LOAD Day5 – A layout about Ebay

LOAD5 -fun place to shop Ebay

Today we were to search for our name in Ebay for some type of unusual inspiration or choice a colour or grid design from the site – or perhaps even create a layout about our relationship with Ebay…so that’s the direction I went.

This is a silly page that surprisingly I have wanted to do for awhile.

I tucked the journalling in behind the page as it was quite lengthy and I couldn’t have it upfront without throwing off the design.

The basis of the design was an old template of Anna’s as well as a couple current brushes of hers – and bits and pcs from others. If you want specifics, let me know and I will take a closer look.

Thanks so much for looking,

Carole

Load Day3 – Use holiday colours but NOT for that holiday

Spoiled at 42

so here we are again on Day 3 – OMG 3 layouts in three days, are you kidding me??? But look at me keeping up… crazy busy at work and personally but I made a commitment to do this so I am doing everything I can to get thru and it is awesome for me to push to complete a design in 1-2hrs when I usually take 1-4weeks (ok even sometimes at least a year)

So today we were to use traditional holiday colours, papers etc in a non-traditional way – use red and green for anything but Christmas, use pumpkins and ghosts NOT for Halloween… so I used a Scenic Route (yep it’s old) Easter Collection – added a photo collage of images from my 42st birthday, a big ol’ doilie, home made a banner from the PP in the kit, generic string and old Making Memories florals. Feels great ‘shopping my own stash’

Thanks for checking in,
Carole

Load Day 2- Create a Layout without a photo…gulp!!

“Ok so I won…”

WOW this was ridiculously hard… who the heck wants a layout without a photo on it especially when 90% of mine are of my insanely adorable nephew!!!! then I remembered a lil conversation we had the day before and that I wrote it down to scrap… as well as a hand drawn hockey player image I had so slowly it all came together.

As you can see I used a TON of Anna’s stuff incl pieces of her Journey temp, some of Katie’s Brushes, Anna’s LoopdaLoops, some Christmas Lace, papers from Paisless Press and a real desire to get messy and abstract… to show the confusion of my poor 4 yr hockey player who mistakenly thought HE won the game. teeheehee

Thanks for looking… I must be honest here; I am getting alil nervous about Laine’s challenge for us tomorrow,
Carole

New Layout a Day Challenge

Hitting Rock Bottom

Laine started a new LOAD challenge May 1st and it’s called Scrapbooking Outside the Box; she makes us ’stretch’ each day with a challenge. Todays was a self portrait… normally that would be really tough for me but fortunately a friend snagged a pic of me walking into a meeting so that was the obvious choice.

I used a template for the base here and left the ‘fake journalling’ here for your viewing pleasure. This layout is all about me hitting rock bottom and recognizing it – so the journalling is alot of venting and bad language… no one needs to see that …LOL.

I used a Studio D template and lots of embellishments from DailyDigi’s My Life in Print ( I adjusted the colour on a couple so they would match better)

Thanks you looking,
Carole

Happy Birthday Mommy!!

Spring Colour Gift Card Holder

Birthday time for the mostest special lady on the planet; so I packed alil care package with an amazing new wine discovered, a hand-crafted gift card holder and her favourite marinade unavailable in PEI and send my BIG wishes back east.

Love you Mom and hope your birthday is the best ever.

Carole

Pure Joy

J and I do alot of fun stuff together – but honestly the odd time I wonder if he even enjoys all the adventures and new things I sign him up for… or is it simply Auntie living vicariously through him

Then I capture a moment like this…

Joy from the tip of your toes to the bottom of your head

Also sorry it’s been forever since posting – I am working on a ton of stuff though so will be back very soon with lots of pics,

Thx for checking in,

Carole

Becoming an Auntie

(This layout has been in the WIP (work in progress) file for at least 2 yrs, as are many layouts about myself. I don’t have REAL deadlines for any scrap pages but there is always subjects and photos that jump to the front of the line if there is a new kit I want to use, timely story I want to tell or great photo to show off.
By following Laine’s Past Perfect Layout A Day this month, she has encouraged everyone to tell some stories about our past… therefore its been a natural fit (and lil push) to get some of these FINNAAALLLYYYYY completed.)

Becoming Auntie

I have had ALOT of titles and jobs in my 40yrs but being an aunt is one that I treasure more than any other. I had the best Aunts in the world as a child and my biggest goal would be all that they were to me to Vienna and Julian now.

The kit used is the latest bonus from The DailyDigi – a gorgeous collaboration of designers and team members.

The photos are, left to right, of my Auntie Carol and cousin Tammy, Auntie Gillian and brother Eric and my Grandma and Auntie Marge.

Thanks for stopping by,
Carole

 

Shocking… he loves to camp too!!

Anyone that knows my brother knows that he is a true outdoorsmen… so it is no surprise at all that when my SIL headed out of town last summer; my brother and nephew hit the road for a Boys Night in the Wilderness. J’s first outdoor sleepover… and he loved everything about it esp daddy’s menu as well as fishing day trips through the summer.

He loves to camp...just like DAD

I have had this paper forever… knowing it would eventually be used for a layout about Ick so it all came together very easily; they are from Michael’s Reminisce brand, the stickers are My Big Ideas and the butterflies are Jenni Bowlins.

I think you may be seeing more on this particular theme… wink wink

Thx for stopping by, Carole

SAB Products and Card

"Tag...You're thanked"

Stampin Up is in the middle of their Sale A Bration (SAB) and there are some amazing products for FREE with a purchase incl this line of designer series papers, Everyday Enchantment (and matching stamp set).
I needed a thank you (muted) card and these colours were perfect. I manually created the 4.25 in x 2.25 tag then die-cut it with the Beautiful Butterfly Die, as well as cut an addt’l butterfly to stick in the negative space. Sprtiz’d, stamped, stacked the sentiment and popped it all up from the background.

It’s a touch too subtle for my likin’…but it’s OK, I guess.

Thx for checking in,
Carole

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