Boy To Man

Here's another Wisdom Wednesday prompted layout. Here's the post and below you can see my layout.

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TEMPLATE: Trixie Scraps Greatest Hits Vol. 6 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: One Happy Day by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Just Realize

I Believe

How often do you include yourself in your layouts? Probably not very often. So, that's why I wrote this post for a Master's Monday on the Trixie Scraps blog.

Here's the layout.

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KIT: Just One Kiss by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Traveling Typewriter

I Cherish U

This layout was made for a newish blog topic on the Trixie Scraps blog. It's called Wisdom Wednesday and it's all about sharing our favorite quotes. I came across a great one and went right to work with it. Here's a look at the layout and you can read the full entry here.

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TEMPLATE: After The Rain by Trixie Scraps
KIT: God Gave Me You by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Just The Way You Are

Pre-School

It was time to play with a brand, spanking new kit and you know I totally did! The color palette worked perfectly with the clothes my little girl wore her 1st day of Preschool, so I knew those were the pictures that needed to be used with this kit.

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TEMPLATE: Shake It Up by Connie Prince

KIT: One Happy Day by Trixie Scraps

FONT: KG Seven Sixteen

Tough {To Be Me}

This came from a Sentiment Sunday post on the Trixie Scraps blog.You can read that here.

Here's my layout:

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TEMPLATE: Large and In Charge Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: That's My Boy by Trixie Scraps

FONT: king cool KC

Happy Shaylyn

Wanna know how to make use of journaling cards? I did a Masters Monday post on one way to use them. You can read it here.

Meanwhile, here's a look at my layout.

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TEMPLATE: Project Journal Cards Vol. 3 by Connie Prince

KIT: A Life That's Good by Trixie Scraps

JOURNALING CARD: A Life That's Good by Trixie Scraps

Beauty

So this is a layout I really can't remember if I made for a reason or not. Either way, it was an important page to make. I did something I thought I'd never ever do, but I am so happy that I did.

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TEMPLATE: Standing Alone Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Tuscan Fall by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Unknown

Bug

Another Master's Monday post for the Trixie Scraps blog. You can read it here.

It was a post about scrapping your names. It's an important part of scrapbooking if you are like me and scrap mainly as a way of journal keeping.

Here's my layout all about my nickname, plus I got to use a kit I'd always wanted to use, but never really got around to.

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TEMPLATE: Greatest Hits Vol. 6 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Little Ladybug by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Juice ITC

First Recital

Because I'm so far behind in my scrapping, I just got around to scrapping my daughters 1st piano recital. Here is the result.

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TEMPLATE: Shake It Up Temps 2 by Connie Prince

KIT: Musical Melody by TwinMom Scraps

FONT: Testarossa NF (Large Title) and Monotype Corsiva (Small Title and Journaling)

WORD ART: Musical Melody by TwinMom Scraps

10 Years

For my birthday awhile ago, the people over at Gingerscraps gave me an awesome birthday 'package' with lots of coupons. While perusing the different stores, I found a kit I just knew I had to have and I knew exactly what pictures I would be using them with. The kit was called R and R Cafe and it was perfect for our 10 year anniversary pictures.

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KIT: R and R Cafe by Gingerscraps Designers

TEMPLATE: Project Journalcard Vol. 3 by Connie Prince

FONT: Copasetic

Sugar & Spice

It was Template Thursday on the Trixie blog and I had the awesome opportunity to be the first one to use this template. You can read the post and download the template here.

Here's what I created with this template.

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KIT: Lovely In Lilac by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: July 2014 Template Challenge by Trixie Scraps

FONT: KG Change This Heart

St. Nick

This edition of Master's Monday makes use of good old rubber stamps that may not be getting much use now. Read it here.

Here's my layout.

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KIT: Presents Everywhere by Trixie Scraps
COORDINATING PIECES: Presents Everywhere by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: Standing Alone Vol. 5 by Trixie Scraps
RUBBER STAMP: Stampin' Up

100 Years

Another Master's Monday post. It's about using masks in Paintshop Pro. Read that here.

Here's my layout complete with 2 masks.

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KIT: That's My Boy by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: After The Rain by Trixie Scraps

MASKS: Blue Jean Boy by Trixie Scraps

STITCHES: Great Wilderness Lodge (Retired kit) by Trixie Scraps

FONT: 1942 Report

It's Uh-a Me, Nate!

Master's Monday happens a lot on the Trixie blog and I get to write them a lot. This post was all about adding children's artwork to your layouts. Read more here.

Here's my fun layout.

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KIT: Blue Jean Boy by Trixie Scraps

TEMPLATE: Large & In Charge Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

FONTS: Super Mario Bros. (Title) and Eurostile (Journaling)

Reason To Smile

Being a part of a Creative Team, sometimes we get to play with goodies long before they are available to the public. Such was the case with this kit. It's a beautiful kit and I was so glad I got to play with it.

