Winter Wonderland LO

Today is the last day of November and I just cannot believe that another year is nearly over!  This November has been pretty crazy for Anchorage!!  Normally it is one of the snowiest months of the year and it's only snowed two or three times!!  Here, when it's fall/winter if there's no snow it is MUCH colder!  The cloud cover actually creates a kind of insulation and not only makes our dark winter days seem brighter but also brings the temperatures further away from zero!!  In fact today at 4pm I was driving around and it was only 2 degrees!!  2 degrees!!!!  I mean are you kidding me?!  Even for us Alaskan's this kind of weather is saved for January!  I'm just praying for snow and that this means winter will be short this year with a nice long non-rainy summer!!

So anyways, all of the fun winter-y and Christmas-y kits are coming out now and I'm super excited (although, I'd be more excited if we had more snow here)!  Here's a new kit from Blue Heart Scraps called Snowball Fight, and as soon as we get a bit more snow and some warmer temperatures, I just may have to teach my 20 month old son how to partake in one of these fights!!

Credits: Snowball Fight Plain Papers, Patterned Papers, and Elements by Blue Heart Scraps; Sketch 321 from Scrapbook Challenges; Fonts: Pea Amie, Traveling Typewriter, and Almonte Snow

 

I'm Amazed By You LO

Credits: Happy Fall Yall by Blue Heart Scraps; Rewind Vol. 1 Templates by Blue Heart Scraps; Fonts: Neato Handprint by Lisa Sisneros and Dysfunctional Family

 

Just 1 More LO

Credits: I Love To Read by Inspired Designs; Gingerscraps November Template Challenge Template by Kawouette; Font: Hall Pass by Lisa Sisneros

 

Fall LO

Here in Alaska fall seems to be very short!  One day the leaves are green and the next day they are brown and falling off the trees!  Once this happens it becomes cold quite quickly!  While this kit isn't fall themed I love how the cool hues reflect the fall that we have here!  I grunged it up a bit by adding the overlays around the edges of the background paper.  I also desaturated the pictures to give the look of selective coloring.

Credits: Stay Strong by Blue Heart Scraps; Sketch 315 by Scrapbook Challenges

 

Dream Big LO

Credits: Life Is But A Dream by Inspired Designs; I Love Templates: Template Pack 19 by Inspired Designs; Font: Stars From Our Eyes; Lyrics "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"

 

Autumn Afternoon LO

Credits: Fall Festival: Alpha Pack, Fall Festival: Element Pack, Fall Festival: Paper Pack by Blue Heart Scraps; Font: Stars From Our Eyes, Sketch 299 from Scrapbook Challenges

 

Amazing LO

I'll say it again, I am really liking the colors from this months GingerScraps buffet!  Here's another layout using the kits from Inspired Designs.  I was able to go to our church's Women's Retreat and decided that the blues and yellows could really highlight some of my scenic pictures.  I also used the freebie word art from this months Word Art Challenge at GingerScraps!  

Credits: Life Is Beautiful: Elements, Life Is Beautiful: Journal Tags and Fasteners, Life Is Beautiful: Solids, and Life Is Beautiful Paper Pack 2 by Inspired Designs by Crystal; I Love Templates: Pack 15 by Inspired Designs by Crystal; Word art: September Word Art Challenge (GingerScraps) {FREE}by Z Pink Boudoir Designs; Font: Typewriterhand and Cupcake by Lisa Sisneros

 

Rain Down On Me LO

I just love this months buffet at GingerScraps!!  The colors are pretty sweet and I can see them working well with a lot of my pictures of my little guy!  I ended up desaturating this picture of my little guy in his new rain coat and I really like how it adds to a grunge feel on the page!

Credits: Life Is Beautiful: Elements, Life Is Beautiful: Word Pieces, and Life Is Beautiful: Plain and Polka Papers by Blue Heart Scraps; I Love Templates: Pack 15 by Inspired Designs by Crystal; Overlay: Gettin Dirty Overlay by Studio RA Designs; Font: Traveling Typewriter

 

My Top 5

Here is a fun layout that was created for the "Mix It Up" challenge at GingerScraps.  I was challenged to do a layout documenting my top 5 life moments/events/choices.  I love the unique look of this page and the mix of colors!  

Credits: Once Upon A Time: Paper Pack 2 (black), Once Upon A Time: Paper Pack 2 (pink), Once Upon A Time: Element Pack 1 (black), Once Upon A Time: Element Pack 1 (pink), Once Upon A Time: Alpha Pack (pink), Once Upon A Time: Alpha Pack (black); Sketch 284 A From ScrapbookChallenges.com; font: Traveling Typewriter

(Tag and background paper have been altered) 

Ginger Scraps "Mix It Up" Challenge for July '12

Here's a look at the sketch that I used for this page and the double page version.  Scrapbook Challenges has some amazing sketches and lot's of inspiration!

 

Play, Learn, & Grow LO

I absolutely love the new kit by Blue Heart Scraps!!  It's all about school and learning AND seeing that I used to be an elementary school teacher and have a little guy, I will totally be using this kit often!  In fact, if I was still teaching, I probably would have printed out things like the glue bottle, crayon, scissors, etc. to put on the board and use as prompts for the students to know what to do next.

So here's my page and I just love the way it turned out!!

Credits: Make The Grade Make Kit by Blue Heart Scraps and The Grade Word Pieces by Blue Heart Scraps; Joyful Beginnings Template Pack by Blue Heart Scraps; Font: Jake by Lisa Sisneros

 

Away We Go LOs

Ugh!  I totally don't know how I missed these layouts!!  These were done at the beginning of the month; but I guess, better late than never!!

The GingerScraps July Buffet was all about travel "Away We Go" and I just knew what pictures I wanted to use!!  Since my DS and I just went on a little 2 week trip to visit family in May I knew that I just had to scrap the pictures that I took of him in the airport!!  In those two weeks my 15 month old went from never even being near an airport to flying on a airplane 4 times!!  He was my little trooper and did amazingly well (totally answered prayers)!!

Credits: Away We Go: Tags, Lables, Tabs, and Brackets, Away We Go: Solid Papers; Away We Go: Patterned Paper Pack, Away We Go: Banners and Borders, Away We Go: Journal Cards and Lables by Inspired Designs; Sketch 296 (double page version) from Scrapbook Challenges; Neato Handprint by Lisa Sisneros and Cry Kitty

Here is the beautiful 2 page sketch that I used for this layout:

Here are the kits that I used to create these pages:

Sandbox Fun LO

Here's a fun page I created using a variety of different kits by Blue Heart Scraps.  I love how easily I was able to mix and match several of her kits and made them work on one layout!  

Credits: Papers from Sugar High by Blue Heart Scraps; Screws from Two Of A Kind and Sugar High by Blue Heart Scraps; Flowers from Super Awesome You and Two Of A Kind; Alpha from Sugar High by Blue Heart Scraps; Building Blocks Templates Vol.2 by Blue Heart Scraps; Font: Neato Handprint by Lisa Sisneros

Here's the new Blue Heart Scraps template set that is currently exclusive at Funky Playground Designs

And here are the different kits that I used to create this page!