It's Christmas time!

Can you believe we are less than 10 days away from Christmas?!  So it seems only fitting to have a Christmas themed challenge this week over at the Use Your Stuff Blog...and since I get to choose....

I have been meaning to scrap these photos of my two oldest from 2017 when I surprised them both with an ugly Christmas sweater shirt just after Thanksgiving.  Their shirt were totally fitting to their individual personalities.  And I am very happy to say that they both still wear their shirt even now, two years later!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team!

Happy Monday and Happy Scrapping!

Did someone say SNOW?!

Well, there is definitely no snow currently here in the Sunshine State...but the latest challenge at Use Your Stuff is calling for snow!  Our team was tasked with creating a project mostly using mostly white with a pop of color thrown in.  I actually had a harder time with this than I thought and there is probably a little more color to my layout than the challenge would have called for...but nonetheless, here is my attempt at the UYS Snow Challenge...

Be sure and check out the rest of the Design Team!

Happy Scrapping!

Scrappy Time!

So in the true fashion of actually using our stuff, this week's challenge for the Use Your Stuff Design Team was to use scraps from a previous project...and since I still had it all sitting on my desk, I decided to use scraps from the recent Tic-Tac-Toe challenge...

It felt good to use up some of the scraps sitting on my desk.  I think I may challenge myself to keep going until all of the scraps from the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge have all been used...then I won't have to worry about putting them away! ;)

Check out how the rest of the team used up some of their scraps.

Happy Monday and Happy Scrapping!

Let's Play Tic-Tac-Toe...

This week over at the UYS Blog, we are playing a little tic-tac-toe!  We got to choose our line, whether it was across, down or diagonal...I opted to go straight down the middle and so my challenge was to include an arrow, the color red and a little bling.

I love these pics of my daughter and my youngest son.  We had just spent the day at Dinosaur World and stopped off at Cracker Barrel for lunch on the way home.  They were being so sweet...thank goodness for camera phones!  I used up some old Reminisce and few pieces from a DCWV tag book and a paper pack...finished it off with some rhinestone bling and a tag from Elle's Studio.

Be sure and check out the rest of the Design Team and share your own tic-tac-toe project!

Happy Monday and Happy Scrapping!

Aloha!

Our Design Team challenge this week was to use labels on our projects.  Labels are such great little embellishments to add.  I have managed to start quite a collection thanks to Elle's Studio and since purchasing the three label punch that Shimelle loves so much!

I originally had a lot more labels on this Stitch LO but ultimately decided that less is more...I really just wanted the main focus of this layout to be Stitch and my daughter. 

Be sure and check out what the rest of the Design Team came up with this week.

Happy Scrapping!

Back to School

My youngest started Kindergarten a couple of weeks ago.  He tends to be a little less than cooperative these days whenever we try to take a picture and his Kindergarten Open House was no exception! 

We were challenged to do a Back to School project his week over at Use Your Stuff and so I thought it was a perfect opportunity to showcase this one particular photo of my little man...

Be sure and check out the rest of the Design Team HERE...

Happy Labor Day and Happy Scrapping!

BE {YOU} TIFUL

The Design Team had another Mood Board challenge this week.  I feel like I struggle with these sometimes.  The green is the first thing that caught my eye...and then the wood on the lighting and the table...and then the stack of books...

So, I was inspired to scrapbook a couple of photos from my daughter's senior session last August...

Check out the rest of the Design Team HERE

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Inspired by Disney

It's my turn to host the Design Team Challenge this week at Use Your Stuff...and it was a fun one for me since we were challenged to create a project inspired by Disney.  Anyone who knows me, even a little bit, knows that Disney is my Happy Place, so combining that with my love of Scrapbooking makes me one happy mama!

Our kingdom's only princess attended her Senior Prom this past April and she reminded me of another princess, especially when I saw these pictures of her...

Since the challenge was to be "inspired by" I opted to keep the Disney touches simple and keep the focus mainly on the pictures of Our Beauty...

Be sure and head over to the Use Your Stuff blog and see how the rest of the Design Team was inspired.

Happy Scrapping!

Another Mood Challenge

Our team was challenged with another mood board this week...

My original plan was to use this super sweet photo of my little guy hanging out with a grasshopper...

