Card Organizer

Here is a fun card organizer that I made for a friend for Christmas. Her favorite color is orange, so this Boom-Di-Ada paper was perfect!

What a way to start off the New Year!!!

So Kaylee woke up early yesterday morning with a tummy ache, which eventually led to her throwing up. One of David's brothers and his family usually plans a sledding party at a warming hut on January 1st every year, so we had planned on going, but when Kaylee woke up sick, we decided to stay home. A couple hours later, Kaylee said she was fine and really wanted to go. It had been a few hours since she'd been yucky so we hoped she was over it and we started getting ready. An hour later we were ready and on our way. The warming hut is about 45 minutes away from home and we got just 5 or 10 minutes away and Kaylee threw up again :-( and I forgot the ziplocs so it was quite a mess. Fortunately, Alco was open, so I bought some new clothes and some ziploc bags and we got her all cleaned up. We didn't want Brianna to miss out on the sledding party, so we took her up the mountain and left her with family and then we came home. Of course, Kaylee was fine the rest of the day, and never threw up again, but it was good to rest - we watched the Looney Toon marathon - I miss those cartoons! I did get some pics, but none of Brianna sledding because Kaylee and I stayed at the bottom while David took Brianna and Brailee up to the hut. He took Brailee down the hill one time and he said she loved it - she was so sad to leave, especially since she was leaving her buddy Brianna behind. But then Brailee fell asleep on the way home and slept until just before Brianna got home, so she didn't miss her for too long. I was bummed that we missed it because it's been about 5 years since we've gone. Last year they were unable to reserve the warming hut, so we didn't go, the year before, I had just had Brailee, so Kaylee went with Grandma and Grandpa and Brianna missed out on that one because she was sick. And the years before that we were either out of town or sick, so I think the last time we all went was January of 2004 and Brianna was just a few months old. Hopefully next year we'll all make it! Anyway, here are some of the pics from yesterday...

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Here are the happy girls on the way...

...then one not-so-happy girl after getting all cleaned up (notice her change of clothes)

Kaylee was fine once we got up there, so I got some happy pictures

As we sat together at the bottom, we were goofing around and taking pictures - luckily I previewed this one and saw Kaylee's face so I asked for a nice picture ;-)

Then she was being a goof and imitating Ralphie's brother (from A Christmas Story) when he was all bundled up and couldn't put his arms down

Here is sad Brailee when it was time to leave

I hope you all had a better (less messy day) - Happy New Year!

December Challenge Update

Thanks to Melissa and Shirene for participating in this month's challenges! Melissa won the drawing for the stamp set! Here is what was created...

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Cherish Challenge - Aesthetic Balance - pg. 32-33
View my Cherish Layout here
View Melissa's Cherish Layout here
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Imagine Challenge - Three-Part Harmony - pg. 44-45
View my Imagine Layout here

Here is Shirene's Imagine Layout...

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Reflections Challenge - Main Frame - Quilt Blocks - pg. 62
View my Reflections Layout here
View Melissa's Reflections Layout here
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Originals Challenge - Diamond Duo - pg. 46
View my Originals Card here

New Year, New Month, New Challenges!

Happy New Year to everyone! Are you ready for some new challenges - I'm actually posting on time this month, too! Remember to post a comment with a link to your entry, or you can e-mail me with your entry, or even stop by so I can get a picture. I can't wait to see what you create! All who participate will get their name in a drawing for a fun pack of cards from my stash!

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Cherish Challenge - Creative Rhythm pg. 36-37

View my Challenge Pages here

View Alanna's Challenge Pages here

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Imagine Challenge - Perfect Prelude pg. 26-27

View my Challenge Pages here

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Reflections Challenge - Bottom Border - Portrait pg. 28

I posted my sample using this layout yesterday - you can view it here

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Originals Challenge - Center View pg. 16

View Alanna's Challenge card here

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I created this card using CTMH's NEW Ms. On the Go stamp set, For Every Occassion, Key To My Heart Paper, Flower Dimensional Element, Sorbet Dash ribbon, and Juniper brads.

