Lita's Sketch Challenge #2

It's time for Lita's 2nd sketch challenge!

This sketch was perfect for some retreat photo's I had. This is the Eagle Mountain House in Jackson NH. The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye.

My package from down under...

On Scrapshare I joined a Sister swap for the first time. I wasn't really sure how it worked but I thought it would be different and fun. I ended up being paired with someone in New Zealand! Wow, that should be interesting... We were given a word, I think it was BLOOM and we could do whatever we wanted with it. We had to send at least 5 items though. It could be one for each letter in BLOOM, 5 items that represented the word, or totally go in our own direction and ignore the word. It's really anything goes. We tell each other a little about ourselves and our scrapping styles and voila...packages get sent! I'm really not that picky, I only did it for fun but I was thrilled to get this package in the mail yesterday! Christmas in July! I opened it this morning because I got home late last nite...

LizCNZ sent me the coolest stuff! I should take a close-up but the plaque in the front is going in my scraproom...it says "I'm scrapbooking, take a number". The colors match my room perfectly! I love it! I love the little altered book as well and everything else she sent. How very generous and creative of you Liz! Thank you!

I need to take some close-up pics later. I wish I had taken a pic of the package I sent her. If I do this again, I will.

This picture doesn't really do it justice but this is a layout of all the pictures I took trying to get the perfect Christmas card. The ornaments were from my Cricut and they're outlined in gold paper.

Layouts from the Retreat

I spent most of my time working on Kyla's high school abum...this is one of the layouts I did this weekend. I'm a pretty simple scrapbooker but I'm happy with most of my results. I've also changed to top loading so I can scrap out of order. It makes it much more exciting to be able to scrap what you're in the mood for.