Heidi's Summer Challenges

Heidi shot me a couple scrapbooking prompts (challenges) this summer. The first one was to use 7 different kinds of ribbon on one layout: see the accent on the Kansas City page. The 2nd was to scrapbook a summer memory. Shortly after that I happened to come across a piece of scratch paper that i had journaled on in the summer of 2007. I was able to pull some pictures from that time period off of my external hard drive and the result is the page you see on the right.
This was a good reminder that even if you don't have time to document your story today, write it down. Write down your thoughts today because at some point, down the road, you will have time, but by then you will only have the photos, your in-the-moment account will be gone.

 I prefer to have some form of inspiration when i scrapbook. The page on the left was inspired by a page i saw at Two Peas in a Bucket the other day. The wave they used was cut on a silhouette. I do not own a silhouette (I'm a Cricut girl) so i had to do a little finagling but i love the way it came out! The page on the left was inspired by a page i found on Pinterest.  Love Pinterest for inspiration, granted i can kill an hour (or a few) once i get in there, it's worth it!

Creating Keepsakes Convention 2011 St. Louis

These pages are all from a Scrapbook Generation kit (I love them!!). This was the first year Heidi and I went to St. Louis for convention. As expected we had a GREAT time. And I'm excited to think that as I type this we are getting ready to go again in just a couple weeks.

 

Random Pages

Just a few random pages I've finished the past few months.

Social Hour Cosmo Cricket. Perfect for Magic Mike night!

Fancy Pants: This was originally a page kit but I threw caution to the wind and used a layout from CTMH instead! Crazy I know! This was me recycling years and years of Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Rubber Stamper, Simple Scrpabooks magazines among other crafty publications. Dan was pissed because we had just moved all these boxes only months earlier, only to now be throwing them out. I tried to explain that i had to get rid of them in my own time, lol!

This was a kit but I'll be darned if I can remember where it came from.

Fancy Pants kit from Embellish It!

Fancy Pants from Embellish It!

Basic Grey kit from Embellish It!

Random supplies I collected at CKC 2012

scrapbook pages

Here are just a few random pages that I've finished this year.

This one is from a CKC class I took in 2011: Material Girl from CK. I normally would not do this much stitching on a page but I am glad i took the time to finish this layout.
This is one of my favorite layouts. I love the white space and the mixed font stickers. I have every intention of using this layout again.

Embellish It! 2011 Latest & Greatest with Basic Grey

These are from Basic Grey page kits. (purchased from Embellish It! of course)

The black mat on the right page is awaiting a photo that I have to get printed yet.

No explanation needed here....

Echo Park. I know this is from a 2011 class but I can't for the life of me remember which one.

These are pages I created from photos of our very first Creating Keepsakes Convention in Des Moines in 2010. The 2nd layout shows Heidi and Kelly Purkey. It was the first time we got to meet her. I took her Life's Lyrics class in 2010 (i don't quite have that mini album done, but soon i will and you'll be the first to see it!)

We had so much fun while we were in Des Moines that year. Fong's was packed so we sat at the counter by the window. Of course being with Heidi I can always look forward to making new friends. We enjoyed visiting with the guys sitting at the counter with us.