Peek a boo

Do you see my son peeking out from behind the tree! 

He is a true character and this falls right in line with his personality! 

This layout is based off a sketch from 3scrappyboys

and also uses the colors needed for one of the 

12 days of Christmas challenges at myscrapsandmore

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Happy Friday!!

Happy Birthday

Just a few photos from my 40th birthday a few years back! 

I used a sketch from My Scraps and More

They are having 12 days of Christmas challenges- with all the challenges being due on January 5th. 

12 great prizes are up for the winnings!

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Happy Wednesday!

Oh how I love u

Happy Holidays everyone!

Today's layout features my daughter and my pup Finley. 

I can imagine my daughter's smile is as big as Finley's! 

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Happy Thursday!

Team Work

Sharing some older layouts- this one featuring me and my son working the NFL fantasy football draft. 

Quick, simple and done! 

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Happy Wednesday!

Wow, has it been that long!

I can't believe it's been three months since my last post! Life got very busy for me,

with a very dramatic football season along with Noah's concussion injury(s) and 

sending my daughter, Abriana, off to discover living on her own in the Tempe, ASU dorms,

my energy for blogging and scrapbooking in general fizzled for a bit!

Funny, as we head into the holiday season I now feel things are calming down and

 I have that re-energinzed spark to get started again! 

Well... back at it and here are four layouts that I left behind before!

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I'd love to have any comments or feedback and would love any new friends become followers! Happy Wednesday!

Little bo peeps

Oldie but goodie photos were recently scrapped as part of a challenge to use photo frames.

I took out my Dear Lizzy stamp set

and stamped some frames onto

different patterned papers and cut them out.

It all just came together as I layered the frames and then added

the photos into an informal grid look.

The photos feature my baby girl and baby boy who are now 18 and 16!

 

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Happy Tuesday!

Wrapping up

Taking a few minutes away from the surf and sand of our gorgeous trip to San Diego

to post a quick layout featuring my son (54) 'wrapping up'

during a football game. 

An oldie but goodie photo from when he was in the 6th grade his first year in football.

Excuse my slightly crooked photo of my layout!

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Happy Wednesday- from Sunny San Diego!

 

 

My 2 kids

Ugh! What's happened to me! It's been many more days than I had planned since I've made a post!

These 10 hour work days are killing me, but I'm happy to have today off to relax and recoup! Yeah!

 

Today's layout features, my kids, Abriana and Noah posing for another Easter photo- last year.

I used the Pebbles Seen and Noted line and it worked perfectly!

 

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Happy Monday!

You are all that

Today's layout features another photo of my daughter from

when she was 11 years old posing for mom.

I really enjoyed pulling out some older supplies like those multilayered flowers and lace ribbon and those rain drops to help make this page!

Feels so good to use up some stash!

 

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Happy Friday!

Sweet Thing

In honor of my daughter, Abriana's 18th birthday today!

I am posting this picture and layout featuring her!

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Happy Wednesday!

Hello There

A quick layout featuring my teens from three years ago Easter!

Two loves of my life!

Loving all the American Craft colors!

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Happy Wednesday!

Last Call

A couple of photos of my daughter and her choir.

It's titled Last Call due to it being her final concert with her favorite choir teacher.

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Happy Thursday!

Today dad we celebrate u

Hello! In honor of Father's Day yesterday I wanted to post a layout featuring my husband and kids. The layout was done as part of a challenge for My scraps and more got talent III event!

The challenge was to use no pattern paper, hard for me

but I think I did well using some project life type cards!

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Happy Monday!

Boys will be boys

I was inspired to work on this layout about a month back for National Scrapbooking Day.

 I followed a color challenge, offered by Two Peas and threw in a Shimelle sketch to come up with this layout featuring my son, Noah and his friends!

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Happy Tuesday!

All Dressed Up

All Dressed Up is the third layout for my attempts at

Shimelle Laine's Layouts Within Limits.

I really did enjoy this concept of limited supplies-

 sometimes I get so caught up in looking for the right things

and this idea really helped to make speedy layouts.

This layout highlights my daughter Abriana after her choir concert, All Dressed Up!

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Happy Friday! Thank Goodness!

There go the braces

 My second layout for Shimelle's Layouts Within Limits led to

this before and after page

about my son getting his 2nd set of braces off.

