be happy …

BREAKING NEWS – We are re-opening the challenge blog at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge and are looking for design team members.  You can contact me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com if you are interested.  Please send me a link to your blog, your design team experience or anything else that may be of interest.  You don’t need to have had experience to apply.

Here’s a little cutie for you – my daughter Mary Pennington as a little girl, just singing her heart out at our old piano.

I made the layout for CSI Case file 106 where I used the evidence(s) cloud(s), stripes, white background and I used the testimony “Be” as well as their lovely colour scheme. This is my first time playing along with their challenge and I LIKED IT!!! Will play along again.

I also used the sketch from PageMaps blog from their latest challenge – just LOVED the sketch, Becky!!

Here is my layout, using Cathie Allan and Canadian Scrapbooker’s Super Stock, Crate Paper The Pier stripe, Making Memories Love Story.

look what my friend mitra mailed to me …

Happy mail!!! A lovely parcel from my friend Mitra came – and look what was in it!!

This lovely box that she altered so beautifully!!!

And some treats inside!!!

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! It made my day to have this treat waiting for me!!!

 

ness …

BREAKING NEWS – We are re-opening the challenge blog at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge and are looking for design team members.  You can contact me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com if you are interested.  Please send me a link to your blog, your design team experience or anything else that may be of interest.  You don’t need to have had experience to apply.

Here is a layout of my son Chris Pennington, who dressed up as the Nintendo character Ness from the game Earthbound for Hallowe’en this year.  He had some fun going to the game store just down from his place, where people stopped by that evening  dressed up as game characters. He did a great job of the costume, and of dyeing the hat he wore to go with it.

I used the Canadian paper line Bizous (BZoo) for the black strip, Crate Paper Farmhouse Collection Apple Pie for the yellow strip, and Cathie Allan and Canadian Scrapbooker’s Super Stock for the white background.  I made this layout for Scrap Africa, whose challenge this month is to use a recycled item in a layout.  My recycled item is the oval coaster I used as the base for the title of the layout.  I also used the January 2014 Sketchy sketch made by Sue Sykes for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine as inspiration.

Anne Pennington

Cropfest Kingston – what are you waiting for?

Lisa has some tickets left for Cropfest in Kingston Ontario 25-27 April 2014 – lucky you!!! You still have time to go to her website at:

http://www.scrapfest.ca/CropFest_Kingston_2014/Registration/Main_Page

to register for a weekend of fun and creativity.

I’ve attended many of her events, and they are some of my FAVOURITE memories.  She is such a gracious and generous hostess!!

 

cirque de soleil

Loving the sketch at Sketchabilities . I used it for this layout based on the theme this month of Carnival over at Craft Szafa’s blog. Loving how the combination of these two challenges inspired this layout.

The photos are of a free performance given by Cirque de Soleil at Quebec City on 10 August 2011 – the day my son Chris turned 18.  Scott, Mary, Chris and I spent the day in Quebec City to celebrate the big day – and ended the evening with this amazing performance.  I used Graphic 45 Le Cirque Collection paper line for this layout.  Hope you enjoy it!!

Anne Pennington

cherish …

Wow – so happy – first layout of the year, on the first day of the year! Happy New Year all!!

I’ve been busy organizing in my new scrap space, and I have to say, I am feeling very spoiled indeed.  We’ve just finished putting an addition on our house, and my husband said I was welcome to have the entire new basement for my studio.  I love it!  It is bright, spacious, has our new second bathroom right off of it, our old couch (for napping), or for someone to sit while they keep me company.  The new laundry room (closet) is at the end of the room, and their are two storage closets.  I am really, really happy, and know I am very, very fortunate.

To top it off, our lovely children bought a nice TV for the room. My husband mounted it on an articulating wall-bracket.  I moved my twin brother Gary’s table down here to use as my worktable – I can think of him while I create.  Things are getting super organized down here, and so now it is time for a break to create!!

Here is a layout based on December’s Sketchy Challenge at Canadian Scrapbooker using K&Company Urban embellishments, K&Company paper, Basic Grey Out of Print Special Feature paper, a few other scrap papers, all layed on a Cathie Allan and Canadian Scrapbooker’s Super Stock background. The photo is of my eldest daughter Nikki Delage, and my sweet youngest granddaughter Emma Delage at our daughter Stephanie Pennington’s wedding 8 September 2012.  Hope you enjoy it!!!

Anne Pennington