GDT member at Memorable Seasons

I am honored to have been asked to be a Guest Designer this month for

Memorable Seasons

One of my favorite message boards and shopping spots!

This month is super exciting as we start our annual January Sketchathon! If you are needing some motivation come on over and join us for fun and prizes while getting your scrap on!

 

The line I was asked to work with was Crate's On Trend and with my love of color and fun this was perfect for me! Here are some pics of what I got to work with!

and the milder backsides:

Stay tuned for the layouts that I did with this kit!

Since they have a sketch attached to them for the Sketchathon 

I'll be sharing the full layout along with the sketches I worked with later on this month!

Here's a small peek though!

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As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any  new friends becoming followers!

Happy Tuesday and Happy New Year!



Top 12

I had so much fun going back and looking at all the layouts I've created this year!
If you have the chance, go back and look at your own!
It's very inspiring and motivating to see all that you've accomplished!
In no particular order, here are 12 of my favorites from this past year!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Happy Monday and Happy New Years Eve!

Looking Sneaky

Such a poor blogger I've been in the past couple of weeks! The Christmas holiday has had me consumed with baking and cooking and wrapping and buying!

I did manage to complete a few layouts this month and this one in particular

I did for a sketch challenge at Artful Delight.

Today is the last day for the challenge and if you are in the mood for a fun sketch go check it out!

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Sunday!



Circle Time

Circle Time! Laying and playing in the your colorful circle with your carrot!

This was a favorite little resting and play circle that contained my daughter- that is until she learned to crawl!

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Happy Tuesday!

First Easter

I was involved in an online crop recently and took the challenge to use a lot of

something in my stash.

I had a nice stack of flowers and little tags sitting in a baggie and decided to

work those into my layout. It felt great using up a nice amount of embelly's that had

just been laying around.

Here it is featuring my daughter's First Easter, many years ago.

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Thursday!

Life with you is a bowl of cherries

A quick one this morning featuring my daughter in her cute cherry onesie!

I loved the Glitz cherry paper and from there the layout was started!

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreicate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Tuesday!

Sweet Feet

Don't you just love seeing little ones being all bendy to get their toes!

So glad I captured these photos one day while shopping, she really wanted something to chew on!

As always, thanks so much for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Here we are back to the beginning of the week! Happy Monday!

Sweet Bliss

I recently did a challenge that asked us to use the ombre effect.

I had problems at first figuring out what I was going to do until I remembered having this vintage but fun Martha Stewart ombre looking paper!

I threw in a mix of Authentique and Glitz and voila I had a layout the met the challenge!

As always, I appreciate you coming by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Wednesday!

Rolly Polly

Just a quick one today before I head off to work!

 

It seems there are many ways to spell Rolly Polly and this one worked for me!

You'll see Abriana attempting some of those first rolls that we just cheer them on for!

I love this blue and green color combo and against the pink it really pops!

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Monday!

Halloween Night

A little past the right season, but I wanted to share this fun layout based on a sketch that was presented as part of our November Challenge over at Memorable Seasons (they still have their Black Friday section loaded with lots of fun goodies at 85% off!)

 

You'll notice me, my mom and husband carving pumpkins with Abriana at just 3 months old!

Wow, we all look so young- what 17 years and having children can do to you!

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Thursday!

My art project

I couldnt' help but document these photos!

Kids! The minute you turn your back- they are looking at the juicy inkpad and thinking it looks tasty!

So very cute, first a cry and then an open wide!

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Tuesday!

Always my favorite girl

A quick lift from a gal over at Memorable Seasons - my favorite shopping place (check out their sale- some great items still available at 85% off!)

 

My daughter laying in her Loony Toons Crib sucking on her chapon(it's what we call a binky in Spanish). I used the kit from Artful Delight again- it's allowed me sooo many layouts!

 

As always thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Cyber Monday- lets shop!

The sweetest thing

Just a simple, grid like layout featuring another one of those old photos I'm working on,

my baby on my belly!

I chose to cut the title straight off the the white strip at the bottom of one of the pattern papers- it was perfect! It has the little peak pointing up at us and everything!

Products used were from the Artful Delight kit- can you tell I'm just loving it?!

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any feedback or comments and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Tuesday!

Hard Work Pays Off

This layout features my son, as an 8th grader, walking into the gym at one of the highschools. In preparation for the coming football season, he wanted to stay in shape and start working out with weights to improve his health and stature.

