Backyard Adventures

Happy Easter everyone, I hope the Easter Bunny was good to each of you, and even more important I hope you have had a wonderful Resurrection Day. Today I'm here to show you a new kit that is a collaboration by Digi Designs by Nicole and Scrap N Pieces. Backyard Adventures is perfect for all those outdoor adventures with your children. Whether on the playground or in the backyard this kit is full of fun embellishments and papers. I love this kit because it has croquet pieces and they are super cute.

My first layout is Callie playing croquet on a trip back to North Carolina. I don't think she had played before, but she enjoyed it. I think because everyone else was picking on Papa, and she got to join in picking on him. And like just about any game played by my family, you play to win!!!

My second layout is Cole riding his two wheeler. Daddy found a very little bike at the local charity shop and bought it for practically nothing and added training wheels to it. So Cole learned to ride it instead of a tricycle, he had a tricycle, but he loved riding his "two wheeler"

Be sure to head over to Stuff to Scrap and pick up Backyard Adventures and come on Tuesday for a Quick Page freebie. I'll be back tomorrow with more stuff.

Happy Saturday All

I hope everyone is having a beautiful and productive Saturday...me so far I've worked on cleaning my desk...yes I know that is a never ending battle for me. I've boxed up a group of iPaqs to take to try and be repaired. I've taken some pictures of the wonderful spring irises and I've had a FRAPPUCINO....life is good. Well today I'm going to show you some more layouts I've done for one thing or another and then let you know some of the things happening at Stuff to Scrap.

My first layout I did for a speed scrap and it features Mr. Cole with his first truck. Yes you read that correctly, he has a truck, it so hard to believe. He is quite proud of it, and it is a sharp truck, a 1995 Silverado. He was even willing to pose next to it.

Next up are a couple of layouts I did for Modern June Creations, but I can't find where I blogged about them anywhere, so now must be their time. First up is Callie and Honey. I used one of her templates for the template challenge at Digi Scrapbook Mania, her October Haze kit and Seeing Spots Alpha. I love these photos of Callie and Honey, you can see how well they are bonding.

Next is Sharla and the babies in the snow. The babies were refusing to go out in to it, so Sharla walked out into the yard, and the would run to her and then turn and high tail it back to the porch. I'm using another of her templates, the kit Sugar Plums and Seeing Spots again.

Next up is a layout I did for Scrapbooks Gone Digital. The name of the kit is Girly Monkey and who else could I think about but Miss Sharla. The kit was mainly browns and pinks with touches of green and turquoise. So I pulled an older picture of Sharla...ok a really old picture of her. She was Daddy's Monkey all of her life, so I knew I was going to have to use that word art, although I did modify it just a little, it said "My 3 Little Monkeys", but not when I was done.

Then I decided to do an older picture of Callie with the same kit. Her glasses were more red, but I tinted them a little to fit the kit. She has had a thing about sunglasses forever.

My last layout I used pieces from all the different Build a Kits for April from Stuff to Scrap. They all have the same color palette, but several different themes, so it was a challenge to get something from each of them, but I think I did it. The picture is of Tucker from last year in the blue bonnets, hopefully we'll have some new ones soon...I saw some blue bonnets this morning...yeah spring.

That is it for layouts, but let me tell you about some of the stuff going on at Stuff to Scrap. There is a sale this weekend, 30% off, they are also giving away a collection of brag book quick pages if you spend $10 in the store and last but not least they are having a hybrid CT call. I'm putting up fliers below, so you can get all the details, and they are linked to the store. I hope ya'll have a wonderful Easter...I'm up early for the 8:30 service. Later....

Sweet Treats

Easter is this weekend, but when I talk about Sweet Treats I'm not talking about what the Easter Bunny is going to bring me. Although I'm sure he'll bring me good stuff. I'm talking about a wonderful kit by Scrappin' Daisies Design that is just so sweet (yeah I know, pushing the play on words). But it is a great kit with spring colors, and such fun elements.

My first layout is Callie at Thanksgiving eating mac and cheese. I know most people wouldn't consider that a sweet treat, but for Callie, she would eat it over most sweets any day. I love the picture with her cheeks puffed out, you would think she was a chipmunk. The colors in the kit are spring like without being overly pastel and work great for so many things.

My second layout is Mr. Cole Garrett on his first birthday. Ok Sharla I said first birthday, ignore the date on the layout. I was supposed to go back and fix it, and I will but I don't have the original with me now, so it is going as is. I love this picture of him, he was really having a good time with the icing on his cake.

You need to hurry over to Brownie Scraps and pick up Sweet Treats while it is on sale, you will be able to create lots of great layouts with it. If all goes well, I'll be back later this week with more layouts, but if not I hope each and everyone of you has a wonderful Easter.