My first kit Freebie!

Ok peeps, I absolutely love scrapbook challenges! My favorite challenges are at DigiScrapbookMania and Digi Scrap Drive In! Be sure and check them out! For each challenge, you get points and when you rack up enough points you get free products! So cool, especially for those of us around here who are frugal <read miserly>. =)

Anyway, I participated in a new challenge this week at DigiScrapsDriveIn called Go for the Pinks... and Blues hosted by Jen C Designs (one of my favorite designers, who I am proud to create for!) The rules for this challenge is that you have to create a layout or mini kit using the given color palette. So I decided to be brave this month and jumped in feet first and designed a kit! I got so caught up in the fun that I ended up with a not-so-mini kit with 18 papers and around 20 elements!!!! So here it is:

You can download it here:
Papers 1
Papers 2
Papers 3
Elements

Remember this is my first attempt at designing so please be kind! LOL! Comments are appreciated!

New Scrapbook Page

Hi everyone! I have been noticing lots more activity on my blog lately! Thanks everyone for checking my page out! Here is my newest layout!

This one is of some great pics I took of my girls last winter... I was trying to get a nice beautiful picture to include in a nice frame for my parents, and all they would do is giggle and make silly faces... but they were so cute I couldn't be upset at them!

I created this page using a beautiful mini-kit from Kiki Halbert called Bubblegum Classic, and a template from Jen C Designs.

Ok, I'm heading to bed now! It's late and the kiddos will be up EARLY in the morning! LOL! Oh well, isn't that what Solomon was talking about in Proverbs 31... Up late and up early = NO SLEEP! See ya later!

It has been forever!

Oh my Goodness, it has been ages since I have posted anything on here! July was an absolutely busy month and soooo hot! Our A/C was broken for a while and I was about to melt! Thank God it's all better now! LOL!

Kenzie went to church camp and I went with her as a dorm mom! We had a great time and made lots of friends! God really moved in the services and almost 40 kids received the Holy Ghost! Praise God! What an awesome time!

And of course I have been getting ready to start homeschool again. Abby is five now so I will be teaching her basic reading and math mostly. Kenzie is eight and going into third grade, and she reads great. After her achievement test this spring though, I have realized that we need to work on her Language Mechanics... you know, punctuation, capitalization, etc.We will be using mostly Abeka curriculum for Kenzie this year along with lots of classic books, like McGuffey Readers and other books from long ago.

We are planning to do some lapbooking together as a family too so that should be fun! I think lapbooking appeals to me alot because it is so similar to scrapbooking! So as we work on these I will post pictures.

Ok since most of this post has been about homeschooling... I want to share a couple of new scrapbook pages with you that I just finished using a great new kit from Circle of Life Scraps...Hooray 4 Homeschool by Circle Of Life Scraps So here they are!

Desktop Wallpaper Freebie!!!

I made this desktop wallpaper/ background using the Beach Fun Kit by Jen C Designs, which will be released in her store on July 5. You can download it here. And be sure to check back on Monday so you can get the kit yourself!! It has lots of fun, summer elements and papers!

If you download the wallpaper, please comment and let me know how you like it! You can add your own summer picture or list of events in the frame! Enjoy!

Bright Skies Ahead by Recherché by KH Designs

I have been accepted into another creative team... this time for Kiki Halbert. She just opened a new store at Funky Playground Designs and I am SOOOOO excited to be on her team. She is an amazing designer and I am excited to be able to work with her designs. For the grand opening of her store, she released a GIANT kit called "Bright Skies Ahead," and you can get it here. My layout using this kit is below!

More Pages using Jen Maddocks Products

 

One Cute Boy

Here are the links for the elements I used:

One Fine Day

BG from Tooth Fairy

All in a Row Templates

Lollipop, Lollipop

Using these items:

Patriot Papers

Button from Petals and Things

Jen Maddocks Designs CT Layouts

Scrapbooking is my creative outlet, and I am really having lots of fun working on the Creative Team of both Jen Maddocks and Jen C. Here are the latest layouts I have done for Jen Maddocks.

This one is made using Jen's Summer Getaway Mini Kit! This is one of my favorite places to visit while we are in the South. Jekyll Island is a state park, and you have to pay $5 to get on the island, which keeps the beach less crowded and clean. It is so beautiful there, and one of these days I want to go on a week-long vacation there!



This page was made for the Leaving a Legacy challenge at Digi Scrap Mania, where we were asked to make a page with five random things about ourselves. I had so much fun putting this page together, and I love it because I rarely scrap about myself... It was a nice change of pace! This page uses Jen's newest Kit: One Fine Day.