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Glitter Blog Hop

Welcome to the Glitter Blog Hop hosted by Lorby’s World.


These talented crafters believe a little or a lot of glitter can make any project sparkle and today they are going to prove it with their creations. Please visit each participant and leave a little bit of love on their blogs.

Jearise from Lorby’s World has a special drawing to go along with today’s hop. One lucky winner will win a $10 gift card from Michael’s. Just leave a comment on her blog so we know you joined us today. The winner will be announced on Sunday, July 28th so make sure you visit that day to see if you are the lucky winner.

I don’t know about you, but when you I think of glitter I think of girly things, but I had this paper and embellishments from My Minds Eye and of course I just happen to have the MOST ADORABLE grandson in the world so needless to say I threw caution to the wind and used my glitter paper and embellishments with a couple of my favorite photos of my grandson Ezekiel.

These pictures were taken over a year ago.  The one in the upper left he was playing ball and all happy and proud of himself.  The original photo is not the greatest quality but I brought it into Photoshop and turned into Sepia tone and matched it to the paper and you can’t tell it’s blurry!  Technology can be your friend!

The other photo is of Ezekiel and myself taken at my sister’s house.  Can you tell I love my Baby Boy?  That picture is also blurry however, you cannot tell this as much, again, because I brought it into Photoshop and made it sepia tone.

I kept the layout simple because of all the glitter on the paper already.  It’s one of my favorite layouts with my Favorite Baby Boy!  I hope you Enjoy!

Now let’s see what the Most Talented Carla has in store for you!!!

Thank you for stopping by today and your next stop is Carla ~ http://racincrafts.blogspot.com

Mayra the Mad Scrapper

 Blog Hop Line Up

Jearise ~ http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com
Edwina ~ http://edwinascreations.blogspot.com
Lynne ~ http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com
Camille ~ http://shortonideasaz.blogspot.com
Jamie ~ http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com
Mayra ~ http://themaddscrapper.blogspot.com
Carla ~ http://racincrafts.blogspot.com
Maria ~ http://asimplefive.blogspot.com
Lucy ~ http://love2createitall.com
Lori ~ http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com
Davinia ~ http://ifindoubtbling.blogspot.com.au

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Precious One

This is a photo my daughter caught of her husband holding my grandson Ezekiel.

The idea was that Ezekiel would be napping….well..at least one of them was napping! LOL

I fell in love with this photo on sight and KNEW I had to scrap it.

First off I brought the original photo into Photoshop and essentially fiddly-farted with it by desaturating it a bit.

Then off I went in search of just the right paper and decorative touches from my stash.

Once I laid out my elements it still needed “something.” I then went in search through my SVG files and found this “Love” frame in my wedding files.

I then went in search of another photo to put inside the frame and desaturated it as well to continue the theme.

I added a little journaling block in peach and the green ribbon for a pop of color.

I’ve also entered this in a the June Two Pic Challenge at www.scrapbook.com.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Mayra the Mad Scrapper

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National Hug Your Cat Day

My feline best friend and the subject of this blog hop is none other than Squeaker the Cat and trust me she earns her name! Squeakie is quite the conversationalist and very vocal about her wants/needs particularly at Bedtime!!!

I swear she lays in wait…fakes me out and makes me think she is dead asleep, but the second my head hits the pillow its, “meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow meow!!! “It is now time to pet me and scratch me and Love Me Mom!!! You’re not tired!” LOL

I mean look at her in the photo….she’s laying on my pillow with that impish look of hers letting me know “I’m waiting for you!”

You know what is my favorite part of Squeakie? It’s her “antennas.” In this picture she was down to 2 only, usually she sports 4! LOL They are bright white, tall and just stand out against all her black.

She truly is a joy and a ball to have around…I’ll talk to her and she will meow me her replies and we will carry whole conversations!

As for the layout itself, the paper came from Die Cuts with a View Pet’s Stack and flat flowers from Petaloo if I’m not wrong. Don’t quote me on the latter, I’ve had them for a while and it is what happens when you shop from your stash! LOL

I made myself let go on this layout, I tend to be one of those scrappers that over-analyzes her layout to the “nth” degree. This time I just cut up paper, put it together, called it good and then realized “Gawd this is Busy!”

But then I like busy! =D

I hope you enjoy my stop…leave me some Love if you like my layout! Oh and don’t forget to Hug Your Cat today!!!

Next stop is Robin!!!

Mayra the Mad Scrapper 

Blog Hop Line Up

Jessi – www.Mylifeinartsncrafts.com
Connie – http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
Robin – http://littletidsandbits.blogspot.com/
Lynne – http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Mayra – http://themaddscrapper.blogspot.com/
Robin – http://scrapandchat.blogspot.com

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March Mustache Madness Blog Hop

Welcome to our March Mustache Madness Blog Hop. Mustaches are all the craze now and we decided we needed to show off our mustachabilities through crafting and jump on the band wagon. We hope you enjoy all the fun and silly projects that have been made incorporating mustaches.

Our hostess is Jearise at Lorby’s World and make sure you start at her blog since she has a fun mustache give away for this hop with all the details to enter on her blog.

Now on to the mustaches and fun!

Greetings all! I decided to participate in this blog hop because I wanted to challenge myself to think OUTSIDE the box and this hop certainly challenged my creativity. I felt like Winnie the Pooh…I thunk and I thunk and I thunk my big thoughts (and that’s a lot of thunking for my poor pea brain!) until genius FINALLY struck!

I really didn’t want to use the mustache in any obvious form…I wanted it to tell me what it was going to be … I just had to wait until it FINALLY did. I just stared at the cut out and had a “Seussian” moment and saw that the mustache reminded me of a Christmas tree! (Yeah, I know…a bit of a stretch!) but there you have it.

I coupled that inspired “genius” with the knowledge that I had a seriously silly photo of my daughter Tatiana when she went with me to pick out a Christmas tree a couple of years ago…and you have my project above.

It’s rather simple, but then some of life’s best pleasures are just that…simple! I hope you all enjoy…and remember don’t just go for the obvious..let the creativity flow and carry you outside the box!

Have a great day…Enjoy the hop!

Mayra the Mad Scrapper

Full Lineup in case you get lost along the way.
Jearise – lorbysworld.blogspot.com
Tee – tee-myspot.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-mustache-madness-blog-hop.html
Lucy ~ love2createitall.com
CallyAnn – callyanncraftycreations.blogspot.com
Ashley – thebloghopprincess.blogspot.com
Cicily – www.pinkdalmationscrapper.blogspot.co
Anita – www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com
Lynne – slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com
Mayra – themaddscrapper.blogspot.com
Michele – www.scrapytaz.blogspot.com

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