Wednesday, January 12, 2011

You Always Make Me Smile

Good afternoon!  Is it snowing where you are?  We have a new 10 inches on the ground...and more coming!  It started late last night and school was canceled for today.  My kids are thrilled!!  But it's too windy for them to go out to play at the moment...wind gusts are at 45-50 mph here on the coast.  It should be a bit calmer later...and there's a HUGE pile of snow at the end of our driveway...just waiting to be made into a snowfort!

I finished another scrapbook page this morning.  I scrapped the same picture I used to make the ornament-shaped card HERE.  I LOVE this picture of my twins...and since I gave the ornament with their picture on it to my mom, I had to do something else with it for ME!  :-)  The two of them ALWAYS make me smile...we call them our 'smiley guys'...and their semi-toothless grins in this photo just make me laugh!

Recipe
Background paper - My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow stack
Green floral paper - My Mind's Eye everyday tango stack
Red textured paper - DCWV textured neutrals
White cardstock - Recollections
Pink paper (used for hearts) - DCWV Holiday stack
Banner, 'smile' - from Birthday Bash
Title shape - from Winter Frolic
Journaling shape - from Gypsy Font
Hearts - from George and Basic Shapes, A Child's Year
Red nailhead stickers from a RAK
Glittered heart-shaped brads - Recollections
Martha Stewart glitter marker (on heart)
Martha Stewart border punch
Creative Memories brown marker for journalling
Chestnut roan Cat's Eye chalk ink
EK Success dimensionals

I'm entering this page into a couple of challenges:
CropStop Challenge Blog: Challenge #1 - Sketch - the new blog's first challenge is to follow a sketch.  Check them out...they'll have a new challenge every Thursday.  :-)

Emma at My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday:  Viewer's Choice - any project using any older cartridge, as long as the project has a heart on it.

Scrapbookaholic By Abby: SEI Challenge with Abby #1 - Laughter/Smile - "anything with a smile or even a phrase that contains the words".

Enjoy the day!
~Sharon



10 comments:

Vicki said...

What a fabulous layout! Your twins are adorable. I love the "smile" on your banner with the added tag! Thanks for playing along on our CropStop Challenge blog!

Cathryn said...

How adorable. Your twins are so cute! I have boy/girl twins also, they are 7! Thanks for sharing, Cathryn67 <3 (inthepinkcathryn.blogspot.com)

Claire Langan said...

Your kids are adorable, Sharon! Love the simpleness in your LO, it makes the readers eyes focus more on the subject, the TWINS.

Gloria Stengel said...

Great page. Your dc are so cute!!! Thanks for playing along with us at CropStop during our FIRST challenge!

Unknown said...

Hello Sharon. Thank you for stopping by my blog:) I did not forget about you. Things have just been very crazy for me. Your LO is so pretty. I absolutely love the background paper you used, it is gorgeous.:) Try to join in on the challenge, it would be so fun to see what you come up with.

Stephanie

abusybee - DoubleClick Connections said...

Super lay-out! No snow here, just perfect weather in Arizona! I miss snow days!

Abby said...

So cute!!!! Love it!!! Thanks for entering my challenge!

Abby said...

please email me your so I can get to you the free KichNBleus image! scrapbookaholicbyabby@yahoo.com

Kate said...

I congratulated you at Crop Stop - but I will do so here too! This is such a lovely layout, Sharon. Everything came together beautifully with the sketch (and what a great photo too!)!

Scrappin with the bug said...

So adorable. I love the layout. Great job. Might have to scraplift it.