some pages to share.

I went to Archiver's for a crop on Friday with some friends. We had a great time although I never get as much done as I hope! I got 3 done this time, so not too bad! :) I'm not even going to make you wait to see them all! Aren't I nice? Really I'm afraid I'll forget about them if I don't get them on here right now so here goes.



Don't you love these new American Crafts papers? Oh my goodness the sweetness pouring from AC's Dear Lizzie collection is killing me. Barb will have it in the store soon and she's got free shipping plus a fun ribbon promotion. For every $5 you spend in American Crafts products you will get a small spool of AC ribbon for free! Here is the link to all the AC stuff if you want to take a look and I will let you know the minute she gets Dear Lizzie in stock.



Basic Grey's Recess collection was perfect for these baseball pictures.



Here is some more Basic Grey for this 1st day page. I know it's a valentine
collection but I totally think it works here too!

I've got some cleaning to do and then I'm headed to the scrapbook room to get a few more pages in. It's a perfect snowy day for it too.

september calendar page {embellish-online}

September's page featuring Cosmo Cricket Earth Love from Embellish-Online.
I do have the rest of the calendar done but had to get it up on the wall so I could start using it. So I have not photographed them yet but will as soon as I get a chance!

On another note we have a fun new release week planned for There She Goes clear stamps!
The blog hopping and sneak peaks start tomorrow!

july's page.

Here are my July and August calendar pages.
July's page features American Crafts Letterbox collection and August features Cosmo Crickets The Boyfriend collection. Both are available at my favorite online scrapbooking shop, Embellish-Online. The current special is free shipping with a $50 order and the code to use at checkout is 4SP9HD .


And since I've been sharing photos I can't post with out one. Here is a shot from Jordan's first time on ice skates.

march, april and may

here are a few more pages for my lovely calendar... lovely meaning it will soon be lovely but it is not so lovely as I spend all my free time doing it!

products used: Pink Paislee and Cosmo Cricket The Boyfriend . Available at Embellish-Online

garden of friends

I actually had time today to participate in the Splitcoast sketch challenge. Fun stuff I tell ya! I should have been working on my calendar though. Anyways....I used the new TSG set Garden of Friends. It's so beautiful! Perfect for a last minute birthday card if I do say so myself! I promised more Sugar Rush and I delivered! Isn't it pretty? That's all I've got for you today...not to chatty I guess. Must get to the kiddos school for some volunteering. Have a great day.

EIO Tusday

Good Morning! This is one of the gift sets I've been working on for the kids teachers. I used the Imaginesce Polar Expressions collection for almost everything. :) Ok it's updates with separate photos of each piece. Enjoy!

thankful

The little ones in this picture are now 3 and almost 4 and there are 3 more siblings (2 different families :>) for a total of 7 grandchildren for my mom! This Thanksgiving it is my mission to get a photo of all of them. Wish me luck!

~ Supplies ~
Paper ~ Pink Paislee Amber Road, bazzil brown
accessories ~ Paislee cut outs, ac thickers, unknown flower

EIO Tuesday + a TSG sketch challenge!

Here is my take on this fun sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.
There She Goes is the sponsor for this week and we would love for you to play along.
Visit the TSG blog for details on how to win a fun TSG stamp set!

I picked up the Basic Grey Eerie Collection from Embellish-Online this weekend
and paired it with the There She Goes HSH Halloween Additions stamp set.
You would think I don't own any other Halloween sets since this is the only one
I use these days! I tried to make this card a spooky one...not sure if I actually
succeeded or not :). I'm still learning how to use these darn Copics! I definitely need some lessons...and a few ( read ALOT!) more colors would be nice as well.

EIO Tuesday

I am featuring the Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend collection for this weeks post. It's got great colors and patterns for lots of boy themed pages! It's hard to find I tell ya and this collection works fabulously!

I am slowly catching up on the millions of birthday pictures! These are the 6 year old pictures of Jack. Good golly how they change. That's one of the great things about not being caught up on the scrapbooking...you get to revisit special memories every time you pull out a stack of pictures. I can not believe how much this one has changed in just 2 1/2 years. Scary really how fast this growing up thing is. Just the other day I saw a mom get out of her car with her toddler and new baby and while I'm happy (most of the time) to be done with the baby stages...it did make me a little sad! I do miss the constant compainions that you get when your kids are small and the fact that you are their whole world. As they get older school, friends, extra activities take center stage. I know they have to grow up and be independant but it doesn't make it any easier!

grateful

I found one more patch layout and since it's one of my favorite pictures, I just had to share it! It's very rare that I can get Jack to sit still for a picture so when this one came out I was so happy because it's also rare that I'm even in a picture at all!

