Monday MME December Sketch Challenge

Happy Monday!

I have not really scrapped lately.  We have been too busy and I have been playing tennis everyday, but I did find some time on Sunday to enter the My Mind's Eye Sketch Challenge.  It has been a LONG time since I have had the time to play with their challenges and it felt awesome getting to play with their yummy papers.  Here is a look at the sketch.

I broke into my stash and found the Cut and Paste collection that I bought in the summer.  I have not had a chance to play with these fun papers.  Here is my take on the sketch. 

I stayed really close to the sketch.  It was really a great sketch and perfect for my large photo of Jack from the summer of 2012. 
supplies
 Everything is MME
star dies- lawn fawn

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with a look at my favorite Imaginisce projects from the last year!  See you then.  Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp

Thursday and Off They Go

Happy Thursday!

I am sticking once again to my Halloween theme.  (This is the last one if you are getting tired of them LOL!)
As I have said I am using up my stash.  My paper is out of control and there are some really really cute papers out right now that I want to get.  I was even tempted to get some new Halloween papers ( I really really want the MME Halloween collection BUT I have been strong! and have stuck to my goal! )  but I have not broken down and when I think about it hey, I still have last years Halloween paper untouched.  I do get a bit mad at myself for not using up my paper.  I am totally NOT a hoarder but I do buy a lot of Halloween papers and then I don't use it all.  So this year I am NOT buying any and using up what I have. 

So on to my layout!  I broke into my Bella Blvd stash and got out Too Cute to Spook.  I just loved this collection and bought waaaay too much of it.  So I am starting to use it.  Again knowing that I want to use up my paper is really freeing because I love using all the different pattern pieces.  It is so awesome. 

These are photos of my boys from last year heading off to trick or treat.  I always capture them heading off and I don't know why but they are always my favorite photos.  I really went a bit hog wild on using my Silhouette with this layout.  I made my own Poloraid photo frames, tags,doily and thought bubble! I love using my Silhouette to help create embellishments along with titles.   For my tags I added some black and white and orange and white twine from the Stringery.  ( Have I mentioned before how much I love the twine from this shop?)

supplies
paper, stickers, chipboard- bella blvd
brads- doodlebug
twine- the stringery
Silhouette

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with a new project.  See you then!  Have a wonderful and crafty day!!
mp

Monday Class at Cord

Happy Monday!

How was your weekend?  Ours was busy busy busy and very difficult.  You know our family made the decision to get a puppy this week.  Well, we had to make another difficult decision to find Molly a new home this weekend.  Who knew that I would be allergic to her.  I am the one who grew up with Golden Retrievers and has had 2 dogs living on my own ( a yellow lab and a golden). Well, Tuesday night I started sneezing.  On Wednesday I was a mess!  Thursday morning my eyes were swollen shut.  I was a mess.  My doctor said that a person can develop an allergy at any time.  Our house has been dog free for over a year and in this time I guess I developed one.  We had a lot of tears- Jack was heartbroken, but we found Molly a new home with Jeff's assistant.  She is in love with her and she sent us photos and they seem very happy!  Other than that drama we had soccer, baseball, swimming etc 


I do have to share a photo that I took of Jack in our backyard.  He decided to play Coach Pitch baseball this summer and this is him practicing in the backyard.

He looks so serious.  I can't wait to scrap it!


This Saturday I have a class coming up at Cord Scrapbook Studio in Columbus, Ohio.  For this class I am using the Echo Park Hello Summer Collection to make a 2 page layout and 2 cards.  For the class you will get all the cardstock, paper, directions and color photos in the kit!  It is sure to be a lot of fun. The class starts at 10:30- 12:30.  If you can I would love for you to join us!  Please call (614)505-7019.  


If you can't make the class you can order a kit.  For those of you who live to far away- you might want to call the phone number and order a kit and it can be shipped to you!

