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Oh my lovely girl. 

She is so pretty in these pictures, this was two years ago when she was taking modeling courses.

I made this layout with My Mind's Eye Indie Chic paper line. 

I love the colors, they are great for girly pages.

For the two borders, I used circle punches because I didn't have scallop scissors that had a deep enough scallop.

I, then, inked them with charcoal gray ink. I just so happened to have so new flowers from Prima, and Michael's dollar bin that matched this layout perfect.

The doily is just one you get in a pack of 100, that I never seem to run out of, even though I have used them on many layouts.

The white butterfly is from the Martha Stewart line, it's a lace sticker. I love them, they are so delicate and add a hint of beauty to your pages.

I used Topaz Labs to edit my photo of my daughter, which brought out the sliver tones and added a vignette to the outer edges, ever so subtle. 

YOu can't see but on the background paper there is a light design. Then I traced a scalloped paper, that I liked the design of and cut out the gray paper to match. I, also, inked the edges of the gray paper with the charcoal gray ink to give it definition.

I hope you enjoy my layout. 

And I hope that you are having a Happy Easter.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

If you celebrate this holiday, I hope you have a wonderful day.

We will be going to my mom's for Easter dinner this year and it will be just the eight of us.

My mom, dad, two brothers, and my family of 4, unless my son's gf comes, then there will be 9 of us.

Easter is fun when the kids are little but as they have gotten older, it's become more of just spending time with the family, which is what we all need anyway.

I hope you make a special memory this year and embrace the time you get with your family.

Lots of love to all.

My Lucky Charms

My Lucky Charms

Paper Mixing Bowl Recipe Challenge

There are times I make a layout, and when I am done, I am not in love with it. This is one of those times. I just wasn't feeling the challenge, I had a vision of what I wanted but it didn't turn out. This was for the Paper Mixing Bowls March Recipe Challenge.

Anyway, here is how to make this layout. 

I took a piece of paper that already had the edging I wanted, then I traced it onto the green patterned paper and cut it out. Then I inked the edges with dark brown ink.

I adhered it to the chocolate polka dot paper, then added lace. The lace is by Recollections, and it's self adhesive, which makes life easy.

I happened to have scrabble tiles that were the maroon color of corned beef. My husband got them for me from a garage sale box, while he was at work.

The pictures I chose were from St. Patty's Day last year. We took the kids to the parade and they got all dressed up for the occasion.

For the flowers, all I had was red flowers, but the red didn't match, so I found a stain marker, and darkened the red so that it would match the scrabble tiles.

Fairly simple layout, but it caused me a couple sleepless nights and I still ended up, not loving it. 

I am servely disappointed by this layout, but what can you do. Sometimes, that is what happens, hopefully someday soon I will think of something to fix it and make it better.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Leave a comment if you would like.

Have a wonderful day!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

If you would like to participate in the recipe challenges or just take a look at what the other members of paper mixing bowl did please view the website - http://papermixingbowl.blogspot.com/

So Beautiful

So Beautiful.

It's been busy around here, again. Not getting to my favorite two past times of blogging and scrapping lately. And to be honest it's all a blur. I don't even know what makes me so busy.  But I do know that at the end of every day I am exhausted. Not to mention, our mama pitbull ate my laptop charger (this makes two times now) and all I had was my desktop, which I prefer not to use, unless I am editing or playing music. It feels too much like work to be stuck at one spot to have to update this blog.

Right now, 4 of our 6 dogs, are running around the house, barking at each other. I just got back from taking the three littles for a walk. Their first walk! Well... it didn't go well. Gizmo and Roo were doing well at first, but then a car drove by. Paris would barely move at all. So I didn't get to walk them far. I ended up taking Paris and Gizmo inside, then just taking Roo for a walk/run. She did great by herself, so I guess that is the way I will have to do it from now on, until they get used to it.

Anyway, enough of my rambling.

This layout came out pretty well. It's base is a wonderful light charcoal gray, with a little distressing and white polka dots. I found a piece of yellow polka dot paper in my scraps file and added that to the top, inking the edges with charcoal ink.

Then I splattered black paint on the layout, and waited for it to dry. That's tedious. I hate having to wait! For anything. He,he.

I printed a cool street lamp on white cardstock then cut it out using a craft knife. Then because the black wasn't really as black as I wanted it, I colored it with a sharpy.

I found three more strips of paper in my scrap pile that I thought went well together, and I cut them various sizes and lengths, inking the edges as well with charcoal ink. 

Then I printed the photo I took, that is slightly over exposed (but I don't care, because there is something about it, that I am in love with) and I matted it on white cardstock.

Then I added white outline stickers, colored brads made by Spare Parts, a glazed sticker and   white lace butterflies made by Martha Stewart.

I hope you like my layout.

Please leave a comment.

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Have a wondiferious day!

Adore, Love... Paris

Adore, Love... Paris

Well, my goals for this week were too lofty for what I actually could get done. I only worked half days this week, since school was out for February recess. But ended up busier than I thought I would be with the kids and errands.

