Birthday Fun

Thank goodness for my friends. If it weren't for them, I'd probably never get any scrapping done.

My very pregnant friend messaged me last night asking if I wanted to scrapbook this morning. Of course I did. It means I have yet to clean my house, but I got a page done.

I probably could've done at least one more, but my friends backyard opens up into the park, so of course the kids wanted to play at the park and needed mommy to push them on the swing for 20 minutes. It was a wonderful morning.

I've been working my way through the pictures I have on my hard drive and that means it's the year 2009 and I'm working my way through the months. Today's pictures came from child #3's 5th birthday!

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KIT: Clowning Around by Crazy Scrap Chicks
TEMPLATE: Take Me Away by North Meets South Studios
FONT: Colour Me Purple

I'll Always Be Your Little Boy

In one of my last posts you'll remember that I mentioned something about finishing a page, but then finding an error in it. Well it's taken me a good 2 weeks to get back to revamping the layout. I had it finished a couple times, but due to my program crashing and forgetting to save my completed work - I was back to square one.

I finally took some time this morning and finished it up. I'm still not in love with it, but it's better than the first go around.

Here's a look at the first layout:

You'll notice that I forgot the last 'l' in little. The words Little Boy also don't stand out much. I fixed both those issues and a few more in the completed project:

I decided I didn't like the frames I had used previously, so I found a couple that came with the kit and used those instead. The alphas that came in the kit were only in blues and pinks, so I recolored it with a paper included in the kit. I think it helps it stand out a bit more.

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KIT: If The Crown Fits by Just So Scrappy
FONTS: Rough Typewriter (ALWAYS Word) and LD Vanilla (White Wordstrips)
LAYOUT: Creating Keepsakes - March/April 2010, Page 108

Newest Stuff

Just a couple more digi layouts for you. I actually have one more that I've done recently, but realized I made a HUGE mistake and forgot a letter in the title....so I get to start all over and redo the page. Hahaha.

The first one was made a few weeks ago, but I had to wait to post it because...Trixie of Trixie Scraps added a new store to her lists of places where she sells her kits and we had to wait till it was available at that store. That happened last week and so now I can share my layout. I was thrilled when I saw the kit and knew EXACTLY which group of pictures I wanted to use.

The next layout was made when I got together with a few of my friends for a scrapbooking night. It went well into the wee hours of the morning and THAT'S why I missed a letter in the title of the page I need to redo. This was the other layout that came from that night.

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WHAT'S LUCK
KIT: Lucky Me by Trixie Scraps (The store this kit is sold in, doesn't sell it as a full kit, you'll need to select the pieces you want individually)
FONT: Celtic Hand
LAYOUT LOOK: CK Sketches - Creating Keepsakes Magazine Jan/Feb 2013

THE TEMPLE
KIT: Scrappin' Doodles by Stacey's Scraps (Store is no longer around)
FONT: Book Antiqua
LAYOUT LOOK: Creating Keepsakes Magazine November/December 2011, Page 24 "Happy Winter"

LUCKY

It's been awhile since I've done anything 'crafty.'

Recently my husband used his creative side to redo a pool table. Since he was being so crafty, it kind of got me in the mood for it again. It didn't hurt that a store he had to go to was next to a wood craft store.

Here's my two newest projects...

A shamrock door hang and Lucky blocks.

I got both from a store called Crafty Wood Cutouts. It was the first time I've been to the store and I was really quite surprised at how similarly laid out to The Wood Connection it was. While I don't like to be mean, the whole time it felt like I was in a store that was trying to be a knock-off. I don't know which store came first, so I don't know what the truth is there. But that's my 2 cents. My husband also stated that for people who don't want to travel all the way to Murray or American Fork, had this store as a closer option. So you know, sometimes you've got to look on the good side of things.

Things this store did have going for it:
- The children's area is located in an awesome area and the 2 kids I had with me at the time, stayed in the room the whole time. They didn't even want to leave it to go home.

- The LUCKY blocks came WITH the vinyl (By the way trying to stick vinyl on glittered cardstock DOESN'T work. I had to use Mod Podge to keep the c and y in place)

- I got 5% off my order just for 'checking-in' on Facebook

- They do have different options than The Wood Connection does

I'm still happy with my purchase and yes, I'd probably go back again. There were a few other projects I was looking at, but just didn't have the funds for it all. If you're closer to Utah County than Salt Lake County in Utah, Crafty Wood Cutouts may be a better option for you.

