Cherish

Good evening,

This is a quick post from me tonight! I wanted to post a layout I was able to created during this busy Thanksgiving Holiday. I created this layout for the Swirlydoos December Round Robin Challenge. I had gorgeous layouts to lift from Lynnise, Tammy, and Jeannie. Since I have been admiring this new paint company from afar, I decided to enter this same layout in their challenge too. The paint company is Creative Inspirations and I am dying to order some of their paints.

This is a layout of my daughter at 3 weeks old. My daughter will be turning 5 yrs old next month. It seems like yesterday, I can remember clearly the first time I laid eyes on her. My baby is growing up.

See ya tomorrow for the reveal for Sketchabilities!

Happy Fathers Day Layout!!

For Fathers Day, I gave my husband a surprise dinner with all our 6 children. Lately, it seem hard to have them all in one setting with their busy schedules, sports and etc. But, with his older daughter's vision and 2 weeks of planning, we were able to pull it off. All the kids asked for no one but us and it was such an emotional and loving day! For this day, I prepare a layout to sit at his cake table and I combined the idea with a Superhero Challenge at Swirlydoos Kit Club.

For this Swirlydoos Challenge:

I chose Superman as my hero and a picture of my husband. I used the colors of superman for this layout. I used it in the words in my journaling and in my title. I decorated some of the cogs with ranger blue colorwash spray and the rest with Claudine Hellmuth acrylic paint. The S & pocketwatch was colored with red distress stain. I filled the empty space of the pocketwatch with bisque liquid pearls.

The journaling states: Our children look up to you as the Super hero in their life. Family relies on you as the only dependable man in the family. I watch how every day, anytime of hour; how you jump to rescue or help anyone who calls. So in my eyes, I see you as Superman always there in the nick of time.



Also, I found out within the past week, that my layout of my son for Scraps of darkness was chosen for Layout of the Month for May. And TODAY, I found out my layout of my daughter at Scraps of Darkness won the May Sketch Challenge.

Lately, life has been hectic with everything going wrong.. but yesterday and today made it all worth the struggles. Have a blessed day

Scraps of Darkness May Kit

Happy Memorial Day!

I decided to join Scraps of Darkness this month with the assurance that I will have a kit for June. I was excited when Melinda emailed me saying she had a current kit available. This month kit has an Asian flair. So far I was only able to finish two layoits with the kit. I finish the May Sketch and a layout for my son. This kit papers were bright and busy. I struggled for a minute with the kit due to the business of the papers.

The May Sketch layout is a picture of my daughter at 3 months old. I didnt have a fan in my kit so I created one with the bamboo sticks that were in the kit. The flower vines were from my stash at home.

**** This Layout won MAY SKETCH CHALLENGE at Scraps of Darkness ****

The other layout is a picture of my son when he was 3 months old. With this layout I forced myself not to use flowers. I love flowers and I grab for them alot. My son has those girly eyes and hair so I really do not want to use alot of flowers. But I know its coming soon for me to create a boy layout with a few flowers. The crane from this kit was painted with leftover white paint in the brush and little mermaid

 A closeup of the crane.

Thanks for looking and Have a wonderful holiday!

"Rachel"

Good Evening!

Whew! Finally, I was able to finish this layout tonight. This layout contains a picture of my grandmother. Pictures of her are very rare since she hated taking photos and any she found she threw away. Thank God for digital pictures, so we can always reprint the photos.

In this layout, I followed the "Stuck on U Sketches" sketch for this week. Since I used my Swirlydoos May Kit, I am able to submit this for the glitz challenge too. Our May kit contains the laced with grace collection from Glitz. The Glitz challenge was to include the technique of clustering.

Thank you for visiting my blog and Good night!

Swirlydoo's Challenges for May

Good Evening Everyone!

I am excited to post two layouts Ive created this month for Challenges at Swirlydoos. I am excited because I am keeping my goal of scrapping something every week for my babies, sister, and family scrapbooks. I hope by the end of the year each child will have one album completed. My only problem is that I like to jump between 4 years based off the mood I get from the kits and papers.

For the Round Robin challenge, I was second string this time for the Team Swirlynators. I had to scraplift Erica's gorgeous layout and use mist. This layout is a picture of my 14yr old sister and my daughter. My daughter loves to follow her around. This layout also includes dusty attic chicken wire,

For the May Sketch Challenge, I used pictures of my daughter on Easter Sunday 2010. We had a beautiful day that Easter and majority of her pictures came out very nice. It went well with Swirlydoos May Kit. For the dusty attic birdcage, I used magical micas powder with glossy accents. I followed a tutorial by Camilla (DT at Swirlydoos) and I love this technique. I need to take a photo tutorial so you could see how this technique work. But in the meantime, the technique is under the April Kit on the Swirlydoos layout.

Thanks for looking.