Daisy Duck

Today I have another Disneyland 2026 page for you, but a different character. Same kit of paper and stickers too.

Supplies:

Stamps: Alphabet Appeal Lower

Ink: Pacific Point 
Paper: Basic White, Echo Park Magical Adventure
Accessories: Echo Park Magical Adventure Stickers

Journaling Font: Minnie

Minnie Mouse

Well, a week in and homeschooling is going really well, but the adjustment of school + life might be keeping me busier than I actually expected... But honestly we've had some good fun!  

So this week I'll share some Disneyland pages I've gotten done from our trip earlier this year.
Our trip was the same week as my birthday, and my sweet friend gifted me a Disneyland themed scrapbook kit with paper and stickers from Echo Park. So I used it! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Alphabet Attitude Lower

Ink: Real Red
Paper: Basic White, Basic Black, Echo Park Magical Adventure DP
Accessories: Echo Park Magical Adventure Stickers

Journaling Font: Minnie

Scrapping with Butterflies

Happy Friday! We made it thru the first week of August! Now if only this migraine would take a hike so I can get some things done!
Today I have a scrapbook page that I submitted for the design team last fall.

This is a collection of the favorite shots for my daughter's portraits in 2020. The one we put on the wall is the one on top. I take them myself and have for yeeears. We take a ton, and this one likes to model so we take way more of her, then whittle it down to a favorite. Also she loves butterflies so it fit the theme perfectly. 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Papillion Potpourri

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Boho Blue

Paper: Smoky Slate, Basic White, Flirty Flamingo, Boho Blue

Accessories: 2016-18 In Color Enamel Shapes

Meet Rabbit

Happy Monday! Time just keeps on marching on and I still think it's February. It's fiiiine.

In March, we went on a trip to southern California- and I will start with {baby steps of} scrapping Disneyland! I have so. many. things. to scrapbook...! 
I started seeing sneak peeks of the Winnie the Pooh suite from Stampin' Up! and knew I needed it. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is definitely one of my top comfort movies. I got a stuffed Pooh and Tigger for my first Easter. My oldest has a stuffed Pooh and Tigger and my youngest has a stuffed Pooh and Piglet.
I was a little ...annoyed is probably too strong a word...? that it was a whole product suite, ha, because then I *needed more than just a stamp set, haha!
But then, along with a trip to Disney- yep, this suite is a NEED! And I didn't even get it all! 

So the first thing I scrapped for this trip was two of my kiddos meeting Rabbit! I made this layout using a cute bit of the DP and the stamp set. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Crayon Fun Alpha Lower, Sweet Words & Labels
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry

Paper: Basic Vanilla, Daffodil Delight card stocks, Silly Old Bear DP

Accessories: Blending Brush, really old washi tape

I did type up some journaling and stuck it in the open space. One thing was that Rabbit is reacting to my son's shirt which is the "The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. That poison?" from a huge family favorite movie around here - Emperor's New Groove, which was the theme of t-shirts we got this year, hahaha!  

A different kind of calendar - part 1.

Happy Friday to you! Another late post... I hope this isn't becoming a thing! 
I hope you're looking forward to the weekend, mine will be PACKED.

My family and I are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You may know our church as LDS or Mormons. My older daughter has chosen to serve a mission for our church, and you may have seen our missionaries, wearing black name tags in your town. Missionaries choose to leave home and college and regular life, to serve, and are assigned to serve in a specific location. My daughter will be going to the Lubbock Texas mission, which includes about half of New Mexico as well as western Texas. She will do her training in Mexico City and she'll be primarily working with people who speak Spanish. She is SO excited. It will be a lot of work for her, for the next nineteen months, and it has been some work preparing as well. But this will be a wonderful adventure and we are all very happy for her. 

She speaks in church this Sunday, as is traditional before a missionary leaves. That means we're expecting around 75 people (there were 62 people in my house plus the five of us!) to come to our house afterwards, which is fun, but a lot, haha. And that means we've been spending this entire week prepping.

I saw an idea to make a photo calendar for your missionary so they have photos of home hanging in their room. And also it's a bit of a photo album they can show their companions (something like a roommate). Well...I can make a photo calendar! (I used to do these as Christmas gifts for both my husband's and my parents.) I decided to go with 12x12 size for my daughter, so it's not a great photo album for taking around, ha, but it will be nice wall decor that will also be fun for her. 

It's sort of a surprise for her, but she still contributed. For example, she selected a huge album of photos she thought she might want to take, which I selected from, haha... And I asked for some of her favorite scripture verses and some of her favorite worship songs and hymns. Also, I *told her I would make her a calendar, rather than print 90+ photos. So it's a surprise she knows about? haha.... yes. 

