Scrap N Sketch's Sketch #145

These are the first set of photos I attempted to scrapbook yesterday, finally had to set them aside and work on the school ones.  I thought for sure this would be an easier sketch from Scrap N Sketch and I have probably scrapped hundreds of football photos so I thought this layout was a no brainer to get me back into scrapping … but no didn't work out that way, however setting it aside was what I needed.  This layout came together super fast when I came back to it.

Here is Scrap N Sketch's Sketch #145

Here is my layout of my son in his football jerseys for his sophomore year of football:

Off to find some more sketches and print more photos!  YAY!

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~Carolyn

Finally a layout!!

Whoop whoop!  Finally a layout!  I pushed around a lot of paper and supplies yesterday until I finally settled with this layout - and - I am loving how it turned out, but I am not going to lie, it was not easy!  It was a bit frustrating since I used to be able to crank out layout after layout with ease!

I was inspired by a few of the January sketches at http://sketchnscrap.blogspot.com so earlier this week I printed some pictures for my quest of bringing Seth's school scrapbooks up to date.

This first layout (isn't the first one I started with LOL) but here it is featuring Sketch #144 at Sketch N Scrap:

My layout features some good ol' Scrappin' Sports and More paper and some Little Yellow Bicycle embellishments.

I am working on another sketch from http://sketchnscrap.blogspot.com so hopefully that one goes a little bit smoother! :)

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~Carolyn

just a little bit crafty

To try to get back into scrapping I signed up to make birthday cards for the staff at my son's school for the month of November. It's pretty cool that they make handmade cards for each person on the staff at the high school.  There weren't that many during my month and I started out enjoying it but then became frustrated that it took me all day to make some cards - I used to whip out cards and layouts like it was nobody's business for design teams and challenges.  I realized that I was frustrated because I was in a new craft room that was hastily packed and unpacked and I didn't know where things were and things that belonged together were not together.  In addition, I felt bad because I don't send a lot of birthday cards to my family and friends yet here I was making them for strangers.  I did not commit to do another month this spring, however, I committed to sending cards to my family and close friends in 2018.


Here are the cards I made for the teachers with November birthdays, I tried to keep them simple and use up some old scraps:




Thanks for stopping by!
~Carolyn

Welcome back!

Welcome back & Happy 2018!!

Whew, it’s been a while since I have done anything crafty and even longer since I posted anything crafty! Now that we are settled in the new house and the holidays are over I am hoping to get back into paper crafting especially before work gets crazy again this spring.

Today I spent some time in my craft room to try to figure out where everything is and how I need it set up, I am sure I will change some things once I am working in there.

I am going be posting on Pinterest, Instagram and of course Facebook so if you are on any of these, let’s connect!

I plan on jumping back in with challenges, so if you know of any good challenges link me up 😊

Thanks for stopping by!
~Carolyn