Two new challenges!

I have two new layouts from two different scrapping challenges to share with you today!  And as you will see, I used photos to depict a milestone in Anne's life for both layouts!

The first layout I made is with Miracles Momma Designs Sketch #31!  I am on Heather Landry's sketch design team and am absolutely loving being a "Miracles Momma Designs Diva!!"  I really mean it.  Heather and the rest of the team are encouraging, very talented, but most importantly, extremely nice!  And we just welcomed 2 new design team members! Please check out Heather's blog to see the layouts Heather and her divas made using sketch #31.

Here is Heather's awesome sketch:

For my layout, I used photos that I took the night of Anne's VERY FIRST school dance.  Yes, I guess it had to happen some time, so why not sooner than later?!  She was very excited and actually won a door prize afterwards. Here is the layout that I created with 3 of the photos that I took that night:

I used my January kit from Scraptastic entitled "Chasing Pavements" with all of the cool elements that came along with it to make my page.  

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The second layout I would like to share with you is made with photos taken during Anne's birthday party at Bounce U.



We have not had a "kids" party for Anne since she was in kindergarten, and since she turned "double digits" this year, we decided to allow her to have a party for her friends from our neighborhood, school, and her karate class.

I utilized the colors from Color Me Scrappy's Challenge #28 as follows:

Aren't the Bounce U colors perfect here?  I thought so!!!!
In addition, I got inspiration using January's sketch from My Creative Sketches:

And without further ado, here is my layout:

Anne's lips look so funny (don't they??) because she and her friends were smearing the cake icing all over their faces and having an absolute BLAST at her party!  Here are some of her party pictures:

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As you can see, a good time was had by all!  I am so happy that Anne's friends were able to come out on a week night to help celebrate her big day!  I am still overcome with emotion at the thought of her growing up so quickly.

In conclusion, all of you scrapper should check out Miracles Momma Designs and Color Me Scrappy this week to get some wonderful scrappy inspiration!  Heather's sketch and digital template is FREE, and if you enter into Color Me Scrappy's challenge, you have a chance to win a great prize from:

Peace Love and Scrapbooking!

Have a great Friday everyone.  If you live on the north east coast of North America, try to stay warm.  It has gone from 60 degrees F to 18 degrees F here in PA in a very short period of time.  Crazy!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Warm HUGS to all of you!!!