Month: October 2015

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The calm before the storm

All the digiscrappers know what I mean… next weekend is DSD, Digital Scrapbook Day. That means huge sales and lots of new products added to the digi stores. It also means a lot of layouts created by CT members.

There will be FB hops, speed scraps, scavenger hunts. They will be on Pinterest, on Instagram, in forums and on Facebook. It will be an amazing weekend (11/6 to 11/8). Some stores will have promotions the entire week so be sure to check the forums for your favorite digi stores.

Here are a few layouts I created last week:

Bond of Love

You’re Unique and M3 June 15 Add on – Photo Masks both by Little Butterfly Wings; Font: Loveton

Note to Her – for the October Journaling Challenge at TLP, one of the photos from Grandma’s photo box with writing on the back

Little Talks, Memory Collector, Story Unfolds, Philosophy all by One Little Bird; Generations by One Little Bird and Paislee Press; Nov 14 Template Freebie by Sara Gleason; Fonts: The Silver Reed and The Royal Invites from Heather Joyce

Yes to This – more from my trip with the DigiSisters

At A Glance Papers and Elements from Etc by Danyale; Sugarcoated by One Little Bird; A Stitched Mess Alphas by Just Jaimee; Font: Heart and Soul

You’re a MR – you turn around and little boys become men… trust me!

Hey Mr Mister by Sugary Fancy; Quirky Love by Two Tiny Turtles

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New stuff, new stuff!

Balance – the thing I love about accounting, if things are right they balance

Tuesday Morning and Flight Plan no 15 by One Little Bird

Bookholic – love of reading… enough said

#bookholic and #bookholic extras, flairs & borders from Studio Basic Designs and Little Butterfly Wings

Chaos and Love – our Thanksgiving madness

Chaos and Love by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Brook Magee; Life Captured – October Templates by Digital Scrapbook Ingredients

Home est 2015 – Elysse’s apartment

Memory Pockets Monthly: Home by Amber LaBau, Allison Pennington, Paislee Press, Sahlin Studio, Sara Gleason and Valorie Wibbens; Cottage Papers and Story Grids v7 by Amber LaBau

Music Fest 2015 – the big downtown music festival in town

Shabby Fair Kit and coordinating Alphabet Soup and Painted all from Etc by Danyale; October Template Challenge Freebie by Valorie Wibbens

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Digital learning

I mentioned that I attended Spraguefest last weekend. We had two full days of all kinds of crafting, both digital and paper. I had the perfect kit this week to document my trip.

DigiSis Oct 15 – this will not be my last layout of the trip, trust me!

Friends for Life Bundle by Sugary Fancy; Template Set 205 by Cindy Schneider

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Speaking of learning, I participated in October’s Scrapaneers. The focus this month is Fear Factor. We were all supposed to go outside of our comfort zone in our layout. I chose minimal, which is NOT my style, and used several filters to achieve this effect.

Magical Place

Autumn’s Magic by Valorie Wibbens; Other items used: Sanded Photo Masks by Misty Cato, Head in the Clouds by Valorie Wibbens and Paislee Press, Ribbon Snips, Sprinkles v3 and Sprinkles v4 by Valorie Wibbens

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Blast from the Past!

I had the opportunity to scrap some marching band memories this week, both for me and for Tommy which was a lot of fun. How could I have spent four years in the UCF Marching Band and not have any photos to show for it? I’m happy to have a few scanned photos from Lynne.

Band Geek

I’m With the Band and the coordinating I’m With the Band Cards and I’m With the Marching Band Cards with 365 Unscripted: Plastic Stitched Grids 4 all by Traci Reed

UCF Flags

I’m With the Band and the coordinating I’m With the Color Guard Cards by Traci Reed; Template Set 205 by Cindy Schneider

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And I scrapped with Ru’s (Studio Basic Designs) new Fall kit.

Jedi is my baby and he knows it. In the family, we refer to him as “the dog” when he’s milking his being the favorite. He always butts in when the cats come up to me for attention. This photo is of him “being the dog”.

The Dog

The Seasons: Fall Papers, Elements and Alphas by Studio Basic Designs and Outdoor Fun by Two Tiny Turtles

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A few new layouts!

I wasn’t home last weekend to post my layouts as I was attending the 2015 Spraguefest in Raleigh-Durham. The Jessica Sprague site is where I learned to digi scrap and it was a fun weekend of learning and camaraderie. We even got to see Jessica’s scrap space at her home!