I like how the concept forced me to use a couple of 6x6 pages split in half

to help layer up a little of the corners

and how it also allowed me to feature this

bright and busy looking white/red spotted paper!  

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Happy Tuesday!

Life is good-one fine meal

Hello!

My second attempt at Shimelle Laine's layouts within limits led to 3 more completed layouts.

The first one below is from Mother's day a couple of years back and has me enjoying life- with breakfast made by my kids.

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Happy Tuesday!

X Country Runner

A super simple layout today- just using some older supplies!

My son Noah at one of his cross country meets several years ago.

Thanks for looking!

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Happy Thursday!

You color my world

I took the challenge of using watercolors on a page to create this layout!

I'm normally not an artistic type, but took the challenge head on by using

an old KI lace page as a mask and whisking out my daughters watercolor set to

paint the colors onto the white cardstock.

I really love how the look turned out and it really worked well to highlight some

artsy volunteer work my daughter was doing!

 

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Here we are back to Monday! Happy Day!

Yellow Submarine

Yellow submarine was another page that I created over NSD weekend!

I wanted to highlight a little bit of the Nemo ride at Disney!

This overlapped into a few different challenges, one being to use scraps(all the blue) and the other was to try and get an ombre effect which I tried with the graduated arrows. 

I used a sketch by Shimelle Laine.

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Happy Friday! Yeah!

Grilled Cheese

NSD last weekend led me to complete many layouts in the past week for challenges!

This particular layout features my dog Finley, enjoying some people food.

The particular challenge I took, got me to pull out

some ribbons and transparencies 

I hadn't used in a while!

A pretty simple layout, but it's done! 

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Best Friends

I created this layout this past weekend for NSD

and was able to use it to fulfill a few different challenges at sites.

It features my daughter and her best friends during a lunch time rally at her school.

 

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Happy Thursday!

It's so simple

After a long pause, 
I was super sick which then turned into horrible allergies,

 I am back with my last layout for the Shimelle Laine layouts within limits concept.
Such a great way to get some layouts done quickly and I've already generated a new kit for the next go around at this concept!

This layout features my son Noah, eating a ghosty icecream after his football game.
It's so simple to make him happy! Doesn't his face just match the ice cream?!LOL!

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Happy Tuesday!

 



Sunrise Mass



My second layout featuring Shimelle Laine's concept of Layouts within limits

features an Easter Sunrise Mass that we attended. 

I changed up the sketch a bit due to my having 2 horizontal photos and after flipping that turquiosy heart paper, that I had used in the first layout,

 over I was able to get the border square to blend well with the striped background!

 I made it all work, and really like how this one turned out!

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Happy Saturday!

Mothers Day 2011

Following a sketch and the inspiration of Shimelle Laine's "Glitter Girl" video

layouts-within-limits

This Mother's day layout was born! I really liked this video and how it encouraged making a kit out of your stash big enough for three layouts and using only what you had in the self selected kit contents to complete the layout. It was quite freeing and the layouts came together quite quickly and without all the hemming and hawing and looking for supplies!

 

These photos feature me and my kids a few years ago!

 

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Happy Wednesday!

Buzz Blasters

A quick Disney layout this morning-

featuring our group at Astro Blasters-

one of our favorite rides at Disney!

I pulled out some old Prima paper that I felt was perfect for this layout,

but boy was it hard to work with!

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Yeah it's Friday! Happy Weekend!

Little Moments

I was recently scrapping at a friends house and she asked if I wanted some scraps.

I was immediately inspired to create the following layout with them!

 

The photo features me, my mom, and my brother, a few years back, on Mother's Day!

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Happy Wednesday!

The Waiting Game

We do an awful lot of waiting for Noah's sporting events.

He often has to be at the field 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours before his games start.

I thought to take a picture of what we normally do while waiting and document it!

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Here we are.... back to Monday! Happy Monday!

It's Halloween Time

Another layout based off a sketch from My scraps and More!

They had so many fun sketches to choose from during the Sketch a thon!

I wanted to use this cool patterned paper for a Halloween page and love how it went so well with our Halloween decorating photos from a few years back!

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Happy Thursday!

Early Bird gets the worm

My son has always been an early riser!

He let me take this photo of him one morning and I chose to highlight it here!

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Happy Tuesday!

Yep your kind of water

This was a fun layout to do! My husband always gets himself near a funny looking sign somehow and I manage to take advantage of the situation by snapping a picture and scrapping it!

