August CY #56 Mother Daughter Layout

So it is time for another Awesome Challenge from the Challenge YOUrself Blog!  This month we challenge YOU to create a Mother-Daughter Themed Layout.  Just be sure to include YOU in one of the photos!  All of the details, rules and PRIZE info, along with more inspiration can be found on the Challenge YOUrself Blog!  Hope on over and see all to the beautiful inspiration layouts from our AMAZING Design Team!

 So I had a bit of a challenge this month  - you see, I fell and broke my wrist on June 28th! My first broken bone and cast in my 57 years!!   I was not about to let a broken wrist stop me and I was able to complete this layout and 2 more - at a girl's scrappy weekend in July - right before I had the cast removed!

I used a photo taken of me and my mom, who is also my best friend, at a neighbor's 80th Birthday Party - no - we were not in New York City - this was a green screen backdrop that we chose! - Even though we live only 20 mins from NYC!! 

I saw a really cool layout online that used multiple cutout patterned paper frames and used it as inspiration for this page.

Love all the colors and embellishments in this collection!

Here are some close ups for you:

Hoping you will join us this month at the Challenge YOUrself Blog and I'm looking forward to seeing your beautiful creation!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Items used: 

My Mind's Eye "My Story" Collection:

Heirloom Roses

Typewriter Paper

Wildflower Bouquets

This Moment

Days Remembered

Decorative Brads

Mixed Bag

Grandma's Quilt

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stains - Fossilized Amber, Abandoned Coral, Tarnished Brass, Black Soot

Dusty Attic - Wordplay and Tabs Chipboard

Epiphany Crafts Punch and Round Bubble Caps

Nuvo Crystal Drops - 

March Tic Tac Toe from Scrap Our Stash "Together"

It is time for March's Tic Tac Toe Challenge from the Scrap Our Stash Blog!  I love these challenges - so many ways to play along, use your stash, and get creative!!  Visit the SOS Blog for all the Challenge and Prize details, and to see all of the creative layouts from our Design Team!

Here is the Challenge board for you -

I used the 3 boxes down the center of the board -

Striped Paper - for the punched strip on the middle left, the tag, and the banner on the top right

Gold - Nuvo Indian Gold Mousse, gold embellies

Flair - My Mind's Eye "My Story" Collection Flair

Here is my layout for the SOS Design Team:

I used the beautiful "MY STORY" Collection from My Mind's Eye. Many of the embellishments and even some of the papers already have gold on them.  The photo is of my husband and me having dinner at the Blue Bayou Restaurant, in Disneyland. It was so cool inside, with the Pirates of the Caribbean ride all around us, and it was very delicious!

See, it looks like night time inside, but outside the sun was shining.  I added a new product I purchased at a scrapbook crop weekend.  It is called NUVO Mousse - it comes in a jar, and is like a paste.  You can use it with a stencil, or a dauber, or - I used it with my finger and rubbed it on the papers around where I placed my photo.  LOVE IT!!

Here you can see how that NUVO Mousse shines, along with the striped paper that I punched.  I love all the embellishments with this collection - the colors are awesome.

Here is another close up of the Nuvo Mousse, and you can also see the tag with the fiber pull peaking out of the pocket I made behind the photo with 3D foam tape.

This is the front of the tag, and is part of the collection - I matted it with more of the striped paper, and then with yellow card stock, and tied black and gold fibers at a tag pull.

May 6, 2016 was our 40th Anniversary of our first date!  We played kickball after school in the dead end street by my house! We began the Anniversary celebration while on a Disney Panama Canal Cruise, and continued it at Disneyland afterwards. I am so blessed to have this man hold my heart, and to have shared such amazing adventures with him.

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you will find time for YOU to play along with us this month at the SCRAP OUR STASH BLOG! I look forward to seeing what you create!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Items used:
My Mind's Eye - My Story Collection - Papers, Enamel Dots, Decorative Brads, Flair, Mixed Bag with Gold Foil
Ranger Distress Stains - Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberries, Black Soot
Nuvo - Indian Gold Mousse