I am really excited about this new class.  I just finished my demos for July's class and it really rocks!  It is going to be a Jillibean Soup Card class featuring the Coconut Lime collection.  I can't wait to show you next month!!

Thanks for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with a new project!  See you then!

Have a wonderful and crafty day!
-mp

Tuesday Buttercups

Happy Tuesday!

I tell you we have been loving the "summer" like weather here in southern Ohio.  For the first part of this week we are supposed to be in the 80's.  You can bet I will be using the grill ever night to cook.  I know the grill is supposed to be the "guy thing" and hubby does grill out on Sundays when it is nice but I use the grill during the week to cook our dinners.  I love it-- fast, easy, little clean up-- right up my alley!!

Today I wanted to bring you another layout using the March kit from Burlap and Buttercups.  These are photos of Michael last Spring and I still haven't had a chance to scrap them.  I thought the paper and embellishments worked perfectly with the photos.

supplies

the march kit from burlap and buttercups

I made the background using my Silhouette.

Be sure to stop by Practical Scrappers today because today's inspiration is how to incorporate die cuts on your pages and cards.  There are some awesome examples.  I have a card up!  Stop on over and say hi! Thanks! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with my Wednesday Card.  Have a wonderful and crafty day!

A Friday Layout

Oh Yeah it is FRIDAY!!!

I am so happy!  Do you have a lot going on this weekend?  I have my sketch class on Saturday.  That should be fun and then I am going to pick out some paper for some Christmas gift tags.  (I can't believe I am starting on gift tags- can you?) Then later Jack has his football game.  Sunday we have NOTHING once again on our schedule so therefore I am going to spend another day in the house and not leave!! Oh YEAH!

It seems like forever since I have shown a layout.  This is a layout that I made for the Scrap Our Stash challenge blog.  Somehow I forgot to post it on my blog.  The theme last month was to create a layout witha  a quote.  In the splash I have my quote "Life is good at the beach!" author unknown.  I am still scrapping our vacation in June. 

Supplies

paper- echo park

stickers- echo park

die cut- paper trey ink

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I will be back on Monday with a new project.  I will see you all then! Thanks so much for stopping by!

-mp

Monthly Scrap Class

Happy Tuesday,

Did you all have a great Monday yesterday?  I did and it was awesome!  I finally got to go down to my scrap room.  The boys were so excited to play downstairs in their playroom after school  We had been so busy and we were playing outside that we hadn't been down in close to a week.  I have a couple of kits from the store that I am working on.  So it was so fun to just to play!

I also did a little bit of organizing.  Like I said yesterday I do not scrap choronologically.  So therefore I sometimes forget about certain pictures that were taken months-maybe even a year ago.  So I went through all my photos (I keep them organized in a folder for each month), and I made a master list of all the photos that I would still like to scrap.  Tonight I am going to add to the list with pictures on my cell phone that need to be printed and scrapped. My question to you is if you scrap out of order -how do you remember all the photos that need to be scrapped?

On Saturday I have my monthly scrap class.  Saturday I will feature 3 layouts using the Echo Park Apothecary Emporium line.  This is a really great line.  I really liked working with it.  The class is for the frugal scrapper for only $15.  If you can I hope to see you at Simply Scrapbooks! 

I hope everyone has a great Tuesday.  I will be back tomorrow with my third installment of my Halloween cards.  I hope to see you all then.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

-mp

Echo Park Fresh Face Challenge

Hey Everyone,

Echo Park is having a monthly challenge to be their "Fresh Face". As you know I LOVE Echo Park and I wanted to enter their challenge.  As some of you know I teach a monthly sketch layout class at my local scrapbook store Simply Scrapbooks and this month I made a kit with 3 layouts and 2 cards using the Summertime paper collection and I thought I would share these projects.

Summer Days

In this layout I made a two pager.  I started out with making a 9 inch circle as the mat to put my pictures.  I then added various strips of pattern paper .  I love adding and layering many different papers to add color and dimension to the projects.  I then went to my journaling card sheet and stickers to add embellishments.

