I am on a roll :) Month 26 down :) Woohoo!

Woohoo! Another one caught up on Cassidy's book. This is Cassidy at 26 months -- she luved to help Daddy clean his truck! Kit: Misty's Sitting Pretty @ SBE

Another one! With a Beauty of a Kit

I saw this kit and fell in love and new I had to scrap with it. It is called a Promise of Maya by Misty Cato (I so so so love her work) over at SBE. She is honestly one of my fav designers. Her style is so soft and beautiful -- anyways, You can find the kit here - Check out here whole store though while you are there. There are about one zillion kits I wanna scrap with lol.

Slowly but surely!

I am still slow going at this, but here is another one for Cassidy's Bragbook! Kit: Pretty in Popsicle by Atomic Cupcake Cassidy on her 2nd BDay. Journalling reads: Poor thing - So far, two years and each birthday has been blessed with a wonderful birthday flu. We had to wake you up in the middle of your own party to blow out your candle! You were not so thrilled. Maybe next year!

MaggieandMommy -- I knew she wouldn't dissapoint

OK, so now that I am back to scrapping, I have started gallery surfing some of my fav rectangles out there. First stop I made was to the Digi Chick to visist Maggieandmommy's gallery. She has always been amongst my favs -- her style is clean yet full of emotion. Anyways, I was struck by this LO as it has wonderful pics and it also show how you can pull off multiple photos in a rectangle LO. Thanks for the inspiration! Dream Realized by maggieandmommy papers and elements from Tamra Burwick's "Imagine"; frame and ribbon from TDC's "Secret Santa" (**FREE with $10 purchase!**); doodles from Linda GB's "Scrapartist Apprentice Round 4 Doodles"; circle pendant from Valerie Fowler's "Pendant Templates"; inspiration from TDC's Ad Challenge Dec 8, 2007; fonts are TK Doodle, Pea Stacy, and King and Queen.

New Year's Resolution

Wow, this blog started as a New Year Resolution in 2006 -- 2 years ago, so hard to believe. They last year and a half, well, it has been rough with the start of my photo business and the decline of my loved Mother in Law. I have tried many times to get back on the scrapping wagon ... and failed terribly each time. I used to scrap and share my LOs with my MIL -- and everytime I opened PS -- I just didn't know where to start and so many memories came back of scraps I had done and shared with her. Anyways, 2008 is a New Year and time to reintroduce me to the scrap world. I was sitting down with my daughter Cassidy a few evenings back going over her Brag Book. She will be 4 in March, and the last scrap was 21 Months. I felt just terrible -- yet at the same time, was inspired. So, here I am with a New Years Resolution -- time to get back into things. So, for any of you out there, I finally opened Photoshop for something other then my Photo business (which is crazy busy if anyone cares) and scrapped. Wow, I was slow, and found it hard to get scrapping. Not sure if I am in love with these scraps, but they are done .. and I think are the beginning of a lot more to come (I hope). I may even find it in me to design! I am not rushing that one just yet. So, hope you like the scraps and hopefully you will hear a lot from the new Me (who, I must share with you is 35 lbs lighter then in September lol) Kit Credit: Danielle Corbitt's Pink Xmas at Scrap Outside the Box! This one I used an ancient kit of mine called Denver Fever (not in any store any more) but a very cool template for the Border by Christine Nash (Totally Template #1)

OMG! It worked

Wow! I am back -- I hadn't even realized blog was gone until a few weeks ago -- and at that point I was in such a state that I was too sad to even think of starting again. Let me fill you in with my summer: Photogrpahy business has more the blossomed -- it is crazy busy. My MIL entered into palliative care and lost her battle with Cancer Aug 23, 2007. It has been a very very sad time for everyone -- and when I saw this blog was gone, I felt even sadder. But now, I revived it - Wow! So, I am starting to try to get myself back into the world of scrapping. I am going to start with catching up with my brag book for Cassidy. I hope that will help inspire me to design again -- I just open us PS lately and sit and stare. I have like a zillion awesome photos -- yet can't compel myself to start. Now, this may be good news for any of you non-square scrappers as well -- as I will post my LOs and I may as well create a template to go with them. I don't know how often it will be as fall is still really busy with photos -- but I am hoping to jump right in. If anyone is out there, and ever stops in to read this - -maybe it is in a feed of yours -- then Hello! Let me know you are out there :)

Went AWOL

Not sure why this blog went AWOL but thinking it may have been when it switched over to GOOGLE. In any case, I am going to see if I can revive it with a post...so am crossing fingers and praying lol

My new Bragbook Challenge is up

You can download my newest layered sketch for the bragbook challenge at sbe! Check it out

Quick Page Exchange

OK guys, I think I will start this ... I am not sure how many will participate, but even if we get a few it should be fun. So, I would like to start a quickpage exchange -- we will make it every two weeks. You will have 2 weeks to get a quickpage into me -- and at the end of the two weeks I will compile them and send them out to all who particpate -- I will also show them off on my blog as I receive them :) So, this exchange will last from now until Feb 12th and it will be using my SNOW CUTE kit - This is currently on Sale at SBE if you don't have it. I have decided for this round, we will make the LO bragbook size. So, create your LO as 12X8 (so they can be resize down to 6X4 if needed) You can send them to gincarson@yahoo.com Snow Cute Kit Link