Momma's lil' cupcake

I have another project to share today using Nadya's Cupcake by Desert Designs. I made this t-shirt for my niece to wear. I think it is just adorable and can't wait to get it rewashed (a must after the transfer process) and sent to her. I am hoping that she will really like her one of a kind tee. I love my boys dearly, but they wouldn't go for something like this now... Too bad I hadn't found digi / hybrid until they were both in school. I could have had a lot of fun embellishing baby clothes!

The Sweetest

Wow, it has been a while again. Very sorry about that. I had some dental work done mid Sept that really knocked me out and am finally getting caught back up on things. Earlier this month my niece went to the Circus for the first time. At the end of the night she got her face painted, and we got some great pics of it from my sister. (Unfortunately she didn't get any pics while at the circus) Here is a layout that I made with the picture. Isn't she just the sweetest? I used Shannon's kit Nadya's Cupcake to make it. Isn't this kit just yummy?

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

The Adventures of the Hall Boys... Vol. 1

Have you ever felt like your life is right out of a comic book? Yesterday was one of those days for me, so I decided to scrap it. Of course I had to put it in a comic book format. It took a good bit of time, but I had fun doing it, and am rather pleased with how it turned out. (Be sure to notice the stuff under the couch in the strip.) The journaling reads - Don’t get me wrong, I love my boys to death, but I was really annoyed at them today. The basic story is outlined in the comic strip that I created (because it seemed just like it came from a comic strip!) And then they wondered why they were in trouble. To make it even worse when they “cleaned up” that mess, half of it went back under the couch! Under the strip itself is a partial listing of what I found. Among the found items were 18 (dirty) socks! And they couldn't figure out why their sock drawers were empty even after laundry days? Come on guys! I used Charlie's new kit Seabreeze. Love the colors in the kit, great for masculine pages as well as seaside ones. Credits: Word Art and comic strip by me, everything else - Sea Breeze by Charlies Digiscraps

Sorry I've been gone most of the week. Haven't been feeling too hot. I did get a few layouts done this week though. I used another of the DSO kits (April Showers) for all 3 of the layouts. One of each boy and one of my niece. I guess we will go ladies first...


I just loved this paper so much when I saw it and wanted to keep the layout fairly simple. It actually ended up a little more involved than I had intended, but I liked the butterfly path too much to not use it! Credits: April showers - DSO April 09 Collab, font - Arial Narrow


Next up is my Bug. He is such a character. This is what I saw one afternoon last April as I sat on the porch and waited for them to come up our little dead end road from the bus. Fortunately I had just enough time to dash inside and get the camera! Yes it was raining at the time. Don't ask me why he was carrying the umbrella over his head like that. I honestly have no idea. Credits: April showers - DSO April 09 Collab, font - Arial Narrow


And last but not least we have Bryce. he got invited to a kickball game last weekend at the town park by one of his former classmates. About a dozen kids showed up. Not too bad for half a weeks notice in the middle of the summer! The part that just tickled me to death was that after lacksadaisically keeping score for a couple of innings all of the kids agreed that they really didn't care what the score was, they just wanted to play and have fun. That was such a refreshing attitude and I thought it was quite impressive. Credits: Kickball - internet search picture, base - PSE default shape, template - SM-0818temp by Linz, title font - Shark Random Funnyness, everything else - April Showers - DSO April 09 Collab

An old photo

I was looking at the My Little Monkey kit by LP&3Dogs Designs again and thought back to an old photo of me. When I dug it out it worked even better than I figured it might. The colors match up with the kit very well. I had fun making this layout. I think my favorite part is all of the monkeys peeking out from behind papers and photos.

Anyone for a game of checkers?

I have some news! I made it onto the DSO Creative Team! I am so very excited about that. I got my first kit today and already have one project completed to share with you all. Is anyone up for a game of checkers? If so have a fun one for you. The first kit that I chose to work with is My Little Monkey by LPand3dogs Designs. This is such a darling kit. The monkeys are just adorable, the papers are all very fun.

I made up the checkerboard in PSE and printed it out. Then I adhered it to some chipboard and covered it with clear contact paper to make it more kid friendly. For the checker pieces I used the kit's 2 flairs and created backs on my own to match. I used the PSE default crown shape so they had their king's... as easy as a flip of the chip. They were all punched out using a 1 inch circle paper punch and run through my mini xyron so I could easily put them together. These were also mounted to punched out chipboard circles to make them more sturdy. I added an envelope to the back of the board to hold all of the pieces when they are not playing with the game. The boys have been having fun playing it on this nice and rainy afternoon.

I have so many more ideas for ways to use this kit so I am sure that you will be seeing more of it in the future.