I did add some dots and stripes paper to create a border around my ice cream sheet.  I love how the dots and stripes can coordinate with the other lines. 

Summertime

This is another two pager.  I cut my paper into 4 squares (6x6) and then I made a border using my border punches.  I did this on the top and bottom.  To add embellishments I once again went to the handy dandy sticker sheet.  I LOVE clouds and had to had my sun and clouds on the sheet.  As a little bit of fun I also took the saying stickers and pop dotted them onto the pop dotted sun and clouds. I love to add dimension to my layouts without a lot of bulk so therefore I love pop dots.

This line is just perfect for scrapping our trip to Kings Island.  The boys had such a wonderful time.

The Grass is always greener with you.

This layout is one of my favorites because it has a photo of my son taking a walk with my mom.  Priceless!

One of the things that I love to do is save every little scrap of paper.  I consider myself to be a frugal scrapper and I like to get the most of my paper.  By saving the scraps I can create cards and layouts.   I teach my students that you can make an entire layout using scraps and this layout demonstrates that.

For this layout I cut various papers into rectangular shapes and just layered them on top of each other.  I kind of created a quilt of paper.  After arranging them I went to my sticker sheet and added the clouds and sayings.  I went to my journaling card sheet and found a fantastic journaling tag.  I love the little bird that matched the bird on my title.

Quick and Easy Cards

In my kit for my students I like to show them how to make quick and easy cards that use the scraps of your projects.  Here are 2 that we made in class using the scraps and the left over stickers from the sticker sheet.

As you can see my style of scrapping is clean and simple, but I like to have fun with my layouts.  I hope these projects demonstrate my style.

It would be a total honor to be the guest designer over at Echo Park.  I so love the collections.  The products are so versatile, and the paper is totally yummy!  Thanks so much for having this fantastic opportunity. 

I hope everyone has a great day!  I will be back tomorrow with another project.  Thanks for stopping by!

mp



Jillibean Soup Card Class

Hello,

Wow this week went so fast for me.  How about you?  I have been busy every second.  Today I need to finish one more sketch and layout and then I will be good for the weekend.  Saturday is my class.  I am excited about it.  I have a good turn out and it should be fun.  Plus the store is having a huge sidewalk sale to make room for all the new products for CHA. 

Well here is a look at the 6 cards my students will make in their class.

I just love love this line from Jillibean and it is my first class using it.  I just screams Summer!!!

Do you all have a busy weekend?  We sure do!! Class Saturday morning, errands (we are out of EVERYTHING--Sam's Club here we come!), a graduation for hubby's niece on Sunday and then we need to squeak in some family time just the 4 of us!

I hope you have a great weekend!  I will be back on Monday.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

mp

My Day

Hello,
The week is marching on.  The weather has been unusually cooler this week plus it has been rainy.  I have been getting tons of crafting done! I love it.  I know I won't get much in this weekend because it is going to be perfect weather and we are planning to be outside the entire time!  Jack has a playdate over at our house and then we will go to Kings Island.  Too much fun! Plus I have my monthly class to teach on Saturday @ 1:30.

Today's layout is the last layout for my monthly class at Simply Scrapbooks.  It is My Day.  All the pictures were taken on Mother's Day.

This layout showcases all the people who mean the most ot me.  I love my family!

Supplies
cardstock-core'dinations
paper-basic grey
stamps-ali edwards
ink-tim holtz
title-silhouette

I hope everyone has a great day and I will be back with a new layout.  Thanks for stopping by!
mp

Wednesday Card with Basic Grey

Happy Wednesday,

How is your week going? So far mine is pretty good.  Trying to plan some upcoming parties at the house.  We usually host a cook out for hubby's side of the family in July and then we are going to have a cook out reunion type party for my side. We are moving the annual Christmas party to the summer.  Trying to firm up dates and so forth.  Should be fun.