I'm proud of my son for being so committed to his sport and made this layout to document it.

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Yeah, it's the weekend! Happy Friday!



Moo cow

As I reminisce, by working on photos from years ago- I came across this photo of Abriana riding her moo cow! It was a Xmas gift from my parents and boy did she love it! I had to document her first time on it with this great October kit from Artful Delight- I've gotten so many layouts done with it and I like how the colors were perfect for this one as well!

(Excuse the black border- I needed something so it wouldn't blend in with the background!)

As always, I appreciate you coming by! I'd love any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Wednesday!



Grandpa's Pumpkin

When Abriana was a baby Grandpa would always call her pumpkin.

I could have gone obvious sharing a page with pumpkins on it but decided to take a more vintagy looking approach featuring this photo of him holding her one of the first times.

As always, thank you for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love and new friends becoming followers!

Happy Monday!



Hope Floatz

Abriana's first Valentine's day! I love how cute she looks holding that big ol balloon!

Darn dark spot-you have to use the pictures you have especially before digital!

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any feedback or comments and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Wednesday!

Nothing but a crybaby

I am one to always choose to document not only the good times but also the not so good as well.

 Non-stop- Wah, Wah, Wah was what we experienced the first year of my daughters life.

 We were told it was colic,

we thought it might be overstimulation,

we also thought it might be her formula bothering her belly.

All kinds of tricks were tried to calm our, often non stop cry in the evening baby.  

We made it through and often wonder with as much crying as she did that first year

how she turned out to be one of the most mellow people we know-

now that she is a young adult.

As always thank you for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Monday!

Happy Halloween Boo Bear

Wanted to share a quick layout about my daughters first Halloween at a mere 3 months old! These pictures are from 1995- I'm still working on super old photos.

Happy Halloween everyone!

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Halloween!



During and After

Not my most flattering photos, but it was a memory I wanted to document and share.

The photo on the left shows the pain of me in labor, the middle photo peeking in on my daughter, and thirdly enjoying that after meal(labor can make even hospital food taste so good!)

I'm so proud of my husband for taking these shots many years ago- before I was a scrapbooker! Love that I can document myself once in awhile!

As always, I appreciate you stopping by! I'd also appreciate any feedback or comments and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Tuesday!



Social [Media] Blog Hop- Carve it up

Hi everyone!You have reached the last, but not least, stop on the Social [Media] Blog hop!

 Every month on the 29th I try to join in with this talented group of ladies to show off our work based on the theme of the month. 

This month our theme is:
  Carve It Up--- using our Silhouettes, Cricuts, fussy-cutting, punching, exact-o knife--

our designs will all have a unique cut up piece to it!

 

Comment on any of the blogs (you can find them all at the link below) or link up with a Carve It Up themed layout below to win a $10 Silhouette Studios gift card :]
  http://socialmediabutterflies-papercrafting.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-blog-hop.html

 

My layout features my daughter, at the age of 1, surrounded by this fun fussy-cut honeycomb paper. I chose to layer it on top of this busy black patterned paper to give it and my photos that extra pop!

This layout was made with supplies from the Artful Delight kit

 As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers

Happy Monday!

I am thankful for family

Hello! I am still here! Just been super busy- and exhausted by the end of the day! I've managed to create several new layouts in the past weeks and look forward to sharing them!

 

The layout below was lifted from a design by May Flaum.

I always enjoy her nice simple style and inspiration.

 

This layout features my husband and kids with his brother and sisterinlaw. We always enjoyed our visits with them in San Diego and though the photo is poor I'm a big believer in documenting what you have so.. here it is.  Thanks for looking!

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Thursday!

Oh no I caught you sweetheart

 

This is a layout about one of those everyday moments that I'm so glad I captured!

I had just finished folding laundry and left a few piles on the edge. My darling daughter felt that the clothes would be fun to play with! Here's what I saw when I came back into the room!

At 17, she still enjoys a nice messy floor of clothes! LOL!

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Thursday!

Your first day

Your first day features me and my daughter on her first day home after birth. So sweet and small on mom's lap. I chose to go simple with cutting out some simple lace doilys, a strip of polka dots and butterflies to highlight the page.

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Monday!

Oh baby- 100th post!

My 100th post !

I had just opened a box of new goodies and just had to blend them all together to create this page!

