1st Grade

 

 

The current challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog is 'Back To School'...not literally, but create a project using books, alphabets, anything that reminds you of learning...however, I took it quite literally! I've fallen behind in my scrapbooking and was inspired by my Granddaughter's first day of First Grade. 

Cambria ( the one in pink) has been best friends with Ryan since preschool, even though they were in separate classrooms in Kindergarten and also this year in First Grade. I thought Cambria was tall for a six year old, but Ryan makes her look tiny! Cambria had not seen Ryan since school ended because her friend spent the summer out of state. Her cute little friend found her before school and presented Cambria with a sweet little necklace to celebrate the reunion! My son sent me the pictures and I couldn't resist using them for this challenge. 

The bigger challenge was to create a 'funkie' scrapbook page for a very modern little girl...afraid I fell a little short in that area! I used Faded Type as the background, pulled out a really, really old transfer title (My Mind's Eye) from my hoarded stash, some alphabet stamps, and a couple of die cuts. Then I created a little journal card to slip inside for the details. I did make good use of my Tim Holtz Stamp Platform for this one!

 

Another challenge I was able to use for this project was Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Die Cuts. The little gold star charm is from Taylored Expressions, the heart and the file folder tab are from Cricut Cuttlebug Planner Embellishments Dies.

Hummingbird Watch

I have thoroughly enjoyed watching all the sweet hummingbirds this year, and when I thought about adding them to the grandkids' scrapbook, I thought of this image from Tim Holtz Crazy Birds set.

Doesn't he remind you of this little guy standing guard over this feeder?

Then one day I spotted a visitor, he must have been thinking of building a nest under the eaves.

At one point we counted as many as twelve hummingbirds between the two feeders. It's funny how some of them were very accommodating, and others were quite aggressive, chasing the others away.

The album for the grandkids is 8 x 8, and has pocket pages to fit 4 x 4 photos.

I was inspired by the challenge at Frilly and Funkie: All Creatures Great and Small. He's a tiny bit Funkie, don't you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

National Scrapbook Day ~ Skipping Stones Design Style ~

 

Happy National Scrapbooking Day, Skipping Stones Design style!!   We have put together a Blog Hop with some of our past and current FABULOUS designers.

If you just arrived from Julie Masse's  blog, then you are in the right place!!  Hop along and see all the fabulous Scrapbook pages  made with Skipping Stones Design stamps!!!    I promise you will like what you see!!!!

 

I tend to use clean, simple lines in my layouts, I think because I don't have many opportunities to use a feminine touch since I have all boys...

 

My first page was made using one of the images from Garden Stamp Kiss

 

...the more I use this set, the more I love it!







and Dandelion Dreams

...a really versatile set

 

The second page of my layout I used Dandelion Dreams again

and the bookplate tag was made using a very faint Pumpkin Seed Sentiment background along with a quote from the set Always Here

 I hope you can see the versatility of these great stamps for cards or for scrapbooking.

Leave a comment on each blog (some are giving away prizes) and when you have finished, go back to the beginning at Skipping Stones Design and leave a comment, telling us what you thought of the hop.  One lucky commenter will be chosen Wednesday, May 11th to win the Skipping Stones Design brand new May release stamp set!!!

Your next stop along the way is the very talented Laurel Seabrook.

Grandma-Hand Stitched

Soul Scrappers Challenge TC15-Technique Hand Stitching
The challenge was to use hand stitching on a scrapbook page and I thought, who better to scrap than my grandma...the journaling is difficult to read but says "Grandma Rhynes taught me to embroider when I was about 10.  She made me flannel nightgowns at Christmas and dresses, and used the scraps to make quilts.  Fun to see in the quilts later."  I don't generally like putting my handwriting on a page but I know it's better if you do...I fell in love with this layout and had to 'scraplift' from Robin at Creating Memories...One Moment at a Time.

The year you were born - Soul Scrappers AMC 15

Soul Scrappers is an awesome site that has challenges that make you reach a little deeper into who you are - this one is an "About Me Challenge" and encourages you to find out what was going on in the world the year you were born...which for me was a long time ago!  I copied the photo on vellum and then ran it through my printer again for the journaling.  I used Stampin' Up DSP called Raspberry Tart and I just love the Kiwi Kiss ribbon.  I added the smaller photo of my mom holding me and my dad holding my brother who is 11 months older than I am...gives you more of an idea of the family dynamics.  I also have a younger brother but he wasn't around in 1952!  Thanks for looking...

Oregon Coast-Soul Scrappers SC14

Wow, I keep losing my 'add photo' button...somehow it gets changed from Compose to Edit HTML...maybe I'll remember how to fix it next time without wasting an hour-LOL.  More photos from last years vacation in Depot Bay on the Oregon coast with family and friends...we had an awesome time!

