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