It's Been A While....

Please forgive me. Been busy with life and kids. You know how it goes! As well, I have had writers block. Everytime I have sat down to start a blog post, I wait....and nothing comes to mind to write. Soon, I will be celebrating J's first birthday. Hard to believe a year ago, I was as big as a house..Or aleast I felt that way...I will update soon with some project pictures.

Baby Caleb- Session #3

Babies are such an amazing blessing! Brad and Celina had asked me to do another shoot, this time with Baby and Daddy. What a fun shoot! Baby Caleb is so alert. He was wide awake in every picture!

Kate & Debbie

My dear friend Kate, asked me to do a shoot on her milestone birthday. Had the up most pleasure of meeting her best friend, Debbie. These two share such an a amazing bond. I had a blast capturing it!

Caleb

For six days old little Caleb was so alert. Wake for almost the entire session!
Got some great shots of him with his eyes wide open. He has two proud big sisters. His Momma looks amazing for just having him! Thanks again guys!

#2- Words To Live By & Update

"What words to you live by? How do your actions show how you live?"(from 50 Moments: by Lisa Bearnson)

This really hit home for me. Almost a year ago, I was on Facebook and 2 of my friends had that bible verse as their status. It hit me like a ton of bricks and the tear gates opened. My faith was there, but not in a place that I knew it should be. So, when I read this, I knew He was saying something to me! God even reaches you through Facebook! Pretty amaizng stuff! So, I wrote the verse down and put it on my fridge. Been there ever since! God will always be there, no matter what. Always protecting.

***Update. My friend/fellow blogger, Sarah has left the challenge and may join up once she settles after move. Her house is infested with mold. Not so great. Espeically with two young kids.

I am going to bump it up the challenge a little. Instead of once a week, I will post 2 topics a week. On Mondays and Wednesdays. So, come on back on Wednesday to see the next topic. Which is: "The Perfect Adventure"

Sajedi Family

What a fun shoot this was. Was able to get some really cute ones of Jamie. She has loads of energy. Thanks guys, I had a blast taking your photos!

Doucette Family

Had a blast this afternoon taking pictures of the Doucette Family. Ben and Abbey had a blast running around the park. Thanks guys for letting me take your family pictures!!

Baby Caleb

Had the up most pleasure and delight of photographing a handsome 2 day old baby boy. Our dear friends Brad & Celina had their baby boy! Caleb was born August 25th. Isn't he stinkin' cute?

#1-Talents & Gifts

As you may recall I posted about a personal challenge I had created. Lisa Bearson' s book; 50 Moments: Scrapbook The Pages That Matter The Most. There are tons of pages I have created over the years about my kids, places we have been and holidays. In all of this, I think I have scrapped 2 pages about myself! Nothing to tell the story about me. I thought that this would be a great way to let my kids more about me.

Products Used:
Bazzill Cardstock
Pebbles Chalk
Ancient Page Ink
StazOn Ink
Fancy Pants Stamps
American Craft Brads & Pen
QuicKutz:
A2- Embossing Folder
Embossing Border Die
Silhouette - Flourish
Storybook
Rollerskate


A few of my fellow blogger buddies/friends have also felt inspired to scrap along with this journey. So, once a week on Wednesday, we will all post our layout for each of the topics. It will be great to see how each of scrap the same topic! Here is to the next 49 weeks ladies!!

You can check out Sarah's blog for her edition to this journey!

Birthday Girl

After I spent the day cleaning, I thought I deserved to scrap the night away! So that it what I did. I completed this layout. Had the pleasure of hosting a birthday dinner for my dear friend Karen. Used the Silhouette for the cherries and scallop border die. The title is Dragonfly and Storybook from QuicKutz as well. The papers are from Basic Grey and Bazzill Cardstock.

Have a great weekend!

relaxing...what's that?

Ordering pictures for my challenge and cleaning the house. I had hoped for a "relaxing" day. Soon I realized that my house was in desperate need to a good clean. Boxes waiting to be donated and laundry. Might as well whip out the mop and bucket too!! Full on clean.

So, this is a break....to blog....oh wait maybe to whine a little...anyone got some good cheese to go with my blog post? LMAO

New Home & Exciting Challenge

Loving my QuicKutz Silhouette. Love that I can go shopping @ midnight and use them right away.LMAO!! Wondering why I did not buy it sooner...Anyways, I bought this shape a couple weeks ago. Thought it would make the perfect housewarming card. So, I made a couple of them. Only I changed up the design slightly. I placed bling in the holes of the scalloped border. Chamged up the fonts too. I used Metro, Blossom, Rollerskate and Aquarius. Used some super cute pattern paper from American Crafts.