~ supplies ~
paper ~ kraft, pink paislee twilight
accessories ~ basic grey buttons, ac thickers, ac felt flower, imaginisce brads

patch adventures

In honor of the next pumpkin patch trip we're taking today I thought I share last years trip. We've gone to the same patch since Jordan was like 5 months old. It's a cute little pumpkin farm that has goats, cows, chickens and the brand new kittens that are a major hit with Jordan. There is a fun hay bale maze for the little kids and a corn maze for the big ones. I have to admit that I do have a tiny panic attack entering the corn maze! I totally put on a brave face for the kids but I do not love the corn maze. Of course they do so we trek on through regardless!

~ supplies ~
Paper ~ Kraft, pink paislee twilight
accessories ~ paislee glitter letters, basic grey buttons, su oval punch,
safrass flower, ac felt flower, prima canvas, maya road chipboard tree

EIO Tuesday

Holy cow! Is it Tuesday again??!! I can't believe I haven't posted anything for a week...and I was doing so well. That won't happen again this week. I spent the entire weekend away with my girl friends and got 9 pages done while I there. I know it doesn't seem like much, but as slow as I work...it was!

This week I've used the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love collection. It's such a fun line to work with and it was perfect for these birthday pictures of my daughter. I used the collection pack along with both sets of chipboard , my scalloped punch (which I apparently use on everything!) and a Kraft background (which I also can't stop using :>)

I hope it's a great day for all of you and I will be back tomorrow (as soon as I can get all these pages photographed) to share what I got done over the weekend!

EIO Tuesday + Free Thickers!

Good Morning! Today I have 4 Embellish-Online projects to share with you. Every Tuesday I'll feature products from the EIO store. This week it's Twilight from Pink Paislee and of course American Crafts Thickers. If you've been following my blog for any amount of time,you may have realized that I use Thickers on EVERY thing! I love them. There are so many different fonts and textures and they are so easy to use.

In honor of my LOVE for Thickers Barb is having a special~ Buy 3 packs of American Crafts Thickers get 1 pack free. This special is good from Oct. 6th ~ Oct. 13. There are no codes this time. Simply order 3 of your favorite sets of Thickers and in the comments section of the order process put which one you would like for free. For the icing on the cake.....free shipping on orders over $50 before any discounts. There is a code for that one 4SP9HD. Then check out Christine's blog next Wednesday for a new special!

supplies ~
Paper ~ Kraft, Twilight (Pink Paislee)
Stamps ~ There She Goes Spooktacular Silhouttes
Ink ~ Palette Noir Black
Accessories ~ Basic Grey Buttons, American Crafts Thickers, scalloped edge punch, Twilight embellies.

September EIO Blog Hop~ Tricks and Treats

Welcome to the EIO Blog hop! Hop along to each DT members blog to learn some stamping and scrapping tip and tricks. If you are coming from Dani's blog than you are in the right place. If not start back at Christine's blog and start hopping!


You will have 2 chances to be entered in a random drawing for a super fun prize package! Here's what you do....

1~ Copy and Paste a blurb and our cute blog hop banner about this Trick or Treat Blog Hop on your blog and leave us a direct link to your blog post with your name in Mr. Linky.

2~ Play along with us, create a project and leave your name & direct link with Mr. Linky HERE .




My scrapbooking tip is to keep it simple! I have had these birthday pictures for almost 3 years. I finally decided to get them scrapped! In the past I would pick papers and embellishments for each different layout. Now I grab something that corrdinates and I go with it for the whole event. For this 6 year old boy birthday I cut into my Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend collection and went to town. I made it even more simple by using a Got Sketch scrapbooking sketch for one of the layouts (the Crazy For Legos layout). It took me one night and I was able to scrap the whole birthday. I think the hardest part was thinking up the titles that fast! Cosmo Cricket makes this so easy with the collections they put together. I love that there are stickers and cardstock strips and journaling spots all included in one collection. It really does make it super easy to scrap with.

Thanks for stopping by! Next up is KIM!

Ready for summer

I made this page a while ago but I just love it! One of my favorite things about summer is watching the kids play in the water in the back yard. I'm so ready for summer after all that snow we had this winter. The cardstock and paper is Basic Grey Oh! Baby Boy and most of the rub on's ae from Basic Grey as well. All from my favorite online store Embellish It Scrapbooking