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TEMPLATE: Tuesday Template: Week 29 by Megan Turnidge

KIT: 100 Days Of Happy by North Meets South Studios

FONT: California Skies

C'est Русский To Me

So it was time for another Masters Monday post and after doing them for so many week consecutively, I was running low on ideas. Suddenly, I had a fun idea. Read here to see how this layout came about.

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TEMPLATE: Standing Alone Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: New Kid In Class Value Bundle by Trixie Scraps

FONT: My Own Handwriting

Disneyland

Yay for Fun Font Fridays at the Trixie Scraps blog. I absolutely love making these posts. Check it out here. And here's a look at the layout.

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TEMPLATE: Bursting With Photos Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Mr. & Mrs. Mouse by Trixie Scraps

FONT: California Skies

No Place Like Home

Another free Template challenge on the Trixie Scraps blog led to this creation.

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TEMPLATE: May Challenge Thursday by Trixie Scraps Star MK

KIT: Believe In Your Dreams by North Meets South Studios

FONT: KG Payphone

Dressed Up

A post I made for the Trixie Scraps blog was in need of a layout, so I made one. It was a double pager and it's the only time I've ever made a double pager...

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TEMPLATE: Seeing Double Vol. 9 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Black Tie Event by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Amienne

Inspire

It was Sentiment Sunday at the Trixie Scraps blog and I chose the term Inspire. Read the post here.

Here's the layout.

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TEMPLATE: You're So Square Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Blush Beauty by Trixie Scraps

FONTS: Mom's Typewriter

KG Ten Thousand Reasons

Flip A Layout

Another Master's Monday post for the Trixie Scraps blog. You can read it here. In the post I talk about updated old layouts. In my case I took some old layouts that I did the traditional way and in an 8 1/2 x 11 format and updated them with my digi scrapping.

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1 YEAR OLD

TEMPLATE: After The Rain Template Pack by Trixie Scraps

KIT: Best Year Ever by Trixie Scraps

STITCHES: Picture A Family by Trixie Scraps

FONT: KG This Is Not Goodbye

TEAM JAMMIES

TEMPLATE: Standing Alone Vol. 2 by Trixie Scraps

KITS: Out Of This World by Trixie Scraps

Pigskin Party by Trixie Scraps

FONT: Century Gothic

Marbled Easter Eggs - The Edible Kind

Years ago when I was part of a Stampin Up! card club, our demonstrator showed us a cool trick using shaving cream and ink. I loved the effect it created, but never used it again in my life. So when a friend and I were talking about using the same idea to dye eggs, I was excited.

But then...it occured to me...putting eggs in shaving cream makes then unedible afterwards. DARN IT!

The only reason my husband doesn't grumble about this Easter tradition is because he knows devilled eggs will be his to enjoy afterwards. So being edible is a big thing in this house.

I was kind of bummed out because I was looking forward to doing something a little different in regards to egg dying this year. But just before I got completely bummed, I saw a Pinterest Fail on my Facebook feed about edible marbled eggs. After looking into it a bit more, I found the original post.

I was super excited because this looked super easy and something even my 3 and 5 year old could do with a little bit of help. I was determined that this was how we were dying eggs this year. So I gathered all the things I would need.

The original post says to just use one container and from what I gathered they just added different food colors to the same container. I decided that I wanted my kids to be able to switch up colors as they wanted and so I bought 3 large containers of Cool Whip. I also bought 5 different plastic containers so each of my kids had their own. This allowed us to rinse out the mixture each time we wanted to change colors and because it's just cool whip and food coloring, a few of my kids may or may not have just ate the extra cool whip before switching to a new color.

Because I had originally found the idea on a Pinterest Fail, I made sure I followed the original poster's instructions. We finished our eggs around 6 at night and I wasn't going to stay up until 2 or 3 just to check the eggs. So after my baby went to bed around 1, I checked one of my eggs. It wasn't quite ready. So I let them sit overnight and decided to clean the eggs off around 7:00 the next morning.

Here are our results.

My 3 eggs that were left over from what the kids did...

...I think the pinkish egg in the middle is the one I cleaned before I went to bed...

My 13 Year Old Son...

12 Year Old Daughter...

9 Year Old Son...

(He likes to do things in a hurry, thus the same colored eggs)

6 Year Old Son...

...I was wondering what his 'gross' colored eggs would turn out like, but they looked pretty awesome when all was said and done...

3 Year Old Little Girl...

...She had so much fun I let her dye all the cracked eggs...

The Final Result...

I was extremely pleased with our results. I was really worried that we'd end up with a failed result as well, but I was pleasantly surprised. I think we've found our new Easter Egg dye.

I loved that this was so easy, didn't smell up the house and that it left the eggs edible in the end. The clean up isn't too much worse than regular egg dye (at least in this house) and how pretty the eggs turn out. It was also something the older kids could do on their own, which was a major bonus. It was nice to only have to help 2 kids out.