Bella Blvd Challenge - Day 3: Use Patterned Paper as and Embellishment

I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it but thanks to a nice nap time I got this last challenge page done. Our family loves to play badminton, so summer is often badminton season. We leave the net up a lot and you never know who you are going to find out there playing. These are pictures from different times last summer.

The challenge was to use the Bella patterned paper as an embellishment so I cut some fun flowers on my Cameo out of several different papers.

Bella Blvd Challenge - Day 2

Well, I made 10 out of 12 layouts this month as far as layouts done for my BPC class 12. So this is my "me" page. It is about the accomplishment I felt climbing something here in town called The Incline. It is where a cable car used to go up Pikes Peak now it is a favorite place to climb. It is a crazy climb. It is only about a mile and a half up but gains 2,000 feet and at the steepest part is a 67% grade. Yeah, it is a crazy climb not for wimps. And I always kinda thought that as of late I am a wimp when it comes to physical activity, but I did this!!

For the Bella Blvd challenge this is the day 2 challenge to use 4 or more different lines. I used Tail Waggers, Mr. Boy, Christmas Wishes, Sophisticates, and Finally Fall.

Bella Blvd Day 4 Challenge - Border Strip Papers

The next challenge I did for the Bella Blvd challenge week was using the border strips. Again, not a huge challenge for me because I use them and love them!

The page is my youngest son on his tetter totter. He loves being outside particularly on the swing set or in the sand box.

Bella Blvd Day 5 Challenge - Punched Circles

I did the punched circles for my next challenge page. I loved the example page by Kimberly Neddo so I did something very similar. You can't see the stitching in the scan but I stitched across the circles.

This page is about the family's love for my iPad. When I ordered it I knew that you could read on it and I knew there was a cool baseball score keeping app, but that was all I knew. Now that we have it I joke they should be sold in pairs because if you have one you will more then likely wish you had two.

Bella Blvd Challenge - Day 1: Use Cute Cuts

I have to say in the overall, I absolutely love Bella's products! The papers just make me happy and they are so fun to use. But then, then, they came out with the sports line and I am forever devoted to Bella!!I have many, many baseball pages to do and this is perfect for pages of my 3 year old t-baller to my 8 years old softball player to my 13 year old junior player. LOVE THEM. I have bought the entire line several times over.

This is a page of my daughter playing baseball a few years ago. She is such a little go getter. She knows more about the game then most any other kid on the team just because she has been around it so much. I love that!

The Day one challenge for Bella Blvd was to use the cute cuts on a page. I love the cute cuts and use them all the time!! So this was not unusual to use them but I liked how the page turned out.

January Project 12

My January Project 12, based on the sketch. Sorry for the bad scan the buttons made the scanner very unhappy!


The photos are: a new exercise routine for the whole family - push up and sit ups each morning, Rockies Fan Fest, Remi at a jump rope competition (that is how he enters the double dutch rope - jumping over the other guys back!), baseball practice, Colston at school, a very nice January day in which Colston decided he should wea his swimsuit all day, Peyton doing the splits.

December Project 12

So my last summary of 2011. I have so enjoyed doing this project and although they are not continuing it in the same way this next year, I think I probably will.

I am anxious to see what they are doing but I suspect it is 12 photos on the 12th and while that would be fun, it really is not the same. I love that this give a nice snapshot of our life each month. With 12 photos on one day you have a great snapshot of that day but you really don't have a complete picture of the month. I always say, if I never scrapbook another picture from 2010 and 2011 it would be ok, because I really feel like I have a nice picture of our lives done. So, anyway, I love Project 12 and here is the last one for 2011.

We had a busy month! Peyton finished her Nutcracker performances, Remi had a MESA competition plus had to build his own molecules. We had my birthday with a wonderful dinner at moms house. Colston had a performance at preschool that was absolutely darling! we made Christmas cookies and delivered trays to friends. We went to the mountains to cut down our Christmas tree as always. we had Christmas Eve at our house and then after we opened presents at our house on Christmas morning, we went to Tam and Pattys for lunch and then went to dad's for the boy's birthdays and a game night. We finished the month with New Year's Eve at Todd and Jackie's house, although we were back home intime to celebrate the new year with daddy and Colston(well, Colston was asleep).

November 2011

Ok, I admit, this sketch scared me! And it came in the month that I take the fewest pictures. I don't know why but I don't take many pictures in November so when I saw the sketch I actually, said, "Oh, my!" Out loud. My hubby asked what was wrong and I just said, "Nothing just scrapbooking." LOL!

So I put off tackling it for quite a while and then I reallt wanted to get it done before the end of the month so I got busy. I also checked out some of the pages already linked up and one lady had a big old photo on one side and suddenly, it was all ok, I knew how to do the page. So i used the picture of my kiddos and my cousin's daughter when we visited the state capitol last month. Not the greatest picture but I wanted to get the gold on the top and the kids and dang, if those kids aren't short! I was laying on the ground for the shot. Very pretty as you can imagine!

Anyway, after that I choose two other more momentous moments to be 4x6 - Remi getting his braces on and the kids and I taking my mom cupcakes on her birthday - 11/11/11 at 11:11am.

Then I filled the page with the random other pictures from the month. There were programs for both Peyton and Coltson, Remi studying as always, hubby's birthday, Thanksgiving, some school activities for Peyton, Colston on the iPad and a great picture of hubby, Remi and I that Colston took.

