I ain't the only one Scrappin !!

Hi there....I wanted to post up these pic's of the girls and their pages they created up at our Annual Scrap Weekend Get-Away..... The first pic is of Aileen, she created a layout using her Graduation Pics.(Congrat's Mija) You Did It !!! Then there is Heidi with her 2 page layout. Now I have to say Heidi was on a roll. I was wondering why she was sooo quiet. She ended up creating 21 pages, just flew right by us :) And I can't even count how many S.U. stamp set's this girl has. Now the 3rd pic is of my wonderful Mother, who did mention to everyone that she would never scrapbook. HAH....who are you kidding :) She couldn't just sit around us and just watch us scrap the rest of our lives. So sure enough, she got her groove on finally, and she is now part of the pack. She created a Las Vegas page layout with pics of her sisters. Her favorites are doing pages on her grandson's. Oh one more thing, this women can not put her camera down now either and in the other hand her TECATE beer can :) LOL...Then there is my sis-in-law Mich, she is working on 2 albums at the same time, for both her boys. She created some really nice pages. Mich is sooo patient when it comes to her layouts, she takes her time until it comes out just the way she wants it. Everyone is so creative in their own way. Looking forward to another great weekend next year. Or should I say 2 different weekends.... Yippee :) Thanks for visiting, HAPPY STAMPIN... BEC ~

My Sonny Delight !

Hi everyone....Here's a layout I created with my son Sonny. He is so photogenic. I went with colors to match his shirts he has on. Chocolate Chip and Glorious Green along with Whisper White. I spelled out his name with the Sizzix machine, and added some dark brown ribbon twine to the side of his page, giving it a little change up. I added some word labels that I created myself. Wrapped some ribbon on the side of each word label along with a copper brad. When I created this page I was with a group of scrappers (friends & family) I had each of them give me a word that personally best describes my son to them. It was a pretty neat idea. When he seen the page, he did ask what word belonged to who. You may click on the pic to see a closer view and to read the labels. Till next time... HAPPY STAMPIN.... BEC~ PS...hope you's all got through the earthquake a bit ago... :)

Dare 2B Wild !!!

Hi Everyone... Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. On Saturday we helped my in-laws move into their New Home that they purchased. Was a little far out, but a really nice drive for us. We first stopped and had a nice breakfast at this new place we found by our home. Best French Toast I've tasted. Sunday the guys had their baseball game. Took lots of footage and Pics. I think my Hubbies making some kind of Power Point Project with all the pics and video we take at each game. Now on my layout I have here. My boys just love any diving board. They are so willing to try anything when it comes to a diving board. Here each of them are doing something different, so I took Pic's and thought this will be a good page to get creative on.... For the C.S. colors, I went with Whisper White, Basic Black and More Mustard. I backed only the center picture with a More Mustard background and used my corner notch punch. I titled it Dare 2B Wild....I made my own name tags so you'll know who's who. I added a splatter background stamp around the page with a circle image from the Seeing Circles stamp set and added black brads to the center of the circles. Click on the pic to see better details. HAPPY SCRAPPIN.... BEC ~

MY WRESTLER !!

I really do enjoy creating Sports pages. They are one of my favorites. Here's a layout of my son Jesse. He will be entering his Junior year, and is a Varsity Wrestler. He sure did his share of workouts and competing this past year. The printed wrestling paper is from Scrappin Good Times. I take advantage of every wrestling paper I find, there are not too many out there. I only used half the sheet and cut out certain words from the other piece to use on my tag I made. I backed up my pictures with Basic Black, White or Green Galore C.S. Not sure if you can see good enough, but I distressed my small word sayings with a Gold Ink color, it matched the yellow 12x12 I used for the whole layout. On the Black tag that I made and placed on the upper right corner, I stapled it on the sides to attach to the page. It gave it a pretty cool look. And just did a little journaling on the computer and added a small silver brad to the bottom corner. It's Friday, so happy Friday everyone, and hope you have a wonderful weekend. I am organizing my scrap area again, so I'm going to try and get a few layouts and cards made. HAPPY SCRAPPIN...... BEC ~

Fun in the Sun......

Hi there you all....
Yes summer is here and almost over. What a drag....Time just keeps on flying by. These are some pic's we took on the 4th of July. My boys just love their uncles Pool, because of the diving board. I have a cool page with them doing their diving board tricks. I will post it tomorrow. The tag was a free Make-&-Take I did at The Scrapbook Lounge in Montclair. It's such an awesome scrapbook store. Once I had the tag done, I picked up a few matching C.S. sheets to create my page. I added my own picture corners in orange. I backed some of my pics with white and some with a lime green. I threw in a little black to give it a little touch. At the end I spread some orange brads around the page. Now see what you have, and create a layout like this one. Oh one more thing, I didn't have a sun stamp image or a die cut, so I made my own sun. Not bad huh? I attached it off the page a little. Till next time....HAPPY SCRAPPIN...BEC ~

My Boys !!

