Family - Frosted Designs

Today at Frosted Designs we have a new sketch reveal. I love when I see a sketch that looks frilly and I look at those flowers and go...YEAH! I just can't help doing wedding layouts when I see a romantic sketch. Remember I do have 1100 of them, lol. This is a photo of Chris, Nicole, Michael (Chris's dad), my husband Clint and myself. We are now one big family! I know summer if flying by, but I hope you can stop by and play along with us!

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 : Graphic 45 Kraft Reflections Collection "Glimpse of Paris","Before Your Time","Bits & Pieces", Wilton Doily, Flowers" Color Me Crazy", Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Vintage Photo", Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist " Nuget", Stampendous Clear Stamps

Together Forever - Frosted

Well summer has finally arrived and so has another sketch at Frosted Designs. I was really looking forward to using this sketch. I haven't had the doilies and the flowers out for awhile, so I was pretty excited. In honor of Nicole's and Chris's anniversary I thought I would do a wedding photo of them. I can't wait to head over to the blog and see what the designers did with this one. So get out the doilies and lace and come join in the fun! See you there.

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: Glizt Designs, French Kiss Collection, "Floral", "Fleur","Script","Labels", Prima Flowers, Color Me Crazy Flowers, Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Vintage Photo", Tim Holtz Distress Stain "Peeled Paint", Kaiser Craft Crochet Doilies.

Snuggle - Frosted Designs

It's Tuesday!!! I hope everyone is having a fabulous day!  It's a great day here because there is a new sketch challenge up at Frosted Designs. It's so much fun to do the sketches and then see what the other designers and our challenge friends do too. For this one I just had to do the photo of Ryan and Jax having a nap. Ryan was so tired after a weekend camping trip that he didn't even notice one very wet doodle had climbed up beside him for a nap. He just moved over and kept on sleeping. Nothing cuter than a boy and his dog!

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 Kitchen Spice Collection , "Kitchen Spice", "Sesame", "Nutmeg", Background paper Authentique, Misc. Ribbon.

Play Hard - Frosted Designs

It's Tuesday, so that means another sketch reveal at Frosted Designs! When I saw this one I knew it would be perfect for a little boy photo. And what's cuter than a little boy and a puppy. Everyone came over for a BBQ on Mother's Day and Noah and the puppies had fun picking up sticks and playing in the water. Such a warm beautiful day to play outside. I hope some of you can stop by and join in our challenge. Come drop by and see what our designers did with the sketch, they amaze me every time!

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: Echo Park "This & That" Collection, "Tickets Please", "Primer","Numbers", "Swirls","Yardsticks","Dots & Plaid", "Signs", "Element Stickers", "Alphabet Stickers", Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Walnut"

The "little things' are not so little after all - Frosted Designs

It's Tuesday..and that means another sketch reveal at Frosted Designs. I took the two page sketch and made it into a single page layout. That's what I love, it's how you interpret the sketch. I usually try to stick pretty close to the original, but this one I wanted to try something a little different. I'm excited to see what everyone does for this one. I just had to scrap the pics of the puppies on Mothers Day playing in the sprinkler. They thought it was the funnest thing ever. We just sat on the deck an laughed. We had two soaking wet Doodles! They would dry off, and just run right back in the water. It was the highlight of my day!

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 Ambrosia Collection " Flowers", "Trellis", "Dot", Bo Bunny Kitchen Spice Cinnamon, Prima Flowers, Recollections Flowers, Ambrosia combo stickers, Tim Hotz Distress Ink "Vintage Photo"

Frosted Designs Blog Hop - My Scrap Room

Welcome to the Frosted Designs Crafting Space Blog Hop!!! If you came from Anita's then you are in the right spot! She is one amazingly talented artist, so I'm sure you have a great time visiting her blog!  

Now here is a tour of my craft space.....

 My room is our den at the front of our house. It's nice because I have
a lot of natural light.

 I've hung curtain rods on the wall to display some of my favourite layouts and I love to have shelves
full of the nick nacks that hold special memories for me.

 I love the new shelves I got from Costco with the canvas baskets!

I collect pigs, so around my craft space are pigs of every size and shape.

 I labeled all the baskets using "Word"

 My table looks out over our front veranda, so plenty of natural light

 I love flower pots, so I store all my scissors, pens, and distress tools in them

I always have a least one puppy under my desk, so they have a little bed under the table.

