May's LOAD...

Here are more of the layouts that I did up for my May LOAD Challenge. On facebook I have created a group and we are doing 3 LOAD's a year the next one is scheduled for September.. if you want to be part of it look me up on facebook 'Cathy van de Bruinhorst'. I am doing a personal LOAD for the year and up at the top of the blog is my ticker... I'm not doing to bad!! ;0) 

All of the layouts below were made for Let's Scraps InterNational Scrapbooking Month Challenges. All were done using LS sketches as well... 

'for a larger image of the layout just click on it'

Bodies Revealed... this was a challenge at Let's Scrap to do a layout without using pics

 This one was using this sketch with hexagon shaped in it... love this pic of My Adorable One!!

 This was a sketch from last month... a layout I did up for a friends Vegas album...

 This layout I'm not happy with but with so many pics to scrapbook I don't think I am going to re-do it. The challenge was to do a layout of where you live and use your countries flag somewhere on the layout as well. I had lost my mojo and struggled thru this layout... :-/

 I'm not a big 'card' girl, so this is based on a card sketch. We were getting ready to go to Vegas and I made up a little coupon book for My Adorable One... 4 cigars, dinner at The Wicked Spoon, foot rub, back rub, Margaritaville drinks... just fun stuff like that... :0)

 This layout was Mindi and My challenge at LS... we did a 'A La Carte' Challenge... we started with 3 patterned papers, a layered title and the sketch and then for the next 5 days we added embelli's to it. We even played with a zipper... mine is supposed to be a butterfly in case you are wondering.. ;0)

 This was another challenge... using a banner title and a bingo card. I used some Simple Stories goodies on this... :0)

 Another challenge... Denise had us look at a pic she pulled off from Pintrest and using that we were to create a layout. The pic had blue and white coloring and had a tree painted on the wall. As soon as I saw the tree on the wall I thought of these pics and this is what I came up with... love it!!

 This is a sketch from last month as well... I had fun with this one. One of my best friends went to Hawaii with her husband for their 10th Anna... they brought me home a Starbucks card so I had to do up a layout about the fact that they went to Hawaii and all I got was a Starbucks card... lol Love the pics that she took, I totally swiped them off from facebook!!!

So this catches me up from May... tomorrow I will post my first layouts for June as soon as it is posted on Let's Scrap.. ;0)

Bright and Beautiful......

This is done with this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap!! This is another layout with Vieve's pics... 

love working with her pics!!

click for a larger image

This is the sketch that I worked with

This sketch was fun and easy to work with... you should try it too!! 

The CIrcus is in town...

This layout is done with 'All About Boys' stack from DCWV. Everyone month, on their blog, they have a sketch challenge.. you use their sketch and one of their paper stacks. The pics that I used on this layout have a red shadow about them because of the playground equipment... this paper worked perfect for them!!

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This is the sketch that I used...

NSD Challenges...

I did these 4 layouts up for 'The ScrapRoom' Challenges .. I found them thru facebook!!

Challenge #1 - Using their sketch and a punch somewhere on the layout...

Challenge #2 - 'create a layout using patterned paper strips no wider than 2".  They can be as long as 12" but no wider than 2".   You can use cardstock of any size and any embellishments that you like, but the patterned paper has to be less than 2" wide' 

I used a Let's Scrap Sketch for this one... 

Challenge #3 - 'create a layout that has the word memory or memories'

this is an old DCWV sketch

Challenge #4 - 'create a layout with patterned paper from at least three different manufacturers'

 I used a sketch that I had filed under 'misc' not sure where I found it...

There is another challenge on The ScrapRoom... but I have so many other places I want to check out before the end of NSD... 

Meeka....

DCWV posted a new sketch challenge this morning and I loved the sketch. Sooooo I used it twice this morning on these two layouts... not used with DCWV paper so I can't enter the challenge with them but I will do up another one and enter it later.. ;0)

This one is for Bugs album...

click on the images to make them bigger...

this is the sketch I was playing with...

Precious...

Here is another layout of Kameka.... using the same sketch as the challenge I just did.... 

this is #7 & #8 for my LOAD Challenge this month...more to scan and post!!

Let's Scrap Challenge #6

This is Eniko's Challenge #6 thru Let's Scrap!!

"Welcome to an other awesome challenge! This one is in honor of National Scrapbooking Day, which is May 5th!

Scrapbookers are generally so busy photographing and scrapping their families, pets and special events that they themselves are often left out of photos and scrapbooks. Am I right, Ladies?

Since scrapbooking is such an important part of our lives and daily activities, it is only fitting to pay homage to our favorite passion on National Scrapbooking Day!

For this challenge, you must use the sketch below to create a layout about yourself scrapbooking! The challenge begins today, a few days before National Scrapbooking Day, to give you ample time to prepare by taking photos and rifling through your stash, so that you can actually work on it during our favorite Holiday!"

