3 Scrappy Boys Sale

Run over to 3 Scrappy Boys right now....the entire store is at least
20% off
with many of the clearace items
60% off

EVERYTHING is onsale, this includes past kits as well (even last month's kit)!! You can also order today and combine shipping with the February kit that will be released tomorrow. All you have to do to combine ship is leave a note in the comment section!

Sketch #40

Time for a Sketch.... the latest sketch is up at Sketchabilities. Go check out the design team work --- AMAZING!!!








I was so excited to go through my stash and use up some miscellaneous embellishments --- JB stars, OA and Sass alphas. I also used a number of different SC stamps and misted a bit on the background.

How can you not scrap with such an amazing sketch? Link yours up on the Sketchabilites blog!

Come back tomorrow for the 3 Scrappy Boys reveal!!

3SB Sneaks

Can I just tell you how amazing this month's 3 Scrappy Boys kits are!?! I can't show you the full kit yet, but I don't think Heather will mind if I show you a few sneaks....

I was tasked to work with the February Trio kit. I always love the Trio b/c it is a mix of different manufacturers and embellishments. Heather does a great job of coordinating everything together. This month was no exception. I had four layouts complete before I even knew it! I have another sitting on my desk waiting to be taped together with at least enough supplies to do one if not two more layouts!! Amazing!

Sneak 1:


Sneak 2:

Horsin' Around

Months ago I picked up these wooden fences knowing exactly what I planned to do with them.....it took until last week for me to put those ideas into action. I took the plunge and bought last month's Studio Calico kit. I loved the green, turquoise, and yellow color scheme and thought they would be perfect for these horseback riding pictures from this past summer.

My aunt has a stable and is happy to have my kids over to ride when we are in town. Of course we only "get over" to ride once a year since she lives 6 hours away! Even if only once year, it is something my kids look forward to!! They start asking about the horses as soon as they hear we are heading for a visit.



The blue Sass letters aren't the perfect shade but I am ok with that. I couldn't find anything in my stash that matched and was the font/size that I was looking for. But, I love the Sass button flowers -- they are awesome with the decorative stringing!!

This week I have been busy creating layouts with the upcoming February Trio kit from 3 Scrappy Boys. It is SO AMAZING!! It may be my favorite kits yet!! There are so many gorgeous papers and the embellishments, wow, amazing!! I will be back in a couple of days with some sneaks....start saving now b/c you will need every one of this month's kits!!

All Dressed Up

A daughter of a good friend of ours had her Bat Mitvah this weekend. My children were beyond excited to be included in the festivities. For the first time ever, H didn't fight me when she was told she had to put on a dress. She is a tom boy through and through but wow, she looks beautiful all dressed up, doesn't she? I must say, not that I am biased or anything, they all look amazing! N looks so grown up in that suit and S, where did my baby go??

and then the transformation...

Who knew they were boyz from the hood?!?!

Pictureless

A bunch of bloggers out there post wordless Wednesday posts on Wednesdays (duh)....I decided today, since it is Friday, that I would post a "Pictureless Friday". LOL, ok, I know it doesn't quite work as Wordless Wednesday does but hey, I never claimed to be all that clever!!

So anywho....I scrapped my first (i think) layout without a picture!! My kids didn't get to writing their letters to Santa this year until Christmas Eve so there was no mailing to the North Pole. Good thing I had a good excuse b/c my kids were questioning how it is that I still had their letters. Hmmm...."because silly, remember, we just left them out with Santa's cookies?". Whew, that was a close call! I couldn't just let those letters get lost in a drawer somewhere. Quite by accident, I had these papers lying next to one another on my desk, as soon as I saw them, I knew they would be perfect for a holiday layout.

And there you have it, "Pictureless Friday" ---- I promise, I won't do this again next Friday!!

Supplies used: MM, OA papers, LYB and K&Co diecuts, PP tag, and BG, G45, Creative Imaginations, and OA stickers, SC stamp, MS punch.

More Scrappin' Goodness

I won't bore you with today's saga...school delay, ice, slush, train going out of service, blah-blah-blah. I am sure you can imagine all of the details. Just another day in the life, right? At least it is a four day work week with it already 2/5 complete! Needless to say, I am happy to be enjoying my steaming mug of peppermint tea with all of my kids in bed. There won't be any scrapping tonight but I can happily report that I managed five layouts over the long weekend! Not a ton but I am certainly keeping pace to make my 200 in 2011 goal!!

As I mentioned on my last post, I have been on a roll with my Pink Paislee stash. I made the next two for my DT assignments over at 3 Scrappy Boys using PP's Queen Bee Line. The first layout was inspired by this month's Guest Designer, Becky Fleck. She posted an amazing sketch for us to work with --- check it out here. The second layout I put together with tags that I made my family and friends fill out at Thanksgiving dinner this year. It was so easy to put together and I will cherish those notes in the years to come!!

