New Beginings

I hope to post more on here than in the past since I started this blog. I hope to be more creative this year & get my projects posted on here more often. I'm also going to try and write something on here each day, so I can do more journalling for scrapbooking & to help keep the memories fresh & in the moment.

My God bless each one of you who pass by my blog & hope 2012 brings many challenges & wonderful moments in your lives.

Progression Challenge/Journalling challenge

This double LO, titled Little Drummer Girl is for two challenge entries. For the journalling challenge. I have always hand written my journalling no matter how long it is. This is quite a bit of journalling for me on one LO, but I had a lot to say about how my daughter & I made this toy & how she loves to play with it.

As for the Progression part of this post here it is:


1. This is my inspiration for the LO






2. My scrapping are before I began











3. Progress during my creative time



4. The finished product which is the first picture posted







The materials I used are: Recollections All Girls paper stack, cardstock from a paper stack bought at Costco years ago, Plantin Schoolbook, Wild Card, Everyday Paper Dolls & George Cricut cartridges, Fiskars threading water border punch, DCWV Sweet stack chipboard shapes, Autumn Leaves 'Stamped & Coded' clear stamps, Memento black ink, BIC Sharpie markers, Skittles, Stickles glitter glue, & the flowers were from a swap.

Countdown Challenge

This LO I created is for a Countdown Challenge. I used items on my LO in this order.

5 - Flowers
4 - Ribbons/Strings
3 - Strips of paper & brads
2 - Alphas or fonts
1 - Picture

The flowers were from a scrapping friend, the ribbons scrap strips of paper & brads were all in my stash. The letters are from George & Wild Card Cricut cartridges & the picture is of my two kids. TFL

She has arrived

My baby girl has made it into this world. She is a joy & challenge that God has blessed me with & I'm so thankful to have her in my life. I can't believe that she belongs to me & wouldn't trade her for anything.

Baby Shower card

I went to a baby shower awhile back & since there was a group gift I said I would make the card for everyone. I used Storybook, Paper Doll Dress Up, Wild Card & Doodlecharms for this card & everyone love it. I was quite impressed with myself with this one too. I have not done anything this detailed, ever. Thanks for looking

Scrap Tag Challenge

This LO I did of my best friend & I when we had a short visit over Christmas. I signed up for a challenge where the first person gets an inspiration, does a LO & then passes their own creation to the next person for their inspiration. This challenge sounds hard to explain, but easy to do.

It's A Girl !!!!

We are excited to announce that we are having a baby girl. We have been through so much pain & loss in the last few years that this is such a blessing from God.