Queen of the Crop

Good morning! It is a very sunny day here, & I hope all the kids are good to make this a great day! But they are already acting up & taking toys from one another, so we shall see! Today Shawn reveals her sketch #154 at Nuts About Sketches . As usual, it was an awesome sketch & very fun to work with! Here is my take on it: This is of Audra at about 1 year old. She got into the lazy susan (something Emma had never done), & can you imagine my surprise when I walked around the corner & found this! She was so proud of herself & continued to do it day after day! Thanks for looking today. I hope that you enjoyed my take on Shawn's sketch. Have a fabulous day/week, & hope you stop back soon!

Yay ! Another fabulous sketch from Shawn . Here is my take on her next sketch, #153: These photos are from a trip to the Lehigh Valley Zoo. My sister had the day off, so we decided to pick her up & go to the Zoo. It is a small zoo, that is just one big circle. It is open & never crowded. This was the first time that we had gone where the girls would remember & appreciate the animals. We had the best time this day! Laughing, & running, & watching all the animals. We packed a picnic lunch & had lunch by the penguins, played on the playground & just had a wonderful time! So much so, that we joined the zoo, as members. That year, we went to the Lehigh Valley Zoo 6 more times, & went to the Elmwood Park Zoo (which reciprocates the membership) 4 times. We definitely got our moneys worth!!! I hope you enjoyed my layout, & hope to see you back soon! Have a great week!

The From Here 2 Scrapternity monthly crop is starting today, & I am so looking forward to it. I say this each & every month, but it is an awesome crop! The challenges are fun, the prizes are awesome, & the group of ladies is the best! If you have some time this weekend, join me over there for the fun & games. This month, Pam asked the members of the forum to come up with the challenges, so this will be quite interesting. I can't wait to see what all the ladies have in store for us. The challenge that I am hosting is: Lucky Recipe: Please choose at least 5 of the following items to create your layout! vellum mesh chipboard 3 flowers 2 tags faux stitched bling border punch & here is my example of my challenge, using the supplies from FH2S for March. (Every year a pair of ducks comes to visit us. I wouldn't say they are tame, but they do let us get pretty close. The male always protects the female, & they set up a nest nearby. They swim in our st...

Happy Monday! Today was the reveal for Nuts About Sketches sketch #152. & here is my take on the sketch: This is Emma at 13 months. We had her picture taken professionally, & we were so happy with them. She was such a good girl & sat still, & was the perfect subject! See for yourself. Looking at these pictures make me sad because she will be 6 years old next month! Where did the time go??? Thanks for looking & hope to see you back visiting soon!

Hey hey hey!!! Guess what!...Shawn has accepted me back onto the Nuts About Sketches Design Team! I will be continuing on with her until August 2011! As you know, she has amazing sketches that are so versetile, & I am so happy that I am remaining on her team! Yahoo! With that being said, here is my next lo using sketch #151: This lo is of my parents vow renewal. In 2008, they were married for 40 years! They are still very much in love, & stronger than ever. Since they did not have a big wedding the first go around, they wanted to recommit their love to one another by renewing their vows in front of all of their family & friends. They did so on their actual 40th wedding anniversary date! You may have seen some other los that I have done re: this day, & there may be a few more coming up in the weeks to come, but it just makes me happy knowing that they are still in love & going strong. Tony & I are married 10 years this month, so it gives us something to...

I recently came across the Sassy Lil' Sketches site, & really enjoy the sketches that they post weekly. There are layout sketches & also card sketches, & they post them weekly for you to complete & then are entered into a monthly prize drawing. Since I enjoyed the sketches so much, I threw my hat into the ring this month & created with a few of the sketches. Wish me luck on the prize drawing! February 7th card sketch : February 7th layout sketch : February 14th layout sketch : February 14th card sketch : I plan on getting to the other sketches of February, but didn't get any scrappy time for them to be eligible for the drawing. But I will definately be using them regardless. Thanks for looking! Have a great day!

It surely is about time, wouldn't you say?! I am truly sorry for the delay in posting my winner. Time totally got away from me, & with the Scraptacular website going down, I kinda forgot. But neither here nor there, I have chosen a winner by random draw, and the winner is: ~gail~mooselovingmamabear Please email me at amgrassi@verizon.net with your address so that I can send you a RAK. Thanks for hopping, & again, so very sorry for the delay! Have a great day.

