Air Show

I was inspired by the May Challenge at More than Words Scrapbook Challenge:

When I think of the weekends – I think of spending time as a family. Both DH and I work during the week, so the weekends are the times we like to make special memories with our kids.

These photos are from the OshKosh Fly-In – one of the largest air shows in the country. For the week the show occurs, the small general aviation airport in OshKosh, WI is the busiest airport in the world. DH loves flying and I am glad we have this opportunity to share aviation with our children.

I loved the gray and white airplane paper – and the light background allowed me to add color with some oxide inks to match the photos. I added some stitching and stamping for added texture.

Here are some close ups:

 

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Once Upon a Time

Who doesn’t love fairy tales? Knights, fairies, princesses, dragons……

My husband’s family lives in South Dakota and we have to drive through Aberdeen which has a free park called Storybook Land and Oz. Our kids LOVE this park.

My kiddos were 4.5 and 1.5 here in those photos. They were so excited to run through the castles and play with the trolls and goats on the drawbridge.

This layout was completed for the October challenge at More than Words. The challenge was leisure and splats.

For me, I love to spend my leisure time providing my little humans with new experiences. They were so excited to run around the park and see all the storybook characters. The splatters were fun to add to the mixed media background. Everything is more fun when there are splatters!!

Here are some close-ups of my layout.

This page was completed using the Once Upon a Time stack from DCWV and G45 Enchanted Forest collection.

Fun Slide

The fall is one of my favorite times of the year. As a family we go to the pumpkin farm and choose our pumpkins. There’s a little carnival at the pumpkin farm with rides and horses. These photos are of my daughter and DH going down the fun slide.

This layout was based on the monthly sketch from sketchabilities challenge blog.

This layout was created using the Enchanted Harvest collection from Bo Bunny. I LOVE fall paper collections, but this is one of my most favorite. I fussy cut the flowers and leaves out of the paper and made the frame around the top photo out of chipboard embossed with gold.

Here are some close-ups!

It’s a Boy!

I still had two photos from when DS was born that I needed to scrap. These were photos my DH took while my son was being weighed and measured at the hospital after he was born.

This layout was inspired by the June sketchabilities challenge. So glad this challenge is back!! SO many scrapbooking challenge blogs are closing up and it’s really nice to still have places to go and see what different people do with the same sketch or mood board.

This page brought back lots of memories of having my little guy (who is now 3.5). I still ad the paper tape measure they used to measure him in the picture. I laid it on top of the photo cluster – making sure the 23″ number showed up on top – since that’s how long he was.

Even though you could see that he was 23″ and his weight from the photos – I wanted another way to document this on the page so I added the tags on the bottom of the page.

Here are some close-ups!

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Daddy’s Girl

I love that my children like to play outside. It’s so easy these days for kids to stay inside and play with electronics – so I like to get them involved with plants, camping, and other outdoor activities. These photos are of DD and DH planting her milk jug greenhouses. Just cut the milk jug in half, add some dirt and seeds, drill 2-3 holes in the bottom, put the two halves together, duct tape the seam and voila!! Greenhouse.

This project was completed for the May Words & Paintery challenge. They just announced that this will be their last challenge =(

The words reminded me of the photos I had of DD and DH planting her greenhouse. She was worried about her seeds not getting enough water and we had to explain condensation and how plants got watered by the rain. The layout was done with shades of blue and white with pops of yellow.

Here are some close-ups!

The daisy flowers matched the Paper House daisy paper.

I used my Prima Ink ‘N Layer stamps to add some flower outlines directly to the page. I then used blue gelatos to color in the flowers and added water to create a watercolor effect. Prills added dimension as the flower center.

I so loved the daisy flowers on the paper!!

I don’t awesome use my Cricut – but every time I do I realize that I need to use it more.

I loved that DH was helping DD and just shows how well they get along. The Daddy’s Girl sticker was perfect for the photos and the colors on the page.

A closeup of the paper layers and flower cluster on the upper right hand corners.

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Vintage Hollywood

This photo of my DD is one of my favorites. She decided to stage a photo shoot with her baby dolls to mimic the photos I took with her and her brother.

This seemed to be a perfect match for this month’s challenge at More than Words scrapbooking challenge.

The black and white photo reminded me of the old Hollywood photos of actresses and camera operators. The Vintage Hollywood papers and the frames on the sentiment cards were perfect for the photo and challenge.

I also made my own frames out of paper clay and a Martha Stewart frame mold to make some additional frames for the page. I covered the paper clay in acrylic gold paint and then brushed some black ink over the high areas to add some dimension.

Here are some close-ups of my page.

Love Fresh Air

This is a photo of DD from the riverbank near her grandparent’s ranch in South Dakota. I love the look on her face and the way the wind was playing with her hair.

This project was completed for the November challenge at More than Words Scrapbook Challenge. 

In a world where there is so much technology – I cherish the times we as a family spend together outdoors. There is a beauty and peacefulness in nature that I want my children to recognize.

Here are a few close-ups:

The flowers are hand-made using Heartfelt Creations Sun-kissed fleur stamp and matching die.

The background image was cut out with my Cricut and embossed with several layer of embossing powders which added thickness and texture.

This is one of my favorite photos of my daughter. I love the look on her face as she watched the waves wash up on shore.

The title is a wood piece that was covered in the embossing powders to make them match the background cardstock image behind the main cluster.

The smaller flowers also came from Heartfelt Creations and were hand-shaped.

Thank you for looking!

Super Girl – CSI Detective =)

I can now announce that I am a detective at the CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration challenge blog =) The colors, elements, and journaling prompts the challenges provide inspire amazing pages – and its always fun to see how everyone interprets the clues differently and comes up with such beautifully different projects!

These photos are from DD’s 4th birthday party (and her brother’s 1st birthday party). It was a Super Girl/Super Man themed party and my mom made her dress. She was running around like crazy that day and hard to stop long enough to get a photo – so these were all I was able to get. Wanted to document the dress though as my mom makes her birthday outfit every year.

The challenge goes through the end of June! Head over to the CSI Challenge Blog to check to out and play along.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Love Never Rusts

When we visit my husband’s family’s ranch – the memories and photos I get are awesome! There is a beauty to the landscapes, old barns, equipment and the freedom that comes through in all of the memories. These photos were taken of my children, husband and father-in-law when they were running off to go check on cows.

This project was inspired by the awesome Words and Paintery challenge. This is also an application for the Words and Paintery design team. There is so much inspiration and talent on this blog and if you like mixed media scrapping – head over and check it out!

I love scrapping photos of my son because it gives me a chance for grungy scrapping with gears and metals and leave the flowers behind. It was hard at first (my first scrappy muse is a girly girl so flowers and pinks and purples reign supreme!).

Here are some close ups.

An old pair of jeans made a perfect background behind the photos on this layout. I added some doodled black lines around the green diamond to mimic the doodles on the background paper. I haven’t run out for the Finnabair rust paints yet (crazy right?) But magical powders in copper and chocolate brown layered with oxide broken china and cracked pistachio make a pretty good rusty look.

The photos begged to be cut into circles which I liked against the diamond shape of the background paper. Some gears (chipboard and metal) and some cheesecloth and string finished out the grungy look.

Thank you for looking!