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Hello! Are you still reading? lol I know it's been a long, long time but I have lots to share :) I'm going to share two layouts today and then I'll try to get my (completed!) December Daily posted to share tomorrow. I can't tell you how happy I am to be back to creating full size layouts. These are both direct lifts from Linda (was sooo happy to see her chosen as a DT member for BOAF this term!).

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I saw this weeks sketch at Sketchy Thursday and was immediately drawn to making a Christmas tree with my photos & papers. I strayed more from this sketch than normal...and was most excited by turning it into a 6" x 12" layout! {please click on the image for better viewing}This next layout by Janet totally inspired me, too.  My papers are K&Company I think...I dug deep in my stash to find the

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I am desperately behind in my December Daily album, but I'm still trying to get caught up. Now that school is out and all of my photography sessions are edited, I should be able to catch up easier :) We had pictures with Santa before December but I wanted to be sure that I included that photo somewhere. I meant to put the date as 11/2011. Oops! Hard to see in the photo but I've used some Shimmerz

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 I may not be scrapping much at this point in the year but I will always be sure to keep up with Project 12! Only one more month and then I'll have two years documented and one very full album :) I felt that the December and November sketches would be better flipped for me so this is using the December sketch. {Not at all that I'm afraid of the November sketch *wink wink*}  The left side  and

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This is my entry for this week's challenge at Sketchy Thursdays. The yellow strip is cardstock but the other three are fabric! Adds a nice texture to the page :)  A closeup of the journaling (click the picture to see it larger). I thought it was funny that the pictures are 2 years old - almost to the day of my journaling! Feels good to use some older photos... And it feels good to have this

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We are on the downhill slide for another year documented with Project 12! I finished Sept just a few days ago *blushing* but was feeling more motivated for October. I love Halloween so that helps, but also, because 10 months done out of 12 feels awesome!  It was fun to include a 5x7 picture this month. I think I'm going to go back and doodle some around the title circle to fill in the black areas

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I'm back today with another layout using my October kit from Birds of A Feather. I might be able to squeeze another few layouts out of the kit! This is using the sketch for this month's sketch challenge at BOAF and I'm also entering it at The Paper Variety this week for their family challenge.{I used the word "family" in my journaling.} A few closeups: Thanks for looking and have a great

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I really liked this sketch from Sketchy Thursday:and knew immediately what photos I wanted to use when I saw the challenge was to scrap a page that reflected gratitude/thankfulness.  Last weekend we had my niece over for a sleepover - first time in over 2 years! My girls love their cousin and I am thankful that they are close. I was not close to any of my cousins growing up since we lived so far

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I've been missing here on the blog for a few weeks - sorry about that! I haven't had much time to scrap since I've recently just started a photography business! You can check out some of my photos on my facebook page here and like my page while you are there! ;-) {I tried to add a link in my sidebar but haven't quite figured it out yet... if anyone has done that, I'd love some pointers!} Anyway,

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Are you on Pinterest yet? If not, let me know, I'm all for bringing people over to the dark side! See...I saw a pin by Kayla. It was a layout of Jan's. This one: Isn't it great?! Clouds, kites, banner...ahhh! Instead of printing it out, saving it to a folder on my desktop or bookmarking it, I "pinned" it. Then as I was working on a layout for a challenge at Birds of a Feather...I needed some

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I created today's layout using this week's sketch at Sketchy Thursdays. I also created it based on some requirements for a challenge at last weekend's crop at BOAF. Everyone's requirements were different based on what year you were born and mine were: 3 photos, 5 different pattern papers, a 3 word title and 10 of my favorite embellishment (butterflies). This is what I came up with:I had to throw

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I've been busy scrapping all weekend so I will have lots of layouts to share this week! First up, I made this page for this week's challenge at The Paper Variety to use a forest critter. I have tons of owl paper and embellies...this paper just happens to be my most recent find. If you click on the image it should be easier to see...with the bad weather yesterday I didn't take the time to get

