New Sketch...

There's a new sketch over at Scrapbook Challenges. I am a little late in posting this because it totally slipped my mind! You have until the end of the month to create your layouts based on this wonderful sketch and upload them to the scrapbook challenges gallery. For each submission you will be entered to win a kit from JuJu Bee's Scrapbook Corner!

Check out what the talented DT did with the sketch HERE.

New challenge for you...

There's a new challenge at Scrapbook Challenges hosted by yours truly. ;)

My challenge for this month is an easy one. I have been a little busy with a sick little girl over here so I had to make a "quick" layout. I put "quick" in quotations because I am the slowest scrapper ever! In the time it takes me to pick out cardstock most people are done with their layouts!

To speed things up a bit I chose to use only three things on my layout- Patterned Paper, Cardstock and Letter stickers. I call this my "Only Three" layout because you can only use those three things on your layout (and tools do not count). Here is my example:

Upload your finished layouts to the Scrapbook Challenges gallery for you chance to win this month's prize hosted by...... Juju Bee's Scrapbook Corner. You can win one of their awesome kits!

Simply Obsessed's March Kit

Hurry, hurry over to Simply Obsessed to buy the March kit! The February kit sold out in less than a day and this kit will sell out fast too.

And don't forget about the add-ons!

New sketch...

There's a new sketch posted at scrapbook challenges and it is a beauty! I love this sketch.

I didn't get a chance to play along this week because Frances was sick, but this is definitely on my to do list for the weekend. I took her back to the doctor today and she has RSV, a respiratory infection. Luckily it's not too bad. She just needs lots of fluids, rest, and snuggles from mommy. :)

Check out what the talented DT at scrapbook challenges did this week HERE.

**February 14th**

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day! Well little Frances is still not feeling herself so we had a very low key V-day celebration. We went out for a late lunch/ early dinner at this little brewery by our house. The name of the place is in German and I can't even begin to spell it. But they have the best garlic fries! MMmmmm mmm!!! Usually Frances loves to go out to eat. She sits in her little high chair watching everyone and trying to feed her puppy fishy crackers. Her puppy is this little plastic fisher-price dog (here's a picture of him).

It came in the little people set we got her for Christmas. Well "puppy" now goes every where we go and Frances likes to feed him crackers. It is so cute. Today though she sat in her high chair for about a half hour then wanted to be held. I guess we are lucky if that is her version of not behaving in a restaraunt. So we finished eating and then our big V-day outing of the day was to go to the Bass Pro Shop across the street. We must be getting old if we consider that an outing! There is a big fish tank in the store and lots of "stuffed" animals. It is a hunting store so they are those kind of stuffed animals. There are geese, ducks, bears, deer, raccoons, beavers, you name it. Now that Frances knows all her animals it is really fun when she sees them. She could point them all out and doesn't know the difference between the zoo and a store yet. Then she was tired out so we went through the Starbucks drive through for a hot chocolate and then came home. Along with having a cold I stuck my finger in her mouth yesterday and she is getting all her back teeth. That can't be fun! Poor little girl. I feel so bad for her.

Before we left we managed to get a few non-cranky pictures of her in this cute little heart t-shirt.

That little pink hedge hog is "Smitten". I bought him for Frances for V-day. We call him Smitty for short. Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone had a great day. - Sarah

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is less than a day away! So if you need a last minute card I am hosting challenge #6 over at the Simply Obsessed SWAK crop. My challenge is to create a card with the following:

• the colors pink, red and blue (could have others too)
• a white ribbon
• two or more buttons
• a heart

Here is my example-

The crop will be going on through Sunday so I hope you'll stop by! - Sarah

SWAK Crop!!

Join us at Simply Obsessed for the SWAK crop going on now! There are challenges, games, chatting and prizes. The boards are hopping right now too!

My challenge is to incorporate a letter somewhere on a layout. Valentine's Day is all about love letters right? Every Valentine's Day my husband writes me a letter and I want to put it on this layout. I used this sketch from Scrapbook Challenges. The heart was perfect to make a pocket for my letter.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you join us at the crop! - Sarah

Hello February!!!!

Well just a few days I was bummed because I wasn't chosen for two DT's that I applied for, but then the very next day I found out that I was chosen as one of the top 25 finalists for the My Scrapbook Nook DT!

I am so super excited I made it as one of the finalists! The kits there are amazing and you should see the current design team - WOW! The final team will be announced Sunday so keep your fingers crossed for me :)

But that's not it. The following day I found out I was chosen as a guest designer for Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker!

And I will be working with one of her new releases that just debuted at CHA winter. Here is a little peek-

Willow Bee-

 My month will be in March so I will start posting my new Nikki Sivils products then!

Thanks for stopping and letting me share my good new with you. - Sarah

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.