A few of my latest projects....

Wll I didn't make any of the design teams I tried out for in January :(  so I can post these projects now. My sweet husband says they look like they should be in magazines and they are crazy not to pick me. I think he is just blinded by how cute Frances is, LOL. He is sweet to say that though. Anyway here they are....

This is my new favorite layout of Frances (and what a coincidence it is named favorite). She just loves Curious George. Whenever she sees a picture of him she squeals in delight. It is so cute when she tries to say George too. It comes out like "Ga-orge". Did I mention she's walking now too? Well now it's more like running.

And here is the cutie doing her best poses for the camera.

And an older pic of the two of us together.

Some cards and such...

Thanks for stopping by- Sarah

New "Scrapbook Challenges" Challenges :)

Hey there everyone. This is one tired mommy here! Frances is walking everywhere and getting some of those pesky back teeth in so she is crying and drooling all over. Poor little girly. I did get a little break last weekend when I went to my favorite all day crop. I got lots done, but I can't show you everything....... yet :) Stay tuned I will post it soon! Here are some new challengs from Scrapbook Challenges that I can post. Please come play along with us this month. There are some fun challenges and you have still time to get them done to be eligible for the super cute Nikki Sivils stuff that will go to one lucky participant.

And speaking of Nikki Sivils.....

My challenge for January is the "Mix it up" challenge. I took the super cute Nikki Sivils paper (which is all boy) and turned it girly  with some pink carstock and embellishments for my sweet Frances. My challenge is to mix up some boy paper to make it more feminine (or girl paper to make it more masculine).

And here is Pamela's new sketch and my take on the sketch. It is labeled sketch 183 on the forum. So funny story here- I wanted to paint my kitchen green. My husband kept saying are you sure you want green? I kept saying yes. So green it is. And I hate it. Really, really hate it. And the worst part? Now all my pics of Frances in her high chair are bright green (exhibit A below- 'nuff said.). I don't want to say anything to my husband though because I know he'll say he was right about the green. So now my kitchen is green. Permanantly.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you at Scrapbook Challenges. Good night.

My last Projects for A Walk Down Memory Lane

Sadly my DT term has come to an end with A Walk Down Memory Lane. It was such a great store to design for and Lisa the owner is just great! I will miss the DT and wish everyone who is applying for the new team Good Luck!

For my last DT reveal I created these projects:

I used my October Afternoon Farm Fresh on this one. Love, love, love that line!

This is a lift from a lo in the Feb. issue of CK. It was the "make a page" in 15 minutes column. I think it took me about 15 minutes to just choose carstock, but it was quicker than most- LOL! I figure it is just like those Rachael Ray recipes- they never take me 30 minutes either. I liked this LO when I saw it in the magazine because I have a bunch of left over random stickers and embellishments here and there and this was perfect to use those up.

And last here is sweet Frances trying to take down the tree. Really this is her second Christmas but since she was born at 5:11pm on Christmas day we like to say it is her 1. 5 Christmas. For the pictures I took them without flash, then lightened them a little in photoshop. Not sure about the result, but I think they are still cute.

I have a few projects I can't show yet, so check back at the end of the week for more. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great night.

Save the date

for the Simply Obsessed SWAK crop! So what does SWAK stand for you ask? SWAK means "sealed with a kiss" and is the perfect name for our Valentine's Crop. There will be challenges, games, prizes, chatting and more. Hope to see you there!

Simply Obsessed's January Sketch

It is a snowy, snowy day here! It took me two hours to drive to school this morning and I only live 12 miles away. To be honest I did stop at Starbucks for a Chai Latte though (but shhh, that's a secret- hehehe).

Well this month I had the honor of designing the January sketch for Simply Obsessed. Here is my sketch and the LO I created from it. I used my new Nikki Sivils paper and some of the Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday paper I had left over from my Scrapbook Challenges blog hop LO. My little Frances is trying to open her xmas presents here. It was cute to watch. I gave her some help after I took the pics :)

Thanks for stopping by!

AWDML January Projects and winners...

Thank you so much to everyone that visited this weekend and left comments. I appreciate all the comments so much and it never gets old hearing how cute Frances is ;)  I look forward to spending more time with everyone on the Scrapbook Challenges forum in the next few months.

So as promised one lucky girl will win the Sassafras goodies. And since I was truly amazed by the kindness of everyone's comments and all the new followers I got this weekend I am going to pick a runner up for a mystery RAK. Hmmm, what will it be? Well one reader will find out!

Since there were 94 comments I put the numbers 1-94 into a random number generator at random.org and here are the results:

For the Sassafras goodies-

the winner is

Janet Z said...
Great take on the sketch and your little Frances is adorable!
January 3, 2010 7:57 AM


For mystery RAK number 1 the winner is...
 
