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Let It Snow

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Amy’s Designs has an adorable new kit out today, called Let It Snow. There are the most adorable little polar bears in it. It’s on sale for 50% off right now.

Here’s the paper preview.

Snow is not something I see much of. Since moving to Austin in 2003, there have been eight times we’ve had snow.

Feb. 8, 2003…….0.4 inches
Feb. 24, 2003……0.4 inches
Feb. 14, 2004……1.6 inches
Jan. 16, 2007……0.1 inches
Jan. 17, 2007…….0.1 inches
Dec. 9, 2008……..0.1 inches
Feb. 23, 2010……0.6 inches
Feb. 4, 2011…….0.9 inches

So scrapping snowy photos was somewhat difficult. My first layout uses photos from Jessica’s first experience of snow. It has only snowed twice in Austin in her lifetime and the second time, we must not have gone outside in it since I don’t have any photos to show for it.

Journaling reads: “Today was the heaviest snowfall in Austin since Valentine’s Day, 2004, with 1.3 inches accumulating in parts of town. Officially, at Camp Mabry 0.60 inches of snow fell today. The high was 40°F. Since, the ground temperature was above freezing, the snow didn’t last long. I took Jessica outside for just long enough to capture her first snow experience. To think, just two days earlier, the high was 76°F and we were playing at the park in short sleeves. Tuesday, February 23, 2010”

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Let It Snow
Template: Just Jaimee  –  Happy 34th Birthday Template
Font: Concursio Italian BTN (title), Copa Sharp BTN (journal)

The second layout showcases the balcony and little yard of the apartment James and I shared for our first year of married life.

Journaling reads: “Valentine’s Day, 2004 We received 1.6 inches of snow. It was the heaviest snowfall Austin had received since January 1985. I took these photos about 11 AM of our apartment balcony. James had moved in a few weekends previously and we had started moving my belongings in anticipation of our wedding in two weeks.”

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Let It Snow
Font: Lydia Puenta) (title), Candy Buzz BTN (journal)

I’m hoping we’ll see some snow this year, so Janette can experience it.

A Bunch of Layouts

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I have quite a few layouts to share today.

First up is a coordinating second layout to the Sweet Berry Farm layout I shared on Friday. Journaling reads: “I tried to coordinate a pumpkin patch visit with Jessica’s playgroup friends: Millie, William and Alex. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a day for all of us to go together. Instead, Jessica and I picked Michelle and Millie up and I drove us to Marble Falls to visit Sweet Berry Farm’s pumpkin patch. Millie and Jessica had a blast running around the pumpkins.”

 

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Plethora of Pumpkins
Template: AK Designs – Our Life in a Year: July Templates
Font: Pea Beth R (date)

The next two layouts are for my All About Me album. In Color My Life with the Colors of Music, I journaled about about my evolving music tastes. I made the layout back back in May for a challenge or two.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – She Wore Blue Jeans
Font: Pea Little-Ducky (journaling); Shark Random Funnyness, Stamped DSG

This layout was made during a speed scrap in September and talks about different emotions the photo from our trip to Moorea evokes now.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – An Extraordinary Life; pearl scatter from Karen Diamond Designs – Ann’s Grace; metal scatter from Connie Prince – Just Imagine
Font: Caribbean (subtitle and emotion headers); 2Dumb (journaling and dates)

This fourth layout is a heritage layout made during a speed scrap back in May. It is of James’ grandparents when they were newlyweds. They’ve been married for 72 years now.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs  – Beautiful Life
Font: Weathered SF

This last layout was a another speed scrap layout. I may put it in my All About Me album too. Journaling reads: “8/7/12 Cloth diapering really makes me feel good. Not only is it good for the environment, it is good for Jessica and Janette since they don’t have the chemical laden disposables touching their skin.”

Digikits: Katybug Scraps – New Arrival Girl; flower from Wendy Tunison Designs – An Extraordinary Life; frame and leaf from Queen Wild Scraps – Family Ties; flowers from Amy’s Designs – Happy Go Lucky and For the Birds; flower from Queen Wild Scraps – It’s My Party for the Boys; flowers from SNP Collab – Will You Be Mine; flower from Robyn Gough Designs – Floral Fancy; flower from Amy Dane Designs – Twitterpated
Template: Wendy Tunison Designs – FB Speed Scrap twirl
Font: Pacifico (title); Betty’s Hand (journal)

I received my new card reader, so you should see a post about Janette turning 1 soon.

Plethora of Pumpkins

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Today is the release day for a brand new kit by Amy’s Designs called Plethora of Pumpkins. It is super cute and perfect for pumpkin patch photos or other fall harvest photos.

I had thought about using photos from this year’s trip to the pumpkin patch, but alas I currently have no way to get the photos off my camera, so I decided to use photos from last year’s trip. Now, that we’ve gone three years in a row, I will call it a tradition and I’m sure you’ll see more pumpkin photos from me in the future.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Plethora of Pumpkins
Template: AK Designs – Template Pack 1
Font: Lobster (title), Pea Beth R (date)

Hopefully, I will be able to finish my “Janette is 1” post next week once my new card reader arrives and I can acquire photos from camera’s memory card.

Scrap It to Win It

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I just finished up my last entry into the six-week long digital scrapbooking contest, Scrap It to Win It, over at Scraps-N-Pieces. I had a lot of fun with the contest and learned some new things along the way.

Week 1 – Roll With It – Your challenge blueprint is to use circle elements in your layout this week. I want to see at least 7 circles on your pages. Circle shaped papers, buttons, brads, text paths, anything that is circular, with one major exception – FLOWERS DO NOT COUNT AS CIRCLES. Flowers are sometimes fairly circular and sometimes not so just to make things clear I’m not going to allow flowers to be counted as circular elements this time. This doesn’t mean that you can’t have flowers on your page – just that they won’t count toward your 7 circles. Also, papers with circles on them don’t count either. If you want your paper to count as one of your circles, you must cut it out into a circular shape.

Digikit: Karen Diamond Designs – Proud 2 Be an American Kit and Mixed Papers; stitching from Queen Wild Scraps – Fabulous Fall
Mask: Indigo Designs
Fonts: Desyrel

Week 2 – Breakfast Scramble/Scrambled Template – The pieces of the provided template are scattered about in random fashion. Your challenge is to arrange the pieces of the template however you’d like and create a beautiful layout. You can flip them, rotate them, move them around, resize them, swap out a flower for a star, etc., but you must use all the layers, 27 to be exact: two pictures, a title, sub title and journaling, 7 papers (can be duplicated), 2 ribbons or ric rac, a scatter, 2 flourishes and 10 elements.

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces – Where Dreams Come True; scatter from Amy’s Designs – American Spirit; swirls from CraftArtist Indie Chic
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 21 (Play Hard)
Fonts: Undercurrent BTN

Journaling reads: “Jessica loves to prepare meals of leaves and acorns in her playhouse in the backyard. Today, she alternated between watching Daddy work on the pump in the garden pond and playing in her house.”

Week 3 – Loner – Create a monochromatic layout. I shared this layout here.

Week 4 – Stack Attack – Your challenge blueprint this week is…Cluster, Cluster, Cluster. You must use all of the items listed in a layout.

  • 3 of one flower (sizes can vary)
  • 3 of another flower (sizes can vary)
  • 1 different flower
  • 2 of another flower (sizes can vary)
  • 9 FLOWERS total
  • 9 leaves
  • 2 Frames
  • 1 Photo mask or Scatter
  • 4 paper strips all out of different papers
  • 9 Swirly, Curly elements
  • 3 tags
  • 3 ribbons all different
  • 3 twigs/branches
  • 9 unique elements
  • 3 stitching elements all different
  • 1 Title using a kit Alpha
  • background paper
  • However many photos you want.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – Two Hearts, Two Hearts Add-on; Queen Wild Scraps – Family Ties
Fonts: Brush Script

Week 5 – Double Trouble – Design a two page layout (or double page spread). Add at least three paragraphs of journaling. Include at least 3 sentences in each paragraph.

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces – Step Right Up!
Fonts: Catherine’s College Days (journal); Candy Round BTN (title)

Journaling reads:

“St. Ann’s Catholic Church has hosted a fair every September for sixty-three years now. I have fond memories of attending the fair on Saturday and playing the games, especially the cakewalk. And whenever my grandparents were visiting fair weekend, we always spent time in the school gym playing bingo. We would always get wrist bands for the carnival rides Thursday night, since opening night was the cheapest.

When James’ mother scheduled her knee replacement surgery for September, I knew I wanted to schedule our visit to come help out so that we would be in Midland for fair weekend. So after breakfast Saturday morning, we met up with my parents at the fair. This was Jessica’s first fair experience ever.

Instead of a wrist band, Papa bought a handful of carnival ride tickets, because we weren’t sure how Jessica would react to the rides. She ended up going on the carousel twice and the Ferris wheel once. Nanny took Jessica on the carousel. The first time, Jessica did NOT want to sit on the zebra, so Nanny just held her as the ride spun around. The second time, Nanny made her sit on the giraffe. At first, Jessica was upset, but by the time it ended, she was smiling and having fun. James and I took her up in the Ferris wheel. She enjoyed smiling and waving at Nanny and Papa who watched us from the ground. At the top, she seemed pretty excited about the view.”

Week 6 – Junk in the Trunk – Use pieces from 3 different kits and you must use equal pieces from each kit. So your items will need to be in multiples of 3. For example, if you use 3 papers, you will need to use 1 paper from each kit, if you use 6 papers, you must use 2 papers from each kit, etc. You cannot use 5 papers or 7 papers or any amount of papers that is not a multiple of 3 because then you wouldn’t be able to divide it evenly. Same with your elements, you must use an equal number of elements from each of the 3 kits but you don’t have to divide that by element type. So, if you have 18 total elements on your page, you should have used 6 elements from each kit, but you don’t for instance have to use 1 button from each kit, it is just total elements divided by 3. If you decide to use an alpha, you must use all 3 kit alphas or else no alphas at all. You don’t have to divide the letters up between the 3 alphas, but you do have to use 3 alphas or no alphas. You may not recolor your 3 kits to match each other. You may not use Bits N Pieces kits or designer collab kits that were designed to go together unless you count them as just 1 kit. You may not use templates.

My title for this layout was inspired by the song “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.”

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – Tickle the Earth; Amy’s Designs – Beautiful Life; and Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ
Fonts: Another Typewriter (Janette & date); Monterey BT (title); Freehand575 BT (subtitle)

Friday, they’ll post the winners for week 6 and the overall winner of the contest. Maybe I’ll win week 6.I seriously doubt I’ll be the overall winner as I was never one of the weekly winners, but I had a lot of fun and learned some stuff along the way.

A Few Layouts

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I have a backlog of layouts I’ve completed that I haven’t shared yet. I thought I would share a few today.

First up is one I made during a speed scrap. I find it hard to believe Janette was ever that small.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning
long stitching from The Scrapping Sisters – March of the Animals
short stitching from Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck Refreshed
staple from Amy’s Designs – American Spirit
Font: Talking to the Moon

Next up is one with photos of Jessica this past May.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Blast Off; Karen Diamond Designs – Adventures in Space; Queen Wild Scraps – The Final Frontier; Ladybug Scraps – Outta This World Element Pack
Font: Candy Square BTN Striped; Pacifico

These next two contain photos of Jessica in July 2011. Journaling reads: “I took Jessica to JC Penneys to get her portrait taken. It didn’t take long for her to warm up to the camera. July 2, 2011”

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – American Spirit
Font: Milk & Cereal (title Little); Catherine’s College Days (journaling)

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – American Spirit
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – All About the Photos

This last one was also made during a speed scrap. The circular grid was provided as part of the speed scrap. Journaling reads: “Jessica loves the Wild Animal Baby magazine she receives in the mail each month. She was very excited about the May 2012 issue. In addition to having Zoey the Zebra on the cover, there was a picture with instructions of a Zebra Pudding Snack in the activity idea section. Each new issue becomes a current favorite thing to read at story time and each time we read this issue, she would point to the Zebra Pudding Snack and say she wanted to eat that. I made her one with leftover ingredients from the trifle I made for the pool party at Uncle Jason & Aunt Julia’s house the weekend of Janette’s baptism. She shared it with her Daddy and absolutely loved it.”

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – She Wore Blue Jeans; Amy’s Designs – Happy Go Lucky (glitter splatter, green stitching and felt strip); Amy’s Designs – Evening Elegance (paint splatter recolored); Trixie Scraps Designs – Master Chef (black stiching, black flower)
Fonts: Trash (title), BettysHand (journal, date)

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