Make It Monday

I've been working hard on decorating this house with some fun stuff and trying to get a little bit organized in the mean time. Recently I've been inspired by Pinterest and found the idea of using an oil drip pan for magnets for the kids. YAY!!! I've been wanting to get those things off my refrigerator FOREVER!!!! I added some Contact chalkboard paper to it and I'm loving how it looks... I just need to figure out where I want to hang it up. It was $12 at Wal-Mart and I got the contact paper on Amazon. I can't wait to use it in the school room for spelling and stuff like that.

I still had some leftover contact paper and decided to figure out what I could do with the rest of it... so I put it on the glass of an old frame that was just sitting in a box. I spray painted the frame and then hung it up in the kitchen for a message board... YAY!!! I've been wanting a message board in our kitchen for awhile now and it was so easy to do.

Yes, I know... we still need to paint this house LOL... I'm so tired of looking at the garish wall colors. Mark promises me this fall they will be done, YAY!!! I can't wait to lighten up the house with some warmer and 1000x lighter walls. Check out the smears in both pictures from the dude, LOL... always has to get his hands into everything! Gotta love him!

I've also done a couple projects and I've just posted one of them to the scrappy blog, one was a ridiculously easy project... another took a little bit of time, but really it just took longer because of the kiddos... plus, by evening, I'd rather crash and browse the internet than work on projects lol.

Make It Monday - more projects complete :)

I'm feeling really good about how much I've been able to accomplish lately and feeling so energized by fixing up the place and making it more "us". So my new finished project is updating our TV cabinet. Yes, we live in the 20th century and still have a tube TV, LOL. Anyways, here's a couple pics of the newly updated TV cabinet.

I spray painted the cabinet a satin espresso brown and then bought some new cabinet pulls. Weird thing... one cabinet door is shorter than the other LOL. I never noticed it before, but I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get the doors to line up right. After the coats of spray paint dried I sprayed on 3 coats of satin Polycrylic... with three kids, I knew the paint would get scratched if I didn't have some kind of finish on it. For the panels, I used some leftover fabric from the curtains in our family room and stapled it to the panel and then put them back in. I love how it turned out, and glad I was able to save my cabinet w/o tossing it to the curb because I didn't like it anymore.

Check out the before picture... I had to go all the way back to April, 2004 to find a picture of it. I was really into log cabins at the time and faux painting too LOL. I had done a crackle paint on it and then stamped some pinecones on it. I will say that I don't have a before before picture though since that was pre-digital camera for us LOL. This picture was one of the first pictures I took with our brand new Kodak digital camera.

Stayed tuned (pun intended) for next week when hopefully I'll have my kitchen chairs and bar stools finished.

Make It Monday

So... this holiday weekend I've been "laboring". I'm having a blast working on some decorative things for the house instead of the much needed fixing up we've needed to do on the house. We bought some chairs at the Habitat For Humanity Restore this weekend and I've been working on fixing them up, along with some bar stools that were left by the previous owner. Here's some pics of what I've been working on this weekend.

This is a conference chair we bought at the restore and I'm thinking I may go back and buy another one because I like it so much and there were tons of them.

These are the barstools that were left by the previous owner and I decided to bring some fun color to the kitchen hoping to cheer it up a bit.

They had 2 of these chairs at the restore and we bought them both since we desperately need new dining room chairs.

I'm also thinking I'm gonna paint the TV console and put some fabric in the "windows" but I'm not sure I'm gonna have time for that this weekend... I have to go back to Hobby Lobby and get some more paint to finish up the chairs, since we ran out on Saturday.

Make It Monday... or NOT!!!!!

I had my 33 week OB appointment today and we were talking about that final stretch and how I'll be going every week and then in a few weeks I start the non-stress tests at my appts, which I LOVE btw. It got me realizing that I've been spending a ton of time working on Christmas decorations and stuff like that when I really should just let this Christmas be super simple and easy and start working on the things I still need to do to get ready for this baby's arrival and enjoy my last month cherishing my two kids before their brother arrives. I figured that since I've done paper birth announcements with my kids that I have to do the same for this one too... but now I'm thinking I'm going to go the digital route... mostly because it's cheaper and so much faster and my life is about to become totally chaotic, lol.

So, instead of having a project done to show you... I ended up putting my half done projects away and will maybe work on them sometime in 2011 to have for next Christmas. Gosh, it feels good! And my tree with just the lights and star on it is going to remain ornament-less and all the decorations will remain in the rubbermaid tub they are stored in. Gosh, it feels good!

I am working on one project though... I want to have amazing memories of this year's Christmas, so I've joined a class that will help me journal my Christmas. I'm really feeling the need to do that. I've also joined another class that started today to help me with inspiration and hope to be able to keep an art journal and memory journal in 2011 and this will help with it. I seem to have so many things in my head that I want to do but then lose steam and I'm hoping this will help me be inspired by what's in my head and what's around me... like my kiddos, who make me smile soooo big every day.

Gosh, it feels good to take care of myself so that I can be a better mother and wife to my family. No more trying to get a million things done that I think NEED to be done, and enjoy this short life on earth.

How Cute Is This?!?!

I did it! I completed my first crochet project and I'm really excited for the little dude to arrive so he can wear it! I got the pattern from the Etsy store - RAKJ patterns and made my own little tweaks to it. I'm so excited to get working on another hat for him and then I'm going to be working on getting some wool longies knit up for him.

Make It Monday

I realize that it's been almost a month since I've last posted here... Ever since our trip to Nashville, I've been going through some time of getting back to being the person that God created me to be and it hasn't been an easy process but I'm starting to finally feel like myself again. Life has been super busy here and I can't believe how close we are to Thanksgiving, my most favorite holiday. I made this centerpiece and had to show it off. I seriously love it and have now become addicted to hybrid projects, lol. During my time off from this blog I've decided that I'm going to start a new blog for just scrapbooking stuff and this blog will get back to what it's titled to be which is my life as a modern day hippie. I know that scrapbooking is a part of my life but with so much scrapbooking, I've decided it's probably best to have it's own blog. Stay tuned for the details.

Here's the centerpiece that I'm so excited about!

Softly Falling by Dani Mogstad
Perfectly Square by Kelleigh Ratzlaff
Paper Roses by the Cutting Files
Autumn Leaves by Kelleigh Ratzlaff

Extras:
chipboard letters, glitter, mod podge, quill tool, glue dots

Make It Monday

Well, I'm having some major visions of home decor and trying to figure out how I can do it and not spend too much money. I feel like I'm finally coming back out of my shell... my inner modern day hippie is coming back and I'm super excited. So, today I've been checking out the sales and did a bit of shopping at IKEA and I can't wait to get everything I need to make my visions a reality. Some of it is sewing stuff, some of it is hybrid scrapping stuff and I really just can't wait to turn this house into my house instead of the previous owner's. Mark is getting close to starting to paint the house and I'm super excited. I really feel like we're finally getting somewhere. I can't wait to show you what I'm working on. Soo soooo soooo super excited and it feels so good to be back to myself again. Now I just how I get it all done before baby comes. :)

Make It Monday

Well, we just got back from Nashville yesterday and decided in honor of World Cardmaking Day which was on Saturday, to make a Thank You card for my dear friend who treated us to an amazing museum which turned out to be Moriah's favorite activity of the week. I hadn't seen this friend since she moved to Nashville 10 years ago and it was so good to catch up with her. This museum had a wonderful kid's part of the museum with all sorts of crafts and art projects for the kids to do. They had a blast!

Here's the card I made last night.

card template by Julie Billingsley - available at Sweet Shoppe Designs
Simply Summer add-on by Krystal Hartley - available at Sweet Shoppe Designs (quarterly assortment)
Color Box Chalk Ink
"many thanks" stamp from Archivers
button
glue dots

Make It Monday

OK, my blocks that I showed you last week are done... well, mostly done since I want to add a few more coats of Mod Podge to really seal them and so the kids can play with them.

Here they are!

the bottom pic is a name we are thinking of for our little dude due in January... shhhhh! LOL

credits:
Alphabet Soup for Boys by Zoe Pearn
Alphabet Soup for Girls by Zoe Pearn
Alphabet Soup for Boys: The Collection by Zoe Pearn
Alphabet Soup for Girls: The Collection by Zoe Pearn
DJB Skritch Skratch by Darcy Baldwin
School Days alpha by Zoe Pearn
kite template from Go Outside! by Penny Springmann
owl (recolored) and branch from Falling For Her by Traci Reed and Melissa Bennett
Paper Clips: Leila's Alpha templates by Libby Weifenbach

I've had several people ask me how I made them... well actually more like tell me they want a set, lol... but really they are super super easy. I wasn't planning on doing a tutorial but I'll just share some quick instructions, so there won't be in progress pics unfortunately. Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions though.

OK, first I bought my supplies:
-the main kits I used were the first two listed above - Alphabet Soup for Boys and Alphabet Soup for Girls (there are some 2 x 2 tiles in there and I used all of them and then used one as a template to create the rest of the letters
-5 - 2" x 2" wooden blocks
-sand paper
-paint
-white cardstock
-Mod Podge (I used Matte, though you can use Glossy if you prefer)
-sponge brush

OK, here we go...
1) sand the edges of your blocks
2) paint all sides of your blocks... making sure the edges are well coated since that's the part that will show, let dry
3) create the tiles... I used one of the 2x2 tiles in the kit and then shrunk it down to 1.75"x1.75", and then I created a template and then used that as a guide and had to make 3 pages worth of tiles to complete the alpha and additional tiles to cover all sides of the blocks.
4) print at "high" quality on white cardstock (I use double sided matte presentation paper)
5) cut them out
6) paste using Mod Podge to the sides of the blocks (I wanted to make sure that I was able to spell each of the kids' names so I did those letters first and then randomly placed the rest of them)
7) let dry
8) coat all sides of the blocks with Mod Podge... you only have to do it once if you're using them for display, but since I don't mind my kids playing with them I plan of doing several more coats.

Make It Monday

I've gotta little tease for you. This is what I'm working on right now and I'm going to be finishing it up on Friday night at Archivers while hanging out with some of my scrapping/stamping/card making friends. We usually try to get together every few months and I just love the time together. Next Monday I'll post the finished project. Last night we went to Michaels and I picked up some of these.

This morning I sanded the edges and painted them with some of my leftover Behr samples. I really only needed to paint the edges since the rest of the blocks will be covered up. During naptimes and the evenings I'll be working on the rest and hopefully have them printed out and ready to go on Friday night.

And of course I had to share with you my little elves...

I also plan on doing some card making too if I have some time.

Make It Monday

Well, we were on our last summer vacation over the weekend so I wasn't able to share my layouts from last week on Saturday so hopefully this will be the last Make It Monday of scrapbook layouts and am hoping that Make It Monday will be other crafts or maybe even some hybrid scrapbooking stuff since over the weekend I ordered a new printer and am totally excited to finally have a printer where I can buy the ink everywhere instead of searching online for at least one person who has the ink I need for our old machine, lol. Over the weekend we spent a morning at Hobby Lobby and was totally inspired to start knitting and sewing again and also excited to do some paper crafts again.

Anyways, my creative team designers totally blew me away again this week with how amazing they are. Here are my pages with their new releases.

First is a stunning collab by Traci Reed and Kristin Cronin-Barrow and using a new template by Jac Bernardo

Delightful by Traci Reed and Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Bad Sewing Machine - Kinda Kleen by Traci Reed
Boosters No. 1 by Jac Bernardo

Next is a solo kit by Traci Reed... I'm so in love with the color scheme!

At Summer's End by Traci Reed - coming to SSD 8/21
Bad Sewing Machine - Kinda Kleen and Doodle Me Straight by Traci Reed
Cardboard Construction Mega Alpha by Traci Reed
DJB Constance Beauregard by Darcy Baldwin
Inspired by Sasha template by Darcy Baldwin

and Eva Kipler also did a stunning collab with ScrapKitchen designs

Savannah Flea Market by Eva Kipler and ScrapKitchen
DJB All The Cool Chicks by Darcy Baldwin

and a super fun kit by Melissa... the license plates are totally customizable and I also used a new template from Jac with this layout too!

Boy Oh Boy by Melissa Bennett
Bad Sewing Machine - Messy Lil Bits by Traci Reed
DJB Poppyseed by Darcy Baldwin
Boosters v. 1 by Jaclyn Bernardo
Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky

Make It Monday

It's been a week since I last updated the blog... I really want to get back into blogging so that means I'm hoping to start make this a part of my daily routine now. I'm kind of hoping that this Make It Monday will be the last one with me posting scrapbook pages because I want to get back into sewing and knitting again, especially with the little one coming. My goal this week is to clean up the family room and get my sewing machine set up down there so that I can work on some things during naptime and then I'm looking for some great knitting patterns and hoping to use up some of my yarn stash to make some things for the little one on the way. I've found some really cute patterns on Etsy, and will be browsing Ravelry soon. Those are things I can do in the evening when the kids are in bed. I'll still be doing scrapbook pages because well, that's my biggest love, but I've been kind of missing my other loves too. Scrappin' Saturday will be when I post those pages.

Here are the pages from this week. Enjoy!

Gotta Get Away by Penny Springmann
template by Lynette - TOT 5/25/10
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Darcy Baldwin and Shawna Clingerman

You Give Me Butterflies by Lauren Grier and Shawna Clingerman
Layered Up In You - Page Templates 4 by Lauren Grier
DJB Gimme Space by Darcy Baldwin and Lauren Reid
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Darcy Baldwin and Shawna Clingerman

Pop! by Dani Mogstad
Teeny Type Alpha by Zoe Pearn
Paper Clips - Leila's Alpha templates by Libby Weifenbach
DJB All The Cool Chicks by Darcy Baldwin
template from Dani's Blog for August Challenge

Lifted: She... by Gumpgirl
Birthday Shenanigans by Melissa Bennett
DJB Constance Beauregard by Darcy Baldwin

Anything You Can Do by Eva Kipler
puddle alpha from Little Big Man by Eva Kipler
Stitch Me: Basic Neutrals by Eva Kipler
Inspired by Sasha template by Darcy Baldwin
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Darcy Baldwin and Shawna Clingerman

Sturdy Solids by Shawna Clingerman
Tattered Cardstock by Libby Weifenbach
More Than Words: Family by Darcy Baldwin and Jenny Hutson
I'm Torn Frames by Libby Weifenbach
Round The Corner Templates by Janet Philips
Scribble Alpha by Lauren Grier
Bad Sewing Machine - Doodle Me Straight by Traci Reed
ribbon from Tuff N Stuff by Traci Reed
Metal Bits by Shawna Clingerman

Tuff N Stuff by Traci Reed
Teeny Type Alpha by Zoe Pearn
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Darcy Baldwin and Shawna Clingerman

Cozy Blue Jeans by Shawna Clingerman
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Darcy Baldwin and Shawna Clingerman
Typewriter Alpha freebie by Kristin Cronin-Barrow

Make It Monday

One of the fun portfolio challenges on Sweet Shoppe Designs this month is to be inspired by titles from Elvis Presley songs. There are soooo many songs that he sang that it made it easy to find a title to match a page. Here's the list of Elvis titles and here are the 3 pages I did.

Live For Every Moment by Lauren Grier and Shawna Clingerman
Layered Up In You Waves 3 by Lauren Grier
DJB Constance Beauregard by Darcy Baldwin
August Grab Bag - wave cluster by Susan Robinson

Foooore! by Traci Reed
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Darcy Baldwin and Shawna Clingerman
Teeny Type Alpha by Zoe Pearn
Dream It Alpha by Lauren Grier
My Teensy Little Alpha by Shawna Clingerman
All Split Up by Jaclyn Bernardo

I Keep Believing by Lauren Grier
Dream It Alpha by Lauren Grier
DJB All the Cool Chicks by Darcy Baldwin
La's August Blog Challenge template
CK Cursive

Journaling reads:
When we were trying to get pregnant we had a hard time. We finally went through some testing and the Dr. told us that it would be a miracle if we ever got pregnant. I told her that I believe in miracles and the next month we were pregnant with Moriah. I believe that God through the use of medicine allowed us to become pregnant. 2 years later after several miscarriages I believe that God through the use of IVF allowed us to be pregnant with Isaac. This pregnancy has been the biggest surprise of all. God has shown us that he can still do miracles even without the use of modern day medicine. God has seriously blown me away with this pregnancy! He knew I really wanted a third child and he has answered my prayers in a way I never thought possible. I’m so thankful that he’s a God of miracles and has blessed us with this child!

Make It Monday

Dude, I'm a terrible blogger, lol... but honestly, I'm loving being with my kiddos and keeping busy this summer. It's been so hot that we've been taking our daily walk super early. I'm kind of looking forward to the Fall so that I can pick up some of my other hobbies again. I haven't done anything photography wise and realized last week while I was doing my CT pages that I'm in need of some current pics to scrap, lol. I have been enjoying a little bit of cooking and think I may bring back Scrumptious Sunday. But, even that seems to come and go... my mojo for anything seems to be coming and going. I haven't even really downloaded and converted pics from several weeks ago yet. I totally need to do that.

I have my next OB appt tomorrow... I can't believe it's been 4 weeks since seeing the little one. I'm totally nervous still and really hope that after this appt I'll start feeling better and maybe I'll actually start believing that we're having a little one in January. It still doesn't seem real to me, especially since I've been feeling better and the huge belly has gotten much smaller and I no longer look super pregnant.

Today I'm hoping to go to the library and pick out some books to take on vacation with us. I'm so looking forward to vacation and hanging out so much family. This will be Isaac's first time to WI and I can't wait for him to meet everyone. We didn't get to go last year because we were moving into our house. I still can't believe we've been here a year. We still have a long ways to go with fixing up the house and some days it feels like we haven't done anything, but then I look back at how much we've actually done and am thrilled with how much we've accomplished in a year.

OK, back to Make It Monday... here are my pages I did last week... Oh, and I forgot to mention that Susan Robinson who I had previously been on her creative team until she retired, is back to making her awesome templates and I'm excited to be a part of her creative team again.

peek-a-boo 2 template by Jaclyn Bernardo (available at Funky Playground Designs)
Not What I Expected by Lauren Grier (available at Sweet Shoppe Designs)
DJB Coffee Shoppe Buzzed by Shawna Clingerman and Darcy Baldwin (available at Sweet Shoppe Designs)
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Shwana Clingerman and Darcy Baldwin (available at Sweet Shoppe Designs)

It's My World by Eva Kipler

Hi-Tech Life by Traci Reed and Libby Weifenbach

Bad Sewing Machine XXIII - Doodle Me Square by Traci Reed
Bad Sewing Machine XXII - Doodle Me Straight by Traci Reed
Teeny Type Alpha by Zoe Pearn
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso by Darcy Baldwin and Shawna Clingerman

Available at Sweet Shoppe Designs and Scrap Orchard
Born In My Heart by Melissa Bennett and Meghan Mullens

Available at Scrap Orchard
This N That template by NeeNee Designs
Funky Font Amy's Chubby by NeeNee Designs

available at Sweet Shoppe Designs
Life's A Beach by Melissa Bennett, Shawna Clingerman and Libby Weifenbach
DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso and Buzzed by Shawna Clingerman and Darcy Baldwin
4 My Boys: Chippy Alpha by Shawna Clingerman
Art and Soul Alpha: Neutrals by Julie Billingsley
Don't Leave Home Without It Alpha by Lauren Grier
Teeny Type Alpha by Zoe Pearn

available at The Digichick
Memories. Preserved templates 13-16 by Susan Robinson

Connect With Me by Traci Reed
Bad Sewing Machine Round N Round, Have A Heart, Gimme A Swirlie and Fleuriffic by Traci Reed
DJB Constance Beuregard by Darcy Baldwin
grey alpha from A Lot Like Love by Traci Reed
Cardboard Construction Mega Alpha pack by Traci Reed

Make It Monday

Here are my other pages I made the last couple weeks that I haven't shared yet. I really wanted to scrap my Mother's Day pic and participated in a few blog challenges. I also really wanted to scrap some pics from visiting with Mark's Grandma and Isaac's haircut. It was lots of fun, although my mojo has taken a vacation earlier than our vacation and I have a ton of new photos to scrap but absolutely no mojo to get me going... templates here I come!!!!
Credits:
Happy Go Lucky by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Paper Stackers: Rounded by Jac Bernardo
Anywhere Titles: Family by Jac Bernardo
CK Journaling

Credits:

Barbershop Quartet by Libby Weifenbach

Hugantic Frames by Shawna Clingerman
Sketchers 4 by Julie Billingsley (retired)

Credits:
Scrapper's Blocks v. 3 by Traci Reed
4 My Boys: Owen by Shawna Clingerman
4 My Boys: Reece by Shawna Clingerman
Kwismis by Lauren Reid
Don't Leave Home Without It by Lauren Grier
Scalloped by Traci Reed
template by Janet Philips from Take Flight collab (retired)
flowers by Misty Cato from Take Flight collab (retired)

Credits:
A Day's Work by Libby Weifenbach and Heather Roselli
template by Cindy Schneider (set #13) (not yet re-released)
small and mighty alpha by Zoe Pearn (newsletter freebie)

Credits:
Just Stay Little by Dani Mogstad
template by Nikki, inspired by Angel (Sweet Shoppe Designs, blog challenge freebie)

Credits:
Lifted: Time for Me by Jenn Barrette for La's CT blog challenge
White Picket Fences by Lauren Grier
Layered Up In You: Edges by Lauren Grier
CK Journaling
CK Cursive

Make It Monday - Book of Me

I finished my 3 pages for this month's Book of Me challenge over the weekend. All of them are photoless pages, which I usually don't do... actually, I'm not sure I've ever done them this way, but I actually kind of like doing them as long as I add some photos to some of the pages for my kids, I don't think they need to see a pic of me in every page, lol.

#1 - One thing I want to accomplish before my next birthday is...

Credits:
Kitschy Kamera by Lauren Reid and Valorie Wibbins
CK Journaling

#2 - I get stressed out when...

Credits:
4 My Boys: Gareth by Shawna Clingerman
Hugantic Frames by Shawna Clingerman
Sturdy Solids by Shawna Clingerman
4 My Boys: Stamp Alpha by Shawna Clingerman
Don't Leave Home without it alpha by Lauren Grier
LUIY: Ringer by Lauren Grier (newsletter freebie)
Color Your Own: Pencil Alpha by Zoe Pearn (retired)
CK Journaling

#3 - My Name: love it, hate it, a little bit about it...

Credits:
Love Blooms by Melissa Bennett
CK Journaling

Make It Monday

I got some pretty awesome deals over the weekend and also got to spend some time working on some fun challenges that were made just for {inter}National Scrapbooking Day. I basically just stuck to the challenges over at Sweet Shoppe Designs because I knew if I went to a few other stores I would have been overwhelmed and probably overstimulated with all the fun going on over the weekend. I did however do some shopping at a few other stores and some "new to me" stores. Gosh, there are a lot of talented designers out there.

Anyways, back to the pages I did this weekend...Some of the challenges were very different than my usual "style" but have turned out to be some of my most fave pages. I had so much fun doing these and can't wait for next year. I'll just post them in order of what I worked on. I won't be linking the credits though, because well I was lazy over the weekend and wanted to get as much done as possible, lol. Just know that most of them come from Sweet Shoppe Designs although, I used some Jac Bernardo goodies too.

First was the "cookie" challenge, Traci made an awesome template for us based off one of her fave layouts in the galleries. I loved it so much I'm keeping it and using again :)

Credits:
Duuude by Lliella Designs and mgl Scraps
template by Traci Reed, inspired by Lynnette
Penelope alpha by Lauren Reid
Bad Sewing Machine - Kinda Kleen N Straight by Traci Reed

next was a spin-a-lift chain... I had to go to the gallery of the person above me in the thread and spin and lift one of her layouts. I'm not used to not using ellies but I'm really liking how this turned out.

Credits:
SAL of Do What You Love NOW by scrap2day
Organically Yours by MandaBean, Eva Kipler and ScrapKitchen Designs
Words To Remember by Krystal Hartley
DJB Tweenybopper by Darcy Baldwin

this one was a Neapolitan Challenge we had 3 layouts to pick parts of to inspire our layout. These are always one of my favorite challenges.

Credits:
1st layout sparkle splash
2nd layout scallop edge
3rd layout 3 photos bunch

One Fine Day by Penny Springmann
frame bunch by Melissa Bennett
DJB Swirl Me Around by Shawna Clingerman and Darcy Baldwin
Edgy by Traci Reed
Paper Stackers: Rounded by Jac Bernardo

then the last one I did on Saturday was the One Word Challenge. The word we were to use was "Remember". Again, this is totally not my style but I really wanted to showcase the beautiful photo and decided clean & simple was the way to go with it. This is my new fave layout right now.

Credits:
Sturdy Solids by Shawna Clingerman
Bring Krafty Black by Shawna Clingerman
Layered Up In You Waves by Lauren Grier
DJB Tweenybopper by Darcy Baldwin

OK, now for yesterday's layouts... phew, I did a lot, lol. First I did the Treat Of The Month challenge, this was just from the regular May portfolio but I wanted to play with Darcy's templates and knew I had to do it this week to get my extra new release point. Again, I'm not used to using no elements, but I love the simpleness of this page!

Credits:
Eco-Friendly by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Meg Mullens (retired)
Inspired by Denise template by Darcy Baldwin
Brush It v.2 by Lauren Reid
DJB Tweenybopper by Darcy Baldwin
Small & Mighty Alpha by Zoe Pearn (newsletter freebie)

then I did the Paper 2 Digi challenge, which is to lift a page from the amazing paper layout gallery of KimA.

Credits:
Lift: Going Home by KimA

Freebird by Lauren Reid
Layered Up In You Brackets by Lauren Grier
All Worn Up In You v.2 by Lauren Grier and Penny Springmann

then I did the Flashback Treat of the Month challenge, which was to go back to the past Treat of the Months and scrap a page from their gallery. I chose the amazing Peppermint (who also is an amazing designer now). I love her simple style and amazing shadows. Her pages just look so real and not at all digital. I enjoyed this challenge and browsing her gallery to pick a page to lift.

Credits:
Lifted Peppermint's Happiness Lives Here

A Day Like Today by Lauren Grier and Jenn Barrette
Paper Clips: Rounded by Libby Weifenbach
Grungy Edges by Penny Springmann

and then lastly, I did the Recipe Challenge. Here's the recipe:
~ 3 photos
~ 2 patterned papers (may use these two more than once on your page)
~ 2 solid papers (including one as a neutral background)
~ 1 ribbon
~ at least one thing (can do more) on an edge
~ circle-shaped element (paper, stitching, etc.; can be more than one if you want)
~ alpha for the title
~ journaling

Credits:
Over It by Lauren Grier
Inspired by Denise templates by Darcy Baldwin
DJB TweenyBopper by Darcy Baldwin