Family pictures

My parents 50th Anniversary was this past summer, so one of the things we planned was to have family pictures taken.  I have 2 brothers and one sister. And all but, my sister have families and most of us live apart from each other. So we started planning this celebration and the family picture about a year ago and even then on the weekend that we were to be together it didn't look like we'd all be there, but everyone did make it for the picture. One of our gifts to them was a scrapbook. I did several pages of their parents, grandparents and siblings. Then we sent out info to their friends and family and ask them to create pages for this special scrapbook. It turned out to be a very special scrapbook and they love it.
All that to say- I am just now getting the page done for my family to put in their book. I was so busy preparing for anniversary celebration and getting several of the other pages done and I didn't want to put the page together until after the family pictures.
So here it is.

 This also meets the following challenges:
H2H Challenge  for the third week of January. It is a photo inspiration challenge. I used the browns, tags, and leaves from the photo.

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday . This week it's a recipe: 3 patterned papers, 2 buttons, one word title
and then at Let's Scrap we have a sketch.

Hope you enjoy and go check out the above places and see all the wonderful artwork.
Have a blessed day,     Polly

Feminine, vintagey card

I am finding that participating in challenges and using sketches has really challenged me to get more done in a shorter amount of time. Mainly I'm not getting a project all planned out in my head before I actually start putting together something. I'm learning to start and build as I go, most things can be changed or adapted. This is really a fun process.
So I started this card with a sketch challenge from Let's Scrap and then the H2H challenge for last week was to use color (Close To My Heart color of course) and glitter.  It was easy to work these two challenges together.
I misted the textured piece of cardstock on the left with clear glitter mist, which you can't really see in the photo. And then added just a touch of Glitz Glitter gel on the tips of some of the rose petals. I am also loving the seam binding and all the ways you can color it. You'll definitely be seeing more of that here. 

 

Here is a close-up of the rolled flowers with Glitz Glitter gel added to some of the tips. The ribbon is the popular seam binding. It comes in many colors, but if you purchase white or cream, you can then color it to match whatever project you need it for. Saves on buying so many colors, and then maybe still not having the right color, plus then you have the money to purchase other NEEDS :) It comes flat, but you can get this cool scrunched look by misting it with some water and wadding it up. Let it wadded in a ball until dry. Love this stuff! 

 

Close To My Heart products used:

 Roxie paper pack

Art Philosophy cricut cartridge ( the bracket shape on the left edge and rolled flowers)

stamps

waxy flax

the pearl buttons are vintage and this seam binding is also, but Close To My Heart now carries the seam binding in off white

                              Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by. I love to see your comments too!     Polly               

Our Little Girls

I'm scrapbooking the first year of our twin granddaughters, at least that is all I'm committing to right now. It is so fun to be doing girly pages. We have a daughter and 3 sons and then our daughter had 5 boys, so I've done a lot of boy pages since I started scrapbooking.
This LO is for a challenge over at  Frosted Designs and a Winter Wonderland Blog Hop, so go check it out. For the challenge we were to use vellum, transparencies, and/or acrylic. I have vellum flowers the I cut from a vellum paper, a transparency over the two pictures on the left page near the bottom and also a transparency with the words "daddy" on it.
I also met the Let's Scrap challenge # 127. Often times we have more pictures than what we can find a sketch for. So we were to take a sketch and reduce the sizes of some of the pictures so that we could fit alot more on the LO.
I used Sketch 4-27-11

 

So here these sweethearts are, in their first few hours.

Here is a close-up of the transparencies I used.

I  used the new Lucy paper pack from our new Close To My Heart Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book and of course the Art Philosophy Cricut cart and also the Storybook cart..

                                                Hope you enjoy,      Polly

Vintage card

I recently joined the community at  Paper Craft Planet and in that community there are tons of things to get involved in. Challenges, sketches, swaps, techniques, tutorials, groups and more. One group that I've signed up for is "All Things Vintage". They have lots of things going on over there. I will be sharing what I do and learn from over there. This is my first project with them. We were to take this image of an old post card and create a card.

So I used Mojo Monday 224 sketch

And here is what I came up with

 

and here is the inside

I haven't really gotten into printing images and working with those, but I did enjoy doing this card. So who knows, I might have found another fun thing to do! I love trying new stuff though.

                                                                  Blessings on your day,          Polly

Rock the Block collage cubes done!

I finished my Rock the Block collage cubes. Well, almost, I have the tray covered with paper, but I want to add some smaller pics to the inside bottom. I haven't added those yet. I might put in a title of sorts and the year if I end up giving it as a gift as I'm also thinking of doing. It didn't take me long to decide what I wanted to do with these blocks. I think it would be fun for the grandchildren to find their own  picture, but they won't be doing that often because they are so far away. :(  Some of my blocks don't fit together so nicely cause I added a little to much dimension. Hard for me not too. I did learn one thing while doing this project, when you ink the cork letters, let them dry good before flipping them and doing another side. I fixed most of what got messed up. I am going to have to do a least one more of these and maybe more. Great gift idea and I've  seen some cool home decor projects. You can order this set with a large stamp set from me. But just til the end of Jan.So hurry and order yours today.  The big stamp set will no longer be available, just the collage block set. See earlier post to see exactly what comes with this special and how much it is.
So here are my sweeties:
This is our oldest grandson, 

and the next one

and the next

and the next

and the last boy! These fun and delightful boys are all brothers and our daughter's children.

What a bunch of noise, rowdiness, and fun boy stuff. I love them everyone.
And then one of our son gave us 2 girls at once! And we are so excited to have some beautiful girls in our family.

So there you go, all 7 of our special little people. And such a fun thing to work with and decorate.
  H2H Challenge for this week is a 3-D project so here it is. Go on over and check out all the other 3-D projects that other talented ladies have created.
And this also meets the challenge over at Anything Goes for the "anything goes" challenge.
Hope you enjoyed.                                          Polly

Yay! I won Top Three winner over at Frosted Design!

I'm so excited. Yes, I know, it doesn't take much :) I won Top Three in the Card Sketch #9 entry over at Frosted Designs. Go on over and see all the wonderful artwork there. They have 3 challenges going all the time. A card sketch, scrapbook sketch, and Fabulous Friday challenge. It's lots of fun and a great way to provoke you to get creative. The card I made is posted here.
This is also the card we are making for our February card class.
                                                         


                                                           Have a blessed day,     Polly

Cardstock only Challenge

Over at Frosted Designs for their Fabulous Friday challenge we were challenged to do something using only cardstock, no patterned paper. Hmmmm, that took some thinking. In fact, I'm right down to the wire :) JK I am down to the wire, but I have had the project done for a couple days, just busy with other things and didn't get it posted. This was a fun challenge and it simplified the project a little. So here is my layout.

 

Go on over to Frosted Designs and check out more ideas for using only cardstock.

     Blessings to you all,      Polly