Coral #9 and My Mind's Eye November Challenge - Gratitude

I love, love, love My Mind's Eye Stella & Rose paper collection and rue the day that I run out my supply. It is a retired collection so what I have is what I have. This layout is for the My Mind's Eye November Challenge about gratitude. I am grateful for my husband and our children. They make everyday worth living and I love them more than words can express. For this layout I added private journaling. Not b/c I want to hide the wonderful things I think about them, but b/c I couldn't find a logical place in this layout for journaling.  I like the way it turned out! 

Scrapbooksteals.com gives me such great layouts to work with and Coral #9 was no exception. I used photos from our recent day trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. The boys were actually kind of cranky the whole time but we managed to get a few good pictures in between the fussy ones. 

Products used in the layout:

• My Mind's Eye
• Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Cute" quaint paper
• Stella & Rose Hattie
• "Happy" polka dots paper
• "Boy" woven stripe paper
• "Family" silk tie paper
• "Happy" bouquet
• So Sophie "Sisters" peaceful plum paper
• Follow Your Heart "Be Amazing" twine
• Lost & Found Two Sunshine "Forever" brads
• Indie Chic Nutmeg "Boy" brads
• Fancy Pants Baby Mine chipboard alpha
• Mr. Huey's spray mists

Coral #8 - Scrapbooksteals.com

Coral #8 from Scrapbooksteals.com came around just in time for me to use my most recent order from Snapfish. I am actually scrapping photos taken within the last month! While my parents were here we went to the History Colorado Museum. It was a really neat museum with a lot of hands on activities for both adults and children alike. My favorite part was the ski jump simulation, but I think the boys liked the country store and toys the best. Here is my interpretation of the sketch for Coral #8.

Coral #8 sketch

Products used in this layout:

• October Afternoon
• Campfire 
• tent trailer, sleeping bag, and animal tracks papers
• shape stickers
• Mini Market stickers green & cream
• Cosmo Cricket 
• Togetherness
• Kite Strings and Birds of a Feather papers
• element stickers
• My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart "be amazing" twine
• Basic Grey stitched brads
• Echo Park
• A Boy's Life element stickers
• This & That Charming paper and element stickers
• stash buttons

My Mind's Eye, ScrapFIT, and Scrapbooksteals

I love doing the challenges for My Minds Eye mostly b/c I love My Mind's Eye and their products make it so easy to embellish across paper collections and still make a cohesive page. The My Mind's Eye November Challenge was to scrap a family recipe. I can honestly say that I do not have a single family recipe. My Mom doesn't like to cook or bake plus I am a vegetarian going on 14 years now and my Grandma has lots of meaty recipes. I love to bake so perhaps future generations will have a recipe to pass along. In my family, however, we do share a love for coffee. We all have Keurig brewers and when we come to visit the first thing we say is "I ordered your favorite coffee in my most recent coffee order." We have priorities!!

I incorporated a ScrapFIT Step Class challenge into my layout. Step Class #10 was about creating  layered banner. Since I love banners this was a great way to step up my game a little. I used paper, fabric, and ribbon in my banner on the lower right hand side of my layout. I love the way it turned out and will try this layered look again.

Since I am still trying to catch up on the Coral series from Scrapbooksteals.com, I used the layout from Coral #3a. I rotated the sketch, but overall I like my take on the layout.

Coral #3a sketch

layered banner

Products used in this layout:

• My Mind's Eye
• Indie Chic Nutmeg
• "memories" rose patch paper
• "boy" decorative brads and southwest paper
• "history" blooms and medallion papers
• "hanging out" label stickers and rainbow paper
• Stella & Rose 
• Hattie "boy" trims
• Gertie "delightful" tag
• So Sophie Charming "simple things" sticker alphabet
• Follow Your Heart "be amazing" twine
• Miss Caroline Dilly Dally "best" pins and buttons
• Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type turquoise
• Adornit Simple Sandra alpha stickers

Coral #4 & Paper Girls Challenge #19

I am playing catch-up with the Scrapbooksteals.com Mid-Week Mojo's that I missed while moving. The sketch for this layout was Coral #4 and went really well with the photo I wanted to use. The Paper Girls Challenge #19 was about being thankful. I immediately knew that I wanted to do a layout about my college graduation. College wasn't an option in my house and I am forever thankful to my Mom and Dad for pushing us, encouraging us, and financially helping us achieve the goal of a college education. I attended a top notch University, made some fantastic friends, and met my husband all while studying, working, and partying. College will not be an option for our children and I hope one day they will realize the value of an education. GO BLUE!!!!

Products used in this layout:

• Crate Paper restoration collection border stickers and paper
• American Crafts Thickers Memo Newsprint
• Fancy Pants My Family paper stack
• Fancy Pants Artist Edition Memo Notebook
• Basic Grey Clippings drafting table paper
• Basic Grey Basics vocab paper
• Teresa Collins Vintage Finds Bingo paper
• October Afternoon Sasparilla Gold Rush paper
• K & Co. collegiate dimensional stickers
• Authentique Genuine Elements
• My Mind's Eye Follow your Heart twine
• Sassafrass Amplify enhanced paper
• Little Yellow Bicycle Autumn Bliss autumn stripe paper
• stash buttons

Scrapbooksteals Coral #7 & ScrapFIT Workout #79

Coming in at the 11th hour for Scrapbooksteals.com Coral #7, I have "ice cream Face". These are a few of about 100 pictures I took at Dave's company picnic in August. The boys had so much fun at the amusement park, but enjoyed the ice cream most. Archie is loving his cone and Fletcher is sad that his is gone already. I also am using this layout in the ScrapFIT Workout #79 which is all about washi tape. I don't have too much here, but I used it to fill some dead space on the right hand side and to frame up the upper left hand corner. I only have 4 rolls of washi tape, which is an oversight I am looking to correct soon!

Scrapbooksteals.com Coral #7 sketch

Washi tape

Products used in this layout:

• Kiwi Lane Chestnut Drive
• Miss Elizabeth's scrapbook embellishments
• Crate Paper Prudence collection discretion and consideration papers and die cuts
• Crate Paper Mia collection sherry blossom and whirl papers
• Washi tape (K & Co. and stash)
• My Mind's Eye Abbey Road stomp chipboard elements
• Basic Grey Sweet Threads alpha stickers
• Fancy Pants Time for Springs die cuts
• Ranger stickles