Love....

Here is another layout for the kids wedding album... I used this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap

Love these pics that were taken of the kids dancing the First Dance...

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Here is the sketch I played with for this layout

Beautiful Bride

Today was the Design Team Reveal for Nuts About Sketches

If you haven't checked out this great blog you should!!

Here is my layout...

Beautiful Bride and YES I am still working on pics from my Son and DIL's wedding... I'm only 'years' behind in my scrapbooking!! ;0)

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This is the great sketch that I worked with...

This also counts for LOAD #1 and #2... :0)

'Bush Man'

This weeks sketch from Let's Scrap and this is my layout.... 'Bush Man' in San Francisco. I'm sure all of the 'locals' have seen him at one time or another. He has been busy there since 1980... Love him!!!

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This is the sketch I worked with...

If you haven't been by to play at Let's Scrap yet you should...

You are missing alot of fun!! ;0)

Thanks for checking out my blog!!

Sunflower Fields

This is what I did with this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap!! If you haven't checked them out you need too... so much going on all the time and look at the great sketches!!

These pics were taken on the way to Woodland... love the Sunflower fields! My favorite flower is the Sunflower... so happy and cheerful all the time.. :0) 

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This is the sketch I played with, I twisted and turned it a bit but isn't it a great sketch!?!?

DT for Nuts About Sketches!!!!

Yippeeee!!! I'm so excited!! I got picked for another DT!! I am now a member of the DT for Nuts About Sketches!! This is the sketch and the layout that I submitted for them....

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So now you can see my work on the DT's of Let's Scrap and 

now on Nuts About Sketches ... I'm so excited!!

Aria by Night

This is done with a Let's Scrap Sketch....

This isn't my favorite layout... it was hard to do with pics like these. I love the pics and they do shine thru on the layout. I used a black'ish paper for the backing and used Glimmer Mist on plain white cardstock for the rest... I wanted the shimmer and the colors in the pics... it worked! I also got to play with my 'Smooch' that I have had for years... ;0)

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This is the sketch 8-1-12

Look at all the fun stuff you can do with this sketch!! You should play along with us at Let's Scrap!! ;0) 

King of My Heart

This one was fun to do... going thru some turmoil here at home with my youngest son. My Adorable One is my rock and together we can get thru anything so I wanted to do a layout of him... this sketch and this pic worked out great! I used Graphic 45 papers and it turned out awesome!!

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This is the sketch I used, I only used half of it....

Marine World...

This is a Marine World layout for my Bugs album... done with a Let's Scrap Sketch. Loved how I could use this one with soooo many pics!! Awwww... so long ago!

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This is the sketch I worked with

fun to work with... try it!!

Lil Firecracker

This is another layout using a Let's Scrap Sketch... I saw this layout and it was due to come out on the 4th of July and I knew right away what pics I was going to use and it came together so fast and I love it!!

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This is the sketch I worked with

Gold Country Bike Show

This is another layout from a Let's Scrap Sketch... 

 the sketch

 This was a motorcycle layout for a friends album... one of our many rides last season. Better get busy I haven't finished last seasons rides and we are already busy this season!! ;0) 

Let's Scrap - Scrap Your Stash Challenge

This was a challenge layout for Let's Scrap's - Scrap Your Stash Group. If you aren't part of the group you should join it! It is all about using up your Stash... and you all know you have tons of it!! :0) I am doing the monthly challenges for awhile longer for Betty Anne and Debby... so come and play with me!!

The Challenge was to: Use at Least:

5 different colors of cardstock

3 different shapes - anywhere on your layout (squares, circles, octagons, rectangles)

4 stickers

10 eyelets or brads (if you don't have eyelets or brads use some bling!)

No posts for awhile....

I haven't updated my blog for awhile.. they changed things around on me and I was afraid I would hit the wrong button and all my goodies would be gone.. :0) But I figured it out and now I have some catching up to do!!

Tea Cups

This layout was made up with this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap... I would love to see what you all do with this sketch! It is up at Let's Scrap right now and you have until Midnight (site time) next Tuesday to get your layout in the gallery to get your name in for the prize... come on and join us!!

I did up "Tea Cups".. these are pics of my boys and 2 of the foster boys from long ago... these were from 2005!! Ohhh my boys were so little then... what happened to them?? Now they are 18 and 25!!! Where does the time go... :0) 

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This is the sketch that this layout is based on:

Thanks for looking!! Stay tuned for more layouts!!

Just Chillin'

This is based off from this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap.... 

I had a hard time working with this sketch... I do love the way it turned out but it was working out of my comfort zone for sure! I used only one side of the sketch too... Try it and post it in the gallery at Let's Scrap. I would love to see your work with it!! ;0 

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!!

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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...

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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...

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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!!