happy st. patrick's day

i'm looking over a four leaf clover, that i made this morning in about 35 seconds! hehehe. i had planned yesterday to make little pins for the girls and i for st. patrick's day today... but had a friend stop by, and completely forgot my grand plans. lol! so this morning, as we're walking out the door, torrey says, "MOM!!!! it's st. patrick's day! we need something green!" shoot!

off to the scraproom we rushed. a heart stamp, circle punch, scalloped circle punch, a piece of ribbon and a safety pin later... we were all in business! they have kept us "pinch free" all day!

the super cool necklace i'm sporting in the pic was made yesterday by torrey. pretty darn cute, i thought. the girls acutally made me 4 necklaces yesterday... lucky me! looks like i found the pot of gold at the end of our little rainbow. :D

free poster download

free inspirational poster download on creating keepsakes' website! as a supplement to the you can do it article by jana lillie in the march ck... they're offering several free poster downloads... and they picked a poster i made! woohoo! :)

the picture is of my mother in law painting. they also used another picture of my mother in law, and it's featured on poster #2 on ck's site.

the flourishes on the poster are by rhonna farrer from rhonna swirls v.4 available at twopeasinabucket.com

for my wonderful
husband

just a little reminder for stan the next time he visits to remind him how much he is loved... and that i love him always.

::: i love you, stan :::

(and if you're not stan, and you have a sec... take a minute to jot a little something special down for someone you love. remembering to remember to say what we feel... it's a good thing! lol!)

layout a day

the end

for the first 20 days of january, i have had a blast making a layout a day. my goal was to make it 31 days. but "real life" had different plans... came up from out of nowhere... and hit me in the back of the head. so the only thing left to do is to cut some of the extras and try to manage whats left. so the l.o.a.d. class is one thing that had to go. :sigh: i'm still planning on scrapping each day for the rest of the month... but not adding the deadline in. :) happy scrapping & and just enough reserve to stay afloat!

layout a day

(day 20)

a layout i did for a little class using all stampin up supplies. :) tfl!

layout a day

(fatherhood album - page 10)
day 19

and that's a wrap... for this mini album, anyway. :)
very fun album to use lots of random pictures from the last couple of years on.
the quotes read, "it takes someone special to be a dad;" "the best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. -charles h. fowler;" "the imprint of the father remains forever on the life of the child. -roy lessin"

supplies used on this album:
album: maya road chipboard binder; cardstock: bazzill; patterned paper: hambly (wood grain), stampin' up (orange'ish), hobby lobby (tan & cream), scenic route (orange), american crafts (white); cardstock stickers: 7 gypsies 97% complete; chipboard printed circles: imagination project; chipboard letter: grungeboard by tim holtz; stamps: inque boutique & basic grey (flourishes), link letters (alphabet stamps); eyelets & tag: stampin up; paper lace: creative imaginations; circle bling & ghost arrow: heidi swapp for advantus; acrylic paint: making memories; other: staples & sand paper

layout a day (fatherhood mini album - page 9) day 18

i'm nearly done with this mini album... just the bit on the back of the pic & the facing page. :) this is still one of my favorite pics...
the quotes read: "strength has a million faces," "i'm so glad when daddy comes home," "my hero," and "protector."

tfl! :)

layout a day (fatherhood mini album - page 8) day 17

another page in the fatherhood mini album... the stamped words got a little smudgie because i was a little to anxious to see how the album is flowing... oops! the picture is of my dh & girls watching our town's annual parade. :) the quote reads, "a dad carries pictures where his money used to be."

layout a day (fatherhood mini album - page 7) day 16

more than half way through the month now! wow! and 17 layouts to show for it so far! woohoo! nothing much to add about these pages... the quotes read: "it is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping." and "a truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." did i mention how great the 7 gypsies stickers were for this project??? :)

tfl!

