Flu season

We're dropping like flies at my house! And what does a scrapbooker do when the flu hits her house? She scrapbooks it! lol So far only my youngest daughter has gotten the flu but 2 of us have had some kind of virus that we're working on getting rid of. So I'm hoping that'll be it and we can all get to feeling healthy again!

I pulled one of the last patterned papers I had left from the Gingerbread and Peppermint Classic Kit and paired it with journaling cards and even some of the 6x6 papers from the She's Crafty Daily Diary Kit for my layout today. You can see those 6x6 papers peeking out from behind my photos.

I printed my photos in black and white since they worked better with my layout (the orange walls at my daughter's doctor's office just didn't go with my page!) And sometimes I just really like the look of black and white...it draws your eye right to the subject of the photo rather than getting distracted by the background.

Party Animal

I like to party. And by "party" I mean stay home in my PJ's and do crafts. 

Yep, that's me! lol

This week we're scrapping our crafts/hobbies, etc and I have several. I started scrapbooking 16 years ago when my first child was just 3 weeks old. And in the last 16 years I've added lots of other hobbies to the list...card making, sewing, quilting, anything crafty! Hey, you don't know if you're going to be good at something until you try it, right?! 

So today's pocket page is all about the things I enjoy. I didn't quite have enough photos for a full 2 page spread, so I took a Design A pocket page and cut it in half for page #2. 

Yummy!

Hey guys! I'm here with another layout using the She's Crafty Daily Diary Kit. The first layout I created with this kit was a traditional layout and this week I went with a pocket page. I also deviated from the theme of this kit to show the versatility of these kits. It's very easy to create a project outside of the theme of the kits!

I went back a few years and found these fun pics of my kiddos during summer vacation when we drover over to Krispy Kreme for a special treat. Thank goodness we don't live close or I'd be eating donuts every day! lol 

I loved all of the word stickers in this month's kit. They were a fun addition to my photos. And that 4x6 'who, what, where' card was definitely a favorite! 

 

hey sixteen

Happy New Year!!! With the new year comes a new start and I'm starting off my first post of the new year with a page using the new She's Crafty Daily Diary Kit. I have a few more Christmas pages that I'm finishing up with the Gingerbread and Peppermint kit but I'll share those next week.

So this week I have a page on my daughter's birthday which was yesterday. It was nice to switch gears from holiday pages for a moment, although I did pull the patterned papers from the Gingerbread and Peppermint Classic kit believe it or not! There's a few non-holidayish papers in there and they worked very well with this month's kit.

I also pulled the thickers from the Apple Crisp Classic kit. I absolutely love the Jillibean alpha stickers that are in the kits this month but I was worried that they wouldn't stand out against that striped paper background.

I hope you all are having a good start to the new year. I can't wait create more projects in the coming months with Noel's kits!