Busy, busy, busy!!

Wow! My last post was almost a week ago!! Well to say the least, I have been very busy!

Scrap distractions, let me count the ways...

Photography is one of my interests and in the last couple of weeks I've been really trying to challenge myself by using the manual modes on my camera.

Grandparents visiting (first cleaning house and now visiting)

Web Design that I do for my church

Amazingly beautiful weather after a week of rain (bike rides and hikes galore!!)

Here are some pictures of our Alaska adventures recently!! Enjoy!

Coastal Trail (Anchorage, AK)

This moose was right off of the paved coastal trail about 24 feet away from us!

This moose was off of the Campbell Creek Trail near our home. We saw it as were were riding our bikes past it. She was about 24 feet away as well!

This is a small lake that was along the Campbell Creek trail and I loved the reflection in the water!

This is our backyard before my husband and dad did yard work. I still cannot believe how big the grass, weeds, and dandy lions get. The one in this picture was honestly half way up my thigh!!

Flat Top - Week 19

I have been so busy getting our house ready for family who will be staying with us for a couple of months that I've had to put my scrapping frenzy on hold! Thankfully, I was motivated enough to finish another week from my 52 Blessings Challenge! Honestly, if it wasn't for these challenges, I really think I would not be scrapping nearly as often! So as of tonight I am currently behind 6 pages for this challenge! I am so, so, so close!

52 Blessings Challenge - Week 19

Credits: Swing Spring by Collab Girls Creations; Font: Alabama and Hank BT

Celebrate the Journey - Week 18

52 Blessings Challenge

Week 18

We had the top off of the Jeep and I was so excited that I could take pictures of the tree tops and sky while we were driving on the back roads!

Credits: I Love Whoo by TMA Designs; Font: Traveling Typewriter and Liorah BT

Digital...I love it!!

I have been digital scrapbooking for about 6 months now! I absolutely love it! I mean I really liked traditional scrapbooking but I really hated the clean up afterward and the fact that I would have to dig through all of my "collection" before I could ever decide how I would scrap a page!

One thing I love about digital scrapbooking (besides the fact that there is no clean up afterward) is the fact that I can pretty much do anything!! If I wanted to I could crop out my sister-in-laws wedding bouquet and use it as a sticker embellishment on her wedding album or some balloons from a baby shower. If I need to match some paper with a particular color, I no longer have to search through ALL of my papers and realize that I don't have a perfect match; now I can simply adjust the color! I really loved velum in traditional scrapbooking but I could never get it on a page without some of the adhesive showing through. Now that I do digital scrapbooking I don't have that problem! What I am really looking forward to is having my scrapbook printed and bound! With creative memories you can have your scrapbook turned into and actual hardcover book! I am excited to see what the final version looks like!

Just had to share how much I love digital scrapbooking...what in the world am I going to do with all my traditional scrapbooking stuff??

Shine Tori, Shine

June's My Sweet, Sweet Song Challenge's theme is "Shine Through Me"

While I had a difficult time choosing a song to use, I knew that it was going to be about my little sister and my prayer for her to cling the Jesus and let His light shine through her life!

When I started this challenge, I decided that I was going to do a two page LO each month. This is sometimes frustrating with these challenges, in the past I haven't really used pictures. But I think it's working out nicely now!

I was a featured artist for Made Ya Look Monday at FaithSisters.com!!

Credits: Little Light by Designs by Angel at Faith Sisters digital gallery; Font: tropicali Script BTN Bamboo, Edwardian Script ITC, and Razzle Dazzle

Trail Blazers - Week 16

52 Blessings Challenge

Week 16

Week 16 was difficult for me. I took so many pictures on this day it was very hard to choose which ones to use. I was also having a hard time figuring out a LO of pages with more than a couple of pages. I started out by using a template from Creative Memories, however I just wasn't happy with the results. I almost didn't even scrapbook today, however as I was looking through one of regular blog readings, Get It Scrapped, I came across template 48 and was immediately inspired!

Here's the template that inspired me (particularly the upper left one):

Here's what I came up with:

Credits: Paper and elements from Swing Spring by Collab Girls Creations;Stitch from Jeans by Sunshine Artz; Fonts: Leaf 1 and Hank BT; Scraplifted from Debbi Hodge's Get It Scrapped sketch #48

Hike Gone Wild - Week 16

52 Blessings Challenge

Week 16 Part 1

Credits: Paper and elements from Swing Spring by Collab Girls Creations;Stitch from Jeans by Sunshine Artz; Fonts: Leaf 1 and Hank BT; Scraplifted from Debbi Hodge's Get It Scrapped sketch #48

YaHoo!

I got featured on Faith Sister's Made Ya Look Monday!!! They used "My Father's Love Letter"! I am so excited!! Thanks for looking!

