Top ten - February

I love this layout of my husband, Jim and me at our nephew's wedding. I tried to leave some of the beautiful paper uncovered - sometimes those backgrounds shouldn't be covered up. And love the big die-cut butterfly by Crate Paper.

Top Ten in 2009 - January

I got an idea from my friend and fellow DT member of Scrap Attack Scrapbooking that I just HAVE to follow through with. She suggested {or maybe it was more of a challenge} posting your personal TOP TEN favorites of your own work in 2009...kind of a year in review. I LOVE this idea, thanks Misty! I counted 236 layouts this year...so bear with me as I try to narrow it down to my TEN favorites.

here's my January layout - I love the distressed chipboard star I made into a star fish and the little cluster of punched circles.

December DT reveal

Lauri sent me Pink Paislee Amber Road line. I haven't worked with a full line of Pink Paisley in my DT kit before and I have to say it is fun stuff. I loved the matching punch outs, clear border stickers and Post Card paper.
If you have some fall pictures to scrap this is the line you need to add to your Scrap Attack Scrapbooking wish list.
The Prima Cherry blossoms worked perfectly with this paper line.
The punch outs were great as the title, layering under the title, journaling and embellies.

December Ad challenge

If you like working with scrapbook challenges, I challenge you to check out the message board on Scrap Attack Scrapbooking. This month I posted this ad for the Ad Challenge.

For this challenge, you need to make a layout using the following ad as your inspiration. You can choose the colors, the layout, the theme or any other elements that you see in the ad. The only rule is that it must resemble this ad in some way.

Here's my
sample layout.

Black Friday sales

Scrap Attack Scrapbooking is having an awesome Black Friday sale in their on-line store through Monday. It's a great time to stock up.
Here are just a few of the specials:

$ .50 Lace Cardstock

$1.49 American Craft Thickers

$3.99 Cardstock Packs

$4.99 Complete Scrapbook Collections

$12.99 Past {SAS}sy Kits!

reasons to be Thankful!

Every day I count my blessings!

I have my family ...
a beautiful home ...
plenty to eat ...
and a granddaughter that keeps us laughing and of course provides me with lots and lots of picture opportunities.

These are pictures from Thanksgiving 2008. May each of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

older pictures

I get so caught up in doing recently taken photos it's hard to make myself go back and scrap some of the older pictures. I recently ran across these photos of Jennifer. This would have been her 2nd Halloween.

Did you know November 6th is Pumpkin carving Day? They must have decided on this holiday before people started carving jack-0-lanterns for Halloween. "1st Dig" was for the November Wacky holiday challenge on Scrap Attack Scrapbooking.

"Noze" is for a color challenge onScrap Attack Scrapbooking message board - needed to use at least 3 colors, chosen from orange, green, purple, black and white - pretty easy when doing Halloween pages. :)

"Hugs" is a Croppy Cat of Nadine's roller skating layout in the Scrap Attack gallery. Thank you for the inspiration Nadine!

November DT reveal

This month I received the November Plastino {SAS}sy Kit from Scrap Attack Scrapbooking.
I loved the variety of papers, fun shaped pieces, a transparency and several embellies. Here are the layouts I created from this one kit. The only things I added was some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Shimmerz and inks for distressed edges.

November ad challenge

Did someone say "November" - geesh the year is flying by!
With a new month comes another ad challenge on Scrap Attack Scrapbooking Message Board.


I'm so glad Jim kept some of the South Dakota magazines, they have some great ads. I chose this ad for the photo placement and blocking. Another ad that lends itself to a lot of possibilities.

If you get inspired, please jump over to the SAS gallery and post your layout, I'd love to see your interpretation.