Another Lifestyle Crafts Give Away

This week Lifestyle Crafts is giving away a Instax camera, lens and film. I see Ali Edwards using this camera and it looks really fun! Here is to hoping that my name is drawn!! ;)

Here is where the contest is at: http://lifestylecrafts.com/blog/imadethisweek6/

Lifestyle Crafts Give Away

I have been a fan of Lifestyle Crafts (formerly Quickutz) for a long time. I was sad when I thought they were going away and was so pleased to see they came back with a different name. They have a contest going on right now on their blog.

http://lifestylecrafts.com/blog/imadethisupdate/

October Project 12

I have been getting photos organized and printed and all. So I went ahead and got my Project 12 done too.

This month was Peyton's birthday Colston playing T-Ball, a weekend in the mountains, my new iPad, and lots of different Halloween prep and activities.

September Project 12

Finally got my September page done. Our September was my brother's Harvest dinner, Colston's T-Ball games, Jock and Remi attending a Pheasant Forever kid's hunt (you hunt the birds not the kids), that same day Peyton and Coltson and I went to our last Rockies game of the year (the picture is my dad and I - not a great picture but I thought it would be nice for me to appear in a Project 12 page for once), Peyton Field Day at school, and Colston and Charlotte enjoying a few mornings at our pool early in the month when the weather was still nice so the pool was open but all the big kids were all in school so it was like our own private pool.

Project 12 - August

Finally got my August page done for Project 12. I included pictures of the kid cousins at the Wainwright's 50th anniversary, Remi's baseball finishing up, first day of school for Remi and Peyton, and an incredibly hot day at the Rockies game that went on for 5+ hours and 13 innings but they won and we had a great day!!

August was so hot here. We had a record number of days in a row over 90 degrees. In other parts of the US they have been over 100 so I should not complain but it was hot. So, I decided to use my new Studio Calico kit and pick the "hot" papers out of it for this page. I cut the "fun in the sun" sun on my Silhouette along with the month and the flourishes which I hoped looked like heat waves. ;)

LOAD Day 9 - Halloween Day

Today's prompt was to use the scraps on your desk. This worked out great because it allowed me to get one more page for my book club next week done. I took photos from all the things we did on Halloween Day last year and made the page.

LOAD Day 7 & 8

Busy day yesterday and I didn't get the LOAD for yesterday posted. The prompt was to go back in time to the scrapbooking trends in 1997. Well, I just couldn't do that. And I had some Silly Bandz that Peyton had that were baseball themed and I "borrowed" a few of them to put on a page. I decided to do that page before she reclaimed her Silly Bandz.

I also skipped today's LOAD prompt. I have my LSS book club next week and need to get the pages made for that so I decided to use the paper from that for today's page. It is MM Halloween line. I looked in my oldest photos binder to find some olllldddd Halloween photos. These are the last of the Halloween photos in that binder. Remi's Halloween party at school in 1st grade. He dressed as Yu-Gi-Oh.

Oh, so I have never posted two photos in one entry so I don't know how to arrange them correctly, but I am sure you can figure out which is the baseball layout and which is the Halloween layout. ;)

LOAD Day 6 - I Read

Today's prompt was to use a self portrait. I have been wanting to do a layout about my love of reading so I did that today. I am on Goodreads and it has a tracker for how many books you have read in the year (I have read 43) and you can convert that to how many pages I was shocked to see I have read 16, 699 pages this year. WOW!). I listed the 43 books I have read since January but the number of stars I gave to book on Goodreads.

Supplies:
paper, flower sticker and journaling sticker - Bella Blvd (their new sports line believe it or not)

Books and loopy border - cut on the Silhouette

Title letters - Jillybean

LOAD Day 5 - Peyton at Happy Apple Farm

Today's prompt was to think about the things you usually do on a page - your "rules" for scrapbooking if you will. And then break the rules you set for yourself. I thought about what things I usually do when scrapbooking and then thought about what I could do differently. I used old product - I usually don't seem to go back into the old stuff preferring my newer goodies. I almost always scrap 12x12 so I made this 8 1/2 x 11. I most often stick with one manufacturer on a page because then I know it will all look nice together. So here I mixed a few manufacturers for the papers and embellishments. I NEVER cut photos into shapes so I cut a photo of apples into an oval. It is very rare for me not to journal on a page so I just put the most basic info on this. And finally, I double matted the photo and I usually don't mat photos at all.

The page is a scraplift from Scrapbook Trends Embellish Idea book. The original page on page 82 was by Christa Paustenbaugh.

LOAD Day 4 - Happy Halloween

This was kinda hard - just the basics. The prompt was just use the most basic supplies that you can. This feels pretty plain to me! There is a hand drawn black line that goes around the outside that got kind of cut off. And that does add something to the page, I think. But I decided before starting that I should be able to use photos, a title, journaling, patterned paper and just a few embellishments. So that is what I stuck with.

The paper is Making Memories, the chipboard embellishments are KI, tite cut on Silhouette.

LOAD 3 - Happy 5th Birthday

Today's prompt was to use pictures that you have had laying out to be scrapped. As soon as I read that I knew these were the photos. They were out with the paper from a few weeks/months ago so it is nice to have them scrapped. This is certainly no masterpiece of a layout but they are done.

LOAD Day 2 - Sugga's

Today's prompt was about laughter. When I thought about that I knew it had to be a page about hanging out with my aunts. They have such wonderful senses of humor!! We like to go to Sugga's and after a large amount of testing I have finally found a drink I like there - a lychee berry martini.