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!!

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... 

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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....