April | Random Snapshots

I put together one more quick page today. I'm surprised how quickly this style of page goes together!

Credits:

Creashens Pocketful Vol. 1 (plastic pocket templates)

Robyn Meierotto 2013 Calendar Cards

Karla Dudley Geeked Buttons (play button)

Karla Dudley Life 365 Buttons (wonderful life button)

Karla Dudley Remarkable Elements (circle wordart)

Karla Dudley Today Brushes (arrow)

Becky Higgins Clementine (papers & journaling cards)

Splendid Fiins You Are Awesome (thought balloon)

March | Random Snapshots

Time for my March installment of random snapshots!

Credits:

Eclectic Mix paper pack (orange chevron paper) by Splendid Fiins

Life in a Nutshell baby cards by Splendid Fiins

Little Birdie Told Me journal cards by Splendid Fiins

Eclectic Mix Photo Features (chevron frame) by Splendid Fiins

Eclectic Mix Washi Tape by Splendid Fiins

Teen Add Ons (file label) by Splendid Fiins

Stay Tuned elements (TV tag) by One Little Bird

Pocketful No. 1 by Creashens

2013 Calendar Cards by Robyn Meierotto

Woof elements (Dog Days tag) by Echo Park Hybrid

Yours Truly (heart tag) by Shabby Princess

Brand New Day (paper clip) by Lisa Sisneros

February Random Snapshots

Today I'm going to share with you my February Random snapshots pages. I'm really pretty caught up on my scrapping this year so I'm doing these pages much earlier than I usually do. (I usually make these monthly recap pages at the end of the year.) I think what happened is that I get a lot of scrapping done when my husband travels. This year was unusual for him and he was gone most of the month of April, so ... I stayed up late a lot (I was pretty sleep deprived) and I scrapped. I was productive! You know ... being caught up is a good thing ... but it's always kind of sad! I have to work harder to find photos to scrap ... but then again I sometimes scrap old photos so that's been fun!

This is now my second set of pages using Creashen's plastic pocket templates. I'm really enjoying the pocket look for these pages! 

Credits:

Click paper, elements & Journaling cards by One Little Bird

Pocketful No. 1 (plastic pocket templates) by Creashens

Life Recorded Elements by Karla Dudley

A Random iPhone Snapshot

I snapped this photo of my daughter and me as we were walking to the bus stop this week - the last week of 7th grade. You know, I pretty much never went to the bus stop with her in the mornings this year but I guess I was feeling like my baby is growing up so fast. I asked if I could walk with her the last week and she "sure" so I did. It was fun!

Credits:

Click papers, elements & journaling cards by One Little Bird

Creasers vol. 1 by LivE Designs

Evidence Date Stamps by Splendid Fiins

Off We Go Embellishments (doily) by Mye DeLeon

2013 Project Life Week 23 (An awesome new kit by One Little Bird)

I love quiet Sunday mornings. I like to wake up early, grab a cup of coffee, sit down in my favorite chair, put my feet up and put together my weekly Project Life pages. It's such a great start to the day!

We had a good week. My kids are done with school now so we're officially on summer vacation. I think I'm just as happy to have them on summer vacation as they are! It's time to RELAX. Awesome!

On a scrappy note ... this week One Little Bird at One Little Bird released a new kit called "Click." I'm really a sucker for any kit that contains cameras and photography word art. Seriously ... I don't think I ever pass up a kit with cameras! I just love 'em! I don't have a ton of kits from One Little Bird, but the ones I do have are some of my favorites!

Credits:

Click papers by One Little Bird

Click elements by One Little Bird

Click journaling cards by One Little Bird

Photo Journaling Cards v. 1 by Gennifer Bursett

Real Life | Scrapping with Splendid Fiins' Designs

I just scrapped a page the other day using Splendid Fiins' designs (fyi, she's at the Lillypad) and it seems like whenever I use her stuff I feel compelled to make more pages using her designs. Maybe it's because it's just such fun stuff! Well it happened again. I created a page (and posted it a day or so ago) of a bunch of selfies of my daughter and me and then yesterday I had to make another page using her designs. This page is photos from just a regular day. Nothing big happened that day ... just real life. That's what I want to remember anyway - the normal everyday stuff of life!