layout a day (fatherhood mini album pages 5 & 6) day 15

a couple of picture-less pages and layers for the fatherhood album. i'm really enjoying the new basic grey two scoops acrylic stamps. anyway, no crazy life & death slide stories to tell with these pages... (scroll to post below to relive my jungle playland experience).

layout a day

(fatherhood mini album - page 4)
day 14

pictures of silly fun times... roasting hot dogs & playing on one of those giant playland thingies. :) i can't be the only mom who has crawled through tunnels of a playland with her camera! (i just did it again on friday) i have the slide burn on my back to prove it!!! i mean, who listens to a bunch of 7 year olds tell you to go down the "black hole" slide cannon ball style to go faster??? apparently, ME! let me just tell you... as an adult who has recently tried this very stunt... it's not such a hot idea! you do race down the slide at super speeds, HOWEVER, if your shirt inches up at all, the slide will burn a good portion of the skin off your lower back on the way down. yowza! so the next time a 7 year old gives me advice on playland equipment... i think i will go with my gut, and slide down on my behind, which is ALWAYS covered!

oh right... weren't we talking about scrapbooking??? lol!

supplies used on this album so far:
album: maya road chipboard binder; cardstock: bazzill; patterned paper: hambly (wood grain), stampin' up (orange'ish), hobby lobby (tan & cream), scenic route (orange), american crafts (white); cardstock stickers: 7 gypsies 97% complete; chipboard printed circle: imagination project; stamps: inque boutique & basic grey (flourishes), link letters (alphabet stamps); eyelets & tag: stampin up; paper lace: creative imaginations; circle bling & ghost arrow: heidi swapp for advantus; acrylic paint: making memories; other: staples & sand paper

layout a day (fatherhood album - page 3) day 13

another page in the fatherhood album. the quote on this page reads, "there's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder. -richard l. evans" this little page strikes a cord with me today... my husband has been gone a month and a half now... after talking to him this afternoon the girls said again how much they miss him. they talked about wanting to go camping... and could we go as soon as he comes home... so this picture of us camping together reminds me again of the joys of homecoming even amidst the sadness of taking all of the christmas decor down alone surrounded by nothing but laundry. this too shall pass... and there are brighter days ahead.

layout a day

page 2 of the fatherhood mini book
(day 12)

here is the next page in the fatherhood mini album. the quote sticker says... nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. love that & so true of my handsome man. ;)

oh! and i love, love, love the creative imagination's paper lace! i've picked up every color i've been able to find! :)

tfl!

layout a day

(new mini album - day 11)

i know i didn't do a great job of getting the shots of this, but again, 2am is no time for great natural light! and it was easier to take the pics without the pages in the album. the chipboard album is by maya road. just keeping it simple. i picked up the 7 gypsies fatherhood paternite stickers today, then while surfing the web found some inspriration in an album done by ali edwards. :)

layout a day

(day 10)

another day, another layout. i just finished this of my fav pic of my youngest. it's from :gasp: 3 years ago. where did the time go? (i love those baby hand dimples she still has in this pic!) the inspiration came from a layout by scrapcited/hetti that i had tagged in my favs awhile back over in the ck gallery.

sheesh... i keep choosing pics of one kid... i think i'm gonna have to do some of torrey for the next few days! :)

supplies:
digital patterned paper: Katie Pertiet, Notebook kit, designerdigitals.com; Erica Hite, Skin Deep kit, scrapgirls.com; Susan Bartolini, This Christmas kit, scrapkitchen.com; overlay: Karen Foster Designs, Wedding Kit, pcLayers.com; ribbon: Zazau, shabbyprincess.com; distressing brushes: Rhonna Farrer, Peachy Keen kit, twopeasinabucket.com; Nancy Rowe Janitz, distressing ink, scrapartist.com; flourish brush: Rhonna Farrer, swirl brushes, twopeasinabucket.com; fonts: Cooper Std, Century

layout a day

(day 9)

i have a fabulous friend that i scrap via webcam with quite often and she has a saying that i just love... "they can't all be gems." lol! that's kind of how i feel about this layout. i crashed today... i finally hit an emotional/sleep deprived wall, and had to get some extra sleep. so i took a nap for a few hours this afternoon and am currently nursing a bit of a headache. so this page is of some pictures i loved, where the lighting isn't great, and it's hard to see the garbage can on my dd's head (in one of the pics she's winking too)... but this was the best that was going to come out today.

