Me, My Boys & I

Challenges

So here are my challenges for Part One of the two part crop at

Love Is In The Details

The first one is to journal around your patterned paper or around the edge of your page.

Here is my layout....

My second challenge is a card/die cut challenge. You must pop your die cut up on your card.

Here are two cards I made....

Remember you have until the 13th to upload your layouts and cards so you still have lots of time to play along!!!!

Don't forget part two of the online crop is this Saturday from 11am-4pm, lots more challenges, games & fun....and lots more chances to win great prizes!!!!

Sorry I have not come to show you the reveal from the May Kit....been so busy! The girls of the Creative Team rocked the kit as always, with five us there is an amazing variety and you really should check out their awesome work here.

Part one of our online crop was Saturday, we have some awesome challenges posted and you have until May 13th to upload your layouts and cards so hop on over and get to it. Lori's prizes are always awesome and you are sure to find some inspiration in the Creative Team's challenges.

So a little over-do (sorry) here are a few samples from my May kit.

You can purchase the Kit here.

Make sure to check back tomorrow as I will post my challenges from Part One of the crop, if you want to see them right away go on over and check them out and see the other awesome challenges too. CLICK HERE.

Have a great day!

Only One more Day

The May Kit Reveal is tomorrow at Love Is In The Details!!!! WOOHOO!!!!

Here is a little sneak peek...

And then the day after that is part one of the online crop!!!!

I am so excited, we always have so much fun!!!

It is National Scrapbook Day on Saturday so that means to be on the look out for sales at the Love Is In The Details Store, that also means I am going to have a hard time staying on my spending freeze!!! EEK!!!!

Two Online Crops

So we have not one, but TWO online crops coming up at Love Is In The Details!!! Our first crop will be Saturday May 2nd to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day and the second will be Saturday May 9th to celebrate the anniversary of the shopping page!!!

The crops will be from 11am to 4pm each day but the deadline for both crops will be May 13th!!! That will give you a ton of time to get your challenges completed and be eligible for fantastic prizes!!!! Not only will there be awesome challenges there will also be games and a lot of laughs!!!

I really hope you will join us!!!

What do you think?

Thinking of changing the title of my blog....

really think this title would be more appropriate...

Me, My Boys & Scrapbooking

What do you think?

Have not posted a lot this week, been busy around the house and enjoying the wonderful weather. Here is a layout I did for a challenge over at Love Is In The Details.

I also made Michael a little coupon book with the April Kit and my nestabilties, thinking I will give it to him for Father's Day or his birthday.

Sketches

Do you like sketches? I have two sketch challenges posted right now at Love Is In The Details. The first one is the April Monthly Prize Challenge (see the sketch here) and if you participate and upload your completed layout here, you could win a $25 gift certificate from the LIITD Store!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

The second one is a challenge just for fun. Here is the sketch I did and the layout I created.

I hope you like the sketch and play along!!!

Happy Easter

Well it was the April Kit reveal this weekend at Love Is In The Details! So now I can show you my creations. You really should check out what the other girls did too....wow when you see their layouts, cards and projects you will know that this kit is a must have. To see their wonderful and inspiring work CLICK HERE.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend & Easter!!

Well Spring Break is almost over, not a great one for the kids but we tried to keep busy and do some different things. Had a great day yesterday at the online crop at Love Is In The Details and it is not to late to join us and have a chance to win some awesome prizes. The deadline for uploading layouts is not until Wednesday, April 8th at 6pm so jump on over!!!! There was also a big announcement yesterday at the site, our creative team grew from 3 to 5!!! Woohoo!!!! We are so lucky that Lisa and Melissa have joined the team! The two layouts in this post are my challenges at the crop yesterday, if you want to know what the challenges are you have to pop over to LIITD!!!

April Kit

Isn't it awesome???? OMG, even better in real life!!!!! WOW!

The April Kit is now available for purchase at Love Is In The Details!!! It is amazing and since the kits have been selling out every month I would get yours fast!!!

The Creative Team reveal for the kit is delayed until April.11th, stupid weather here and problems with shipping. So stay tuned to see what we come up with!!!

Get the kit here.

April Fools Day

Well I think Mother Nature pulled the first April Fools Joke of the year on us. We got tons more snow, the really wet heavy kind of snow. So annoying. I am not sure if Spring is going to arrive in our neck of the woods this year. *sigh*

On a happier note it is April 1st which means a few things. Firstly the MPC (monthly prize challenge) at Love Is In The Details. Guess who was in charge of the sketch this month.....ME!!!

I had a blast doing it and I hope it turned okay. To see the challenge and participate to win a $25 gift certificate from LIITD click here!!!

This is my layout from the sketch, I love the Dumbo ride at Disney!!!

Have a great day!

