Pencil Lines, Color Combos and more!

Okay, so I haven't been here in ages. I have been so busy with work and home, life, the Color Combo blog, and not feeling very well throughout. My anemia has gotten worse, the last time I got my blood checked, my iron level was at 5 (normal is 13). The doctor couldn't believe I was actually walking, normally levels that low you'd be dizzy and very weak. Doesn't help that I am a smoker. But I didn't feel any of that, well, maybe just very lazy and sleepy. But I was able to see straight and drive and did start feeling better after taking care of myself a little wiser. But recently it started again, I have been getting dizzy just coming up the stairs or picking up things from the floor as well as very frequent, pounding headaches. By the time 8pm rolls around, I am ready for bed. No energy whatsoever. Very unlike me. I am supposed to be scrapping and relaxin'!!

I am doing my best to raise my levels up with a double dose of iron pills and eating foods with high iron content. Haven't kicked the habit yet, but I feel a little better. Work still stresses me a bit and after the boys get home, the headache is pounding. Love them to pieces, but they are just very loud!

On a lighter note, the kids are doing great. Zayn is completely done with his baby teeth and actually pulled the last one himself. Something I never had the guts to do for myself! So with DH on the road Zayn had no choice but to be brave. Sorry honey, I have to hold the camera. LOL, I am just too squeamish for that. He did it though, and realized how silly he looked on the playback because it didn't hurt a bit! Jabran is doing very well in Kindergarten and Rianna is content just being a princess. Thanksgiving is at my house, although our family consists of 4 sisters, a brother, 5 spouses, 13 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and two wonderful parents, my turkey and stuffing will be devoured with my Mom and Dad. Everyone always spends it with the in-laws and I got none, so they come to my house.

Well no more talk, want to get to some layouts that I really want to share with you all!


Pencil Lines and Color Combos Galore

Pencil Lines 110, I never use purple, in fact, I don't like it. So this was definitely a challenge for me, once I started working with the colors, I loved how it looked!

From Color Combo #96 with Caroline Ikeji concord grape cottontail split pea hurricane gray

Pencil Lines 108, along with Suzy Reap's Journaler's Junction Challenge to simple journal using the 5W's of a story. Easy. Yes, Jabran is screwing pegs onto the gondola cars of his puzzle. He was only 3 here.

From Color Combo #94 with Sasha Farina goldenrod titanium white coal electric lime

Pencil Lines 105, a very loose interpretation of the sketch. I flipped it to the side. I used Studio Calico's Iconic and other SC goodies.

From Color Combo #92 with Stephanie Howell sunflower alabaster charcoal gray silver

some more Combos...

I actually used spider stickers! These were in my stash from 4 years ago. But aren't they so cute?

From Color Combo #93 with Waleska Neris orange funky gold floral white deep orchid

Design Team member Belinda Venables made up this combo. This is my niece and grand-niece on her christening. They were both so tired, but I truly love this photo. I was flipping through my photos looking for a pic of my daughter to use for this combo and came across my niece's dress. How PERFECT!!

From Color Combo #91 with Linda Harrison black hot pink kraft white

and some for Sketch This!...

Sketch This! #74. Cool sketch, first time I filled the page with a photo.



Sketch This! #70. We had taken this trip a year earlier. This year I went along with his class, I grabbed these seats and was thrilled when I got this shot!



Sketch This! #69. Not much story here. Just my beautiful Zayn.



Thanks for listening and looking.
Hope you all have a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving!

~janet COMMENTS:
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Color Combo #73 and Sketch This!

Oh what a busy week!

Jabran had his birthday party this weekend. He changed his mind from a Ben 10 theme to a Speed Racer one. When I went to Carvel to choose the cake, I showed them what colors I wanted from a Speed Racer sticker I had. They asked me if this is the image I want on the cake. I said, Wait, you can do an image? COOL! But the sticker I had was too small. So I went home and searched the internet for wallpaper images. Jabran chose his favorite, unknowing that it was for the cake. I tell ya, that cake turned out awesome!!!

