#summer

Here in Canada, today is Thanksgiving!  I hope everyone enjoyed some time with family and friends eating some yummy food!

Just thought I would pop in to share a layout of the two people I am most thankful for.  Love my little family!

Created with Echo Park's Summer Bliss collection

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At the Movies ~ Stuck?!

Hey there everyone!!  I'm popping in to share a layout today.  I actually got scrappy today!  It's been too long.  I decided to play along with the current sketch challenge from Stuck?!

And my take....

Created with Echo Park's Here & Now collection

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sharing.....

Twice in one week?!?!  I'm on a roll!  ;)

One of the things with not doing much with this hobby all year means I have a bunch of pages that I had never posted.  Here are some of those.

I haven't bought too many supplies last year either.  I am really trying to use up the papers I have.  So my new thing I have been trying is to pull out a collection or a kit and use it up until it is done so I don't have to put it back in my stash.  Sometimes it works and sometimes I run out of pictures or inspiration.

Anyway, here are a bunch of layouts using Echo Park's We Are Family collection where I did just that.

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Happy weekend!

Best Friends Forever.

Just popping in to share a couple of layouts featuring some of my very favourite girls!!  Maya and her cousins have the very best relationship.  They truly are BFFs and I hope I they stay that way forever!!

Both of these are created using the Best Friends Forever collection from Echo Park.  Love the bright colour palette!!

Additional supplies:  American Crafts Thickers; Your Next Stamp Gumdrops

Additional supplies: The Crafter's Workshop Microbial Template; Heidi Swapp roller date stamp

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We have another Extreme Cold Warning today.  Man, I am sick of Winter!!

Family.

Just popping in to share a layout that I created this weekend.  It's Family Day weekend here in Ontario so I think it's only fitting that I share these particular layouts.  

First up is a page using a photo of my little family during our trip to Ottawa last summer.  That's my heart right there in that picture.

Created using Echo Park's We Are Family collection

And then, next up is a page with one large photo of my big crazy awesome family.  Love each and every one of them.  They are my strength.

I signed up a while ago for 6 months of the Ali Edwards' Story Kits & Stamps and the Firsts theme was, fittingly, the first one I got.  Love that the Kit comes with one of these white acrylic words each month.  The stamps I used in the top corner are from my second kit - Gatherings.

Anyway, hope everyone is doing well and staying warm.  It's dang cold out there!!

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Little Moments - My Scraps & More

It's time for a sketch challenge from My Scraps & More.  I have missed creating with these and hope that I am back in the groove now.

The sketch by Diana Fisher....

And my take on it documenting one of the little moments between my Momma and Maya.  Cherished memories for sure.

Created using Echo Park's We Are Family collection

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Screen Time

Well, I actually scrapped today.  It was not an easy process.  I need to get back in the swing of things I think so my mojo can start flowing.  I am not really feeling it yet but I am hoping that if I keep sitting at my table, it will start to come.

I can't share what I created today yet so I thought I would share an older page.  I put this together using the August kit from My Creative Scrapbook.

Supplies:

Echo Park - We Are Family

Close to my Heart - Stamps (Geek is Chic, Keyboard Uppercase)

Your Next Stamp - Gumdrops

American Crafts - Thickers

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Summer memories with Echo Park

Just popping in to share some summer-y layouts I created with the Summer Bliss collection from Echo Park!

So many fabulous summer memories!!!  Love getting them documented and into my albums!!

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A Sweet Treat

Happy weekend everyone!!!  Just popping in to share a recent layout.

Supplies:

Echo Park - Summer Bliss

American Crafts - bits (#vacation)

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Run for the Cure 2011 - Stick it Down

There's a new double-page sketch up over on the Stick it Down blog!!  Love these sketches by Shelby!!

And my take on it using lots of extra pictures.  I have a photography problem - I take WAY too many pictures!!!  That's why I love these mini sizes when I am printing!

Supplies:

Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock

Echo Park - Be Mine

My Favorite Things - Die-namics (LLD Accent It Story Titles)

Papertrey Ink - Dies (Sketched Shapes)

American Crafts - Thickers

miscellaneous buttons & brads

Be sure to pop over to the Stick it Down blog to see what the other ladies have created!

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Stuff.....

Summer has officially arrived!!  I know this because Maya and I just got back from our annual trip to the cottage with friends!  So much fun!!

