Monday, August 30, 2010

Boo to you...Can you say Happy Halloween

With just a one week left of summer vacation I thought I'd better get working on some Halloween stuff...I love makin different things for the house So I came up with this cute little wall hanging that is already hanging back in my laundry room..
I used a white pencil to make stitches around the edges and let me tell you how much I LOVE my newest Cricket cart. Mini Monsters..so cute..not to scary..very kid friendly I LOVE it...well here it is....Thanks for stopping by enjoy your stay.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

It's a Birthday time...

I am so very excited this weekend I will be going to Inspired Treasures for their Birthday Crop....2 days of scrapin with my friends....now what to work on...I am in the middle of baby baby baby stuff..A friend is going to be a grand mother for the first time in October.so I am putting together a sweet little baby girl brag album for her....and then of course my 2 new grand babies coming soon...so I need to just keep mkaing baby things.....have a great day.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

4 months and counting....

Yep it's only 4 months till Christmas....are you thinking about shopping...baking....crafting.....I think in a few weeks I will start with
all the Christmas crafting..not sure what I'll do yet...know I want to do the
25 days in December again I have been doing it for 2 years got the idea from Ali Edwards....right now I am thinking Halloween...I am going to create something for the house...sorry no photos today....gotta get going. have a great day.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Using our tools...getting by.....making do....


Lace Cardstock...it's so pretty and really fun to use...but we never seem to have it at home when we need it....or if you do its the wrong type or color...So why not make your own...Thats what I did

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Ugly..ugly...ugly...

When I saw a challenge to use that ugly paper...I started with my photos...I knew I wanted to do a layout on our new husky Shelby...so I started searching through the deepest, darkest, depths of my early scrapin days where the ugly paper lies....
When I came across this zebra print it was perfect for the black & white color of the huskies...then I kept digging I found 3 matching pieces from Heidi Grace autumn 2003 it was dated on the back....I got to work trying my best to make the uglyness not stand out so much....The challenge wanted 1 ugly 12x12 background paper...at least 3 other pieces of ugly paper....stitching....glimmer mist...got all the points...
I made a hidden tag with the story of Shelby I also added that this layout was created for a challenge using ugly paper...not that in a few years I look at this and say WHAT THE HECK was I thinking!!!!!!!
Great challenge....4 ugly sheets of paper gone only 999 more to go....

A rainy Sunday Morning...

It's a rainy Sunday morning, and the dogs are sleeping that gives me time to get my scraproom back in order...and do some layouts. On Friday we moved everything around. I gained a whole lot more room...Now Ashley will have her own table to scrap. Heavens knows I could not share my 3 tables with her LOL. Any way. I did a layout for Sketches in Thyme
Here is my take on this weeks sketch...go check them out..

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A day of challenges..

WOW today is only half over and I have done a bunch of layouts...the first one is Gabe this summer at Ritas..He sure is a cutie pie...
Then this one..lets call this an oldie but a goodie....

This crazy life ....would not have it any other way..

This post is going to be a crazy combo of my life....today...yesterday...tomorrow....
might not make sense...may not be in order..but it's my life right now...oh and it will include photos....so hang on it might be a long roller coaster ride....
Where to start.....my grey hair....why.....3 kids.....2 grand kids...2 grand kids on the way.....not enough hair dye in the world to cover my grey....
Yesterday the family came over to celebrate Litter Miss Aubrey's FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!
she loved her cake..so did the dogs......





Now on to the scrapbooking part of my life...do you love challenges go check out Challenge Masters....I am guessing there are over 20 different ones every month..
Now on the DOG front....back to having 4 dogs...so things are balanced when we walk..John and I have 2 hands..so we both walk 2 dogs....I normally walk Boomer and Shelby...he walks King and Vito....
Today starts our big Therapy Dog event...at a local hospital....Boomer is ready to get busy....hope the rain hold out...well that's it for today....I have scraping that need to get done...Just did this layout..from Challenge Masters Sketch challenge.
Hope you enjoyed you visit...come back again...have a really great day..

Monday, August 16, 2010

Monday August 16 2010

This week over at Practical Scrappers will have you in stitches.....on your layouts that is....Do you ever have a layout just happen...all by acident almost....I was trying to work on a my project I needed to have some stitching....I had my drinking bottle setting on my table...it was sweating..left rings on a scrap of paper....I thought that looked pretty cool.....so then the wheels started to turn...one thing led to another and before I knew it...my layout was finished...
If I do say so myself..I LOVE IT!!!!Oh ya see that film strip ribbon..dont ya just love it..That came in my Lucky Girl Crafts August kit. Thanks for stoping by hope you enjoyed your stay and hope to see ya real soon..

Sunday, August 15, 2010

The third Sunday already

WOW what happened to August....going by so fast....Busy weekend so far...Family Day at The Seeing Eye for us puppy raisers yesterday...Miss Shelby is settling in pretty good..she is keeping her big brothers in line already..had sometime to scrap this morning I did a challenge over at Frosted Designs...10 items were listed you had to use 5 well I was able to use all 10....this layout will be going in the album for my Mom...it's all my extra photos..ones I have already scraped. so with these I am having fun playing with cute layouts just being artsy...being creative I am sure my Mom will love them...

Friday, August 13, 2010

Friday the 13th.....

