40 Layouts Completed So Far this Summer.

Well since school has been out and PTO is on a break. I have found the time to start working on my books again. I have completed about 40 pages so far and finally finished my daughter's baby album. Amazing how fast they grow. Never realized how much Brianna and Jordan looked alike as babies. Most of the layouts I used my cricut and SCAL to create titles. It is awesome the things I can do with that machine. Here are 20 of the 40 that I completed in the slide show. Enjoy.

I have time now.

So even though I have not posted or uploaded any new projects I did find time to create a few things. Let's start with April, yes April. I had to do some swaps for a challenge and like the one I did for March Sketch Challenge Cards on Visual Designs by Chris's Forum... I made one that I did not swap out. This was the only one that I made like this. The other one I posted on April 5th.

Now on with May. These were a swap I did for Girl & Boy Cards. I have not took part in this many swaps in a while so I was pretty excited to get my swaps in return. These are the swaps that I completed.



Just a few more and I am going to sign off. I have to run around for some last minute things for my son's 5th B-day party on Saturday. This was some things I was able to create for Brianna's teacher. She is a scrapbooker too and I knew she would appreciate having some altered gifts. Well I hope she does. Here is a altered clipboard, a altered notebook, pencil holder along with some fancy pencils, binder clips and to finish it off a note pad holder with pen. I really enjoy making these and have so much fun to see what the finish product looks like.

I created this card doing a cut file challenge on Visual Designs By Chris (http://visualdesignsbychris.blogspot.com/) She is awesome. Also joined a swap and here is what I came up with. I am pretty happy with it. The picture is a bit graining and I am playing with the camera to figure out why. Sorry it has been a while since I have updated. Spring break is here and the sun is finally coming out.

Taking on a challenge.

So I decided to take on a challenge with Gina K at StampTV . I normally don't do these types of challenges with online sites and such, but this one was something I always wanted to learn. I purchased my prismacolor pencils about 2 years ago and really knew how to use them with my odorless mineral spirits. I did not know that you needed to have a good quality smooth cardstock. What a difference it does make. The last time I used my pencils I did not use smooth quality cardstock and notice that my paper would tear and ball up. Needless to say my cards were not the best, but thought it was because I did not know how to use my pencils. Now I have some top quality smooth cardstock, thanks to a dear friend at TheMonkeyHut. I have watched the video tutorial at StampTV and ready to create. I am defiantly intimidated to enter my card on the site, there are tons of extremely talented people that create such gorgeous cards. But here it goes.... I am ready. Here is what I came up with and yes... I noticed a BiG difference using quality cardstock. Thank you Gina K for teaching me how to use my pencils. Now they will not be collecting dust!
Thank you!!!!!

If you are interested in taking up this challenge, here is the link. StampTV