I did happen to get a layout done though and it's featuring one of my new puppies.

Her  name is Paris. 

She is very shy and very loving.

To make this layout, I used the My Mind's Eye Be Mine Collection.

I also used some of the die cut cardstock tags that come with this collection.

On the second layer, the pink heart patterned paper, I cut it to 10.25 inches square then used a Martha Stewart punch around the page punch. Then I inked the edges with brown ink.

The teal heart paper I cut to 8.5 inches by 6.5 inches, then used another Martha Stewart punch around the page punch. I inked the edges with brown ink.

I cut the pink striped paper to 8.5 inches by 6.5 inches and used the Zutter distressing tool on the edges then inked them with brown ink.

The grid patterned paper I cut to 5.25 inches by 7 inches and used the Zutter distressing tool on the edges. Inking the edges with brown ink.

I cut some small hearts out of scrap paper and inked the edges too.

I found some old doggy buttons, in my collection, that I used on this too. One little paw and two little bones. I think that they are quite cute.

I hope you enjoy this layout.

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Have a wonderful day.

Sweatheart

Sweetheart 

Wow... Time goes by so fast around here. I have plans and more plans of spending time scrapbooking and blogging, but life as it is, gets in the way of "my plans".

This weekend, even though it was a three day weekend for me, and I am only working half days this week, because school is on recess here, was busy. Saturday morning, I slept in, and it was much needed, I got up at 9am! That is sleeping in for me. Then I cleaned, did laundry and went shopping. By the time I was done with that, my husband was home from work. I did play with papers a little on Saturday while my husband and son worked on my son's truck (he broke a ball joint Thursday coming out of school). Then Saturday night it was off to my mom's for my little brother's 26th birthday. Sunday was kind of a blur, we hung around, cleaned and fixed some things, then watched two movies. And Monday, I went to my best friend's house to see the twins and my little friend Ethan (he's 4). Needless to say by the time I got home from her house, and after eating dinner, I didn't want to scrap at all. Besides we are addicted to that show The Following with Kevin Bacon.

Today is a new day though, it's Tuesday and I feel energized because I just completed a workout and I topped my score from before. Yay!

Also, I made this page to show you.

A couple weeks back, I shared with you, that our two pitbills, had puppies. Well, this is a layout featuring the little man of the group. His name is Gizmo, or Gizzy. And he is a ham. As you can see, he laid good for the picture, so I could get his best side. He is the cutest little man ever. My heart just melts when I look at him. I am not a huge fan of male dogs, they are just different then female dogs, if you have owned dogs in your life, you know what I am talking about. But just looking at him and watching the way he acts, I couldn't not love him.

I used Recollections "Everyday Moments" papers for this layout.

The base piece of paper is just simple grid paper that I stamped two flourishes on with dark brown ink. Then above the lower flourish, I stamped a cream design.

I cut 6 banners out of dark blue patterned paper then using a white gel pen, added stitching to them.

I used a doily behind the photo, and also a journaling card that I bought from Bo Bunny, it's the Timepiece Noteworthy collection. There was a dark brown border around the tan journaling card, so I cut it off, because it didn't go well with the layout.

I used my Slice machine, from Making Memories, to cut out the title, "Sweetheart".

Also in the the Recollections paper collection, is these mustard papers, and I wanted a contrasting color, so I used that to cut the decorative border, under the photo.

To finish off the layout, I found three small wood hearts and added those.

The great thing about this layout, is it can be made with two or three photos, and you don't have to change much at all. 

I hope you enjoy this layout.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Have a peaceful evening.

Much love.

Tina

February 2013 Recipe Challenge for The Paper Mixing Bowl

February 2013 Recipe Challenge - Red Velvet Cake

Here is the recipe to follow, and submit for the February's Recipe Challenge for The Paper Mixing Bowl.

If you would like to play along, and we hope you will, you can go to The Paper Mixing Bowl, by clicking here.

Here is my take on this delicious recipe:

Puppy "Love"

This layout is, or course, about the new additions to my family. Roo, Paris and Gizmo are just the cutest things I have seen since I had my children, so many years ago.

Their faces just melt my heart into mush.

For this layout, I used My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Collection. I used Recollections rhinestone swirls, Prima flowers and some jute.

I started with a cream light patterned paper for the background. The a damask brown piece of paper and a red piece of paper with cream polka dots.

The jute I formed into hearts, then I painted it with Mod Podge, so it would keep it's shape.

I used my Zutter distressing machine to distress the edges of the brown and red polka dot paper. Then I inked the papers with dark brown ink.

I also spilled tea on the cream colored patterned paper, but after drying, it was so light, you could barely tell.

I cut the title with a combination of two things. "Puppy was cut using the Making Memories Slice machine. The red primitive heart was cut using a Sizzix small hand held die, and a hammer.

I hope you enjoy my take on this months recipe. 

I hope you like it enough to play along.

Thank you for visiting my blog.