Sorry to be MIA.. but Summer is Here!!

Hello!

Sorry I haven't had a blog post in a while but I've been enjoying summer. I have found some time to craft... so I have lots to share.. I just hate the process of photographing my layouts, downloading them, cropping them, then sorting and uploading... why can't it just happen all by itself?!?

Well, I have sat down today and uploaded posts for the next month or so... yep.. I've been that creative this summer.... as a matter of fact.. I scrapbooked 12 pages while we were camping at the beginning of the month. My sister even brought her Cricut to plug into my van.

So.. I think I will start by sharing some family photos... last summer, my family (husband's side) got together to do family photos. We did individual families and the kids and Nana... (you can see Nana and her grandkids here). So I thought it would be cool to do pages of all the families. On the same day my sister and her family came to get photos done as well.. we went a mile or so down the beach and did photos from my side of the family - minus my mom as we were doing them for a surprise for her. You'll see these all over the coming months.

Critter Challenge Blog - Challenge #25

Can you believe it is the start of a new month?!? Our summer is just flying by! Hard to believe my boys will be back to school in 5 weeks. This month, our new fantabulous sponsor is LimeLIGHT Papercrafts.



I had to take a little creative license with my scrapbook page - but I did my best to follow the sketch - and I have the two different colours of ribbon as well.

This week we challenge you to use the following sketch AND we would like you to use a minimum of 2 different ribbons. The middle block should contain your image.


We hope that you will head on over to the Critter Challenge Blog and enter your creation for a chance to win our monthly draw. Every time you play with us you get a chance to win from our fabulous sponsor.

Critter Challenge Blog - Challenge #23 - Mom's Cricut Christmas

This week at the Critter Challenge Blog not only do we have a sketch for you to follow, but a theme as well! Our theme is Christmas in July.
You all know I prefer to scrapbook, so when I saw the theme I was excited... I was a little nervous about the sketch, but I think I did okay!

This picture was from Christmas 2008, when my boys (hubby of course did the buying) surprised me with a Cricut. I had been hinting very loudly!! The boys were so proud, and of course I was soooo excited!!!

Funny part about this layout.. I didn't use my Cricut to make anything for it!

I copied the little Cricut guys from one of my Cricut reward certificates... and then cut them out, corner rounded them and matted them on some white cardstock.

The letters are cardstock stickers from American Crafts - Remarks - they are called "Smokey Joe's" - cute name!

The red cardstock is Coordinations and the green is unknown.. my mom threw it across the table at me.. hehe.. might be SU... but not 100% positive.

The stamp came from Robyn's Fetish - our fabulous July sponsor. The best thing about digital stamps is that you can resize them to suit your needs. This tree measures 4 inches by 5.5 inches. I Stickled the ornaments and star. I absolutely love this tree and know that it will be in my boys' scrapbooks many times.






We hope that you will head on over to the Critter Challenge Blog and enter your creation for a chance to win our monthly draw. Every time you play with us you get a chance to win from our fabulous sponsor. This month's generous sponsor is Robyn's Fetish make sure you check out her fabulous digital stamps!

Californa Adventure "O"

The boys thought it was so cool that they could climb in the giant "O" in California that is just outside the gates to California Adventure.

I had done these pages for a swap and made a set for myself.

Papa Bear Said ...

I've had this photo kicking around for a while.. I just love it, but really wanted to do something different. One day I was teaching, and we did drama and I had the kids act out Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. It was tons of fun.. I came home, saw this picture sitting on my desk and knew that I had to use the line from that story...

I absolutely love this page.. and my hubby does too! :)

Letters cut from Don Juan
Bear cut from Camping Solutions
Chair cut from Life's A Beach
Bear Crossing Sign from Michael's.

Lego Giraffes

One of my favourite simple layouts... love the preprinted paper.. just added mats to the photos and the letters.

Disney Randoms

Just a couple of pictures of my boys at Disney.

I received these pieces in a border swap.. but I separated them so that each boy could have the same page!