I know the day is almost over but lots went on today...did not get to to too much scrapin but.....this is why?????
Welcome HOME Shelby....welcome to your forever HOME...


She seems to really like Vito...


Thursday, August 12, 2010

Rain is a GOOD thing...

This morning looked out the windows and it's raining...and that's ok..we really really need rain...so we walked the dogs in the drizzle they loved it...Going out into the garden to pick some more tomatoes love working out in the summer rain ok enough about the rain...This morning over at Sketches In Thyme challenge #10 time.
I am all about sketches. This is my DIL Amber & granddaughter Aubrey. Amber said every time she would try to take a picture of the two of them Miss Aubrey would make a silly face...I always tell my kids..if ya take a photo you never know where it might end up...most of the time it's on my scrapbook table..Oh and Dawn did ya see I used some of the stuff you sent me.....I just love it when things just happen....Here is my layout. Thanks for the visit..



HAPPY HALLOWEEN....go check this out..blog candy....yum yum....

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

yep another post today.

While I was checking my favs tonight I came accross this great give a way. Here
at Let's Ink It Up and KLM Digital Designs and Clear Stamps
So go check them out I know I am hopping on over...have a good night..

Wednesday August 11 2010

Good afternoon
Man Wednesday already..where does the time go??
I have been pretty busy keeping up with my different design team projects and
in the back of my mind I am thinking Halloween projects....So one of these days you might see some Halloween or maybe even Christmas..
Here are a few layouts I did the past few days.

I have never bought any scrapbooking kits...the other day I decided to give Lucky Girl Crafts a try...I got 2 kits and wow they were packed with all kinds of goodness.. They are having something special now if you tell them that I sent you I could win something so go check them out and tell them Scrapydoglover sent you...Here is the first layout I did with one of the kits.

Oh man until I posted and read over my post I did not even relize that I used the same photo of my granddaughter....I sometimes scrap the same photo a few times and now you can see that I do..I dont mind becuase most likley these layouts will end up in different albums and go to different people.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Monday what will today bring???

Monday a new week with new challenges over at Practical Scrappers. Before SUMMER ends lets have some SUMMER fun..So go grab all those SUMMER photos and do some scrapin before SUMMER is over. Here is my layout I did.. If you would come to my house this is what you would find...my grandson and his buddies King & Vito enjoying some SUMMER fun playing in water..I never get tired watching these 3 play.

So while we are talking SUMMER nothing can beat a SUMMER sunset. Over at ARTastic this month Shazza has a beautiful painting by Monet. Here is my layout I did for the challenge this month.

Thanks for stopping by today hope your enjoyed your stay leave a comment if any of my stuff inspired you see ya tomorrow.
Have a great day.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Nothing to much going on....


Saturday and not much going on. Did my third challenge for Practical Scrappers online crop.Hop on over and see what happening..
The challenge #3 was Seed spittin...well I do not have any watermelon photos right now so I went with pink green brown colors....I did a 2 page layout but I only scaned the first page...Thanks for stopping by now let me see if I can get any other challenges done....

Friday, August 6, 2010

Busy crazy weekend

This weekend over at Practical Scrappers they are having a online crop go check it out.A whole bunch of challenges going on to help celebrate their first anniversary. YELLOW was the challenge so here is my YELLOW page. I will be adding my finished projects to my blog as I get them finished. Thanks for stopping by and see ya soon..Color Me Challenge #1

Clowning around challenge #2

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Just in....I made a top 3...

This layout I did the other day was picked as a top 3 over at
Frosted Designs
I am very happy the way my layout turned out...I think I might hang this one
up on the wall for a while. Thanks guys over at Frosted Design...

Sketches, challenges, DT projects all in a days work

I love to use Sketches and today I found Scrap A Little Sketch Sketch #27. Here is my take on that sketch.

With the help of that sketch I made this layout for the the Week one challenge One Little Word over at Challenge Masters
Now off to see what DT projects I need to finish up on. And maybe tomorrow start working on some Halloween projects..

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Fun day just scrapin...


Tuesday already...I was playing around this morning...looking at my different blogs wanting to do some challenges to get my day going.My search ened when I landed on
Frosted Designs Use arrows...that seemed pretty simple...Started looking at photos then I saw this one on my desk..It is of my grandson and son-in-law...Uncle Matt loves little Gab...My daughter likes to play around with all her photos and send them to me. So this is the end results of Uncle Matt and Gabe on the dock down in MD.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Let the FUN begin

August is here and boy oh boy what a month it is going to be.....I have several different scrapbooking things going on in the next 2 days so PLEASE keep on reading & scroll on down and check them ALL out. Lots of eye candy to look at. Thanks for stoping by and I hope you enjoy your time with me and the DOGS..
Over at Ch{all}enge Masters week one Daily Grind this month I challenged everyone to use some sort of calendar in a project. Here is mine... I wanted to show my daily grind and if ya looked at my calendar this month just about EVERY day has a DOG related event... but I would not have it any other way. My pull out tag tells the story of my 3 dogs yesterday....today...tomorrow...




Poetry everyone loves to read it...and some of us SCRAP it come and join us over at Scrap That Poetry. Here is my take on the poem. Go check out everyones take on this poem...Funny how they all are so different.