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I made a 8 1/2″ x 11″ scrapbook page this weekend so I could use the Weekend sketch as a layout.

The page base is a sheet of Chocolate Chip cardstock. Layered over it are a 4 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Brocade Background Designer paper and a 3 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Spring Silhouette Designer Paper. Chocolate Satin Ribbon was tied around the layers.

I layered my 5″  x 7″ photo first on a 1/2″ bigger piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock, then on a 6″ x 8″ piece of Always Artichoke. A dotted white gel pen border was added to the Chocolate layer and the Artichoke layer was paper pierced.

The two ovals were cut with the largest of the Nestabilities templates. Celebrate and good times are from the stamp set Celebrate Everything. They were stamped in Chocolate Chip on Whisper White cardstock. I paper pierced underneath celebrate and added journaling with my Artichoke marker around it.

I want to wish every Mother out there a Happy Mother’s Day! I hope your day is filled with lots of love, hugs and kisses!

I used this weekend’s sketch for my  scrapbook page.

The page base is a 6″ x 6″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock.

The designer paper from Always Artichoke Prints and Fall Flowers Pack were cut in 2 1/2″ x 2 7/8″ and 3 1/4″ x 2 7/8″ pieces and taped to the card base. The (long neglected) Argyle stamp from All in a Row was stamped in Chocolate Chip over all designer Paper edges.

I cut the photo down to  3 1/2″ x 5″ and layered it first on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Chocolate Chip, then Bashful Blue cardstock. The title is from Many Happy Returns and is stamped in Chocolate Chip on a 1 1/4″ Whisper White circle. That circle was layered first on a 1 3/8″ Chocolate Chip circle, then on a bashful blue scallop circle.

For my journaling I rounded one edge of a 7/8″ x 2 1/4″ strip of Whisper White with my 1″ circle punch. I added journaling with my Chocolate Chip marker and added two Pewter brads on the left hand side.

I know my scrapbook pages are very simple. But with only having a 6″ square space to work with, it’s hard to add a lot of stuff. I like the focus of my pages to be the photos I am scraping, not all the cool stuff I used to make it.

Click on More if you want to see how I cut up my Many Happy Return stamp set, or if you need a visual on how to use a circle punch to round an edge of a cardstock strip.

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I love this picture of Rick. He is such a goofy man. So much fun to hang out with.

I have pictures with him posing like that ever since we started dating.

Since living in Florida his hair color is turning into salt and pepper, which he loves by the way.

I kept the page super simple and used the sketch from this weekend as layout.

The 6″ x 6″ page base is Always Artichoke cardstock. The 2 1/4″ x 6″ paper is from the Blue Bayou Prints Designer Paper pack. I ran Soft Sky double stitched ribbon along the edge of the designer paper.

I cut the photo down to 3 1/2″ x 5″ and layered it on a 1/8″ bigger piece of Basic Black cardstock. I added a double photo corner on the top right with three black brads in it.

The photo was attached with dimensionals. I journaled around the three right sides with my 08black micron pen.

Here is a super simple 6″ x 6″ page that I made  last night.

I held a stamp camp yesterday morning and working on other stuff during the day. I almost forgot my Scrapbook Sunday page.

It is very simple and has no stamping besides the word Joy from Fundamental phrases.

I love this picture and didn’t want to distract from it.  I still can’t believe Rebecca and Lucas went into the water last month. Crazy kids!!!

The page base is a 6″ x 6″ piece of Textured white cardstock. I love the feel of it.  The Chipboard piece is from the On Board Lots of Letters pack. I adhered Certainly Celery Prints designer paper on the top, cut around it, sanded it and cut the J out from the back with my hobby blade. I sanded the edges around the J with my Basic Grey Precision File set. It comes in handy for chipboard pieces like this. I paper pierced around the edges and used my Always Artichoke Marker around the edges of the chipboard.

Rick is coming home tonight! We are so excited! Cookies are in the oven, roast on the stove….life is good!  

I love this shot of Rebecca and one of the kids from the neighborhood playing with chalk. I need to remember to shoot images at a crooked angle. I took it on one of our first real warm days last month. Rebecca and I had been to The Children’s Place the weekend before and she couldn’t wait to wear one of her new dresses.

As soon as I saw the Sweet Celebrations stamp set in the catalog, I knew I HAD TO have it! This is the first time I have used it.

The page base is a 6″ x 6″ piece of Bashful Blue cardstock stamped with White craft ink and the Polka Dot background. I used the this weekend’s sketch challenge for my layout. I wanted to keep all the focus on the picture and the sketch was perfect for that.

I cut the photo down to 4 1/4″ x 5″ and layered it first on a slightly bigger piece of Basic Black cardstock, then on a 4 3/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of textured Wild Wasabi. On the bottom right I added a double photo corner punched out of Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black cardstock, topped with five silver brads.

I stamped the Day to Remember circle three times. I stamped it once on Pumpkin Pie and punched it out with the Scallop circle punch. I stamped it on Wild Wasabi and punched that out with the 1 3/8″ circle punch and last it was stamped on Bashful Blue and punched out with a 3/4″ circle punch.

Next I stamped the flower from Sweet Celebrations in Bashful Blue on Whisper White cardstock, cut it out and layered it into the center of all my circle punchouts. I topped it off with a black brad. I attached the scallop with dimensionals to the page.

