A different kind of calendar - part 2.

Good evening!
Today I have the second section of this calendar for you. Yes- the whole blog looks like her right this second, don't worry, my youngest has said the same thing. But when you leave home for the first time, you need a lot of stuff. And a lot of people come to wish you the best. Hooray for good friends and loving family! 
And this silly older daughter of mine actually asked if I would do a scrapbook of her mission. I'm sorry, have we not met?? 

But in the meantime, here are four more calendar pages she will take with her. 

August: 

September: 

October: 

November: 

It's still a surprise btw. I took a flash drive over to our local printer to get it put together...! waiting excitedly!!

5th Grade

One of the things I did to prep for this past weekend was to put my daughter's life worth of scrapbooks in order. I had to go back to when she was three, removing all the pages from her books, ha. Then I sort everything by year and when I get to that year, I sort it all in order by month, and put it all back in the books, 99% in order.. Make sense? It's a lot of work, ha, so I only do it every few years. Then as I continue to scrap, I just add it to the back til I want to re-sort! 

This was one of the new pages that had to be put in it's correct spot! Some maybe all of these supplies are older than these photos, haha. Yeay stash! 

Supplies: 
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Island Blossoms Simply Scrappin kit, Fairy Tale Ribbon Originals

Stamps: Alphabet Attitude Lower, Alphabet Attitude Numbers

Ink: Tahitian Tide 

Journaling Font: School Teacher

Easter #5

 ...for this year anyway, haha! 
This is a very late post for today. I've been trying to catch up on books for my oldest daughter, so right now I have yet another Easter page for you. This one was all about the pretty DP, and some cute photos. 

Supplies: 

Paper: Petal Pink card stock, Perennial Essence DP
Accessories: Antique Pearls, Perennial Postage Dies 

Journaling Font: Janda Elegant Handwriting

I hope you're getting some crafty time this spring! 

Easter 2025

I remembered I did some Easter scrapping that I haven't shared here! I actually did last year for all three of my kiddos, so that's three days worth of sharing! You're welcome! haha!!

First up- the layout for my oldest! Can you guess his favorite colors? Happy that this long-retired paper was perfect for him. 

Supplies:

Paper: Island Indigo & Basic White card stock, Sycamore Street DP
Accessories: Sycamore Street Buttons, Alphabet a la Mode Dies, Glue Dots, Big Shot

Journaling Font: Janda Elegant Handwriting

Several years ago...

this girl turned 9. Now she's nearly a full-grown adult by all standards of measurement, and she's about to head out on her own, too!
But I just made this layout last month, so that's what you get to see today.
Also, in spite of the simplicity, it's a good spring page, which works well right now.

Supplies:

Paper: Basic White, Melon Mambo, Hues of Happiness DP
Accessories: Regal Foiled Dots, Melon Mambo 1/8 ribbon, Large Number framelit dies, 
Journaling Font: Clipper Script

An Anniversary

This anniversary started off with some dental issues, so all plans had to be postponed. We celebrated a few weeks later with dinner out, a play and a hotel stay. It was a nice little get-away! 

Since the play was based? on Shakespeare's time, I used some old DP with a pretty, dainty floral pattern, that vaguely looks "of that era". Anyway, I liked how it turned out, and that's the part that matters. 

Supplies:

Paper: Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke card stocks, Parisian Summer DP

Accessories: Neutral Candy Dots
Journaling Font: Book Antiqua

Happy Jacks!

hello! Late posting today, but here's something new to look at anyway, ha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Jar of Haunts, Skinny Mini Alpha

Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Dark Granny Apple Green, Bronze

Ink: Memento Black, Timid Tiger
Paper: Very Vanilla & Timid Tiger c/s

Accessories: 2025-27 In Color Flat Pearls

Winter Wonderland!

Yesterday hovered at 99* for hours. Then I ran an errand and it was 104*. Of course it was. YUCK. My parents arrived at their destination where it was 116* at dinner time. NOPE. 

So today I played with snowy pictures! So there!! 

