Forum Shops - #59 & #60 LOAD

This is #59 and #60 for the LOAD Challenge. I used this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap... love this sketch. I have done 2 other double page layouts using this sketch already and I will be posting those thru the week... :0)

This layout is from The Forum Shops in Las Vegas... 2008. We go every year and every year I take tons of pics and I am soooo behind.... 

This is the sketch... pretty cool right?!?!

Sugar Rush... #58

This is another layout from the Basic Grey pack I bought at the Scrapbooking Expo... Love these papers and wishing I would have bought more... :0) This is an OLD photo of my guy and me in Las Vegas at what was then the "Aladdin" in their buffet.... soooo romantic with cotton candy!! lol 

#58!!!!! ;0)

Forever You and Me and Cousins Layouts....

#56 &#57 for my LOAD Challenge... these layout is from a Basic Grey kit I got at our Scrapbook Expo... I actually made 3 layouts from this lil kit and I will post them all... but one is still drying... :0)

This is a pic of me and 2 of my cousins... from years ago.... they are beautiful and love them too pieces!! 

This is one of my adorable husband and myself... self portraits in the kitchen at Thanksgiving... is it any wonder that he is one of my addictions?!?! Adorable!!! 

Happy Birthday Card....

This is a birthday card I made up for a friends Birthday this past weekend. I'm not big into cards but love the way that it turned out... all made from my odds and ends.

the card was brighter when I made it... I forgot to scan it before we left for the party so I was taking a pic outside and it was cloudy... bad bad pic!! :0) This is #55 for my LOAD

Vieve....

This is LOAD #54... this was done with DCWV January Challenge sketch. This is one of my bff's, Genevieve and I am doing an album up for her. Hoping to get it done before I see her in March!!

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

Gunslinger 2011

This is a layout of our first ride with the Gunslingers... April 2011. I did a layout almost like this for our scrapbook and this is one for another Gunslinger.... new goal for this month.. Get Either One's album done!! :0) 

So this is 52 and 53 for the LOAD Challenge.... !!!

Walt Gray Ride 2011

This is a layout of one the rides the Gunslingers went on this past summer... KCRA's Walt Gray Ride... I did 2 of these layouts one for our album and one for another Gunslingers album. So this is pages 10 - 13 done... :0)

This layout I got the idea from an old DCWV sketch for page one and turned it into a double page layout...

Lil Racer

Love scrapbooking this little guy... they always make me smile. This is #8 & #9 for the LOAD Challenge... still behind but hoping to catch up soon... :0)

using this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap.... 

Ohhhhhh Santa!!

This is another one for the LOAD Challenge... #7!! Still behind but catching up!! :0) I found this pic while going thru some old photos and just had to do this layout... lol He IS adorable!! ;0)

Christmas Morning 2005

This is layout 5 & 6 for the LOAD Challenge... this is for Raymond's album. Christmas morning 2005... this is also one of my layouts for class this coming week.... Using the same sketch as the last layout... :0)

Dog Days of Christmas... LOAD

So a little behind here on my LOAD Challenge... I was down sick for 3 days this week and am playing a little catch up... :0) So this is page 3 and 4... Dog Days of Christmas....

This is from Christmas 2005 out at my mom's house... there were dogs everywhere... our Jazzy, moms - Hermie and my sisters Bella... they were all so cute I couldn't help but take pics of them all... :0)

The sketch I used is this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap - 

Ok.. now off to get some more layouts done... :0)

LOAD Challenge Page 1 and 2

This is my first post for the LOAD Challenge... I used a Let's Scrap sketch. 'Patch In Party' is another layout for a friends Gunslinger Album... I left spots for him to journal on it, it was before our time with the Gunslingers... :0) Yeah... day 2 and I have 2 done!!!

                                                     This is the sketch I used..... 5-26-10

What's next?? Another layout!! :0)

Let the LOAD Challenge begin!!!

Happy New Year!! So let the LOAD Challenge begin!!! I was gone most of the day and so excited to get home and see so many people already busy with this challenge... on the facebook group as well as on Let's Scrap!! I have been busy answering questions, commenting on layouts and moving the ones on Let's Scrap based on the sketches to their own album..... so many already playing and it is only the 1st day. Can't wait to see what all of us can get done this month!! Sooooo on that note I guess I had better get busy with it myself! :0)

Porkin Out

This is my layout based on this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap!!

