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Family Traditions & Squared Templates

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Jennifer

Inspired by You Designs is a new designer at Scraps N Pieces. Her templates are pretty cool. Squared has four templates that all have lots of square shapes.

Karen Diamond Designs has a beautiful kit to document your family memories. The colors and some of the elements are very fall/thanksgiving themed, but the kit is very versatile. It would be great to scrap some manly layouts.

I used two of the Squared templates with Family Traditions to document some memories from our 2011 Thanksgiving.

Digkit: Karen Diamond Designs – Family Traditions
Template: Inspired by You Designs – Squared
Font: Impact

Digkit: Karen Diamond Designs – Family Traditions
Template: Inspired by You Designs – Squared
Wordart: AK Designs – Little Cutie (freebie)
Font: Impact

I have a freebie frame cluster for you. I’ve included both shadowed and unshadowed versions. You can download by clicking on the preview or clicking here. I’d love to know what you think of it.

Have a great weekend!

At the Pool

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Jennifer

Word Art World recently released a great new word art pack. It is perfect for all those pool photos from the summer.

I have a two-page layout using three of the word art. I used one for the title, one for a subtitle for the photo of Jason and one as kind of a watermark for the journal mat. These photos are from Labor Day weekend. Journaling reads: Both Saturday and Sunday after naptime (quiet time), we drove to Jason’s house so the kiddos and some of the adults could go swimming. It was really fun to watch all the cousins having a ball splashing and swimming. Cameron really enjoyed using the snorkel mask. Jessica was utilizing her newly acquired swimming skills. Janette just floated about. Trevor had fun jumping into the pool. Aspen thought it quite fun when Aunt Sarah lifted her up in the air and she jumped. Brian only swam on Sunday and he and James had fun tossing two balls simultaneously.

Digkit: Ladybug Scraps – Catch the Wave
Template: Ak Designs – Two Pager Pack 2
Word Art: Word Art World – At the Pool
Font: Once Upon a Time

And here’s a close-up of the left and right sides.

Y’all have a great weekend!

Layout Backlog

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Jennifer

I have a lot of layouts to share today.

First up is week 7 of my P52 2013 layouts. Sadly, I’ve only done weeks 5-8 so far.

Digkit: Connie Prince – Project 2013 February, Project 2013 Wordbits, Project 2013 February Dates
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – Fabulous February
Font: dandelion in the spring (journal), 2Peas Heart’s Delight (title #)

Next is a layout our Valentine’s Day this year. Journaling read: “Our church, Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church, hosts an annual Valentine’s Day dinner, complete with child care. This year, James and I decided to attend. Dave Wilson provided photography. The food was delicious and consisted of chicken scallopini with angel hair pasta, slow-roasted Tuscan pork with roasted rosemary new potatoes, fresh green beans, homemade focaccia and a variety of desserts served buffet style. It was catered by Beth Watson. Cy Alberston, former music minister, opened for magician Arsene Dupin. The magician selected James and one other audience member to assist in a few tricks. Their assistance to the completely mimed instructions added in some comedy. Afterward, I asked James what he thought about being selected. He said, he could have done without it.”

Digkit: Connie Prince – Love Bugs; xoxo from Word Art World – It’s a Love Thing; stitching from Wendy Tunison Designs – She Wore Blue Jeans
Composition: SNP Speed Scrap #192
Font: Alamendro FG

Jessica took three sessions of swim lessons this summer, for a total of six straight weeks of lessons every day Monday through Thursday. James and I are so proud of progressions. This two-page layout is about the first two-week session. Journaling readings: “Jessica started by not participating at all. The first week, I had to sit on the edge of the pool to even get her to get in the water. The second Monday, 2 of the 4 kids weren’t there and she decided to actually participate. It was like something just clicked. I was so proud.” The layout was my entry in this year’s Scrap It to Win It Contest Week 5 Separation Anxiety to create a double page layout and use at least 5 colors that all have to be separated from the other colors. I won honorable mention in the contest for best journaling for this particular layout. The judges liked that I included the swim lesson report card.

Digkits:
Red: Amy’s Designs – Ladybug
Purple: Queen Wild Scraps – Perfectly Plum
Yellow: Amy’s Designs – Happy Go Lucky
Green: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck, Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck Refreshed
Blue: Connie Prince – Swim On FB Freebie, Project 2013 February; Amy’s Designs – Splash, scatter from Amy’s Designs – Turkey Day (duplicate recolored)
Misc: background from Amy’s Designs – Ladybug; clear splash from Amy’s Designs – Splash
Font: Ka-Boing! (title), Daddys Girl (journal)

This next layout is from a speed scrap. The quote was required as part of the speed scrap and I thought these photos fit perfectly. Journaling reads: “After dinner, we took the girls on a walk to the neighborhood playground. Janette really loves the slide. James climbs the steps behind her, just in case, and he’ll slide down too. Janette just giggles as she watches him come down after her. Moving people are definitely hard to photograph with the camera on my phone.”

Digkit: Trixie Scraps Designs – Spunky Monkey, Spunky Monkey Plaid Papers; frame from Word Art World – One Cool Dude
Font: Berlin Sans FB Demi (happiness), Crazy Girlz Blond BTN (title), Catherine’s College Days (journal)

Next up is a layout about my first time meeting my nephew Rylan. It was made during a speed scrap. Journaling reads: “I was so excited that Rylan decided to oblige his Aunt Jennifer and make his world debut while we were still in town for our spring break visit. Janette and Jessica both thought he was pretty cute and Janette kept wanting to touch him.”

Digkit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning, Happy Go Lucky, grunge/stamp from Let’s Play
Font: Organic Fridays (title), Candy Round BTN (journal)

The layout was my entry in this year’s Scrap It to Win It Contest Week 3 Triple Threat to create a layout with 9 elements, 3 papers, and 1 photo, with the twist of using each thing 3 times in the layout.

Digkit: Wendy Tunison Designs – Just Us February, Just Us February Cardstock
Font: PegsannaHMK

This one was for a template challenge. Journaling reads: “We all enjoyed an after dinner popsicle, although Janette only ate part of hers.”

Digkit: Connie Prince – Sweet Summertime
Template: Connie Prince – Gingerscraps Template Challenge June 2013
Font: RutmerHand

This next one was for the Scrap It to Win It Contest Week 4 Out of the Box. We were provided with the 6×6 grid. I thought it was perfect to scrap a lot of photos and so I did a second page to coordinate with Aspen’s 2012 birthday cake layout I shared here. Journaling reads: “There was yummy barbecue for lunch followed by two cakes. Jason decorated the Nemo one and Julia did the one with candles. Aspen received lots of cool presents including a tricycle from her parents. After watching the gift opening, the kids started playing and even hit up the dress-up box in the playroom. They had a lot of fun.”

Digkit: Amy’s Birthday – Hello Birthday
Font: DaddysGirl (journal)

Today, Jessica and Janette started the 2013-2014 school year.

It’s a New Day

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Jennifer

Amy’s Designs has a new kit being released today. The color scheme was inspired by CT member Ann’s family photos. I love the bright yellows and blues in this kit.

I have two layouts to share. The first one is a heritage layout. The photo is of James when he was a baby.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – It’s a New Day
Sketch: Scrapbookbytes June 2013 Sketch Challenge
Font: KG Strawberry Limeade (love in title); Nymph’s Handwriting (date tag)

The second layout also uses an older photo, but only two years older. Look how small Jessica and her cousins look! Journaling reads: “Everyone arrived at Sarah’s house Friday afternoon for a weekend to celebrate Cameron’s third birthday. All the cousins enjoyed playing in the backyard as dinner was being prepared. After dinner, Cameron opened his gifts from the family.”

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – It’s a New Day
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – True Patriot Love
Word Art: Word Art World – Cousins
Font: Kristen ITC (journal)

Some of my fellow CT members have freebies for you.

Janece at http://janecescraps.blogspot.com/
Kaylene at http://kmatyasskraps.blogspot.com/
Kristal at http://kristalkreations.blogspot.com
Lisa at http://lisas-scraps.blogspot.com/
Kelly at http://artsandainsdesigns.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday Mom!

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Jennifer

Today is my Mom’s birthday. Happy Birthday Mom!

Back in June, I suggested to my sister and brother (well, more my sister-in-law) that we get all the kiddos together and have portraits taken as a gift for Mom’s birthday. They were receptive to the idea, so I found fabric and patterns for the girls dresses and Julia and I made dresses for the girls while my sister found coordinating blue polo shirts for the boys. We went barefoot for a fun summer feel. We used the Jackie O Dress for Jessica and Aspen, but instead of buttons down the back, we put a zipper in the bodice and didn’t cut the back skirt piece. We also didn’t do the lining. For Janette, I used the Abbey Dress, but I didn’t use piping and added ribbon like in the Jackie O Dress. I discovered the zipper foot and now I think zippers are fantastic.

Sarah came into town an extra day early for Aspen’s 3rd birthday party and Sarah, Julia and I met up Friday morning at the mall at the JC Penney Portrait Studio. Do portrait studios have a set number of photos they’re allowed to take per session? The photographer seemed to be waiting for the perfect shot at times. Five kids under five? The perfect shot is never going to happen. We did individual photos of each kid before getting all five together. She only took two photos of each individual kid. One of the two of Janette was blurry, like she overzoomed. Overall, I was not the most impressed with the photographer. She did take twelve photos of all the cousins together. Then three of Cameron and Trevor together. Two more of Aspen by herself. And none of Jessica and Janette together, because Jessica didn’t want to cooperate. For a grand total of 28 pictures in the 1 hour we were there. That doesn’t seem like a lot to me. I mean, she was with Cameron and Trevor for like 10 minutes and she only took 3 photos? Oh well.

We decided to choose the best group cousin photo (the photo in the first layout) for an 11×14 framed photo and a 6×12 easel framed photo that my Mom can put in her office with the rest of the grandkid photos. Then I took all the photos (we paid for the photo CD) and made the following layouts, which we put in an album for her. I spoke with her earlier today and she was really pleased with the present. That made me happy.

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter; button from Amy’s Designs – My Girl
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 71

Journaling reads: “August 3, 2012 When everyone was in town for Aspen’s birthday party, we took all the cousins for some family portraits. It was difficult to get five children four years old and younger to look at the camera and smile at the same time. The portraits still turned out super cute.”

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter; button from Amy’s Designs – My Girl
Font: Milk & Cereal

Digikit: Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock
Wordart: Word Art World – Cousins

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter
Font: Milk & Cereal

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter
Font: Dawning of a New Day

Journaling reads: “Jessica is 2.5 years old. Janette is 9 months old. Jessica is independent. Janette is laid-back. Jessica is a picky eater. Janette eats everything. Jessica is a good sleeper. Janette, not so much. Whatever their differences, they’ll always be sisters.”

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter; button from Amy’s Designs – My Girl
Font: Dawning of a New Day

Happy September!

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