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 Birds of a Feather Kit Co is having a birthday party! Amy started her company one year ago this month and she is also celebrating her very own birthday today ;-) What better way than to celebrate with a crop, right? To start the crop off, the design team and a few of the guest design team alumni have put together a blog hop for you! If you arrived here from Linda's blog, you are headed in the

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Just a quick post to let you know that this weekend, Birds of a Feather is having a birthday crop AND blog hop! I was honored to be asked to participate in the blog hop so check back on Friday to participate. I'm offering up a $10 gift card to scrapbook.com and I know there will be other prizes as well - including a $50 prize package of Bella Blvd products! To participate in the crop, you'll

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I created this layout using a sketch for this week's challenge at The Paper Variety and still using my October kit for BOAF :-) Some closeups:  Get it? "Time"...and the clock chipboard behind "Fun"? :-) Hope your weekend is great - the weather for us is looking fantastic!

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I pulled this layout together pretty quick using my kit from BOAF. Amy said there is only one more kit left!That is once I figured out to use the tickets for my banner. Hard to tell in the picture but it's got two layers to the banner - with a dimensional between the tickets. I got that idea from something I saw on Pinterest! Stitching on the border strips, around the circle and around the frame.

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The past couple of years, I've been less into altering items and more into scrapbooking actual layouts but when I saw chalkboard paper in this month's kit at Birds of A Feather, I knew that I wanted to make something useful out of it! So I took this unused dust holder (everything in there was 3+ years old): and turned it into this: I wanted the tag to be permanent so I wrote on the chalkboard

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The last few layouts I've posted have been with the October kit from Birds of a Feather Kit Co. Today I have a card for you!  It was super easy because I used this sketch from Cardabilities: Part of the reason I don't make many cards is because I feel like the inside of the card and the envelope need something to match. Who wants to read what's on the inside when the outside is so pretty, right?

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This is my third layout using the October kit from Birds of a Feather Kit Co. Let's talk about this picture. It was from 4 years ago so I can't really remember why she was crying, but I'm pretty sure it was a combination of being tired, hot, hungry and also jealous.  Her cousin was with us for pictures and she wasn't used to sharing attention! I promise, she was not hurt ;-) Both of my girls

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Another layout using the October Kit from Birds of a Feather Kit Co. I was a little bummed that I had already scrapped all of this year's back to school pictures - normally I have at least one picture that is left to scrap. Then I realized I had the class pictures from Pre-K last year. I found a sketch from PageMaps and went to work to come up with this: A couple of closeups. The twine is from my

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My blog has been quiet but that is because I have been busy working with the October kit from Birds of a Feather Kit Co. Amy was so great to let me design for her again! This is my first layout to share: The kit is full of FALL and SCHOOL theme papers but when I saw the little tag from Jillibean Soup that says "Fresh Picked" I immediately thought of newborn baby pictures. The dress that my little

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I'm entering this layout into this week's challenge over at The Paper Variety to use stickers. The flourish and flowers are all stickers. The blue flower & brown circle w/pink flower are stickers that I took the sticky out of before adding dimensional stickers to the back. I also used stickers for the date and title. I actually finished this layout a while back but haven't felt motivated to post

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There were a total of 5 challenges at The Paper Variety this week and earlier today I uploaded 3 layouts. I still wanted to complete the last two but they were challenges that I new I would struggle with on a layout...so off to card making I went!  I knew I'd have fun making a Halloween card so I made this for the stamping challenge. The bat and "I'm batty for you" are all one stamp so I colored

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I sure am glad I am done scrapping this set of pictures! I created a layout for each girl and then a few extra layouts and I'm ready to move on to something else ;-)I lifted the design from Linda's layout here: I thought it was so smart to use the journaling cards for part of the grid design. I will be doing this more on future layouts! A closeup of the journaling: Everything on the layout is

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Apparently this picture is one of my favorites since I have now scrapped it on 3 different layouts! One was a digital layout about our trip to feed ducks where this picture was taken, one was about her love of pedi/manicures and then this layout. I promise, this is the last layout you will see it on! lol I'm entering it for the favorite photo challenge at The Paper Variety. I also used this

