Praise Him

Credits: Artistic Soul Bundle by ViolaMoni and background paper from Loving You by ViolaMoni; Sketch 328 from Scrapbook Challenges; Font: Cry Kitty and Traveling Typewriter; Journaling is song "I Will Praise Him Still" by Fernando Ortega

 

Lucky Me LO

It is now March!!  March has a special meaning for me now as that's the month my amazing son was born on!  My little guy is going to be two years old and I just can't believe it!!  When I saw JoyLynn's new kit "Lucky Me", I began scrolling through pictures of my son (usually how I get inspired for a layout) and I found these adorable pictures that I had taken of him when he was just a couple weeks old!!  I knew as soon as I saw them that I had to use them with this sweet kit!

Credits: Lucky Me Elements, Lucky Me Journal Cards, Lucky Me Patterned Papers, and Lucky Me Plain Papers; Sketch 291 from Scrapbook Challenges; Fonts: Impact Label Reversed, and Mary Jane's Shoe's by Lisa Sisneros

 

Lucky In Love LO

Here's another fun St. Patty's Day kit collection - this time from ViolaMoni!  I love the Buffets over at Ginger Scraps and how I can mix and match kits that have the same theme and color scheme (and are super cheap)!  These papers from ViolaMoni would be great paired up with some awesome patterned papers too!  

Credits: Lucky Me: Colored Paper, Lucky Me: elements, Lucky Me: Papers by ViolaMoni; Font: Typewriter Hand; Sketch 312 from Scrapbook Challenges

Here's a look at the Scrapbook Challenges Sketch I used

and here's the 2 page version!

Here's a sampling of ViolaMoni's awesome Lucky Me collection!

 

Baby Love LO

Credits: Neverending Love kit from ViolaMoni; Stitches from Super Stash Stitches by Memory Clips; Template: 2013 Blog hop template from Scrapbook Challenges; Font: Traveling Typewriter; GingerScraps February Color challenge

Here's another amazing kit from ViolaMoni!!  I love the fact that she used the deep browns rather than the obvious black and you should totally check out the fun alpha that she created with this kit!!  I found this awesome template from Scrapbook Challenges and if you are a template fiend, then you totally need to check out their many templates!!  Here's a look at the kit and template...

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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!

 

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:

Rain Rain Go Away

This double page LO is of my little sister.  The pictures of her playing with an umbrella inside were just too cute and went perfectly with Inspired Designs by Crystal's new kit Rainy Day Adventures: Pink.


Here are the 2 pages side by side:

Credits: Rainy Day Adventures: Pink; Font: Digs My Hart; 

Sketch 252 Two Pager by Sookie Francisco at Scrapbook Challenges

Here is a look at the awesome sketch that I got from Scrapbook Challenges!  I cannot believe how perfectly this sketch went with these pictures and this kit!!  If you want amazing free sketches Scrapbook Challenges is the place to go, they literally have hundreds to choose from!

 And here they are individually:

Man this was a super fun kit to work with.  I have a bunch of pictures of my little sister that would work perfectly with this kit so you may be seeing a few more layouts with this kit!!  Here's what it looks like:

I also used the coordinating word art for this kit as well!