Scrapbooking, Weed Bouquet

I hope everyone had a good valentines day. My daughter had so many fun activities with school and church. I made lots and lots of boxes for her school class party. It took forever! I really think valentines day is the best when you are a kid and really should just be celebrated when you are little. Little kids have so much joy when they give all their little friends cards. If you do that as an adult you get a lot of weird looks!

So here is my layout for the Memory Nest. It defiantly has a love theme to it with my title. The crazy part is that I was in not the greatest mood when I was working on this page, but when I put the title down, I became much more calm. It was very therapeutic. To sum up what happened, lets just say mean mommy comes out when mommy wants to go to bed after a very long day, but everyone is awake 3.5 hours past bed time and making a mess and destroying furniture. I was so frustrated and didn't know what to do, so I scrapbooked! I also vowed that my kids would never get a piece of candy for the rest of their lives. It doesn't mater how early in the day they consume it, they turn into monsters for the rest of the day. The last time they had had candy was Halloween and a very similar thing happened.

I really enjoyed this sketch. Looking back, I wish I printed my photos off a little smaller for this layout. I had a few different things in mind that ended up being to difficult to do with the size I printed. Anyways, I did some stitching to represent the arrows. It's hard to tell in the photo, but in person the page has a nice texture from it. I know the background paper is a bit random, but I loved the colors in it! Another random side story is that while I was trimming this paper my husband asked me if I had a lightbulb and I handed him this paper and said I had a bunch of them! I thought it was hysterical.

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Valentine's Day Wreath

Now that the Christmas decorations are down, it is time to make some Valentine's Day decorations to put up! I have seen some in the store, but it is much more fun to make your own. So here is how I made my sweet heart wreath. First you need a hoop (the one I used had about a 7 in diameter), 7 big wooden hearts, 8 small wooden hearts, paint, glitter, ribbon, and some hot glue. I took all my hearts and painted them a solid color and then went back over them and made some patterns or outlined them. I thought they were looking a little boring so I went back and put some glitter on random ones. Then I went around and hot glued the big ones and tried to make them as evenly spaced as possible. Then I hot glued the smaller ones on top of the bigger hearts, tied some ribbon, and then hung on my door!

Scrapbooking, Adore

Every once in a while, I make a layout that I absolutely love and this is one of them. I think it might be the rainbowness of it all that I love. This is really a random photo of my daughter that I took while we were waiting for the bus. I played with the photo on my phone and made it more rainbowy. I really like how it came out, so I printed it out for my project life, but then I decided it needed its own page. It really is a random page for a random photo. This is my page for the Memory Nest . The circles on the sketch were my major inspiration. I felt that they would make a fun background. At first, I changed the circles to triangles and then I noticed all these old frames on my desk. I'm a chipboard frame hoarder. lol. I thought most of the frames were really ugly or they had patterns that I would never use. At first, I was going to just paint the frames white, but then I decided to make them gray. I'm glad I made them gray because now they

Scrapbooking, First Solo

I can't believe how much time has gone by since I last scrapbooked. Well, I finally have been inspired to scrap again and I found a fun challenge with a very happy mood board that got my creative juices going again. Recently, my daughter got to dance her first solo on a stage. I had only seen her dance this when she was first learning this. She had a broken wrist at the time, so I never had seen some of the moves until she danced it on stage. It had been over a year since she was on a stage and she has never been on one all by herself. I wasn't sure how she was going to do. I could tell she was getting nervous, but she did a beautiful job. I was a very proud mommy. =) I really wanted to add one more picture, so I added this photo on a pull out tab. I always enjoy the pages that have a little interactive part to them. While the paper I used for this layout was all new, all the embellishments are things that I have had for a long time. I used some old stickers, wooden

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