First Day of Senior Year

Hope your Christmas celebrations were wonderful! We had a great time together. Looking forward to celebrating some more this weekend with our extended family. This post has nothing to do with Christmas at all. =) Thought it was time to give you something new to look at, though.

My son, Jacob, is a senior this year. What makes that even more significant is that he had to transfer to a new school this year. It's going really well for him! This layout is pictures taken the morning before he left for his first day of school. We've had a tradition of going out for breakfast on the first day of school. It's always been a lot of fun, even though it means getting up earlier. So, this is my last "1st day of school" layout! Isn't that sad??? Oh my goodness (sniff).... I'll try to be strong.

Left side:

I should explain here that he doesn't typically have to get all dressed up with a tie. He played goal keeper on the varsity soccer team. They had a game that day, so he had to dress up on his first day, which was a bit of a bummer. I used his new school colors and that worked so well with the clothing he and my hubby were both wearing. 

 Right Side (my photo is a bit blurry...=()

The layout ended up almost too balanced and symmetrical, so I added the off centered brackets at the bottom to throw things off a little bit. 

Together:

If you're wondering about the snazzy blue car, it's from Paper Doll cartridge. It's one of the accessories. My son probably wishes he had a cool car like this, but as you can see from the top left picture, he does not.

Have a happy New Year and enjoy your time celebrating! Thanks for following my blog. I look forward to another year of scrappy fun with you.



"Dune Rides" - Summer vacation

Here's a really simple layout of our trip to MacDunes this summer. It's very simple because there is not a lot of matting or fussyness to it, but the metallic blue background kind of makes it all pop. The sketch is mine. Sometime I'm going to draw out the sketches that are my own and put them here on the blog. I just haven't figured out the best way to draw them out yet. I like to run my pictures off the top of the page and use a similar color for the background paper. It seems to make the subjects in the picture look just a little bit 3D.

The left side....You'll see us in the back row....me, Jacob, Cindy, and Joel. Always pick the back, it's the most fun and you kind of fly out of your seat! You can see Jacob with his mouth wide open in the bottom right picture....LOL!

The right side.... Here I matted and added twine around the focal picture. The sun border is from Life is a Beach Cricut cartridge. I inked the edges with red to really make it look hot and give it more definition.

Here's both pages together so you can see the flow of it. Enjoy and thanks for following my blog!!!

Screamin for ice cream after a day at Silver Lake

Hope everybody is having a great day and is looking forward to a fabulous weekend. It's my birthday! I'm having an extra special day! For now, I'm forgetting about the getting older part of birthdays and going straight to the fun part...family time!

I've been away from my blog for a few days while I was in Denver for a conference. It was a great trip, but it went way too fast. I wish I could have seen more of Denver and less of the inside of a classroom, if you know what I mean.

I missed my blogging while I was gone. I'm actually running a little dry on things to post. When, oh when, do I get to scrap again???? Hopefully next weekend!! I can't wait!

For now, I'm going to post a cute layout of vacation photos taken after a day at Silver Lake, Michigan. We found the cutest little place on our way back from the lake. We had ice cream at Bubba's. We had such a nice time chillin' out together.

The pictures were screamin' for blue and red, so here's what I came up with.

There were birds nesting in a birdhouse right near our table. We had a great time watching them and my hubs got some great pictures. I love the little letter stickers that help spell out my sub-title. Have you ever heard the little saying "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream?" We used to chant that all the time when I was young! I used Cricut cartridge "Lyrical Letters" for the large title (SCREAM).
Love the pictures of Mark sucking on a lemon. Wish the photos had turned out a little brighter, though. You can also see the paper "ribbon" that I folded accordion style here.
Thanks for reading my blog!! Have a wonderful weekend.

Home run evening

Happy Labor Day to all of you...or would that be Merry Labor Day? =) I guess it doesn't matter as long as you are enjoying yourselves. My day off has been very constructive...cleaning, more cleaning, unpacking from our few days in Michigan, some laundry, and more cleaning. Oh...and a little bit of blogging now. It's been too long.

This is a double layout of photos taken at our company picnic and baseball game. I work for an insurance company who is so good to all of their employees. They pay for the entire event and we just come and have a great time with our co-workers and our families.



I especially like the dark blue background. It seems to bring out all of the colors in my picutres during the picnic, the ball game and then later on for all of the great pictures of the fireworks that my hubs was able to capture. He snaps them and I scrap them!! A match made in heaven....most of the time. =) I'm always excited when I can creatively scrap a lot of pictures of the same event on one layout. It's hard to choose the best photos! I like ordering them in wallet sizes as I did here for the fireworks. That keeps the focus on the pictures of the family, but still allows me to remember some of the smaller details of the evenings.

Enjoy and thanks so much for looking! If you know of anybody who would enjoy my blog, please pass along the link. =)