Movie Night!

Have you seen the Simple Stories collection, "Say Cheese?" When it came out a few months ago, it was so popular by scrapbookers wanting to use it for their Disney photos. I loved it just as much as them but I had a problem...I haven't been to Disney. Since I got this line I have been hoarding it and waiting to come up with a good idea to use it. Now I have!! I snapped this picture of my friends on a scrapbook getaway a year or so ago when we were getting ready to watch a movie in our very own "rented" theater room. Some of the papers and embellishments just worked so well when I put this page together.

I got inspiration for this page from a sketch challenge at Stick it Down. Too bad I missed the deadline by a couple of hours :(

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Some weekend scrapping...

I have had a little time to play with paper both today and yesterday!! So thankful my husband supports this hobby of mine! This first layout I created off of a sketch from sketch n scrap! I also was challenged by my scrapbook group to create a Now & Then layout and at My Scraps & More I was inspired by Missy's Word Up challenge to use the word "crazy" on my page!

Yesterday I created another Now & Then layout of my kids coloring Easter eggs based on a sketch at Let's Get Sketchy!

I hope you have gotten some time to play this weekend too!!!

Mixing a couple different lines...

I just received this new collection from Echo Park, "That's my Boy"! Can I say LOVE!! I think that I am going to have to get me some more because I can see myself reaching for this collection again and again and again!! I started off playing with a sketch from Let's Get Sketchy but the page kind of took a life of its own. Hopefully you can still see that I got my inspiration from their fun sketch!! After I got most of this page put together, it just needed something. I sat and stared at it, looked at the sticker sheets that are part of the collection, but got nothing. All of a sudden I got an aha moment and thought of the Simple Stories "Smarty Pant's" line so I pulled that out...these two lines work so well together! Don't ya love when that happens??!! I usually just stick to one line on all of my pages so this was fun to mix it up a bit!!

I hid the journaling on the bingo card stuck behind the photo.

I used a Simple Stories Snap 3x4 card and cut it apart to create these three die cuts! I added some string to make them stand out a little more.

and enamel dots! I love those things!!

If you are interested, both of these collections can be purchased right now at My Scraps & More!! Thanks so much for taking a peek of what I have been up too!!

Do you Believe in the Magic of Christmas?

After this past Christmas I am pretty sure that my son, Connor, does! For months, I mean literally months, he has been talking non-stop about the X-Box One. That is all that he wanted for Christmas. One day he even told me that if he didn't get that, he wouldn't even have a Christmas because that is all that he wanted! I knew he would love this gift so I pre-ordered it months ago but of course, like the good Mom that I am, I couldn't tell him that I gotten it for him! I had to torture him ( and myself because I had to keep hearing about it daily) and tell him that I was having a hard time finding it anywhere because they were all sold out! HA!! It was so worth it on Christmas morning when he ripped open this present!! And yes...he LOVES it!!! 
     I was inspired to create this page by the color challenge here on Kelly's page, which is part of the scrap friends challenges as well as the awesome sketch challenge at Let's Capture our Memories and the current challenge at Scrap our Stash, which was to use 5 (enamel dots), 4 (patterned papers), 3 (stickers), 2 (photo frames) and 1 rub-on.

I also created this layout in record time! It just seemed to come together so quickly! It is a Steal from the Saturday challenge at My Scraps & More and I was also inspired by the challenge at Twisted Tuesdays to use washi tape AND something on my page that started with one of the letters in the word "tape". I used enamel dots!

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Snow Day Playing...

...with paper, NOT snow! It is way too cold outside to be doing any kind of playing out there but I have had a great time inside playing along with some fun challenges!! The other day I stumbled across a blog post about the challenges of the "scrap friends" so I went and checked it out. So Fun!!! I created this layout based upon the sketch on Brenda's blog, used the word "celebrate" as part of my title for
Kristi's word challenge and used the diagonal row (flowers, mini alphas and Mist) from Rochelle's
tic-tac-toe challenge. I also incorporated My Scraps & More's 1/16 Thursday Throwback challenge of using a large circle, Southern girls Challenge blog plus SnC's New Year challenge! Wheew...that's a lot of challenges in one little 'ole layout!! LOVE it!!

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no more Teachers... no more Books!

I finally played with one of the mini collections from October Afternoon's Daily Flash Vol. 1, Milk Money! I used one of the patterned papers and cut out the books and lined them up at the bottom of my page. This page worked perfectly for the Mix it Up Monday challenge at My Scraps & More which was to have "3 of 3" on your layout. My three are 3 different patterned papers, 3 enamel dots and 3 die cuts!! Challenges always make scrappin' that much more fun for me!

I also used a fun sketch from a great scrapbook group that I am a part of. Love when pages come together so easily!!!

Enjoy your day!

Hello friend...

My daughter Taylor, and her friend Amanda have been great friends since kindergarten. They are now both out of high school and starting their own lives. I hope that their friendship lasts a lifetime!!! For this page I used the Pebbles "From Me to You" collection. I just LOVE the colors in it. If you are a card make then this line is a must!! Such cute, cute embellishments to go along with it that would make awesome cards. Too bad I don't make cards :/  I created my layout based on this fun sketch that I found over at Stuck? Sketches...

Thanks for stopping by to check out what I have been up too. Now off to go play with some more paper...