12 x 12 Double Layout

I had these two pictures from a long-ago camping trip with my nieces where we "swam" (or maybe more waded) in the Gallatin River.  I loved how the pictures went so well together, so I tried my hand at a 12 x 12 double!  These will go side by side into my scrapbook for ultimate girl cuteness factor.  :)  Amazingly, finishing these also was the end of my full papers from this kit, so I'm already on scraps and can make some summery cards!  That's a miracle!

Inspire

I have been wanting to try out some of Gabrielle Polacco's texture paste for a while now on my new masks, so here was my chance!  I tried it out on a layout after this one and it worked much better.  The first time, I didn't quite have it thick enough, so here's take two with a lot more talcum powder in it.  Maybe I had to make the high altitude recipe??  I have no idea.  But it was really cool how it turned out.  Plus I finally got this picture of me and my mom from my graduation done.  Yay!

Color Throwdown #250

I wanted to make sure I participated in this week's Color Throwdown challenge!  I knew I had the perfect papers and loved the combination!  Here is the original challenge:

And here's my take on it.  I was inspired by the collage-style cards in this month's Papercrafts magazine too.

Swim Chick

Well, for not being originally very inspired by these papers, I sure have been on a roll with them...in fact enough of a roll that I already have NO full-size papers left, just scraps!  (That's because I have more LO's that are already done that I will post another day!)  This one is another picture of the sun-bathing niece.  I love it!  I caught her just as she was coming up out of the water.  All of the materials on this page came from Simple Stories (oh plus a little bit of Stickles.)  :)

I'm also entering this page in the Challenge Me Happy final challenge ever, which is crazy because I JUST found their challenge site.  Like three days ago.  :(  Hopefully I'll be able to look in the archives for some good inspiration!

Keep Calm and Soak Up the Sun

I just got my latest kit from My Creative Scrapbook, and I could not believe all the stuff in it!  Lots and lots of embellies from Simple Stories and a fun beachy theme.  Unfortunately, I live in a completely land-locked state that is well known for it's skiing, hiking, and fly fishing...but not so much the beach.  HOWEVER, we do have a few local man-made beaches around some little lakes that are nice on a hot day as you can see from my niece sunbathing.  This whole kit does make me want to plan a trip to the beach despite my white  Norwegian roots and even whiter legs.  Ha!

The Last of the Kit!

Yep, that's right, I finally used up an entire kit with the exception of a few stickers which I can now throw in with all my card-making extras!  Perfect!  

This is a picture of my nieces from a few years ago at the fair after watching the pig races.  I know, right?  But it actually was fun to watch... :)

Here are all the projects I made with this kit!  It was my favorite one ever!  It included papers from American Crafts' Dear Lizzy collection and also a mask and some wooden embellishments.   Oh.  Just realized I have those left too.  Well, I was close anyway!!

Live...and remember this...

Just sharing a little layout today using up some more of my favorite kit!  I LOVE self portraits like this; I have so many I should just do a whole page about them.  This one was taken a while back of me and a friend.

My Creative Sketches June Sketch Challenge

What a fun sketch last month from My Creative Sketches.  This is an old picture I've been wanting to scrap for a long time.  I know it's old because now she has freckles on her nose.  Aww.  The camera was seriously about 5 inches from her face, and she never even woke up until I poked her.  Why is it that sleeping animals and babies are so so so cute, but sleeping adults are so so so NOT.  Ugh.  Although you might get tired of me scrapping my pets, at least you get to see my kitty sleeping and not my husband sleeping...or me for that matter.  All I can say is a chin strap would be a good invention.  Whoa.  ;)