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SHAMROCK DOOR HANG

PAINTS: Daler/Rowney Simply Acrylic - Dark Green & Folk Art Acrylic - Winter White

RIBBON: The Ribbon Boutique - Lime & The Ribbon Boutique - Black

WIRE:  Found at The Wood Connection

FONT:  Celtic Hand

LUCKY BLOCK LETTERS

PAINTS (IN ORDER FROM L - Y): Delta Ceramcoat - Apple Green, Delta Ceramcoat - Gamal Green, Folk Art Enamels - Fresh Foliage, Delta Ceramcot - Medium Foliage Green, Daler/Rowney Simply Acrylic - Light Green
PAPERS (IN ORDER FROM L - Y): Doodlebug Design Inc. Candy Dots - Limeade, The Paper Studio - Scribble Shamrocks, Doodlebug Design Inc: Sugar Coated Cardstock - Limeade, The Paper Studio - Lime Green w/ White Polka Dots, Doodlebug Design Inc.: Sugar Coated Cardstock - Leapfrog
GLITTER: Doodlebug Design Inc. Sugar Coating - Lily White Glitter
FLOSS: We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy Floss
RIBBONS:  Offray - YelGold and The Ribbon Boutique - Lime
HAT
PAINT: Delta Ceramcoat - Apple Green, Plaid Folk Art - Black, Plaid Folk Art - Metallic Pure Gold
PAPER:  Doodlebug Design Inc.: Sugar Coated Cardstock - Leapfrog

Toss The Dice

I've been sitting on this layout for a few days. The kit was finally released today, so I can share my layout. The kit was so much fun and I wished I had better pictures that fit with it, but when I saw the kit I immediately thought of a couple pictures I could use that would sort of work.

I present to you, TOSS THE DICE...

Best thing about this new release is that if you buy the kit from now until the 26th, you can get the template pack (which I also used) for 1/2 off!!! See links below to get to kit and template.

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KIT: Tricky, Tricky by North Meets South Studios

TEMPLATE: Tricky, Tricky Templates by North Meets South Studios

PICTURES: Unsure of the company that took the dance pictures, personal photos

FONT: KG Ten Thousand Reasons

Take A Hike

Hold on to your seats, folks...I actually made a layout for no other reason than to just make it. I'm so proud of myself. It has to do with my friends wanting to get together again and scrap. We haven't done it in months and I'm so glad we got together today. And guess what, we're getting together again tonight - but I'm going to go back to my roots then and make some traditional layouts. We'll see if I end up sharing anything. HAHAHA!

Anyway onto today's completed layout:

Yup, I went back in time and created a layout for the 'family' book. Woot. I'm seriously thinking I may be changing my ways and sticking with digital. I'll get things done so much quicker.

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KIT: Quality Time by Trixie Scraps Designs & Armina Designs. (Trixie has recently retired this kit, but it's still available at Armina's store.)

TEMPLATE: What's Your Angle Volume 1 by Trixie Scraps

PICTURES: Personal Photos

FONT: King CooL KC

Lacking Inspiration?

As is usual for me lately, because of a post I had to make at the Trixie Scraps blog - I have a couple new pages to share.

The post was about Overcoming Scrapper's Block. Read it, or don't. It's up to you, but here are the pages from it.

The first page, I'm not totally wild about. I'll probably do a redo of it sometime in the future. Because of certain circumstances, I was doing it at about 10:00 at night for the post that had to go live the very next morning...It's just lacking something and I don't know what.

The fact that all the pictures I chose were taken in the same month 2 years apart was a complete coincidence, but a very happy one.

Here's the next page. This is a page I've wanted to make for a long time, but just never could do it. Then I ran across a saying and it gave me my jump off point. You can read more about that in the post.

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TWINNERS:

KIT: Heart of A Friend kit by Trixie Scraps
PICTURES: Personal Photos

FONT: Love Ya Like A Sister Solid

OKAY, NOT TODAY:

KIT: Everybody Fights Sometimes by North Meets South Studios
TEMPLATE: Four Or More Volume 5

PICTURE: Personal Photo

FONTS: Title - Stinkerella & Stinkzilla, Journaling - Century Gothic