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Well…

I’m not really sure where the last few days went, other than we did finally get back to work for 3 days and then off another 2. I am over winter. Fortunately, it does look like the next week or more will be beautiful and no temps below freezing! I also love, love, love the time change! I really do think about this blog every day and say I’m coming to post something and then one thing leads to another and I piddle around and don’t do it. But anyway, I’m here now and wanted to share a few new things for this week!

First up, it’s a brand new month at Simple Scrapper! If you haven’t checked out their Premium Membership, you really should. It’s a great community filled with wonderful scrappers! You also get access to a full library of sketches and Story Starters to jump start your creativity, Spark Magazine, planning tools, and lots of other unique and awesome content. Here are the layouts I created with sketches and story starters from the Premium Membership:

Love The Life You Live by Tracy Martin Simple Pleasures by Tracy Martin Sketch and Story Starter from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership
Love The Life You Live by Tracy Martin
Simple Pleasures by Tracy Martin
Sketch and Story Starter from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership

 

All Year Round: Foundations by Traci Reed and Jady Day Sketch and Story Starter from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership
All Year Round: Foundations by Traci Reed and Jady Day
Sketch and Story Starter from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership

 

Basketball season is winding down and we are in the playoffs right now. I have so many photos to scrap and Traci Reed read my mind! She has this great new basketball kit and matching cards!

3 Point Shot and 3 Point Shot Cards by Traci Reed 365Unscripted Plastic Stitched Grids by Traci Reed
3 Point Shot and 3 Point Shot Cards by Traci Reed
365Unscripted Plastic Stitched Grids by Traci Reed

 

Val C. has a great new challenge over at Oscraps! I just loved playing with the big words that she provides for the challenge.

Creative Box - Big WORD by Val C. Designs ArtBook - This Day - The Bundle by Val C. Designs ArtBook - Posing ART by Val C. Designs
Creative Box – Big WORD by Val C. Designs
ArtBook – This Day – The Bundle by Val C. Designs
ArtBook – Posing ART by Val C. Designs

 

Also out this week is a beautiful kit called Create Joy by River~Rose. I paired it up with This Journey called Life template by Two Tiny Turtles.

Create Joy by River~Rose This Journey Called Life by Two Tiny Turtles
Create Joy by River~Rose
This Journey Called Life by Two Tiny Turtles

 

And I am off to get ready for a day at basketball! Have a terrific weekend! Peace, out…

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Snow Day #10 and New Releases

Yep, snow day #10…and I am just going to leave it at that!

Taking time out of my doing nothing to swing by and share round one of new releases in digiscrap this weekend! As usual, these designers have outdone themselves!

First up is this beautiful mini kit by Val C. Designs called ArtBook – Beautiful and available at Oscraps.

ArtBook - Beautiful by Val C. Designs
ArtBook – Beautiful by Val C. Designs

Cheryl has some awesome new templates this week at Scrap Orchard called Perfect Days. I paired them up with Danyale’s Cottage No. 9:

Fuss Free: Perfect Days 2 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs Cottage No9 by Etc by Danyale Cottage No9 Word Art by Etc by Danyale
Fuss Free: Perfect Days 2 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs
Cottage No9 by Etc by Danyale
Cottage No9 Word Art by Etc by Danyale

Over at ScrapStacks, River~Rose has a beautiful new kit called You Can Fly. First I paired it with an amazing new bundle of templates by Two Tiny Turtles, also available today at ScrapStacks, called This Journey Called Life:

You Can Fly by River~Rose This Journey Called Life by Two Tiny Turtles
You Can Fly by River~Rose
This Journey Called Life by Two Tiny Turtles

And then I paired it with Valorie Wibbens’ Journalers No. 5:

You Can Fly by River~Rose Journalers No. 5 Valorie Wibbens
You Can Fly by River~Rose
Journalers No. 5 Valorie Wibbens

And last, but certainly not least for today is Valorie Wibbens’ contributions to Mixed Pocket Monthly over at The Lilypad – Never Lose Your Sparkle Papers, Haberdashery Charmed Elements, and Fabric Button Alpha. I am looking forward to using these over and over.