I spent an entire afternoon last weekend going through (almost) all of my patterned papers. I purged a ton!! -- 15 inch stack of papers to be exact. How many do you think that is? I don't even want to think about how much that stack had cost me!! My kids are having a blast with their "new" supplies. Me, I rediscovered some old love(s) of mine....namely, Pink Paislee. At first I wasn't drawn to these papers but so glad I bough them b/c they quickly became some of my favorites!!!

Here is a layout I created for a challenge I posted over at 3 Scrappy Boys. Now that the holidays are over, my thoughts have immediately gone to "our next vacation". That said, I thought I should scrap some of my old vacation picutres. Lord knows I have a stack!! ..and what better way than to use some of my scrap stash from Pink Paislee of course!!



Be back on Wednesday to share some Queen Bee goodness.

On another note: Sketchabilities has hit 500 followers so hop on over and leave a comment to be eligible to win this amazing kit....

Jan 15 - Sketchabilites

I am so glad to have the holidays behind us! I can now relax and get back to family time, reading, and scrapping. I started out the year strong, we have had a couple of fun family outings -- yesterday we headed to the indoor water park, I have already read 3 books and completed 10 layouts. What will be next?

I have a lot of layouts to share with you this week. Yesterday was the big Sketchabilities reveal. I can't believe I have been working with Sketchabilities for seven months! I have a soft spot for sketches and Karan's sketches are always so versatile. As you can see, this week's sketch screamed winter with all of those snowflakes but I opted to go with a more sport/fun themed layout. I will most definitely be using this sketch again as soon as I transfer some of our winter pixs to my computer!





While not a winter layout, the picture was taken on Christmas day ... the older kids got a skate ramp that H couldn't wait to try out with her bike. She loved doing wheelies on it. She has also already come in psyched b/c she "flipped" her bike. Yes, psyched. She thinks it is too cool and just loves being an all out tomboy!! OMG -- what have I gotten myself into?

Be back in a few days to share some layouts I did for 3 Scrappy Boys. Until then, I am off to enjoy the rest of our three day weekend. Today is basketball day for all 3 kids. Tomorrow, might just be a pj and scrap day!!

Moustache?

I have said this before but I will say it again, my children are trained so well! No, they fight and leave things lying around like any other kid, but they are a scrapbookers dream!

Case in point, my dd comes running upstairs last week yelling, "Mom, you HAVE to take my picture....(flexing muscles) grrr, I'm a man." I had left her downstairs eating some leftover chocolate peanut butter ice cream cake. Apparantly, she had finished the ice cream and given herself a Moustache with the leftover chocolate.
That's my girl, making even the most mundane actvity a layout in the making!!



Supplies: Collage Press Papers, Hambly rub-ons, Maya Road mist, and EK punch

Wednesday Hump

Here's a little giggle to help get you over the Wednesday hump.....


(Epcot - Mexico, 2010)

Have you Seen

The latest 3 Scrappy Boys kits?!?! If you don't already subscribe, you should! Heather puts together some amazing kits packed full of papers and fabulous embellishments! If you don't want a long term committment, order a single kit. You will be amazed with all you get for your money!

I have this one coming in the mail....can't wait!!

If nothing else you really should check out the boards there. So much inspiration and a great group of gals to chat with. Over the holiday weekend, Heather posted some challenges. The first was to scrap photo(s) that you keep putting aside -- be it old photos, holiday day photos you had had enough of, or photos you just haven't known what to do with. I had a photo of my dd that I took a few months back but thought it "too pretty" to scrap --- so I decided this was it, I was scrapping it. Glad I did........

A Good B-day

A day to myself has to be the BEST birthday present EVER!! Of course, I did get an iPad as well and that is a fantastic gift but spending all day scrapping was Wonderful!! I haven't had a chance to take pixs of all of the layouts I made but I had this one finished early enough to get a good picture taken with some sunlight.

It has been forever since I have participated in a Color Room challenge...this week's just spoke to me. I LOVE the color scheme and as I scanned through my photos, I came across these roller coaster shots from our trip to Disney in November. Perfect! I opted not to include 3 photos or some of the paper that the sketch indicated but I am happy with the end result. This orange paper from Collage Press is one of my favorites! I was finally able to put some of the random JB buttons I have from misc kits to use and I was happy to discover that I had the perfect shade of blue thread --- seemings I only have 5 spools of thread, it was a sign that I just had to do this layout!





One of my girls also joined me for a good portion of the day. She is starting to get excited about scrapping as well....yipee! She has me stitching borders for her, she is punching out shapes and painting...it was fun to share my day with her as well!

2011 off to a Good Start

I welcomed 2011 (and age "26") with breakfast in bed ... served to me by my three beautiful children. With absolutley no help what-so-ever, they made me peanut butter toast and bacon, yogurt, banana, and a full mug of coffee (with hazelnut creamer on the side)! Luckily, we keep pre-made bacon in the house so there was no risk of a grease fire!

 

Thank you guys...it was so sweet of you!! Now that I know you can make breakfast, think I can sleep til 10:00am every weekend morning?