Family fun- NY 2008 LO

This page will be published on September 2010 issue of Scrapstreet magazine
This lo won a sketch challenge on Crafty little place - thanks

Today is our SHAVOUT holliday again- so I have 2 more days for doing nothing but crafting as in our family this one is not so important. One of my girls is working for these 2 days, the second one is out for 4 days vacation(even missed some college classes for it), one of my sons is back to Spain where he works and the second one has army duties. So no family meal or family gathering- but a family lo.

These photos are a about 2 years old , taken on our USA vacation (3 of 4 of my kids, my new DIL and myself. 2 of my men decided that NY is boring(??????!!!!)

I decided to use Claudia's sketch as I was very glad to find that old Die cut r us challenges are in the new Crafty little place and have this lo challenges- not only cute cards ones. Than I found this great color inspiration on Candy shoppe challenge blog .They have this cutest candy ever from Magpie club sponsoring this challenge- wow- I wish I win!!

And I used a great poem on Scrap the poetry blog I used for journaling.

The basic cardstock is from MME, than I used Teressa Collins transparency,

some SU stash I got as a great Rak for winning on Curtain call blog (thanks Staicey- I love it all!!), I added some Websters ribbon, 4 sets of Alphas were used here as no set was full (I also painted some huge letters to fit the colors of this page and glittered it) and I added one homemade and misted flower with old vintage button on.

As for techniques I stamped and hand cut images, painted , glittered and stamp on chipboard letters , pleated the ribbon, did handwriting journaling and stamped directly on the cardstock.

The last touch was this adorable metal flower pin I got as a part of my winning on Get sketchy challenge blog- thanks!!

And as for other challenges:

Mission create- vintage (button), distressing, decorative borders paper

For GDT on Always palying with paper

Scrap page- for Little paper shop

Round and round- for Getting creative with ANN

Not my comfort zone- doing the sketch " as is"- 3 photos etc- for Start me up

Scrap the poetry- I used the line " You are all that I can call my own..." for journaling

Using ABC sets for Scrap you crap (I used 4 sets, cut the "m" for " n", painred part of them to fit my title

Great outdoors for Crafty calendar

Use paint- for my letters- for Scrap outside the box

5 buttons- 4 regular, 1 silver blue vintage- for Craft your passion

Colors for Candy shoppe

Pick 3 for Butterfly crafts- yellow, glitter, buttons, inking too

Round and round for Totally gorjuss

Sweet stampers asked for family dedication as my page is

Hand made flower for Quixotic

Favorite color combo and glitter - these pink- blue one I love it and use a lot , the glitter was added on the NY letters- for Tuesday morning sketches

Patterened paper for Practical scrappers

Recycling - the flower is made of an old Hebrew book- for Character cafe

Cut it out for Pixie dust