Win these Stamps!

Would you like to win these stamps? There is 6 of them from My Minds Eye valued at $15. They are all very chic!

Simply leave me a comment! I will do a random drawing. If you add yourself as a follower you will be put in the drawing twice. If you link me up to a blog or forum you will get put in the 3rd time. Please leave your link with your comment! I will pick the winner on January 4th.

Just wanting to give a little "after Christmas" love!


Here is a layout I did with the sketch over at Pencil Lines.

Cricut & A Sewing Machine...oh my!

Finally started playing with my Cricut, you know that early Christmas present! ;) And I got out my little pixie sewing machine and was determined to learn how to sew. It wasn't without frustration and lots of crooked lines, but I love the result!

This is Mason's doing his Math homework for 1st grade. I love school pages!

Used a clear sticker and put stickles over the top.

We put together this haunted house after Halloween, cause I got it for a whole buck at Walmart!

Here's a lo of me turning the big 30!

December PageMaps

This is from the sketch contest this month over at Page Maps. It started off like the sketch but I flipped it and I left out a little and added a little, was inspired to get out my sewing machine that I want to master. All in all I love the end result!
In September we went to Alabama for my brothers wedding. It turned out very beautiful, it was outdoors under a tent. It was very sophisticated and I hope I captured that  in this layout. Ti amo means I love you in Italian, they went on a long honeymoon to Rome and this is spoken there....so google tells me anyways! lol

If you look closely in the background of the picture I LOVE what I captured. It is my cousin knelt down holding the hand of this adorable little girl in a handmade dress. She is his 2nd cousin & I just think this is so sweet, especially the way she is looking at him! It almost competes with the beautiful bride & groom, but not quite!

I also wanted to give a shout out to Stacy Milford, her blog is here. She is a designer  at Scrapbook Circle. I just seen her named mentioned in Creating Keepsakes Readers Gallery. Congrats Stacy!

If you like my work, please follow me! I love more followers!

This Boy......

I am so in love with this line "Rough & Tough" from Fancy Pants. It completely seems to fit all the pictures of my little man T. I used my stickles for the 1st time, probably hard to see but I colored in the stars and the title.

I am so excited I took the plunge and got a RED Cricut Expressions at Walmart on black Friday. I wasn't really sure how much I wanted the machine, but for the price they had, I changed my mind.....I act as though this was still a cheap purchase! lol, well it is my xmas present from everyone! Thanks family, a month early ofcourse!

needing a little something

This layout doesn't feel finished to me. Maybe its because I used rub-ons. I don't know maybe I should let it "sit". I do think its funny how our minds work subconsciously. I knew I wanted to use this paper and I really wasn't sure why, then when I put the photo down I realized my son was wearing a Lightning McQueen shirt with racing flags which mimicked the paper. Talk about scrappers intuition!

This one has stumped me even more. I love where I was originally going with it. I knew I wanted to cut the boys out to look like superman, they thought that was pretty cool! But I think it is just the plain red cs that is driving me crazy. I guess it's just one of those where you have to move on, but in my head it was going to be great! I did it at a crop which doesn't produce my best work! lol
Here's another simple one I did at the crop. The boy's were so cute that day. I am already missing the warm weather, and winter hasn't even hit!
This is my favorite of the bunch. I got crafty with my stamps, that was fun! The frames/swirls were done with stamps and was cut with scalloped scissors. It makes me sad he is growing so fast, but I am so proud of him!

I organized!

Yes that's right I spent well over a day organizing and purging all my scrapbook stuff! It was pretty overwhelming and maybe I should have taken pictures, but it wasn't pretty! I even finally bought page protectors and more albums to get my 2 ft. stack of layouts put away, and Im not exaggerating! I remember reading one day how Elsie Flannigan had stacks of layouts laying in piles and I gasped. I guess I should not judge!
I love this line from Sassafrass Lass couldn't wait to use it!

And heres some more of the owls!

hoo...hoo..hoo...hoo

Must say I love all the new Owl trends and this line from Dream Street Papers has been my favorite so far and this rubon title happens to match perfectly! Don't you just love it when that happens! And Im kind of addicted to my new fiskars edge punch, its hard to stop myself from using it on every layout!



Being I have all boys I love all the monsters coming out too, I thought it fit these 2 little "monsters" perfectly!

Fall is here!

I know my blog doesn't reach that many people, but I thought every prayer is one more prayer that is needed. This is a picture of my SIL Kristy who has 2 small children & she is battling cancer so If you could stop & say a prayer & hopefully keep her in your prayers, I would greatly appreciate it!