Here are some layouts I did from his birthday both using this week's FABULOUS combo at Color Combos Galore. Kim Moreno is our guest this week and she wanted red with yellow so I sent her this:

golden - black - dove white - deep red

This one is for Sketch This!. Also played Scrap your CRAP (use more than 5 photos) and the Journaler's Junction (find a little humor in life), the artificially colored, high sugared drink, the blue tongue result, ok, made the best of it and took a pic.





this one is the one I made for the color blog. This is the first time I actually remembered to write down what the children got on their birthday. Take a look at that cake! Super awesome!!




I am bursting! I received some exciting news in my email this morning but can't reveal yet, I will hint, one of my layouts was chosen as a favorite, for the whole MONTH!!! Whose you say? I can't tell ya, but its BIG! Woohoo!!

tah-tah for now!
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Color Combo #72 and Sketch This!

The boys finally fixed their room.

Rianna flushed toothpaste down the toilet.

My husband fixed it.

Yesterday, she flushed a new bar of soap.

My husband is out of town. Will be for two days.

Have Jabran's 5th birthday party on Saturday.

And my head is spinning.


So how was YOUR Monday? Less chaotic than mine, I hope.


I have two pages to share and then I am off.

Color Combos Galore #72 went up yesterday. Our guest this week is Molly Peckham whose work I really love. She texturizes, adds dimension like you wouldn't believe. Really amazing pages. Well she wanted pink and blue so I sent her this combo:

navajo turquoise - clove brown - cosmic latte - fever pink

I created my page and combined it with Pencil Lines and the Journaler's Junction synonym challenge. This photo is hysterical, I came up from downstairs one day and found her sitting on my bathroom sink. Like this. She got a hold of my makeup:





and my page for Janelle at Sketch This!. Combined it with Scrap your CRAP. The challenge this week is to use foam stamps. Yikes! These are the only foam stamps I saved. Used white paint on yellow cardstock. Fun crap. Rianna and Rebecca. Cousins. Live only two blocks from each other. Sisterless. But they have each other.






Have a great day!
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I am feeling the love for red.....

Falling behind on my blog again. I did change the music and colors...for now. Oh, and I still need a cool banner.

Like the music? It's is my housecleaning music. That's why I hardly get it done, I am dancing with the kids when it's on. :)

So I will catch up on my week. This weekend we were supposed to go see Thomas the Train in Maryland, but the tickets were sold out. Yeah, I forgot to reserve in time. So we will go to the one in Connecticut or maybe the one scheduled for Pennsylvania later in the summer. Wanted to meet up with Debbi Tehrani afterwards for dinner, but I will have to meet up with her another time.

I want to write something interesting and give you a chuckle, but nothing really funny happened to me this week. Bookstore, market, post office, meals, baths, snacks, bedtime stories... yeah, certainly don't want to bore you with that. I did lose Rianna at the market yesterday. Yeah. But I am not proud of that moment and it wasn't funny so I will just leave that alone. Really have to declutter the house, my scrap supplies and the kids toys need organizing. Jabran is turning 5 on the 17th and I need the house ready for the party. He wants a Ben 10 theme. They are growing up so fast. The other morning I saw my daughter and she looked so mature. I mean mature like she is already turning 3 and really looks it. She lost that toddler look. Where did my babies go? I started bawling, yeah. Really would like one more, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

Before I share what scrapping frenzy I have been up to since my last post, I HAVE to share my favorite blog entry this week. I was literally in tears laughing so hard because I SO can relate to this, but hers is much worse!!! Check this out: Crazy hair at Lisa Dickinson's blog! So freakin' funny!


So here are some pages I'd like to share, and they all have RED, YUM!

Color Combo #69 and Pencil Lines
This was for Color Combos Galore #69 last Monday. We had one of my favorite scrappers, Lisa Dickinson as our guest. She suggested tiffany blue and red so I sent her this combo:

seal brown - carmine red - tiffany blue - buff

This is what I created with the colors using Anna Bowkis's sketch for Pencil Lines #82. Okay, I LOVED THIS HAT!!!! Jabran was exactly 18 months old here. Too freakin' cute!



