Saying Goodbye

It’s always a little challenging to leave a home that you’ve loved for so many years. This layout is featuring our first house that we purchased right out of college and lived in for 8 years. It was such a wonderful house in an amazing community — it was bittersweet to leave it.

The Scraproom mailed me a fun kit this month that had Bella Blvd’s new line “Love Grows Here” included in it. This collection was incredibly perfect for documenting the story that I was trying to tell. The joy, warmth and fun embellishments made it a memorable layout.

I hope you get a chance to use this collection too! Happy Scrapping!

“This Is My Happy Place”

More often than not, I’ve been finding my four-year-old crawling into her sisters crib for some early morning snuggles. They love each other so much — it’s just precious.

I used Paige Evans’ new “Lovely Lane” collection to document this sweet moment. This collection was part of my Scraproom subscription package —I love that they send me four different collections each month to play with! It’s so fun!

Ok enough talking, let’s get to the scrapbooking!

To create this layout, I fussy cut out the floral wreath included in the “Brave Heart” paper from the collection. Then I used strips from the “Happiness is Homemade” paper to frame the wreath. I love the little flower clusters and the chance to tell this sweet story about my girls.

Thanks for taking a peek at my work and happy scrapping!

Precious Miracle

Hello everyone! This month I get to showcase my precious miracle — my daughter Averie! When I say the word “miracle” I absolutely mean it. She face some delivery complications and we weren’t sure she was going to make it. BUT GOD in His graciousness showed up and breathed life back into her little body.

I will be forever grateful for this precious miracle of mine.

Anyway! Onto the scrapbooking portion of this memory! As a member of The Scraproom’s design team, I was able to play with some really neat collections this month and as soon as I saw this gorgeous floral collection, I knew her birth photos would be perfect.

I started by inking and painting a solid white background. I opted to use this nice blue patterned paper to create a focal point for my photos, and then tucked loads and loads of flowers behind the blue to make it really pop. Some glitter on my title and journalling to the left hand side helped me finish telling Averie’s story.

Thanks for taking a peek at my work! I hope this inspires you to try to tell YOUR story too!

Sweet Heart

September is here! Yay!

I am working my way through some family photos from a few years ago and I couldn’t help but dedicate a whole spread to my little girl and her love for her daddy. I love watching their relationship and the love they have for each other — and I thought these pictures captured it perfectly.

Scrap with Stacy has a great tic-tac-toe challenge this month that I wanted to play along with. I chose to use, flowers, word stickers and twine. Check out her challenge here and play along if you can!

Here is what I created:

I have loved so many of Paige Evan’s collections and I’m still working my way through my “Blooming Wild” stash. This is just another fun layout showcasing that collection.

Thanks for taking a peek at my work! Have a wonderful scrappy day!

Happy Haven Happiness

Hey everyone! I’ve been scrapbooking up a storm this summer and I was given Paige Evans’ new collection, “Happy Haven.” EEEeeek! Love her collections!

I went to work and designed two layouts based on quilt patterns. And they both involved triangles!

Go ahead and take a peek!

Didn’t they turn out cute?! I love these fun photos of my family and this collection just highlighted the love we have for each other. Hope you enjoyed looking at them!

July Double-Page Sketch from Stick it Down

How is summer halfway over? I don’t even want to think about it — but the good news is that I scrapbook all year round, so the fun continues 🙂 Here’s the double-page sketch from Stick It down for the month!

In typical summer fashion, I have more camping layouts to document! I love camping and all sorts of outdoor adventures, so looking back at these moments brings me such joy. This layout is about a camping trip in Ely, Minnesota. In order to make it look rustic, I hand-cut and distressed the title. Then, I added lots of little embellishments behind the title to give it a fun vibe.

It was such a great opportunity for me to use up lots of smaller photos from this trip. I’ve learned over my years of scrapbooking that even though a photo may be small, it can still trigger memories. Smaller photos also help minimize my tendency to overload a layout with too many pictures. 🙂

I hope you try out this collage double-page layout! It was a fun one to create! Happy Scrapping!

June Double-Page Sketch from Stick It Down

Ahhh summer is here! Camping season! I absolutely love being out in the woods, surrounded by nature, so I always seem to have lots of photos showcasing those moments.

Ok now that I’ve given away what I’m scrapbooking this month (haha) let’s take a look at the sketch!

For this layout, I took two-inch strips, and because I liked both sides of the double-sided paper, I folded the paper in half to frame the wood background. I think it turned out pretty great! Echo Park had two lines that I blended together for this layout. “Little Lumberjack” and “Let’s Go Anywhere” were the two lines that I used.

Thanks so much for looking at my work! I always appreciate my viewers who swing by! Happy Scrapping!

May Double-Page Sketch from Stick It Down

Sunny days and May flowers are here! I look forward to May every year—mostly because garage sales start popping up all over my area 😉

This month, I created a really neat diamond double-page sketch for our double-page team and used some of my Florida photos to create a core memory! We are blessed to head to Florida each winter so I have lots of sunny beach photos that need to be documented–and I figured others might like this beachy feeling sketch too!

Here’s how I used the sketch:

Didn’t it turn out cute?! I just love the colors and the white paint splatters that really capped off the layout. I hope you get a little square happy with me and try out this fun layout!

April Scrapbook Challenges

Happy Monday!

I had a little time to create a page based off Rochelle Spears’ sketch page. Here’s the challenge she provided and here’s my little layout! I added some fun paw prints and then expanded it to a double-page layout. I always take lots of pictures, so double-page layouts are my thing 😉

I also tried to use Scrap with Stacy’s Tic-Tac-Toe challenge and added: mixed alphas, a circle (the little compass) and an arrow (on the right hand page –the buffalo plaid tag with the heart).

If you’re ever in Ely, Minnesota — I recommend visiting the Bear & Wolf centers! They do an incredible job teaching visitors about these animals and allowing them to see them closely. Take a trek up to the north!

Thanks for looking at my work and happy scrapping!

April Double-Page Sketch from Stick It Down

We received the biggest April Fools joke this morning—four inches of snow! Yuck! We’re ready to be done with that winter stuff 😉

Thankfully, scrapbooking is still fun no matter what the crazy weather outside looks like! Here’s my latest layout — a camping double-pager! Hope you like it!

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