Braelyn in the Snow

Hot weather and cold pictures! I decided to scrap a picture of B playing in some of the snow on the deck last winter. She knew she couldn't go out there without shoes and a jacket, so she did it all herself. You might notice that she has two different shoes on and they are on the wrong feet. I will definitely miss the 'cuteness' of a fun toddler, but not the attitude. :)

This page was done for the July sketch challenge over at Kitchen Keepsake. If you are looking for inspiration, come check it out!

I used the Ms. Giggle Box kit from Sweet Digi Scraps. I love that kit, but I believe it has been retired.

And don't forget... you still have time to enter the RAK drawing on my Kitchen Keepsake Blog Hop post! And lots of the other participants blogs as well!

Turning 3 (Kitchen Keepsake Challenge)

So my 2nd June challenge over at Kitchen Keepsake is to use a big number or letter on your page! This just made sense to me. And I used Sweet Digi Scraps Choose Happiness kit which is available at The Digi Chick. 

Its also a perfect time to come check out the new Kitchen Keepsake forum! Have you seen it? Huh? Huh?
Everything is all shiny and new! Stop on by, we would love to see you there.

Obviously these pics are from Braelyn turning 3. She is too funny, y'all see her face in the bottom picture? Hilarious!

I'm a Lucky Mom

I know my kids are just like everybody else's, but I do feel like the luckiest mom in the world (most days, LOL). Of course there are some days when my kids are overbearing and aggravate me. I'm sure yours do too. Yes, I have to watch the same movie 6 bagillion times in a row. Yes, I have to do all the gross jobs. Yes, I found mold in my car where somebody had spilled milk and not told me (I was pretty angry about that one). But all of them are worth it. Yes, ALL of them!

There are so many awesome things about being a mom though, things I never would have imagined. My kids can make me laugh at the same time they make me cry. They know exactly when to walk up and give me a hug. They say "I love you" at the perfect moment (of course, there is never a bad moment to hear that).

I created this page with the Fun Zone kit from Sweet Digi Scraps. I was looking for something bright and colorful and this kit totally fit the bill! Be sure to check her kits out. She is an awesome designer and there is a cute freebie up on her facebook page right now.

I also did this with a challenge at Kitchen Keepsake in mind. The challenge is to use the word 'lucky' in your title. Head on over to the forum, new challenges will be posted in just a few days!

Just Us

Today's share is a picture of the hubs and I, taken while we were on vacation in December. There are so few pictures of us, I love it.

The kit I used is You Complete Me from Sweet Digi Scraps. The colors are so cute and of course the kit has some of the best elements in it. The bundle gets you everything too! :)

Halloween 2013

Today I'm sharing Halloween pics of the boy from last year. That being said, poor boy was sick on Halloween (we've had it rough this year) and didn't get to go out and do the fun kid things. So we stayed home and had a party. :)

You should definitely check out Comic Heros from Sweet Digi Scraps for a great comic inspired kit to work with! It was fabulous for these pictures and I can see using it with so many others!

Poor Sick Baby

I will preface this by saying I absolutely know this picture is gross and for that I apologize. LOL!

We had a good bit of crud around our house last fall, everybody seemed to get sick over and over again. At this moment I happened to have the camera out to take a picture of a project and my baby girl let out a hideous and violent sneeze. At any rate, the picture works perfect for this kit. The kit is great and will work perfectly for non gross sick pics also :)

Do check it out if you have a chance, you can pick it up at TheDigiChick.

thx card

Can you believe it - 3 different posts, 3 days in a row! And I can almost guarantee I'll make it to four days! LOL! Tomorrow are new releases for the digitals, and this week is awesome (said in my best DJ Lance Rock Voice). Can ya tell I've got kids?

Anyway, today is just a quick card to share. I used lots of scraps (even some old rusty pickle pieces). A week or so ago I cleaned out the bowl that had been collecting random embellishments on my table. It's been collecting them for a LONG time now since it's been a while since I scrapped. Anyway, I found these flowers and thought I should do something with them. They already had the bling in the center. So I threw together a quick card. I fussy cut and then doodled around it. Stuck it down and presto! A quick, needed it in a hurry, thank you card!

And just for fun, come back tomorrow. Here's a sneak of what I'll be sharing.

It's using a fresh new kit from Sweet Digi Scraps!

