Summer Vacation with Friends

This layout was created using a picture of myself with and my friend/neighbor. We had such a great time this year on a Royal Caribbean Cruise. This particular picture was taken on the island of Labadee. If you have not taken a cruise with Royal Caribbean I highly recommend you do.

I created this layout for the August Challenge at Truly Madly Crafty Challenge. Hope you enjoy it.

Girl with Mic

I created this layout for a Challenge put out by Bella Creations' June Nuances de Couleur group.  Colors to be used where Red, Black and White and the inspiration sketch was;

The picture used is of my daughter during one of her performances. In case I have not previously mentioned, she dances for the Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah. Most of their performance are very historical, serious modern pieces. This piece was a funny, theatrical piece. My daughter being such a character was perfect for this number. I hope I did the pic justice.

Hi Everyone...what do you think of my new look? I am still new to the blogging world so it is taking me a bit to figure out how to manipulate the look of my blog, it's still work in progress. It seems that the more I learn about it, the more I want to change it. So don't be surprise if you don't recognize it in a couple of weeks.

Thanks again for looking.

Niko and His Scooter

My little grandson loves to pose for pictures. He barely moved in any directions on his scooter but man was he ready for the pics. If I'm not mistaken no sooner did I finish taking pics he said he was hot and tired and ready to go back in. What a ham, but you have to admit he does look good. I think it took more time putting on his gear than the time he actually spent outside. Gotta love him!!!

Baby Pierre Plays

This layot was created for The Nerdy "Victorious" Scrapbookers Challenge #8, which is being generously sponsored by Blue Moon Scrapbooking. NVS was MIA for a little while they are back and we are all thrilled.

Time With Dad

What do you think? Awesome picture of my boys? The taller one is my son and the little munchkin, his son and my wonderful grandson. Wonderful story behind this pic; My son and his baby mama as they say today, are no longer a couple, but somehow they manage to put their differences aside to spend time with the kid. They took this pic at the movies while watching the film "Coraline". This layout was created for the "Magistical Memories August Sketch Challenge"

HE RAPS

I created the layout "He Raps" for my son Pierre. He is a local rapper in the Orlando area. I believe my son was born a rapper. My son was born in the mid 80's, approximately 5 years after the first rap song was recorded. You may be familiar with this song by The Sugarhill Gang, "Rapper's Delight", I know it was one of my favorites. I guess it is possible I played that song to death thus creating my own little Hip Hop Rapper. Look at me taking all the credit. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Rapping, it is also referred to as MCing or emceeing, it's a vocal style in which the artist speaks lyrically, in rhyme and verse, generally to an instrumental or synthesized beat. My son spoke in ryhme since the first day he started speaking. Every word that came out of his mouth had a musical beat to it. I always thought it was funny how he elongated everything he said to make it sound musical. One word that always sticks to mind is how instead of saying "Papi" (spanish for dad) he would say "pappiti". It was difficult creating this layout cause it needed a nice urban feel to it which you don't get out of adding the normal embellishemnts like flowers and ribbons. So it tool awhile and this is what I came up with. Thanks for looking.

Nerdy Victorious Challenge #7

Here is my take on the "Nerdy Victorious" Challenge.

The Awesome society of "Envious" at Nerdy Victorious Scrapbookers have a great challenge this month which I have decided to try my luck at. Check them out at http://nvsgirls.blogspot.com/

Just submit a layout inspired by this collage...pretty simple.

This is my very first post. I thought it might be fun to share my layouts with other fellow scrapbookers. Here I sit trying to figure out what can I say that would be of any interest to you and I really can't come up with much. So I decided to ask you a question. I spent about an hour this evening glueing embellishments back onto my layouts. These are layouts that I completed about 5 - 6 months ago. So my question is what adhesive can I use to ensure that this does not happen?

This first layout is a layout I actually completed a couple of months ago but I just wasn't very happy with it. Today I added some rub-ons in the letter areas and also added the purple rub-ons around the tree. I think I'm a little more satisfied with it. Most of the products used are from the Basic Grey Wisteria line.