But alas, my printer did not want to cooperate so I had to go looking for different photos and came across these photos of my 3 kiddos.  I used up some Little Yellow Bicycle and October Afternoon as well as some Elle's Studio and Ali Edwards goodies.

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the Design Team came up with.

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Happy Summer!

Happy Summer!

This week I am hosting the Design Team Challenge over at Use Your Stuff and it is all about Summer!

Unfortunately around these parts, the beginning of Summer also marks the beginning of Hurricane Season...ugh!  So we will just focus on the positive...like the fact that our kingdom's only princess just graduated high school, made the colorguard team for college and is currently embarking on a trip to Scotland with my mom, my sister, brother-in-law and nephews!  

Or the fact that all 3 of my kiddos were under the same roof for a few days as our College Boy made it home for both his little brother's VPK graduation and his sister's high school graduation!

We can also focus on the fact that my little guy FINALLY got to fly a kite after having been obsessed with them for the last month or so after they had a "Kite Day" at his school!  I pulled out some super old Echo Park to scrapbook the photos.  He was in absolute heaven! 

Be sure and check out what the rest of the Design Team came up with and maybe share your own project as well!

Happy Monday and Happy Scrapping!

Celebrating Moms

The UYS Design Team challenge this week was all about Moms...and since I just got the Echo Park "I am Mom" collection, I decided to play around with some photos of myself and my 3 kiddos.  These were taken back in 2015...

Be sure and check out the rest of the Design Team HERE.

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Happy Monday and Happy Scrapping!

Let's play tag....

I have been slacking a bit in the scrapping department...even completely missed out on the NSD this year...lift has been taking its toll.  But alas I finally have a LO for this week's Use Your Stuff Challenge: "Tags and Frames".  I used an old tag as part of my title of my Princess Bunny page.  Hard to believe this little cutie will be graduating from high school in less than a month!

Be sure and stop by the blog to see what some of the other Design Team members came up with.

Happy Monday and Happy Scrapping!

Definitely a challenge...

This week the team was challenged to use washi tape on a project.  For most scrapbooker's that is a piece of cake...for me...not so much.  I actually don't have very much of a washi tape collection (*gasp*...I know...it's unheard of!) and alas, most of what I do have is holiday themed.  I wasn't really feeling in a holiday mood but thankfully I was able to find a couple of more generic rolls to add some embellishment to my Mickey and Minnie layout...

Be sure and go check out what the rest of the team did.

Happy Scrapping!

The Rainbow Connection

It's my turn to host the challenge over at Use Your Stuff this week and it is all about RAINBOWS!

When my daughter was little, she loved getting her face painted...and when we were at Walt Disney World, she always chose the same "frog princess" design...every. single. time.

I did a simple paper piecing to mimic her face painting...

Be sure and stop over to see what the rest of the Design Team came up with.

Happy Scrapping!

Do you believe in MAGIC?

Use Your Stuff Blog has teamed up with the ladies over at the Double Trouble Challenge Blog again for a little *MAGIC* :)

Anyone who knows me know that Disney is pure *Magic* for me and it is hard to think about Disney without thinking about Tinkerbell...

For the Double Trouble Challenge, I took a bit from Thing 1 and played Tic Tac Toe across the bottom of the board using Die Cuts, Vellum and Ribbon...also a bit of Thing 3 considering my layout involves the most magical fairy herself!

Be sure and stop over at both Use Your Stuff and Double Trouble for a chance to win Double Trouble's random drawing prize :)

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

In the Kitchen

This week the challenge for the Design Team at Use Your Stuff was all about food so I was finally inspired to do a layout about mine and my daughter's very first Disney Dole Whip...seriously don't know why it took SOOOO long for us to finally try one!  So yummy and now we are hooked!

Be sure and check out what the rest of the team came up with.

Happy Scrapping!

As Time Goes By...

This week over at Use Your Stuff our projects had to have a "time" theme...I ended up asking my daughter for help and let her pick out the pictures and determine the title.  I am still working through photos from June 2013 and kept this layout pretty simple...

Snack Time With Mickey!

Be sure and hop over to Use Your Stuff to see what the rest of the Design Team did :)

Wishing you a *Magical* Monday!