And so! I will split up the 20 "pages" into a few separate posts, so as to not bore you to death, ha. The photos span the last three or so years, mostly of her with different family and friends. She chose the sillier ones- photos I would not have included, but clearly, she wanted reminders of the fun times too. And the nature pictures are, I think, entirely her own photography, which is fun.

So here is her cover page: 

She starts in May, so here is her May page:

June: 

and for today, July:

Anyway, I'm having fun with this. Honestly, I'm almost done with the project, but nobody else knows that, haha.... 

Another St Patrick's Day!

This is like the third time today I've realized it's actually April now, so you just get a March page anyway, ha. It's super quick, but it's in her book, and that is the point that matters.
The colors struck me as spring-y, and also come from her outfit. 

Supplies:
Paper: Moody Mauve, Garden Green card stocks
Accessories: Moody Mauve Textured Ribbon, 2023-25 In Color Dots 
Journaling Font: Bradley Hand ITC

Today it is RAINING. It started last night before I even knew- I heard it pounding around 830 and happily told my family. My son informed me it was all wet when he got home at 8 and he assumed we all knew, haha. This has been the driest winter ever (the weatherman doesn't have to tell us that- we know very well, thanks) And we really haven't even had rain in a while. Today is awesome!! 

Christmas Party Date Night

This is actually a Christmas event, but the photos look more like Valentines, and the page looks like winter, lol, so I'm sharing it now!

Altho it really hasn't looked like winter at my house. It SHOULD. I know most other places have had quite a winter. We are getting skipped. One weatherman posted that Utah is allergic to moisture. Seriously... It's a little scary, tbh. I want a garden this year AND I'm not in the mood for wildfires.... just sayin.  

Supplies:

Stamps: Classic Alphabet, Classic Alphabet Numbers

Ink: Smoky Slate
Paper: Basic White, Powder Pink, Peaceful Place DP
Accessories: Iridescent Ribbon, Metallic Pearls 

A Valentine Layout

Hello! Lots going on around here, hardly any of it crafty. 
But just like on Monday, here's a scrapbook layout I made sometime last year and saved to share in February, ha! This one uses Cheryl's sketch EMS Sketch 121.

Supplies:
Paper: Bloom Impressions DP, Basic White, Melon Mambo & Blushing Bride card stock

Accessories: Sunny Day Dots, Sweetheart Punch, Jan 2016 PP kit (big heart)
Journaling Font: Chalk Hand Lettering, Book Antiqua, Cinnamon Cake

I hope YOU are getting time to create! 

Polar Express Night!

Just one week til Christmas Eve! I hope you've been enjoying the season! 
The other day I was out and a few different people asked if I was ready for Christmas. I responded that we are enjoying the holiday. It started as a kind of cover that no, we are not "ready", but it felt a bit snarky too. But you know what? I don't have all the gifts bought and hardly any of it is wrapped and there's a couple things I haven't even figured out. But we ARE enjoying the holiday. We're DOING fun and festive things. So....... whatever you want to do with that, ha. 

Today's page is from a few years ago. We have a tradition of watching The Polar Express as a family, without any distractions, lol. We have a hot chocolate intermission right after the movie sings about hot chocolate. And this year (shown) we added matching jammies to the night! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Whimsical Alphabet Lower

Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Poppy Parade, Santa Express DP

Accessories: Santa Express Memories & More Card Pack

I hope you are also enjoying this month and family and traditions!  

Visiting Santa!

This page comes right after yesterday's pages, altho it took place in the middle, ha. The line for Santa was pretty long, so she stood in line before seeing the trains. 
This page uses die cuts from a DP pack, that I featured last December. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Just Perfect Alpha

Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Pretty in Pink, A Little Bit Festive punchouts

Another Back To School

The week of Thanksgiving is upon us, and we are hosting for the first time ever. Not a huge group, there will be 11 diners. But still, I haven't done this before. *I am not even doing it- my husband will be cooking three kinds of meat. I'll do mashed potatoes in the Instant Pot and sweet potato casserole, haha. But I will be doing a lot of the cleaning before people arrive. 

Which means I will not be stamping. Possibly anything this week at all... ha. So here are some pages I've already made, starting with another day of going back to school! 

Supplies:

Stamps: ABC Alphabet Upper & Lower

Ink: Basic Gray
Paper: Azure Afternoon, Rococo Rose card stocks, Storytime DP

Accessories: Rococo Rose Scalloped Linen Ribbon, Transparent Adhesive Backed Dots 

Everything is long-retired except the base. This one is pretty basic, but it's in her books! I also re-sorted her books last week and put everything in order for her! Yeay! 