Color Combo #69 and Sketch This!
Here is a digi. I haven't played with digital products since March and kinda been missing it. The page was for Sketch This! using Lisa's colors from Color Combo #69 again. Also combined it with a really cool journaling challenge where Emily gave us a Random Word Generator and I had to use one of the words it spit out at me. One of them was baffle. Okay, so this story is scary at first, but a bit funny afterwards. We we all in the living room, Jabran was about 10 months old minding his own little business on this mechanical swing. I had asked my husband to move him a little closer to me on the couch. Just as he was bringing him over, BANG! It BROKE! I was stunned to see Jabran on the floor like that, but he wasn't even crying! We checked him and he was fine, but I needed to grab my camera before we got him out.





NSD at Two Peas
Here is one that I did for Jennifer Pebbles chat on Saturday. Layouts take me for-EVAH to finish and I was surprised I whipped this up in time. Here is what she said:

So take 3 minutes: Grab the following (fast-don't think about it)...

one sheet of cardstock
one piece of pattern paper
one tag
one label
one stamp
one sticker
one rub on
one brad
*optional: one embellishment/chipboard/acrylic etc.*
and either one photo or skip the photo.

I got off the chat and headed downstairs. My ink got smudged and I didn't finish the journaling, but it took me 43 minutes. Does it look it?





Color Combo #70 and Pencil Lines
This was for Color Combos Galore #70. This week we have Cindy Liebel as our guest this week and I just love her work! She wanted red and gray so I sent her a bunch and she chose this one:

slate blue - taupe gray - seafoam green - fire engine red

These colors screamed patriotic to me, so I found this picture that I had taken when we were going to the NY Aquarium last summer. There was a fire truck in the parking lot and we asked if we can take some pictures. I used Debbie Jewell's sketch for Pencil Lines #83.





Sketch This!
And finally, another digi for this week's Sketch This!:




and that's it! Thanks for looking guys! Tomorrow I am headed back to the NY Aquarium, YAY! Love that place! Zayn's taking a school field trip there and I am a chaperone.

Wonder how many kids I am going to get, wish me luck!!! COMMENTS:
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...yes, it's been two weeks since my last confession....

April 24. A day I dedicated to catching up on my blog.

And what a great two weeks this has been! Full of surprises, joy and of course, some layouts.

So MUCH to share with you, seven posts, so you just have to keep reading until you reach the bottom! :)

Let me finish off this night of catching up with two layouts I made this week.

One is an assignment for Got Sketch? #58. Also combined with The Journaler's Junction where we used only adjectives in the journaling:


Patterned paper: American Crafts, Scenic Route, Prima IOD, Pink Paislee; Chipboard phrase stickers: Scenic Route, Imagination Project; Die-cuts: Scenic Route, Making Memories


and this one was a Creative Team design for Sketch This! #47. I used two circle punches on the Prima IOD Dude paper to create the circles on the background grid paper. Used this week's colors again at Color Combos Galore.

Patterned paper: Imagination Project, Dream Street, Prima, Hambly; Letter stickers: Jenni Bowlin; Star accent: Heidi Swapp COMMENTS:
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Scrapjack! and some tea!

So now that I found my new favorite challenge, I played again. It was Kelly Purkey's turn to be Scrapjacked!. Also played How Much Is Too Much where Elizabeth's recipe was 7 rub-ons, 3 photos, 7 stickers, 5 flowers, 0 buttons, 0 ribbons, and The Journaler's Junction where Heather had said to use only adjectives in the journaling. Well, when I created the layout, I remembered the gist, but not the specifics and ended up with extra journaling. Oh well, got a little mixed up.

Again, working with old photos that printed horribly on my old (and long time ditched) HP printer. And because these were printed long before I knew about dpi and resolutions and levels, they are very dark and not crisp at all. But I still haven't bought ink (which will cost me over $50 for several cartridges) so it will have to do.

The story behind these photos is that Zayn always asked me for some of my tea. I am not a tea drinker by habit, prefer the coffee, and don't drink decaf unless I am pregnant. So he has never had it at this point. When I did make some decaf tea for him, he was, well, the photo says it all!


Patterned paper: Sassafras Lass, Scenic Route; Cardstock: Bazzill; Letter stickers: Sassafras Lass; Rub-ons: Doodlebug Designs (stitches); Fontwerks (rub-ons); Epoxy sticker: SEI; Flowers: American Crafts; Prima COMMENTS:
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