My niece Keely came with us this year.  Maya was thrilled to her there!!

a selfie by the lake

Keely & Maya enjoying some swimming time

 

cousins and BFFs

my beautiful swimmer

lots of screen time happened too!  Can take these girls away from civilization but can't keep them from their technology!! 

And just to have a little something scrappy too....

 Created with Sunshine and Sprinkles by Stampin' Up!

Created with Everyday Eclectic by Echo Park

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Some layouts......

Popping in today to share a couple more recent layouts.  Both of these ones were created for the recent Sketchathon at My Scraps & More.

Supplies:

Echo Park - Summer Bliss

Bazzill cardstock

Your Next Stamp - Gumdrops

Miscellaneous Washi Tape

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Supplies:

My Mind's Eye - Now and Then (Milo)

Bazzill cardstock

Smooch (yellow)

Maya Mist (Emerald Metallic)

Heidi Swapp Color Shine (Tinsel)

My Favorite Things - Die-namics (Mini Tabs Foursome)

Papertrey Ink - Dies (Sketched Shapes)

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Some Christmas scrapping.....

Just popping in to share a couple of random Christmas layouts.

Created with Echo Park's Merry Christmas

Created with Best Creation's FaLaLa collection

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Lunch Date - Stuck?!

Popping in on this Monday to share another layout!!  This one is based on the sketch below from Stuck?!

Supplies:

Echo Park (Everyday Eclectic)

Your Next Stamp (Gumdrops)

Stampin' Up! (Punches - Modern Label, Heart)

Miscellaneous washi tape

Gesso

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Exciting News!!!!

I am thrilled to announce that I made it as part of the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog team!!  I am a huge fan of their sketches and am so looking forward to playing along!!  Be sure to pop over to the blog to see the other super talented ladies I will be working with!!

For the DT Call, I had to complete a layout based on a sketch so I thought I would share that today!!

The sketch....

And my take....

Supplies:

Echo Park - Everyday Eclectic

Bazzill Cardstock

Your Next Stamp - Gumdrops 

Miscellaneous Washi Tape

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1st day of Grade 1

Another quickie post to share a recent layout.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Supplies: Everyday Eclectic by Echo Park

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Boxing Day 2009 - ScrapMuch?

Wow!  It is crazy cold out there!!  I hope everyone is staying safe and warm!!!

I am back today to share another layout!!   This one is from Scrap Much?

 

And here's my take on it.....

Supplies:

Echo Park - Merry Christmas

Bazzill cardstock

Stampin' Up - (Cherry Cobbler 1/2 inch Scallop Dots Ribbon)

Miscellaneous sequins

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Stay Warm!!

A layout & a new do!

Man, I have been neglecting this blog!  I keep thinking that perhaps I should just let it go.  Life is keeping me super busy right now and I have no time for scrapping, let alone blogging.  :(   Oh well, we shall see how things go!

I do still have a couple of layouts I haven't shared yet though so here is one of them.

Created with Everybody Loves Christmas by Echo Park

And I just thought I would share a picture of my girl.  She got her hair did on the weekend and went much shorter!  She also decided to get it straightened just to see what that looked like.  Can't believe the difference!  She looks older to me too!!

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Candy Cane Cuties

Hello all!!!  I am happy to say that I actually got some scrappy time in this past weekend.  I know....amazing, right?!?!

Anyway, I decided to pop on over to the Two Scrapbook Friends forum and play along with some of their sketch challenge.  I love a good sketch to get the mojo flowing!!

And my take on it.....

Supplies:

Echo Park - Everybody Loves Christmas

My Favorite Things (Felt - Jellybean Green; Die-Namics - Wonky Scallop border, First Place Award Ribbon; Buttons - Hot Fudge)

Papertrey Ink (Dies - Notched Flowers)

QuicKutz (Font - Central Park)

Fancy Pants - Filter Paper Embellishments

My Little Shoebox - Mini Alpha Stickers

The Twinery - Pink Sorbet

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Trick or Treat

Just popping in to share another layout!  

Echo Park - Happy Halloween

It is definitely Spring out there right now and I am going to enjoy it!!  Especially since I hear there may be snow on Friday.  SNOW!!!  Come on, Mother Nature, it's APRIL!!!!!

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