Marley and Me - Week 15

52 Blessings Challenge

Week 15

I'm so excited!! This LO was Pamela's Pick of the Week over at Scrapbook Challenges

I was a featured artist for the Pick Of the Week at ScrapbookChallenges!!

Credits: Be My Darling Forever by Sunshine Artz; Font: Times New Yorker

More Snow - Week 14

52 Blessings Challenge

Week 14

Credits: Wintertime by Pelzi; Alpha: Alpha XMas uppercase freebie by Faba Scrap Design at Angels Scrap Shop; Font: Almonte Snow and French Script MT

Abide

Credits: Paper and embellishments: ShareFaith.com powerpoint templates; Alpha: Scrapelf's Delight by Scrapelf; Font: Alabama and Piranesi It BT

Temptation

Credits: ShareFaith.com powerpoint templates; embellishment and overlay: Creative Memories Freebies; Alpha: Wintertime by Pelzi; Mask by Pelzi; Font: MonoType Corsive and Euphorigenic

Hope

This is part of the Scripture Challenge 2010 from Triple the Scraps. Every two weeks she presents a new word for us to study and pray about. She also provides a devotional type reading based upon the chosen word.

Credits: Paper: Daily Joy by Sunshine Artz; Embellishments from Creative Memories Freebies; Alpha: DSD Treasure Hunt Freebie by Meredith Cardall at Faith Sisters digital gallery; Font: Segue Print and AR Darling

B.F. - Week 13

52 Blessings Challenge

Week 13

Credits: Spot Come Home by Simply Susan at Faith Sisters Digital Gallery; Tag: Creative Memories; Font: Traveling_Typewriter

Sister's Prayer

When I would do traditional scrapbooking I always wanted to try the new techniques. Here I learned how do eyelets for the first time. It took forever but I like the way it turned out. While I really enjoyed paper scrapbooking, I really hated the mess and the fact that I was more of a collecter! I'm also a bit of a perfectionist and it would really drive me crazy if something was not lined up just so.

Princess Tori

Here is another LO of my darling sister Tori! We took family pics on my visit and of course I had to scrap them! Once again I used Creative Memories cutters for the squares on both pages.

Picture of My Heart

Here is my adorable little sister playing with her plastic camera on one of my visits to Utah. I have so much fun scraping this little girl! With these two pages I used Creative memories punches and cutters (I have to say CM has the best cutters out there!)

Who Me?

Here are our two Siberian Huskies, Yukon and Girlfriend, aka Baby Girl. Yukon and Baby Girl have since passed away so I'm glad that I have these pages to help remember them by!

A Mother's Love

These were done several years ago when I was visiting my parents. We only got to see each other once a year, if that, so my mom and I had to go and get our pictures taken together.

The title page includes a foam box with glitter in it. All pages include dried flowers that my step mother gave me.

Another Collab Girls Creations Freebie! Yay!

So I just finished my May Blessings title page and used another beautiful freebie from Collab Girls Creations! I plan on using this kit for most of my May pages. I love the bright colors and of course there are many embellishments to choose from. It looks like this kit is going to be versatile enough to use the variety of different events that occurred in May! Stay tuned and check out this new kit!

Swing Spring by Collab Girls Creations

May Blessings

52 Blessings Challenge

May Title Page

Credits: Swing Spring by Collab Girls Creation; Fonts: Piranesi It BT and MisterEarl BT

April Blessings

52 Blessings Challenge - April Title Page

Credits: For My Mom by Collab Girls Creation; Fonts: Tropicali Script BTN Bamboo and MisterEarl BT

So I'm Thinking...

So I'm thinking of using this freebie that I got from Collab Girls Creations for my LO's for April. What do you think?

Still behind but catching up...

So I have made some excellent progress this past week! On my 52 Blessings Challenge, I'm still really far behind; however, I think that creating 7 pages for this challenge alone in the past week is pretty darn good! I am currently done with the month of January, February, and March. I am now 2 months behind (we haven't quite made it through the 1st week of June), but if I don't keep up this pace I will really be stuck playing catchup for a long time!

I have started uploading my pages to a new gallery (Scrapbook Challenges) and I love it there! The scrappers are awesome commenters! It is also supper easy to upload pages into the gallery! I have also been looking though the list of scrapbook sketches there and they're pretty amazing! You should check it out and consider joining in on the fun!

Free Kit from Sunshine Artz!!

Here is another free kit from Sunshine Artz!!

It's called "Be my darling forever"

Moose Adventure - Week 12

52 Blessings

Week 12

Credits: Be My Darling Forever by Sunshine Artz; Font: Arabic Typesetting and Challenge Contour

Fun Times - Week 11

52 Blessings

Week 11

Credits: Shimmerin' Shamrocks from Bon Scrapatit Designs; Word Art: Delight Digital Power Palette from Creative Memories; Font: Troutkings BTN