I have been so happy to get some scrappin' in just for myself.  I love it when that happens.  Earlier in the week I finished up my class layouts for July and yesterday I finished up my layout for Scrap Our Stash so the rest of the week is totally free to scrap my stuff. HOORRAY! 

My card for this week is one that I will include in my class this Saturday at Simply Scrapbooks  I used the basic grey life of the party line along with core'dinations cardstock.  I scored the cardstock using my MS scoreboard and then lightly sanded the cardstock to expose the lines.  I added some stickers from the line, stamped my greeting using Hero Arts stamps and the presto it is done!  Very Simple!

 supplies

base-recollections

paper, stickers-basic grey

cardstock- core'dinations

stamps-hero arts

ink-hero arts

I hope everyone has a great day.  I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.  Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Birthday and Happy Tuesday

Hello,

The kids and I had a busy day yesterday.  I needed to run errands --Target and Sam's Club.  My mom decided to come along and help out with the kids which was awesome.  We had a great day.  I also stopped by Simply Scrapbooks to pick up the supplies for my sketch class on Saturday.  Wow I haven't been in the store for over 12 days and there are so many new products.  I just love paper.  It is just so fun! I do have to stay away from buying right now because I am at my capacity in my scrap room.  My cropper hoppers are at the max.  I need to get busy and start using up my paper. 

As I mentioned before, my sketch class this Thursday features the Basic Grey line Life of the Party.  Here is a layout that I did using the paper as a birthday line

Supplies
cardstock-core'dinations
paper,stickers-basic grey

Today I have a quick doctor apt. and then I am heading into Simply Scrapbooks and crop with the girls for a couple of hours. So excited.  I am going to try and get February done.  I just have a couple more layouts to finish.  I do not scrap chronologically but  sometimes I  do like to have chunks of time finished.  I also need to work on the new challenge for the July challenge over at Scrap Our Stash.  I am going to dip into my archives of pictures that I have never scrapped AND use up some paper that I bought about 5 years ago.  whoot whoot!

I hope everyone has a great day.  I will be back tomorrow with my Wednesday Card.  Thanks for stopping by!
MP

happy friday-celebrate

happy friday! 

just a quick post today.  This is a layout that I will be teaching June 25th at Simply Scrapbooks.  Hubby and I celebrated our 9 year anniversary of our first date.  Next month we will celebrate 8 years of marriage together and I wanted to do a layout to celebrate it.

supplies
cardstock-bazzill, core'dinations
paper-basic grey
ink-tim holtz
tools-fiskars paper crimper, ek success, silhouette

Just a quick note.  I am taking a little over a week off from the blogging world, and can you believe it I am not going to paper craft at all for this time as well.  Need some time off.  Burning the candle at both ends. I hope everyone has a great week! I will miss everyone.  Thanks for stopping by today and I will see you in 10 days!!

Happy Friday + Winner+ Class Layout

Hey everyone,
Boy, am I glad it is Friday!! I am so excited about the long weekend.  We are keeping the weekend pretty low key but we are surprising Jack with a trip to Kings Island, our amusement park.  We have season passes and so far we haven't gone but we will go on Saturday.  He will be so excited.  He wants to see if he is tall enough to go on the  kids roller coaster.  It should be really cute and fun because this will be Michael's first time there.  We shall see if he likes it or not.

The winner of my Giveaway from The Twinery is...............#11  Blessed Ladybug!! HOORAY!!!  If you could email me you mailing address that would be great and I will pop this in the mail to you!.

There will be another Giveaway coming soon--lots of fun here at Siehled With A Kiss!

My next sketch layout class is June 25th.  I will be featuring this month the Basic Grey Life is a Party Line.  For my first layout we will use it as a typical birthday line.