Now this is what it looks like on any given morning when I'm working on a project. 

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share my crafting space with you. The next stop on your hop is Lori .Let's pop on over and see what her crafting space looks like! Make sure at the end you remember to stop back at Frosted Designs to be eligible for the prize! If you've lost your way here is the line up!

Ann  http://annsnovemberrose.blogspot.com/
Teresa Jaye http://teresajaye.blogspot.com/
Anita http://theflamingochronicals.blogspot.com /
Lynn http://scrappyhappymom.blogspot.com/ 
Lori http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/ 

Sarah http://scrapsbysarah.blogspot.com/

Lydia http://kiwimumscraps.blogspot.com/
Sassy http://sassymoments.blogspot.com/
Ashley http://ashleyspaperdoll.blogspot.com/

Brenda http://www.brendasscrappyblog.blogspot.com/

Susie http://www.thedieshaveit.com/  
Laurie http://www.laurielariviere.blogspot.com/
Lori M http://frugalscrapper.blogspot.com/ 
Carol http://carolpaperie.blogspot.com/
Channa http://crafts-pieces.blogspot.com/

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

Masks & Stencils Tutorial - Frosted Designs

This is my first ever tutorial I've done!! It's posted this morning at Frosted Designs! It took me a long time to decide what to do a tutorial on...so I picked my favorite thing...ink, mist and stain!!!! So here it is....

Good Morning fellow scrappers! Today I want to share a tutorial on masks and stencils. I had bought quite of few of these and it took me quite awhile to figure out what to do with them. After playing around I found I could mist them, ink them, or use a distress stain dauber! This is just too much fun! I'm going to show you all of the stencils on white cardstock just so you can see it a little more clearly. So here we go.....

 To start you just lay your stencil on the paper and spray away! I usually have spray everywhere but you also can protect the areas you don't want sprayed with scrap paper. 

 And here is what it looks like after you finish. It's great to use them for backgrounds on plain cardstock too!

 For this chicken wire stencil I used Distress Stain. You just daub away and you don't need to use much!

 Here is what the finished product looks like! Try it on patterned paper or use paper towel to take some of the stain off to give it a muted look.

 Now this mask I have had for a long time and was scared to use it. But out comes the spray mist and it's just so easy to create a border on your paper.

 Voila! Great for cards, borders or backgrounds!

My all time favorite thing to do with mists, inks or stains is to color flowers!! I buy the big packs of white flowers and just change up the colors to match any paper I'm using! You can even use the flower as a mask on your background. So have fun playing with the mists, inks, and stains that you have on your desk!!  And my last tip of the day....Baby Wipes are the perfect tool for cleaning up your desk and your stencils!! Enjoy your day and have fun scrapping!

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

I think You're Amazing - Frosted Designs

Another fabulous sketch reveal today at Frosted Designs my friends!!! I loved working with this one. I'm really trying to use up my stash, so out came my Authentique and I am proud to say I've used it all now. I've just figured out that puppy pic's just go with every paper! My dogs are neutral color, so I never have to worry if they will match! HA..brilliant!! lol.. I've got the giggles today, so I'm being silly. But it really is true! But back to our fabulous design team, our wonderful sketch team and the awesome reveal today at Frosted Designs...I hope you can play along.

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: Authentique Gathering Collection, " Harmony", "Bloom","Reminisce", Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Vintage Photo", Prima Resist Canvas Butterflies, Echo Park This & That Stickers.

Happy Girls Are the Prettiest

Today at Frosted Designs we have our next sketch reveal. This was a fun sketch to work with. I chose to use some of the Little Yellow Bicycle line that I won and do a really old photo of Nicole. In this one she is six months old...un huh...the photo is 24 years old. Wow..does time fly. So this is my baby girl and I really hope you get a chance to stop by Frosted and join in our new challenge!

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: Little Yellow Bicycle " Paradise" Collection. "Happy Dots", "Born to be Wild", "All Natural Leaves", " Pleasant Plaid", Cardstock Stickers, Paper Flower Kit.

Woof & Wiggle

Here is our sketch for this week at Frosted Designs. I knew the minute I saw it I wanted to do a layout of the two pups chewing on their bone. They each have their own bones, but nope...they like the chew the same one at the same time. They are just too funny! I hope you can join us this week...come see what our fabulous designers did with this sketch and hopefully you can play along. See you at Frosted Designs!!!