We are now into March & I wanted to share with you my IT reveals for From Here 2 Scrapternity for February. Linda sent me some wonderful supplies to work with, & I had a ball using them. I honestly thought I had created more with them, but I can't seem to remember what else I did.... Chalk it up to Mommy brain. lol. Anyway, here are my creations. I hope you enjoy them. Created using the Ad Challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity : Created using the sketch challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity : Created for a sketch challenge at allyscrapsblog: Created for the Journaling Challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity : Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you are having a great week & I look forward to seeing you again real soon.

It is with a sad heart to say that this will be my last reveal for Nuts About Sketches . My term ends today. I will continue to use her sketches each week, & I will post as often as I can, but my actual term is over. All layouts created I used Scraptacular 's February kit. #148 #149 #150 Thank you, Shawn, for the terrific, fun sketches! Thank you for allowing me to be on your creative team, & I can't wait to see what you come up in the months to come!

And now to bring you the 2nd half of my designs using the incredible February Spectacular kit. I told you that you could get a ton out of the kits! I think I have a few more things that I will be creating w/ the kit & if I do, I will be sure to share with you. Here ya go (again, some of these were featured during the Valentine's day blog hop, so I'm sorry for the repeats): I use NAS sketch #149 for this layout: I used NAS #150 for this lo: And there you have it. I had such fun designing w/ this kit. Be sure to go check out the website . I'm sure she has some left over for your scrapping pleasure.

Ok, friends, we are winding down to the tail end of my term with Nuts About Sketches . There is only one more reveal, on Monday, February 28, & I will reveal my last 3 layouts. I am really sad because her sketches are awesome, & I really enjoy designing for her. Who knows, maybe I will be able to maker her dt again someday. For now, here are 3 more los for NAS : #145 #146 #147 Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to seeing you soon.

Here are the next 3 layouts that I have created with the fabulous Nuts About Sketches sketches: #142 - using the January Scraptacular kit: #143 #144 Thanks for peeking in today. Hope you are doing well & would love for you to come back & see me sometime.

I just love it over at From Here 2 Scrapternity . Everyone is super nice & it is always so much fun. Being part of the Inspirational Team, I get a wonderful supply of goodies to work with each month. January was no exception. It seemed like the more scraps I created w/ the kit, the more I came up with. It was the never ending supply of goodies! Again, some of the layouts I did using Nuts About Sketches sketches, so I will indicate which ones, & you may see them pop up in another post. fyi. As I am writing this entry, I realized I did so much w/ this kit, that I am going to spread it out into two posts. Stay tuned for the rest: Thanks for looking. Stop back again real soon.

I know....this post is at the end of February & I am just now sharing with you the actual designs of the February kit from Scraptacular . But at least you got to join in on the blog hop & see some of the creations then, right? And I must say, at least I posted these in the correct month & not 2 months later like I have been! Right? lol. In fact, I used this kit right down to scraps, then used the scraps.....As usual, her kits are out of this world! I love em, & really look forward to them each & every month! Since I was able to create so much with this kit, I will break it down into 2 posts, so stay tuned for the rest: This lo (which I also showed you during the blog hop) was created using the Scraptacular February sketch of the month by Liz Chidster: Lo created using NAS sketch #148: Stay tuned for the rest of my creations using this kit in the days to come. Thanks for checking in!

Although the kit was incredible, as usual, I ran out of time, & wasn't able to create as much as I usually do with her kits. But the Scraptacular kit did allow me to turn out some cute layouts. Let's see if you agree: Layout created using Nuts About Sketches #142 sketch: This card was made from the packaging that the Prima flowers came in. I thought it was so pretty that I just couldn't let it go to waste. I hope you enjoyed them. I look forward to seeing you again soon....

Hello! Hope you are having a great day! Here are the rest of my reveals from January's From Here 2 Scrapternity supplies: I used NAS #145 sketch for this layout: I used NAS #147 sketch for this lo: And of course I used the scraps to make the cards. And to think, I used to be intimidated to make cards. Thanks for looking!

Welcome to the Scraptacular Valentine's Day Blog Hop!! I am so glad you are hopping with us, the Design Team, on this very "LOVE"ly day! I am your 6th stop on the hop, but make sure that you follow the hop all the way through. If you got here in the middle, please make sure to start at Scraptacular's blog so that you do not miss a single thing!! There is so much to see, and maybe a prize or two along the way. You have until the end of the week to hop to each of our blogs and come play along with us for a chance to win the GRAND prize below! The blog hop is full of inspiration and some of it based on this beautiful February Scraptacular Sketch created by Liz Chidester ..... This is my creation using the lovely sketch & the supplies from the fabulous February kit. Here is your hopping order: Scraptacular Blog Lisa Liz Julie Ilene Anneliese Tiffany Beth Amy After you have visited all of the blogs, & left everyone a comment, be sure to finish on the message bo...