Vacation time at Universal Studios

Hello Friends, Back with a post after a long time. I am participating in the -"So You Think You Can Scrap" challenge over at Colorful Creations. The first week's challenge was to create a layout with two different do it your own embellishments.

I did a pin of my own using some beads and pearls. I also did the butterfly embellishment using some PTI felt and gem stones (This was inspired by the Card Candy that Michele had done a while ago).

This is a picture of my mom at Universal Studios during their visit here in 2007. I just loved this colorful picture and had to create a LO with it. Papers are from stash and the chipboard title is also from Stash. I kept the LO Simple with focus on photo and journaling.

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Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Patterned Paper from stash, PTI Rustic Cream Card stock
Ink - PTI Inking Cube - chai
Other - Offray Ribbon, bead supplies, PTI felt, PTI Butterfly dies, gem stone, Chipboard Title

Lake Grapevine Fun!!!

I have another layout of Bella having fun at Grapevine Lake and yet again for the BasicGrey Challenge :). I used the latest Sketchy Thursday Sketch for this layout.

I am entering this layout for,
1) BasicGrey Challenge #50 - Anything Goes
2) BasicGrey Product Challenge on TwoPeasInABucket.com
3) Sketchy Thursday 8-18 Sketch

I used mainly BasicGrey Oxford Collection for my layout as the Product Challenge on TwoPeasInABucket was to use products from the Oxford Collection. I am in love with the plaid papers that are in the oxford collection.

Here is the sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Bazzill Kraft Card stock, BasicGrey Oxford Collection Patterned Paper, PTI White Cardstock
Ink - PTI Chai Inking Cube
Other - BG Oxford Collection Buttons and Stitched brads, chipboard alphabets

My Minds Eye Blog Challenge 26

I love MME papers and like any other scrapbook enthusiast out there, have a collection of their papers. I love to play along with MME blog challenges, but have not done so in the past due to various reasons. So, when I saw the latest sketch layout from MME Blog Challenge #26, I had to play along.

This is a picture of my parents in NYC - Times Square during their visit to US in 2007. I had a bit of hard time capturing a good photo of this layout, so please do excuse the picture quality.

I used the MME Quite Contrary line of patterned papers for this layout. All the items on this page except for the photo mat and the title is from MME.

Here is their Sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - None
Ink - Ranger DI - Vintage photo
Paper - MME Quite Contrary Line of Patterned Paper, PTI Ripe Avocado Card Stock
Other - MME Second Avenue Spring Border Strip, Paper Wizard NYC Title Die Cut

Cute Butterfly

This is my entry for this week's Sketchy Thursday 8-11 Sketch Challenge.

These are pictures of my friend's daughter Shikha when she had dressed as the most beautiful Butterfly for last year's Halloween. I just loved her outfit and how gorgeous she looks. My layout is slightly different from the Sketchy Thursday Sketch as I could not crop these photos any more. But I am very very happy how this turned out.

Here is the sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Bazzill Cardstock, PTI Raspberry Fizz Cardstock, DCVW Cafe Latte Stack
Ink - None
Other - Girls Paperie embellishments, My Minds Eye Notes, SU Scallop Border Punch

Love is Sharing

I signed up for the Big Idea Festival by BigPictureClasses.com and the word for today was "Share" - by Amy Tan. I loved this word and there were so many possibilities. I created this layout using this photo of my brother-in-law Sanjay and his wife Kiran and used the word Share as title. Love is also all about Sharing and being there for each other and that is what this LO Represents.

I used PencilLines.com sketch #250 for this Layout. Here is the Sketch,

Here is a close up of the Journaling about "Share". It was nice to use up chipboard alphabets by mixing and matching the alphabets (after I organized the alphabets).

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Paper - Bazzil Card Stock, Colorbok Diecut Patterned Paper, PTI White Cardstock
Ink - None
Stamp - None
Other - Chipboard Letters, PTI Doily Die, Ribbon, Twinery Twine, Heart Embellishment