Workout 81 - I am So Thankful @ ScrapFIT

Hi friends. I have been awfully quiet on the blog front, but it's been with good reason. I had my sister and her sweet girls visiting for a week (we had such a lovely time together!!), and then went down the coast for Christmas. We are now back home, enjoying some relaxing time by the pool, and just enjoying the quiet time before we go back to work on Wednesday next week.

Anyway, I am back to share a layout I created for Workout #81 at ScrapFIT. I gotta say, I adore these photos of my youngest son Jamie, he really does hold my heart very firmly in his little hands!!!!

For this layout I used a gorgeous layout by Maggie Holmes as my inspiration, whenever I see her new layouts posted over at STUDIO CALICO I am inspired to scrap!!!! I used some lovely ENMARC chippies on this page.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, for those who take the time to comment, "thank-you", it means a lot to me!!!

Smiles,

Enmarc Spring Blog Hop Challenge & ScrapFit Color Challenge

Hello ladies, how are you today?? Just a quick post from me this morning to share my latest layout which I created for Jeaune's Challenge over at Enmarc, which was MONOCHROMIC LAYOUT with a twist, you can find all the details of her challenge HERE on the Enmarc Ning Site. Aren't these Enmarc chippies I used on my page just gorgeous!?!

I based my layout on the latest color challenge over at ScrapFit, I LOVE playing along here. Isn't this a great boy color palette!?!

Thanks so much for taking the time to drop by my blog today, I hope you have enjoyed your time here!!!

Smiles,

Workout #74 at ScrapFIT

I am back with another layout to share with you this afternoon. I had loads of fun playing with the latest sketch challenge over at ScrapFIT, I had just the photos I wanted to use for this page.

The lovely photos I used on my layout were taken by my brother-in-law, Geoff Redman. He and my sis were visiting my Mom, who had the girls with her. While they were there Geoff and Lauren set up a FaceTime call, so Jamie could chat to his cousins. It was loads of fun, and lots of laughs, especially while Jenna had her finger up her nose. I am so glad Geoff was able to capture this special moment for us!!!

I also used a few metallic elements, which were part of another lesson in the Trendspotting Class. I love the addition of this bling to my page.

Here is the lovely ScrapFIT sketch:

Of course you can see I used my lovely Silhouette Cameo loads on this page. This is the most awesome machine out there I tell ya!!!

So.... I hope the week ahead is great for all of you. Sending you smiles and happiness

Challenge # 51 at Southern Girls, and an entry into Challenge # 30 at Scrapfit

So the latest challenge is up at Southern Girls, it's called Chippie Heaven. What a fun easy challenge, cause I know all of you have some chipboard lying around. I used quite a lot of it on my layout, the 3 tags are all chipboard, the sayings on the tags are chipboard, and the butterflies and big circle are Basic Grey Chip Stickers from the Origins range.

As I type this my layout does not yet appear on the Southern Girls Challenge Blog, hopefully that will be rectified soon!! This is my last layout as a DT member for the Southern Girls Blog, it's been a fun 6 months.

When I was putting my page together, I made sure to incorporate some doodling on my layout, and this was in the form of the 3 different scalloped stamps used on the tags. These are Hero Arts stamps, and I use these often. I wanted to play along with Challenge # 30 over at ScrapFIT. I love playing along there, cause their DT girls are awesome at leaving comments, and you know we all love comments!!! :)

I also tried to incorporate the Ombre trend, which is one of the trends we are learning about in the Trendspotting class, it's been loads of fun so far!!!

Thanks for visiting my blog again today, hope you have been having a wonderful week so far. I have the day off work tomorrow to go and watch the boys' athletics day!! :)

I remember

I should have scrapped this special photo ages ago!!!! When I saw Challenge # 73 - "I remember" over at ScrapFIT I immediately thought of this photo of me, my Mom and grandparents taken in 2001. Poppy passed away in 2002, and I miss him every day. My sweet Gran who is 82 has really not been well the last year or so, and it breaks my heart. They both did so so much for us as kids growing up. My Mom was a single parent, and they picked up a lot of the slack. Poppy taught me how to drive, and he gave me away at my wedding. They were/are very special grandparents, and I hope to be able to be as great a grandparent to my own grandkids one day!!!

I also signed up for my first class, it's called Trendspotting, and is being hosted by Lisa Truesdell and Kelly Noel over at Studio Calico. I must say I totally love both of these ladies styles of scrapping so I was super excited when I saw they were hosting a class together. I used a few techniques that are going to be taught in this class. With the class you get a bunch of gorgeous cut files, the banner and triangles are both from the class!!

I hope you all have a wonderful week. It's going to be a great one for us in the Sharp household. It's a nice short week, and we are visiting family down the coast!! :)

A layout for a ScrapFIT challenge

Hello all, how are you on this wonderful day?? I am feeling very happy and blessed at the moment, it really is the most wonderful feeling :)

So today I am going to share a layout with you that I created for the Color Inspiration Challenge over at ScrapFIT. This looks like a really fun site, and I have now loaded their link to my sidebar so I can be up to date with all of their challenges :)

Here is my page :

This is my youngest, Jamie, getting his first professional haircut, as you can see from the look on his face he felt VERY important!! Too sweet :)

Here is the picture that was used for the color inspiration challenge.

This was a layout, that was fun to put together, from start to finish. So happy with the way it turned out!!!

I will be back later on in the week with new challenges from all of my DT's :) Until then, crafty smiles and hugs