Some layouts for The Lilypad:

Creepiest – Halloween Horror Nights for Elysse and Jorge (it’s the closest thing I have for Halloween photos)

Haunted Halls Bundle from Etc by Danyale; Plant Your Story: Titled vol 1 by Sara Gleason

Something Wicked – more HHH. After the kids get older, it’s definitely harder to scrap Halloween.

Thirty-One and matching Pocket Cards by Amber LaBau and Sara Gleason; Story Grids vol 2 and Alpha Snips by Amber LaBau

Thanksgiving Day 2014 – Family and friends celebrating at Mom’s house

Quilted Mosaic and Pocket Stories 2 from Etc by Danyale

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Featured Product Challenge for Little Butterfly Wings

One of the added benefits of “hosting” the Featured Product Challenge each month and writing up the blog post for it at littlebutterflywings.com is that I get to create a layout for it!

This month’s kit was a favorite when released – black and white with a couple of pops of color. The photo booth props made me think of my cousin’s wedding this summer. I have so many gorgeous photos from it, such a beautiful ceremony and equally beautiful bride and groom.

I also combined it with a challenge at The Lilypad to use close-up photos. I had many from this event so it worked out perfectly.

Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect Elements, Papers and Journal Cards all by Little Butterfly Wings; Story Grids v5 by Amber LaBau; Font: The Royal Invites by Heather Joyce

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If you’d like to play along with the challenge, please join in!

http://littlebutterflywings.com/?p=3150

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A different tack…

I’d like this blog to feel a little more personally meaningful… not sure exactly how to do that but I’m going to try some new things to work on it.

Animal Lover – It’s hard to not WANT to scrap all the gorgeous pictures Elysse sends me. She’s got a great eye first of all and she takes the time to edit them to perfection. Of course, THIS photo is OF her so Jorge must be getting his own awesome eye for a great photo! The bright colors of the kit worked so well with the clear, outdoor photos of their trip to Jungle Island. She can spend hours in a zoo or aquarium just watching the animals for the perfect shot.

Credits: At a Glance Papers, Elements and Alphabet Soup all from Etc by Danyale

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Keepers – the kit was about the book “Where the Wild Things Are”. This made me think of packing up all the children’s story and picture books when we moved from the old house to this one. While we were all happy to give away many of the books to small children some of them were just too precious, too well loved not to save for their own kids. This is one of those books for us as are the other images I used.

Credits: Wild Thing Bundle by Traci Reed and Studio Basic Designs; EZ Albums v6 by Erica Zane

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Lucky Me – a kit about being a single mom. Wow… that brought back memories of a different time in my life. A busy stressful worrisome time. Now I can’t remember when I wasn’t single. I can recall worrying that I wouldn’t be a good enough parent by myself. They are fortunate to have their father in their lives and to have a good relationship with him. But I was the one home day to day dealing with school, homework, crushes, friendships, after school activities, ballet, scouting etc. Would I be good enough? Would I scar them for life? Could I be a strict enough parent to provide them enough structure so they would be responsible adults? On the other side of the hill now, I was good enough. The experience of parenting them, being their mother is my proudest accomplishment. They are amazing people and I can’t wait to see what the future holds in store for both of them.

Credits: Project Me – Being a Single Mom by Two Tiny Turtles and Cornelia Designs; Always Be Yourself by Two Tiny Turtles; Blissful Stitches – Square by Traci Reed

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Season of Change – the word art in this kit made me think of my best friend and the emotions surrounding divorce. She is smiling, happy and at peace. Not to say the experience is not stressful/emotional/difficult but she is dealing with it and maintaining balance in here life.

Credits:  Season of Change Kit and matching Journal Cards by Sugary Fancy and Tickled Pink Studio; Fall Colors Templates by Digital Scrapbook Ingredients

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Pure Joy – Divorced person scrapping with lovey, dovey kits = not so easy. I end up scrapping my daughter or my parents or even grandparents old photos. Of course, that is ever so helpful on the self esteem đŸ˜‰  For this one, I used a cute new photo of Elysse and Jorge at a Dolphins game. I thought the + and = with football would be a fun idea.

Credits:  Sugarcoated Papers and Elements by One Little Bird; NSD Grab Bag 2014 by Sara Gleason

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