Actually, this was for the current SUO Challenge to CASE Christy, and she is a scrapper, so that's what I decided to CASE. I didn't scroll back too far thru her pages, really I was looking for something I had printed the the same direction and quantity as she used. So I picked THIS POST from June. I changed the colors, DP, stamps and added a couple little dots.  

Supplies:
Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Whimsical Alpha Lower
Ink: Basic Gray, Smoky Slate
Paper: Basic White, Soft Sky, Basic Gray card stocks, Peaceful Place DP
Accessories: Neutrals Candy Dots

And actually, this is the second time I scrapped these photos, ha. The above layout is for my older daughter, and the one for my younger daughter was done in April and hasn't yet been shared. I used the same pack of paper, but differently, and I used different stamps. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Roughing It (1998), Berry Christmas (2009), Just Perfect Alphabet (2010)

Ink: Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, 
Paper: Basic White c/s, Peaceful Place DP
Accessories: Metallic Pearls

I always like that you can use the same layout or supplies and make something quite different from the last.

Softball!

I hope you had a safe and happy weekend, and if you live in the United States, I hope you had a great Independence Day! 

Today I have a softball layout! And some memories.
The year I was 10, my mom signed me up for softball and my brother up for baseball. Same city league. He had an actual grown up coach and got a shirt and a hat and this style of picture. I got three 8th graders as coaches (big sisters of some of the team..) They wrote bubble letters in puffy paint on tshirts for our team. The contrast was stark, to say the least. But that was our only year playing this kind of sport. Actually...I took dance a few times but that was the only paid sport for me (that was FINE!). The only thing I remember "learning" was that forfeit meant you have to have enough players, otherwise your team loses by default. (we lost every game except the time the other team had to forfeit.) Also, I don't enjoy anything about softball. Please don't ever throw the ball at me, or expect me to throw it back. I'm not good at batting and I am a *slow runner, ha. 

Several months ago, my kiddo informed me she wanted to try baseball. We don't sport at our house, other than some soccer. She never seen a game, we didn't own a single baseball related thing. She has seen the movie Sandlot, but not for a few years... haha! We bought her a ball and glove, and she was on a team that got a tshirt and a hat, ha, and pre-named teams. Her coach was a real grown up, (ha- altho he was younger than I am...) and he did a great job. My kid learned a lot! She improved at all of it! But she didn't love it. It was a HOT season and most of her games were played between 95* and 98*, with the late afternoon sun beating down on all of us. I don't know that she'll do it again, but it's good to try new things! 

I created these in the long-retired MDS. I knew I had a softball image there, ha. I "filled" them in with a dot image that honestly looks like scribbled gum drops. I added a little stitching, and the Texture overlay, which makes the edges look like canvas. And I took my colors from her team shirt and her ball. And the season is scrapped!

Supplies:
MDS
Stamps: Great Sport, Lemonade Stand dots, Texture
Ink: Basic Black, Barely Banana, Night of Navy
Accessories: Stitching Thread
Journaling Font: Brush Script title, Book Antiqua notes

2025 Calendar 4

Hopefully the last Sunday post for a while, haha.... 

But this wraps up this year's calendar! 

October: 

November: 

December: 

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.)

2025 Calendar 1

I hope your Christmas was safe and happy. 

Now I can show gifts I made! ha! 

This year I only made one calendar... I'm kind of burned out making them, and MDS is so out of date and buggy and so I made the easy one, because it's just my family and I don't have to find photos of all of my nieces and nephews, etc. So these pages are all for my FIL. 

Cover: 

January: 

February: 

and March: 

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

A Haircut

Another scrapbook layout for you today! 
I have seen this idea a lot lately, with the strips of DP as the background and thought these photos worked well for that. Everything is very long retired, which is my favorite way to scrap, haha... 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Its a Girl Thing (2004), Girlfriend Accessories (2002), Just Perfect Alphabet (2010)

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Orchid Oasis

Paper: Flowers for You DP (2006)

Accessories: Subtles Candy Dots

Journaling Font: Jennifer Lynne

I hope you are making something pretty too! 

Llamas at the Library!

