the boys {digital freebie}

Today's page is a digital, done for the masculine page challenge at a cherry on top. Most of the items are from the Sweetie kit available at the ACOT store.

I love these guys. They both tug at my heart (and nerves, LOL). 

I also thought I would be nice and offer another digital freebie. These are some mini alphabet stickers, they come in brown, black, gray & white.

You can download them from dropbox here.

And that is the end of today's post... I have to go get busy on the play kitchen (which is coming along nicely)!

Life's a Blur

I have teamed up with Pinky and we are doing the Amazing Digital Scrapbook Race. Kudos to her for stepping up at the last hour to partner with me as I begged on facebook. LOL! If you haven't, check out her blog as she is really talented and I'm sure you'll find lots of great eye candy there.

Back to the ADSR7 - We are issued challenges and have a timeline to create a page. They aren't judged on whose is the best (love that!), just that you met the criteria of the challenge.

The first challenge came out on the 6th. It was to use a bad photo and scrap it unaltered. Not a problem, I have tons of those! This pic fits perfectly with the challenge and I am pretty pleased with how the layout turned out.

I did 8.5x11 again just for fun, which I'm again sure I'll regret when printing time comes. The kit is from Crisdam Designs at A Cherry On Top.

Now I'm all done and ready for the next challenge! Woot - bring it on!

Me @ 34

First I want to share a conversation I had with Grayson the other day in the car. I thought it was pretty funny.

"mommy, I want to see the map"

"it's a gps"

"what does gps mean?"

"global positioning satellite" - you don't have to correct me, I realize now this is wrong ;)

"whats satellite mean?"

"it's a big space shuttle kind of thing that lives in the sky, way up in outer space and talks to the box in the car that tells us what roads are coming up and which way to go"

"austronauts live in outer space"

"well, they visit there"

"space shuttles live in outer space"

"planets live in outer space, even the earth is in outer space"

At this point I'm just kinda floored, I'm pretty sure at 4 I didn't comprehend the earth was actually part of the solar system. I probably didn't even think about it, I just wanted to go to my sandbox. 

"yup, all those things are in outer space"

<insert pause here>

"but mommy, where is the library?"

We weren't even headed to the library.

:)


As far as scrapping today, I've got another digital layout. This one was done for a challenge over at A Cherry On Top. The All About Me challenge. The picture didn't turn out half bad, so I might as well use it while I like it. LOL!

I also adapted the April sketch from My Sketch World, which of course is really cute.  

The papers and elements are from all different designers. I just can't help myself when it comes to mixing up digital kits and changing colors on stuff. Its an obsession. :)

Luv U

What a great weekend we had. Thanks to everyone who helped make Grayson's birthday extra special. He is a very lucky boy, who seems to be having a difficult time deciding what to play with next! He had so much fun bowling and seeing all his cousins. He was on cloud nine!

I hope I get time to scrap some of his birthday pictures soon, most of them turned out really well!

But today is a layout of Braelyn. This page was done for a scraplift challenge over at a cherry on top. 

Papers are from DCWV and Webster's, flowers are Prima and some miscellaneous ones I had in my stash. Chipboard letters are from Colorbok (pretty sure I got those from a secret sister at a crop - thanks!). Of course there are other random bits and pieces as well.

Hope you enjoy your Monday - and can stay warm! It is rather chilly here today, and I know it is up north.

Sweet Little Girl

I haven't had a whole lot of excess time the past couple weeks, but I did manage to get this layout done. I love this picture of Braelyn for a couple reasons...

1 - she isn't screaming her head off demanding food (her usual frame of mind in a restaurant)

and

2 - she looks absolutely adorable in pigtails (but screams like a banshee while I'm trying to put them in)


What I love about this, it only took me around 15 minutes to put it together. Since Braelyn expects me to be very hands on (I'm still not sure I'm used to that), I love that I can pop out a digital page in record times. The kit is another that I snagged from A Cherry On Top. I fell in love with the colors, they are so vibrant and sweet. And perfect for a little girl page. And again, on sale for $1. :)

Now, I have to resume real life and tackle the mound of laundry that has somehow managed to collect.

Safety 1st {and a winner}

Happy Thursday Morning!

I've been in a bit of a funk the past few days. We got some news on Tuesday, that while I completely expected it, it has still thrown me 'off' just a bit. So I will admit that yesterday I sort of moped around. Add into that Grayson having a really rough day, and well, I just forgot all about it being Wednesday and that I was supposed to post a winner. I hope you will forgive me.

At any rate, today I'm sharing a digital layout I did. I recently joined the forum at A Cherry On Top and found a challenge to scraplift the guest creative team. So I snagged this great digital kit called Tuesday Morning and got to work. Here is what I came up with. The pictures are of Grayson, his safety gear and his scooter. At this point, the boy has grown so much that the helmet doesn't fit him. I guess we'll have to look into getting him another one. Sometimes I wish he would stop growing.


If you would like to see the page I lifted, you can snag a glance here.

And in case you didn't notice - that digital kit is on sale for $1. 100 pennies, 10 dimes or 4 quarters. Really, you can't beat that! I love a good sale, so I thought I would share with you guys. There are a bunch of other great kits in the 'sale bin' there as well.

Yes, I know... I made you look at the layout and read my junk first. You don't care, do you?! LOL! So let's go on and pick a winner, shall we?!

There were 22 comments on the Win It post. Some were duplicates, I took those out and there were 19 all together. Random.org picked number 10!

That would be...

mindakims

Congrats! Please contact me through a forum or email me so I can get your prize out!

And thank you to all the new followers. I hope you will stick around - I'll be doing more prizes and such in the future!