Awesome Artful Delights blog candy

It's Leeanne's 1 year blog anniversary and she is giving away a 3 month subscription to Artful Delights monthly kits. I bought the March kit and I love it. It has so much great paper and embelishments in it. I would love to win 3 more months worth. If you want to enter also click here and read the instructions to enter. I'm crossing my fingers.

Blog Candy from Abby

My friend Abby is having an awesome giveaway on her blog. You can click here to find out more about it. If you leave a comment and post it on your blog you get two chances at winning this awesome Echo Park Paper pack. Echo Park has become my favorite new paper. I have loved thier new lines especially Little Boy and Playground so I would love to win this. Good Luck!

Billy Goat Tavern LO

I created this lo to use for the food challenge at SnC. I used some Bazill cardstock for matting the pictures and the checkered paper is from the DCWV stack Farmers Market. I used Nate's ABC's for the Billy Goat at the top but I cut off the sign and grass. I used Nifty Fifties for the burger and Locker Talk for the soda. The title is made with Thickers but I'm not sure which ones.

We were supposed to create a lo with at least one picture of just food which I met with using the double cheezeborger picture.

Last December Will and I went to Chicago to see a Hawks game and the next day before we came back we went and had lunch at the Billy Goat Tavern and went up in the Sears Tower. I had been wanting to take Will to the BG for a while and it just worked out because it was across from our hotel. He loved listening to the counter guy yell out at the customers: cheezeborger, cheezeborger, cheezeborger, no fries, cheeps, no pepsi, coke.

Thanks for looking.

Bird in Hand lo

I created this lo for SnC's sketch challenge this month. I used Echo Park's For the Record collection. The only thing not from there is my bg paper. I used pictures from our trip to the Lowery Park zoo in Tampa this year. We got to feed the lorakeets which was a lot of fun. I realized after I got done that this will also be able to qualify for Lasting Memories green challenge also. Thanks for looking.

Two More LO's for February

I got two more lo's done for the SNC challenges.

One was to use a TV show as a title so I used Wild Kingdom as my title and used a picture from me at Busch Gardens in Tampa in the early 80's. I was holding two parrots in the picture but it is hard to see. I used a DCWV paper stack with Safari themed papers. I have had it for a while but haven't used it much. I'm not thrilled with how it turned out but it looks ok.

The second one was to use 3 hearts on your lo. I could not come up with anything since I am not a big hearts person. I had a sketch though and when I looked at my Cosmo Cricket Togetherness chipboard pieces I saw that one had 3 hearts on it so I went with it. I used all CC Togetherness papers and chipboard for the lo and a picture of us at a Destin mini golf course in 2009 for the picture.

Thanks for looking.

National Zoo lo

I am using this lo for 5 different challenges. I think that is a record for me. I am using it for 2 at SNC, the 52 week challenge and the February challenge of using 2 punches. I used two border punches and 2 Martha Stewart butterfly punches also. The pictures are from the spring we went out to Washington D.C. for a friend of Terry's wedding. We got a chance to go to the National Zoo one day and had a lot of fun. Will is about 1.5 years old in these pictures. I used Basic Grey's Orgins collections for all patterned papers and basic cardstock for the rest. All the papers except for the background piece were all scraps which is for challenge 3 which is at Lasting Memories the challenge is to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The next challenge is a sketch challenge at Get Your Sketch On and the last one if for The Paper Variety and was a sewing challenge. I met that by using my Bazill stitching guide and sewing the wavy line down the side of the paper. This is my first time doing that and I have some more that are boy shapes that I want to try and use next. This is my first time submitting anything for The Paper Variety which is run by two of my friends from SNC. Thanks Abby & Suzanne for giving me a chance to enter.

San Francisco LO

I created this lo for the 52 week challenge at SNC. I need a quick lo and this paper worked great for it. I had a stack I got cheap at Michaels for Paperhouse travel papers. I came across this photos recently and knew they would work perfect with this paper. I took a trip to California with my grandmother when I was 14. We went to San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Mexico and Yosemite National Park. I want to scrap some more pictures from this trip but will have to find the right lo's for them. Thanks for looking.