scrapbeach crop challenges

Challenge #6:superbowl (layout using a bowl as a template)
Challenge #5:playoffs (layout with play in mind..we used the displays at the christmas tree sale to "play" on and take pics!)
Challenge #4 Love of my life besides the obvious hubby and son is my dog Buster
Challenge #1 Father of our Country (a layout about a father...Cole helping his father load up the quads)

boxer love

Here is Cole with our boxer Buster who is almost 6.(will be on valentines day 2010; Poor Buster gets to deal with Cole climbing on and beating him up all the days of his life now that he is the only dog in the house...its gotten worse since Brie is gone for some reason.

Here is what he also has to deal with: (needless to say, Buster is missing his companion Brie alot!)

We do take him 4 walks and to the dog park but he still is missing his Brie and seems lost without her even when we take him way more places with us since Bries passing!

Here they both missed eachother so much (after cole and i went to visit family in NJ for 2 weeks) that they took a nap together .

So, that being said I have been watching Craigslist/Pounds/Rescue groups in the area for a new 4 legged buddy for Buster.... am being very selective..I want a HEALTHY smaller girl (from parents that were healthy), from owners that love the breed and can tell me alot of background on their boxers, and either a white boxer with a fawn/brindle mask or a brindle ....wish me luck on finding Buster a new girl!!!

I'm an Angel.

This is an envelope Mini..put together just like a paper bag mini.

I was impressed when I made the binding look so well on my first try!

The paper is Earth Love that I got from Kim Davis when we got paired for the paper swap.

I had fun with my smooch spritz on the flowers and some pages! (but I wasnt too happy to see that it does smudge when u handle it too much!)

I used a mask with the smooch spritz here.

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Kathryn at The Scrapbeach asked me to come to the rescue for Kimberly this month who, for some unknown reason, lost her mini swap partner...so here is just a few closeups of what I came up with for her...I tried to keep it pretty simple since she left it up to me as to what kind of mini to make..I hope she likes it!

Wedding Mini

here is a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5T5QZOcEhA
Heres a little mini Im making for a friend whos getting married and likes a non-traditional look of a wedding album, after all her colors are pool(turquise-ish), silver, and red!
some card tags...I used the Queen and King of the deck and added ther names with silver alphas and added some flowers.

Here is a cardboard heart I cut out and tore edges and added red paint and used alcohol silver mixitives

challenges

challenge #6...My dog Brie passed away recently and the vet made a paw print so I wanted to frame and hang and heres what I came up with:

challenge #3 scraplifted the card tag idea from Ebony Ivory

challenge number 2 ....first time using VELLUM when u pull out the invitation u can see the date of the wedding on vellum

challenge #1

My Pink Mini 4 A Cure! & BLOG CANDY!!

Well, I did it again! I uploaded the pics wrong again! oh well!!! Heres my Contribution to the 16+ Pink Minis For a Cure that will be auctioned off October 31st. and all proceeds will go to Breast Cancer Research!...to learn more visit Lauras blog @ followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com (where u can see all the minis and also where the silent auction will be from Oct.31st til Nov 7th)and here is the link to donate: http://www.info-komen.org/goto/pink-minis Laura is also giving out BLOG CANDYS (thats right theres more than one give away, so go donate and get 2 chances to go into the drawing to win!!)
Heres my video of this album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2p0pppkoDE
Here is the last pages of the Mini...the right page has a pullout for journaling and pics.

Here is a page with a green tag and a transparancy page that I stamped STRONG on with some stickles to glitter it up!.the right page has a three page pull out for journaling and pics.
the Frame on the left page can be filled at the top since i left it open...the right page has a tag with a "sun" button with some clouds I made with glossy accents and then "distressed" the blue sky with a stamp pad.

Heres a envelope page on the right with three tags. the left page has a tag thats green ferns.

the cover is my favorite..it says Believe and i added stickles to the letters with some flowers I dyed with Alcohol Inks! And fibers and ribbon to hold it all together!

Gammys HALLOWEEN brag book

the cover..made with covering paper with aluminum tape and running it through a cuttlebug to emboss it and painting it all black then sanding some of the black off showing the aluminum.

stamped the fence then cut it out and made it alittle pocket!

the back of the pumpkin tag..cole in the pumpkin patch.

stamped tree and stamped halloween and spritzed page with glimmer mist. mummy page has gauze as a pocket.

OK, ONE OF THESE DAYS ILL REMEMBER TO ADD PHOTOS FIRST AND THEN BLOG SO MY WORDS ARENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PICTURES!!! HAHA.....ANYWAYS..Since my mother, Coles Grammy lives on the 0ther side of the world from us (we being in az and her in nj) decided to make a little brag book of coles halloween. I plan on sending it right to her work since that is where it will end up so her co-workers can oogle over cole (and my creative work :P) like they do with everyones grandchildren!