Trendy Triangles

August is here and I'm having a hard time believing it! I'm also having a super hard time believing that this is the last week of summer vacation for the boys. There is a piece of me ready for the scheduled part that comes with school and the other big piece of me that is wanting to slow this week down and pretend that it's not over yet. 

Today is the first Saturday of the month and that means it's new drill day on the S.W.A.T. blog. This time it is all about the triangles. Triangles are popping up all over the place so we want to see how you use them. I ended up using tiny triangles to make a small banner accent for a card. I used different shapes and sizes instead of going with uniform pieces. I like to think of them as small but mighty as I love the way they added such a cute look to the frame and filled up the open space so perfectly.

Now it's your turn. Head over to S.W.A.T. and check out the designs from the other team members. Big, small, background pieces, embellishments...there are tons of ways to use triangles. We'd love to see your ideas too. A $20 certificate to 3 Scrappy Boys is definitely a prize worth playing for!

Lisa

Practical Scrappers July Sketch

Today it's sketch day at Practical Scrappers and once again we are challenged with a fabulous sketch by Liz Chidester.

I love the detail that Liz puts into her sketches. It gives me a great starting idea in my head. This one started out one way and kind of took a little bit of a turn for me, but I love how it turned out. I have had this photo of David for a little while now and for whatever reason it is one of those that really brings up emotion in me. I just love this guy so much. He looks like he's taking it all in, and I know that in the same breath he is ready to take it all on like he always does. 

Head over to the Practical Scrappers site and check out the fabulous layouts the other designers created using the same sketch. Then give it a try yourself and be sure to link it up. We love to see what others are doing.

Lisa

Be Amazing

Happy Saturday! It's a sketchy day at S.W.A.T. and we are being challenged to not only use the fabulous sketch created by our own Lanette, but also take on the twist which is to use only patterned paper. That's right! No cardstock, people. Who's up for the challenge?

First the sketch:

Pretty awesome, right? Now here's my take using an old Teresa Collins line I had in my stash. I loved the transparency that was included in the line and cut it to use as one of the layers behind the photo of my nephew who just graduated. I love how it plays off the paper  bag I also had sitting in my pile of scrappy goods.I framed this layout for J.C. to display at his graduation party and he tells me he has it hung on his wall now.  I'll have to check that out :)

Join us on the S.W.A.T. blog and take part in the challenge. There is a Webster's Pages goody bag up for grabs for the winner. 

Have a super Saturday.

Lisa

She Sparkles

It's Monday and the week is already starting off crazy. I have been on the phone with doctors offices and insurance companies all day. Not a fun task at all. Decided I needed a break so I headed out for lunch with my Nathan and his friend. Those boys are crazy. How did I end up with teen age boys? I have to remind myself daily to enjoy their goofiness because there will come a day when I miss having it around all the time. Now we are back home and I am back at the insurance fights while they are enjoying their own kind of fighting on their video games.

With all the boyness around here I had to come up with some girly fabulousness to balance life out a little. I'm so glad for the beautiful nieces I have to borrow for that :) Not too long ago my sister and I were torturing the kids with a photo shoot and we ended up with this picture of Kristin that for some reason just makes me smile. It is such her personality shining through. I love this girl.

Such my cutie and there is more personality and fire bubbling out of this girl than one can manage. That is why I chose this photo for the On Trend assignment on the Practical Scrappers blog today. The assignment was to use gold. I don't use a lot of sparkle, gold or glitter but I had some fun gold letters that have been in my stash for awhile and I also heat embossed one of the Pink Paislee Artisan stars with some gold powder. A little pink and a little more bling and this layout fell together pretty well. It doesn't show up well on this photo but I also used a pink glitter spray on the background of the layout before adding my papers and photo and it gives the background another subtle girly component. 

Hoping your week is starting off well. I'll be back later this week with a sketch challenge from S.W.A.T.

Lisa

Giveaway Winner

Happy Sunday! I can't believe another week is starting. I sat down today and filled my calendar in with all of our upcoming events and I couldn't believe how quickly our days are filling up and how short summer seems with all the squares full. Yikes!

I wanted to announce my winner from last week's blog hops. After combining all comments from both hops I came up with Cathy as the winner for commenting on the Practical Scrappers hop.

Cathy said... [Reply to comment]

wow I love this! no failure here!

JUNE 28, 2013 AT 9:48 

Congrats Cathy!

Also, just a reminder if you haven't switched to bloglovin' or one of the other options for getting my feed I would love for you to do it! Just choose your option on the right. I am so thankful for the followers I have and hope to continue to bring you some fun inspiration.