So this past Saturday I went to Miami, Manitoba to scrapbook with my pals at Love Is In The Details! Had such a fun time, got to see a couple of familiar faces and meet a lot of new friends who I knew through the website. We had a lot of yummy food, retail therapy and of course scrapbooking!!!! Here is a layout I created this weekend...

Less then a week to go!!!

Less then a week until another online crop at Love Is In the Details!!! I really hope you will join us next Saturday, April 4th, our crops are so much fun. We will have some awesome challenges to inspire you and even more awesome prizes to win!!!! You won't want to miss some special surprises that day too!!!!

Can't make it on Saturday?? That is not a problem you have until Wednesday to upload your layouts to be eligible to win the great prizes that are up for grabs!!!

Hope you will come on over and join us!!!! Pop by now to see what things you will need to participate in a few of the challenges. Click here for all the info you need!!!

Growing Up So Fast

Look at you, where did that little boy go?

Almost a teenager and almost as tall as me now!

I can't wait to create a layout with this picture!

I am hoping to work on it this weekend in Miami where I will be joining the LIITD girls for a fun day of cropping, snacking and I am sure a whole lot of laughing!!!

I am lucky

Eva challenged us at Love Is In The Details to take photos to show her how lucky we are. This was a hard one as I did not feel very lucky lately. Then last night as I am headed to bed, another night of missing my husband, wishing he was home and not travelling so much I saw Nicolas. It is amazing that he still loves to curl up in my bed with me and I know these days will be coming to an end soon. So I am lucky for this sweet little boy who knows when I need him and for these moments!!!

Organizing & Scrapping

This week I have been doing some organizing, finally got my stamps into a binder where I can see what I have and found a new system to keep control of my growing collection of nestabilities.

Last night I took a break from the organizing to work on Mel's Sketch Take 2 Challenge over at LIITD. Finally scrapped some pictures from our trip to Florida in 2007 that had me stumped for the longest time. Thank goodness for the awesome sketch!!Here is the layout...

So Ali challenged us over at LIITD to create use holiday themed paper or products on a non-holiday themed page. I thought this was going to be so hard and then I stumbled across this picture of Aidan when he was a little boy. I was so happy with how the Fancy Pants Christmas paper worked with this picture!!! Can't believe my boy was ever that small!!!

Like Mother...Like Son!

I was so happy the other night when Nic asked if he could scrapbook after dinner!!! WOW, that is every scrapbook Mom's dream. Of course I said YES!!! It was so great to watch him sit at my scrapbook table and create! Thank goodness my friend Lorna reminded me to take a picture!!! Thanks Lorna! I taught Nic how to ink chipboard, how to use stickles and even how to use my Big Shot. Of course under close supervision!!!! So here is my boy, and the layout he created!

My Turn

So it is my turn at LIITD to issue a challenge!! WOOHOO!!!!! Our gallery of layouts and cards over there are so amazing, so the challenge is to pick a number between 1 and 1,362 (yes that is how many pages of talented work we have!!!) and then find a layout that inspires you! To participate in the challenge click here.

I chose a wonderful page by Ali and created this layout using October Afternoon's awesome patterned papers and stickers...

And now I have a challenge for my scrappy friends that read my blog!!! Come on over and join us at Love Is In The Details, we have the most fun, easy going, hilarious and talented group of ladies that you will ever meet. I miss my scrappy friends!!! I really hope you will pop by!

Another Day...Another Challenge

The Mix It Up Blog has a great challenge going on, you should check it out! They have an awesome sketch and then challenge you to use a recycled item on your layout. The best part is that you do not have to do both on your layout...it is up to you.

I ended up using the sketch and the recycled item on my layout. My recycled item is the stars you see on the layout below. They are actually those things from Starbucks that you slide on the cup so you don't burn your hand. I ran them through my Big Shot with my star nestabilities, turned out pretty cool.

Thanks to the Mix It Up Girls for an awesome challenge, it was a blast! Here is my layout:

Scrapping Out Loud

Great challenge over at Scrapping Out Loud, the challenge is to scrap Me, Right Now. This was really cool because I never scrap myself. So this is what I came up with...

Thanks ladies for the awesome Challenge and all the inspiration!

I spent the morning with Nic's class and another 3/4 making pottery plates. It was actually really fun, can't wait to see them when they are done.

They are studying Japan so when the plates are done they will be having Sushi on them!

Very cool!

Posted my first challenge this week at LIITD, it is my die cut challenge and the girls have to repeat the same die cut over and over. Here is the layout I created for the challenge...

Eva posted a photography challenge for us this week, have to take pics of things we are obsessed with. This is an easy one for me... Lately all I have been doing is baking...

and never far from me is my laptop and of course it is always at LIITD!!!

March kit

Well we had the March kit Reveal over at Love Is In The Details!!! Melanie and Chelsea did an amazing job with it...as always. Check it out here in the LIITD Gallery.

Here are my layouts and cards...