I Heart Faces: Let Them Be Little

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Inspiration Overload

I've been running on inspiration overload this week.  Maybe it's that I'm procrastinating doing all the things around the house that are more important... Maybe it's that I caught up on downloading Becky Fleck's PageMaps that I had missed over the last few months.

Either way, I've been a scrappin' fool lately!  It feels really great, because I haven't had a jag like this in a long, long time... Believe it or not, these are just the pages I've done for fun; there are several more that I can't show you yet because they have to wait for the sketches to be released!  Sigh.  I'm loving this.

Enjoy!

 Spaghetti Face digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Kit: One Love Collab by Scrap Orchard; Lined Paper: Line it Up by Amy Martin; Border: Doodle Borders by Sahlin Studion; Sketch: PageMaps by Becky Fleck; Font: Underwood Champion

  Apple Orchard digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Kit: Apple Orchard by Sahlin Studio; Paper Fold: Gunhild Storeide; Sketch: PageMaps by Becky Fleck; Fonts: Mailart Rubberstamp, Gill Sans MT Condensed

   What is Fall? digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Kit: So Grateful by Sugarplum Paperie and Sahlin Studio; Overlay: Fall Overlay by Anna Aspnes; Font: Underwood Champion

 Fresh Air digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Paper: Kate Teague; Stitched Border, Jeweled Button: Karen Funk; Ribbons, Flowers, Buttons: Audrey Neal; Tag: Robyn Meierotto; Word Art: Sara Schmutz; Fonts: JP Sponge Job, I Love Derwin

 Playful digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Kit: Art and Soul by Sahlin Studio; Word Art: Playful by Sahlin Studio; Sketch: PageMaps by Becky Fleck; Font: Traveling Typewriter

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I Heart Faces: Tickled Pink

It's Monday, which means photo challenge day at I Heart Faces!  Their theme this week is "Tickled Pink," in honor of breast cancer awareness.  I really struggled with whether to post something of my wonderful mother-in-law, whom we lost to cancer 19 months ago.  I looked at a hundred pictures of her and decided to keep them to myself for today :).  I think they're better suited to my own memories than today's competition...

So, here's a much lighter-hearted take on the color! Little daughter, perpetually dressed in pink, gettin' some love from Puppy.  Click to see larger and clearer, and as always, thanks for looking!

Kisses

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I Heart Faces: Raise Your Hands!

This week's challenge at I Heart Faces is a little different...they're featuring hands, and there doesn't actually have to be a face in the picture!

This spring picture of baby #4 came immediately to mind. The boy is obsessed with rocks (what preschool boy isn't, honestly?).  He's always "collecting" them, piling them, sorting them.  This photo is such a perfect little time capsule of who he is right now...those sweet toddler fingers, filled with the inexplicable treasures of boyhood...that pink smirk, so pleased with his find.

Treasures

As always, you can click the picture to see it larger, and don't forget to peek at the other gorgeous entries at I Heart Faces!  Thanks for stopping by!

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Sketches Rock!

With everything that's been going on in life, my creative mojo has been, well, running on empty.  I'm so fortunate to be a team member at Scrapbook Challenges, because it forces me to sit down and design...whether I'm feeling it or not.  Even more fortunately, the sketches that the staff there dream up are awesome, and sometimes I'm genuinely surprised at what I'm able to do with their inspiration!  So, I thought I'd post a few of the recent sketch layouts I've designed for them...

 Sizzling Summer of Sketches SS06 by Natalie Macdonald for Scrapbook Challenges

  Major Tude digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Kit: Art and Soul by Holly Designs and Sahlin Studio; Flair: Plaiditude Add-On by BZB Designs; Sketch: SS06 by Natalie Madonald for Scrapbook Challenges; Font: Carbon Type

Sizzling Summer of Sketches SS10 by Jowilna Nolte for Scrapbook Challenges 

The Orange Party digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Paper: Maybe by Deena Rutter; Paper Tear: Gunhild Storeide; Stitch: Stitch It Up 4 by Crisdam Designs; Alpha: Holly Jolly by Robyn Meierotto; Sketch: SS10 by Jowilna Nolte for Scrapbook Challenges; Font: I Love Derwin

 Sketch 267 by Jowilna Nolte for Scrapbook Challenges 

Listen to Your Heart digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Paper: Persimmon by Jen Allyson; Tag: Tag You're It by Robyn Meierotto; String, Scallop: Organic Elements by Audrey Neal; Word Art: Art and Soul by Sahlin Studio; Sketch: 267 by Jowilna Nolte for Scrapbook Challenges; Font: Carbon Type

 Sketch 268 by Anna White-Sharman for Scrapbook Challenges

His Window digital scrapbooking layout by Chanell Rigterink Credits Digital Kits: Treaured Moments Add-On by Sahlin Studio and Sugarplum Paperie, You and Me CT Appreciation Collab; Frames: Back to Basics Frames by Sara Schmutz; Alpha: Foam Stamp by Sahlin Studio; Sketch: 268 by Anna White-Sharman for Scrapbook Challenges; Font: Grant's Ghosts

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