Lisa

Going Neon

We all love a little bit of 80's right? My kids definitely agree with that as they are frequently subjected to my favorite 80's radio station in the car all too often. Today is flashback day on the S.W.A.T blog and drill #11 is posted with a look at all things neon.
I have to admit I was having a bit of a creative mojo slump when working on my project for this drill. I love a great 80's song but working with neon isn't my go to thing. As a matter of fact, my massive  inventory of supplies (which truly needs a clean out) was sorely lacking in anything neon. The only neon I had in my stash was two ink pads. That's right. Two ink pads. I thought about running out to my local scrap store but guilt over the fact that I am adding way to often to my supplies when I really should be using them stopped me. That and remembering some cupcake wrappers I had on hand that came close to fitting the bill. Here's what I came up with. (Remember, the mojo was lacking a bit!)

Disclaimer: The colors of the ink truly are a bit brighter than they appear on here. I had trouble trying to adjust them properly with my software. Anyway, the gals on the design team did a fabulous job with their flashbacks and there are some truly fun examples of neon on the blog today. Come check it out and join in on the fun by linking up your own 80's/neon project. There is a fabulous Elle's Studio prize being offered by our sponsor for this challenge, Boy's Rule. I would love to see some of you stopping by and joining in. Let me know if you do. 

Lisa

Hopping Again and a Giveaway

Good morning! It's time for my second hop of the weekend. Hope you have a cup of coffee in hand and are ready for some LIGHT (hint) reading. We have some fantastic inspiration for you and a prize that makes me wish I could play along!

Welcome to the first

S.W.A.T Design Team Blog Hop

Today S.W.A.T is welcoming our new team with a Blog Hop & Challenge! We are so excited we have a great group of ladies that are ready to wow you with their talent! Here is just a peek of what they have in store for you today!

On to the Challenge!

Here in the USA its almost the 4^th of July so everywhere you look you will find Red, White & Blue, as people plan their celebrations! So we thought what could be better than a Color Combination Challenge so here is your palette, lets see what you do!

Create something using the colors Red White & Blue and link it up to the right for a chance to win this pretty Pink Paislee Kit. All entries must be received by July 28th 11:59PM EST.

As you make your way along our hop you will find lots of Red, White & Blue inspiration to help inspire you for our challenge. But that's not all you will find...
On each S.W.A.T. Girl's Blog you will find a Clue Word. These words will be in bold print or in a picture, no worries they will make it clear what their word is. (see my hint above!)

Once you have gathered all the words you will have our Blog Hop Quote! Which is great news because that's all you need to be entered to win a Webster's Warehouse Box!
Just send us the quote & your name  to: swatscrappygirl@gmail  and let us know you did in the Rafflecopter below :)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The winner of the hop will be randomly selected and will win a huge Webster's Warehouse Box (which is now sold out!)  packed full of beautiful fun from Webster's Pages! ($131 value!)

****Exact embellishments may vary, picture for representation only.

Now for the Fine Print!

1. You MUST be a follower of each S.W.A.T Girl’s blog and leave a comment on each blog and;
2. You MUST also be a follower of the S.W.A.T blog.
3. You must email your quote answer to: swatscrappygirl@gmail by Monday July 1st at 11:59PM EST

It’s finally time to announce our new Team!  

Here is our New Team & Blog Hop Order

Alison

Becci

Bev

Claude

Deborah 

Doris

Lisa  THIS IS ME!

Michele

Nicole

Nicolle

Venetia  

Lanette 

Please make sure you visit the entire team today as some members are hosting additional blog challenges during the hop and offering their own extra goodies for you.

Here is my red, white and blue project. You can see I went with the traditional colors, stars and stripes that make any layout truly American but I put a little twist in it by using family photos and some journaling about our family rather than any of the holidays or things you would generally gravitate towards these colors with.  I love that I finally got to use some of the Little Yellow Bicycle burlap star embellishments that I've had sitting in my stash and I love the look of the washi and ribbons that I used as well. 

Thank you so much for hopping along with us, I hope you have fun! Remember that you have until Monday July 1st at 11:59PM EST to send your answer to: swatscrappygirl@gmail.com. 

Please check out my hop with Practical Scrappers that is going on here this weekend. To celebrate a weekend of hops I will combine comments that I receive from both of my hop posts and pick a winner next week who will receive a 6x6 paper pad and some fun scrappy embellishments. If you comment of both you will have two chances. Yeah!

Also, don't forget to sign up to follow my blog with the bloglovin button on the left hand side of my blog. Google Reader is almost gone so if you already follow me  you will need to switch your options in order to keep getting my posts. If you want to follow by email or network blogs those options are available as well. If you are a new reader welcome! 

Have a fantastic weekend!
Lisa