Good Morning....I have about 5 more pages to post that I had created up at our Scrapbook Weekend. After these I'm gonna have to start using my imagination and creativity again. I still have a few projects that I need to get done. This was one of my favorite pages, I have to say I did give myself a pat on the back for this one :) I used a creamy caramel colored C.S. and distressed the outer edging with a brown chalk color. The printed paper I purchased at a Scrapbook Store. I liked it because of the Skull Heads and the colors it had. A Real Rusty color. The print is of a type of Flourish design which I ended up trimming, so I can use at the bottom of my page as a type of boarder. I titled my page Boondock Saints..... And your probably wondering WHY?? It is a movie of these brothers who go on a crusade to get rid of bad guys. My boys really liked this movie. I added Crystal Effects to the letters on the title. Maybe if you click on the pic you can see the gloss on the letters. It made the page stand out. On the Brown squares that backs up a few of the pics I added copper brads to the corners. These boys of mine may have there little spats here and there with each other, but for the most part, they really appreciate that they have each other. Being close at age helps them to entertain each other. And let me tell you these three love to take pictures. It also might be because they know what a big scrapper their mother is. Till next time, HAPPY SCRAPPIN.... BEC ~

The Bad News Players....

A Baseball Page..... I enjoy working on Sports Pages. My hubby put a team together with his brothers, our boys, family and close friends. It's so nice to see them all together having a good time. It is a great thing that he decided to do this. He named the team Bad News as you can tell by the title on my page. If you click on the picture below you can view it a little better. The pic on the right his my husband Tony with his 3 brothers. C.S. colors I used were Brilliant Blue, Basic Black and White. As I backed up my pictures I decided to leave a little room on the side of the c.s. to add ribbon to it. Something a little different. I'm sorry but the stamp images that I had used are no longer available. They were purchased about 8 years ago through (Close to My Heart). I stamped some small black stars around the page background. I stamped the images in Chocolate Chip. The letters were done from the Sizzix Machine. Below is a picture of the Bad News Gang. THANKS HUN FOR GIVING US SUNDAYS TO LOOK FORWARD TO..... It's fun watching you guys... Till next time, HAPPY STAMPIN..... BEC ~

Nascar Invitation

These are the invitations I made for my nephew Rene's birthday party that is coming soon. Right now he is into Nascar, and his driver is #5 and guess what he's turing 5 also. So it worked out just perfect. I created the invite so it could open as a flap card. I wanted to do something different. I created a slider band to keep the invite closed. I used Summer Sun, Brilliant Blue and Whisper White C.S. I stamped the #5's in Basic Black and added some crystal effects to them giving them a nice glossy shine. I added some thin ribbon to the slider band and some mini silver brads at the bottom of invite. I then created a stamped matching envelope. There are a few cute quotes inside that read, " Start Your Engines " and " See You At The Finish Line ". HAPPY STAMPIN.... BEC ~

4th of July Annual Potluck....

Hi everyone.. Here are a few of my 4th of July pages I created. I enlarged my pages this time on my postings here so you can view more in detail. I really had fun working on these pages. Using the large star punch from S.U. and adding some large circle silver brads to the center of them. I did stamp some stars with whisper white Ink on the Night of Navy Star punch just to get a little creative. I used the flourish swirly stamp from the Priceless Stamp Set from S.U. and added some Stickles to it, outlining some of the swirls. I added some rhinestone stickers here and there. Some of my picture back ground squares are cornered punch with the Corner Notch punch. On my second page, I used basically the same colors but just swithed some colors around. Every year my brother and sis-in-law host their annual 4th of July Potluck Party. It's nice to get together and see everyone. Till next time, HAPPY STAMPIN....BEC ~

Our Annual Scrap Weekend !!

Hello Everyone, Wow.... What a vacation I had. It seems like I've been gone for a month. It was only a few weeks. I tried to get as much scrapbooking as I can done. I wanted to share these pic's with you girls. Every year I put together a Scrap Weekend for anyone who would like to join me on a 3 day scrap fest. For the past 3 years we have got together in Palm Desert, but I wanted to change it up a little and find something different and not so hot. Me and the girls went up to Running Springs, Calif. where we stood in a beautiful cabin, 5,000 feet high up the mountains. The weather was just perfect, it wasn't hot at all. We had a blast, but who doesn't when they are scrapping, laughing and just having a Good O' Time, with no worries or distractions. The scrapbook room was down stairs and it kinda looked like a store, they have it so nicely decorated and equipped with so many scrapbooking tools, accessories and cardstock. I don't own a Sizzix, but I will very soon :) I have plenty of scrap pages to start posting, so be on a lookout for some really cool stuff :) HAPPY SCRAPPIN...... BEC ~