Crop and Create challenges

I have a few more layouts to share with you, both inspired by Crop and Create challenges that were presented to us.  I love scrapbooking challenges.  They always inspire me and give me a starting point to create my project. 

The first challenge was to create something interactive.  I was amazed at the entries for this challenge.  They were all so different and some were so creative.  I had the perfect pictures to create my interactive layout.
I'm always amazed at how my girls are so very different from each other.  It became even more apparent at our dinner at Cinderella's castle.  One came in with her Princess Merida dress complete with tiara, the other in shorts, t-shirt and hoody getting the nickname 'princess Casual' from our waiter.  One ordered chicken and rice, the other one steak and fries.  The funniest example was one their 'decorate your own' ice cream were presented, one just dumped all the fudge, sprinkles, candies on top, while the other one carefully placed the decorations one by one.  I just had to take a picture!  Here is the finished product using some Crate Paper and sliding journaling tags. 

One other challenge was called 'Something old, new, borrowed and cool'.  We were also presented with a sketch to inspire up.  For my new, I used some my newly purchased Simple Stories 24\7 collection.  For my old, I used a buckle, and metal flower and a tab I had in the bottom of my embellishment box.  For the borrowed, I used some of Cecile Lavoie's ribbon.  She had losts to chose from :).  And finally for cool- I ruffled my ribbon under the title with glue dots, I framed the picture block with twine and added lots of pictures of us posing in front of the Art of Animation statues.  another layout to add to my Disney album.

I actually won a prize for this last layout!

I would like to thank again Crop and Create and Scrapbook and Cards Today for coming to Moncton and putting together such a wonderful event.  Can't wait for the next one!

Homesick

We just spent the weekend in Caraquet.  The kids spent the week there at their grand-parent's house.  they crammed more activities in a week than we did the whole summer so far.  We arrived home a day early as the girls were really missing their home.  We only got a glimpse of the Acadian festival.  I'm kind of sad that we will not be seeing more of it this year, but it will still be there next year.  Since we were home early, I go to do a little scrapbooking.  I received new goodies and printed new pictures so the creative juices were flowing.  Here are some of the layouts I did.

This first one is made using the new CTMH Flirty collection and Creative Scrapper's sketch  # 218

Another Creative scrapper's loayout this time it's sketch # 215 and some pretty Crate paper. 

 This one was challenge no 7 over at LCOM's 12 days of summer.  I used Fancy Pants and Simple Stories paper with CTMH and Prima embelishments. 

 This last one was done for the 12 days of summer challenge over at Let's Capture our Memories  I used some Doodlebug design paper with some MLBOW

Summer

Ah Summer!  I usually loath the heat.  I used to be unable to sleep at night and that lead to me being cranky.  Having to spend my days cooped up in the basement to escape the heat.  Those days are over.  We now have a heat pump!  what a difference it makes.  I'm actually enjoying the summer and the heat.  I can even bake!  My oven used to get a break during the summer since it used to heat up the house.  I love summer!  :)

And another reason I love summer : CTMH convention!  I could not attend this year but tagged along tanks to twitter, facebook and CTMh blogs.  I also go to preview the new catalogue!  Amazing products to come.  Can't wait to share it all with you.

To other news, I am now a proud member of the Let's Capture our Memories Sketch design team!  I get to work with amazing artists and make layout using a different sketch every other week.  Check it out! 

Here is my layout using Bo Bunny's Hello sunshine paper :

I also made this layout using Crate paper

And this one too using one of my new favorite manufacturer - Authentique paper.  Just love the texture of it.  Works great with CTMH wood embelishments and My little bit of whimsy button