Tea 4 Two

This one is very Alice in Wonderland inspired, and I think it's super fun!

I'm not usually a "girly" scrapper - I don't have many girls in my life. But since I DO have my new pretty niece, I had fun scrapping her!

 

And then, since I would normally just figure out a way to scrap my boy with the "girly" kit, I did! This is a pic from a while ago, of course, nearly six years ago. Look at his little face! Love him, love the kit. OH! And, I also used the same EXACT layout for Liam and Melanie. I changed some of the papers and a couple of the flowers, but that's it. How fun is that?

 

The Ick!

I know most of my art chickie friends don't get excited when I post scrappy stuff, but I thought you'd all appreciate the idea behind this kit. Sick family + digital scrapbooking designer = sickies kit! Inspiration can come from anywhere :)

I really like my layout, which is more digital journal style than actual scrapbooking. I hate when something it wrong with my buddy that I can't put a bandaid on and then kiss and make it better. And (no offense) I don't like doctors. They went out of their way to make me feel stupid and they were completely wrong. Just thinking about it brings it all back up and pisses me off all over again.

Art Journaling, Digi-Style

I don't really DO this, my journal pages are usually sprays and paint and drawings. But Liz, of Sweet Digi Scraps, came out with this bundle called Art Styling and it's available at The Digi Chick right here. I freaking LOVE it! It's SO fun. I know so many people who don't scrapbook because it's "too clean" or too neat or too matchy. This kit throws all of those thoughts out the window! It's grungy papers and paint splatters and amazingly awesome stuff. I had SO much fun working with it. 

Here is my page, it's about how Liam told me and his dad he doesn't need us to wait at the bus stop with him on the second day of school. Second day of school, EVER, mind you. Of course, he doesn't get a choice in the matter, but still. To be dismissed by your five-year-old who rides a middle school bus (he's the only kindergartener on the bus). It was pretty funny. My mom couldn't stop laughing when I told her!

And I also wanted to show you what I did with it. People ask me all the time "What do you DO with your digital scrapbooking pages?" Now, I will admit this is a legitimate question. But first let me ask you: What do you do with your digital photos? Most people don't do ANYTHING with them. They move from camera to computer and then they sit there. I print mine, journal with mine, and scrapbook with mine. And for the record, I PRINT my digital scrapbooking pages. Every one of them. They go into scrapbook albums, just like a "regular" page, and a digi kit for $5 or $10 is a ridiculous amount LESS than you'd pay for something comparable in a paper kit.

But specifically for Liam's school years, I'm going to try to make albums for HIM for each year. For this year I'm using a board book. His teacher tags me in pictures that she posts on her Facebook page and the school's page has had pictures of him up several times already. I don't want to forget these things and only have the first day of school and last day of school and stuff like that. So I'm Scrapping the ordinary days (like I always do) and making a book out of a book! This is the book I started with:

And since this is the second page, here it is IN the book:

I'm pretty excited about it! I hope it comes out as great as I think it will.

One More Ride!

Cheeky had an amazingly fun time with his cousin (my cousin, technically) Jon Micheal at the firefighters' fair! This kit was freaking perfect for scrapping these pictures, bright and fun. It's called One More Ride and is available here.

I have tons of older pictures that I'm just starting to scrap, but instead of going all the way back to when Liam was a baby, I'm just kind of finding a kit I like, trying to decide if I have pictures to go with it, then going for it. It's FUN!

Grey Skies

This kit is called Monday Blues by Sweet Digi Scraps and is available as part of September's Diners Club at Scrap Takeout. I LOVE this layout. Like, ridiculously love it. That's my little pumpkin's first smile and I love the blues and grays of the kit and how it all goes together!! I want all of my layouts to make me this happy.

Running Rainbow!

Look at this crazy, cool, colorful kit! I freaking LOVE it. It's by Piccolina Designs, one of my all-time favorite designers and is available at Ahhh Scrap. 

These are my crazy friends before and during their Color Run:

And after, looking beautiful and slightly crazy:

I absolutely adore this kit and am SO GLAD I had an excuse to get it! :) 

An Album for Kelly :)

I have hundreds of pictures of me and Kelly and our boys (none of her daughter, she was always at work whenever we were hanging out and now she lives in Manhattan). I've scrapped some of them before, but I thought it would be fun to make her a birthday album, so I did! I have an awesome printer, and old HP, so I print my scrapbook pages myself at home on cheap but wonderful paper I get from Sam's Club.

