Back to school

Yes, I know they have been back to school for a few weeks now, but this week I made the yearly "back to school" layouts. There is an awesome new kit this week over at DSO and it made these layouts painless. The name of the kit is It's Elementary Created by Jill.
I love the bright colors, and there are so many wonderful elements in this kit. I didn't even use half of them!

If only I could get the boys to take better pictures! What is it with boys and goofball grins? Why oh why can't they just relax and be normal in front of the camera? I guess I shouldn't complain too much, since these pictures are a huge improvement over ones taken not all that long ago.

a Birthday gift set

Wow, its been a little while since I last blogged. I've been pretty busy though. My son has a friend that invited him to a birthday party tomorrow and I was making up the gift (more pics at the bottom of the post). I know that she loves to read so I thought I would make her a book log / journal for her to keep track of books she has read and wants to read. I also have a section there for her to use as a journal / diary. Once I got started I couldn't stop! I also made a couple of bookmarks, a mini notepad, birthday card and a gift bag topper that all match. Inside the binder there is also a small zippered pouch which is where I am putting the bookmarks, pen, mini notebook and a Barnes & Nobles Gift card. I figure she can also keep her library card in there. I used LouCee's kit Jean Genie. This kit is just gorgeous! I had a ball playing with it to make this gift set. It was so fun to get to play with a "girly" kit for once!

A true love story

The other day I was looking at the stack of library books that I had checked out and I decided that it was definitely something that I should scrap about. So here I have a layout about my lifelong love affair. After I finished I just had to laugh, because when I was looking at the finished layout I saw the play on words from the title. I promise that it was totally unintentional. Credits: Word art - Words about Life by Words to Delight, Dark Dream - Designs By Sassy

Back to school and more

Lots of stuff going on here now with the boys starting back to school this week. My other half is also off on vacation this week so this will likely be my only post until after Labor Day since my "play" time will be drastically limited. Either they come up with more things that we parents have to fill out every year or I just keep forgetting how much there is!

I do have a layout to share today though. All summer long Bryce has been wanting to help mow the lawn. I finally broke down and let him help out. I took quite a few pictures and used them to make this layout. I love how I was able to use the SeaBreeze kit to make non beach layouts. The papers are wonderful! Credits: font - Segoe Print, word art - Words about Life by Words to Delight (Jazzy), everything else - SeaBreeze by Charlies Digiscraps