You'll see my baby front and center there snuggled in all small in her car seat!

I hope you enjoy the fun mix of colors and those pops of yellow!

As always, I appreciate you coming by! I look forward to your comments and feedback and welcome any new friends to become followers!

Happy Tuesday!

Meeting great grandma

I'm back! I headed off on vacation for a week to Sunny San Diego! We had a good time and I even brought my scrap supplies and got several pages done while relaxing in the beautiful weather!

 

This page features my husbands grandmother meeting her great grandaughter, Abriana, for the first time. It's a cute picture and glad I captured this memory to capture this difference in generations.

 

I used a mixture of creams and white along with the red/blue and it brought back a conversation I had with a friend recently about how she never mixes the the two.

She just doesn't like the look- for her.

I agreed with her, but immediately found that I was already mixing the two on several pages. Mentally I guess I don't like the thought of it, but artistically and subconsciously it works for me!

Go figure! 

As always, I appreciate you stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Monday!

Snuggle Bunnies

A cute and simple layout I did of me and my daughter snuggling!

I made this layout using one of my homemade kits!

I used 3 pieces of 6x6 patterned paper and overlapped them to form the square and threw in a fun border and a cute heart and bunny to complete the layout!

As always thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feeback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Friday!

Time to Walk

I worked on this page this past weekend and thanks to Shimelle Laine's most recent Glitter Girl video I had already come up with these embellishment clusters made from a fun RAK I received. I think they go well with the page of me and my husband taking my baby girl for a walk!

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Wednesday!

Peek A Boo

I'm still working on my daughter's first year photos and felt that this fun sketch from the kit club Artful delight was perfect for this Peek A Boo page of my daughter. I used a mixture of Amy Tan, Studio Calico, some fun flair and a fun Sassafrass( I think!) flower to create this colorful layout! Thanks for the sketch Artful Delight!

 

As always thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Have a Happy Day!

Ice Cream Delight

Today's layout is one that I did for Shimelle's Perfect Collection class. This is my second round with this class and I'm enjoying it as much as the first time.

 

This layout features me feeding my daughter a yummy ice-cream cone. So happy to have caught this everyday moment on film- back before I was scrapbooking I loved taking pictures of my kids as babies. I'm so glad I took the time to take pictures- it's so fun putting these fun moments on display on my pages!

As always, I thank you coming by! I'd love any comments or feedback and would appreciate any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Friday!

Too cute for words

Today's layout features my daughter just after she was born. This layout was based on a lift from a fellow member at Memorable Seasons. I enjoyed coming up with this fun banner and using all those buttons. Of course it shows off my love of fun color too!

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Wednesday!

Gifts for Dad

Shocker! I did this layout without any type of challenge involved with it! Can you believe it??? LOL!

I had this kit that just needed to be used and decided to use these fun papers for a layout featuring my husband opening up his Father's Day gifts back in 1999.  It was nice to do a layout with more than one photo for a change! I'll have to go back to my roots and do that more often!

As always, I appreciate you stopping by! I'd love any feedback or comments and would like any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Monday!

My baby butterfly

After completing my first round of layouts for Shimelle's Perfect Collection class- I am now on to round two! The class was very inspiring and has really opened my eyes to using starting points! One difference in my kit this time around is that I threw in a 6x6 pad of matching paper to help add some additional layers.

 

This layout features me and my daughter- meeting for the first time. My precious girl was and still is as sweet as can be!

As always, thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Friday! The weekend is here!!



Standing Tall

Another quick posting today! Another challenge we had at the Memorable Season crop was to use and alter chipboard! I took an easy approach and just inked up a heart a rectangle and used them as my embellishments. Quick, easy and done!

 

This layout highlights my daughter using her chunky legs to give a little stand. Love it!

 

As always thanks for stopping by! I'd appreciate any comments or feedback and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Wednesday!



Oh what a delight

We had a challenge at Memorable Seasons to lift ourselves.

I decided to take the idea of this layout:

and interpret it into this layout:

It has its differences but yet has the same vibe! Thanks to my friend Joni for gifting me with some leftovers from a kit she had that I was able to use on this layout!

 

This layout highlights a picture of me and my big baby belly!

The picture was taken back in June of 1995 just before the birth of my daughter, Abriana.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'd appreciate any feedback or comments and would love any new friends becoming followers!

Happy Monday!