Hi! I've got two layouts to share with you today! I made them at the weekend crop I went to a couple of weeks ago. The first one is a Disney layout. We went to Disney World last Christmas to celebrate Mike's 50th birthday. Even though it was just the two of us and I didn't have the excuse of having a little one traveling with us, I wanted to meet the Disney gang anyway! So we booked several character dinners. We had a lot of fun talking and taking pictures with Mickey and his friends. Even Mike got into it! (and even though he's young at heart, he's still a pretty serious, no-nonsense kind of guy!) I dipped into my old Basic Grey stash for this one and used some flashy "June Bug" papers. I also created a grid of faux-stitching for the squares of papers and pictures (piercing holes with a Scor-Bug and drawing with a pen).
The title says "Cat Man... Despite Himself". It's about my poor dad, who has never particularly liked cats, but has been almost "forced" to become a cat man because of all the cats I've brought into his life, one way or the other! (Although I take no responsibility for the one in the picture (their neighbor's new, cute little kitten) other than "forcing" him to hold her for a while!) I used another old Basic Grey collection for this one, "Boxer". A lot more white space than I'm used to in this one, and some more faux-stitching too!
That's it for tonight! Hope you're having a scrappy weekend!
Martine
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There's an online crop going on at Creative Scrappers today. The fun started yesterday with an early bird sketch challenge, then two more sketches were issued in the evening. I managed to complete the early bird and one of the other sketches.
Here was the early bird sketch.
And here is my layout. Believe it or not, this is my first page with hexagons! I'm a little late on the trends! lol! I wanted something colorful, so I went with Basic Grey's June Bug collection. I did some faux stitching around the hexagons and the mat. The are pictures of my brother and me through the years. The title means: Time Flies!
Here's sketch #2.
I did a page about the Christmas markets we visited last December in Germany and France, which was acutally something on my "bucket list"! I'm so glad I got to experience them! I used the Christmas line "I Believe" by My Mind's Eye for this one.
If you want to play along, you have until tonight, Saturday June 2nd at 11pm EST to upload your creations. There are lots of sponsors, so you never know, you might win something!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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Hi there!
Wow! What a great day today! First of all, I just came back from a wonderful two week vacation in the Pacific Northwest. What a beautiful region! We had a great time and took way too many photos (again!) It will be hard to pick the ones that will make it on to my future LOs! lol!
And I've been amazed by all the wonderful comments that you made on my previous post about the blog hop going on at Sassy Lil' Sketches! And thank you to all my new followers! Truly honoured and humbled by all the love!
Today is also the reveal of sketch 119 at Creative Scrappers, and I'm the featured designer this week! I was so excited and honoured to be chosen! My first guest designer spot! How cool is that??
This is the sketch I used:
And this is my LO. It's my parents' wedding day. I loved working with the black and white photos with the BG Porcelain papers!
So go check out the sketches at Creative Scrappers (there are some prizes on the line also!). And don't forget you have until tomorrow August 30th 9:00 PM to participate in the Sassy Lil' Sketches blog hop!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
(Oh, and it's also my birthday today! :)
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