More Basic Grey Goodness

Another round of Studio Calico sketch inspiration....each Sunday they post a sketch to their blog and for the past couple of weeks, I have been fortunate enough to find time Sunday evening to put together a layout. Here is the sketch from last week and my version using BG's Origins papers. As you can see, I am totally in love with this butterfly punch from Martha Stewart!





A close-up of some of the dimensional elements:

Benefits of Winter

I may complain about the cold and snow but honestly, it makes for great pictures! The kids are always smiling out there as they frolic in the white stuff...and those pictures make for fun scrap pages. This is made from bits left of a Basic Grey Bittersweet Kit I bought over at scrapbook.com and a stamp I had gotten from Studio Calico.

Fly Free

With three feet of snow on the ground here, I am dying for spring. 30 degrees is just much too cold! Given my only recent pictures are all snow related, I decided to dig into my stash and find some good spring/summer pictures to lift my spirits (and to utilize my new MS butterfly punch)!



I had stitched the butterfly paths and added a ton of BG pearls as well as some Maya pinds.



All papers are BG Origins.

...is Life

Finally dug out from the big storm (we have about 3 feet on the ground) but sickness has moved in with us yet again! Sarah has been down with a 104.3 fever for three days now. The pediatrician says it is just a virus but we should anticipate all of us getting it. ARGH. We have been sick more this winter than we have been in the past eight years combined!! It just isn't fair!!

Although I was home with sick child, I actually had to do work from the office the past few days. Scrapping was not a possiblity. However, I have been dying to get to the latest Studio Calico Sunday Sketch. I the sketch on Tuesday after the Flyers Mites event and knew it would be a perfect layout to use to highlight some of the hundreds of hockey pictures I have taken this year....and Studio C's homefront paper was just the right color and design as well!!


You can't see it very well in the picture but I have black buttons with each of the hockey sticks as a hockey puck....