What an awesome day! This has to be one of my most favorite days of the whole year…Daylight Savings Time! I love the extra daylight in the evening. I just have so much more energy when I have more sunlight in my life. I get so lethargic once the sun goes down, and when that happens right after I get home from work, it’s really rather depressing.
But I didn’t really come back today to sing the praises of DST, I wanted to share my newest Life in Pockets pages. I am keeping up fairly well so far. I still have this past week to do, but hopefully I’ll get that done later today. C has basketball practice and I have to shop for my mother’s birthday, but other than that I don’t have much else to do. Thankfully, my morning does not involve shoveling or chipping ice!!
For Week 9, I used all things Valorie Wibbens – For Like Ever Papers, For Like Ever Journal Cards, and Sprinkles V33…all at The Lilypad.
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I’ve added them to my Life in Pockets page, so everything there should be up to date! I’m on my way to work on some pages for releases coming up this week. Hope everyone has a fantastic Sunday!! Peace, out….
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
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
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
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
And I am off to get ready for a day at basketball! Have a terrific weekend! Peace, out…
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
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
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
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 🙂
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
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
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
That’s it for today! I’ll be back tomorrow to share some more awesome new stuff!! Stay warm. Peace, out…
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!
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-DeeFuss 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!
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 AllysonNoted 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!
So yeah, life happens and basketball happens. And basketball really takes up a lot of time! That’s where I’ve been…courtside, watching C have a blast. He really loves the game, and while he may not ever be NBA material, he has come so far since he started last year. It does put me in a bind as far as getting things done that I want to get done, but that’s ok…it’s all worth it.
We also had B’s 7th birthday last weekend. It’s so hard to believe she is 7. I don’t know where the time has gone, but she is so great and I am so proud of the dad that A has become. Even with all the obstacles that he and she have faced, they are coming through it and it looks like they are going to be just fine.
I’ve got to do some catching up on getting layouts posted from last week and the new ones for this week! I’ll get them all added to the right pages as soon as I finish this post. I’m really trying hard to keep up with 2 page weekly spreads this year because I love how they come out. We’ll see if time allows me to do that. Traci Reed has a fantastic new PL collection hitting the Sweet Shoppe this weekend and I know that’s going to make it so much easier for me!
Here is my Week 3, done with her new collection
January PL Collection by Traci ReedJanuary PL Collection by Traci Reed
Danyale has a great mini at Scrap Orchard this week that coordinates with her Life, Love, Etc Kit. This also uses some fantastic new templates by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs at Scrap Orchard.
So We Said by Etc by Danyale Fuss Free: Hello Goodbye 2 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Another page using Fiddle-Dee-Dee’s new templates with Butterflies in My Stomach by Cluster Queen and Juno Designs
Fuss Free: Hello Goodbye 2 by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Butterflies in My Stomach by Cluster Queen and Juno Designs
This page uses awesome new templates by Cluster Queen at Scrap Orchard and her kit, Just Be You
Just Be You by Cluster Queen Gimme Layers Vol 75 by Cluster Queen
And last but certainly not least, it’s Dollar Days at Pixels and Company! There is so much goodness! This is a don’t miss! These pages were done using 365 Days by Gennifer Bursett and are so much fun to play with!
365 Days – Hexagons by Gennifer Bursett365 Days by Gennifer Bursett
I have a few more things to share, and hopefully will be back before the end of the weekend! Hope it’s amazing for you! Peace, out 🙂
Where do I even start about the last week or so! Yikes! It started off just fine, still mild weather and not a whole lot going on except going back to work after the break. It wasn’t so bad…sometimes adult interaction is just what I need! Then it all went down hill. Winter decided to make an appearance and it got really cold, like below 0 cold. We ended up being out of school on Thursday, but as much as I’d like to enjoy a snow day, having to spend it with frozen water in my laundry takes all the fun out of it. Back to work on Friday and I end up in the ER before the end of the day with a kidney stone. I still have it I guess, I’m not so good at following directions and straining things, but we have been out a lot and I am not carrying those things with me! TMI? Anyway, after getting home from that and going off to basketball practice, I’m thinking things are looking up for a good weekend. We pull in the driveway after practice to water gushing out of the side of our house. The water pipe and burst and flooded the laundry room. Have I mentioned the fact that I hate winter!! So that’s where I stand….still drying floors and washing clothes by hand for the time being.
I’ve been trying to keep up with MOC at The Lilypad, but the events of last week have put me a couple of days behind. As soon as I log off here I am going to try to catch up. I have been keeping up with CT work pretty well and am still always amazed at the goodness that comes my way every week! Here’s what’s new with my awesome designers this week:
Winter Wish – January Collection by P&Co. DesignersIn Stitches by Robyn Meierotto Dialogue by Gennifer Bursett and Jen AllysonLive, Love, Etc by Etc by Danyale Fuss Free: Somewhere in Time by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs Pocket Love | Arrow Stamps by Cluster Queen CreationsART BOOK – It All Started – Bundle by Val C. DesignsART BOOK – It All Started – Bundle by Val C. Designs ArtBook – Posing ART by Val C. Designs
The last page is for Val C’s challenge over at OScraps…it’s a great one, so check it out if you get a chance! And don’t forget that MEG Designs’ template challenge is still going on, with a template created by yours truly!
I will be back tomorrow with some cool stuff from Simple Scrapper to share for this month! Monday is done….Peace, out 🙂
And that means back to work for me. It’s been a great and much needed couple of weeks off, but tomorrow it’s back to reality and the day to day routine. It’s going to be difficult for all of us! I’m really working hard on making sure that I am sticking to my plan of being more organized in the new year. I spent a good deal of today working on a planner for the new year and making sure little things are not left undone to start the new year. I will be sharing more of the planner in a post coming up in the next few days, but I am really loving how it came together.
I haven’t started my Week in Pockets project just yet, but I do have the photos ready to put in to pages, sorted by date. We’ll see how well I keep up when work and daily routine are involved. I am totally excited to be able to share the news that I am now a Hawt Mama! Yep, I am a creative team member for the fabulous Traci Reed! I am so looking forward to working with her and her amazing designs in the upcoming year!
In other exciting news… You have to check out MEG Designs template challenge for the month of January. The freebie template was created by yours truly! Here’s a little preview of it, and if you click on it, you can head over to MEG Designs’ blog to grab it and play along with us!
And here is the page I created using Recharged by MEG Designs:
Here’s to greeting all those smiling happy teenagers tomorrow! Hope you all have a great week!
 
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