Featured Artist!

I am the featured artist today on Pam's fabulous blog Fresh, Fun Ideas for Scrapbookers.

You can see my article on making your own stitching templates here.

Thanks again Pam!

2 New Layouts

I worked on 2 layouts this week for the challenges at Scrappin-N-Chattin. The first one was to use at least 6 squares of the same size. I decided to do 6 squares at 1.25" each for my title. This is a 2 page layout of Dave and I crabbing in North Carolina this summer. I can't wait to scrap more of this trip. It will probably fill a whole album. They say "Christmas in July" I say scrapbook July at Christmas LOL.

I used my SCAL/cricut to make this little crab. I love to add google eyes :)

Here is how they look together. I love the picture of Dave in his backwards hat, feet over the dock.

Another challenge was to use flourishes. Can't go wrong with a wedding layout for this one :) I decided to do a 2 page layout of our first dance. I used a Bazzill stitching template for the flourishes.

The middle photo is on pop dots for added dimension. Click on the photo see it larger.

This was our first dance song. The white lettering are Thickers and the maroon lettering was down with my SCAL/cricut.

And how they look together.

Thanks for looking!

December Daily - Days 10 and 11

How great it feels to be scrappin' again after taking a week "off". So much going on here with school and the holidays and other committments. But I'm so glad I made a list each day of what I wanted to do for this album, or else I think I would of held of till next year. Grab a cup of hot chocolate because this is going to be a LONG post of days 1-11 that I scrapped last night and this morning. I broke it up into 2 days each to be more managable. I would love to hear your comments. This is my first big mini album :)

You can catch up with what I've been doing on my December Daily posts here.

Going in reverse order, yesterday was all about babies. I had a baby shower in the morning, did some Christmas shopping, and then stopped by to visit my cousin's new little girl. Such a fun day!

Friday night, Dave went to the store and picked up groceries on the way home. We are helping each other be healthy in the new year. I had to laugh when he said he got "his and her" salad stuff because we have very very different tastes. He loves the dark greens and veggies and dressing etc. And I love the lighter greens, olives, bacon, and no dressing LOL.

This is on one of the bag end flaps, so I am experimenting with halving my pictures to make it work. No journaling on this page, just a fun picture of our salad ingredients.

Keep reading, lots more posts below :)

December Daily - Days 8 and 9

I think it's good to document the good and the bad. This week was really stressful/overwhelming for me - hence not a blog post in a week. It felt good to scrap again! Yes, I took a picture of my gas tank on empty on the 8th. It just fit perfectly with my mood! I really was "on empty". I took a half day from work to kick the cold I started and rejuvenate.

The 8th was my student teacher's last day with us. I took lots of pictures of her and the kids and all the fun we had at the "surprise" party. But, I decided to take a few pics cube of this awesome photo cube she made for me. I forgot all about some of the pics she had of us and the classroom. She also had it engraved, which was so so sweet.

December Daily - Days 6 and 7

The following 4 pages are all pull-outs. They are stored in the flaps between the pages of my bag book.

They can be pulled out by the numbered tabs.

The 7th was my Mom's birthday. We all dressed in our respective jerseys for football a few Sundays ago and I blew up this picture and had it framed for her. Go Cowboys !! I can't believe I grew up in the same house with an Eagles fan AND a Redskins fan ;)

We went to Balitmore to visit our nieces on Sunday. One of the great pics from that day. Just love how this one turned out using Julie's sketch from 52 weeks. The previous layout used the sketch too.

December Daily - Days 4 and 5

More pull out pages...

I just love how this one turned out. I used the sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. First snow of the season came on Saturday morning. This is the view from our bedroom window. So pretty!

This layout I used the sketch from Scrappin-n-Chattin and made the title on my Cricut/SCAL. Anytime one of us lays on the couch with Jax, you are bound to fall asleep!!

December Daily - Days 1, 2 and 3

Day 3 is photos and journaling of Jax's holiday shirts. I found his first one in the bottom of a Christmas decoration box and couldn't resist a comparison shot. I have yet to wrestle him into this year's. Maybe today! Used up a few doggie embellishments that I probably wouldn't use on a normal page, but they fit right in in this eclectic album.

Day 2 is a picture of the Rockefeller Center. That night we watched the Christmas special of the tree lighting. Always fun because that's where Dave proposed. I decided to do all handwritten journaling throughout my DD album, even if I hate it LOL.

Day 1 is a picture of our tree. I am experimenting with doing a smaller album than 12x12 and trying to accommodate all my titles and journaling I like to do. It surprises me there are no embellishments on this page!