Last MS Kit

Hey y'all!
Good Tuesday mornin' to ya!
I recently received my last kit from Memorable Seasons. My DT term is up. I was sent Crate Paper's StyleBoard to work with:

This collection is right up my alley! I always love CP's collections, &  this one is no exception! It is so fresh & crisp-perfect for all my Spring & Easter scrapping. 

Here is the first layout I have completed: 

The doily is one from a pack I bought at the grocery store! (I am always looking for scrappy supplies wherever I am!) The alphas here are AC Thickers. 

  I also have my last challenge up over on the forums at Memorable Seasons. I would love for you to check it out & play along here. It is a Spring recipe challenge: 

-use at least 3 butterflies 

-use flowers                   

-use ribbon                   

                      -give your project a Spring related title 

I would love to see your creations if you play. Post a comment here with a link so I can view & comment on your layouts! I may have a fun goody bag to give away too if you share!

Have a wonderful day y'all!
~Stephanie

Happy Friday

Hey y'all & happy Friday!
Drew & I are headed out of town for the weekend. I am trying to wrap up a few things before we leave & I realized I never shared this layout. It is a lift of the member of the month over at Memorable Seasons. This month we lifted the fabulous Ange! You can see all of her wonderfully fun layouts here. 
This is my layout, about the kids love for their rain boots!

 The bachground paper is actually from the "Santa's List" collection from Teresa Collins. The rest of the papers & embellishments are left over from my Echo Park Head Over Heels collection. The alphas are AC Thickers.

 The resin flowers are from Fancy Pants.

 This is Ange's original layout that I lifted:


It sure was fun to lift her this month!! Thanks for the inspiration, Ange!
Have a great day!
~Stephanie

The Latest

Hey y'all! Hope your Tuesday is going well. We are gearing up for more snow around here. And I am hoping that the kids are not out of school for another week!!!!

I wanted to quickly share that this layout made Top 3 at 1 2 3 Get Scrappy! What fun to see that on their blog!

Today is my turn to host a challenge at Memorable Seasons. Since February is the month of love, all of the challenges this month are related to love in some way or another! My challenge this week is to use a love poem, song lyrics or book script as part of your journaling.

   My layout uses, once again, Echo Park's Head Over Heels collection. This line is perfect for these challenges!! And it makes me feel so happy!

 The alpha stickers are from Fancy Pants & the buttons & sequins are from my stash.

I also made 2 cards for Alissa's challenge to use red:

 I will give these cards to Leah & Ty for Valentine's Day.

We would love it if you found the opportunity to play along with any of the challenges this month! There is a store gift certificate up for grabs!! Shopping on someone else's dime is always nice, right?!

Scrap on!

~Stephanie 

Always-Echo Park

I hope y'all have had a nice weekend. We enjoyed time with family & watching some of the Olympics; riding & a movie with friends. Despite the cold & gloomy weather, it was a great weekend here!

Today I am sharing another layout using Echo Park's Head Over Heels collection. I can not even tell you how much fun I am having with this line! It is so cheery & colorful-just what we need around here at this time of year.
This layout is a lift of the amazing Wendy Antenucci, who was chosen as MOTM  this month at Memorable Seasons. Here is my layout:

The doily, buttons, & sequins are from my stash. The chevron washi tape is from Jenni Bowlin. The blue dot & the hearts washi are also from my stash. The alpha stickers are Fancy Pants, & everything else here is Echo Park.
You can view Wendy's original layout here.

I have some time before dinner so I am off to create more with the line!
Have a great Sunday night!!
~Stephanie    

Head Over Heels

I am in love with Echo Park's Valentine's Day collection, Head Over Heels! It is so fun & whimsical. There are so many cute little elements in this collection! Here, take a peek:

How lucky am I that I get to work with this kit this month?! Thanks to Memorable Seasons!

I also bought this Jenni Bowlin chevron washi tape  and these Fancy Pants' resin flowers. I thought they both worked so well with the collection. 

Here is the first layout that I have created ( I believe there will be many more to come!) 

The doilies are ones that I had in my stash. Of course, the alphas in "love"  are AC Thickers!

I didn't use a Valentine's Day photo, but instead, chose one that I adore. This is one of my favorite pictures of my kids. It was taken on our summer vacation in 2010! I think it really blends well with the papers & embellishments.   

I am so excited to get back in my scrap room & create more with this kit!

Have a good day y'all!

~Stephanie 

PL with SOUS

Hey y'all & happy Monday!
I hope this finds everyone well. The sicknesses have been running rampant in our neck of the woods!
Ty got sick on Saturday with what started as a bad headache. He proceeded to throw up Saturday evening & run a fever. He rested all day yesterday & I actually thought he was feeling better. I took his temp last night after dinner & it was 100.8*. Which meant, no school today! Ahh! I am going nuts being stuck in this house! Hoping with everything I have that he can return to school tomorrow. His birthday is Thursday & I don't want him to be sick. Plus I have a lot to do!!

So today I have to share my latest Project Life layout with you. The current challenge is up at Stuck On U Sketches & it is to use vellum!

    I used the kit I received this month from Memorable Seasons, Pink Paislee's Snow Village.

I adhered some sequins to the kraft cardstock & then placed a vellum piece over top of that.
If you get a chance to  play along with this challenge, link up here. There is a great prize being offered this month, also!
  
Scrap Shotz is offering some fabulous Tim Holtz stencils & 2 huge Project Life card sets!
We look forward to seeing your spreads!

