Paper Secrets May blog challenge!

If you have not gone over and checked out the May blog challenge at Paper Secrets, you need to as the prize is absolutely awesome!!!! Paper Secrets May Brand Blog Challenge In the meantime here is mine for the challenge!!! I am also using the same layout for scrap friendzy's distress challenge!

The products that I used from the Paper Secrets store are listed below for your convience! Pink Paislee Prairie Hill Paper - Kite Strings Pink Paislee Prairie Hill Paper - Country Meadow Pink Paislee Prairie Hill Paper element stickers Jillibean Soup Bean Stalks Twine - Mustard Head over now!

Happy Mother's day almost!

Well it has been a week since I announced that I made the Paper Secrets Design Team! I am loving it! Waiting on a great package from the store right now!!! Love happy mail! I really really need to clean my scrappy area, but I am the worst organizer there ever was!!! Got any great suggestions? We had some great NSD challenges over at Paper Secrets. Mine was a stitching challenge and here is my layout!

plus the SYAO2 contest continues and here is my submission for week 14.

I think it is time for some blog candy So be watching in the next couple days, as I will be posting it soon!!!! hope that made you curious!!! happy scrapping!

Challenging News!!!!

I have been dying to tell you that I made the Design Team at Paper Secrets! If you have never been there you really need to check it out!!! PAPER SECRETS. With that being said, MY first challenge is up! My May challenge is for you to scraplift a lovely layout by Stacy Cohen. She was so gracious to agree! Here is my layout

now head over to the Challenge on Paper Secrets and see how you can be entered to win a $10.00 gift certificate from Paper Secrets! May Scraplifting Challenge here! ______________________________________________________ Paper Secrets is not having a NSD crop but we will be putting up some simple challenges that you can use along with other crops! So fun when you can use a layout for more than one challenge! So make sure and come to Paper Secrets May 4th to check out our simple NSD challenges!

So many photos, NEVER enough time!

I took so many photos on our short but sweet spring break vacation! I wanted to run right home and scrap them all! I was glad CVS had a special if you printed 50 or more prints they were 10 cents apiece. So I printed over 60 just to get me started!

I scrapped one of them already for the Paper Secrets SYAO2 challenge! It is a layout with my daughter and her cousin (my niece)

Not alot of scrapping lately but!

I have been scrapping once a week on Paper Secrets SYAO2 contest~! And this week my layout was chosen for the gallery spotlight. Check it out here!

Right now I am busy working on some new photos to scrap! We are on vacation for the first time in years! I took some great photos of the boys yesterday! Sharing a few!

Whats new?

I have done quite a few new layouts that I have not shared!

So lately I have been thinking about things I want to do or change in my life.

Wow that sounds bad! LOL

here is a list of a few things and not necessarily in the order I posted.

1. I want to learn more about photography

2. I want to scrap better...

3. I want to lose weight

4. I want to be better about not procrastinating

5. There is always room to be a better housekeeper

6. I so want to be more organized but how do you learn to be organized

7. I want to be rich LOL

okay now that you have had a good laugh on me. here is a few new layouts

Technique Tuesdays and Idol search

Scrap Friendzy has started something new. Each Tuesday we are posting a technique tutorial. The very first one was posted on Feb. 7th by Tracey, one of my favorite scrappers! She showed how to make these great ribbon flowers. I believe I am addicted! I love them! Stop by Scrap Friendzy and check out Technique Tuesday.

So I used them on the layout I made for My Scraps and More's Idol Search week #3. Stop by and check out the fun challenges

Now I will also share that I tried another technique also. I cannot remember for the life of me where I saw the link on this technique. It was shared on one of the sites I frequent! The technique is where you stamp images on the edge of the pattern paper to add to its design and make it seem as though it is part of the pattern paper. Sure wish I remembered where I saw the idea!