Anniversary Trip!

Happy Monday to you! 

My wedding anniversary is coming up, so here's a layout I made of a trip we took a couple years ago. We actually went back to where we spent our honeymoon, which was fun. However, it was a little amusing because we liked it a lot better twenty something years earlier, than on this day. Is it because we were younger? or because we cared less? Or maybe it was just hotter this year than the first. haha... We had a relaxing evening anyway!

This page was originally made to match a challenge- using green on a celebratory page.

Supplies:

MDS
Paper: Well Worn, Early Espresso Text, Glorious Green, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Button Latte
Journaling Font: Book Antiqua

Summer Fun!

Hello again! Today I have the digital images of some scrapbook pages I've been putting together.

A couple years ago, two of my children loudly complained that "we didn't even do anything fun all summer" ...and they got a LOOK, and handed our list that we had come up with to maybe do over the summer, and all the things crossed out with a highlighter were things that we had done! Sheesh!

With that in mind, I made a four page layout for my youngest (one of the complainers) of the fun she had this summer. I chose one photo a day (two photos, twice), and skipped some days, including our big trip, and it looks like she did lots of fun stuff to meeee! This does not include countless afternoons out with neighborhood friends, nor a few bigger activities she went to elsewhere without me, that I don't have pictures of. 

I also used a lot of images of the sun to fit Challenge #1 on Splitcoaststampers.com to put the sun or flames on a page. It was a perfect match, ha! 

Supplies:

MDS:

Stamps: Days in December

Paper: Pool Party "mats", Sunny Day DP, "pocket cards" from Persnickety Prints
Accessories: Baja Breeze grosgrain ribbon, knot

Sand Hill!

Today I have another hybrid layout from the same trip. This spot was a huge hit for all the kids but especially my youngest. That girl loves dirt and sand in any form. The little dots up the hill between mine and my husband's heads in the center picture are our kids and some other people, ha. It was big and fun and sooo sandy and dusty! 

The title has been in my head since I created this page so it had to be done! It comes from a Wiggles song of the same title, haha! Some of my kids were huge fans of The Wiggles.

This page was also for a challenge to use hot colors, liiike red, orange and yellow. DONE! I actually scanned in the now-retired Delicate Desert DP for the background. Then I added digital mats in Calypso Coral, and the cardstock for the title is also Calypso Coral. 

Supplies:
Ink: Calypso Coral mats
Paper: Calypso Coral, Delicate Desert   - scanned in

Accessories: Mini Alphabet Dies

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! 

New Years Eve 2023

Happy New Years Eve!!!

I am not a "party person" but I actually love New Year's Eve. We have let the kids have a party with friends a few times, and they have gone to friends houses once or twice, or even an event at the church, but most years, its just our little family playing games and eating and often ending with a movie. That is my kind of party, hahaha.... And we *always let our kiddos stay up til midnight, or as late as they last, no matter how old they are. Because I'm crazy... haha.
How do you celebrate?

Sometime this summer, I made this digital layout of our last New Years Eve. But I saved it to share til it was more seasonally appropriate. hahaha. 

I saw the card at the bottom right on facebook as a free download, and I liked the colors and the grungyness, so of course I snagged that. Then it became the title!
The base pages here are actually a tag I purchased with the very-long-retired MDS and zoomed WAAAAY in to, ha. But I love how it turned out. 

The handy thing about digi scrapping is you make it once and print it however many times you need it, which matters when you make a book for everyone. In this case, the family got the second page and my youngest got the set, because the first page was really just her! Everyone else was doing their own thing most of this day. Actually, my middle child was pretty sick, but she spent the evening curled up on the couch "with" us, ha. 

Supplies:
MDS, Freebie by KPertiet

I hope you have a safe and happy celebration this year! Bring on 2025!

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 3

More calendar pages today...

July: 

August:

(This page was done the same as June, I think from the same pack of DP. this is a scan of a desert mtn top. You can't tell, but the colors work so perfectly!)

September: 

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: 

4th of July!

