3 projects in 1

After I finished this page today, I packed up all my scrapbooking supplies. We are moving this week so I probably will not post again on this blog for 2 weeks or so. I combined 3 challenges in this one little layout b/c time is at a premium in between packing, phone calls, and errands. My oldest is turning 3 next week so I looked back at his newborn photos and could not believe that sweet little baby is the same walking, talking, growing boy I see today. He really is just an amazing kid and I have enjoyed being his mother more than I could have imagined before his existence. Here is a layout for my oldest boy entered into the following three challenges:

1. Scrapbooksteals.com Mid Week Mojo Coral #1
2. The Paper Girls Challenge #16: Baby
3. Scrap FIT Workout #76 Diana's Color Inspiration 

Products used in this layout:

• Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me denim tiny stripe paper and chipboard buttons
• Echo Park Style Essentials grey flourish paper
• WRMK Lucky 8 punch (a birthday gift from my husband!)
• Mr Huey's passport and pinstripe mists
• Trinity Paper Arts Surf N Swim borders paper and Sincerely noteworthy paper
• stash cardstock (grey and white)
• American Crafts Thickers Dolce
• My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Out of the Blue "boy" journaling card, Stella & Rose layered stickers, and Lost & Found Two Breeze "precious" decorative brads
• October Afternoon Farmhouse wrap pack
• Authentique Splendid Delight paper

I'm Perfectly Pearl (Pearl Series by Scrapbooksteals.com)

Another series presented by Scrapbooksteals.com is complete! Here are all 10 layouts have created to make me Perfectly Pearl. I love the Mid-Week Mojo layouts as they have really helped me take my scrapping to the next level. Without further ado, here are my pages!

Pearl #1

Pearl #2

 Pearl #3

 Pearl #4

 Pearl #5

 Pearl #6

 Pearl #7

 Pearl #8

Pearl #9

Pearl #10

Pearl #10 - Scrapbooksteals.com

I am glad that the Pearl series from Scrapbooksteals.com ended this week as we are moving in less than two weeks. I never would have finished this series in a week or two. The sketch was a great 2 photo layout that let me scrap two photos I've wanted to for a long time. On a beautiful early fall day last year I took the boys to Garden of the Gods for a nice walk. We are lucky enough to live near one of the most beautiful city parks in the country and my 2 year old frowned and wanted to go home the entire time. I just love the contrast of the beautiful scenery and sunshine against Mr. Grumpy Pants.

Products used in this layout:

• American Crafts
• Campy Trails buffalo lake, silver lake trail, elk creek trail, cedar river trail, appleton cove, fox park forest, powder point camp, and timberline resort papers
• Remarks accents & phrases Hike
• Remarks dimensional stickers Path
• Thickers Hello
• Mr. Huey's Sunset
• Echo Park
• For the Record alpha stickers
• This & That Charming element stickers 
• This & That Yardsticks paper
• October Afternoon Campfire label stickers and shape stickers
• Pebbles dimensional flower
• My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart twine
• Fancy Pants Summer's End design embellishments
• K & Co layered accents Par Avion

Scrapbooksteals.com MCM #101

I love the Monday Card Madness presented by Scrapbooksteals.com! Every time I need to make a quick card it is the perfect place to get inspiration. Yesterday my Dad surprised with a nice, unexpected gift in the mail so I wanted to let him know how much I appreciated his thoughtfulness. Here is my take on MCM #101.

Products used in this layout:

• My Mind's Eye So Sophie "sisters" peaceful plum paper
• Simple Stories Year-O-Graphy Live Life 24/7 paper
• Simple Stories Happy Day Make A Wish paper
• My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart twine
• stash button and cardstock
• My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Two Rosy "love" blossoms paper

The Paper Girls challenge #15

I am so glad that challenge #15 from The Paper Girls Challenge Blog was about using big photos. Just a few weeks ago I took a photo of my parents in to get copies. It was taken shortly after they got married 42 years ago and I am absolutely in love with it. This gave me the perfect opportunity to both use the photo and this amazing paper that I have been hoarding by Prima Marketing.

