"Hello Fun Adventure" layout

Happy Monday friends. I'm not sure how many of my blog readers also follow me on You Tube. If you haven't heard or seen my new series there, you might be interested in knowing that I created a four part series showcasing ideas for double page inspirations. 

This page is actually #3 for this series. You can watch the first two on my YT channel. Link is on the side bar of this blog. 

This page was also inspired by a challenge at Picture This! challenge blog. The challenge was..
( Your choice of photos + Scraps+Die Cuts+ Buttons).  
I used photos, scraps of paper, die cuts cut out from my Cameo (circle doilies and "hello" word) plus arrows from Scenic Route and wood buttons from Dear Lizzy. 

You can watch the process video for this layout here...

And here are some more close ups....

Thanks for stopping by. 

Have a great week. 

Till next time,
Grace

"Today is a gift" layout

Happy Thursday dear friends. I hope that you are enjoying this last few weeks of November and getting all pumped up about our upcoming Holiday season. By the way, what are your crafty goals this season? I plan on making a December daily and cranking out more pages before another year is over. 

This next page was inspired by the following sketch from Scrapbook Challenges blog. 

I got some new products from the "Illustrated Faith" brand and used that for this summer page. I thought the splatters on the transparency resembled water splashes. 

I created a block of smaller photos instead of the two vertical ones that was placed on the sketch. I love how sketches help me build a structure for my page but at the same time allows me some freedom to work it within my story and pictures. 

Those kites were premade ones bought at Michael's. I think they are a Recollections lines. The colors of yellow and turquoise matched some of the papers I used for this page.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic day.

Till next time,
Grace

#Fun with Friends layout

Happy Tuesday dear friends. Today I'm sharing a layout inspired by the following sketch from Sketch N Scrap challenge blog. 

I turned the sketch to it's side and instead of doing two horizontal pictures, I did one vertical and another strip of smaller photos on the bottom. I used my Oct/Nov. homemade kit for this layout. 

Wanna see what I put in it? Here's a video of what I included in my scrapbook kit. 

And here are some close ups of my page...

Thanks for stopping by.

Till next time,
Grace

"My Favorite Memories" layout

Happy Friday dear friends. Today I'm sharing an Autumn themed page with you with two challenges as my inspiration. 

The first one is of this sketch from Stuck?! blog

and the second one is a stash challenge from Scrap our stash. The items on my page had to start with the following letters...

A- Autumn themed papers

L- Leaves

B- Border punch

U- Uniball white pen

M- Mist (Studio Calico)

S- Stamps (Gossamer Blue) 

I got some "new to me" papers from Carta Bella and I used that to document the two older kiddos' costumes in 2013. I can't believe it was that long ago. 

I had wanted to just play with some new buys so I grabbed all of the items for this page (not including the mist and pen) from my "new" bucket of supplies.

The sketch called for two square shaped photos but since I had both vertical and horizontal shaped images, I decided to put two photos in the center and then tuck the two other ones on both sides of the picture block.

I layered some flowers from Recollections onto a pre made Polaroid frame accent from a Pebbles line.

I have this small stamp set from Gossamer Blue and used two of them here. One as part of my title and the other to hand write my date. I heat embossed both with white powder to make them stand out against the dark color scheme of my papers.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Till next time,
Grace

"Too Close to home" layout

Hi there dear friends. Just a little heads up, if you are not a follower of mine in You Tube, I am currently doing a double page spread series in my channel. You can click the direct link on the right side of this blog for more information. I am going to post a new video every Monday for the next four weeks (it actually started this past Monday). 

So onto the sketch inspiration and layout this week. I loved this sketch from Paper Issues. I love the triangles pointing towards the center of the layout. 

And here's my take on it...

This is the process video that goes along with this...

And here are some more close ups....

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

I hope you have a fantastic day,

Grace

I love you more than candy layout

 

I love this sketch from the My Creative Sketches blog. The thing is I had two 4x6 photos so my page seemed a bit more busy than the original sketch.

I used some October homemade kit again. Still loving that kit and I hope to get it done sometime this week. I love the layering inspiration provided by the sketch. I wanted to use this 4x6 project life card but didn't have enough room on the top for it so I cut it, leaving the prompt on the top for my title and the rest of the card on the bottom of my horizontal photo.

 

Here are some more close ups...

Thank you for stopping by and I hope my layout inspired you to document something today.

Till next time,
Grace

Hello Lovely layout

Happy Monday my dear crafty friends. This layout was originally made with last month's challenge from Picture This! challenge blog. However, I was late with getting it posted so I never got a chance to submit it. I still wanted to share it so here it is.

The challenge called for some stamping, more than one photo and chipboard. I used some word stamps to add to the layout, chipboard button and there's three photos in this page.

 

I actually used my September homemade kit with this layout and I created my own background paper with some letter stickers scraps.

Here are some more close ups...

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

Till next time,
Grace

Halloween fun 2015

Hi there friends. I'm taking a bit of a break from the crafty posts to share with my family some of our Halloween fun this year. 

As part of our tradition, we carved our pumpkins on Monday for Family Home Evening. We got three (one for each kid) and since Mason can't really do his, dad stepped in to help. 

Here's Marcus' wide mouthed creation.

And the results....from left to right...Mason and Dad's, Marcus, and Madelyn. Maddie was trying to create one with a winked eye but she ended up making the eyes to close together. In her attempt to make them even, she had accidentally made the eyes have a bit more of a "shocked" look than a wink.

Mason woke up from his evening nap just in time to get in him the photos....

Our Jack-o-lanterns all lit up....

The day before Halloween was our ward's Fall festival and trunk or treat activity. I decided to take a picture of the costumes before we headed to the party. I like dressing up and wearing costumes but I don't like the idea of paying $30 or more for an outfit that my kids are only going to wear once. So it's been kind of a tradition for us, during this time, to go through our clothes and then to the thrift store for some creative ways to dress up for Halloween.

Mason was a minion this year because he already had denim suspenders in his drawer. We just got the yellow top and beanie at Arc. I made him the "googles" and cut out the Gru sign from vinyl. Oh and my favorite part of this costume was that it was warm enough for him to go trick or treating in. Double points for that. :)

Mitch and I got into the spirit too by dressing up as Agent Lucy Wilde and Gru from Despicable Me. Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of all three of us because Mitch was still at work when we left for the party.

 I got my dress from Arc and then I had some polka dot fabric from my stash that I sewn into a scarf.

Maddie wanted to be one of her favorite Ever After High doll character but after trying to find clothes to match at the thrift store, we were getting no where. Finally she thought of being a "goddess" instead. Luckily we found this white dress which I think is some kind of a night gown. I trimmed the bottom a little to fit her and then we added my white scarf with sequins. I think her favorite part was being able to wear liquid eye liner.

On Halloween night we had some "mummy" hot dogs for dinner and then we went trick or treating with our dear friends, the Smiths. Mason didn't take his afternoon nap so he didn't last for very long. Him and I went home early while the kids and Mitch walked for about 1 1/2 hour more.

I gave out some candy while Mason slept but I had a feeling that all the ringing of the doorbell and knocking on the door would wake him up. Sure enough, after about an hour, he woke up. :(

At least he got to see the kids dump their loot on the floor. He kept on trying to snatch their candy so we dumped his candy on the floor too, only for him to throw it everywhere.

Sorry for the long post. There are just some memories about this year's festivities that I don't want to forget.

Thanks for stopping by.

Till next time,
Grace