Memory Book Pages

I don't know if any of you remember me mentioning a close friend who lost her son in a boating accident, but he died two days before his 36th birthday. His daughter wanted to release some balloons and have a cake to remember his birthday...these two pages are for a memory book I am helping my friend with for her granddaughter. I wanted to keep them simple and on the masculine side. I love how the stamped sentiment ends 'I am the soft stars that shine at night'...I had purchased this paper for the birthday theme on the reverse side but thought it was a little too 'happy' and ended up liking this side better.

It's never too late...

AMC11 -About Me Challenge for Soul Scrappers - It's never too late to...be yourself. (Even if you're too vain to show your bald pictures.) I tried to make the layout work with pink for the Breast Cancer theme, but these colors are just so 'me'! I also tried to fit the 2nd page layout with a challenge from Scrap it with a song #7, 'to use lyrics from 'I Hope you Dance'... "May you never take one single breath for granted'; but I was too late to submit it...had to be in by noon today. Oh well, the two really went hand in hand so I'm glad I got motivated to do both pages. This chronicles a year worth of breast cancer treatment...I almost got brave enough to post my 'bald' pictures but chickened out and made a 'waterfall card' feature. Now they are there, but you have to pull the cord to see them! I was so excited to finally get my Commit2Paper order in the mail...this is from the October 2009 kit.

THC10 - Got Wheels?

Believe it or not, this is the first scrapbook page I've done for my firstborn - and he's 32 years old! Looks like I'd better get busy, lots of catching up to do! He started doing some referee stuff for Salt Lake City Derby Girls and more recently he's actually been skating in a different league. I love a good challenge to get me motivated and when I saw these photos on his Facebook page they just sort of came together!

Dreams come...

OK, so this is a first for me - a 1 to 10 challenge. I saw it on Kandi's blog, the challenge is from Amy at commit2paper. Anyhow, I was so excited to come up with some ideas that I didn't realize there was a theme to follow - something with 'grow' in it...





I had already put so much effort into it I just had to make it work! The challenge is to use the theme 'grow' and use:
1 photo
2 stamps
3 brads
4 different cardstock
5 different patterned paper
6 staples
7 eyelets
8 buttons (yes 8!)
9 bling
10 inches of string or ribbon

It took a little while to figure out where to put the eyelets, the buttons were easy, they worked out perfectly. I used 9 beads on a stick pin for my bling, hope that counts! Thanks for looking!

April in Kaua'i

Cricutters Anonymous #33 - April Showers
Cartridges Used: Doodletype, Storybook

"April in Kaua'i is wet wet wet". Kaua'i is the wettest island but we weren't prepared for how much it rained in April - you'd be out on the beach and it would just start raining buckets out of nowhere. This is a horseback riding excursion (you can see all the mud) and you'd put on your slicker and take off your slicker and put it right back on again (more of a plantation setting than a beach setting, but we did get to swim at a nice little waterfall). The colors are a little difficult to see, they are Kiwi Kiss and Elegant Eggplant with some DSP that I've had so long I can't remember where it came from!

Thanks for looking and for your comments ~

Life Is Good-Depot Bay

Just Buggin' Challenge #29 - the man challenge
Cartridge: A Child's Year, Calligraphy
Stamp: Stampin' Up Text and Texture

...and here's the scrapbook page! My husband Dan loves to fish-in fact when I thought of making a layout about fishing I wanted an appropriate title and asked him if he considered fishing his 'Passion' or his 'Obsession'...he said it was his 'Addiction'. These photos look so serene it really brought to mind how much we enjoyed our relaxing vacation last year in Depot Bay so I scrapped that and I thought 'Life is Good'...so that's how it came about!

Shutter Bug

This is for the Just Buggin' Blog Hop Challenge - Hop into Spring!
Cartridges Used: Doodletype, Home Decor for the Ladybug
Paper: Stampin' Up Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Apricot Appeal, Delicate Dots DSP
Ribbon: Wild Wasabi Stitched

Jake went through quite a long spell where he wanted to take photos of everything, thank goodness he finally got a digital camera, Polaroids just don't get it! I think I need to remind him of those days and encourage him to take it up again! Anyhow this is my take on spring.

Tidal Raves-Seafood Grill

Just Buggin' Challenge #22 - All About Food
Cartridges: Caligraphy, Doodletype
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Basic Grey, Creamy Caramel

I don't have any cartridges that have food die cuts, but last year while we were on vacation we went to this fantastic little restaurant in Depoe Bay called Tidal Raves...they had the absolute best crab cakes I have ever tasted. So I didn't want to forget the name of the place or the experience, so I decided to scrap it for this challenge and for a Color Combo challenge.
Thanks for looking!

Oregon Coast

This is for SPCC Color Combo #32 - Close to Cocoa, Basic Grey, Creamy Caramel - Last August, 3 of us couples went to Depoe Bay on the Oregon Coast - Beautiful! The postcard on the page reminded me of this color challenge (the other 3 are photos I took with my little digital camera-you can't imagine how surprised I was that they turned out well enough to put on a scrapbook page! Anyhow, I was glad to scrap a couple of vacation pages with this challenge-thanks Samantha, for the inspiration!