Rose Ann said...
Congratulations on making the Scrapbookchallenges DT! I like your take on the sketch, kids grow up so fast! Sassafrass goodies Oh my, thanks for the chance to get this RAK!
Congrats girls! Email me with your mailing address at scrapcetera@aol.com and I will get those out to you soon.
 
 
Now for my A Walk Down Memory Lane January Projects....
 
This month at {AWDML} the featured manufacturers are SEI and Cornish Heritage farms stamps. These manufacturers will be at least 25% all month long.
 
I used some fun SEI paper on this LO of Frances eating her Bday cake. Isn't that face just adorable?

I used some SEI paper and Cornish Heritage Farms stamps for this fun card. I used colored pencils to color in the stamped bee images and outline the stamped "Bee Mine" sentiment. It doesn't look as good as coloring in with copics, but it is quick and looks cute.

My last project is a notecard to write goals for 2010 on. Every year I make a list of goals on a plain piece of notebook paper and tack them on the fridge. This year I made this cute notecard with Pink Paislee Mistletoe and Co. paper. It is hanging up in my scrapbook room right now with all my goals. Which include cleaning up my scraproom "everytime" I scrap. So far so good! And it looks much cuter than the notebook paper!

Thanks for stopping by and congrats to the winners!

Scrapbook Challenges Blog Hop!

I am so excited to announce I am one of the newest DT members for Scrapbook Challenges! I can't wait to get started on the challenges and meeting lots of new friends in the forum. If you haven't been to the Scrapbook Challenges forum yet, you won't be dissapointed. There is a sketch each week and multiple challenges each week. Add on tutorials, crops, games, and chatting and you will not run out of inspiration there! Pamela Young, the founder, makes the best sketches! Just check out the sketch below and see for yourself.

A little about myself- My name is Sarah and I have been scrapbooking for the past 8 years or so. One year ago (on Christmas day) my daughter Frances was born and I have been scrapbooking her ever since. I like to create LO's that are cute because Frances is cute. I am really excited to get to know everyone at Scrapbook Challenges.

So on to the hop! To the celebrate New Year's and introduce the DT Scrapbook challenges is having a blog hop Jan. 1st - Jan. 3rd.

If you are just arriving you can start at: Pamela's Blog

For the hop each DT member created a layout based on Pamela's sketch below. Since it's New Year's the theme of the LO could be "changes" or "resolutions". I chose to do my LO on how fast Frances changed throughout the year.

Here is the sketch....

And my take on the sketch...

Scrapbook Challenges is all about inspiration so if this sketch inspired you please HOP ON to the blog hop by creating a LO of your own based on the blog hop sketch. There will be a HOP ON section of the forum to link your LO and a RAK for one lucky "hopper onner" (details below).

And now for the fun part- the RAKs! There are several up for grabs and multiple ways to win. Good luck to all!

1. I am giving away these SASSAFRAS GOODIES! Included is a set of acrylic stamps, three packages of stitched buttons, one package of chipboard shapes and one sheet of stickers. To win leave a comment on my blog on this post. I will pick one post at random and announce the winner here on Jan. 4th.

2. One lucky person who leaves a comment on all the blogs of the blog hop will win a collection of goodies from MY LITTLE SHOEBOX.

3. One person who creates a layout based on the sketch above and link it in the HOP ON section of the Scrapbook Challenges forum by Midnight MST on Jan 3rd will win the Origins collection from BASIC GREY that includes:

* Origins Collection Pack of 12 x 12 papers

* Origins Stitched Brads

* Origins White Tracery Doilies Paper

* Origins Brown Tracery Doilies Paper

* Origins Chip Sticker Shapes

* Origins Chip Sticker Abcs

* Origins Canvas Tags

* Origins Bloomers

* Origins Buttons

4. A package from PRIMA MARKETING will go to someone who JOINS the group this weekend and another will go to someone who INVITES someone to join the group this weekend (through the invite link on the group).

5. A RUSTY PICKLE chipboard album and collection of trims will go to one person who leaves comments on all posts for layouts in the HOP ON section of the Scrapbook Challenges forum.

WHEH! That's a lot of prizes! Good luck to all that enter and thanks for stopping by.

The next blog to hop to is: Annie!

Top Ten of 2009

I have to say of all the years, 2009 has been my favorite so far. My sweet Frances was born on Christmas day 2008 and life hasn't been the same since.

In 2009 I stayed up all night with a crying baby, changed diapers, learned what it's like to be a stay at home mom, then learned what's it like to be a full time working mom with a baby in daycare.

I changed diapers and warmed up bottles and realized just how much you can love a little person that you just met. I can't imagine 2010 being better, but I am sure it will.

My friends at Crop Addict had the idea of posting a top ten list of our favorite layouts. I thought it was good idea to end 2009 so here is mine in no particular order.

Before the projects....

I will be giving away a RAK here on January 1st along with an announcement. I hope you stop by! Oh by the way mine won't be the only RAK you can win. Did that leave you in suspense? I hope so. Hehehe!

