Now I'm scrapping it!

Our trip was fabulous! I literally took more than a thousand photos and now I'm scrapping them. We went to Disneyland and California Adventure, to the beach, to Medieval Times, to visit family and friends and put a few thousand miles on our van. The kids were great and we had a wonderful 2 weeks!!! Oh, I also got the amazing chance to meet the wonderful Marieta, from my CT. We had lunch, sitting and talking in a small cafe and it felt like we'd known each other forever. How cool is that?!?

I've decided to scrap the photos and put them in a bound book. I've only ever printed LOs and put them in an album. I thought it would be great to do a few of the books and give one to my FIL, who went with us, one to my husband's aunt and uncle who provided the timeshare for us to stay in, and of course one for our family. Here are the first of my LOs, done in no particular order, other than Disneyland seemed like a fun place to start... (as always, click them to read journaling and see credits)

The girlies were such troopers about it all!Pluto, what a cutie he was!Sage and Adam in bumper cars...
Kiddos riding the spinning ladybug ride (like teacups) without Mom!!!

ADSR, Music Recital & Disney

Man, I've been a blog slacker! I've actually been scrapping (thanks mostly to the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race), and my mojo came back to finish up my Music Recital kit. Now I'm trying to wrap things up for our family trip to California. Can you say 75 degrees?!?!? Woohoo!!!

I've really enjoyed the ADSR this time. It's always fun, but these challenges have been perfect for me, so far. Here are some of my recent LOs. I won't post them all, because I've done 8 so far but have obviously not posted any of them. (Clicking on any of them will take you to a larger image and credits.)

This is my most recent and one of my favorites. We had to lift another scrapper whose gallery we love. Amanda1201 has just amazing LOs, quite a few of which are in my faves. So I lifted one of hers.

This was a kind of hard one, we had to lift a LO of our ADSR partner, flip it, & rotate 45 degrees as our sketch. So most of the LOs were at funky angles. But I think it works ok for the energy of this LO!
This challenge required that we download a minikit and use every single piece of it. NOT my style of kit, or colors, but I'm actually quite pleased with how this turned out. I recolored some of the papers and elements, used some as repeating elements instead of their intended purpose, and cut others up into something different.
And my homage to Disney, LOL! Can you tell what's on my mind? The challenge was basically to have a layout with no photos, and it had to include 3 separate frames. It hasn't happened yet, but it won't be too much longer!!!
OK, and last but not least, my new kit. I really love how it turned out, especially after weeks and weeks of not really creating anything new. It will be so perfect for all my children's recitals, and exactly right to showcase my daughter recently winning an award in an arts competition this week for an original piano piece she wrote.

Full kit (clicking will take you to the item at Digital Freebies):
Paper Pack:
Just the elements:
It's also available at Faithsisters.com

Well, I'm not completely packed, so better run! Wish me luck spending 3 days on my feet at Disney, when I'm 6 months pregnant! (DH says he'll rent me a wheelchair if I need, LOL)

Holy Wordle, Batman!

Ok, totally addicting!!! I've spent over an hour typing in words, playing with the fonts, colorschemes, etc. I've even figured out how I might use them in some of my designs (which their TOU says is ok). This one is from plugging in the url from my blog here.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, the more times a word is used (or more that you type it in, if you're just entering a bunch of words), the larger that one is, in comparison to other words used less often. I guess I use the word "just" a little too often, LOL. If you start and can't stop, I guess you'll just have to blame me. Sorry! Here's the website, enter at your own risk... http://www.wordle.net/

Early holidays!

My sweet DH is remodeling my parent's kitchen. He's been working on it for a few weekends, and took off all of this week to finish it up for Thanksgiving. So we left Friday and drove here and will be here for a week. So much fun! We usually just stay for 2-3 days. And today my brother, his wife and his baby all came. We haven't seen them since the summer, as they live on the other side of the country. What a great time!

I put my Thanksgiving kit up last post. Thanksgiving is still a few days away, but here's my Christmas kit. I usually really like whatever kit I've just finished, but this is far and away my favorite kit I've made. Must be the glitter, LOL. I'm a sparkly kind of girl!

It's available in individual paper and element packs, or as a full kit (to save money). Oh, and the element pack has the alpha included, which matches the advent calendar. Pick it up in my FaithSisters shop, or if you click on the pics, they'll take you to DigitalFreebies.

I've been slacking on this blog more than usual the last couple months. But it's with good reason. Want to see?


That little kidney bean is our baby #6. Hooray! We're very excited!!! It's still to early to tell if it's a boy or girl, but early enough to sap my energy and make me nauseated... hence the slacking.

I have managed to put a few kits together, I just haven't gotten them posted on here. So let me show you my most recent, my new A Thankful Heart kit. It's the club kit, along with a coordinating one by Jennifer Schmitt, at DigitalFreebies (get them both for just $5). I love these colors, so rich and warm and inviting!

Here are just the papers, though they're not for sale alone, yet.
I also did a coordinating add-on, quickpage album and alpha, all on sale 30% off this week. And you can find Jennifer's coordinating add-on and album here.

Free bone marrow registry

This isn't the normal scrap-related post, but I think it's important enough to post about in the hopes it will touch someone's life....

Now, through Sept. 22nd, Nascar is paying the $52 registration fee to sign up to be a bone marrow donor. You can register at a track near you, or online. I just did it online. The site is secure and the questions are basically what you'd be asked when donating blood, so you do need to be in relatively good health. Then they send you a registration kit to take swabs from inside your cheek, that you'll send back in. It's such a worthy cause, I thought I'd pass it on.

The site: http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Events/NASCAR/index.html

I just registered online and hope you will, too.

Yay! Exciting news! I'm part of a new shop...

... well, new to me. FaithSisters.com is a lovely site with a focus on scrapping your testimony of Jesus Christ. The kits, LOs and topics are not all Christ-oriented, but it's a beautiful, friendly site and I'm enjoying it immensely.

I've put a few new things in both FaithSisters and DigitalFreebies, and a fun new kit that's out in FaithSisters and will be in DigitalFreebies on Tuesday. Wanna see? Of course you do!

A little boy who refused to grow up, a little girl willing to tell him fairytales and tuck him in at night, and the power of fairy dust and happy thoughts. My children and I are having such fun listening to the classic story as we jet around from lessons to practices and back again. Here's what's come of it...The Papers ... I normally put 12 papers in a kit, but I had so much fun with this I just kept going. And you know what, I even took some out and will probably make an add-on of them.

The coordinating alpha (included in the kit)
This is a fun little element pack with slightly crinkled paper arrows and journaling-on-path
Fun, little snippets of handmade paper to journal on, use for blocking or layering and just to add a little extra to your layouts!