This is from Reno's Rib Cook Off they have it every year Labor Day Weekend and it is alot of fun and the food is soooo yummy!!! This is an event that the Gunslingers MC group went to and we had some friends go with us too.... this is for Either One's album that I am doing for him..... Love the pigs!! 

This is the sketch that my layout is based on.... great sketch... I turned it and tweaked it a bit but love the sketch. I will use it many more times... :0)

If you haven't already you should join Let's Scrap and play with this sketch and upload it in our gallery... love to see what you come up with!! :0)

Coffee Coffee Coffee

So you might say... 'shocking another Starbucks layout' right? I know... very surprising. But I put the challenge out at Let's Scrap to use a song title for the title of your layout and I came across these loose pics and they needed a layout and this song popped into my head and then a layout was born!!!

"I won't last a day without you" by the Carpenters

My adorable husband was showing me how to scan and merge images tonight... the detail is incredible but I still need to play with it a little bit... but very happy with it and the layout!! Well off to bed for me and my adorable guy... Night All!! :0)

Let's Scrap Design Team Challenge!!!

I'm so excited!! This was my first DT Challenge at Let's Scrap!! I tinkered and tweaked this layout for days.... The Challenge is that you do a layout with a song title as your page title... mine was 'Rockin Around the Christmas Tree'. Years ago when we had 5 teenage boys in the house, craziness! I was trying to get a pic of the kids in front of the Christmas tree with Santa hats on.... was soooo not happening easily. After watching them being goofy I decided to start taking pics and do a lil mini photo shoot thinking how great it would be on a layout.... well.... years later I finally got the layout done!!! :0)

My tree is from an old Deluxe Cuts and I added some stickles to it...

Used some twine from The Twinery... used my Lyrical Letters, Base Camp and Quarter Note Cricut Carts for all my lettering and music notes....

I had so much fun with this layout. I hope it inspires everyone to get a little playful with their layouts. Come to Let's Scrap at take part of the challenge or do it yourself.... Have fun with it!! :0)

LOAD Challenge for January!!!

Ok everyone... I'm putting out a LOAD Challenge for January to everyone... LayOut A Day!! It might seem like alot BUT every double page layout counts as 2... I'll even make it easier and let you do a card and count it. The whole idea isn't to stress you out but to start 2012 off with a bang and get scrapbooking!! I put the challenge out on Facebook (if not a friend and want to be look me up Cathy van de Bruinhorst) and let me know and I'll add you to the group OR go to Let's Scrap at www.letsscrap.ning.com and look up the group for 100 layouts in 2012 and look for my LOAD Challenge and hook it up there.... I know you guys can do it.. and even if you don't get too 31 layouts for January, just think of it and try it... :0) Thanks!!

Senior Photo Shoot

I used this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap.... this is a few pages of a photo shoot I did when Raym was a Senior in high school... which was just a few years ago.... lol Class of 2005!! Ohhhh I feel soooo old!! lol

This is the sketch.... a great sketch that I'm sure I will use alot... I see wedding layouts in my future with it.. :)

Let's Scrap Design Team....!!!

So on Dec 1st I started my first term on the Design Team at Let's Scrap... I am soooo excited and ready to go. There is a great group of ladies on the DT with me. If you haven't checked out Let's Scrap you should... www.letsscrap.ning.com there is so much to do there.. come play with us!

The next couple of weeks will be very busy for me with the DT, my scrapbooking classes, Christmas parties, crops and the best news - it looks like the kids have found a home. There is a family that is ready and eager to adopt these 2 kids and just in time for Christmas! I think the couple is great and think that it will be a great match. A crazy couple of weeks but so worth it for them.

So time to get busy... so much scrapbooking to do.. so little time!! Have a great weekend!!

Let's Scrap Design Team!!!

I found out over the weekend that I was picked to be one of the new Let's Scrap Design Team members.....!!!! I am soooo excited about this and I will be working with some amazingly talented girls too... ;0) Can't wait to get started.... our term will run from December 1st thru March 31st. If you haven't checked out this site yet come and check it out at http://www.letsscrap.ning.com/ ... come play with us!!! :0)