25 Days of Christmas Tags

Greetings All, today I am sharing the tag I created for the Jillibean Soup Day of the famous 25 Days of Christmas Tags. I used a brand new shaker tag and made it into a snowflake complete with snow inside! Did I mention I LOVE SNOW? Here is my tag:

Materials List: Jillibean Soup Flower Shaker Tag and Insert, Jillibean Soup/Shades of Color/Bite Size Bits and Gregarious Glow; Hampton Art/Stamp and Die Set: JB1082; The Dollar Store/Crafter's Square- Faux Snow; Hallmark/Gray Satin Ribbon; Offray/Red Ribbon; Snowflake Metal Charm; Red Gemstone/Want 2 Scrap

Happy Holidays All, I hope you have the best season ever!

Happy World Card Making Day!

It is a special day and I just wanted to share a couple cards I made for the Jillibean Soup Blog. You must visit the blog today and join in on the sketch inspiration, you could win this prize Pack:

Here are the sketches:

Here are my two sketch examples:

So hop over to Jillibean and give it a try and enjoy your weekend!

First Day of 3rd Grade/ Creative Scrappers Sketch Challenge

So I have given up on trying to catch up on my blog and decided to restart with current events. A big one occurred last week with Gabriel's return to school, as a 3rd grader no less! He looked very handsome and a little too grown up...

I decided to scrap a school theme  page for fun and join in on a sketch challenge over at Creative Scrappers blog.

Here is the sketch that is up this month, (go to the link above if you want to play along):

So I flipped the sketch a quarter turn and created the layout below:

Materials Used: NEW-Jillibean Soup- Shades of Color collection, papers, peapods and coordinating stickers

I thought this collection worked very well for a school layout! I loved these two photos most, he has the sweetest smile in the first and was still not too cool to hold Daddy's hand on the way to school. Priceless moments that I am so happy to have captured,  he is growing up too fast.

I hope your school year starts with lots of smiles too! Have a great week!

Happy NSD!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day! Just wanted to share that Jillibean Soup is celebrating NSD too including sketches, challenges and giveaways, check them out here.

For the event I created a layout based on this sketch by Kristine Davidson:

This photo of my son just makes me laugh, such an indicator of his playful spirit. He is a little crazy, no idea where he gets it from, 😏.

Here is the photo by itself, so that you get the full effect:

Enjoy your weekend!

Catching Up- February 2017

So I am still playing catch up and wanted to share an update from February of this year. This is a big month for us, 2 Birthdays- Zac & Aspen. Also Valentines Day which just happens to also be Scotts sobriety date, he hit 11 years sober on 2/14!! So proud of him, holding strong to his commitment to God and his family. To celebrate the birthdays we even got to take an overnight trip to Cincy. So here are some pics of the highlights:

Valentine Date Night photo

Gabe's BB8 Valentines Day Box

Gabe's Valentine Party with one of his best buddies.

Aspen's Bday Dinner

Spent next day at Newport Aquarium

We even braved the bridge over the shark tank!

Overall February was very busy, but lots of fun! I will share some projects in next post. Have a wonderful Easter Weekend!

Playing Catch Up- January 2017

Well I realized I had not posted in a long time so I wanted to share an update of January to try and begin to catch up. We have had a busy 2017 so far, full of lots of fun. Gabe's Birthday of course hits at the end of every year in December - here is a colorful double layout from his Birthday Party this year. We took 4 eight year olds to Sky Zone, that was an adventure- they were great and had tons of fun.

Papers are new Jillibean Soup- Souper Celebration, sketch by Scrapbook Generations

Then along came January I got to go to CHA or Creativation as they call it nowit is the big trade show of the year for the crafting industry. There I had lots of fun with the Jillibean team working their booth and doing demo's in the Hampton booth. Here are a couple pics:

One of the new Hampton Art layered stamp sets that I did demos with.

But even bigger news in January was our newest edition to the family. Our new dog Wiley! As in Wil E. Coyote, and yes he is very wiley. He is a Husky mix that we adopted from the Humane Society. He is awesome and we are so happy to have him!

Who could resist this face?

Someone has figured out how to use bench to jump up and say hello in the kitchen window. A song comes to mind every time: How much is that Doggy in the Window?  :)

 So all of this happened in the end of December or January. I will update you with a very busy February soon!