Love this sketch!

  I recently discovered a site that I absolutely love. It is crammed with great ideas. I adore the May sketch so much that I am getting ready to start on the second layout from it LOL... but I digress.... The website is Life Paper Scrapbook. This is the May sketch.

Here is my layout.

Neal is such a character I could scrap him everyday... This is him at Adriennes wedding show off his moves.
Thanks for stopping by to visit.
I hope your day is filled to the brim with blessings.
Brenda

Doubly challenged

  This is going to be a quick post as I am still trying to recouperate from all the chaos that replacing the dead washer has created. Boy am I spoiled...   Enough said!
    I am in a small yahoo group that is doing a 30 in May challenge, Yesterday the prompt was boys... I have been wanting to scrap this picture for a few weeks now so just did it!  The picture quality is poor but just had to document this. They have so much fun singing and Neal is a true character. Definitely something I want to remember. I am also going to enter it at About A Boy. the challenge for May is boys will be boys. Also at Scrap Your Story the challenge is too journal. I so rarely do much journaling that I simply could not pass this up!
   The layout.

 the journaling is hard to see on such a shiny background but it is written between the lines on the music.
   "Rockin it in the living room! Neal truly has the rockstar stance, everything from the stomping and screaming to grabbing the mic stand! March 2013"
Thank you so much for sharing your time with me.
Brenda

To blog or not to blog?

  I am going through a "mood" "phase" or "season" that I am hoping is going to lead to some positive changes in me. So I have been seriously considering giving up blogging, as I have become quite inconsistent...... but on the other hand I want to embrace it with abandon. So I am going to ponder and seek advice for awhile and then will go one direction or the other, because the blog as it is just does not bring me happiness.
  Layout A Day had a challenge on the facebook page today to use up your stash. You could link up a picture so thought I would for fun. I have been trying to work on making cards in 30 minutes or less so I can actually send more. I thought this would be a chance to make a quick card.
  Here it is!

I know those flowers are crazy. I bought them over 2 years ago and every time I drag them out I think "What could I have possibly been thinking?" Yet I kept them. So now some have actually made their way to a card!.
  This however is the first time I have used this embossing folder. It is Geo Flowers from the Paper Studio. Also a first for me is making the bow out of a different ribbon. I have never really had the guts to do that but I am okay with it and may even learn to like it over time.

 Well off to wait for the appliance delivery man..... never been so excited to spend my afternoon doing laundry!
Hope you day is fill to the brim with blessings!
Brenda
 

Mojo Monday Sketch #287

  Took me awhile to get started but once I did love the results. I love that this sketch is do versatile. Here is the sketch from Mojo Monday.

 and here is my take.

  Even though it is springy I  think the colors are subtle enough I am going to send it as a sympathy card.
Thanks for spending a few minutes with me today.
Brenda

" I Love Lucy"

 My yahoo group had a challenge to use the title of a TV show as your layout title. This instantly came to mind as I named my silly Lucy after Lucille Ball. I followed Sketch # 30 from Sketch-N-Scrap and I am also going to enter it in the Scallop challenge at Frosted Designs.

The background papers are from   EP Dots and Stripes.
I printed out the zebra and the pink polka dots. Yes I attempted a ribbon flower. I was working on this layout last night and just could not find any embellies that I liked from my stash. Went to bed thinking I was going shopping this morning. When I got up reality sunk in....... I have sooooo much already just  make something work. And this is the finished product. Isn't Lucy just too cute!

 Thank you for visiting.
I hope something inspires you today.
Brenda

Geez what an ordeal......

  I hope that none  of you can identify with this post and that all of your layouts turn out the way you want and that you love them all........ This was a challenge from the beginning ... and just kept going downhill. I had put so much effort into salvaging it early on that I decided  to just wade through (and throw something else at it)and accept that I will not love all my layouts.
  I was following a sketch from My Scraps and More that I love and actually like the core of the layout just none of the embellies.We had dyed Easter eggs and were using a method that combined shaving cream and food color that Adrienne saw on Pinterest. The pictures say it all.
the sketch

My layout......

I will not even give a description just please remember that most of the embellies are actually cover up and not truly embellishment.... Nough said. Oh, but one thing I did like was that the swirly paper is actually a picture I took of the pan of colored shaving cream before they played in it. It actually made really awesome paper! So all is not lost!

Thank you for stopping by.
I hope that you LOVE your next layout!
Brenda

A new month

  I truly hope that you had a very special Easter season.  Now it is time to move on into April, spring cleaning and starting the garden. Love this time of year.
 This layout is going to satisfy 2 challenges.
I used the April  sketch from Artful Delight.What an easy an fun layout to follow!
 I also am entering this for "use you stash" at Colorful Creations.

And here it is.......

 Is my precious Olivia adorable or what!! We had so much fun hunting eggs that day.... and yes that is Grandmas Longaberger Easter basket.

 The paper and stickers are all from Authentique "Hope".
 From my stash: 4 prima flowers and 3 pieces of washi tape.
Also from my stash the blingy butterflies.
And talk about digging into the stash... I coated the background paper with old lace Glimmer mist. Can not remember the last time I drug those out!
Thank you so much for visiting.
I hope that April brings sunshine to your days.
Brenda