These are pictures taken by my 5 year old daughter, Brooklyn. I have definitely got a photographer/scrapper on my hands.


Here is a picture I took at the mall of my three younger children. We went for pictures with Santa but Santa had left early that day.

Here are a couple of recent layouts.
Hello! Navidad was inspired from the gold and brown hues in the picture. I crocheted the ivory/gold flower that I used in the middle of the ivory silk poinsettia and used a gold snowflake button in the center. The embossed, gold foil star and ornament are Christmas tags. I used the personalized ribbon bow from the favors of the wedding on the foil ornament. I wasn't sure where I would place the journaling because I had little room from the embellies that I used so I machine stitched a frame around the two vertical pictures and hand-wrote the journaling above the stitched lines. The thick gold ribbon fit perfectly in the bling buckle and additional bling photo corners and flourish dazzled the layout up a little more. This layout was made for Day 5 of The 25 Days of Christmas at Scrapbook Dreamer and for Challenge #1 at Sassy Scrapper's December Holiday Extravaganza.

On December fun, I used non-traditional colors again for a Christmas layout. I knew I could get away with a color palette of blue/black/lavender by using a black and white picture. The blue metal word plates were very old in my stash and originally designed for a baby boy page but still worked well with a Christmas theme. I stickled the tips of the black paper flower and white silk flower to coordinate with the white silvery cording ribbon. This layout was made for Day 6 at Dreamer and for Challenge #2 at Sassy's.

Happy Tuesday!
Nik

New Prima Product Picks

Prima has announced their New Product Picks and you can get a chance to win these beautiful babies by posting a link on your blog and leaving them a comment on their blog HERE. Be sure to stop by and put your name in the hat :)

Happy Thursday!
Nik

Urban Swank Giveway

Urban Swank is giving away a FANTASTIC patterned paper assortment pack and I would love to be the lucky winner of these goodies. Click on the link above and spread the word for your chance to win.

Happy Sunday!
Nik

12 Days of a Twilight Christmas

Good evening scrappers. As most of you already know, I'm a huge Twi-mom and I'm addicted to anything Twilight and wrote this little tune at work last night and wanted to share. Please sing along with me to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas.

Here we go:

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me
A Vampire in a Forks Tree.


On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Two Motorcyle Gloves and a
Vampire in a Forks Tree.

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me Three Wolf dens Two Motorcycle Gloves and A Vampire in a Fork's Tree

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me
FIIIIIIVE VOOOOlturi Kiiiiiiings!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Six New Borns Slaying, FIIIIIIVE VOOOOOlturi Kiiiiiings!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me Seven Bella Swans Swimming, Six New Borns Slaying, FIIIIIIIVE VOOOOOOlturi Kiiiiiiings!!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Eight Days of Reading, Seven Bella Swans Swimming, Six New Borns Slaying, FIIIIIIVE VOOOOOOOlturi Kiiiiiiings!!!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.


On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Nine Laurents Dancing, Eight Days of Reading, Seven Bella Swans Swimming, Six New Borns Slaying, FIIIIIIIVE VOOOOOOlturi Kiiiiings!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Ten Quileutes Sleeping, Nine Laurents Dancing, Eight Days of Reading, Seven Bella Swans Swimming, Six New Borns Slaying, FIIIIIIIVE VOOOOOOlturi Kiiiiiiings!!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.


On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me Eleven Rosalies Griping, Ten Quileutes Sleeping, Nine Laurents Dancing, Eight Days of Reading, Seven Bella Swans Swimming, Six New Borns Slaying, FIIIIIIIIIVE VOOOOOOOlturi Kiiiiiiings!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Tree.


On the twelth day of Christmas my true love gave to me Twelve Volvos Humming, Eleven Rosalies Griping, Ten Quileutes Sleeping, Nine Laurents Dancing, Eight Days of Reading, Seven Bella Swans Swimming, Six New Borns Slaying, FIIIIIIIVE VOOOOOOlturi Kiiiiiiiings!!!! Four New Moon Shirts, Three Wolf Dens, Two Motorcycle Gloves, and a Vampire in a Fork's Treeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about my little jingle ;)
Have a Very Sparkly Christmas fellow Twilighters and a Hooowling New Year ;)
Nik

I am hosting this week's Blog Challenge at the Scrapdango Blog. For my challenge, I want you to tackle your stash and your fears. I know we all have a huge stash of eyelets that we are still trying to tackle so break those babies out and put some to good use. I want to see at least 10 eyelets on your creation. Bling, Bling, Bling. Who doesn't love bling? Be sure to add some bling from your stash and dazzle your project up a bit. Lastly, is doodling. This will probably be a tough one for many of you. I don't doodle much on my layouts but do on occasion so go ahead and show me some doodles. You can doodle outlines, flourishes, circles, dots or anything you like--just as long as it's doodled and not stamped. It must be hand-doodled without a template. That's it! Simple enough, right? Halloween '09 is my example layout to inspire you to join us. Just post your layout on the Scrapdango Blog by clicking on the link above. Can't wait to see what you come up with!!

let them eat CAKE is an If It's Groovy layout inspired by a wonderful sketch provided by our DT Member Lissa. Our theme was layers and what better way to represent layers than showcase the wonderful layers of a Mexican wedding cake. I layered three rows of ruffly lace by stitching each row individually and included more layers of patterned papers and flowers. I LOVED the end result. I even used the Fancy Pants packaging from the jumbo chipboard sheets (underneath the last row of lace) and added corduroy and fabric buttons for more texture. We would love to see what you come up with using this week's sketch. Just post your creation on the Groovy site by clicking on the link above.

And another quick reminder to please join us at Scrapdango for our 12 Days of Christmas Challenges HERE and also at Scrapbook Dreamer for the 25 Days of Christmas Crop going on right now. Please be sure to post HERE that Nikki sent you so that we both are entered in the drawing for a fabulous Christmas patterned paper give-away.

Happy Thursday!!
Nik