We're on Spring Break this week, and I haven't made anything new in a little while, so here's a layout I made digitally in December.
I love doing this because how else can I fit this many photos on a single layout?? That, and I only had to design it once, print it four times and now everyone has our 4th of July! I added a typed up square of journaling to the bottom right corner. 

Supplies:

MDS, Pocket card download from Persnickety Prints

Dance Recital!

Happy Monday and happy Spring Break around here! 

Today I'm going to share a scrapbook layout that is an interesting kind of hybrid project. Since this was for dance, I knew I wanted a glimmery kind of purple for the background, but I didn't have anything that was right. I knew I had "Glimmer Paper" in MDS... so I changed the Gold Glimmer paper to Elegant Eggplant and then I just printed those two sheets, hahaha!! Then I glued the photos and the circles down and I always tape the ribbon. So the layout was made traditionally, on Digital paper I digitally altered, ha! 

Supplies:
Paper: Basic Black card stock, Gold Glimmer paper recolored to Elegant Eggplant in MDS (retired!) 

Accessories: Crochet Ribbon, Circle dies, Big Shot (all retired)

2024 September, October & November!

Since I opted to share the calendar covers by themselves, I'm finishing off the whole calendar in this post. 

For September I usually do a back to school theme: 

October is, of course, Halloween themed: 

And then November was all about family: 

And that's the calendars we gave our families this year! 

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!

2024 May & June

Today I have the May and June pages to inspire your creating.

For May, I put the mom's on, and this page has the a few major events.

My kids don't love when I put things in a month it didn't happen, but we wanted a page of our trip to South Dakota, and the paper I chose worked for June best, even tho we went in September. 

then dad's (and grandpa) with their kids for June for my parents.

2024 March & April

Here are the next couple calendar pages for you! 

March: 

And April:

Hybrid Scrapping!

Hybrid is when you do some digital and add some traditional elements. I definitely did that for these layouts. Yesterday I talked about the convenience of making one digital layout and printing the same thing several times for each person in the family. Today I have a set, haha.  

Perhaps most remarkably- it is of THIS Christmas morning. I almost never scrap Christmas day. Plenty of things leading up to it, but not Christmas DAY. Seriously. I've done three December Daily style books and I skip over the gift opening... ahem. There's too many photos and too many things to deal with and just no. But for whatever reason, I thought doing it this way would get it done for once. 

The photos were put together on a page in the very long retired MDS, and I kept the first photo the same for all three layouts. Then I duplicated the layout, swapping out the rest of the photos so each kid has their own gifts on the page. Once I got the printed pages home, I added two strips of DP (different for each kid), a title strip, and a ribbon, right on top of the printed page! So they're the same pages, but unique! 

Home For Christmas DP (maybe 2015??)

Santa's Express DP (2022)

Christmas Around the World DP (...long retired)

And yes, I stamped it all together too, hahaha. I put a letter on two sides of a block, but still so I could see thru it, and laid it out and got it done! 

Other Supplies:

Skinny Mini Alpabet, Real Red Ink, Real Red ribbon (2016ish)

Digi Scrapping

is kind of all I've done for a while... Soo that's what you get to see from me!

 

This is an exhibit we went to last January, and I just scrapped like on New Years Eve. I've even picked up the printed pages and stuck them in everyone's books! I do like when I can just make the page once and print it for everyone... hahaha! 

It's pretty simple. I just chose a yellowy DP for the background and added some black zig-zag stitching for Charlie Brown's shirt. 

I hope you get to make something pretty this week! 

2024 Covers

Happy Saturday to you! I always think this time of Christmas break won't be weird, but it always is! On Wednesday I had to pull up my computer calendar to tell me what day of the week it was, and in relation to New Year's Eve, ha. 

Today I'm sharing the calendar covers this year. I have done many things for covers thru the years, but this time I kept it simple with just a family picture, some DP and a bit of embellishment.

This photo was taken on Thanksgiving. 

And this picture was taken on Christmas Eve of 2022! haha! And the baby was born in the middle of the year so she was added to the side. 

And if you were wondering, of course the calendars were a hit, again. Which honestly, ha, is a relief...

I hope you have a safe and happy New Year's Eve celebration, however you enjoy it!