Supplies used: Close to My Heart 12×12 Calendar, K & Company papers, Stampendous Diamond Dot Stickers, a variety of rhinestones (Darice, Kaiser, Studio 18, misc.), and Cricut Lyrical Letters cartridge.

Layout Challenge: #160-184 of 210

I can’t even begin to tell you how much fun this was to make.  It was something that I wanted to do but didn’t think I could realistically get it finished before the baby arrived.  Thanks to the quick pages I chose I was able to finish it and I just love how it turned out.  On the pre-designed pages, before adhering to the calendar, I used an exacto knife to trim around any extras that covered a photo mat – so that when I add pictures throughout the year I can slide my picture underneath and it will look better (like the fruit on the July page – I cut around where it overlapped the photo mat).  Originally, I was going to stamp the months but after already adhering the pages (with embellishments) I no longer had a flat surface to stamp so I opted to use my Cricut instead.  I plan to hang it in the nursery and have the older siblings help keep it updated with “baby’s firsts” information and photos.  I am going to keep the calendar as is for a keepsake, but if I did this as a yearly thing with day-to-day activities, I would take the pages and put them in my scrapbook albums as finished pages at the end of the year.

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Layout Challenge: #159 of 210

This layout was created using the Cherry-O Workshop on the Go Kit.

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Supplies: K & Company paper, Kaiser Rhinestones, and unknown rhinestone strip.

Layout Challenge: #143 of 210  AND my wonderful mother reminded me that I completed about 15 layouts for her this fall at a retreat and feels that I should add those onto my layout count.  I have to agree!  So that brings me up to 158!

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Supplies: K & Company paper, Kaiser Rhinestones, and unknown rhinestone strip.

Layout Challenge: #142 of 210

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Layout Challenge: #141 of 210

Another Sea World layout, I think this is the final one.

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Layout Challenge: #140 of 210

A layout from the Jingle Workshop on the Go Kit.

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Layout Challenge: #139 of 210

I can’t say I like this layout but here are some more old photos that I am happy to have scrapbooked.

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Layout Challenge: #138 of 210

Another one from camp, swimming in the lake (yuck!).  Products used are Close to My Heart Magic Moments paper & stickease.

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Layout Challenge: #135-137 of 210

These layouts are from the Veranda Workshop on the Go Kit.  They were perfect for the pictures from our wedding reception (13 years ago!).  These have to be some of the oldest pictures I have that were not yet scrapped.

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These pages are Girl Scout themed using the Close to My Heart Magic Moments papers.

Layout Challenge: #133-134 of 210

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Layout Challenge: #130-132 of 210

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Layout Challenge: #128 & 129 of 210.

These layouts are from the Olivia Workshop on the Go Kit (available through January 31st, 2011).  It was great getting my fall pictures scrapped in such a timely manner.  The family layout is our pumpkin carving and the Fall layout is harvest pictures.  We had an interesting harvest year – October 22nd, 2010.  There was a pumpkin vine that grew up an evergreen tree, we were eating yet another batch of delicious raspberries, and there were strawberries blooming!

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Supplies used: Making Memories Specialty Glaze – Rose Petal, Fancy Pants Transparent Die Cuts, and Making Memories Maddi Scrapbook Page Kit.

Layout Challenge: #126 of 210.

That is the big question: What is the name?  I love to play games so here’s one for you.  I’ve made this page layout for the baby book of the many names that we considered.  The name we chose is on here.  Can you guess what it is?

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This month we are featuring the popular Pearls and Sparkles!  They are among my favorite embellishments.  They are easy to add to any project to give it a finishing touch.  I created a simple layout and the Sparkles really added the extra “wow” factor.  The red sparkles are easy to see.  The bitty ones I used on the flowers of the patterned B&T paper.  The Let’s Get Together paper that I used is no longer available but you could use this technique on any pattern.

Supplies used: Let’s Get Together paper, Colonial White & Garden Green cardstock, Bitty Sparkles, and Red/Pink/Purple Sparkles.

Layout Challenge: #127 of 210

Now hop on over to Tamytha’s Blog to see her creation!

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Tamytha

Haley

Vicki Wizniuk

Corina Mitchell

Traci

Debbie Carriere

Jill

Tracy Jean

Kristie

Helen Onulak

Melinda Everitt

Luisa

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Layout with flap on each side open (=Birthday layout):

Supplies used: My Mind’s Eye Just Dreamy short stack with glitter papers, unknown star gems, birthday rub-ons by Royal & Langnickel Brush, Sticko Tile’s Play mosaic stickers, Close to My Heart Color Ready Alphabet – Hodge Podge, Provo Craft Stand-outs quilled stickers, and Close to My Heart flip flaps.

Scrap Our Stash Monthly Challenge: Do a Birthday Project

Layout Challenge: #124 & 125 of 210 (due to the amount of time and effort involved in this layout and the extended flaps, I am giving myself credit for 2 layouts!)

2009 was quite the winter with more than normal days home from school due to the weather.  The weather also made it difficult for our family to get together for the holidays and birthdays.  So when the time came it was one big party!

For this layout I knew what I wanted to do but it involved a lot of thinking and planning to actually get it done.  These new Flip Flaps from Close to My Heart come in a variety pack of different sizes (these are the two larger ones) and allowed me to expand my layout and add many more photos.  First, I chose papers that I could use as both a Christmas and Birthday themed page.  Next I laid out the pages and protectors I planned to use.  This allowed me to arrange the photos on my spread.  This was the hardest part.  I didn’t do much for paper layering because of the planning involved so the rest of the assembly was just pictures and embellishments.  On the birthday section, I cut out one of the stars from the pattern paper so it would overlap my photo and become an embellishment for my page, then added star gems to the centers.

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A Christmas tree in Disney fashion!  Putting up our tree (and taking it down!) is a lot of work each year but so much fun and so enjoyable.  Now that the kids are older, they get to help put the ornaments on the tree.  It’s like opening presents each year as we remember which ones have moving parts, which ones make noise, and which ones light up.  This tree is reserved for Disney ornaments only and we have another one that we put up with all of our other ornaments on it.

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Layout Challenge: #123 of 210.

Can you see the pattern?  I was really working hard to use up this pack…CTMH Jingle papers & stickease, White Daisy ricrac (are those hanging ornaments cute or what!), 3D foam tape, and Kaiser rhinestones.

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Layout Challenge: #122 of 210.

Here we go again….more of the CTMH Jingle papers, stickease, ribbon, and some stamping along with some Kaiser rhinestones.

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Layout Challenge: #121 of 210.

Another layout with the CTMH Jingle papers, Dimensional Elements – On Target, Tulip ink and ribbon, and unknown snowflake.

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