuck on U Sketches which to me had a quilt feel to it and the title inspiration came from the challenge at Bird Is The Word.

Supplies: Creative Imaginations, My Minds Eye Paris & Co, Michaels Ribbon, Misc. Buttons, Dusty Attic Chipboard, ColorBok Vellum Quotes, Prima Flowers, Prima Resist Canvas, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Walnut & Frayed Burlap, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Partridge in a pear tree.

Promise

Today was a really sad day at our house. Our dog of sixteen years, Tessa is not doing well. At the Extended Care facility where I work we term it "End of Life". We are keeping her comfortable and staying by her side. While I was keeping her company today I found a few challenge sites and decided to do what I do when I'm happy, upset, sad, mad or glad. I scrapbook. It's my therapy. So to keep my mind occupied, I'm combing four challenges today. The title came from the Bird is the Word challenge blog where the word to use was "PROMISE" This is my husband and I and our promise to each other:

Count Your Blessings

Bear Each Others Burdens

Forgive and Forget

Be Kind & Tender Hearted

Comfort One Another

Keep Your Promises

Be Proud of Each Other

Be True to Each Other

Look After Each Other

Love

The beautiful sketch is from Creative Scrappers. 

The color inspiration came from Color Combos Galore 

I thought the little hats looked like flowers and I loved the color combination. Also saw the doily under the hat and decided to use one too!

And my fun came from The Paper Variety  where the challenge was to make fan fold embellishments! I'm new to that technique, so it took a bit of work, lol. I also tried stitching on my layout for the first time. Do you believe I had a mini sewing machine downstairs where my craft stuff is buried? Oh...I'm loving it!!

Supplies: Bo Bunny Et Cetera Watermark & Geography, Bo Bunny Love Shack Groovin  & Et Cetera Symphony for the flowers, Prima Flowers, Wilton Doilies, Tattered Angels  Wheat Beer Glimmer Mist, My new/old mini sewing machine for stitching.