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I've been busy this weekend trying to complete all of the challenges at The Paper Variety for their blog birthday party! I'm entering this layout into their favorite embellishments challenge shown here.  I'm guessing that most people are getting sick of banners right about now, but I still love them! I'm getting better at making different kinds and this is my first time to use just a couple of

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This layout is made using the September kit and for the September sketch challenge over at Birds of a Feather. I guess I was too touchy feely with my alphas because I can't get all of the letters to stick down :-\ I'm blessed with such sweet girls, but this one, my goodness. It's almost sweetness overload! A close up of this butterfly pin.... Thanks for stopping by!

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Our weather changed for the better this past weekend. We finally had a teensy bit of rain and slightly lower temperatures. Unfortunately, it brought a lot of wind! We were outside enjoying the weather and saw a double rainbow! {click on the image for a better view of it} I've been saving this bling rainbow from Kayla for just the right layout :-)  I wasn't sure what to do for a title or

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I'm cutting it close to enter this layout for two contests! This is the FINAL page in this girl's first year album. I'll be back later this week to show you the whole album. I created this for The Paper Variety's challenge this week to do a birthday theme and use a banner. The picture used here on the layout is from her 1st birthday photo shoot. I used the sketch located here at Pretty Little

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 When I saw the September kit at Birds of a Feather, I knew these pictures needed those papers! I have at least two more layouts to complete from this photo session and can't wait to use the kit for them. I took the girls for some pictures and I was trying to be serious about them but then my daughter busted her hands in front of her face and reminded me to have fun :-) She has this thing about

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Last week my oldest started Kindergarten and I couldn't be more proud of her! She was so brave about going and didn't hesitate a bit ;-) The school district's mascot is a Gator, so I played on Kindergartener to be Kinder-gator for the title. I fully expect that next year I'll use "First Gator" instead of "First Grader" :-)I was inspired by Lisa's layout that you can see here as well as the

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Amy challenged us to take a portrait this month and this is what *I* consider to be a good portrait of my girls. I tried getting a shot of them both looking at the camera, but the little one just doesn't do it unless her finger is up her nose! lol But to me, this perfectly represents how I see my girls, hand in hand :) My older daughter is my "little mommy" so this quote was perfect for our life

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I just adore the Togetherness line from Cosmo Cricket... the kite paper, the clouds, the butterflies...they are so much fun! So I've had the digital line on my wishlist for a while and when it came up on sale for $1 this week at Jessica Sprague...I finally indulged! And then I got to work right away with a template from Jessica Sprague as well (I used #26 for this). It is totally free to download

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This layout is inspired by two things I saw online....the current sketch at Inspired Blueprints and a sneak of a layout using the sew easy tool.  I had the pennant head for my sew easy tool but hadn't used it yet. The sketch was perfect for it! I had lots of fun with this layout and love how it turned out :) I even remembered to use a movie ticket stub! The pictures are of my daughter and her

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I created this layout for this week's challenge at The Paper Variety - to add threads to your layout. Not a hard one for me since most of my layouts have some sort of stitching now! I stitched a border around the patterned paper and also some zig zag stitching on the embellie cluster in the upper left.The green flower is another one of those silk flowers that Kayla sent me - it was perfect! The

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I was a skeptic of Pinterest for a long time. Not sure why! But I've totally turned around now and love that it's my one stop place for inspiration for craft projects. After just a few minutes, I knew I wanted to do something like this for a beginning of the year gift for my daughter's kindergarten teacher. (They even provide a free file for you to download to make the tag!)2 shopping trips later

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I finally had the urge to finish the first year album for my youngest. I haven't done a layout in oh, say over a year? I did really good with her album, stayed up to date till the end when she started moving ;) This is what I came up with for month 11:As I was working on it, I realized it was almost the same colors in this week's color challenge at The Paper Variety:I didn't think it had enough

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My friend, Jill, bought me a couple of digital goodies this weekend as a belated birthday present. The timing was perfect as I'd just seen this kit released last week but would not allow myself any purchases. But there is a rainbow...and clouds...and rain!!!!!!! So, as soon as I downloaded the kit, I got to work. This is what I came up with. I used a free template from Jessica Sprague's Template

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Shortly after I finished my June Project 12 layout, this punch:which I use on every Project 12 layout (for 2011 at least) stopped working correctly. It had been jamming off and on but after another layout, completely jammed! I even had to get my husband involved ;-) I contacted EK Success and they very quickly responded to me and sent me a replacement punch! I love great customer service!! I even

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I created this challenge for the August sketch challenge at Birds of A Feather. Here is the sketch: And I saw that Janet made hers into a 8.5x11 layout so I decided to copy her ;)Of course now I see her little strip on the right and wish I would have done that too! But this is what I came up with:I'm already looking forward to fall weather and deciding on what the girls will be. Can't wait for

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I created today's layout for a challenge over at Birds of a Feather...to scraplift a layout from the gallery. Janet lifted Kayla here: I really liked BOTH layouts and I had a couple of photos that needed scrapping so I lifted both of their layouts. Can you see a bit of both in mine? ;) The tag says "I might be biased, but I think these are a couple of cute girls". Thanks to Janet & Kayla for the

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I've been having lots of fun playing with the Pretty Little Studio papers! For the month of August, if you complete a sketch challenge, you are automatically going to receive a $5 gift card - go check it out, they have one per week!  I won a $5 gift card two times now and with just a few extra bucks, I've gotten all of the pattern paper & tags used on this layout. (Do I need to mention that I

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The journaling challenge this month at Birds of a Feather was to journal with 11 different prompts....I answered all of the prompts on the pullout tag under the photo shown here {to view the journaling, you'll have to go register and read them on the forum :) }: I have been planning on doing a layout with a picture of my last day as 35 years old and this journaling prompt was perfect for it :)

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This is my last challenge for the weekend crop. The challenge was to get dirty - with paint, inks, etc. I don't use paint on layouts...ever. I have used white pain to distress but I think that's only been on mini-albums. And I've painted on altered items...just not layouts. Until now! I used a paint dauber to create the red splatters, then I dipped several different round items in purple, orange

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Second post in a row without a manufacturer's name! I *think* the pattern strip might be from K&Company but not for sure.  This layout is for the Inanimate challenge for the weekend crop at Birds of a Feather. This picture used to be on my desk when I was working - I love how peaceful I feel looking at it! It is the view of a room that I had on a solo vacation over 10 years ago. I've been wanting

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It's very unusual that I don't have a manufacturer's name to put in the title line! But this layout is for the July Technique challenge at Birds of a Feather where we are to make our own background paper and we aren't allowed to use ANY pattern paper. I dismissed the challenge quickly thinking there was no way that I could do that ;) But instead, this is what I came up with! {the pink trim looks

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I changed my mind from yesterday's post...I'm entering THIS layout into this week's challenge at The Paper Variety. The challenge was to use a grid or use all of the colors of the rainbow. I ended up doing both with this layout! lol I was so excited to get these rainbow garland flags and couldn't wait to use them. I came home last week to my girls playing in the rain (also trying to drink the

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As promised, I've been scrapping my weekend away! I was up WAY late last night and got these first two layouts done. This first one is my favorite for the weekend so far! I used a PageMaps sketch and Cosmo Cricket's Pixie-licious line. The challenge was to create a layout using a large photo (5x7 or larger).  I couldn't get a picture of the journaling because the wind was picking my layouts up

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Amy is having a crop this weekend at Birds of A Feather to welcome her new design team. That's where you will find ME this weekend! I've already completed two challenges...the first was a sketch by Liz Chidester.  The wind is crazy outside so I didn't have time for closeups! The wind even blew the knot out of the bakers twine that I used for the little banner. I checked the mail this afternoon

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Because I didn't have enough unfinished projects, I am starting a Project 365 album. I learned about this idea a couple of years ago and thought there was no way I could handle a project where I had to print a picture for each day. Maybe if I had a photo printer at home...but I don't. Project 12 has been my compromise and I love it, but I still like the idea of capturing a photo daily. So then I

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One great thing about digital layouts is that I don't have to worry about the weather when I'm completed with the layout....no pictures are needed! We are FINALLY getting a good rain storm this morning. Over at JessicaSprague.com, every Tuesday a new template {for the non-digi scrappers, it's basically a sketch with some of the work already done for you} is released for free! I'm going to try to

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Here is my entry for this month's challenge at scrapbook.com It's hard to tell some of the details in the photo, but our wind was so bad that I had a hard time getting good shots before the layout would fly away! There is zig zag stitching on the bottom of the photos to the scallop trim and straight stitching around the entire patterned paper base. The fun part was distressing the edges of the

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Today is the first day of a new project for me! Janet inspired me to start a 365 album on my birthday, and Heather's digital 365 pages inspired me to try this project all digital. This time next year, I'll be sending off all of my pages to be bound into a hardcover book. Can't wait!! So, I've been playing with templates some to get used to having a new layout each week. I got this free template

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I'm back with another layout for this week's Christmas in July challenge at TPV. For this week only, we can enter more than once! I saw Suzanne's layout using BG's Jovial and it got me itching to use some of mine... so I whipped this up super quick this morning :)I used part of a double page sketch from Page Maps for my inspiration. Not my favorite layout ever, but it's another two pictures

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I have another two-fer to share today. This doubles as the July sketch challenge at Birds of a Feather and this week's challenge at The Paper Variety - Christmas in July! I always have a hard time using snowflake paper with my layouts because we never actually see any snow here...but I guess their pajamas have snowflakes so it all works :-) I have to admit I love scrapping Christmas in July!

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This layout is using pictures taken from just last week on a trip to a local park. It was miserable hot and we were the only ones there! But that made for good picture opportunities without other kids to distract mine or be in the background. I did have to spend some extra time removing all of the red from their hot faces though ;-) Left side:  Right Side:  And a closeup of this cute zipper

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I have another two-fer today :-) This is my June Project 12 layout and it's for the July stash challenge at Birds of A Feather. Left side:  Right side:  The challenge at BOAF is to use rubons and two embellishments need to be altered with rubons as well. The "June" here is a rubon. The "life is beautiful" and "these are the days" are also rubons.  The circle around the journaling is a rubon....

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This layout is a two-fer! There is a great sketch challenge right now at The Paper Variety and I combined that with the July color challenge at Birds of a Feather. I had to add in some green and brown for the color challenge but tried to limit it as much as I could! I had two extra pictures that I had printed to go with the smaller ones so included those on a flap inside. I loved the expressions

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Look familiar? It's very similar to yesterday's layout ;) I switched which daughter was the focus and I also used Echo Park's Splash instead of Fancy Pants.  I still added some stitching and used some black & white photos...  as well as other fun details - like google eyes & a banner! This one came together in record time because I had so many great pattern papers and embellishments to choose

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This layout is a lift that I lifted from an email that I got this week from Archivers! I normally don't look since I can't afford to go shopping there...but I'll be looking from now on just for the layout ideas ;) Everything is the new Beach Babe line from Fancy Pants that I got a great discount on at my LSS since they are closing down..  Closeup of the banner: Closeup of the fish that I added

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This project started nearly 6 years ago with me buying a baby book and matching 12x12 scrapbook during my pregnancy with my oldest. I also attended a Creative Memories party where I bought the calendar pages and decided that I wanted to use those to record milestones on one page, with the other page being a collage of pictures. I believe I completed one layout in a timely fashion and then the

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I lifted this layout: From Maggie Holmes' layout:  I made it for this month's "Use your stash challenge" at Birds of a Feather to use masks to create a patterned paper starting with white cardstock. I placed a few butterflies where I wanted them and misted over them, then after it was dry, removed the butterflies. I also misted a little bit of CS to be very saturated pink and then punched

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This layout is for June's sketch challenge at Birds of a Feather:I struggled with this sketch a bit...but was much happier once I added the banner in. (sorry this is so large...but you get the idea!)    I originally thought the title would be "lather, rinse, repeat" because the girls repeated the runs down the trailer ramp all afternoon long. (There is another set of photos under the flap)

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This layout is another one that is not for a challenge! Can't believe I've done so many of these pages lately :) Ok, ok, I am linking this up for a challenge!! This week's challenge at The Paper Variety is to create a project about a special guy in your life. What a coincidence since I just posted this! And yes, I checked the rules, I can link up since it's just a few days prior to the challenge

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This layout is for this week's challenge at The Paper Variety  to include a fruit on your paper project. I had this last set of photos from our strawberry picking back in April and had been waiting to lift a layout.This is the layout I wanted to lift from Kayla...but I needed a tad bit more of the strawberry paper ;) I was lucky enough to find some last weekend on a shopping trip to Archivers!

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I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to be blogging today! Our computer died on Friday and we've already gotten it fixed :) It's amazing how different an empty computer is...I had to download Picasa again and  these layouts are the first pictures downloaded on to the computer! Luckily, I had been backing up all of my pictures so none of those are lost. I'm thinking I need to take a

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For the month of June, Kayla has challenged us over at scrapbook.com to use Cosmo Cricket products and create a layout with grids. I LOVE grids and already had a sketch in mind to use! Ready for "Grids Gone Wild!"? lol The frame paper is a grid, as well as the grid made out of the pink flower paper.The sketch I've used is from Nuts About Sketches:  I popped the title up, distressed and/or inked

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I was super excited when I saw this week's challenge at The Paper Variety...to make a paper project with a school theme. With our school year having just ended, I have several photos that need to be scrapped :) I still have one or two more to be done, but I was thrilled to get 2 LOs done from the Pre-K graduation day! Forgive these next photos...they are a tad dark since I had to take them

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After the last layout took me days to finish, I was glad that this one was done in just a couple of hours :) I started this morning and am already blogging it! The layout is for the May photography challenge at Birds of A Feather. Our challenge was to edit a photo using at least 2 actions and then create a layout using the photo. I can't remember the last time I printed a photo without editing it

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Another layout that is not for a challenge! It took me days to complete it because I didn't have a sketch to start with. This smaller splash on the left side is cut from the cover sheet of the collection pack as I needed another splash but the sticker sheet only had one. Only to find out minutes after all that fussy cutting that there are some EP images available for the Silhouette!  I got a

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This layout is one that I made just because - not for any challenge! I did use a PageMaps sketch and some of my new stuff from Echo Park. LOVE the matching alpha stickers that come in the collection pack. A bit closer of the left...  and right... Thanks for stopping by!

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The journaling reads:"Happiness isa summer breeze, sand between your toesand your best friendby your side" This is a two-fer layout. First off, I used all Cosmo Cricket products for Kayla's challenge at scrapbook.com. This months challenge was to fussy cut...The little yellow half-flowers are cut out from a 12x12 paper and then layered for a pleated look. I also cute the journal spot out, as well

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I did it! I finally did it! I used black ink for distressing instead of brown :) I've been seeing lots of scrapbookers using black ink lately but I guess most of my paper has a brown hue to it, so I naturally grab the brown ink. I pushed myself to find a project to try black and here it is :) I used some paper that I picked up on sale over NSD weekend from Amy at Birds of a Feather. When I saw

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This layout came together because of 3 challenges! The Paper Variety's challenge this week is to create a movie theme project or one based on the title of the movie. I had several ideas in mind...but went with "Confessions of a Shopaholic". Last weekend during the crop at BOAF for National Scrapbook Day, Deb posted a layout for her challenge about her daughter being a fashionista. I loved it and

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This month's sketch had lots of photos in it, and I even split one 3x5 into two smaller pictures because I neded a couple of vertical pictures but all the sketch had was horizontal!  Very few embellishments...which is good since the layout is so busy with pictures.  To be honest, our month was so busy that I wasn't even able to get all of the events highlighted on this page! If I was one to keep

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I'm mainly posting this for Suzanne to see because I think she'll appreciate my title humor :). The title is split between the pullout journaling card and the two strips by the picture: "I scrap because...it's not hoarding if it looks pretty, right?" I have so many pictures to hold onto and if they were just all in boxes, I would look like a hoarder. But now that they are going into albums, I'm

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Happy National Scrapbooking Day! Has there ever been a better weekend...NSD AND Mother's Day? :) I'm cropping with the chicks at Birds of a Feather Kit Co - you should come join us! If you do... you can see my very first layout I ever made ;) This is for Deb's challenge to great a multiphoto layout using small photos.  I've had this PageMaps sketch on my desk for about a month now and almost got

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Two reasons I am impressed with this layout. First of all, it has 11 (ELEVEN!) photos on it! Second, I used my Silhouette to cut the title. It must be over a year since I last used it! :-o I chose to use the Silhouette since my stash of red alphas did not have enough Rs...and Michaels did not have a huge variety to choose from . Yay me for saving some cash! I broke out the stickles too...kinda

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Starting today, Kitchen Keepsakes is holding a crop a.k.a The Food Network Mixer. The challenges are all posted and you have lots to choose from, I've got a few picked out myself that I hope to get to this weekend ;) The layouts/projects aren't due until May 4th so you have plenty of time! This is a great crop if you've wanted to scrap some recipes :)

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I'm back today with more Basic Grey :) My largest stash based on manufacturer is definitely Basic Grey but I haven't used in any ages till just recently. I love the Olivia line and had forgotten how much until I was in search for paper for this picture. I've had this picture for over a year but wasn't sure what I wanted to have for the title & journaling... Enter this month's journaling

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Today I have a two-fer to share with you! The challenge this week at The Paper Variety is to create something with paper that includes a number. I decided to make a card for a friend's upcoming 30th birthday...and unfortunately she's going to see it here on the blog before she gets it in the mail because she's a blog reader! lol The card is also for the color challenge over at Birds of A Feather

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Happy Easter! I just wanted to share a layout I worked on this week - the picture was taken just a couple of week ago and I think it's great that I have one smiling and one screaming ;) Thanks to Suzanne for help with the title! I used a PageMaps sketch from February. I'm not super thrilled with my stamping or sewing but I thought overall it was super cute :-) I made these for teacher gifts &

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Here is my March layout for Project 12: And some closer shots...I have drawn some stitches for the butterfly trails but obviously it isn't dark enough. I think I'll try fixing that...The layered clouds were fun! Kayla sent me the tree and butterfly chipboad pieces just in the nick of time! Thanks Kayla :) The tree is from the March kit at Birds of a Feather Kit Co.  The kite took me a little

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Happiness is a few hours at home all by myself! Wednesdays are the days just for me, but I rarely get to spend that time at home doing what I want to do. Today was the day :) It ended up being only a couple of hours, but I managed to scrapbook and get this done:  I completed this for the "Use-your-stash Challenge" at Birds of a Feather Kit Co....the challenge was to use at least 3 types of bling.

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This month, Kayla's Cosmo Cricket challenge at scrapbook.com is to mix the fonts for your title. I love to use mini alphas with large ones so I knew this would be easy for me :)This layout is also for the Flower Power challenge at Birds of A Feather. We were challenged to use 2 floral patterened papers and 10 flower embellishments, PLUS we had to make one flower and explain how!! The pink &

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Hi there! I just wanted to do a quick post about what my weekend plans are :) Other than celebrating my daughter's 2nd birthday, I'll be scrapping with the chicks over at Birds of A Feather Kit Co! Come check it out, the challenges are already posted and not due until Wednesday!!! Plenty of time, and Amy is super generous with her crop prizes ;) Up first is Bingo on Friday night and she's giving

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March has been a slow scrappy month for me! Not sure if it's spending more time outside this month (it's pretty much the last chance before it gets too hot), my allergies flared up (from the extra time outside of course) or the family in town that I'm spending time with...but I just finished my first layout in the last 3 weeks! It's been a long time since I've gone that long without creating a

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This fun sketch was our inspiration for February's Project 12...And this is what I came up with.To be honest, I was wishing that I had some glimmer mist to play with on this one! All of that blank space on the kraft CS is just too much for me, feels like it's missing something. I wanted to stitch the border but wasn't willing to spend that much time to do it by hand ;)

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Just in case you live under a rock and didn't hear me scream last night in excitement...my LYB layout was picked as a finalist in their sketch contest! Thanks to LYB and Liz Qualman for the great opportunity!! I'm honored just to be chosen as a finalist but I would still love your votes for the grand prize :) The link to the blog post is right here! Today I wanted to share a layout I did for the

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I made this layout for a sketch challenge on the LYB blog using pictures from my little one's first day....first moments, actually! If you click the link, you can see the sketch - I didn't stray too much from it as usual :) We were supposed to use the new Twig line but they still let us participate if we don't have any as long as we use another LYB line. This is a retired line, Baby Safari, and I

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I was so excited to continue on with Project 12 after having completed all of 2010's layouts. But I struggled with this one a lot and wondered if it was worth it. I KNOW it will be worth it to me when I see my whole year documented at this time next year :) So here it is, I was hoping to retake the picture since it seems some of the green PP was having a hardtime staying down...but it hasn't

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This month, Kayla's challenge at scrapbook.com is based on a sketch.And this is what I came up with. {Using some of the goodies that CC sent me :) } You still have time to play - layouts are due on the 27th. Thanks for looking!

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I've had the paper for this layout for a loooong time and everytime I think I want to use it...it doesn't go with the photos. I think it's the purple but I seem to be on a purple kick lately...and a grid kick, too!I made the layout for a challenge at BOAF for the crop this weekend. Did you know that February is International Twit Award Month? lol Most of the ladies used THAT for inspiration, but

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Friday was the beginning of this weekend's crop at Birds of a Feather and you still have 3 days left to submit your layouts. There are 8 very different challenges (a few games, too)! This is for the sketch challenge: And these were using sketches I had on my desk using grids. Chelle posted a challenge to use a grid or lines on a LO - and I love using photo grids! Both of these next two are mainly

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I was forced to spend quite a bit of $ at my LSS last week (unfortunately, I really mean forced in a negative way) and so I bought about 8 sheets of this PP from Glitz Design - LOVE IT! The cardstock for the photo frames & flowers as well as the patterned paper are kit extras in the BOAF Feb kit. The buttons & thread are from my stash (Stampin' Up!) and the Thickers are another "forced" purchase.

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I was awarded a guest designer spot for February at Birds of a Feather Kit Co. and I was so excited when I got my kit - I think it was made for me and pictures of my girls! ;) This first layout is of my youngest at less than a week old. The green background goes so well with the greens in the paper! I used a PageMaps sketch but it's from 2009 I think? And then this layout is using a picture of

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I made this layout for Janet's sketch challenge over at Kitchen Keepsake. It was for a crop a couple weekends back but I'm just now getting around to getting a good picture & posting it! It also works for Kayla's January CC challenge over at scrapbook.com. Speaking of the CC challenge at scrapbook.com - I won for December! Thanks to everyone who voted for me ;) Just a few days after the vote,

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I'm very good at starting projects, but not always so great at finishing them ;)  I am SO PROUD to say that I completed Project 12 for all of last year! I have already shown some of these layouts here on the blog but not all AND I thought it would be great to show my scrappy friends (some are considering joining me for P12 this year) how the whole year flows together. I just can't say enough how

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My online friend, Kayla, is having a giveaway on her blog. You should check it out here and enter by leaving a comment. Super easy! I say she's almost my twin because we have LOTS of similarities. But in reality, she's much more creative than I am ;) so if you like my work, you'll surely love hers!

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I can finally show you this layout! I completed it back in November as part of a layout tag. (A group of people lift each other's layouts only being able to see the 1 person ahead of you.) I was second on the list and had to wait patiently to give everyone else time to make theirs :) The results are posted here but THIS is my layout :-)And this is the layout I lifted from. Amy's stickles are NOT

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