Have a great day!
Stay well-
~Stephanie

Alphabet Stickers

Hey y'all!
Hope you're staying warm wherever you are. It is COLD here today! The kids had a 2 hour delay for school this morning because of the frigid temps. When we left the house at 9:50 this morning it was 10*. They will go in late again tomorrow morning, which they love!
With the temps being what they were, I didn't leave the house after driving the kids to school! It was a nice (& warm) day in the house. I actually got some scrapping done!

Today I have a challenge up over at Memorable Seasons to use your alphabet stickers. This month's challenges are all about stash-busting & I know, I for one, have many alphabet stickers!!
Here is the layout I created using my January kit, Pink Paislee's Snow Village:

      I used some alphabet stickers that I had left that I could no longer make complete words with. You know when you use all the prominent letters from a sheet (a, e, i, st, t, etc.) & are left with a bunch of consonants that are in almost no words you'd ever want to spell out?! Well, I took them all & made a "word search puzzle" in one of the grids of my layout. The red & green alphas are from Fancy Pants. Can you spot the 4 words in the word search? If you leave me a comment & get them right, I will send you a RAK!!

I also shared my organizational tips for alphabets. I keep all of my Thickers in a bin that I got years ago at Target. I like having them all together:

     
My smaller alphabet stickers are kept in this bin that was purchased at Michael's:

And I keep my 12x12 alphabet sheets in this clear folder that I also purchased at Michael's:

I attached a hook to the inside of my armoire door & they hang there.

Be sure to check out this thread in the forum for more organization tips!

Have a great night!
Scrap on!
~Stephanie

Snow Village

Unfortunatley, I am not referring to our geographical location at the moment! I know lots of the country is getting pounded with snow, but our area is not one of them. And, oh how badly my kids want snow this year!!

I am, however referring to my kit this month from Memorable Seasons. We were able to shop for our own kits for January, & I chose Pink Paislee's Snow Village collection:

   

The fronts

And the backs of the yummy papers!

I know a lot of people are over & done with Christmas, but I for one, am not! (We still have all of our decorations up-including the tree!)

While I love this collection for it's holiday flair, I also love that it can be used to scrap those non-holiday photos. 

Here is the first layout I created with my kit (& as you'll notice, it's not a holiday page): 

  

Everything is from the kit except for the chipboard hexagons (which are from Maya Road), the chipboard cirlce w/ heart (My Mind's Eye) & the tag. I misted the hexagons with Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Tinsel. My journaling is on the tag. It describes how our dog Luke declined after his chemotherapy treatment & we had to make the decision to put him down. Not a happy topic, but one that I needed to scrap.

Stay tuned for more to come from this fun kit!!

"Scrappy" New Year!

~Stephanie

SNS Reveal #47

Hi y'all!
Things have been so busy around here that I never got a chance to share the latest sketch reveal from Sketch N Scrap!
Here is the fun sketch designed by co-owner Kelly Holifield:

We are teaming up with Scrap Our Stash for this sketch challenge and your requirement is to use 2 border punches and another type of punch on your layout to qualify for the prize we have lined up for one lucky winner at the end of the month! So yes, you will have TWO prize chances for this particular sketch challenge this time since you will be able to upload at SNS and over at Scrap Our Stash!

Here is my layout:

I used the Silent Night collection from October Afternoon, which was my December kit from Memorable Seasons.

I used 2 of my Fiskars border punches & my star punch here.

 
This kit has been so much fun to create with! The photo is from last December when we took a trip to NYC. We saw "Mary Poppins" on Broadway. It was an amazing show!!  

If you get the chance to play along with this super fun sketch, be sure to link up back at Sketch N Scrap for a chance to win these adorable mini bags from Webster's Pages:

  

Here are the details:

1. Make sure and link back to Sketch N Scrap in your blog post when sharing our sketch OR a layout or card based on our sketch.

2. Link your layout or card up by clicking on the Froggy link in the sidebar

NOTE: Don't forget to link to the direct post of this weeks challenge on your blog.  

Have fun! We can't wait to see what you create! :) 

Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win the December prize! 

 

Thanks for stopping by today!!

~Stephanie

No Way

There is no way that Leah can be 11 years old!!! It seems like only a few years ago that Drew & I were on our way to the hospital at 6 a.m. so that they could induce labor. But 11 years ago today, we were blessed with a healthy, beautiful & oh so loud baby girl!
We are both so very proud of the young lady she has become. She is sweet, caring, empathetic & ressponsible. It took a lot of sweat & tears to get to this point, but it was all worth it!
Today we took the kids out of school early & paid a visit to Santa (photos to come later-my camera is acting up)! Afterwards we went to lunch at Panera-Leah's pick & favorite restaurant.
We came home & she opened her birthday presents from us & the kids played around the house (it was another rainy & cold day here). I think she had a good birthday & we all enjoyed some special time together!

Here is another layout made using October Afternoon's Silent Night collection. I followed this sketch from Creative Scrappers:
    

And here is my layout:

• Supplies:
• October Afternoon Silent Night (Auld Lang Syne; Carol of the Bells; Joy to the World; The Holly and the Ivy; White Christmas)
• Basic Grey wood veneers-Carte Postale
• Martha Stewart Artic snowflake punch
• American Craft Thickers

This sketch is being used as the sketch challenge for the day at Memorable Seasons. There is a sketch-a-thon going on this month! Try to play along for a chance to win a prize!

Thanks for stopping by!
Stay scrappy! : )
~Stephanie