Happy new year to you and your family, hope to see you back on the 1st day of 2010.

I think this may just be my number one favorite LO. I just look at it and smile!

My little girl Frances's feet when she was only a few minutes old. Boy a year sure goes by fast!

I just like this one. I think it's cute!

Not my best LO, but my first LO of Frances. It will always have a special place.

Look at those baby rolls! Need I say more?

My two favorite people so how can it not be in the top ten?

I love these photos and love how this lo turned out.

Two words- It's fun!

This is my second favorite LO of all time (the first being the first of this post). I just laugh every time I see it.

And last- one of my more recent LO's.

My little girly is one!

I haven't had much time to do any scrapping, but I have been taking pictures! My little girly turned one on Christmas day and I still am in disbelief. Everyone said it would go by fast, but this is unbelievable. Just yesterday (it seems) I was holding little baby Frances in one hand. Here are just a few of my favs (I seriously took almost 1000 photos last week, of course most were blurry because well you know how one year olds are!)...

This is the birthday girl in her cutel little bday bib opening presents. Her party was the Sat. before Christmas.

The birthday girl and mommy.

The birthday party had a Curious George theme so we just had to have George cupcakes.

Frances enjoying her first ever piece of cake (or any type of sweet for that matter). I think she liked it.

Now on to Christmas...

I think she had a lot of practice opening presents at her party. Here she looks like a pro.

And her best pose in her Christmas outfit. I just love this one!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and has an even better New Year!

A sneak peak at the SO January kit!

Heather at Simply Obsessed has decided to change things up. Which is good news for me because it means I get the monthy kit early! The kit reveals will now start the third week of the month BEFORE the kit is released instead of in conjunction with the kit release. That means you can see all the DT projects and be ready to scrap when your kit arrives.

There are so many fun little things in this kit, I just don't know where to start. All the stars and metal - I had to hold back on using it all on one layout. The Making Memories foil die cuts (available as an add-on) are awesome too. I love all the fun boy sayings on them. Having a girl I am usually creating pink girly pages so this was a welcome change. Before my daughter was born I mostly scrapped my nephews and doggies, but have fallen behind lately. This kit was the perfect reason to go back and scrap these older pictures.

This layout is of my nephews at the park a few summers ago. As soon as I saw those cute stamps I knew I had to take these pics out. It is a little hard to see in the picture, but the tractor on the stamp looks just like the one my nephew is sitting on.

The second layout is of my doggies Bacon and Kody. They are always into some kind of mischief so I used the big sticker from the sticker sheet as my title. They are laying under a hot pink blanket so I chose to use a black and white photo. I used some white leftover cardstock to make a little dog bone and added the mischeivous sticker. The journaling says: "When I see the two of you like this, it makes me wonder what you just did."

And last- I created this bday card for my friend's little boy who is turning one. She really isn't into the cutesy stuff so I thought she would like this "all boy" card. The picture is blurry because I had to take it at night. Sorry!

Hop on over to Simply Obsessed to get your hands on this kit! The January kit will start shipping the first week of January and you don't want to miss out.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful holiday. We will be celebrating both Christmas and a first birthday in our house!

Decorative pin tutorial

Yay! Only one more day until Christmas Break! This Christmas and birthday together is wearing me out. I have been so busy planning little Frances's part I haven't had time to buy any Christmas presents. Luckily I have Monday off work so I can spend all day shopping.

I think I have everything planned for the little girlies big day except for the cake. It is going to be a Curious George theme and I still need a curious george cake. George has been harder to find that I thought. Lots of Pooh cakes, but no George cakes. So I will be on the hunt tomorrow.

In my spare time (hahahaha) I put this tutorial together for Simply Obsessed. Please forgive me for the pictures. I was taking these last night at midnight. Did I mention the little girl had a fever of 104 yesterday so I had to take her to the immediate care? Oh and I hit my MIL's car backing out of the driveway in the process. So it was a pretty busy night. My husband did make some comments again about it this morning. Sheeesh, besides inventing a time machine and preventing the accident all togher there's really not much I can do about it now, but I will probably hear about this one for awhile.

Ahhh, I digress, back to the pins. I call all pins t-pins because really I don't know the difference between them. But I will just call them pins here. This is really quick, really easy and really cute. OK, so here goes:

1. Gather your supplies-

You will need pins, beads of different colors and sizes, and a strong liquid adhesive like glossy accents or diamond glaze. I bought the pins and beads at a Joann's when they were 50% off.

2. Thread the beads on the pins in the desired arrangement.

4. On the bottom of the last bead add a little of the adhesive covering the entire opening of the bead and let dry.

5. These are different pins I made. You can embellish them with ribbons or other accents.

And here is a card I used one of the pins on.

Thanks for looking and have a great night!