Here we are drinking margaritas:

Kelly's teaching me how to stamp:

Shoes :)

The first time I hung out at her place. I'd convinced her she needed a Moleskine journal and she loved it!

Look at how she's always looking at me, so suspicious:

 Here she's giving me copic marker lessons:

 And here she is just being Kelly:

The pages are ALL made with a kit called Life's Lemonade by Sweet Digi Scraps, and using templates from Life's Lemonade and Finding Yourself - both by Sweet Digi Scraps.

Sweet Digi scraps

A new Creative Team! You know how much I love digital scrapbooking, right? Well, I applied for a position with Sweet Digi Scraps and I got accepted to be a member of her CT! Yay me! I don't "officially" start until September 1st, but Liz said I could start playing right away, so I did!

So, this kit is called Summer Daze and you can get it here and here. Aren't the colors awesome??

I take zillions of pictures of my kid. Like all moms, I think he's the cutest thing ever. Look at his little face!! 

He's riding his bike here, that's why he's wearing a helmet. I was trying to get a picture of him riding right toward me, but he kept swerving because he was afraid he was going to run me over. I'm always torn about these kinds of pictures - to scrap or not to scrap? It's not an event. I think it was a Tuesday night. But he's too cute not to scrap!

This is the good life

Ahhh Scrap's latest collaboration kit! 

A boy and an Irish rainbow

I made both of these layouts with Backyard Picnic from Busy Crafting Mommy Designs. This is Jack:

This is is a rainbow in Ireland that my BFF sent me. It was so big she had to send three pictures of it!

Independence

No photo is safe! Kelly was teasing me about watching me and sent me a pic or her eye, and then one of her son Josh's. It was super silly and I just wanted to do something with it. So I did. It totally makes me happy, even though it's ridiculous (since it's an eyeball). I love it and so does Kelly! 

Suspicious!

Look how she looks at me! I just had to scrapbook it :)

I used a mini kit from One of a Kind Design Studio called "Amazing" and a kit from Andrea Gold.

Independence Day Kit!

OK, now I know a couple of people have asked me about digital scrapbooking - where do I get stuff, how to start, etc. Here is a HUGE free kit you can get from the wonderful Ahhh Scrap design team.

Isn't it GORGEOUS? I'm super excited about it myself!! It's a blog hop, but it's a small one - only about a dozen places to go, and you get this ENORMOUS kit from it! If you've been wanting to start digscrapping, now is the perfect time! Just start at the Ahhh Scrap Blog for the list of designers. I just finished hopping and I can't wait to start playing with the kit!!

Aquarium Antics

The colors in this kit are FABULOUS! 

And here is Mini Me with a fish he caught - he makes Daddy throw them ALL back.

And here we were at the aquarium in the Mall of America. Liam LOVES all the animals.

BANG!

Made with Be A Hero by Busy Crafting Mommy Designs. I just couldn't resist stealing this picture from my cousin's Facebook page - I just loved it!

Me nine years ago!

The kit I used is Captivating by One of a Kind Design Studio :)

A New Do by Piccolina Designs

Obviously Mini Me is a lot bigger now, but I just loved this kit and dug out these pictures to use with it!

Both are templates by KRDK

Naturally by Farynar's Wings

I LOVE "boy" colored kits! This one is called "Naturally" and you can find it here.

These are my peeps: 

And my Liam:

(Just for the record, the duck is not an element from the kit, I extracted it from one of my pictures.)

Here is the full kit in all its glory:

Aren't the colors awesome? I love them!

Breeze by Farynar's Wings

A super pretty new kit, released today!!

She also made a couple of templates to go with the kit! I absolutely LOVE templates, I have no idea why. Maybe because it helps me figure out where to put the embellishments. I'm sort of sucky at that part!

Here is what I did with the kit and templates:

My mom always says she looks like "crap" when I want to take a picture of her. Silly lady!

This one is my little silly face when he was about six months old. He makes me smile!