Happy Birthday!

Happy 16th Birthday to my nephew Nathan! A really great kid with a big heart.  This was taken at Virginia Tech where he volunteered in the 3.2 mile Run in Remembrance event. #WeAreVT #NeverForget #HokieBird

Make It March 2023

To say it's been a while would be an understatement at best. So why not get back into things with a bang? Here are 31 sketches inspired by Tracie and Tiffany over at The Scrap Gals. Amazingly there were only a handful of repeats. 😀

1. Paper Pad Play

2. Lots of Photos

3. Stack Your Scraps

4. Comparison/Contrast

5. Myself in the Mirror

6. Bar Graph

7. Bubble Up

8. Clouds or Rainbows

9. Like Project Life

10. Big Changes

11. Pattern Play

12. Connection Reflection

13. Make it Like Missy

14. Get Sketchy

15. Clustered Column

16. Monochromatic Mania

17. Out of the Pocket

18. Pocket Full of Memories

19. Triangle Clusters

20. Anaphora

21. Diagonal Line

22. Framed

23. Paint a Rainbow

24. Fabric Frenzy

25. Tag, You're It

26. She Said, She Said, She Said

27. 6x8 Paper Pads

28. Recipe Redux

29. On the Edge

30. Vivacious Verbs

31. Write a Letter

August Sketch - Better Late than Never

Here is my take on The Scrap Gals sketch for August. Most of the embellishments came from free sources like digitalscrapbook.com.

Procreate Tutorial Art

Over the last 6 months or so I've really gotten into digital artwork using the Procreate app on my iPad. So far I've been following @tatyworks on YouTube and recreating her pieces through her tutorials. Here is what I've done so far.

The Scrap Gals - NSD Challenge (Stitching)

Guess what guys? I won the random Scrap Gals challenge!!! Here's the layout I did for the stitching challenge (1 of 7). 

The Scrap Gals - NSD Challenge (Cluster)

On National Scrapbook Day I made seven digital layouts following the prompts posted by Tiffany, Tracie and all of their wonderful guests. The challenge for this layout was to use a cluster of embellishments. "The View" is from my office window and the star of the show in my opinion is the paper.

The Scrap Gals - April Challenge

Here is this month's sketch from The Scrap Gals. This is a spring ski trip that my husband took with his best friend to Mammoth Mountain and as luck would have it he ran into another friend that he's known for 30 years. ...small world. 

The Scrap Gals - March Challenge

It's been a while since I posted but I wanted to share this layout that I did for the The Scrap Gals. If you haven't listened to their podcast on pod.fan I would highly encourage you to do so. It's not free but totally worth it. This particular page was done in honor of my sister-in-law that passed away from cancer on March 3rd. Unfortunately we've had two other close family deaths occur in 2021 and I hope to honor those women as well.

O' Christmas Tree Layout

Although we are always traveling over the holidays, we put up our tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. Almost every ornament is different and most have a story behind them. Enjoy! For this layout I used a sketch from Rochelle Spears.