The Day After

Well, I took a day off from the blog to spend with family on Thanksgiving. Of course the meal was wonderul with ham, turkey, potatoes, stuffing and all the fixings. I am not a fan of getting up early for the "Black Friday" deals, so I slept in and and enjoyed getting up when I felt like it. I think I will work on a Thanksgiving Day themed page today using some of the pictures that I took yesterday. It's a bright and sunny day today, although chilly and look forward to some time with my hubby today! Have a Fantastic Friday!

I created this page using a kit called Tom Tukey Collection by Raspberry Road Designs. I loved the colors and elements and it make for a perfect memory page of Thanksgiving Day!

The Creative Juices

Boy, I really had a productive day yesterday. I think I did four or five pages of scrappin'. I ended last night working on a page that combined all the 1st days of school for daughter through her elementary years. I, of course, will have to now do one for son and probably pages showing their middle school years as well. They grow up way too fast.

This morning I worked on a page that highlighted a favorite picture of mine and used Danielle Christiansen's Little Princess kit again to feature the picture. Always loved her expression and smile in this picture.

I am sure that everyone is starting to prepare for tomorrow's upcoming Thanksgiving Day. Hopefully everyone has taken their turkey out to thaw and will have fun and blessed time with family and friends.

It's Princess Day

Today is a bright sunny day here in Iowa. Although I know if I step outside, I will get hit with a wall of cold air. Brrrrr. I really don't care for this time of year; that transition between fall and winter. I keep seeing many scrapbook pages with kids outside in the first snow of the season. I guess if I was a kid, I'd be disappointed that there hasn't been any snow, but honestly I think I am just fine with no snow right now, especially after how hard we were hit last winter. It seemed that winter went on for 6-months. Ugh!

There are many beautiful winter and Christmas kits I would like to try, but for now I think I am content with scrappin' with some pretty colors and traveling down memory lane again. Today, I am working with older pictures (okay 13 years old) of daughter. I had scrapped pics of son when he was little, so using Little Princess kit by Danielle Christiansen, it was time to dig out the little girl pictures.

I hope to find a great Turkey Day kit so I can scrap some memories of the upcoming Thanksgiving on Thursday. Have a great day!

New Wordart for You!

I was listening to music the other day while doing some scrappin' and I heard the words "The World Goes Away When You Kiss Me". The music moved onto the next song, but the words stuck, so I just had to go back and see who sang the song. The lyrics came from was a song by Shania Twain. The words really took hold of me and it seemed only right to put them into my own version of word art. I am making the wordart available to you as a freebie, just please be sure to leave a little love. You can download this wordart HERE.

I have also posted an example of how I used this wordart. I re-colored the black lettering white in my page to show up better, but other than that there were no other modifications made. Credits for my page are: my photos from our trip to St. Maarten, my wordart, background texture comes from the kit Pistache Glacee by Melancolie.

Sunday, Sunday

We had an awesome time last night at the in-laws with the pizza and football game. Mom-in-law dug out some old pictures of the kids and family and we had a chance to go through them and any pictures we didn't think we had of the kids we took home. More pictures for scrappin'! Today we're going to my parents for dinner. Our busy summer didn't really allow for visiting so with fall sports done for the season, what a perfect time to visit. Despite we'll be traveling today, I have managed to find some time to put together a couple of pages this morning from Danielle Christiansen's Little Man kit. Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

Busy, Busy Day

Today will be a busy day today. I have a good friend from high school whose father passed away earlier this week, so I will be attending his funeral today. I will be happy to see her, but it's so sad to do it under these circumstances. Then later tonight it will be pizza and college football at the in-laws. That will be a lot of fun.

Today I will post a couple of pages that I created using Danielle Christiansen's All Boy kit. I had to dig up some old pictures of the son from when he was little, but who doesn't like to reminisce?

This page I had a lot of fun with because son was sitting down. I thought what better way to really make him "pop" out was to make him pop out of the frame. So I took one of the frames and modified it to lay a little flatter so I could work my magic. I really liked how it turned out!

This page I took several of Danielle's backgrounds that she had in the All Boy kit and put them together on the page and used ric rac she had in the kit to give a nice finished look. I did modify the ric rac slightly by adding a grain texture to it. I found some great pictures of son playing with various sport equipment, so thought a nice collage of those pictures would work well on this page. It was a lot of fun to create and gets the pictures out of tubs onto a page! Hope everyone has a great Saturday.

My First Blog Post

It's Friday! Well, I have finally decided to create a blog for all the scrapping that I do. What a fun way to share some more insight to what I create and possibly share a few QPs that might pop into my brain.

Earlier this week I joined Danielle Christiansen's Creative Team and had the chance to use her new kit Autumn Berry. It is a beautiful kit with many rich colors. The first page I created used some older pics of my daughter, but they were fall pics regardless, so what better kit to use them with then Danielle's.

The second page I create was a fun one for me. There were so many good backgrounds in the kit, that I had a hard time picking just one or two, so I thought a patchwork type background would be fun to do. I hadn't really done one this elaborate before, but I thought it turned out pretty good. All the stitching I did was mine, so that took some time to complete, but all in all the look was what I would hoped it would be.