Another day, another layout! 
We are big fans of the library. We visit at least every other week, but sometimes more often than that. And we go to a lot of library activities. I usually plan to scrap it, tho I haven't gotten all of them done. This was a crazy library event, ha. It was based off the book "Llama Llama Red Pajama" so it was a pj party. They scheduled llamas to come from a local Krishna temple so the kids could see them up close. Then they brought the llamas inside!! What?! haha!! 
Fortunately, I have some (long retired) llama "themed" DP, ha! (it's really llama looking piñatas with fiesta images) I didn't buy the coordinating stamp set, but I think the paper worked just fine. 

Supplies:

Paper: Emerald Envy card stock (retired), Festive Birthday DP (retired)

Accessories: Alphabet a la Mode Dies, 2023-25 In Color Dots (retired), big shot (retired)

Journaling Font: Alasassy Caps.

This is how I did the title:

What are you making this summer?

Prom!

More scrapbooking today!

I took the "official" (ha!) pictures, so I have them, which is the best part, haha! This was the last dance from my daughter's time in high school, so I included all the candid selfies (friends!) she got while on the date too.  

Supplies: 

Stamps: Alphabest (retiring!), Artistic Etchings (retired)

Ink: Island Indigo (retired), Tempting Turquoise (retired)

Paper: Basic White & Tahitian Tide card stock (retiring!), Bali Breeze DP (retired)

Accessories: Paper Pumpkin blue dots (retired), Paper Pumpkin sequins (retired)

This DP was actually purchased by my MIL, but I have had it for at least five years now. It is from 2007, haha, but it goes so well with her dress!! The inks do not match, and neither does the bit of added card stock, but I think it still worked very well. 

The boys in her group were most of her closest friends, which is why I included the pic of the boys on the bridge and not the girls. In fact we had to look up two of the girls names! She laughed at a few photos I chose to print, but she already hasn't seen some of these people since graduation, so it mattered then, didn't it? 

2024 July & August

July is usually one of my favorite pages to do.
This first page, every photo came from the morning of July 4. I also recolored the paper, it's usually multicolored, but I made it all blues! 

The photos from this page below span the year, but I still kept a July look for it.

This time the August trip page did happen in August, haha...

and most of these photos came from a family even in August too! handy!

Easter Pages!

I really am hoping to make some cards very soon, but in the meantime, I did get 17 pages done this week. I am SUPER excited about that. 
I have a small shoebox for each kid of photos I print whenever the mood strikes and the price is right. Then I scrapbook as it interests me, haha... Well, this kiddo has ONE set of printed photos left after I got done this week. Yeay!! And I used almost entirely long retired stash which is always a good thing. Ahem. But I keep it FOR my scrapbooks, so it's fine. 

As far as showing it off here, we'll start at the beginning of a year, ha. Here's an Easter. 

Supplies:

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Simply Scrappin' Spring Fever -long retired

Accessories: Simply Scrappin' Spring Fever, White baker's twine, Melon Mambo Taffeta Ribbon -long retired

Supplies: 

Paper: Basic White, Simply Scrappin' Spring Fever -long retired

Accessories: Simply Scrappin' Spring Fever, White baker's twine, Melon Mambo Taffeta Ribbon -long retired

2024 January & February

Since there was practically no crafting in December, and hardly any so far for January, I'm going to keep sharing these calendar pages. The pages are simple, keeping the focus on the photos. 

So here are the January pages: 

This page below was really about cramming the grandkids into one page. 

And February:

And this page below was each of the couples, and then siblings together.

Pym's Test Kitchen!

Happy Saturday to you! I have another digital Disney page for you today! 

I really did make a point to record the cost of what we ate, for a number of reasons. One- to remind us what kind of "budget" we're looking at for the next trip. And two- so that my cutest scrapbook readers see why going to Disneyland is not a frequent occurrence in our house. HA! Also I like comparing then and now so it might?? be fun to look back on how much things cost, or didn't, some day. Maybe. 
This was our most expensive meal, and the weirdest, haha. I love how everyone's face is clearly trying to understand what is on their plate! But my husband really wanted to eat here so we did! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Lemonade Stand MDS
Ink: Crushed Curry
Paper: Basic White, color matched mats
Journaling Font: Century Gothic