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Carlisle, Pennsylvania
I am a stay at home mom..now that is! February 19th, 2007 I was involved in a car accident while on vacation in Florida. I awoke in ICU to find out that my only two children Annemarie age 3 and Michael age 5 did not make it. Scrapbooking became such a big part of my life. It helped fill a void that I desperately needed to fill. Our therapist suggested that I take up scrapbooking as a way to memorialize my children, little did she know! So I took that and ran with it.I became obsessed with scrapping and took over the second largest room in my house. Because of my injuries I couldn't go out and get a job, I just scrapped!I printed out 2,000 photos and my journey began. I have made albums for family members and layouts to decorate my craft room. We thought we were done having kids but who expected this tragedy??? I just gave birth in June 2009 to two beautiful baby girls Mia Anne and Gianna Marie named after their brother and sister.I swore that I would keep up with their albums so I won't become overwhelmed so we will see how that works out! My profile picture is the last family picture that was taken of all of us.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

2 More Layouts for my Friends album


I think my friend's album is now two albums!!! I have been doing all these different sketch challenges that I didn't realize how many I completed..which is exciting because sometimes it takes me days to complete just one sketch.

I am sure you all have it but I have a huge pile of paper that is ugly or just not something I would turn to everyday. I also have paper packs that I have purchased and never used yet or I just don't bother with it for some reason. Well for these two sketches I pulled out one of my oldest paper packs and challenged myself to use whatever paper was in there. I gotta say, I kinda like how they came out. Sure I had better paper to go with the layouts but that would defeat the purpose. And I can't justify buying anymore paper (sigh..sad day) paper until I get rid of some. Plus I was impressed that I used something I normally wouldn't...guess that is what challenges are all about.




Two of my wonderful DT members have their own blogs and some great challenges going on this week. I think very highly of both of them and try to make sure I take part in their challenges as much as possible.

For this first LO I used the sketch from my fellow DT member Kim and her blog Sketches in Thyme. My other DT member Emma was having a fun challenge for her "Throwback Thursday" challenge on her blog ~ My Creative Time. Throwback Thursdays is when she picks an older Cricut Cartridge and sets the theme around that. I love this because I tend to forget some of my cartridges and I don't realize how many awesome cuts there are on there. This week she choose DoodleCharms. So I picked out some pictures of my friends kids playing in the snow so I could use the adorable Snowman cut. For the Snowman's face I used my PK-495 Everyday Character faces stamp set. I set the color theme to go with the challenge over at The Playdate Cafe.




I have also challenge myself to complete all of the (or as many of them) sketch challenges over at The Scrappiest. I was going to do a train theme but after assembling it I kinda liked it nice and simple like I had it so I just left it. I think this is the last LO that will complete my friends albums. She hasn't seen any of the LO's so I am excited and nervous at the same time sending it to her. My fellow DT member Kim is also running the challenge over at Frosted Designsthis week. She picked a fun color challenge so I picked the colors for this layout around them. I am also done with another LO using the same fun colors which I will post later today or tomorrow.

Well I am off to wash the dog...he smells like Fritos..YUCK!

18 comments:

  1. Hi Lisa!
    Hope you are doing well and staying cool!
    Beautiful LOs, love your frosty snowflake flower!!
    blessings!

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  2. Such wonderful layouts! Great flower medallion on your top page. Thanks for playing at the PDCC.

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  3. This is so sweet! I also love your flower on your top LO. Thanks for doing the challenge at FD.

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  4. These pages are total cuteness!! I love the adorable little snowman with the gorgeous pink flowers!!
    Barb :)

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  5. These lay-outs are so cute! I love the snow that papers are great!

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  6. LOL......"Fritos"! hahahaha! you are too funny Miss Lisa! I think your layout is GORGEOUS! Your paper you chose & those colors are PERFECT!! Thank you soo much for joining another one of my throwback Thursday Challenges!
    Big Gypsy Hugs,
    Emma;)

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  7. These LO are FABULOUS! I LOVE how they turned out!

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  8. Fantastic LO's. I have been looking at your blog and you have some beautiful pages :o)
    Jackie xx

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  9. Darling layouts, Lisa! Thanks for playing with the Play Date Cafe!!

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  10. Beautiful layouts! Just beautiful! Thanks for sharing

    ~Dorcas

    http://4craftyangels.blogspot.com/

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  11. These LOs are so fun! I love the snowman embellishment! Makes me miss snow! And that little boy--SOOOO CUTE:) I love that second LO! Just FAB! Thanks for joining along with the PDCC:)

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  12. Love the LO's They are both wonderful and the pictures are so pretty. Thanks for joining us at PDCC.

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  13. Omgosh this is so cute, I love those baby photos. both LO are very pretty. Thanks for playing with us a FD.

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  14. What sweet photos. I love the buttons too! TFP @FD!

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  15. They look like they are having a wonderful time in that snow! Love the snowman. Great layouts, thanks for playing at the PDCC

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  16. Ah such cuteness in both!!!!! Lovely layouts! Thanks for playing along at the PDCC this week!

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  17. Adorable! Thanks for playing along at The Scrappiest!

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  18. Great layouts, both of them!! Love the photos and how you embellished your pages!! Thanks for joining us at The Scrappiest!

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