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Look! Up in the sky.

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I apologize that I haven’t blogged much lately. I entered a digital scrapbooking contest and that is keeping me a little busy. Hopefully, I can share my round two entry with you Wednesday. (My round one layout is going to be a Christmas present for someone who may or may not read my blog, so I’m going to wait to share it.) In the meantime, here is another layout I recently finished.

It was a challenge to complete. I followed this month’s Bytes-to-Go challenge at Scrapbookbytes.com. My order was 3 photos, 5 papers, one of which will be embossed (can be used more than once), 3-5 stars, 10 or more flowers, 3 different ribbons/string, 1 frame, 2 different paint splats, glitter or scatters, a large title, stitching, and 2 word strips. The most challenging part for me was to use 10 or more flowers.

I also used Sketchabilities Sketch #54. It inspired me to do the Bytes-to-Go challenge since I felt that it would best allow me to use all those embellishments.

Sketchabilities Sketch 54

Journaling reads: Our after-dinner trip to the neighborhood playground ended with a sighting of a motorized paraglider. We heard it first and then Jessica pointed it out. She enjoyed watching it go up and down above the preserve. August 26, 2011

Look! Up in the Sky.

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ, Chugga Choo Choo, Just Imagine, Strawberry Lemonade Freebies, Whale of a Good Time, Zoom Zoom Zoom
Fonts Used: Weathered SF

I hope to do a coordinating second layout to scrap the photos from the rest of the trip to the playground.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.

Jessica’s First Day of School

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Yesterday was Jessica’s first day of school. I was excited for her and scared at the same time. She hates the church nursery at SHPC and is not the biggest fan of Mommy leaving and even sometimes not the biggest fan of Daddy leaving in the morning to go to work. But apparently, I didn’t need to be worried.

I, of course, want to scrapbook this momentous event. I really liked this sketch from Sassy Lil’ Sketches and thought it would work really well with the best picture I was able to get of Jessica on her first day of school. You might notice she’s pointing at the Elmo on her shirt. That was the only way I could get her to look at me, by asking what was on her shirt.

Sassy Lil' Sketches 8/22/11

Journaling reads: This year, Jessica started attending the Mother’s Day Out Program at Abiding Love Lutheran Church on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 AM to 1 PM. Her teachers, Ms. Karen and Ms. Lacy, said her first day went great. She only cried for about 5 minutes after Daddy dropped her off. Another little girl came up and gave her a hug and said it was okay. After that, she enjoyed playing with the other kids in her class.

First Day of School Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Ready for School
Fonts Used: Pirates Writers

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.

Fun at Loco-Motion

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Sunday afternoon after stamping with Lori, I met James and Jessica at Loco-Motion, a bounce house place that has been having deals at a lot of different deal sites recently. I decided the pictures I took would work for a challenge I’ve been wanting to participate in, the August Scrapheap Challenge #1 at Scrapbookbytes.com. The challenge is to use 3 frames, 4 pictures, a tag (at least 1), the color yellow and 2 papers (one plain and one striped).

Loco-Motion Layout 1

I ended up doing two coordinating layouts since I had way more than 4 pictures I wanted to scrap.

Loco-Motion Layout 2

Digikits Used:
Circle of Life Scraps – Enchanted Studio Scraps – All Seasons Summer (blue tag)
Summer Driggs – Flip-flopsicles (beach ball, sunglasses, striped paper)
The Scrapping Sisters – March of the Animals (stitching, red paper)
B2N2 Scraps – March of the Animals (red string)
Connie Prince – Whale of a Good Time (white ricrac), Chugga Choo Choo (alpha)
Serif – Indie Chic (black frame)
The Scrappy Kat – March of the Animals (red frame)
Fonts Used: Pea Little-Ducky

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.

Deadbeat Designs Class

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Thursday night, my friend Kristy and I went to a Deadbeat Designs class at Felicia’s Scrapbooks. I got to meet Mark, the owner/designer for Deadbeat Designs and one of the Texas Tuesday players (which I haven’t joined in with since moving). Lynn, the instructor, was great. We used some fun techniques and hopefully, I’ll use my set of chalks more now. I had a lot of fun.

Kristy and I With Our Favorite Projects

The class consisted of three projects. The first was a treat bag topper. The back of the topper is stamped with “You deserve some Chocolate!” and an image that could be considered a Tootsie roll.

Treat Bag Topper

The second was a card that will fit in a regular business size envelope. The inside sentiment is “What’s Up?” This was my favorite of the projects.

Card 1

The third was also a card.

Card 2

I ended up buying the multi-balloon stamp, so you’re bound to see more projects using it.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.