A fun addition to my Disney album!

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Happy Monday!

Fans to the end

 

Fans to the end is a layout featuring me and my family showing our love for the Pittsburgh Steelers!

We are fans through and through even down to the chips we eat on game day!

Thanks for a great sketch featured over at My Scraps and More!

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Happy Friday- Yeah!!

Clickable Moment

Another sketch from My Scraps and More led to this layout featuring me!

I had taken a picture of myself while riding the cars at Autopia a few years back and

it was about time I scrapped it!

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Happy Monday!

3840

3840 stands for the number of miles that the annual senior fall trip travels to reach all the fun destinations they do.

My daughter being a Senior this year got to join in on all the fun!

(You'll see my daughter in all four photos but in particular standing under the Universal sign in the 3rd photo and with her 3 best friends in the 2nd photo!)

Here are a few group photos "lifted" with permission from the school website!

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Happy Tuesday!

For A Cause

I wanted to do a layout documenting some of the donations I received for a yearly crop

that I am involved in to help raise money for Juvenile Diabetes. 

With the help of a sketch from My Scraps and More- here it is!

 

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Happy Monday!



Arizona Sunset

I've been working on a month long sketch challenge over at My Scraps and more.

I've fallen behind miserably but hope to do some catching up as

I'm off from work for the next 5 days! Yeah!

Here is my layout based on a card sketch made by member Bev Code.  

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Happy Thursday!

Pit Stop

Our most recent Disney trip was a bus turnaround trip-

during our pit stop for a very late lunch I took a couple of random photos of us.

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Happy Monday!



Celebrate Disney Memories

When we came home and I looked at my pictures I was so disappointed to find out this final picture ,of my kids and their friends, hadn't turned out quite so well.

I was able to recover it some and gave it a vintagy type of look so  I was happy that it turned out and is now somewhat decent!

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Happy Thursday!

Back to Disney

Just a quick layout today featuring an entry page for all the Disney pages I've been doing.

I did some journaling as well about how my daughter won that Minnie Mouse in the bus raffle!

Boy, was she excited!

I used a nice mish mash of items and felt they came together nicely but in a little busier way, but hey it's done!

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Happy Tuesday!

Important words

Just posting a quick layout today featuring my dad.

He's always got a story to tell and wanted to document this picture of him with a little journaling along the bottom.

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Happy Tuesday!

Tomorrowland

Good morning!

I'm working through some Disneyland photos and felt a sketch from Shimelle

was a fun way to do my Tomorrowland page!

I hope you enjoy it!

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Happy Wednesday!

Adventureland

Unfortunately this page did not push me past round 2 in the Last Scrapper Standing contest.

The challenge was to use embossing and though I did emboss the bamboo trees and the striped looking panels- I think it was hard for people to see they were embossed and therefore I was voted off the scrapbooking island!

 

This page features a couple of photos from Adventureland in Disneyland and I like how the embossing reflected my style by just looking like patterned paper that I could easily blend in with the photos.

 

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Happy Monday!

I love u

My two girls! My daughter Abriana and my pup Finley!

They love each other so much and I'm happy to have captured this photo

and documented it for the first challenge in Last Scrapper Standing at Memorable Seasons.

Happy to say this layout, that had to feature hearts, boosted me to the second round!

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Happy Tuesday!

It's a Small World

Some pictures of my favorite place at Disneyland- It's a Small World!

A mixture of American Crafts and that Studio Calico background paper made a beautiful

blend for my Small World photos!

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Happy Valentines Day!

Sketch A Thon- Layout 16

Here it is the final layout for the Sketch A Thon I participated in!

I did skip a few at the end as it got to busy to get them done by the deadline but I'm proud of the 17

layouts I did complete!

This layout features my daughter and her best friend as we are getting ready to head to Disneyland!

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Happy Tuesday!

Sketch A Thon layout 15

Layout 15's sketch had us using a shaped paper and splitting it in half.

I loved this Jenni Bowlin one and felt it worked well with this photo of my son driving

off into the sunset in the Toontown car!

 

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Happy Wednesday!

Sketch A thon layout 14

Though the Sketch a thon is done- I still wanted to share the layouts I did.

Here is layout 14 featuring a photo from of the Disneyland castle using

the AC Dear Lizzy line with a little Amy Tan and a few misc embellishments thrown in.

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Happy Monday!