It is definitely crisp & cool around here lately. I wanted to start my layouts with one I did last year that I thought was worth reposting. I loved this one & sent it in to different mags and it never got picked up. Oh well, I still love it! Everything about it makes me smile!

I took the boys on a horse carriage this summer....loved the middle picture! Love pink paislee's new lines, cant wait to have more fall pictures to use with them!

So here's the boy's school pictures. I am sooooo behind on printing pictures, & doing layouts, & about a million other things. So thank you Scrapbooks etc. for your free photo templates. They make my life so much easier, and I still love the way they came out!

Cant believe Mason is in 1st grade already!

And my little cheesball Trent is in his 2nd yr of Pre-school! Well hope its not so long between scrapping because I have alot of pictures to catch up on! Thanks for looking!

September PageMaps

Well I may never get any scrapping done or any blogging done if it wasn't for pagemaps. It seems like that is the thing that gets me inspired to scrap lately. Here is Mason at my brother Cole's wedding, he changed his dress shirt and wanted to still wear his tie. He just looked so adorable! Altered the photo and added a texture to the background.

Here's my cutie Trent and his cousin Brett. They love playing together, and they are double trouble when together!

Blogging Circle has no end!

I love blogging we are linked together in this endless circle of never ending creativity!

Stacy Milford left a comment on my blog, therefore I looked at her blog! And yeah a chance to win a great 1st anniversary blog RAK! So I am now leaving you a chance to go check her out, and continue in this never ending circle for your chance to win the Rak!
Dont forget to add yourself as a follower of my blog and of hers!

Her blog & prizes are awesome, check it out here at Scrappin Everday Life!
Leave her a comment but tell her I sent you, that gives me a extra chance to win!
Thanks girls!

August Pagemaps

I finally made it to a crop and got some "quiet" (no kids being obnoxious) time to scrap. I had these photos of Mason having "Beach Day" at school. It was kind of amusing to see them all running around in their swim wear and sitting in their pool!

Adorable Evian Commercial

Okay so I found this on Carries blog and I couldn't help but spread the joy and post it to mine. This is so adorable it's sure to bring a smile to your day!

Summer Boredom

Okay so I know Summer isn't suppose to be boring, but this summer definitely isn't packed with nonstop fun. With Andy's new job our schedules mean we cant do much as a family together, and doing everything by myself with the boys seems unbelievably stressful at times. So any prayers to help me get through this summer in good spirit would be very helpful, thank you!

So I have gotten some more scrappin done, a little here and there. Hope everyone else is enjoying the little moments this summer! Thanks for looking!

The above layout is Trent at a school trip to the zoo with his buddy Ryan, they thought the monkeys were stinky!

Trent helping Daddy grow the garden.
Daddy playing with the boys!

July Page Maps Contest

I love Becky Flecks Sketch's every month and especially her contest's. It really motivates me to think outside of the box and I always end up loving the final result! This layout is of my beautiful nephew. I ended up using Making Memories papers and lots of rubons & bling.

Here's a couple recent layouts. This one is of Trent when we went to the Water park on Spring Break. Using Fancy pants Summer Soiree Line, I love it! I bought this from Memory Works.
Here's cute pics of the boys & their closest cousins. I used Fancy Pants Delight Line that was a Personal Scrapper kit. I did scraplift this from Creating Keepsakes recent issue which I can't find to post her name. I loved the design.Mason received a award at Kindergarten graduation for being the most lovable child, which he totally is! I put this together with some Scenic Route and some other manufactures. I got those adorable letters from Peachy Cheap. Love that place!

Summer Days

So Summer is here in full swing. We have so much going on and its been hard juggling everything that I want to do with everything that I have to do. I really havent spent as much time scrapping as I would like.....my pictures and products have been piling up. There is so much work on the house I want to do. I havent done any jewelry in a while and my Etsy shop is a little bare. I started selling Memory Works products which Im hoping will bring me closer to some local scrappers. And ofcourse most of my time is spent keeping the boys happy and occupied, Im thinking we will visit the pool today its been so hot they havent been out to play too much the last few days. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their summer. Im going to post some of my recent layouts so everyone can see whats been going on!

My favorite picture taken of the boys at their birthday party. Trent turned 4 and Mason will be 6. Time is flying!

Just Mason being Mason!

The boys were so excited when Daddy brought home his police car!

He really gets those legs movin on his little trike.

Eric had a birthday party at the pool with friends, he turned 11.

My precious baby nephew Braycin, otherwise known as Bunka.

Mason finally got it, he's on 2 wheels!