I'm going to post both pages ... just ... because!

As soon as I post this I'm going to put together my Project Life pages from this past week. I love quiet Sunday mornings!

Credits:

Splendid Fiins

@ the Office Paper Pack

@ the Office Take Note Paper Pack

Fauxlaroid Frames

Make a Mess Masks

See Below for Details Journaling Block Stamps

Wishy Washi Tape

Mixed Bag Epoxy Stickers

Evidence Date Stamps

Agnes Biro: Torn Edges

Font: CK Jot

2 Digi Layouts (Pixels & Co. and Splendid Fiins)

I've got two more pages to share with you today. My first page is a compilation of photos I took of my daughter and me throughout the school year - most selfies taken with my iPhone. Like I said, it's a just for fun kinda page! I used Splendid Fiins' kits for this page - a super playful theme seemed like the way to go. I love this collection of photos!

Credits:

All Products from Splendid Fiins:

Wishy Washi Tape

Evidence Date Stamps

Flea Market Brads

Eclectic Mix Paper Pack

Splendid Template 6

Teen Add On (star washi tape)

Kinda Sketchy (scribbled arrow)

FONT: Romantiques, Zapfino, Telugu Sangam

My second page is one more confirmation page. I took so many photos at my son's confirmation ... I just had to scrap one more page! I kept with the same color scheme as my previous 4 pages so that they'd coordinate. I think I've finally got all the photos that I wanted to scrap from this done included on a page. Yay!

Credits:

Dare to Dream Digital Paper (patterns) by Karen Funk

Dare to Dream Solids (papers) by Karen Funk

Lucky Patterns (papers) by Robyn Meierotto

Artisan 2 Brushes (flourishes) by Karla Dudley

Dream On Embellishments by Mye DeLeon

My son's Confirmation - New product from the Ardent Sparrow

Ardent Sparrow is releasing two great new templates today (Big Photo Templates). I decided to use both of them to scrap photos from my son’s confirmation a couple of weeks ago. Actually, I made 4 pages using them! I love when I can easily change up templates to use them in different ways on multiple pages!

If you’ve seen my scrapbook layouts, you’ve probably noticed that I like to use lots of photos from events. It’s certainly not because I don’t weed out my photos, because I certainly do! I'd hate to even admit how many photos I take. I like multi-photo pages because I want to make sure I include EVERYONE on my pages. Well, these Big Photo templates were designed for single photo pages, but they were super easy to play around with to create a great backdrop for my multi-photo pages!

Here's the individual page views - along with the designer credits:

Credits:

The Big Photo Templates by Ardent Sparrow 

Dare to Dream patterned papers by Karen Funk 

Dare to Dream Solids papers by Karen Funk

Dare to Dream Journaling Cards by Karen Funk

Frown Upside Down Elements by Karen Funk (flowers)

These Are the Days Elements by Karen Funk (spatter)

Life Unscripted Elements by Ardent Sparrow (doily)

Co-Curricular by Gennifer Bursett and Audrey Neal (tags)

Dream On Embellishments by Mye De Leon (butterflies)

Font: Allura

Credits:

The Big Photo Templates by Ardent Sparrow

Dare to Dream Solids by Karen Funk (solid papers) 

Dare to Dream Patterns by Karen Funk (patterned papers)

Frown Upside Down Elements by Karen Funk (flowers)

Blah Elements by Karla Dudley (black ribbon)

More Than Just Mom Elements by Scotty Girl Design (pink circle tag)

Hey There Journal Cards by Robyn Meierotto (Here's the Story tag)

The Taylor Page Borders by Ardent Sparrow (page border)

Life 365 Album Cards by Karla Dudley (smile/camera card)

Happiness Lies Within by Mye De Leon (doiley)

Raw Sugar Journal Cards by Deena Rutter (remember & best day ever)

Dream On Embellishments by Mye De Leon (butterflies)

Font: Allura

January 2013 Recap - "Pocket" pages

I've always been intrigued by Creashen's Pocketful Templates. I thought the look of photos and notes, etc. peeking out from inside plastic pockets would be so fun. I hadn't tried these templates before tonight and I've gotta say, they were fun to work with. If you're wondering how to do it, don't worry! Creashens included super clear instructions on masking and how to get the effect.