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: Echo Park "Woof", Woof Words, Woof Stripe, Woof Journaling, Bo Bunny Double Dot "Gingerbread Vintage", Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Vintage Photo", Prim Essentials Flowers, Misc. Buttons.

Enjoy The Moment - Frosted Designs

This week at Frosted Designs we have another sketch challenge for you! This was alot of fun to work with. I wanted to do a layout of our new pup Jax, and when I saw this photo of him and Ashley..well I couldn't resist. I was teasing her that her sweater matched my Authentique Paper perfectly ( and it did, lol). Ashley is always ready to take a photo! Gosh I love this girl!!! So thank you Ashley and baby Jax for the great photo opportunity!

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: Authentique Gathering Collection "Bloom", "Reminisce", "Flourish", American Crafts Brads, Misc. Flowers.

Frosted Designs - Cherish

For our Frosted Designs Sketch Along Tuesday Challenge I decided to use a photo of Nicole and I on her wedding day. This is a photo I haven't scrapped yet. I was saving it for a special layout and this was it. One night Nicole came and sat by me in my studio and said she had a question to ask me. She asked if I would be her Matron of Honor at her wedding. I was stunned. I quickly asked if she wanted someone skinnier, younger, a friend maybe?? She looked at me and said "Mom, there is no one that I want standing by my side when I marry Christopher but you, you are my best friend". That was the biggest compliment I could have ever gotten. I proudly stood by her on her wedding day with tears in my eyes and a smile on my face. I love my girl and she truly is my best friend.

This is the amazing sketch we got to play with this week!!! Stop by my friends and join us at Frosted Designs

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: Prima Printery Collection, Prima Flowers, Prima Resist Canvas

Frosted Designs - Cuddles

The first day Daisy came home Renee just had to come and see her. They were both cuddled up in Daisy's bed. Is this not a photo opportunity? lol. It's so much fun to have a puppy and watch her play and cuddle with the kids. This is for the sketch challenge we have going on at Frosted Designs. Come on by and play along! Our sponsor is Holly Craft Originals (Etsy Shop)!

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: My Minds Eye "Kraft Fun Day" "Petticoat","Patchwork Party","Good Measure","Good Times","Lollipop Dots", "Admit One", "Party", Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Walnut", Flowers "Recollections" MME "Happy Days Layered Stickers"

Urban Scrapbook / Frosted Designs #37 Nikki & Minnie

This is Nicole when she was one year old. I'm having so much fun scrapping the kids baby photos. I have 24 years worth, so look out, lol. This layout is for sketch #37 at Frosted Designs. We have a great challenge going on, so make sure you stop by and join in the fun.  Our Sponsor for this sketch is "Miss Art's Papercrafting School"  My girls at Urban Scrapbook gave me these wonderful products by Simple Stories to play with. They keep challenging me to play with colors and lines that I'm not familiar with, and I love them for it. So below is the sketch we got to work with, and look below to see the fabulous products from Urban that I got to play with!

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 by URBAN SCRAPBOOK

                                                      Simple Stories Fabulous "Sassy"

                       100% Girl

                   Amazing

                                   Cardstock Stickers

                                                       Prima Vinetta Songbird Flowers

Other Supplies: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Walnut, Memento Angel Pink Ink, Tim Holtz Distress Stain "Peeled Paper" and "Weathered Wood", Wilton Doily, Close To My Heart "Simple Memories, "Stitched Together" Stamps.

Frosted Designs -Tried & True Cousins

This layout is the first one I did as a new design team member at Frosted Designs. The sketches are so fabulous! This one is by the oh so talented Marina Muller-Alberring. Our sponsor this month is Apron Strings! Come by, join in the fun and have a chance to win some awesome prizes!

This layout has a fun story. My son Ryan has always been known as "Baby Ryan" to his cousins. They were all little mothers to him since they were five years old when he was born. The things they did to that poor boy!  He's had his nails painted, been in a dress, and played Barbies with the girls. He is the only grandson in the family. Well...if you look at the photo.."Baby Ryan" isn't so small anymore! These cousins grew up more like siblings..and they truly are cousins and friends!

Here is the sketch that we got to work with:

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: Authentique "Forever" "Friendship" "Perfection" "Dependable", Wilton Doily, Misc. Flowers, Authentique Elements, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Autumn Nights