So Proud

Today I want to share a page of my boy. He makes me so proud (frustrated at the same time though, LOL). Sometimes I have to remind myself that he's only four. The other night he counted all the way to 200 with only a little help. He did a fabulous job with his letter to Santa last month and he knows all his letters, now we are working on the letter sounds. I just can't believe he is going to kindergarten in the fall. These days I don't do enough layouts of him either, I've been making sure I get pages of the girl done so I can sort of catch up.

So here you go, a page to express that I'm proud of my boy. :)

I created this page using the Clean Slate kit from Sweet Digi Scraps, which is available at thedigichick.com.

Life is Beautiful

I love watching my kids in moments of happiness. At this particular moment they weren't bickering, they weren't even paying attention to each other. It makes my heart happy to look at pictures like this. :)

This page was made with the Life is Beautiful kit from Sweet Digi Scraps.

Time just gets away from me

I will be honest and admit that I just haven't been managing my time, given that information I haven't been doing much paper scrapping. I have been trying to keep up with some digital scrapping though.

Because I haven't been doing very well sharing my pages I'm going to share a few with you now. These are all using Sweet Digi Scraps kits available at The Digichick. And there is still time to check out Sweet Digi Scraps daily giveaways on her blog!

You are my No. 1 using Document This

You Love Your Paci using Document That

 Happiness is using A Ghostly Tale

 

Thankful using Happy To Have You

I will say I decided to play with my paper the other night! I can't wait to get it finished up and share it. :)

Hello There!

Wow, how much life has changed in the past couple weeks for us. I haven't had much of a chance to blog, scrap or do much of anything. I love this time of year, the weather is starting to get cooler, the leaves are beginning to fall (I could actually do without them on the back deck) and the holidays are on the horizon!

I hope that the kids and I will eventually get into a routine and be able to get some productive things done. In the meantime, I thought I would share with you a great new set of releases from Sweet Digi Scraps.

Have you seen Miss & Mister Wonderful from SDS in the digichick store? I absolutely love these kits, they are wonderful!

So first up is the Mister Wonderful kit! Here is the page I created with a picture that I absolutely adore

And here is the kit - check it out!

And up next is the Miss Wonderful kit! For this page I decided to do one of myself. I love the colors of the kit, the blue, purple & pinks are so much fun.

And check out the kit preview...

Happy Labor Day!!

Happy Labor Day!

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday. For many, this signifies the final days of summer. That is exactly what it means around here. I can't believe the summer is over and it's September. Preschool starts this week, which means things at our house will never be the same.

I've said it before, I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the boy going to school. Mostly though, I just can't believe he is old enough. So because I still want to celebrate his quirks while I can, I thought I would share a page of him being eccentric. There are so many moments, I have difficulty choosing which ones to scrap. But this one in particular makes me laugh, he was so happy to be like Santa!

The kit is from Sweet Digi Scraps, a new release this weekend at The Digi Chick. Find Yourself is an awesome kit and you can buy just the mini's or the whole bundle. This particular page was done with Find Yourself - The Undecided and some papers from the Paper Pack.

Go ahead and grab them while they are on sale!

just having fun

I love this page, not only for the design, but for the memory this sparks for me. I had so much fun watching the kids play in the garden hose and sprinkler their dad made them this month. It really brought back great memories for me, of the rare moments where my brother and I actually got along and played together. Or the days running through the sprinkler in our front yard with the neighbors. :)

In my journaling on the page I wrote that playing like this is almost like a right of passage for childhood. And I really believe that. Doesn't the thought of playing with sprinklers and garden hoses make you think of your summers as a kid? Of course, that top picture tugs at my heart... I just love it!

And if you are interested in the kit and template, they are from Sweet Digi Scraps. The template is available for free (hello, can't beat that) as the Template Challenge in the forum at Scrap TakeOut and the kit is Ms Giggle Box from Sweet Digi Scraps, which is available in the August Diner's Club at STO.

Enjoy your Tuesday, hope to see you tomorrow with another fun digital!

Summer

We've been doing a lot of summer stuff the past couple weeks. Knowing summer is coming to an end is sort of heartbreaking. I'm still somewhat shocked that the boy is old enough to start preschool.

Today is a digital page using Life's Lemonade kit from Sweet Digi Scraps. This page was created using the scraplift challenge at Scrap TakeOut as inspiration. Lots of layering!

And speaking of Sweet Digi Scraps, today I get to share that I made the CT for the remainder of 2012. I'm so happy to be working with her designs, they are fabulous! Be sure to check them out, and read her blog if you have a chance. She has some great tutorials and the other designers are so inspirational.