FYI, in my family album I always include a page or two (sometimes even four) of random snapshots from the month that don't make it to their own scrapbook page. These are my January 2013 pages. Right now I'm thinking I might keep using these pocketful templates for my 2013 monthly recap pages. I bet the more I use them the better I'll get at coming up with fun things to peek out. If you want to try them out, I've included a link to the templates in the credits below my pages in this post.

Credits:

Pocketful Templates No. 1 by Creashens; 
The Good Life by Scotty Girl Design
Scribbled Alpha (painted) by Creashens
2013 Calendar Card by Robyn Meirotto
Date Stamps by Mye De Leon
Album Cards by Karla Dudley
More or Less (paperclip) by Pixels & Co.
CoCurricular library card by Audrey Neal
All American Summer (yummy sticker) by Design by Dani

Digi Project Life | Week 22

I sure do enjoy documenting my family's week-by-week life through Project Life. I look forward to sitting down on Sunday mornings and getting a start on (and oftentimes finishing in the morning) my weekly pages.

Credits:
Pixels & Co.
Mye De Leon Happiness Lies Within
Kit
Journaling Cards
Smears

It's time for the June Design Challenge at Pixels & Company!

It's time for another month of fun challenges at Pixels and Co. This month I created a page as a sample for the Management Level Design challenge. The challenges are really fun, so hop (click!) on over to P&Co to check them out. You can win great prizes ... plus you can earn a chance to be on the guest creative team for a month!

Here are the details of the Design Challenge:

1. For the ENTRY LEVEL DESIGN challenge, keep the design in the upper half of the layout.
2. For the MANAGEMENT LEVEL DESIGN challenge, use brushes or paint as a foundation and keep the design in the upper half of the layout. {I created my layout as a sample for the MANAGEMENT LEVEL DESIGN CHALLENGE}.
3. For the EXECUTIVE LEVEL DESIGN challenge, create at least one visual triangle using copies of the same element. Plus, use brushes or paint as a foundation and keep the design in the upper half of the layout.

Sounds fun doesn't it? Remember, there's also a PHOTO challenge and a WORD challenge you can participate in as well!

Here's the sample page I created for the MANAGEMENT LEVEL DESIGN challenge. I pulled out some photos of my kids as babies. It was fun for me because now they're 13 and 16 ... certainly not babies anymore!

Credits for this page are all from Pixels & Co.:
Happiness Lies Within Bundle by Mye DeLeon
This Year Elements (I Love You tag) by Scotty Girl Design
Hello Love (thought balloon) The Elements by Karla Dudley

A silly, random page ...

I really just HAD to scrap this photo. It was a silly, random, everyday moment when my daughter was embarrassed by something I was doing. If you're a mom to a teenager I'm sure you've experienced a time when your child is embarrassed by you. Well, I have an iPhone photo of one of these moments so of course I had to document it!

I think this is a page that my daughter will think is funny (especially when she's older) and I think that when, someday WAY down the road, her kids are looking at these scrapbooks they'll think it's funny to see their mom like this. (I know, she's only 13, but I'm looking ahead! LOL!)

Credits:

Splendid Fiins:

Evidence Paper Pack

See Above for Details Circle Brushes (hilarious)

Make a Mess Spatter Overlay (paint spatter)

Fauxlaroids (frame)

Wishy Washi Tape (heart tape)

Evidence Labels (incident report)

Evidence Date Stamps

Flea Market Brads (woman with camera brad)

Creashens: Waterydoods (alpha)

Karla Dudley: Life 365 Buttons (insta moment button)

Katie Pertiet Template Challenge 50910

Fonts: CK Heritage & Traveling Typewriter

xxx