These are pictures of Michael's 2nd birthday.  They are my favorite pictures taken that day.  I really love this line.  It is just perfect for a celebration.

supplies
cardstock-core'dinations
paper-basic grey
embellishements-basic grey

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  I will be back on Monday with some happy mail I received this week.  I have to say the kindness from my blog friends is just so wonderful (you know who you are) .  I will also be back with a new layout.  Thanks so much for stopping by! See ya on Monday

Happy Friday-beautiful sunshine

Oh Yeah it is FRIDAY!  Have you heard the little girl singing "Friday" on youtube yet.  It keeps going through my mind!

What is everyone going to be up to this weekend?  Saturday we have Jack's soccer game and that really is it. I may call a couple of his friends tonight to see if they can come over and play.  Then on Sunday I have my class.  So overall it is a pretty calm weekend.  I still have to prep my kits.  I need to cut the titles with my Silhouette and run through some strips of cardstock through my Cuttlebug.  I will be able to do that while we watch our Friday night movie.  This Friday we are going to start Meet the Robinsons.  I have never seen this Disney movie so I am looking forward to it!

Speaking of my monthly class.  This Sunday from 1:30 - 3:30 I will be teaching my Fun with Sketches class at Simply Scrapbooks.  This is the third layout in the class (and I do have to say my favorite!).  I love the use of the clouds and sun.  I think it is just a fun layout.  For this layout we will use the scraps from the other layouts.  The topic for this class is using scraps. With the scraps we will make this layout and the card from Wednesday.

supplies

cardstock-bazzill

paper-echo park

stickers-echo park

ink-tim hotlz

Well I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.  Next week is going to have a theme--and that theme is 2 pager layouts.  I usually don't do 2 pagers but with my class and work for the store I have been making a ton of 2 page layouts.  Hope you will enjoy it.  Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Scrap Our Stash May Challenge

Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday!

This month's challenge over at Scrap Our Stash is  a good one!! It is Bring in the May Flowers.  You need to create a card, layout altered item that has flowers on it.  How easy is that?  Easy Easy.  I am sure you all have some flowers in your stash.   Well let's break them out and enter the contest!  Your project will be featured on the Scrap Our Stash blog and then you have a chance on winning!  What could you win?  You will be invited to be a guest design team member--how fun is that?  Way fun!!!!

So here is my entry.  For my upcoming class at Simply Scrapbooks I am featuring the Echo Park Playground line.  I had some scraps left over and a couple of stickers left over.  I had them laying around on my floor and I kept sitting at my desk totally stumped by this challenge because guess what?  I don't have any flowers.  I was about to clean up the floor when the idea hit me to make a card using my scraps along with this adorable sticker with flowers on it.  I then decided to throw the card in my class as an extra bonus.    I love it when I am hit by excellent ideas. 

supplies

cardstock-core'dinations

paper-sticker-echo park

sentiment-hero arts

So come on everyone let's get busy creating something with flowers and then hop on over to Scrap Our Stash and submit your work to Kathy!

I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.  I hope everyone has a fantastic day and thanks so much for stopping by!  See ya tomorrow!

NSD Layout- Happy Friday

Oh Yeah--It is Friday,

I am so excited!  I am going to rest tonight and just hang out with the family.  If it is still nice after dinner (chance of rain) I would like to go on a walk or maybe the park with the family.  If it is bad weather I  think we might have a bowling Wii tournament.  I do love the Wii sports.  Hubby and Jack really get into the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter.  I really don't get into those, but the sports I like. 

Saturday is going to be busy.  Jack has a soccer game.  I don't know if they will get it in because it is supposed to rain yet again.  I also need to start making the food for my Mother's Day brunch.  I am having my mom and my mother in law over for a brunch.  Why do I do this?  Why do I create more work for myself--this is my day too--BUT I want to do something nice for my mom and hubby's mom is in town and I felt bad that her husband recently died so I invited her as well.  On top of all that I need to be at the scrap store to help out with my kit. 

Sunday we will have the brunch and then in the afternoon it is all me!!! I haven't decided what I am going to do--do I want to scrap or sit and have the couch all to my self and get caught up on my secret shows (Bethany ever after and real housewives of new york).  What a decision. 