A Covid Halloween

Halloween just keeps inching closer! 

Today I have a page from Halloween of 2021- which was the first time covid managed to get in our house. My older kids had bought pieces to be their then-favorite cartoon characters (Dipper & Mabel from Gravity Falls), but on the 28th, they went to get tested instead. My son got a negative and he was SICK for weeks. My daughter got a positive and she was sick for two days. mmkay. But she was still in high school and they were being pretty strict so they were stuck in their own bedrooms a while. I did make them have lunch outside in the sunshine, with human interaction, every day, and we did this little photo shoot. 

They got to wear the costumes the following year, haha, so it worked out, but it was a bummer that day for sure. 
The colors on the page came from mostly her clothes, but the definitely the photos. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, ABC Alphabet Lower

Ink: Misty Moonlight, Berry Burst, Memento Black, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Berry Burst, Misty Moonlight, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Classic Matte Dots 

Daddy Daughter Date

Today I have a super quick layout for you!
This one is a page for my daughter. The paper almost matched her shirt so of course I had to use that, ha. And the title was kinda fun too, haha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Letterpress Alphabet, Just Perfect Alphabet (both retired)

Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Flower & Field DP (retired)

Journaling Font: Throw My Hands Up In The Air

Scrapbooking Kit!

So I *am a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, and I do have a few customers who order from me. As such, I will try out the new products if I feel they can be useful to me- ideally, so that I can point customers in that direction and answer their questions. When Close To My Heart closed their doors last year, Stampin' Up! purchase the remaining inventory and offered a deal to their Makers to join us. And Stampin' Up! decided to step back into carrying "official" scrapbooking products. 

You know I've been using Stampin' Up! products almost exclusively for my scrapbooking for the last 22 years. Why not use quality and coordinating paper, ink, and alphabet stamps if nothing else- but most of their "regular" stamps work perfectly too!!
But there have been a few of these new scrapbooking kits that I have been interested in. When this one hit the Last Chance Products list, I decided that was a perfect time to give these kits a try and see what I think. I also snagged some of the Two-Tone card stock packs, altho mostly because there was a discount on 12x12 card stock, which is how I prefer to scrapbook! As I write this, this exact kit, Two-Tone card stock, and more are currently on the Last Chance Products you can find (and order from!) right HERE.

So let me show you what I cranked out the other morning, in the space of about an hour. I had selected my photos and this kit and that's all I did ahead of time. I didn't follow any of the kit instructions (helloooo Paper Pumpkin kits!) but I had fun using a bunch of little coordinating things on these pages. And the only thing I "added" was inspired by the kit. Even "suggested", if you will. ha! 

These are all the same photo shoot, and they may have needed scrapped for several years... The supplies all came in the same package, but the pages still feel different! 

On these two single pages, I cut the base in half at the 6inch mark, and flipped the top to the other side of the Two-Tone card stock. It's subtle, but it adds a bit of interest! 

Supplies:
Autumn To Remember Scrapbooking Workshop Kit, Glue Dots

Old Olive ink, Blending Brush, Pattern Party Decorative Mask (retired)
(Crushed Curry, Petal Pink & Old Olive Two-Tone card stocks)

The only thing I added was that I pulled an old (retired) Decorative Mask and added a bit of Old Olive ink on the second page of the double, behind the photos. The idea came from the paper stripes in the kit, but it's just a thin paper, meant to be an accent, so I didn't know if it would hold up to the Blending Brush or not. The masked worked just fine. Everything else came from the kit! 

And in case it sells out before you get a chance to click on the kit, here's what comes with it, so you can decide if that's worth the cost to you. 

First the suggested layouts have a complete photo so you can see what you'd end up with. On the bottom of that front sheet, it tells you to select specific photos, which is cool actually. 

Then it shows you exactly how to cut each sheet to get all the pretty prints on your pages! 

Then it comes with all these pretty supplies: 
The pretty paper- the top corner are single sided, the lower set are double sided and I showed both sides.

The top two sheets are die cuts. The smaller wood sheet is die cuts. The bottom right corner are stickers. I like all of them.

And this is the card stock that is included in this kit. 

It even has photo place holder cards if you want to just make up the kit but don't have photos for it yet. Personally I don't do that, but maybe that's what works for you. 

Finally, this is the Two-Tone card stock pack that coordinates, which I got, and stashed in the same pack as the kit! 

