Foxwoods casino

 

Funspot

Summer Games

The right side is based off an Allison Davis Life Documented sketch for Simple Stories.

basketball, Christmas, Disney

Our colors were grey and purple. Daughter's and son's are done the same, with a couple different pics.

Christmas Eve - I thought this paper was really cute and perfect but a full page design is hard to work with!

Daughter's Christmas pages:

Son's Christmas pages. His first page had to be single and I chose to make the 2 that would be facing as separate but coordinating pages.

Again, daughter's pages ended up not facing so had to split hers as single pages so I gave them each a title.

Let's Bowl

Cross country and birthday layouts

Summer Games

State Fair 2012 - lots of pics

Last year I didn't get around to doing much to enter so I didn't enter anything. This year I entered 16 items and 13 received blue ribbons! (Our fair uses the Danish system of judging.)

Sorry, the pics I took at the exhibit aren't very good. Other than the little shade that I gave away, if anyone wants to see a better pic I can take another one at home of the item. :)

First, the less than stellar. My muffins (zucchini) only got a participation ribbon. The landscape color photography, a third place ribbon (I think having a 5.0 megapixel camera doesn't help when blowing up and well, I am VERY amateur. LOL ) My little woodsie & craft stick Santa in a chimney (Christmas tree decorations), a second place ribbon.

Here are my blue ribbons! The knitted felted pocketbook is the first knitting project I've ever completed followed by the knitted scarf (which, btw, 'homespun' yarn is a bit of a pain to  knit with. Probably makes it easier to camouflage imperfections in stitching though.) I've only made about handful of quilt blankets (mostly lap/crib size - only one bed sized one) and this was the first time I ever did a binding. And it's a continuous binding (thank you, youtube!) I did make a mistake doing the corners and had to fix it - which involved stitching the corners back together.

 

Then we have beadwork (earrings), ceramics - other (I painted an unfinished piece), children's clothing - skirt, decoupage (which I posted here, lit up.

 

 

Drop cookies (chocolate peppermint chip), felt craft, pillow, scrapbook page. We don't have a category for paper crafts. I have to enter it under special crafts - other.

 

 

 

Then here's the candle shade I made which you put on wine glasses. They taped it to the glass though so it's a bit wonky. And I forgot to take a pic of it on my way through before so I took it when I was picking my stuff up. And last, my wet felted hat made from a recycled wool sweater. The holly design I needle felted all the way around. And it actually fits on my head smoother than how it looks on the dummy head they used. LOL

 

 

 

Ok, I think I got them all. Thanks for looking and let me know if there's anything you want a better pic of. Some of them are pretty bad. LOL

 

 

Some layouts...

I am loving using my inspiration jar! I've been using different techniques and tools and I think it's made a difference in my scrapping even though I'm still a pretty simple scrapper. paper tearing, weaving, chalking stitching, sanding, 2 patterned paper (the pattern on the yellow is subtle) The next two I didn't use the jar for, I was just trying to get some layouts done for a contest. But I did inking, stamping, and used a diecut. Also stickers, stitching, and paint.

A couple of layouts

These were done for challenges on a scrap board. The challenges were made up using my layout inspiration. I had a lot of pics I needed to fit between 2 pages so I went with the color blocking method.

Play Ball

Not the greatest pics but hey, it's still a memory! First time I've ever pop-dotted anything on a layout (ball on top). The quote says 'bewtween earth and sky'. The title is letter stickers I lightly sanded then went over it with ink to grunge them up a little. I originally had the journaling under the title - then hubby mentioned a ticket (didn't think of looking to see if I had one). Found it, but then didn't have a place for it. Ended up rewriting the journaling at the top and covering up the original with a mat for the ticket from the game. :) My husband was looking at the ticket and commented on the $15 price. He said those seats are probably like $70 now. I don't know - but it sure is crazy! It's a lot cheaper and still fun to just support the local minor league.