Halloween 2010 & a DigiDare

Our costumes from last year (2010) and this year's DigiDare #250...

We went as the "Black-Eyed Peas" ... are you sensing a theme? Too bad we didn't dress up this year; I was planning on going as the "Red Hot Chili Peppers." The costumes would have been a little bit more difficult to pull off, though :)

layout credits:
papers from Gina Miller, WM[squared], Ettes, and Mel Wilson
doodles from Kate Hadfield
ribbons from Amy Stoffel
ricrac from Jenny K
banner from Suzy Q Scraps
flowers from Gina Miller and Amy Stoffel

Halloween 2009

Our Halloween costumes from two years ago (2009)...

Yes, we really did go as "Salt and Pepper." Super easy costume to throw together when there are no thrift stores or Party Outlets around!

August Angst

My latest submission to the digidares :) The theme was to create a layout of something not too happy that happened this summer. This was the result of my animal-loving DD wanting to feed a wandering turtle we found behind our house. If she hadn't picked him up... he may not have nibbled at her tummy :) The sweetest thing is, even after it happened, she was more concerned about putting him down carefully and then coming in for some sympathy from Mommy and Daddy :)

 

template:

Simply Tiffany Studio

papers & elements:

Dianne Rigdon - I Dream of Shabby,

Flergs - Shabbylicious

Love Is...

kit:

Dani Mogstad - The Land of Nod

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: