Las Vegas 2015 Trip

Hi all my scrappy friends! Although I haven't been on here much I have been getting some layouts done in between all of my work. I am trying to finish up the pictures from my Las Vegas trip in 2015. Although it was a work conference we did have some time to explore a little. One thing I love about these conferences is that I get to go to places I wouldn't have gone to otherwise. Here are some of the layouts I have completed:

This was about the mountains you can see in the background around the town. Makes for beautiful pictures.

This was the view from my hotel room.  You can see the Lexorand the airport.

This was different sights and you can see the walkways that go over the main road, Las Vegas Blvd., so you can get to all the attractions without having to try and cross the busy street.

 This was pictures of the rollercoaster we road that goes in between a lot of the buildings. I used a 6x8 pocket style page protector to the right of the layout to add extra pictures and the journaling.

This was a lot of fun! We went exploring and went to the M&M Store which was 3 stories and they had the M&M race car on the 3rd floor. We had fun acting like tourists.

There are some more layouts to come which includes a layout using the backside of the pocket style page protector.  I took these pictures before adding most of the journaling and I did add some splatters to some of the layouts that isn't shown in some of these pictures. You know how it goes, you sit there and look at the layouts and think I need something else...ah ha...splatters! Or enamel dots, etc.  LOL Sometimes we are never satisfied.  

iNSD Weekend Challenges

Hope everyone had some fund during iNSD weekend! Well I was so looking forward to International-National Scrapbooking Day/Weekend and I joined a few challenges over on Victoria Marie's Facebook Page.  Between everything I had to get done at home and the fact that I'm a slow scrapper I only got 3 challenges done in time to post in order to be in the drawings. But at least I had some fun and actually got some layouts done for a change. The first challenge was a grid challenge where you just used a grid pattern on your layout. I actually tried something for the first time on this layout which took some time which was hand stitching. I hand stitched the grid pattern like a tic tac toe board. 

The next challenge was called a color blast challenge. This where you had to use brightly patterned papers and embellishments. This one I thought would come out better than it did.  It's still cute but I just had something a little different in mind. I used a black and white picture since there was so many colors in the papers so that it wouldn't blend in and hard to see. 

The next challenge was to scrap a selfie. I don't take selfie's very much. Mostly because I'm not good at it. This selfie was taken a couple years ago with my newest little girl. She is a mini-dachshund and she is the biggest love bug. She hates it when I leave her and she thinks she is top dog in the house...even against the German Sheppard.  LOL  I like how the layout came out and I had found this perfect little banner sticker that said You're My Person. Would have been better if it said Human but hey we can't be too picky. 

Love You Girl - CSI #224

I haven't done a challenge in a long time. I seen the challenge over at CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration and thought about my little fur baby.  The layout didn't really come out the way I had planned but I guess not everything works out the way you want them to.  I still had fun! 

Here is the crime scene

And here is my take on the scene

I used all the required colors of gray taupe, cherry red, white, seafoam green, and ballerina slipper pink. For the evidence I choose plain cardstock, animal (in the picture...lol), cactus/other plant, arrows, triangles, enamel dots and die cuts.

I chose to use the February prompt of Your pet or another animal. How does spending time with your pet make you feel?

My journaling reads:

I love this little girl! She brings me such joy and lots of unconditional love. When I'm away I can't wait to get home. 

Hi all of my scrappy friends!

The other day I got an email from Freckled Fawn about a surprise birthday mystery box. It was a box full of goodies worth at least $175 for only $50.  This is what I got...SO CUTE!

Sorry but I kept saying Lawn Fawn instead of Freckled Fawn.  I guess I was in such a hurry to do the video before I left for my business meeting that I didn't realize that I was saying the wrong company. 

So if you ever thought of getting a surprise mystery box...go for it!

Happy Scrapping!

Christmas Tree Shaker Page

Here is a short video on how I made a Christmas Tree shaker page for my December Daily. I'm still getting used to actually doing videos and I just explained how I did it and not how I did it in real time. I did this one as a dry run for the 2nd one that I did for a December Daily swap I participated in. Hope you enjoy!

Awesome Christmas Trees!

I went home for the holidays and was going around town and the city hall has a program where they provide artificial trees with lights around the city hall building and people and organizations can sponsor a tree and decorate it.  It was fun to walk around the building and look at all the trees. There was this one tree that as soon as I seen it I was laughing. It was so cute you just couldn't help but smile. A perfect December Daily story!

December Daily Page Swap

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a beautiful day like I am. Since I've been gone a lot lately I haven't spent much time with my fur babies so I've been pampering them today. Gave them baths, took them to Petco to have their nails trimmed and bought them some treats. Now they are snuggled up on the couch. But enough about my fur babies and on to something scrappy. I joined a "Secret Santa" page swap over on the December Daily Inspiration Group on Facebook. We gave the moderator what colors we were using for our upcoming December Daily and the page size and we were matched up Secret Santa style. So no one knows who is doing pages for each other. It is a surprise when you get it. So I got mine at the beginning of this week for the United Kingdom! It is so cute and she sent me little goodies to go along with it. I got mine out to my pal today so I sure hope she likes it. Since I've been working so hard because of Hurricane Matthew I wasn't able to get mine in the mail as quickly as I had hoped but I made the deadline so I also sent lots of goodies to my secret pal.

Here is what I received from Caroline in the UK and it so stinkin' cute:

And this is what I sent out to Samantha who is also in the UK:

Hope you have enjoyed seeing the swap and if you do a December Daily or have ever thought about doing one then check out the Facebook group. It's a lot of fun and there is lots of inspiration. Have fun my scrappy friends!