Scrapping the music: Foo Fighters

We celebrated Christmas with my in laws last night and my mother in law got me 3 pads of paper. I couldn't wait to use the Ki funky paper pad. I used the sketch from sketches in thyme to make this layout for scrapping the music. This weeks song is Times like these by the Foo Fighters.

I took this pic of my dad and Tobin heading in to the outlet stores in Orlando. Tobin was all about his Papa that entire week. They were so cute together.

Scrap it with a song: Just the Two of Us

This week the song at Scrap it with a Song is Just the Two of Us by Will Smith. I love this song. I am so glad I was able to find some time to scrap this one. With all my boys I knew I could come up with something. I used the sketch from the scrappiest for some inspiration. All the paper is either stash, scrap or from my simply delightful pad by My Minds Eye.

Suds in the Bucket

This weeks song at Scrapping the Music is suds in the bucket by Sarah Evans. It is kind of a fun song to listen to. I decided to use the line "in the backyard" for my take and combined it with the sketch from Sketchabilities. I might go back and add some journaling to it some day but I kind of like it the way it is. These pics were taken one random day. We were all outside in the back yard playing t-ball. Everything on it is from my stash. The letters are from piggy tails and I don't recommend them EVER! They truly made me mad while trying to us them. All the cuts are paper dolls everyday.


Layout also qualifies for:

Craft you passion: anything goes

UPDATE: This layout won at SKETCHABILITIES!!!!!

Epcot layout

I made this layout of Trey tossing a coin in the fountain at Epcot for the scrappiest sketch challenge. Everything on it is stash.



This layout also qualifies for:

Sketches in Thyme: Open sketch challenge

Scrap it with a song: Lucky

This weeks song at Scrap it with a song is Lucky by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat. I have never heard this one but then again I dont get out much...lol. I knew these would be the perfect pics for this song. Tobin and Tanner are the best of friends and the worst of enemies. If you have more then one boy then you know what I mean. The only thing I can tell you about this layout is the paper is basic grey.


UPDATE: This layout won at scrap it with a song!

Scrapping the music

This weeks song at scrapping the music is need you tonight by Inxs. I made a layout of when Tanner first starting feeding himself. I wanted to use a puzzle/game theme (because Tanner thought this was a great game) to the page so I did the title with what looks like scrabble tiles. I don't really care for how this layout came out. I never got an aaahhhhaaaa moment from it where I could see the end result in my head. All I could do was build it. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone or not. Everything on it is from my stash. At the rate I am using my stash I should have it used up by 2015. I need to get a more on....lol.

A Beautiful Sight

This weeks song at Scrap it with a song is Winter Wonderland. I was inspired by one of their DT members named Liz to look beyond just the "snowy" lyrics to use it for something other then playing in the snow. In North Carolina we get snow dustings that last for about an afternoon. One day it will be 32 degrees and snow and we will get 2 inches on the ground. Then the next day it will we 70 out and everything is gone by lunch.

Details:

All the paper is from the Simply Delightful paper pack by My Minds Eye

The title is cut from A Childs Year cart

The journaling is done in Walt Disney font

The buttons are from a Hobby Lobby mixed bag

The ribbon is from Michaels

This layout also qualifies for:

Gingersnap Creations: vintage hues
Totally paper Crafts: snow and snowflakes
Pile it on: what winter means to you
Beary Scrap Design Team: anything goes
Simon Says: let it snow
Everybody Art Challenge: use shapes

Signo pens at dollar tree

One of my jobs is at the Dollar Tree here in North Carolina. Last night I found 3 packs of signo pens for a dollar. We even have white ones. There are all different sets including glitter ones!

I also work at Michaels and found the cricut cake carts for $9.99!!! I got the last one my store had (birthday cakes) but it is a small one so maybe you can find one at your store. I cant wait for thanksgiving day sales at Michaels!!!! They are FAB!!!!

Anyway....just wanted to give everyone a heads up!

What an unexpected award

I was very surprised to find that Madison over at Funky Cards had given me the stylish blog award. Thank you so much Madison!

Now, this award does come with some rules and I have to pay it forward:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this

2. Share 8 things about yourself

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

Share 8 things about myself... Lets see....I dont know if there is anything most people dont already know about me.

1. I have a degree in Network Engineering
2. I met my husband when we were both working at Frito Lay
3. I am adopted
4 &5&6. I found my birth mom when I turned 30 and found out I was Jewish (raised southern baptist was pretty interesting)
7. I am a huge Jewel fan
8. I teach scrapbooking classes at Michaels

Here are the 8 bloggers I am passing the award onto. These are bloggers I have recently discovered. They are very talented. Please check out their blogs and see what I mean!

1. Chelsea at Creations of a cluttered mind. Her photos are amazing!
2. Jenn at (from my) paper craft studio
3. Teresa at lil scrap
4. Christina at See Christina Scrapbook
5. Mix on the memories
6. Moria at Live Teach Love Scrap Laugh Life
7. Diane at Our Scrapping Life

8. Jennifer at Scrapping Daze

Check out this yumminess

Wee Memories has some super yummy candy! You should def check it out!

Ally Scraps and Scrapping the music

This week the song from Scrapping the Music is "Upside Down". This is the theme song from the Curious George movie. I thought this would be a good excuse to finally scrap the pics from Universal Studios where the kids met George. I used the sketch from Alley Scraps for this one. I know I have been working on useing my single page stash but I got this paper from my Play day paper pack by SEI. So I guess technically it is still part of my stash. This font for both the title and journaling is called Brody and it is as close to the Curious George font as I could find.

Cooking with Cricut

Cooking with Cricut had a blog hop this past weekend and it ended with a Christmas challenge. I dug into my stash and went to work. Im sorry that I cant tell you about any of it. I don't even know where I got the tree svg file. All I do know is I used a page maps sketch, the title was cut with scal and the font is Christmas card.


This layout also qualifies for:

Lasting memories layout challenges: Use Your Cricut (or any die cuts if you don't have a cricut
Simon says stamp: sparkle
The ABC challenges: H is for Holidays

Chef Mickey's

I am getting around to scrapping more pics from our first trip to Disney in 2008. These are from Chef Mickey's at the Contemporary Resort. I scrap lifted this from one of my favorite blogs... Reddy's Ramblings. She has some great free svg files for Disney. Everything I used was either from my stash or my scrap pile.

8x8 layout

I had to make a small Christmas layout for the classes room window at Michaels because corporate will be visiting the store this week. So I dug through my scraps and some stash and came up with this. I think it came out pretty cute. I used a cut file from Treasure Box.

Halloween layout

I have been working 7 nights a week between Michaels crafts and the Dollar Tree. So on days when I get to stay home I have been all over scrapping. I found this sketch at Stuck Sketches. I know it was a single page but I went a little crazy with it once I started.

These pictures are from 2008 when we went to Universal Studios Orlando. The decorations are fantastic at Halloween time.

Pretty much everything I used for this is from my stash. We are talking about moving so I have decided I need to start using stuff up so I dont have to move as much. Now keep in mind we are talking 3-4 years from now but heaven only knows what I will accumulate by then. Lets see how long with use it up attitude will last....lol.


This layout also qualifies for:

Cooking with the Cricut: Not so scary Halloween