Simple Pleasures

This is the layout I did for the challange at Real Life Scrap's 1st challenge. The theme was "Simple".

Journaling:

For my birthday this year I decided to treat myself to a few Simple Pleasures. I first woke up in the morning and stayed in bed for an extra hour reading. Heaven! Then had a nice cup of coffee before heading downstairs to get on the treadmill. I admit the treadmill is not a pleasure (yet) but sure is simple. Then lit a candle so the home had a nice country scent while I finished redecorating the third bedroom. After having to run out and work for a few hours (not pleasure!), I stopped for my favorite pastry, a bear claw and a latte. A simple but pleasurable day.

Products used: Pattern Paper My Minds Eye Out &About Botanical Swirls
Chipboard-Making Memories
Ink-Stamping Up
Felt Shapes

Valentine Surprise

I received this cute Valentive from
Elaine Hanson. A relative I have
not seen in probably over 30 years,
and she does not live to far away.
She is a scrapbooker, & stamper too.
We are going to have to get together
and do some scrapping soon.

Oh Boy

Here is my latest layout. I have been pretty good about getting a couple layouts or projects done a week.

I even went through alot of my papers and stickers, etc and purged a bunch of supplies. So next time a few of you come over ask to look in my purge pile! Also have been having fun with my new tool, the cropadile that Bri and Mike gave me for Christmas. Punching chip board like crazy, and this weekend punched through some tin buckets. Hmm...what can I punch next??

Characters in Costumes

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Get your own

Finally finished my little project done. This is my first attempt at an altered book. It was fun! The hardest part was figuring out which photos to add. I knew I wanted to use the papers from Out and About from My Minds Eye so then thought Halloween photos would goes best.

Layouts of my favorite subjects!

The first 2 layout here are from the crop I went to in Grand Rapids a couple weekends ago. It was the group from the online SIS site. We had 7 girls show up. So not a large group, but was at a new store and had a really nice crop area.

These are pictures Brianna took last Easter. So cute, reminds me of my girls when they would hunt for Easter eggs in Florida, sprinting across the yard. We had to put a limit on how many eggs each one could find, or one would end up with none because the others would be faster.

I have a hard time doing pink pages, I am just not into pink I guess. But with a new granddaughter just have to give them a try.

This one I did the night the girls were over a few weeks ago. I stole Brianna's idea of the thin circle on the layout. Adds a neat accent.

A Few Layouts

This is a layout I did a while ago and finally posting. I just love these pics of Jess and the kids. Another one I just did was with some older photos of Brianna and Jess.

I went through all my photo albums and pulled out a bunch of older photos to scrap. Had a good time scrapping last weekend. Jenn and Les and her girls stayed till the wee hours. The girls even got into it, they made a few cards. I will post my layouts I did from that night soon. I keep forgetting to take pictures of the other girls layout so I can post. Leslie is really getting back into it, and Jenn is working on a few Christmas projects. She just finished a baby book for Carson....in 2 days!! It turned out really cute. Here is one page from it.

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Playing around Scrapblog again

I was bored and started playing with Scrapblog again. They have added quite a few more themes. I guess you can print these now with a pro membership. Kinda neat, but
I still like playing and cutting with actual paper,

Catching up on Journaling

I spent half the day yesterday catching up on journaling some of my older albums. I used to be so bad at not doing the journaling after I finished a layout. Now I don't mind so much. I have vowed not to do a new layout until I get all caught up. Hopefully I will finish by this weekend , cuz I want to go to a crop this weekend. The online group I belong to is getting together again this Saturday in Grand Rapids. I'll see how the work week goes and hopefully can make it. Anyone interested in going?
I am trying out the updated Picasa and they have a lot of new features. This collage features is one of them. I love the picture of the Pinney Women. Thanks to Steve Hathaway scanning an old picture.

Wordle

This is from a cool site called Wordle

http://wordle.net/

your can print it out and put on layouts.
Click on it to see a larger view.