We had to include 8 of the elements below:

Alpha Stickers

Banners, Flags or Pennants

Brads or Eyelets

Buttons

Chipboard

Flourishes or Scrolls

Flowers

Inking

Matting

Metal Clip, Stick Pin, or Staples

Stamping

Twine, Baker’s Twine, or Ribbon

Here is my layout for the challenge

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The elements I used from the above list are:

eyelets

buttons

chipboard

flourishes

flowers

inking

matting

baker's twine

Here is Eniko's sketch for this challenge:

love this sketch.. I'm already working on another layout using it... hopefully I can post it tomorrow.. :0)

Motorcycle Run...

Sacramento Law Enforcement Memorial Motorcycle Run 2011

This was a fun day.. 44 mile ride from Sac, along the Delta River to Isleton. But boy, oh boy was it a HOT one!! We all were wiped out from the heat by the time we got home. So all these pics with smiling faces soon faded... lol But a great cause... 

This layout was made with this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap... it just came out today...

if you want to see a larger image just click on the picture..

This is the sketch that I worked with...

Now back to scrapbooking... May is a busy month and I don't want to fall behind!!

Kameka....

This is a double page layout using last weeks Let's Scrap sketch... I turned it and tweaked it to work with my pics but love the way it turned out.

For those of you who don't know... we have had 3 German Shepherds. All 3 have had such different personalities and quirks. This is Kameka, her mom and dad were 'cop dogs' and the breeder works with my guy. So he followed the process of the babies.. birth, the fuzzy lil buggers and then went to pick out his puppy. This was his dog... she was a doll and very sweet but very protective of him. Jazzy got mad at Marcel and voiced her opinion and the fight was on and Jazzy lost the battle... $2000 later, surgery and damage to her eye.. Jazzy was a mess. We were concerned doing foster care that something like this 'could' happen to a child in our home. We gave her back to the breeder... she is an incredible dog.. she ended up with a Deputy in Marcel's department and is a 'cop dog' and a good one. She is doing great and this layout can still bring a tear to My Adorable One's eye thinking of his dog... Kameka... 

if you want to see the image bigger just click on it

This is the sketch I worked with 

working with the sketches gives you so many options to turn, tweak and play with it to fit whatever you need for your pics... love working with sketches!!

Now don't forget Let's Scrap is having a month long celebration for (Inter)National Scrapbooking Day... come and check out all the fun stuff going on for the month!!

Dance....

This is another layout for Vieve's album. I am loving working with the amazing pics that she has.... beautiful settings, beautiful outfits and, of course, beautiful Vieve!! 

Please excuse the blurred scan... I was fighting with my scanner a bit with this layout too... and if won again!!

This is from a Let's Scrap sketch..... 

At Let's Scrap the Design Team is gearing up for a month of InterNational Scrapbooking events for NSD. All kinds of fun to get involved with so you should go and check it out!! On Facebook I am doing a LOAD (LayOut A Day) challenge... for mine there is no prizes but we can post all that we are doing on the 'group' page. If you are interested and are not already a friend on facebook, or if I have overlooked to add you to the group please let me know... that will be for the whole month of May!!

Family...

This is a layout I made earlier this month with some pics of my brother, Jeff's, family from Christmas.... love the pics... love these faces!!

This layout is from earlier this month made with a Let's Scrap Sketch... 

you can click on this pic to see it bigger...

this is the sketch I used...

Luxor

This is this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap..... You will have to excuse the blurred lines. I was having a fight with my scanner and it won... in reality the lines are ohhhh sooo straight!! ;0) Vegas is our favorite place to go... we go once a year. I never get tired of taking pics there, seeing the sites and enjoying the atmosphere. We are getting ready to go again in a few weeks... :0)

this is the Let's Scrap Sketch I used

so many great layouts have been done with this sketch at Let's Scrap you should go and check them out!!

Aunt Wilma...

My dear Aunt Wilma passed away on Saturday. Many of us were lucky enough to see her before she passed. Several of us were with her when she passed on as well... I have so many wonderful memories of Aunt Wilma - family get togethers and such but my favorite memories that I treasure of those of when I was just a teenager and it was just her and I... either house sitting and playing board games or shopping. Taking my boys to her house when they were just 'wee - ones' for trick-or-treating. She loved all of her niece and nephews and never missed the opportunity to tell us all that we needed to come and visit her more than any of us did.

Aunt Wilma was the oldest of 5 children.... she was also the first one to pass on. This will be hard on her 2 brothers and 2 sisters as well as on her only son.

