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Do you remember this past summer?

I do - mostly.

We took an awesome trip to Nebraska to visit the hubby's grandparents. His parents came along with us. It was a great week long get away and of course we had tons of pictures between myself and my mother in law.

My mother in law decided a few months back that we should make a book for her mom about our trip for Christmas. Well my mother in law and I have gotten together TWICE to get this done and how many pages do you think we have done?

I think we have about 6 total. I've done 3 and I think my MIL has done 3 as well. Anyway, I thought I'd share the few pages I've done and I apologize for not having a supply list and I did these a few months ago...I'll be better with the next pages I do.

And yes, after I post these I think I should work on a few more pages as Christmas is slowly creeping up...

The BIG Sister

Awhile ago I was able to test out MyMemories Suite and have since gone to it when I want to do simple, quick scrapbooking. The other day I finally 'liked' them on FB and notice they do all sorts of giveaways and even have some challenges.

One of these challenges takes place on Sundays. They call is Speed Scrap Sunday and it really is meant to be quick.

I think I maybe spent 20 minutes on mine, tops! It was fun and I'm very pleased with the result.

SUPPLY LIST

Picture: Cindi Braby Photography
Digital Scrapbook Kit: Pink October Free Kit by 2PS - Cherie Mask
Fonts: 2Peas Drama Queen, CK Storybook and my own handwriting font

Why So Serious?

MyMemories blog hosts a new challenge each Wednesday. This week called for using those NOT so perfect pictures.

Having recently just had our family pictures and knowing that my little guy was sick and less than cooperative I knew EXACTLY what picture to use as the main picture and then added the other ones with it.

The layout was 'scraplifted' from Creating Keepsakes Magazine - November/December 2011 edition - Page 80 - Little Girl layout.

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Photo: Cindi Braby Photography
Digital Kit: Just So Scrappy - Dinoroar
Fonts: Pea Noodle Girlfriends & Lindsey

Wedding Bells

Remember this project?

Well I revisited it and revamped it for a wedding gift.

My cousin got married last Friday and I wanted to give her something with meaning. Giving wedding gifts is something I really hate to do.

So thinking about what I wanted to do I decided to combine two projects into one. It was crazy and I'm not positive I LOVE how it turned out, but I do like it.

This was the completed project:


Then I found this awesome frame to put it in and the completed project looked like this:

I think that the frame may be a bit too busy thinking about it now, but I still think the message will get through. At least I hope it will!

I do have to say that I got the template here. Without her, this project would've taken 10x as long!

Wanna Make The Kids Happy???

I like to visit How Does She? quite often. However, just recently I signed up to get their newsletter. I know - what's wrong with me? Anyway in one of the most recent newsletters I saw THIS! Now how could I pass that up? Seriously!

Now because I am trying to lose weight I didn't eat even 1. Can you believe it? Okay, it helped that it was covered with candy melts and I'm not crazy about candy melts. I also wasn't able to find candied eyeballs, so I improvised with chocolate chips. How can you go wrong with chocolate chips? I also couldn't find sucker sticks and came across coffee stirrers. I don't drink coffee, so I didn't know these were available, but guess what THEY WORKED and the kids now use them as straws. Hahaha!


Anyway, my kids LOVED these and kept asking for more. I even think the hubby stole one or two. I think they are cute and it's things like this that make me enjoy baking! Just wish I was able to avoid eating everything I baked... ;)

MousePad Do-Over

I first saw this tutorial over at AGAAGG. Check it out - but make sure you have LOADS of time on your hands cause this girl is crazy creative!!!

So I had this mousepad:


It was falling apart at the seams and it didn't bother me too much cause I did buy it at the dollar store and it lasted me a couple years.

So I tore that top part off and was left with this:


Then I went about measuring the mousepad to know which size to cut my paper.


I had an off night and could NOT get the paper cut to the right dimensions and finally settled on just using the two pieces of paper and making them work together:



I then took my Mod Podge and painted it all over the mousepad and then adhered the paper to it. When that was done, I was left with some edges that were bigger than the mousepad:


I simply trimmed the excess off.

I decided I didn't like how the two papers matched up


So I simply took a coordinating piece of paper and slapped it on where the other two pieces met. I was much happier with this look:


Now I have a cutesy mousepad and it's IN SEASON!!! YAY!

SUPPLY LIST

Mousepad - bought at the dollar store
Papers - DCWV: The Fall Stack
Mod Podge
Paint Brush
Paper Trimmer
Scissors

Last Christmas...

I've been neglecting this blog for awhile...I've done quite a bit of digital scrapbooking lately for different projects, but I forget to post about them. I'll try to work on it.

As for tonight I am realizing I never posted about the Christmas gifts we gave to our siblings this past year....

My little sister hasn't mastered the art that is digital scrapbooking/crafting/whatever yet, so she asked me to make this for her friends Christmas gift. I obliged cause I'm that AWESOME of a sister and then I got to thinking. (A dangerous pasttime, I know) I decided I could do something a little different.

I decided we would find a song that closely represented our feelings for the certain sibling or something we wanted them to know. This was a challenge, but my dear hubby even helped me out with some of the song choices. What can I say? He loves me.

So, I got to work making the overlay outline. Then I had to type each song and get it to fit. Sometimes that was a challenge. Then we printed it off and I had repainted 'cheap' picture frames (Hey, we were talking like 10 frames here - I come from a large family) to match a color in the picture.

I didn't take step by step pics, but I will share the completed pictures and then a picture of them all in the frames. This gift was much better received than I ever imagined!!!

To see the pictures bigger, you can just click on them and they will open up bigger! ;)

FOR MY BIG SISTER:

FOR MY BIG BROTHER:

FOR MY SISTER IN LAW (Married to my older brother):

FOR MY LITTLE BROTHER:

FOR MY OTHER LITTLE BROTHER:

FOR MY LITTLE SISTER:

FOR MY BROTHER IN LAW (Married to the little sis):

FOR MY BABY BROTHER:

FOR MY HUBBY'S OLDER BROTHER:

FOR MY HUBBY'S OTHER OLDER BROTHER:

THE COMPLETED PROJECT:

SUPPLY LIST

Frames - Walmart
Paint - Whatever I had in my 'stash'
Fonts - Too many to name and I forget what I used (It was almost a year ago)
Word Art - Bethany Harty except for the ones on the hubby's brothers pics which I did myself
Songs -
Lost by Michael Buble
I'll Stand By You by Glee Cast
My Wish by Rascal Flatts
Super Trouper by Abba
Piano Man by Billy Joel
My Sister by Reba McEntire
There Goes My Life by Kenny Chesney
All Star by Smashmouth
Code Monkey by Jonathon Coulton
Home by Daughtry