Loving the Beach Life and a Christmas layout!

Four Challenges! Four different layouts. 

Challenge 1. 

Amanda Crafts and More - Getting Scrappy Challenge #13 has a Christmas in July Challenge to make a layout. I'm in a double mood:

Love that first early hour of Christmas morning when the boys see the tree and they remember about Santa's visit. 

 

I double emboss everything now, thanks to a little up-coming craft king: Miss Pink Cricut's little Carson!

 

This window is from Christmas cartridge. I chopped out some panes to fit the photos and added one long one. Then stickles in some snow on the window sills. 

Renovations - scrapbooking style!

Challenge 2

The Scrapoholic has a great challenge on at the moment and I can't wait to see more from this blog! MTC/SVG Monday is a challenge you can enter, get a few cool SVG's and MTC files for free (for a limited time of the challenge) and then enter her challenge! AWESOME way to get me motivated back into SVGs. 

 

These are the files for free in this challenge. HOT!

Here is my layout. 

 

I lived in a beautiful seaside town for two years in 2000. It was the most gorgeous place. Every morning I would take a walk on the beach and probably once a week I had the entire coastline to myself. Not a soul in sight with these amazing views. Loved it!

I took some of the wave cuts. I was very impressed by the smooth cut these files give. Some SVG's make the blade get a little sporadic and jittery. These cut like butter! Great job Scrapoholic!

Challenge 3

THEN I found another challenge by Scrapoholic for a sketch.

Sketchy Saturday. It is an awesome hand drawn sketch:

So I just had to make a second layout and enter this one too! 

Love that big wave, with journalling and embellies for water spray idea.

I used buttons, i-gems, kaiser bling, Candi and as an added extra, there are two little boy fingerprints in paint! We had rainy craft day together today.  

Here's how the double layout turned out:

Challenge 4

Celebrate the Occasion is having a Blue and White challenge on and after making my Teresa Spaceships, just had to have a go at her cart in white and blue! Made a card plus an envelope for my sister in law's birthday. Clean and simple kind of style:

Used stamp masking and inking.

 The flower, frame and monogram are from 

Sophisticated cartridge.

The font is Nursery Rhymes. 

Thanks Celebrate the Occasion with a great challenge and a cute birthday card for my sister-in-law!

So here's my double layout for the two challenges in one!

Thanks Scrapoholic! 

Thanks Amanda's Craft and More for the great challenge. I love seeing layout challenges!

And to all my bloggy friends who make my day with their gorgeous comments,the writing is in the sand: