Long time - No Blog!

**Warning: Picture Heavy Post!**

So I have been busy - let me show you!

Costumes were made, trunk or treat props designed, built, and were a huge success, Halloween party planned and was huge amounts of fun, and I have been scrapping (a bit!).

Costumes were made - Amory was a 50's Car Hop and Priscilla was a Circus Ringmaster (or Sergeant Pepper- there were several people confused so we just went with it)

 Our Trunk or Treat Idea - A "Car"nival! We had a spin a wheel for candy, spiders, bats, eyeballs, or monster brains! We also had a beanbag game but there weren't many players for that!

 The Halloween Party with all of my best friends who's children are Amory's friends. We had yummy lasagne, bone breadsticks and a spooktacular salad bar.

 Here is the motley crew - Ian, Charlie, Jordan, and Amory. Would you give these children any more candy? I wouldn't either - I think they have had enough!

So that is what I have been doing! But in the midst of all this I got my November Bigger than a Breadbox kit from Apron Strings. I had so much fun with this kit - it has Jillibean Soup - Apple Cheddar Soup and We R Memory Keepers - Autumn Splendor in it. I want to show you one layout I did with the We R Memory Keepers papers. I completed this layout with Paper Variety's current challenge in mind to create a paper project that includes a family member's title. In my title I included the two different names my girls use for my dad. Amory calls him Phil (pronuonced "Feel" - gotta love having a Texan accent!), and Priscilla has always called him Grandpa Lake Jackson. I used a sketch from Sketch Inspirations for the layout too.

Also I wanted to share with you the November sketch for My Sketch World! I have already used this sketch again (you will be seeing that later this month!) - it is great for scraps!

Here is my layout usig the ever wonderful Simple Stories papers. They are a favorite of mine - so easy for me to use in my layouts! I turned the layout on the side and scrapped these pictures of Amory and I decorating her bike for the 4th of July Bike parade.

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

The last bit of a kit

Good evening ladies! I have been up since 3 am watching the royal wedding. Yes I am one of those crazies who just love the romance of it all. And it was a beautiful event - and I liked everything about Catherine's wedding apparel - everything!

I have two more layouts made with the Apron Strings Smaller than a Breadbox April kit. These are the papers from We R MemoryKeepers Peep line. So Cute! And amazingly enough I did no Easter pages with it!

The first layout is of our first trip to the zoo - we go as soon as it gets warm enough because too soon it will be too warm. And too warm means hot grumpy kids and animals hiding in the shade! I love ths picture of Amory and her best little friends outlined against the glass. This will be one of those we will pull out when they are all about to graduate or something like that just to be sappy!

I used this sketch from The Scrappiest to complete this layout.

The Zoo

The next layout is just some fun shots of Amory and Priscilla and Amory and her best friend Jordan. Aren't they cute? I think so too! I used another sketch from The Scrappiest for this one. I am also entering this in Crop Stop's challenge to use a bird on your layout.

These Chicks Are Cute

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

Tweet Tweet, So Sweet!

Good morning everyone! I wanted to share more layouts that I did using the Apron Strings April Smaller than a Breadbox kit. It is full of We R Memory Keeper’s “Peep”, My Little Shoebox’s “Home Tweet Home” and My Mind’s Eye’s “Stella & Rose”. I want to show you what I did with the My Little Shoebox’s “Home Tweet Home” today.

It was kismet that the girls and I visited our Nature Center over Spring Break and attended a class about nests and eggs. This line was perfect to scrap all those photos!

The first layout is pictures of the girls coming face to face with a real nest (Amory said "Mom it is a real live nest" - I didn't explain that a live thing is living - way too complicated!). Amory was ready to jump in, Priscilla was kind of umm yeah don't really want to touch that! Gotta love preteens!

Home Tweet Home

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Candy Shoppe Designs  - to be inspired by this collage and I was inspired by the colors. I saw alot of blues, greens and pinks in the collage which inspired the colors for my layout!

Sketchabilities - use this sketch!

The next layout is of the girls creating their own nests. They gathered bits and pieces of twigs, leaves, grass, and paper just like a bird using chopsticks to mimic a bird beak. Then they glued in onto a rolled down paper bag. The girls had a really good time creating their nests - glueing almost too much on for the paper bag nest to handle!

We Make the Best Nests 

I am entering this in the following challenge also:

Candy Shoppe Designs - to be inspired by this collage and I was inspired by the colors. I saw alot of blues, greens and pinks in the collage which inspired the colors for my layout!
With the scraps I created a thank you card for the one of Amory's teachers. I used leftover stickers to create my own flashcards. The other teacher will get a card made with the scraps from the next layout I do!

Thank You Card

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Kristin