Products used in this layout:

• Prima Marketing Songbird collection "collage", "lineage", and "zephyr" papers
• Mr. Huey's pinstripe
• Fancy Pants Baby Mine chipboard alphas
• Fancy Pants Lilac House trim
• Fancy Pants Kraft Kuts pink alpha sticker
• October Afternoon Farmhouse wrap pack trim and journal cards
• American Crafts Thickers Memo
• Cosmo Cricket tiny type stickers
• Basic Grey glazed brads
• stash washi tape
• Making Memories Paper Reverie sienne butterflies
• My Mind's Eye breeze "precious" and blush "favorite" decorative brads

My Mind's Eye September challenge & Scrapbooksteals.com Pearl #9

Moving is a lot of work. Moving with 2 small children and a household full of stuff seems insurmountable! It has taken me a week to get one scrapbook layout done and that is with half my scrapbooking supplies packed away. Is it sad that I am most stressed about how I am going to get any layouts done during the move? Due to my lack of time I am having to combine challenges. The theme of summer's end from My Mind's Eye and the layout challenge presented by Scrapbooksteals.com, however, made it very easy to do a 2 in 1. I spent way too much time on this layout and I attacked it not as a whole, but in sections. I was so focused on each individual part that I am surprised it turned out to be a pretty cohesive layout.

Products used in this layout:

• My Mind's Eye
• Indie Chic citron "measure" garland
• Stella & Rose hattie "happy" polka dots paper
• Stella & Rose hattie "boy" trims
• Stella & Rose hattie "family" frame
• Stella & Rose hattie "happy" label stickers
• Stella & Rose hattie "happy" bouquet paper
• Stella & Rose hattie "boy" woven stripe paper
• Stella & Rose hattie "family" silk tie die-cut paper
• Stella & Rose hattie "remember" buttercup die-cut paper
• Stella & Rose hattie "family" layered stickers
• So Sophie "sisters" peaceful plum paper
• So Sophie charming "simple things" sticker alphabet
• Follow Your Heart "be amazing" twine
• Miss Caroline dilly dally "best" pins & buttons
• Lost & Found Two sunshine "forever" decorative brads
• Mr. Huey's passport
• The Paper Studio Gracie Moon Lower - white alphabet stickers
• Crystal Stickers Elements light blue
• K & Company Collegiate dimensional stickers
• Authentique petite type circle alphabet stickers

Authentique September sketch challenge & ScrapFIT Workout #75

Authentique's September sketch challenge was a super fun layout. Since I just did a page dedicated to my older son, I decided to honor my youngest with this sketch. I had so much fun making my own embellishments and this has a lot of little elements to it. Workout #75 from ScrapFIT was about using twine. I stuck to one color of twine that really adds to this page without making it look busy and overworked. I love this page just as much as I love the one I did for my other boy.

Products used in this layout:

• Authentique
• Gathering "flourish", "grow", "together", "bloom", and bi-fold papers
• Gathering Icons, Tabloids, Excerpts, and Alpha stickers
• Mr. Huey's passport mist
• The Paper Studio chipboard alpha
• stash brads and buttons
• WRMK Sew Easy floss

Pearl #8 - Scrapbooksteals.com

I cannot believe it has been a week since my last post and what a week it has been. We sold our house, found our new house, had an inspection, got a loan, and started making moving plans since we have less than a month until we close on both houses. Oy! Is it sad that I am already wondering how am I going to scrapbook during all of this?

Pearl #8 from Kristy Lee at Scrapbooksteals.com had be finally scrapping a photo that I've reached for 100 times but never felt I had the right sketch. I just love this layout. I realize that I say that a lot, but I keep going back and staring at this. It could be that my son is just so stinkin' adorable, but I love the colors and the way everything came together. Here is my newest favorite layout for now!

Products used in this layout:

• Fancy Pants Artist's Edition Memo Notebook paper
• Fancy Pants Kraft Kuts stickers blues alpha
• Graphic 45 Playtimes Past collection
• Connect the Dots, Hopscotch, Child's Play, and Life's a Ball
• die cuts
• Sassafras Translate paper
• Basic Grey Periphery Sugar alphabet stickers
• Mister Huey's passport, pinstripe, and sunset sprays
• Ranger Distress Stickles antique bronze
• The Paper Studio chipboard alphabet
• My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Two Breeze "precious" and Blush "favorite" brads 
• My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart twine