Ella's Pink Scrapbook Challenge #25

This week's challenge is a recipe challenge; use the color light aqua, a patterned paper and embellishment. I chose to do a page of my sweet little favorite great niece (I can say that cuz she's my only great niece). I spritzed my paper with some glimmer mist in the two corners and also used it on my aqua flowers. This photo doesn't show the title very well, I'll have to see if I can get a better photo later. It says "princess Brinley" and that she is :)

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team's layouts at TPE

The Flood of 2010

We have been hit with a flood here. Fortunately where I live we weren't affected, my parents have lots of water down by their dock and will have some clean up to do they live on a hill so their home wasn't affected. Unfortunately there were a number of people evacuated from their homes because of the flooding from the Wisconsin River. They're calingl this the 100 year flood so it was something magnificent to see.

This first photo was taken Thursday evening after we had received about 6" of rain, we were thinking at this time the river might rise a little bit more than it was at this point

This was Saturday morning, my dad was checking things out, hoping the river had crested, it hadn't yet.

And this was Saturday late afternoon pretty much at crest.

We drove around Saturday and took some pics, this is a stranded car at a gas station under water. The river is actually way in the background way out past the yield sign.

One of the damns with the water just roaring.

A couple of businesses along the river, not a good situation for them.

This was one of the bridges that was kept open, there's another one just up the river a bit that was closed.

The river is receding and now it's time for clean up and recovery. It's unbelievable how much can happen in a weekend.

Ella's Pink Scrapbook Challenge #24

It's time for another challenge over at The Pink Elephant. This week's challenge was a Back to School Theme challenge. This one was a bit of a challenge for me because we don't have any children, so I dug into the archives and found a class picture from grade school and decided to scrap that. This photo was fun to look at, I was able to actually pick out a few of my classmates. I'd love to have them all written down. I also used some of The Cutting Cafe Back to School digital images on my layout.

Here's the layout (the photo is a bit discolored from being in one of those magnetic photo albums)

Ellas's Pink Scrapbook #22

This week's scrapbook challenge over at TPE is a color combination & sketch challenge. We created layouts with the colors green, yellow & white along with this sketch

I will admit I have been struggling some with getting my layouts completed and putting them off til the last minute. I had a completely different layout in my mind for this challenge. I was going to do some pictures from the balloon rally I was at this past weekend. After digging through my paper I came across some Reminisce monkey paper that I have had for awhile which was perfect for this challenge. So, I went through my pictures and found some cute photos of my great nephew to use. I think the saying I found in the sticker set is rather fitting "Sitting Still Is Not My Thing". This layout was super quick and super easy which is usually not how they go for me :) the style is simple, I had a hard time not adding more stuff, I think it turned out ok though.

Be sure to to stop on over to The Pink Elephant to see what the rest of the design team came up with.

A Hoot of a Birthday

I picked up the sizzix owl die and couldn't wait to create something with it. I picked up some mini composition books the other day on sale so I covered one of them and put this cute little owl on it. Cute as this little book was and how much I wanted to keep it myself I decided to give it to my niece for her birthday.

I needed to make my niece a card too so I put this one together to go with the little notebook. I love this owl, love the October Afternoon paper and love the dyed seam binding ribbon. Don't be surprised if you see lots more of these items in my projects :)

A Christmas Card

The new Hero Arts stamps have arrived at my local scrapbook store & I just had to get my hands on some of them along with a teacher's set for me to use for an upcoming class. I started playing around with them along with some Tim Holtz distress inks. I think my favorite stamps from this Christmas catalog are the music background and the fabulous flourishes. I love the old aged feeling of this card along with the dyed seam binding and vellum music.

Check back later this week, I've got some other creations to share with some more Hero Arts Christmas stamps.

A Masculine Birthday Card

I have a masculine birthday card to share with you today, this was one I made for my brother's birthday last month. I come from a family of car fanatics so this Great Impressions stamp was a must have. I used some core'dinations cardstock on this card, I love this stuff when I want some extra texture on a card.

Ella's Pink Scrapbook Challenge #20

I've got a layout to share this week. I've been slowly getting back into some scrapbooking again. It's been so hot that being in my scraproom in the basement is a nice way to keep cool.

This week's challenge is a sketch challenge along with some fabric on our layout. Here's the sketch

I decided to scrap some more photos from our Alaskan Cruise last year. I had some burlap laying around that I decided to use as my fabric, I just stitched it onto a piece of cardstock.

Head on over to The Pink Elephant to see the rest of the design teams work.

I've been working on a bunch of cards lately along with some class work that I'll share with you a little later on.

Ella's Pink Scrapbook - Challenge #17

Hey everyone, Im back with another layout this week for The Pink Elephant Challenges. This week's challenge was to use some memorabilia on you layout like old ticket stubs or brochures or menus that you've picked up to scrap along with your photos.

It's been another crazy week for me so I pulled out an old layout I did awhile back from our honeymoon. We visited a muscle car museum in Sieverville, TN. I thought the brochure was so cool with all the pictures of the muscle cars on it that I used it for the top and bottom borders of my layout. It's a simple layout as were most of the pics from the museum (how much can you do with TONS of car pictures lol).

Here's the layout

I am really really hoping to get back into a scrapping routine soon so I can get more accomplished and share. Be sure to check out the rest of the teams fabulous layouts this week at The Pink Elephant

I'm still here :)

Things are starting to settle down now for me, our duplex is remodeled and rented and the other unit is also cleaned up, painted and rented too! Now I get to do all the stuff that piled up during the month of working on the rentals like house cleaning, gardening and cleaning and organizing my scraproom!

I did squeeze in some time to do a layout for last week's TPE layout challenge and a birthday card too. Hopefully I'll get caught up now and get back into some regular scrapping.