So, about a month ago, my hubby was ordering books on Amazon. I thought I would search for a particluar book. Just so happened to be a scrapbooking one. Would it be any other kind. (tehehe)
It was "50 Moments Scrapbook The Pages That Matter The Most" by Lisa Bearson. She is the Founding Editor of Creating Keepsakes. When the book came out, I thought it would be a great guide. Life took me for a wirlwind and I did not get a chance to read it or purchse it. Here, I am on maternity leave. Finding the time to scrapbook and wanting to create pages that matter!

I came up with a personal challenge. There are 50 topics and I am going to scrap each and every single one. Blog about each of them. Check back later this week and you see the first one " Talents and Gifts".

LMAO

Brayden came up to me and said "Meet Our New Neighbor"...kids sure say the darnedest things!! Love the expression on his face too!

It is not that far away....

Fall is on the brain....so I created a Spooky Cat Treat Box....Used my Silhouette to create the whole thing...Love it

current fav pics

Hard to believe that time has gone by so fast! Brayden will be off to kindergarten this fall. Jaxson is six months now. Here is a few pictures from the most recently taken off the camera. Seems as if that camera should be glued to my right hand!!

~ribbons and heat~

There is a record breaking heat wave going across the Lower Mainland here in BC. It is so draining. My poor baby has some heat rash. Trying to keep him as cool as possible. once it cools down tonight I am going to scrapbook. We have been so busy preserving the produce from our garden. It has been a great lesson. A lost art, really.

For the first time I entered the local fair. Entered so scrapbooking and photography. Did pretty good. Six 1st place ribbons, five 2nd place and one 3rd place. ((insert blushing)) I also won "Best In Show" for my scrapbooking. This was the page that won:

My photography that all received 2nd place was:


It was such a fun event to participate in. Look forward to
next years fair!

Hope everyone will find a way
to beat the heat!

I need the Epic 6!!!

This is what QuicKutz has released today!! Letterpressing you CAN DO AT HOME!! This is so amazing!! I watched to countdown like it was New Years Eve!! Check out the new website.
I will be getting one of these for sure!!

Vinyl Home Decor

Used my Silhouette to cut out the outer space shapes. The stars are LE release from two years ago. Put this up in Brayden's bedroom window.

One Cool Dude

Had a lot of fun creating this layout! Oh course it was with my Silhouette. I cut out the gears in a double sided paper. So it was easy to switch up the colors. "Very Cool" are bookends. Love the tattoo images from QuicKutz. Thanks for taking a peek :-)

Hero Arts

Look at what Hero Arts is doing this week!! All week they are posting inspiration and sneak peeks at their new products!!So excited! Take a look and enter for some amazing blog candy on their page!!

I copy and pasted this part of their blog post for your reading pleasure. Make sure you go their blog for all the wonderful projects they have created!!

Now for our challenge for YOU - and we have DOUBLE THE PRIZES this week! This week’s challenge is to create something that is inspired by anything on heroarts.com (our main website, not this blog). It could be a card, scrapbook page, technique article, or more from heroarts.com. Just post your creation - along with the link to the inspiration - in our Flickr group with the tag “website”. Be sure to use at least one Hero Arts stamp. The deadline for the challenge is Sunday, July 19 at 11:59 pm PST. From the entries we will pick twice as many winners as normal… and the prizes are twice as big:

• TWO Fresh Face Winners (someone who has not yet won a contest): $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
• TWO Scrapbook Page Winners: $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
  
• TWO 1st Place: $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
• TWO 2nd Place: $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
• TWO 3rd Place: $30 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each

And we can’t start this big week without a giveaway. Wait - how about TWO!? Yep. Let’s do two giveaways…

1. Leave a comment here telling us something you like about our main website, heroarts.com. Do so by Friday at 11:59 pm PST and we will pick a lucky winner.
2. Post about our big week on your blog. Then leave a comment here linking us to your blog. Do so by tonight at 11:59 pm PST and we will pick another lucky winner!

Both winners will get these great goodies…

Thanks for stopping by…see you tomorrow!

Make sue sure you enter for your chance at these amazing prizes! (my card on the side bar "playing with pink" is a Hero Arts Set: CL 309)