Never Lose Your Sparkle by Valorie Wibbens Haberdashery Charmed by Valorie Wibbens Fabric Button Alpha by Valorie Wibbens Pocket Topography No. 1 by Valorie Wibbens
Never Lose Your Sparkle by Valorie Wibbens
Haberdashery Charmed by Valorie Wibbens
Fabric Button Alpha by Valorie Wibbens
Pocket Topography No. 1 by Valorie Wibbens

That’s it for today… I am going to attempt to do something productive and I’ll be back to share more tomorrow 🙂

Peace, out….

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The Best of Intentions…

So I did plan to come back here a few days ago and share some more wonderful things, but I’m telling you, this weather and time off work have really gotten to me. I have no motivation to do anything. I keep thinking of all the things I could have had done around here with all this time off, and yet I have done nothing. Well, I have cooked, eaten, and washed dishes repeatedly…but nothing extra. I’m not going to spend any more time whining about it. There’s nothing I can do about it, I just wish I could make myself enjoy it a bit more. That hasn’t happened. C is ready to go back to school as well. He keeps saying that he is getting more brain damaged every day. I guess even more so than 9 year olds already are hahaha.

But anyway… here is what I failed to come back and share over the weekend. I got to work with some amazing new goodies by Traci Reed. One is a solo kit and one a collab, and they are both awesome.

This one uses She Is:

She Is by Traci Reed Retired template by Zoliofrope
She Is by Traci Reed
Retired template by Zoliofrope

 

This one uses Rise and Shine:

Rise and Shine by Traci Reed and Amber Shaw
Rise and Shine by Traci Reed and Amber Shaw

 

And this one uses both:

She Is by Traci Reed Rise and Shine by Traci Reed and Amber Shaw Kickstarters January by Traci Reed
She Is by Traci Reed
Rise and Shine by Traci Reed and Amber Shaw
Kickstarters January by Traci Reed

 

I just finished up my week 8 layout for Pocket Life. It uses Pocket Life ’15: February Collection by Traci Reed,
Out of the Box v2 by Gennifer Bursett, and Weekly Edition by One Little Bird:

Pocket Life '15: February Collection by Traci Reed Out of the Box v2 by Gennifer Bursett Weekly Edition by One Little Bird
Pocket Life ’15: February Collection by Traci Reed
Out of the Box v2 by Gennifer Bursett
Weekly Edition by One Little Bird
Pocket Life '15: February Collection by Traci Reed Out of the Box v2 by Gennifer Bursett Weekly Edition by One Little Bird
Pocket Life ’15: February Collection by Traci Reed
Out of the Box v2 by Gennifer Bursett
Weekly Edition by One Little Bird

 

I’m off for now…going to maybe do a little more scrapping and trying not to think about the fact that more snow is coming tomorrow night :/ Peace, out…

 

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Cabin Fever!!

Oh has it ever set in. I love my family, truly I do. But after a week of being trapped in the house with them, it’s a wonder we are all still alive! I know I’ve mentioned that we have gotten off pretty easy in the weather department this winter, but Mother Nature decided that it was time for us to pay! It started snowing last Saturday and we got a little and then all hell broke loose. We have been out of school all week because of a combination of more snow and below 0 temperatures. I am seriously going stir crazy. This is definitely the time of year that I wish I lived in town and not on these hilly, windy, privately maintained roads. I have only ventured out the front door to shovel. And not only that, but I have been a total sloth inside the house. I just have no motivation to do anything. I feel like I have spent the last week doing nothing but cooking, eating, and washing dishes.  Ok…I’ll stop complaining now. They were calling for up to 12 more inches tomorrow, but have backed off to a more mix type thing, changing to rain. Thank GOD! I so feel for all of the people in states where they are dealing with much worse than we are.

We’ll move on to some scrappy things! I have done a little of that this week, so I will share some of the fabulous stuff you can find in the shops and on sale this weekend.

I’m loving my guest spot with Two Tiny Turtles! She has some great new template sets out this week…

This one is called For the First Time and uses a re-release from River~Rose and Pink Reptile Designs called Scrapazzi:

Scraparazzi by River~Rose and Pink Reptile Designs For the First Time by Two Tiny Turtles
Scraparazzi by River~Rose and Pink Reptile Designs
For the First Time by Two Tiny Turtles

 

And this one is called Do Your Best and uses Traci Reed’s Pocket Life ’15: February Collection:

Do Your Best by Two Tiny Turtles Pocket Life '15: February Collection by Traci Reed
Do Your Best by Two Tiny Turtles
Pocket Life ’15: February Collection by Traci Reed