It was worth it to me, even tho the last thing I need is more "pretty paper", hahaha! I have soo much in my craft room...!! 

2025 Calendar 2

Continuing with the calendar...

April:

May: 

June: 

(On this page, I scanned in some amazing but retired DP for the background. You can't really tell it's a mountain top, but the colors still work great for the camping photos.)

Father's Day x2

So last week I pulled printed photos from the box intended for the albums for my husband and I. That is usually where I scrap Mother's Days and Father's Days. 

Today I have two different Father's Day's scrapped, ha. Very simple, got it done, kind of pages. I used the same pack of DP, but they won't be next to each other in the albums so it doesn't matter in the slightest. haha!  

Supplies:

Stamps: Alphabest, Well Said - both retired

Ink: Misty Moonlight, Boho Blue

Paper: Basic White card stock, Parker's Patterns DP (retired)
Accessories: 2023-25 In Color Dots (retired)

Supplies:

Stamps: Beside Me

Ink: Pebbled Path

Paper: Soft Seafoam card stock, Parker's Patterns DP (retired)
Journaling Font: Artistamp Medium

Cars!

I had a decent day of scrapbooking last week that I'm happy about. I managed to do at least one layout for all three of my kids, a couple got more.

One fun thing was that I scrapped both of my kids' first car purchases. They both bought their first car about seven months apart, ha. 

This boy of mine loooves the color orange. He has a full set of dressier shirts for work that are orange and way more than a full set of every day orange shirts. He also has an orange jacket for days when he wants to wear something that isn't orange, ha. My mom has made him two orange-based quilts and my MIL made him one too. One wall in his room is orange. So it was NO surprise that he was thrilled to find an orange car. I am not actually a fan of printing photos thru Shutterfly, but I have, and the envelopes are a bold orange color with this little quote on the back. And this is the second scrap layout he has with this strip on it, HA. 

Supplies:

Paper: Basic White card stock, Just Add Cake DP (long retired)

Accessories: 2016-2018 In Color Enamel Shapes (retired), scrap from Shutterfly envelope

So then it was really funny that this girl who tends to choose bright, happy colors, was wearing black when she brought home her black car. HA. But it makes scrapping easier, doesn't it?

Supplies:

Stamps: Just Perfect Alphabet (retired)

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Basic Black card stock, True Love DP (retired)

Accessories: White Perfect Accents (retired)

Also, gotta say, I was excited to finish off those White Perfect Accents with this page. Not sure how old they are, but at least 4 years... Yeay for using up stash!!

In Person!

Continuing my count down, annnd school starts this week!! Are we ready? ummm.........

But here's a school themed page I made a couple months ago, again, for you, ha. My son graduated in 2020 and did some semesters of college online for a while until he was finally able to attend in person. So this was a big day, ha. 

Supplies:

Stamps: ABC Alphabet Upper & Lower (retired!)

Ink: Shy Shamrock, More Mustard (retired!)
Paper: Basic White, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green card stocks, Just Add Cake DP (retired!)
Accessories: Circle Dies (retired), Garden Green 1/8" Striped Ribbon (retired!)

This layout looks the same as many 4 photo layouts, so the die cut circles gave it a different and more whimsical look.

Posies

Wow, I have been drowning in busy this month. I do have a few things I made a couple weeks ago...

Starting here! Well, the photos came in the wrong order and I can't fix it, but! A couple weeks ago, I made this layout double for my niece. The colors of the flowers came from our clothes. I love this retired flower set because it's fast to put together and always looks great. But this time, I liked the flower collage so much I made a quick card too! 

So here's the card: 

And here are the pages!
(The second photo is lousy but my edits messed up the original photo sooo this is what I have!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Gorgeous Posies, Whimsical Alpha Upper & Lower

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Moody Mauve, Boho Blue, Basic Beige, Old Olive

Paper: Basic White card stock

Journaling Font: Goudy Old Style

Bike Rodeo

This is a fun page, I think. Everything except the colors are long retired, but the photos are pretty old too, haha! 

I used a challenge for this one, to choose from a list of accessories. From the suggested list, I used 

- enamel dots

- die cuts

- twine

- staples
And I'm really happy with this one! 

Supplies:

Stamps: ABC Alphabet Upper & Lower (retired!)

Ink: Blueberry Bushel 
Paper: Basic White, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, Pink Passion (retired)
Accessories: White Baker's Twine, Glue Dots, White Perfect Accents (retired), Windmill Fields dies (retired), My ABC's Stampin Wheel (retired!) 

Journaling Font: Modern No. 20