Week #6 page

I can't believe I have done six pages!!! For any and all that know me well, I'm lucky when I get 1 page done in 6 weeks...LOL...I just couldn't get into my groove. I can tell you what really helps is Stampin Up...Their products that match everything so well make it so much easier for me to get things done. I think that's what makes me the most crazy with scrapbooking is I don't want to guess if what I am using matches. Stampin Up is so great for me that way, all the guess work is done on matching paper to cardstock. Anywho, this is my daughter Jillian who I can't believe turned 18 this year. Seems like yesterday I brought her home from the hospital. Where does time go.

Stamps-polka dot punches

paper-certainly celery, bashful blue, so saffron, ww, Sahara sand and Delicate Dots DSP from SAB catalog

ink- C Celery, S Saffron, B Blue, S Sand

Accessories-dazzling Diamonds, Loads of letter & Heidi Swapp chipboard, iridescent ice, ribbon bundle from SAB catalog

Thanks for looking

Susan

Scraptahlon Week #5 page

This page was for week #5 on the scraptathlon challenge on scrapbook.com. We had to have a picture of motion and we had to come up with a Haiku, which I didn't even know what a Haiku was until this week. I came in first with this page on the neighborhood votes and the judges votes. I have come close but never taken first place until this week. I work on my pages for days and this page I did in about 30 minutes and I came in first. Maybe that is the key for me...LOL...This is my son Jeremy on one of our trips to Rosarito, Mexico...we love the beach and I love getting pictures of the kids at the beach. I can and have taken hundreds of pictures of them here...LOL....

I used:

Stamps-Sanded background stamp

Paper-old DSP paper, baja breeze, kraft, whisper white, and Blue Bayou

Ink- blue bayou, baja breeze, close to cocoa

accessories-bling, Prima Marketing, chipboard-Heidi Swapp

Week #4 Scraptathlon page

This weeks challenge was to scrap about a positive change and it had to have something about President Obama on the page. It could be like my page and have pics or it could be some of his AWESOME speeches and quotes. It didn't have to be about him but I had wanted to do a page about his election and the excitment of that election night. Then I went online and found some pictures of him and that was that...there was one pic I found of Bush and Laura in Air Force one flying away from the White House with the Obamas and Bidens waving good bye on the White House steps...and I was going to talk about the positives in just that one picture...LOL...but decided I wanted votes...hee hee hee....Which by the way I came in second from the neighborhood vote and I don't know where I placed with the judges...We also had to make the page in purple whcih was the true challenge for me as I really dislike this color...ALOT!!.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!

I'm so excited for kick off. I was raised in Las Vegas but my household has been Steeler fans from the time I could understand what football was. I am making all kinds of fun food and getting my camera charged and ready. Every year my boys go to a Demolay party but this year we are all staying here for the game. I can get some great pictures....lol...watch I will either be to caught up in the game and not take any OR my kids will not cooperate, to which I will beat them...LOL...my whole house is buzzing. Jared can't wait to see what we make this year. GO STEELERS!!

I got my First Blogging Award

and I was such a loser that I didn't know how to do it...LOL....I am going to figure it out today.

Thank you Lydia for nominating me

How awesome right! So now here is what I got to do. I need to name 5 addictions, and 5 people I'd like to pass on my "fabby award" to. Ok, first with addictions...

1. Diet Dr. Pepper- I just don't know what I would do without it.

2. Stampin Up-love the papers and how you get a perfect match for everything

3. scrapbook.com-great group of ladies there and I love the challenge forums

4. REALITY SHOWS- it doesn't matter which ones I LOVE them all. Bachelor, top chef, Americas Next Top Model, Amazing Race, and the list goes on and on. I am not afraid to admit it but I LOVE these shows.

5. I love time management games- Diner Dash, Farm Frenzy, Nanny Mania, just to name a few and the list on those could go on some more.

My to 5 bloggers who should get this award

1. Jenn

2. Estee

3. Dawn

4. kimberkv

5. Chat-nitestamper

I never scrap this much in one day let alone one week...LOL

This page I did for Scrap Whispers challenge for this weeks use your own handwriting. This was really hard for me because my handwriting is not the best. I do try to make sure that I write every so often so that my kids have a tangible piece of me in there books.

This is Mitchell this past Halloween. We went to a good friends house for a carving party and had a blast. The best thing about it is we did it outside and the mess wasn't as bad...LOL...Not to mention the kids got to carve with their friends and every got along so well.

Thanks for looking.

Another page...I'm on a roll

I don't usually get much time in for scrapbooking but I have been in such a mood to that today I did this page and one other one. I a true Gemini in every way because I am forever changing my mind about what size pages I want for my kids. So years ago I decided I would do both sizes for my kids. It satisfies my need for 12x12 and 8 1/2x11...I know I am weird but I love to work with both sizes when the mood hits me. I have decided that once a week I will send my kids into my scrapbook stash and pick one thing for me to use on a page. This week Jared pulled out these cute fishing 3-D stickers and I knew what pics I had to go with them. I think I will have the next child pull this week. That's one way to use up old stash without having to give it away. I figure, it may not be how I scrap now but I bought it once before and I must have thought it cute or I wouldn't have given it a second look. I should purge and donate but I love my old scrapbooking supplies to much....LOL...and now I'm lovin this page...

The paper is old DSP from Stampin Up

Cardstock is also Stampin Up, Dk brown is Bazzill

Fish stickers-Provo Craft (I think)

Inks- Stampin Up