Dear Santa...

This was just a quick and easy layout. The paper was TimHoltz which I bought last weekend (see... Had to HAVE it... have to use it). I love the paper but didn't know how to use it without covering up the great Santa face on it. So I just grabbed one of the mall Santa shots of the kids (from 2000) and added it with the title, Dear Santa, cut from the Winter Frolic cartridge. I ended up chalking the white of the title to "dinge" it up abit.


Funny story on the Winter Frolic... I have looked at this cartridge since it was released and just haven't found the NEED to have it. Each time I found it on a good sale I passed it by. Today when I was entering Christmas phrases (ie, Dear Santa, Christmas Wishes) into my Gypsy search, each time it came up with the Winter Frolic cart. Thankfully a friend of mine owns this one and had it loaded on her Gypsy (thanks, Em!). Now has it become a "NEED"? Not quite yet... but I see more potential for it now than I have previously.


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Scrapbooking and Packers...

Today the Green Bay Packers were playing in the NFC Championship Game against the Chicago Bears but would I watch? Nope! You see every time I have watched or turned on the tv during a Packer game this season, they have either lost or started to when I tuned in. So I decided that I would not be watching one of the biggest games in football history (at least for Packer and Bears fans). I was not gonna have it on my head if they lost. So a couple of friends and I got together and planned a "Craft Day". It was a great day because I got 4 layouts done and the PACK won!! See how that all worked out... now I just gotta figure out what to do on Super Bowl Sunday!

I rushed home to take a pic of my first layout so I could get listed as it was inspired by not one but two challenge blogs I discovered in my perusings last night. I discovered a neat blog where the challenges are inspired by songs, Scrap it With a Song. The song this time was Sara Evans, Born to Fly. I also used a sketch from a sketch challenge blog, Stuck on U Sketches, for my base of the layout. I took a picture came here to blog about it and enter in the song challenge only to discover that the top 5 were picked today... not sure why I thought entries were until tonight. Oh well, maybe next week as it was fun to scrap inspired by a song.

Here's the sketch posted by SOUS...

And here is my take on it...


This is my first time entering a sketch challenge but I've used sketches before sometimes I follow them exactly and other times they start as a base and then go off on a tangent from there. This time the sketch was simple enough and worked perfectly for my layout that I stayed true to it.

When I watched the video and listened to the lyrics I thought of my middle child. She is always on the move, always social, can't wait to become an adult. I remembered that her friend had taken a series of picture of her and this one just seemed like she was leaping into flight. It felt perfect for this layout.

I used the the refrain of Sara Evans' song for my journaling...
How do you wait for heaven?
And who has that much time?
And how do you keep your feet on the ground
When you know that you were born,
You were born to Fly.

The title was cut from Elegant Cakes cartridge and the red flourish is a cut from Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art. I hadn't used EC in quite awhile and the MS one is fairly new and hadn't been used at all yet. Plus the black plaid paper is from a new stack DCWV, Dots, Stripes and Plaids. Feels good using items that I HAD to have but hadn't used yet.

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