Happy Friday and LOAD513

It is finally Friday - hooray!! It seems like it took forever to get here this week!

I have been playing along with Lain Ehmann's LOAD513 (Layout A Day - May 2013) and thought I would share some of the LOs that I have created. I have kept up so far and the LOs are not masterpieces, but they are done! I hope I can keep it up and have 31 pages done by the end of the month!

So, the theme of this LOAD is the board game "Clue". Lain gives a prompt every morning that you can choose to follow - or not. Just getting a page done a day is the goal. I think it is fun to read the prompt in the morning and then spend my day daydreaming about what page I will create that night (when I should be working!) Here are some of the pages and the prompts that I have done so far:

WHO (as in who dunnit?)

MRS. PEACOCK (use the character or color as inspiration):

MODUS OPERANDI (what is someone's MO?):

THE WRENCH (use a tool, scrap about a tool, etc):

I am having so much fun and will share more LOs as we go along!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

BFF Birthday Presents

Happy Thursday, fantab followers! Sorry that we have not been keeping up with posting lately, Life has just been crazy busy for everyone. Hopefully, it will slow down soon and we can get back to crafting!

Yesterday was Laurie's birthday and, as promised, here are a couple of goodies that I made for her to celebrate.

This easel card is a Lori Whitlock file that I got in the online Silhouette store. The paper is about 100 years old from my stash (I think it was a very old Spring Stack?) and the flowers were actually a present to me from Laurie last year! The sentiment is a Bazzill chip topper, also from my stash. There are two brads (although you can't see one of them here) that hold the card in standing up position when it is opened.

This mini chipboard album is also by Lori Whitlock and is from the Silhouette online store. I was super excited to find out that Silhouette had their own chipboard to cut! It is just a little thicker that cereal box cardboard, so I doubled up on it for the covers. I used papers from my stash and a Tim Holtz clock on the front cover. Each page is actually a pocket page with a tag, so there are lots of surfaces for pics and embellies. I kept the embellies to a minimum, so Laurie can choose the theme of her album.

These were lots of fun to make and give to a great scrappy friend!

Happy Birthday, Laurie!!!

It's Laurie's birthday today, so be sure to leave her some love!! I will be back tomorrow to show you the card and something else that I created for her. (I can't ruin the surprise today!! :) )

Happy Mother's Day!

This is an altered canvas that I made for my mom. She loves tigers, so when I saw this pic on FB, I knew I had to use it for her.After using gesso on the canvas, I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists to color the background. The title is a Silhouette studio file cut with the Cameo. MOM is embossed with the Divine Swirls Cuttlebug folder. I got the leaves and cute paw print ribbon at AC Moore.

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day 2013!

LOVE ME SOME HUGS!

 A fun layout I liked these pics of me and my daughter hugging it out :)  I added a cute little owl cut from a Creative Memories cartridge.  My daughter is going through an "owl" phase, so I thought it was fitting to add one. I went very plain with embellies on this and used a CM ideas book for the page map.  No, I do not sell CM, lol.  I just really like their products and the crop I was at had a huge table of CM products for our use!  So, I tried lots of stuff!

NATURE IS WHERE IT"S AT!

 The smell of toasty warm fires, friends, family, laughs, yummy food and teamwork!  I LOVE camping! 

 I also LOVE LOVE using my Creative Memories Page Planner.  I highly suggest this set and the Nancy O'dell Creative Memories set  for all those loose pics that you want to get in a book.   The templates are easy peasy to use!  and the booklets that come with the sets pretty much do all the work for you as far as how and where to put embellies if you need to add. 

Again, I need to journal, LOL. Someday!

PICNIC TABLE PRANKSTERS!

 And another campin' out layout.  I loved the fun pics on this page and it brought back some silly memories of that trip.  The reason it says "pranks" is that all my fellow campers waited till I went to the bathroom to pull a trick on me.   I came back to a campsite in which everybody was in their tents, strange?  hmmm. We were just playing card and singing round' the fire.  I look down and in front of me there was a snake at the bottom of the picnic table. I scream (repeatedly!) and try my hardest to jump up ONTO the table (in no way shape or form did I do it either. lol) in a complete panic.  I hear lots of laughter at that point and then take a closer look at the PLASTIC snake!  LOL.  It took me a few minutes to recoop from that.. LOL .  We had lots of fun goofing around the fire and playing rummy and making YUMMMO treats too!

HAPPY CAMPERS

 Here is a layout that I did at a recent crop.  These are fun pics of family and friends that went camping back in 2011.  We had LOTS of laughs. 

 

I used a really fun Creative Memories border to do the trees and I did the cuts from CAMP OUT cricut cartridge.

I haven't done any of my journaling yet.