so here's to the scrapbook pages that can't be gems... you are loved, too! :wink: (thanks annie!)

oh and on a side note... the shirt my dd is wearing is a shirt that my grandma painted for me years ago that says, "noel joy." just a random fun fact. :)

tfl! :)

supplies:
patterned paper: Dana Zarling, desingerdigitals.com, Urban Grunge Kit 2; ledger brushes: Katie Pertiet, designerdigitals.com; fonts: Impact, Century Gothic & German Underground

layout a day

(day 8)

i'm not going to write much now... since it's 4am, and that means it's time for bed. so here is my LOAD day 8.

edited to add: it's now nearly 12 hours and a little power nap later... and i've got the journaling & supply list up. :)

journaling:
the bestest birthday present ever
except, of course, for the present you got me mom
i mean, of course yours was the
coolest, it’s just that this one is
so cool too. i mean, nothing
personal... it’s just well, i mean
hey! it’s a digital camera! how can
a cool american girl doll hairstyle
chair compare?

grandpas & grandmas get to be so cool
emma with her bestest birthday present... a brand new
digital camera from grandpa gene & grandma linn

supplies:
digital patterned papers: Mandy Steward, scrapgirls.com (green), Dana Zarling, designerdigitals.com (pink), Anna Aspnes, designerdigitals.com (brown); overlays & stitched cirlces: Rhonna Farrer, twopeasinabucket.com; stitched hole flourishes: Katie Pertiet, designerdigitals.com; fonts: Garamond & Arial

layout a day - time for change

so i finished up the acrylic album i was working on yesterday, and haven't quite decided what i'd like to work on next. the other day i got a new pottery barn catalog in the mail, and their color & design are such an inspiration to me. so the layout for today is a color scheme hijack from the pb caddy. it started with different pics... but ended with the one of my dd's just before they started school this fall.



supplies:
digital patterned paper: Keri Schueller, scrapgirls.com (blue),Nancy Rowe Janitz, scrapartist.com (gray/blue), Glitz Designs - Hot Mama Kit (zebra), erica hite, scrapgirls.com; (green); architectural brush: Thao Cosgrove, scrapgirls.com; brad: Gina Cabera, digitaldesignessentials.com; fonts: Century Gothic & Arial Bold

layout a day (page 10)

this is the last page of this acrylic album. i'm a little bummed... 1. because it was really fun to make and 2. because now i'm not sure what i'm going to make for my layout a day tomorrow! lol! :)

sorry for the poor picture quality... the natural lighting isn't hot at 1:30am! i should be cleaning my house and baking a cake for my dd's birthday party tomorrow... but it was just too fun to resist finishing this up! well, since midnight has obviously come and gone, i best get off to my cinderella jobs! lol!

supplies:
acrylic album: rusty pickle; printed transparencies & rub ons: hambly; blank transparency: stampin up; crown bling: me & my big ideas; cardstock circle sticker: creative imaginations; letter stickers: basic grey (cream & orange), ek success (black)

layout a day (pages 8 & 9)

a few more pages for the layout a day class. i think this is the first "kissing picture" of my husband and me that i have ever scrapped. kind of fun. he's such a cutie. ;) the lyrics are from a song called kiss me by sixpence none the richer. tfl!

supplies:
acrylic album: rusty pickle; transparencies & yellow rub on: hambly; flowers: prima; uncensored rub on: october afternoon; printed tape: prima; brad: stampin up; font: garamond