 

Etc by Danyale has a fabulous new kit called Cottage No9.  There is also matching Word Art (and believe it or not, I did not use a template on this haha):

Cottage No9 by Etc by Danyale Cottage No9 Word Art by Etc by Danyale
Cottage No9 by Etc by Danyale
Cottage No9 Word Art by Etc by Danyale

 

Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs has some fantastic new templates this week called Fuss Free: What’s Your Angle. I used a kit called Eskimo Kisses by Tracy Martin for this one:

Fuss Free: What's Your Angle 4 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs Eskimo Kisses by Tracy Martin
Fuss Free: What’s Your Angle 4 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs
Eskimo Kisses by Tracy Martin

That’s it for today! I’ll be back tomorrow to share some more awesome new stuff!! Stay warm. Peace, out…

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Yikes!

And I say that for a couple of different reasons! We have had very little snow this year, compared to most, but today we are getting pounded. Eight inches or so since this morning with more coming until sometime over night. I was really hoping we’d get off easy this winter and I guess overall we have, but I’m not liking this one little bit. Yes, I am a teacher that doesn’t really like snow days. Sure, days off are nice every now and then. But I would rather take a day off and go do something fun than be trapped in my house, having to get out in the cold and shovel. Call me crazy, but I don’t really consider that fun.

The other reason for my “yikes” is the fact that I haven’t been by here in over a week. I was doing so much better at keeping up. Oh well, I’m here now to play a little catch up with layouts and PL. I have a ton of layouts that I didn’t get uploaded last week and a couple of weeks’ worth of PL. I’m not going to make this post uber long by adding them all here. I will add them to their pages and be done with it for this week. I hope you take time to check them out because these designers out do themselves week after week. I’m also guesting this month for Two Tiny Turtles and am so excited about that. Her templates are simply amazing and you’ll find them in quite a few of the layouts I’ve done in the last couple of weeks. Traci Reed has also released her Pocket Life Collection for February and it is awesome!!

I’m going to get these things uploaded and then watch it snow some more! Hope everyone has a great week! Peace, out!

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Simple Saturday

Heck yeah, let’s get this weekend started! The weather is supposed to be beautiful and I have a wrecked house that needs my attention. Ok, so part of that is a good thing. No basketball games today, but we do have to show up for pictures later today. I just wanted to swing by and make sure I share all the fabulous things going on over at Simple Scrapper.

I just cannot say enough good things about Jennifer and all she does with the site and the membership. If you haven’t check out their Premium Membership, make sure you do! It is chock full of inspiration, motivation, and fantastic sketches and story starters to help every aspect of scrapping! And if you head there today, you’ll get to see some tips by little ole me 🙂

As part of the Premium Membership, you receive 24/7 access to previous monthly content, classes, special events, and hundreds of downloads.

Here are the layouts I created as part of the Simple Scrapper Creative Team

Sweet Everyday by Sweet Shoppe Designs Inspired by a Story starter from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership
Sweet Everyday by Sweet Shoppe Designs
Inspired by a Story starter from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership
Winter Wish Papers by Celeste Knight Winter Wishes Elements by Robyn Meierotto Winter Wishes Elements by Deena Rutter Winter Wish Elements by Jen Allyson Wishing by Gennifer Bursett Winter Wishes Cards by Meredith Cardall Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership
Winter Wish Papers by Celeste Knight
Winter Wishes Elements by Robyn Meierotto
Winter Wishes Elements by Deena Rutter
Winter Wish Elements by Jen Allyson
Wishing by Gennifer Bursett
Winter Wishes Cards by Meredith Cardall
Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership

 

Check it out for yourself…it’s really worth the time! And here’s to a great Saturday! Peace, out.

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New Releases

Happy Thursday! Thursdays are great for a couple of reasons. For starters, tomorrow is Friday and second because I get to start sharing new releases from some of my favorite people. I’m just driving by here quickly before homework time to show off some awesome new stuff at Scrap Orchard from the lovely Danyale and Cheryl, along with Dream Big Designs…

Hodge Podge by Etc by Danyale Fuss Free: My Scrapbook Art by Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Hodge Podge by Etc by Danyale
Fuss Free: My Scrapbook Art by Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Fuss Free: Royale 2 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Royale Bundle by Dream Big Designs
Fuss Free: Royale 2 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Royale Bundle by Dream Big Designs

Aren’t these awesome!! I’ll be back tomorrow to share more new goodies and whatever else I can think of while celebrating the weekend!! Peace, out!

