Giveaway!!!

I've been so happy with all the followers I've gotten lately. I hope you all will stick around. I am doing my first giveaway, and hopefully, it will be one of many to come! I want to continue to get more followers, so that is my goal by this giveaway. I recently won a giveaway off of another blog, and that inspired me to do one of my own. We all know I have plenty of stuff to share. Up for grabs will be a random assortment of some of my scrapbooking supplies. I am even going to include papers too that I have, and some embellishments and alphabets. You know, just random cuteness.

So, to get entered into the giveaway:

1. You must be a follower

2. Leave a comment on this post

For additional entries:

1. Become my follower on twitter, then come back and leave another comment letting me know you did so

2. Share this blog post on your blog, then leave another comment to let me know.

I will choose the winner two weeks from today, so Feb. 24th using random.org.

Good luck to everyone out there!! :)

To Read, Is to Dream

This layout was so fun. My daughter was 3 in this picture. She had received a big stack of books from her Grandpa. Her Grandma (my mother in law) had just passed away 2 months earlier, and he discovered all these children's books she had been saving for when her grandkids came to visit. He knew my daughter was obsessed with books, even though she can't even read yet. So, when we opened the package, she immediately grabbed one and started "reading". This was the picture I snapped.




Check back later this week for my very first giveaway!!

Got My Goodies

Today, I spent my nap time (meaning my kids' nap time) working on my blogs. I'm trying to streamline things a little and make it more user friendly. I'm debating whether or not to pay someone to re-design my blog for me. Hmmm...any thoughts? If you've paid someone to update your blog look, leave me a comment with their info. I am interested, but not sure I want to spend the money on that.

So, since I was working on that, I didn't get to scrap today. You'll have to wait for a new layout from me until tomorrow. Cause, I'm a little done being in my dungeon. :) Which is actually a pretty decent office/scrap room, but it's in the basement, and if I'm in here too long, I get a little crazy. I got home from the gym this morning and saw a package on my door step. YAY! My goodies from the blog giveaway came. Here's a pic of what I got.



A lot of good stuff there huh? Can't wait to use it all up!

It's inspired me to do a giveaway. I'm thinking later this week....so stay tuned!

Girls Can Drive Fire Trucks too....

I love doing a girly layout about something not-so-girly. Like, my daughter pretending to drive a fire truck. Multi-Photo layouts are always a challenge to me. I love doing single photo layouts, but I almost like just as much, trying to fit as many pics onto a page and make them look cute. It can easily look jumbled, or messy, or like you don't even have any paper to show because there are so many pics! It's a challenge that I can only do when I'm in a certain mood. The kind of mood where you have plenty of time, and can play around with it a ton before finally placing things where they make you happy.

This layout was fun. The journaling reads, "At her friend, Lincoln's b-day party, they visited a fire station. Avery was not afraid to sit on the front after the loud sirens went off. So many of the kids were scared. You never know, one day she might just grow up and decide that she wants....

TO DRIVE A FIRE TRUCK (the title)


The bling I used below was actually cell phone bling that I cut up to make a frame

LOOOVE this picture of her sticking out her tongue. My fav.


I'm so excited to have so many followers. I'm also on twitter now. I write about lots of stuff for my blogging job over at www.families.com. Current topics I blog about are Scrapbooking, LDS, Preschoolers, Babies, and Pregnancy. Would love for you to follow me on twitter too!! Thanks for looking.

I won something!!

Thanks to Betty over at the Grab the Scraps blog, I've won my very first blog giveaway ever. Can I say how much that made my day? I've never won anything. I'll post a pic of my goodies when they arrive. Thanks again Betty!! Make your way over there and check out her awesome blog!

Cousins & Giggles Make Life Sweet

I love girly layouts. I do. It's how I really started the modern style of scrapbooking, and it is what comes most naturally to me. So scrapping this girly layout of my daughter and niece just made me happy.

This took forever....

I really hate it when a layout just takes forever. This was one of those. Sometimes they just go together so quick and easy, and sometimes my creative juices need a long time to work. I am happy with the end result though thank goodness. There is nothing worse than thinking you could have done better.




This is of my son sleeping at 4 months old. Journaling reads, "You were never a good sleeper, so seeing you sleep so sweetly took my breath away. I love you my sweet boy. xoxo"

This color combo was inspired by his nursery and bedding. Lots of brown, yellow, green, and blue.