Last Minute Contest Entries

I really should be working on getting Kaylee's new room ready for her so we can move the girls to their new sleeping arrangements before the new baby comes, but I was still in a scrappin' mood and David was off to the YM/YW New Year's Activity, so I decided to do some last minute entries for the contests on the PageMaps Blog.
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This page is for the sketch contest using the following sketch...

And I created a companion page to go with it - using January's Reflections Challenge (Bottom Border - Portrait on page 28)

So here they are together - I used one of my favorites, the Cocoa Cafe paper, Cranberry Safety Pins and Brads, Cocoa Grosgrain and Colonial White RicRac ribbons, Classic Alphabet Dimensional Elements and Color Ready Alphabets (stamped with Spot On Background)

And since my girls are such goofballs and love to take silly pictures, I had some extra pictures that I wanted to include, so I put them in a 6 pocket Photo Page (cut in half) and they will go in between the above pages.

This card is for Brailee since she is just so drawn to owls for some reason right now. This is for the Hero Arts card sketch contest - we were to use the following sketch...

I used CTMH's NEW Emporium paper and the Whooo Loves You stamp set with Cocoa Brads for the eyes.

Imagine & Reflections Challenges

Yes! I finally completed this month's challenges! I haven't scrapped for myself in over a month, I've been too busy doing gifts, so it felt good to get some pages for our personal books done, plus get a couple more done for this year's Scrap Counter. Here are the pages that I did for this month's Imagine and Reflections Challenges...
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Imagine - using Magic Moments paper, Rustic Alphabet, Color Ready Alphabet (stamped with a background stamp from Adorable Background), and fun Hollyhock Arrows and Cocoa Brads.

Reflections - using the NEW Daydream paper pack, plus NEW Framed Fun Dimensional Elements (stamped with stamps from the Circle Around set). I had planned on leaving a pocket for a journaling tag, but got a little adhesive happy and glued the entire layout together before I remembered, so I added my journaling along the edge. And suprise, I used my own handwriting! I really don't like my writing, but I'm glad I was able to include it, I really should do it more often! I'm thinking of adding something to the top left corner of the picture - I feel like this page is missing something since I don't have a large title - any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday, Brailee!

I can't believe my baby is 2 - she is growing up too fast!!! Brailee has such a fun personality and she is such a smart little girl. She enjoys playing with her sisters and she loves babies, so she will be fun when the new one comes along! Here is a little flashback...

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...on the way to the hospital two years ago...

...to welcome another baby girl...

...proud big sisters...

...almost 1 week old...

...6 months old...

...1st birthday...

...2nd birthday...

We celebrated last night since David is going to be spending the next couple of days getting ready for the YM/YW New Year's Activity (he is the Stake YM President) - so here is Brailee with her cake.

Christmas Pictures

Here are some pics from our Christmas activities...

...cookies for Santa...

...arms loaded with goodies...

Baby Calendar

My dear friend (pictured here with our baby bumps) had her baby a couple weeks ago - here is the gift that I made for her. It's a calendar to capture baby's first year. I've bought one for each of my girls when they were babies, but never thought of making one until now. The only thing I didn't think about before I started is that is has to be a 13 month calendar in order to get the full year, so I had to un-bind it and add an extra calendar page and then re-bind it. I worked each page around the Dazzling Die-Cuts (Spring Harmony collection) and used just three different sets of papers from CTMH, Heaven Sent (retired), Sweet Harmony, and Sweet Pea. When she is done with the calendar, she can either leave it as is, or cut each page out and it will fit in a 12x12 album.

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Level 1 Page from Heaven Sent

The front of the calendar has her name, birth info, and space for a small family tree.

Cherish - A New Perspective - left

Cherish - Color Celebration - right

Imagine - Safe & Secure - right

Imagine - Classical Look - left

Reflections - Main Frame - Four Square

Reflections - Main Frame - Tied Up

Cherish - Give Me Ten - left

PageMaps - April 2008 MiniMap - I copied this layout here

Imagine - In the Groove - left

Reflections - Front & Center - Main Idea

Imagine - Proof Preview - left

Cherish - Unified Whole - left

Cherish - Graphic Texture - right

On the back of the calendar there is an envelope with the different stickers to mark milestones, growth, and other important dates.