January Sketch Challenge

It has been several months since I have been able to work with the sketches on Shannon's Blog.  Life has just been way to busy and complicated this year.  Never realized that a child's senior year would be so busy.  So excited to be able to work with the sketches again as I really like her designs.  They are easy enough to follow and yet leave room for creativity.

I choose to use a few pictures of Sarah dancing at WestWing Nursing home this summer.  She has been a member of the Tap team Design for the past 3 years.  This team spends the summer traveling on Thursdays and Saturdays to different nursing homes in the area.  Of course the favorite place to dance at is WestWing in DeWitt because Grandpa is a resident there.  This year their leader sent the rest of the members back to change but kept out 2 to interview.  Sarah was one of the ones that he interviewed.  The first question he asked her was where her favorite place to dance at is, of course she answered WestWing and then when he asked her why she told all of the residents that it was because her Grandpa was a resident there.  Everyone enjoyed that story.   The bottom picture of the layout shows both girls with Grandpa.  I think he really enjoyed the attention also.

While the sketch was easy enough to follow I had a hard time with the papers and colors.  I don't normally use pink to scrap with. 

June Sketch

For the past few months, I have been participating on a design team for Shannon White's sketches.  I have to say that I really love her sketches.  They are easy to follow and always seem to inspire me.  I haven't had time to get them done before the posting date the past few months.  Now that school is out for the summer I was actually able to get this months sketch done  a couple of weeks early.  I choose to finish up Sarah's cheer album for this year with the pictures from the Potluck Awards Night.  So far this is the only album that I have been able to keep up with lately.  I just have one more year of high school cheer to put in, but it is kind of hard to scrap the pictures since her senior year hasn't begun yet. 

I am so excited to be designing for a new sketch challenge.  There are several wonderful designers on this site so make sure that you check out this blog and all of the wonderful designers.  Head over to The Scrapping Stamper to see all of the creative ideas.  Here is the March sketch.

  And my take on it.  Sarah was a member of the pit for the high school musical.  They performed the Music Man.  Since I couldn't get a picture of the pit I chose to scrap this cast picture instead.

Here is the sketch for the week of August 6th from Pieces of Me blog. I must say that I am really enjoying these sketches and the different look that my albums are going to have because of them. I have been working so hard on trying to get Sarah's album caught up and also do a few of Kristen's layouts, that I have totally neglected doing anything for Kurt or I. I have decided that I need to throw in a layout or two for each of us or for the family once in awhile instead of always working on the girls pictures. Several years ago, we were able to get away for a Friday night in September. I know very rare indeed. The football team played on Thursday that night. We went up to Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to see the Brewers play ball. Traveling companions were Kurt's coworker and her husband. We attended a pregame party in the parking lot sponsered by one of the computer companies and then had free tickets into the park. This was the first time Kurt had ever been in a major league ball field, I have been in a few others through out the years. We had a great time and really enjoyed being able to get away from it all if even for just a short time period.

July 30th sketch

Judy has another awesome sketch up on her blog Pieces of Me Scrapbooking.  This weeks sketch was actually done by a friend of hers who is helping out while Judy is on vacation.  Must say that I really enjoyed this sketch and even tried to use two different patterned papers.  Yes, thanks to the sketchs I am getting better at using different pattern papers .  Here is my take on this weeks challenge.

I only have two layouts left for the cheerleading so decided to take a break this week and work on a slightly different topic.  Still working on Sarah's stuff, mainly because I am really trying to get caught up before she graduates.  These are pictures from Marching Band her freshman year.  The show that year was Batman, which is why I have used a few papers from a super hero collection.

Pieces of Me Sketch 7-16-10

Judy is back and creating her sketches again. Pieces of Me Scrapbooking I am so thrilled as I not only liked her sketches but they led to some fairly neat layouts. Since I started doing the sketches, I think that my pages have improved.

Here is the sketch for 7-16

Since I like to create two page layouts (when I can) here is my takes on her sketch.

and the right sided page

I am not adding much journaling to the cheer pages, as I am hoping that Sarah will go through and add her own notes as soon as I finish the album for her.

Oops I totally forgot to post the two layouts I created for Judy's sketches over on her blog, Pieces of Me Scrapbooking.  I am really enjoying the sketches that Judy creates. I wish I was talented enough to design my own sketches.  Her husband has been hurt so she will be taking some time off of her sketch designing in order to take care of him. I will miss her sketches and the inspiration that they inspire.  I can't wait for her to get started designing sketches again. 

Sarah in her robe for Acappella choir.  She was one of only 15 sophomores that made the choir.  This choir is so awesome.  In March they went to Washington D.C. to compete in the Heritage Festival competition and brought home 3 golds.  The only other golds went to a band and orchestra (they didn't qualify for those awards.)  Plus they brought back the trophy for the best group there.  Way to go Acappella Choir. 

This is a picture of Sarah's Sophomore basketball cheer squad.  I had fun playing with this layout. It was the first time that I have ever tried to stamp and emboss on a layout.  You also need to check out the buttons. They are custom made by Charlene from the Button Box.  She has an etsy shop, I would highly suggest that you look for the shop and check out her clever buttons. Now if only she will make a few football shaped ones for me.

Happy National Scrapbook Day

One of my favorite holidays, this ranks right up there with Christmas and Easter. Normally I head to my favorite LSS for a two day crop but they are not doing their big crop until the end of June this year. Since I am writing this early, I haven't decided yet what I will do to celebrate this holiday, but I know that it will involve spending time with my paper, pictures, and glue and also very possibly at least one of my two daughters. Might just stay home and participate in a couple of online crops. This way both girls can scrap and watch movies to our hearts delight. Anyway here are my takes on the sketches posted over on Pieces of Me. Make sure that you pop over there and check out all of the other very talented scrapbookers and their layouts. I am sure that you will receive all kinds of inspiration.