I hope every mom out there has a wonderful day on Sunday!!!!

NSD Layout and Kit.

For my kit I was given the new Bo Bunny line Ad Lib.  At first I wasn't too crazy about it.  It was a bit to wild for me, but as I started to play with the papers and I began to love it!  I wanted my page to use the caption "document every day life"  Jack loves to go to the grocery with me every Saturday.  He loves to get his own cart and he is a very responsible 5 year old.  I give him his own list and he has to get the things on the list.  He is just so darn cute.  I had taken this photo using my iPhone.  So I knew that I wanted to capture this everyday moment.  So I created this layout with the title and photo in mind. I like how it turned out.  I forgot to straighten the photo so it looks a bit off center--sorry about that.

supplies

paper-Bo Bunny

cardstock-bazzill

ink-vintage photo tim holtz

I want to give a huge shout out to all my new followers-WOW-- I am so honored! I thank each one of you! I truly enjoy getting your emails and reading your comments, and I love visiting everyone's blog.  So fun and so much inspiration (well maybe too much inspiration ----- BECKY! hehehehehehehehhehe).  Thanks so much! 

If you have time maybe you might want to try out the Scrap Our Stash May Challenge.  It is Bring in the Flowers.  So I know you must have some flowers in your stash.  I will have my DT entry next Wednesday.  This was a bit of a challenge for me because guess what?  I didn't have any flowers.  So hop on over there and check out the challenge.  You could win a guest Design Team spot.  You know you want to do it!

I hope everyone has a great day and weekend! I will be back on Monday.  Thanks for stopping by and see ya then!

Thursday-Snapshots

Happy Thursday,

The week is almost over--YES!!!  Today we are supposed to have our first day in a week to have it partly sunny and no rain.  I will believe it when I see it.  I really feel like I like in Washington State versus Ohio.  I am just so craving sunshine.

Still plugging away at my to do list.  On Monday I made a list of 22 things that I need to do and each day I take another thing off the list.  I have been waiting for my order to come in on paper and supplies to kit for my class on Saturday--getting a touch nervous that the supplies aren't here yet.  Maybe today after school I will get the call and then I can kit and then drop off the kits on Friday.  I also have to finish my kits for my May Class on May 15th.  Lots on my plate.

Speaking of my class here is my second layout we will be making for the class.      I just love Echo Park paper and this paper is so versatile.  Even though the line is called Playground you can see you can use it for really anything.  I also combined once again the Core'dinations cardstock with the Echo Park.  We are going to be learning about how to emboss the paper as well as sanding the paper.  I think it will be a bunch of fun. 

Supplies

cardstock-core'dination

paper and embellishments-echo park

I hope everyone has a great day.  I will be back tomorrow with my layout that I will be teaching for National Scrapbook Day! Thanks for stopping by and I will see ya tomorrow!!!

Oh it is Friday!! &Class layout

Happy Friday,
I am so excited that the weekend is here.  Are you doing anything exciting?  We only have one thing on our schedule--Jack's soccer game at 9:30 Saturday morning and then NOTHING else.  I can't believe it.  I can't remember when we have only had one thing scheduled.  We are so happy.  I plan on getting caught up with some odds & ends around the house.  I am also going to stop by Simply Scrapbooks to pick out my paper for my June class.  Don't know what I am going to use yet.  If I have some extra time I may start scrapping the layouts.

Speaking of my class.  I want to share with you one of the layouts we will be making in May's Fun with Sketches Class. The class is May 17th at 1:30.  In the class we will be making 3 layouts (2-2pagers and 1-1pager) plus a BONUS card and it is only $20.  This month's class features the Echo Park Playground paper.  I so love this line.  Here are some pictures of the boys playing in the sprinkler from last summer.  I just love these photos.

supplies

cardstock: core'dinations

paper: echo park

stickers: echo park

title: silhouette

I hope everyone has a fantastic week and I will be back on Monday with a new post and layout.  Thanks so much for stopping by!