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Happy Birthday Pawpaw

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Yesterday, was James’ grandfather’s 90th birthday. I hope I live that long. I wanted to make him a special card that had 90 on it somewhere. I used the January Sketch for You to Try. I was very inspired by this card using the sketch.

Pawpaw's 90th Birthday Card

Stamps: The Cat’s Pajamas Smells Like Cake, You Say It’s Your Birthday
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Old Olive, Sahara Sand, Basic Black
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Sweet Pea
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: twine; Stampin’ Up button
Tools: Stampin’ Up scallop trim border punch, small oval punch; Spellbinders small and classic circle nesties

I actually made this card yesterday when I went stamping at my friend Lori’s, so it won’t arrive in Pawpaw’s mailbox until at least tomorrow. This means it will be late, but we’ll just say I’m prolonging his celebration.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

P52 – Weeks 1, 2 and 3

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This year I decided that I would do a P52. Basically, this means I will take at least one photo every day of the year and I will make a weekly scrapbook layout with 7 photos for that week and journal the everyday moments. I have been steadily working on it, but I haven’t shared any of it yet. I thought I would do that today. Don’t forget you can click on the images to view bigger.

Cover

This first layout will be the cover when I have all the layouts printed in a bound book at the end of the year. The inspiration for the blocked look and title came from this post by Wishing Well Creations. The poem by William Arthur Ward I included is the January Quote Challenge at Scrapbookbytes.com.

Digikit: Connie Prince – Ready for School
Template: Creations by Julie – Simplify Your 365 Templates
Fonts Big Fish Ensemble (title), Smarty Pants BTN (poem)

Week 1

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Playground; Inspired Designs – Colors of My Life
Template: Creations by Julie – Simplify Your 365 Templates
Fonts Used: Mickey (Week # and days of the week), DirtyDarren (journaling)

Week 2

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Playground; Inspired Designs – Colors of My Life
Template: Creations by Julie – Simplify Your 365 Templates
Fonts Used: Mickey (Week # and days of the week), DirtyDarren (journaling)

Week 3

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Flashback; Inspired Designs – Colors of My Life
Template: Creations by Julie – Simplify Your 365 Templates
Fonts Used: Apple Boy BTN (title), Smarty Pants BTN (journaling)

Have a great day!

The Way You Love Me

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I just joined the creative team for Queen Wild Scraps, which makes me a Wild Princess. I am super excited about this. I missed out on getting to play with the new kit being released today, but read all about it.

Queen Wild Scraps has this super cute new Valentine’s Day kit out today. And it will be on sale for 30% off until next Friday. Before I show you the kit though…have you heard the news? Lahni is now offering all of her new release templates in .page and .sbpage files for SBC users! She’ll also be slowly adding SBC formats to her old templates as well. So far she’s got Paper Pizzazz and Holly Jolly Christmas ready and in store and All About the Photos and Peek-A-Boo are coming soon! To celebrate she’s put some of them on sale – make sure you check them out in the store!

Some other exciting news – Queen Wild Scraps has a new newsletter and if you like freebies and coupons you should definitely sign up! Here’s a link you can follow to sign up: http://eepurl.com/izwgI

Alright – here’s the kit:

And just the papers:

The kit comes with 23 papers (including 8 glittered edged solids), 52 elements, and an uppercase alpha.

Want to see what the Wild Princesses did with the kit? And there are also some freebies on their blogs – make sure you click on their preview to go to their blog for all the freebies!

Brooke:

And Brooke made you a frame cluster:

Cori:

Donna:

Henriett:

And Henriett made you a freebie too:

Kendra:

And Kendra’s freebie which you can download right here:

Kimberly:

And she has a paper stack for you:

Kortni:

And she has a cluster frame for you:

Lauren:

And she has a cluster frame for you:

Meleah:

2011 Year in Review

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Jennifer of Word Art World provided this fabulous template for the January Word Art Challenge over at Gotta Pixel. I really like the idea of a year in review post like my sister did too, so I am combining them in this blog post. Don’t forget you can click on the picture to view it bigger.

2011 Favorite Things

Digikits:
Colors of My Life: Dates – Inspired Designs (month markers and fasteners)
Amy’s Designs – Ladybug (red stitching)
Meryl Bartho – Walk on the Wild Side (brown stitching)
Plum Dumpling Designs – The Greatest Gift (square present)
The Latest Scoop Too – The Greatest Gift (tall present)
Dani Moy Designs – Sail With Me (sailing elements)
Summer Driggs – Flipflop-sicles (flip flops & sunglasses)
Connie Prince – Just Imagine (butterfly)
Template: Word Art World – January 2012 Word Art Challenge

January – Pretty routine. Filled with Gymboree music classes and play dates with Jessica’s friends.

February – James and I went to San Francisco for four days without Jessica, our first time leaving her overnight. She had a blast with Nanny and Papa. More music classes and play dates. Mothers of Young Children (MYC) group at the church for me. We conceived Janette around the end of the month.

March – We put our house on the market and had it sold within a week. Lots of house-hunting (we looked at 50+ houses total). More play dates and MYC.

April – Pregnancy confirmed and monthly check-ups start. More househunting. Closing on selling and buying. Moving. MYC.

May – Playdates. MYC. We marked West Virignia off of our 50 states to visit list with a trip with my parents. We celebrated James’ Mom’s 60th birthday.

June – Jessica and I spent a week in Midland while most of the interior our new house was painted. Play dates. We bought Jessica a little wading pool for the backyard and we also started visiting our neighborhood pool. We traveled to Corpus Christi with James’ parents and our nephew Dawson for a little fun. James traveled to Toronto for work.

July – Our new washer, dryer and dishwasher were delivered. The anatomical ultrasound was performed and we decided not to find out the gender. Jessica took swimming lessons. Play dates. Dzubinski family reunion at the Antler’s Inn in Kingsland.

August – Play dates. Jessica started Mother’s Day Out at Abiding Love Lutheran Church.

September – Play dates. MDO. Monthly OB appointments changed to bimonthly appointments. I became the craft coordinator for the new MOPS (Mothers of Preschool Students) group at the church. We visited Midland and helped out after James’ Mom had her knee replaced.

October – OB appointments become weekly. MDO. Play dates. Jessica turned two on the 16th. James turned 32 on the 25th. Janette was born on the 31st, two weeks early.

November – James lost his job in AMD’s 1400 employee reduction in force. Jessica had her first dentist appointment. MDO. Play dates. We spent Thanksgiving with the Dzubinski family at my brother’s house. I turned 31 on the 30th.

December – MDO. Play dates. Jessica really got Christmas this year and enjoyed singing and pointing out baby Jesus. The Dzubinski family Christmas celebration was held the weekend before Christmas at my parents. We also spent a little time with James’ family while in Midland. We went to Christmas Eve service at SHPC and enjoyed Aric and Kristy’s Christmas Day tradition of fondue. James’ parents and our nephew Dawson arrived the day after Christmas and spent the rest of the month visiting us.