A Mad Tea Party

St. Basil's Cathedral

In honor of the 450th anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral (thank you, Google), I thought I'd post this layout I did with a picture of the cathedral in the background. I wanted to do a layout tributing my Russian heritage, and this is the perfect occasion to post it :)

2010 Year in Review

my spring break project? finally create that year-in-review album to hopefully get printed someday :) here are the layouts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I used ellie lash's daily freebie kit "everyday blessings" for the papers and embellishments. love, love, love mandagirl's templates, so I used a whole bunch of them!

DigiDares #220

Here we go again! I haven't done a dare in a few weeks, so thought it's about time to post something new...

Dare guidelines:

• Just one photo! You can use that one photo multiple times if you’d like, but let’s just focus on one photo this week.
• You must use a speech bubble of some sort and make up a funny caption for your photo.
• Let’s try to go for a fun, whimsical feel so you must use all the colors of the rainbow somewhere on your layout (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
• Dig into your fun & funky stash of elements – no fancy lace or dainty flowers here!

I used the Happy Go Lucky kit from Shabby Princess for this layout

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

A layout I did last year, but fits perfectly with Saturday's post on the Daily Digi:

Chill

Time for another DigiDare! (someday I'll upload some of my other layouts, but I'm having too much fun with the challenges right now) Here's the rules or guidelines:

     what would you just love to do “to your heart’s content?”
     run, swim, ski, read, bake, shop, scrap, or simply sleep the day away?

     Dare Flair:
     since February is a short month with only 28 days this year
        * 2 photos and 8 elements are the minimum required
        * use contrasting colors and at least one patterned paper
        * title your page with your {theme} to your heart’s content
And so, with no further adieu...

credits:

background paper - Jennifer Labre's Sunkissed Sunrise & Sunset kits

embellishments - Kate Hadfield's Sandy Toes & Island Paradise kits

title alpha: A. Richard's Orient kit (from the Blog Train Blog)

font: Traveling Typewriter

DigiDares #215

Whew! This was a tough one this time. Not only finding out the major world news, but narrowing down one story per year. There's a lot of journaling on my layout that I haven't copied, but my list of "top" events of each year is below.

2000: Y2K

2001: 9-11 (terrorist attack on New York)

2002: the Euro goes into effect

2003: SARS pandemic

2004: Asian tsunami

2005: Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans

2006: bird flu

2007: Virginia Tech massacre

2008: Thai political crisis

2009: H1N1 scare

2010: Haitian earthquake



Digi Dares Challenge #214

Loving the creative ideas that are offered through the DigiDares (http://www.digidares.com/). Here's my contribution for dare #214:

kit used: Plentiful by Shabby Princess

font: LoveLetter

Scrapper Bowl 2011

Had a ton of fun participating in some challenges at the Scrap Orchard Scrapper Bowl. (link for the gallery of amazing layouts: http://scraporchard.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=1022) Here's the layouts I created for the various challenges:

This was the Northern Division Color Challenge.

We had to choose team colors and scrap a layout using ONLY those colors.

I chose the Pittsburgh Steelers: yellow, black, and white.

End Zone Template Challenge

We could choose to used the template provided, which I did.

Love that I have finally scrapped some pictures which have been sitting on my hard drive for years!

Blitz Clustering Challenge

Once again, we were provided with a template to get our juices flowing... gotta love the freebies!

Finally, the Offense-Defense Opposite Challenge

We had to scrap a layout about opposites... guess I needed to make the move across the world for this challenge :)



beginning ... again

ok, so here I go again. don't even want to confess how many other "new" blogs I've created in the past, only to forget what my username and/or password was. so, I'm starting fresh... hopefully I'll be able to gather some faithful readers to keep me accountable on keeping this blog up to date!!

my hopes & dreams for this blog? to post through layouts the chronicles of my life. here's the first to get the ball rolling: