December Daily, part 1 {Birds of a Feather December Kit; Fancy Pants: Saint Nick}

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 paint around the border of the cover.

 The first picture is of our advent calendar that I made two years ago. You can see the blog post about it here. The second day is a picture of us before a much deserved date night :) The missing child is behind the camera and she was thrilled to get to use my camera for the first time!

 Days 3 and 4 were a blur mostly spent cleaning the house in preparation for putting up our trees. One is in our main living area and the smaller is in the girls' bedroom.

 Day 5's activity in the advent calendar was to make these cute little owl ornaments. Day 6 is a picture of my youngest sleeping with Snoopy...he's well loved but only comes out at Christmas :)

 Day 7 is our newest family member with his "wall" decorated for Christmas and day 8 was a picture of our first frost for the winter.

So I'm about 1/3 the way there since I'm only documenting through the 25th in this album. I hope I can get caught up in the next couple of days! All of the materials here are from the December kit at Birds of a Feather.

I'm linking up to The Paper Variety this week...for their anything goes challenge! :)

Pre-K {October Kit: Birds of a Feather Kit Co; Fancy Pants: Off to School; Imaginisce: Geek Chic}

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 stash but everything else is from the kit. The little ticket tags and the lined patterened paper are from the add-ons.

 I decided to leave this button naked and not alter it. You get a whole pack of them in two sizes with your main kit!

You can click on any of the pictures to see a bigger version with more detail. It's hard to see on the whole layout picture but there is some stitching and staples in the folded corner. Thanks for stopping by!

A Perfect 10! {Fancy Pants: About A Girl}

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 layout for the September color challenge over at Birds of A Feather.

Thanks for looking!

Relax {Fancy Pants Design: Beach Babe}

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 google eyes to:

 No layout is complete without a little stitching ;)

I've linked this up to The Paper Variety for this week's challenge to create a summer theme project.

Best Buds {Fancy Pants: Kraft Kuts "This Girl"}

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 I went with Responsible Pet Owner Month :-)

Fancy Pants {Tradition}

Back today to share two more layouts I did for last weekend's crop at Birds of A Feather. I was so productive, that Amy called me "Queen of the Crop" and gave me an awesome prize! Getting 6 pages done in December was prize enough for me :-) but who am I to turn away Little Yellow Bicycle and Echo Park?!? ;)

This layout was for the challenge to scrap some of your decorations. My oldest daughter loves having a tree in her room - and this year we went with the Charlie Brown tree. My youngest daughter loves to go to our big tree and look at the picture ornaments that I have for each year. I clump them together in one spot on the tree so they are fun to compare year to year.

 And this layout was for a challenge to scrap a tradition with some specific journaling prompts. Since we just went to The Nutcracker 2 weekends ago, it was perfect timing to scrap this :)

I think part of the reason I was so productive was that I worked within kits. Both of these layouts are using Fancy Pants newest Christmas line, Tradition. They were my last scrappy purchase that I made a few months ago. Oh, and that double pager is based on a PageMaps sketch...love those sketches! Thanks for stopping by, I hope to have another layout to share this weekend :-)

P.S. I've been so productive that I'm over 100 pages this year now!! ;)

TuTu Cute {Fancy Fants: Christmas Magic}

I PROMISE...my next post will not be about Christmas! lol

Here's a double page, title courtesy of Suzanne!Could the girl stand any farther away from the ballerinas? lol This guy just snatched her up. She was soooo tired by the time we met the dancers. I hope she'll enjoy them more this year :) The Playbill is inside of a clear envelope and has a couple of autographs inside marked by my bookmark with hidden journaling on it.

The hardest part was working with scraps on this layout. Once I decided to NOT attach the playbill, I had to find more scraps to cover the part behind the Playbill. But it all worked out in the end and I'm excited to have this event scrapped!

Thanks for looking :)

More Christmas In July {Fancy Pants: Christmas Magic}

Another Christmas time layout. It will be the next door neighbor to the first layout in the last post I did. One more double page layout to go and I'll be done scrapping this event and can get back to non-Christmas layouts! lol

Do you spy my new border punch? It's not much but I had to find a way to include it ;) I think I'm addicted to making these flowers. Seriously, it's so easy and I get to make them match the LO so much better :)

Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend!

Christmas In July

I'm pretty sure that I scrapped a lot of Christmas last July, too. Must be that I'm trying to get a break from the heat! LoL

I've been hanging out with Suzanne at her new site, Paper Whores. This first challenge was spread out over a week or so and we had to follow daily instructions to complete a LO. Here's mine - I love it!

Then the next challenge was to scrap our addiction - which part of scrapbooking we are addicted to. Mine was the paper (I really do belong at Paper Whores!) and alphabets. I would say border punches are close to becoming an obsession, too! We had to use a punch AND it's negative space (flower in the center) and 4 different pattern papers. The alphabet for the title just so happens to be my favorite Thickers!

And then this last one is really from a kit that Suzanne sent us for being so chatty. 5 of us all had the same supplies and came up with at least on LO using ONLY those supplies. This is my first one...{I used an older Inspired Blueprints Sketch to get me going on this one}but then I went back to make a page to go with it. The only thing I added was the red twine on this page...and I still have supplies left to make at least one more page! Suzanne was VERY generous :) btw, the title says "{Fairy} Fun Xmas" because my oldest DD was sporting her fairy wings - which she pretty much wore every day of 2009 :D The are kinda hard to notice but she's wearing them in front of the tree in the first LO.

If you are looking for some fun challenges, come visit me at Paper Whores :D

Another Fancy Pants Christmas Magic

I just realized as I went to title this blog post that I don't have a title on this layout! Oh, well. It doesn't need one ;) It's too windy to spend time trying to get a close up, but the transparency ornaments have some glitter on them - looks nice in real life! I used the kit again from the NYOBC kit a few months back. I'm disappointed with the kits because the idea books contain samples that have embellishments that ARE NOT IN MY KIT! So frustrating - it's not just one small thing here or there, it's lots of embellies. They did at least provide the link for how to make the flowers though....but somehow, my flower didn't come out as good as the one in the book :\

I'm torn because I enjoy going every month - it gets me out of the house for a few hours all by myself and I get to talk with other women who like to scrapbook. Plus, I get to see what everyone else creates with the kits. But with the price increase, it makes it not a good kit compared to the other one's I've been getting. I thought I might go and decide month to month based on the kit but now I'm not sure....I hate to say that I prefer the way they had it a few months ago :(

Be Merry! {Fancy Pants Christmas Magic: Merriest Tale, Chestnuts Roasting, Bough of Holly}

It's been forever since I've touched one of my kits from my monthly group that meets...they gave us way too many Christmas kits way too early. But I knew I was going to like the Fancy Pants kit with the brown and cranberry colors. Perfect for the girls Christmas portraits!

This first LO is of the holiday card I sent out this year, using one of Julie's sketches for Magpie Club: I actually created that layout after I did this next one. I saw that Ali Edwards posted what she does with her holiday cards and thought it was a fantastic idea - why didn't I think of that?! I don't get very many cards, so I used bigger sections of each card and for a couple, I used more than one piece. I especially love that we can keep pieces of our parent's handwriting.

I'm really pleased with how the pages turned out and I was able to do them both in just a couple of hours. And now I don't have to feel bad about throwing away cards every year!