One of the sentiments from Stem Sayings was stamped with Versamark under the flower. I used it as a guide for my paper piercing. Faux Stitches were added with the white gel pen. I used the Faux Stitched line as a guideline for my journaling.

Here is the matching page I made for last weeks scrapbook page.

I love this picture of Rebecca running into the water, her hair flying up in the air and her arms all stretched out.

I added a scallop border made with the slit punch to tie in the Carousel Note from the other page.

The rest of the ingredients is pretty much the same as last week.

Paper: Textured Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip and Shimmery White Cardstock

Acc.: Slit Punch, Fusion Flowers, Antique Brass Build a Brad and regular brads, Love and Happiness Rubons, white gel pen

I finally have new pictures to scrap. Most of them are from our trip to the beach last weekend. I know those get old after a while, but what can I do? The beach is a big part of our life here.

The scrapbook base is a 6″ square of textured Wild Wasabi.

I didn’t like the color when it first came out, but now I use it all the time. I will be sad when it retires this summer.

When I saw the Carousel Notes in the Occasional mini, I knew I wanted those for scrapbooking.

I added 1/2″ chocolate circle punchouts in each scallop and cut just a tad of the right hand side off.

For the center I cut my photo, Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip cardstock with my Coluzzle and taped those layers down. Next I paper pierced all around it.

I added Love & Happiness Rubons on the left hand side of my Wasabi base. I love the way they look. Of course I had to try the Chocolate Rubons first! LOL The sentiment and the flower in my Pewter Build a Brad are both rubons as well. The flowers underneat the brad are from the Flower Fusion tin.

The sentiment was added to a Shimmery White large oval punchout that was paper pierced. The flower is punched out of Pumpkin Pie with the Three for you Flower punch. I sponged the edges with Pumpkin Pie and added a Pewter Brad in it’s center.

Where I had cut the scallops off my Soft Sky Carousel Note, it looked a little bare. So I added Double Stitched Pomegranate ribbon with some Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware.

 While I was scrapping my baby girls picture my neighbor Cheryl scrapped a picture of her precious baby girl.

Isn’t her girl beautiful?

Cheryl and her family went with us to the beach last Sunday and I snapped this picture.

Cheryl chose Blush Blossom as the scrapbook base.

The picture was cut down to a 4″ square and layered first on a 4 1/4″ square of Chocolate Chip and a 4 3/4″ piece of Taken with Teal. She added a dotted border with a white gel pen.

Cheryl made her big flower out of a Shimmery White scallop punchout. She cut lines toward the middle of the scallop and sponged the edges with Blush blossom. Next she added a Blush Flower that was punched with the Boho Blossom Punch. Her flower center is a Pewter Build a Brad with center that was stamped with Small Flowers.

The sentiment from One of a Kind was inked up with Chocolate Chip Marker on Shimmery White and punched out with the Designer Label punch. That punch is perfect for the Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware piece.

The small flower was punched out with the Three for You punch and a styled silver brad was added in its center.

Crocodile Lucas doesn’t quite sound as good as Crocodile Dundee….But I think my little man looks good wrestling that stuffed alligator at Fudpuckers in Destin.

 The layout is basically the same as last week’s.

I tried to  make pages that will make good double pages after they are out of the calendar and in the album.

The difference between this and last weeks page is that I left off the tab, turned the layout to work with a vertical photo, journaled on the photo corner and added five large Antique Brass eyelets and sponged gray circles underneath.

I took this picture last summer during our visit in Germany.

We went to see the Heidelberger Schloss. You can see the house above the entrance gate in the background next to my boys.

The scrapbook page base is a 6″ x 6″ piece of Always Artichoke cardstock.

The photo is cut down to 4″ x 5″, then layered on a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Basic Black cardstock.

I added a Basic Gray round tab on the left hand side for journaling with a Antique Brass Build a brad stamped with a flower from Happiness in Always Artichoke.

To tie in the Basic Gray and the hardware, I added a sponged Basic Gray large Photo Corner on the top right of the photo with five Antique Brads in it ( I know, I know….but it looks so good. I can’t help myself!)

The 5 1/2″ River Rock square was punched on top with the Spiral punch. On the bottom I used part of the Happiness background stamp. Quick and easy….had to be since I prograstinated and had only a few days to make 7 pages for Rick’s scrapbook calendar.

Austin loves to dig himself a big hole and to be buried in it with just his head sticking out.

A friend of ours took this picture last July.

Rick kept on adding more sand while I gave Austin some of my precious diet coke. LOL

Another page of Rick’s book to remind him of our great times at the beach.

Like last week this page has a 6″ x 6″ piece of textured Soft Sky cardstock as it’s base an a 3 1/2″ x 5 3/4″ piece of Bali Designer paper with a 3/8″ strip of paper pierced Whisper White layered over it.

The photo is cut down to 4″ x 5″ and first layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Always Artichoke, then a 1/4″ bigger piece of Chocolate Chip.

I added a large, sponged Chocolate Chip Photo Corner on the bottom right with five silver brads topping it off.

I used markers to ink up the sentiment from A Beautiful Thing, punched it out with the large oval punch, layered it first on a 1 1/4″ paper pierced Chocolate Chip circle and then a 1 3/8″ Always Artichoke circle.

The flower is also from A Beautiful Thing and inked up with Chocolate Chip and Tempting Turquoise. It’s punched out with the Three for you punch.