Green River

Happy Monday to you! 

We are going on a big fun trip so I wanted to scrap the last big fun trip before that, ha. I've got about 1/3 of it done so far, but that's something! 

This first layout was done in the long-retired MDS, then printed, then I die cut the letters for the title and glued it all down! I love MDS for fitting a BUNCH of pictures on a single layout.

Supplies:

Paper: Always Artichoke card stock (retired) Everybody's Business digi recolored to Always Artichoke

Accessories: Mini Alphabet Dies

The alphabet dies are new to me, and this was the first go. I have been wanting them a while...but also hesitating because how tedious is it to cut out allll the extra letters I may never use?? (this is why I haven't bought alpha stickers in actual decades...) The first run I used a sheet about the same size as the die. But this card stock is retired, which means I have a bunnnch of scraps. This pack happened to have a number of strips that were just the right width! Handy!! I tore off strips the length of the letters I needed and voila- no extras! (there were extras, lol, but not when it got down to the end) Anyway! If you're on the fence too about this die- here's my solution for you!
Also, I used the green liquid glue or the fine tip glue pen to adhere all those letters, haha! 

I hope you're off to a great new week! 

Purple Pie Place

Still no time to make something, but time to share something! 
This is a hybrid page. I scanned in this long-retired DP for the digital background! It was more than perfect, and I needed to fit a bunch of pics, so that's what I did! I actually then started scanning in all my DP for just such a reason and then stopped after two packs....I need to find a LOT of free time to work on that, ha.

Anyway, we came upon this cute little spot and decided it was a perfect time for a treat, and here's the result! 

Supplies:
Cottage Wall (retired!) scanned in DP

MDS
Journaling Font: Cinnamon Cake

November 2023 Calendar Pages

Happy Saturday to you! 
The November page for my in-laws mostly features the birthday party for my father in law. When you get to be his age, every year is a big celebration, and this year was a good one. 

And the page for my parents spams the entire year actually, with some from the previous Thanksgiving and then just whatever! 

What are you making this weekend? 

September 2023 Calendar Pages

Back again with a couple more calendar pages for your Saturday! I usually love the September pages because I do a little back to school sprinkled in. This time I used some fun pics from a photo session I did to get my kids' portraits for the year. 

And for my parents, I just do one pic of each grandkid, in birth order, which is fun. Lots of back to school, but of course not everyone goes to school yet, haha...

I hope you get to make something this weekend! 

Winnie The Pooh!

I haven't shared a lot of the digi pages I've made for this trip, partly because I am having fun showing really old supplies, haha! But I loved the scenery on this ride and I looove that first photo and I love how this layout turned out! Actually, the photo layout feels a bit wonky, but I liked how the colors worked and the cute bee. You can click on it to make it bigger.

The bee image is a digi stamp and I just used the oval punch to roughly fill in the body a brighter yellow. Just a bunch of copy/paste, plus some journaling. 

Supplies:

MDS (LONG retired)

Journaling Font: Kristen

Calendars #5!

We're almost to the end of this series, and that means Christmas is approaching! Are you ready? More importantly, are you enjoying the festivities? We finally got that much-prayed-for snow!! This is Thursday afternoon, when I quit after shoveling a full hour...!

Today I have September and October calendar pages to share with you!

lottts of back to school pictures for this page! 

and October: 
This glimpse of our October covers ALL the fun we managed to have, between very cold temps, a ridiculous amount of sickness, and all the things that go with those. We did pumpkins twice because the first time was too early and wow, did those ones die... But it wasn't ALL terrible, hahaha, so I scrapped the good!

I usually do costume pictures for my family, but some costumes arrived late and some weren't photographed, but it worked out well anyway, didn't it? 

April Pages!

Maybe we'll get thru the calendar before Christmas, but I doubt it! haha..... There is just SO much to do!

I believe today is the last time I show an edited page to add the baby... So first up is the page I originally shared in September... Why I even made this page is beyond me because it was just days before she was born! Oh well.... it was cute then!

But it's even cuter when I swap the arrow out for a baby picture, and add another baby picture just for fun! haha!

And for the other calendar, I crammed every member of the family on there! Yeay!

And if you were wondering- one of them has arrived to my house and just needs wrapped to be given! ...waiting impatiently on the other one! haha....

November & December round 2

Today is Sunday so I'm going to share a serious focus-on-the-family set with you. Both of these pages are for my parents calendar, hence the tons of photos, haha.

You probably recognize the November layout...It looks a lot like the one I did for my in-laws HERE. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Well, the colors and the DP and the stamps are the same, but I added words, and several photos. All but two of these shots came from Thanksgiving Day 2015. I told you it was a crowd, and it was also a great day. Which is why I took over 250 photos... Aren't they glad we narrowed it down to only 14 photos for this layout?? hahaha....

Supplies:
MDS: Wonderfall DP, Wonderfall stamp images (leaves, words)
Colors: Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

And the December page! This uses photos from last December, throughout the month. I debated between adding more photos and breaking it up with the DP/stamp blocks...but for now, this is how it ended up!

Supplies:
MDS: Winter Post, Old St Nick, Days In December images; Letters To Santa DP; Victoria Ribbon
Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Old Olive, misc.