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New Month, New Week, New Stuffs!

February already? This time of year, I love having the time fly by! Even though we haven’t had much of a winter, I’m ready for spring! Give me the warm sun in my face and flip flops on my feet! We spent the weekend with basketball and football. We had a snow day on Friday which really helped me out with getting the house cleaned up, since Saturday was tied up with basketball and yesterday was spent getting ready for, and then having company for, the Super Bowl.

Just thought I would swing by here today to share the new Collection at Pixels and Company for February. I have only just begun creating layouts with this beautiful collection. I just love everything about it!!

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There is also a fabulous Birthday Bash going on, so be sure to swing by and check it out! Fun challenges and great prizes!! Even one for creating your own cell phone case! How fun is that? Here are the pages I’ve done so far…

Loverly - February Collection by P&Co Designers Outside the Box v2 by Gennifer Bursett
Loverly – February Collection by P&Co Designers
Outside the Box v2 by Gennifer Bursett
Loverly - February Collection by P&Co. Designers Template by Pallavi Sureka
Loverly – February Collection by P&Co. Designers
Template by Pallavi Sureka

Come have some fun with us!! Until then…peace, out!

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Dollar Days!

Who doesn’t like something for a buck? At Pixels and Company, there is all kinds of amazing designs priced at $1 each! Exciting! Here are a couple of pages that I did with some of these fantastic products!!

Miss Molly Papers by Gennifer Bursett Miss Molly Elements by Gennifer Bursett Layered Layouts v11 by Deena Rutter Elemental: Wood Dots v2 by Gennifer Bursett Nostalgia Cards by Jen Allyson Nostalgia Labels by Jen Allyson
Miss Molly Papers by Gennifer Bursett
Miss Molly Elements by Gennifer Bursett
Layered Layouts v11 by Deena Rutter
Elemental: Wood Dots v2 by Gennifer Bursett
Nostalgia Cards by Jen Allyson
Nostalgia Labels by Jen Allyson
Noted Collection by by Celeste Knight This Ordinary Life by Celeste Knight Stamped Sentiments No. 2 by Shirley Polk Outside the Box v1 by Gennifer Bursett
Noted Collection by by Celeste Knight
This Ordinary Life by Celeste Knight
Stamped Sentiments No. 2 by Shirley Polk
Outside the Box v1 by Gennifer Bursett

I’m just flying by after basketball and before bed. I’ll be back with more goodness to share in the next day or so! Thanks for looking…peace, out!

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Hump Daaaay!

Yeah, played out, I know! Wednesday has another name around here…just plain ole trash day. That’s how I gauge the days of the week..by what has to be done on certain days. The trash doesn’t really run on Wednesday, but around 6am on Thursday, so out it goes on Wednesday night. And for the record, taking the trash out when it’s bitterly cold really sucks! We also had basketball practice today, getting ready for the game tomorrow. C’s team is undefeated so far! Another busy week. I went to have my nails done yesterday and I get my hair done Friday for the first time since A’s wedding! My roots are baaaaad. There are seriously so many days that I wish I would just go gray already. I’m going to think of them as my natural highlights and let it go. But so far I have only had 2 or 3 here and there.

But I didn’t come here to blab about trash or basketball or hair. I am just swinging by to update my Project Life pages. Four weeks in and keeping up so far. Traci Reed’s Pocket Life ’15: January Collection is just amazing and has made the pages come together so easily. Here’s my week 4 (The Week 4 title is by One Little Bird and the templates are Traci’s 365Unscripted.

Pocket Life '15: January Collection by Traci Reed 365Unscripted Stitched Grids by Traci Reed Weekly Edition by One Little Bird
Pocket Life ’15: January Collection by Traci Reed
365Unscripted Stitched Grids by Traci Reed
Weekly Edition by One Little Bird
Pocket Life '15: January Collection by Traci Reed 365Unscripted Stitched Grids by Traci Reed
Pocket Life ’15: January Collection by Traci Reed
365Unscripted Stitched Grids by Traci Reed

So far I am keeping up with the 2 page spreads…we’ll see how long it continues 🙂 I will be back in a day or two to share all the awesome new releases that I got to play with this week! There’s some good stuff!! Until then…peace, out!