I have pulled together some pics that I have of Aunt Wilma to share with my family....

this is of the 5 Springer kids.. starting at the right hand side is my Aunt Doreen, Uncle Wayne and he is holding Leotta, Uncle Delbert and Aunt Wilma is standing in the back.. not sure on the date of this photo

This is Aunt Wilma and is dated 1952

My son Raymond with Aunt Wilma at his wedding in 2008

Steven and Aunt Wilma at 4th of July at Uncle Wayne and Aunt Rosie's house... 2010

 2010 Aunt Doreen's birthday party and all the siblings were together... from the right

Uncle Delbert, Uncle Wayne, Leotta and Aunt Doreen with Aunt Wilma in front

 Aunt Wilma visiting with her siblings

Here are the Springer Girls... Doreen, Leotta and Wilma

This was from Uncle Wayne's 80th Suprise Birthday Party... Aunt Wilma visiting with Aunt Ruby

So many memories... such a long life... Love and miss you Aunt Wilma.... 

Pumping Iron....

This is another layout using a Let's Scrap sketch... Pumping Iron!! Look at those bam bam's!! We work out at a 24 Express Gym... a little small but it works great for my Adorable One's shifts. We took these pics one  of the last times of his swing shifts.. he would get off at 11:30pm and we would go and work out then. Hardly anyone there so it worked out great for taking pics.... 

click on the pic to see a larger image of it...

This is the sketch I used... 

Let's Scrap new Design Team starts up Sunday and I am going to be running the Scrap Your Stash Challenges (group challenge) so come and play with us!! ;0)

Let's Scrap Design Team!!

YES!! I made it on the Let's Scrap Design Team!! 

This term will take us from April 1st the July 31st!! 

Not sure if I like starting on April 1st but maybe it is a good omen!! lol May will be a month long NSD Celebration at Let's Scrap... filled with games, prizes, challenges and tons of fun! So be sure to check it out and play along... :0) I am so excited to be on the DT again this term... last term I worked with some amazingly talented women... got to go thru some sad times and some incredibly happy times with them and it will be weird not working with them... but I am looking forward to getting to know the new DT. The next 4 months will be an adventure and alot of fun... :0) 

In Bloom....

In Bloom.... another sketch from Let's Scrap! I did this layout for my class. The girls wanted something 'springy' when our weather was all sunshine and blooms. I drove around and got pics of the walnut orchards with the wild mustard and then ended up at Sperbeck's Nursery for the rest of the pics.... Lois was great and took me around to show me what was in bloom.. it was alot of fun!!

to see the layout bigger just click on the image...

This is the sketch I worked with... love it for multiple photos!! 

 

Vieve.....

This is another layout for an album I am doing for Vieve.... I'm going to be seeing her in April so I will be busy with pics for her album.... all these beautiful pics of a beautiful person.... love my Vieve!!

If you want to see it closer just click on the image... alot of the 'bling' details didn't show up on the scan... all the little coins are shinny gold... the border strip on the right page has some copper stickles blinging up the holes from the border punch....

I used an older sketch from Let's Scrap and it worked perfect for these pics.... here is the sketch I used

Ok.. now back to working on more layouts... soooo many pictures and so little time.. ;0)

Just Ride....

Just Ride... I ended up doing 2 of these motorcycle layouts. Using the same Let's Scrap sketch and mixing some of the pics up a little bit for 2 different Gunslinger albums... love this sketch!!
If you want to see more detail in this layout just click on the image and it will show it bigger... :0)

We went to Lucille's for lunch.... Yummmmm!!! :0)

This is the sketch that I used....

Scentsy....

So I started selling Scentsy.... if you love the smell of candles you will love Scentsy. I have 3 burners in my house and they are burning most of the time... one in our hobby room, the kitchen and, of course, the smelly teenage boys room!! lol One thing I love about Scentsy is the fact that there is no flame.. they are on warmers and the wax is never hot! No worries about the kids or pets getting burned on anything. If you are interested you can visit my website by clicking on the Scentsy button on the right hand side of the blog... right now I have a coffee smell filling up my house. Too late at night to be drinking my Starbucks but never too late to smell it!! ;0)

Poetry In Motion.....

This was a few weeks ago sketch from Let's Scrap.... working hard on Genevieve's album so I can give it to her in April when we go for a visit... :0) 

this is the sketch I used for this layout... 

2 Layouts with sketch 2-22-12

I made these 2 layouts with last weeks sketch from Let's Scrap... 

The top layout is of the boys enjoy ribs.... really really enjoying ribs!! :0) 

The above layout is our adventures putting together the cozy coupes... ohhhh the hell we went thru!! lol Pinched fingers, bruised toes.... but worth it in the end.. they boys loved them!! 

This is the sketch that I used for both layouts... Love it and can't wait to use it on more layouts soon!!

Blog Hop Winner

Carolina Garrido

Won my lil part of the Leap Around the World Blog Hop thru Let's Scrap!!

Congrads Carolina and I hope you enjoy all the goodies from me!! :0)