Happy 234th Birthday America

First I want to say Happy 4th of July. We had a wonderful family day. We did not go see any fireworks, but we did get to watch the show on the Capital, NYC, Boston, and the local fireworks shows all on tv. Tonight I wish we had HD, that would have been cool to see. We did also get to see and hear the fireworks neighbors were setting off.

I also want to remind everyone to think about the families who are celebrated the 4th without their loved ones due to them serving our great country!! I know a lot of families going through this right. Saddly, Freedom is NOT Free!!

Onto my scrapping for the day. I was able to get two layouts done with interuptions and it still did not take me that long. The hardest part tonight was finding a sketch that would work. But once I did that it was smooth sailing.

Assignment number 3 was to use a tag sketch. My tag is not EXACTLY like the one on their blog, but it is very smilar, and the sketch def inspired all my choices on the tag I made. (By the way this is the organization happy land I made in the boys' bathroom, if only the rest of the house were this organized!!).

Assignment 4 was to create a monochramatic layout using red, white, or blue. I chose white, because read and blue are only minor in the photos and well they are very busy pictures. I am sure they look familiar to followers. These are the pictures I took when I began the carft room clean up. Yes I scrap just about every picture I take (don't scrap pics of scrap pages). I want my future generations to really know who I was, including, my needed a nice clean house and the process it took to get me there :)

(page kits + sketches) 2 hours = production :)

had a tough week getting into scrapping. I can't really scrap until the boys are in bed, and I keep thinking that only an hour is not enough time to get anything done. tonight both of these pages took 30 minutes each. And the second one I had to scan a medal and look up meet information. This what page kits and sketchs can do for you, they make scrapping so much quicker and productive. My favorite page kit is having another cyber crop over at apronstringsdesigns.blogspot.com. The first two assignments are below :) Will get the other two for this week done tomorrow night. Am hoping to get to scrap from 10 til bed each night, if I can manage to get two pages done, including getting children in bed and nursed, I will be pretty proud of myself and make some progress!!

Assignment one was to use a sketch that was posted. the sketch had a third picture, but since I did not have a third picture I created my own :)
Assignment 2 was to use three different fonts. i did not choose these pictures, I am scrapping chronologically, the event just fit the assignment. I scanned one of Jacob's medals from the meet and then printed the meet logo and information about the child the meet is in dedication to. I then also used sticker letters, so actually have more than three fonts on the page :)

Long Time No Scrap

yeah, it has been so long, and it was so much fun. I really just need to stay on a roll with it and I may actually reach my goal of catching up!! I have decided to focus on getting the boys' baby books, portrait books, and proof albums done, and then this year with challenges. I tried to scan Jacob's baby book, but my scanner wasn't picking up the colors right, so have not been able to do that. Here are the pictures for last week's apron string challenges. the first challenge was to be inspired by fashion, Patrick's shirt was my inspiration. The fridge picture is because he insisted on helping to put the groceries away and let's just say he insisted things belonged where most people would not put them. In the other two he is cutting up his "nana" with his play silver ware he just got for Christmas.

Wednesdays are always a sketch challenge. for this one I was actually one picture short. So the last two photos are actually one, I cut the photo in half and then cropped each half to size :) Jacob loves making smores, so Alex fired up the grill and they had smores, he was a happy boy :)

And Friday is 5 for Friday, we had to use, red, orange, or yellow card stock. patterned paper with circles or waves, trim, epoxy sticker, and metal embellishment. These are pictures I took after I took Robert's 2 month photos. Patrick wanted his picture taken too. He was not happy with just a few photos though. For the most part he is 100% sweet ;-)

Hope to have lots more pictures to post in the near future!!

Been a while

Wow has it been a while and well I haven't cleaned or scrapped in that time either. I am hoping to do more scrapping this month since my fav scrap blog, apronstringsdesigns.blogspot.com, is having another cyber crop. One of the chllanges is "our" hometown, I put our in quotes because this is only my temporary home, as Carrie puts it so well ;-) Anyway, the first challange is to post a picture of our home, so here it is.

I WON!!

I won the big prize for the challange I was doing woo hoo. Just what I needed after sending my son to school sick and having to go get him. I didn't realize he was that sick, just thought it was because he hadn't eatten breakfast and didn't eat a good dinner. I also had to deal with a crabby hubby. They both seem better and I won, woo hoo :) Oh and Robert found his feet, and Patrick lost Robert's paci, but he has gone to sleep fine without it as long as I nurse a little before. So for a bad day, it was pretty good :)

DONE!!

Was a late night, but I got them done!!

For day 16 we were to use at least 4 photo corners, with two not used in the traditional way. 3 of mine are arrows to my kitty, since he is so small in the pictures.

Day 17 was to use a die cut, so I used my dinosaur die cut :)

Day 18 was to use at least two different alphabet stickers, I used 4 :)

Day 19 was to use some form of chipboard.

And the last one, day 20, was to use themed paper in a non-traditional way :)

Am glad to be done, to say the least. Love doing cyber crops, need to try and do the layouts daily though. Need to get back to my personal cropping goal!!

Am trying to get my Feb crop with Apron Strings Designs done. I didn't get them all done within their weeks. Though, week three I did and won a prize :). This is the completion of week 2. Because I needed to find my eyelet setter for challange 6, I did get more cleaning done too.

this is challange 10, we were to use Valentine paper. Don't we look so young ;-)

Challange 9 was to use holiday paper, look at my hubby 10 years ago.

felt shapes for challange 8, these are felt letters. I loved having my dolls and stuffed animals model, I have more layouts coming.

12 eyelets, the layout that got me to clean some more. This is my mommy :)

What I have left to go through, and there is actually a row missing now, will take another pic when I get back to work there. Just finished layout 16, need to finish 4 more tonight so I will have them all done :)