Happy 2016

 Happy New Years!!!!

              With a new years comes new challenges and goals. (I prefer to set goals for the new year(s) instead of resolutions.)  This year I am setting some goals for me and I have a challenge for everyone. My goals are:

     1. I will take a picture everyday, these picture our to document our normal life
     2. Continue to keep with my project 52. ( Pocket scrapbooking for each week of
                                                                        the  year)
     3. To be present and Enjoy my children by working less hours.
     4. Complete my Everyone challenge

This year I am challenge everyone to find 52 new things to do with 52 miles of your normal routine. This can be as simple or as complex as you would like. It can be as simple as visiting a new store that you have never been to or go to a free community event you have never been too, or even trying new food on a menu of a restaurant you visit regularly. (I just want to you explore something new to you.)
           I started this challenge this week by accident. We had to take our youngest son to see a specialist and on the way back we got a little lost. We were hungry and found a restaurant, On Tap Grille & Bar, I had never eaten there. I said lets have lunch and figure out our way home.

        1. On Tap     

        

Wedding cards

I know it has been awhile since I have posted. I have been working 12 hours a day, six days a week and I am pregnant with our second child. We have two different weddings this month, so I decided to make some  time to create a card for each wedding. I am very happy with how they turned out.

From the Heart Stamp Blog.... 1st Christmas Cards of the year

 

Today I made a card for  From the Heart Stamps blog. I used this week sketch #54.

Come check out their challenge with a new one every Monday.

What I have been up to this month.

Wow February is almost over. I have not scraped a single 12 by 12 page this month. I how have ever have been keeping up with my project 52 and  I have made four different albums using this great tutorial...from Dawns Inspirations

Folded Pocket Page Mini Album Tutorial

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCNllVUxFKY&list=FLplay2om52rGphtTH-V3zmA&index=8

Stuck On Us Sketches

I was image surfing on Google, look at project life tags and found this great new site. Stuckonusketches they do sketches and project life challenges. Their current Project life Challenge is add embossing any type. The challenge runs from January 27- February 9  The actually challenge can be found here Stuck on Us Sketches
Here is my embossing challenge:

The snow brads were just pain gray, so I painted them white and then embossed them with a white glittery mix. I did not complete emboss them. I want them to have that fuzzy look so I only melted the embossing powder enough to stick.
I also in embossed the plain white tag and ink only the dry embossed elements. I really like how both turn out.

Smile.....Stuck?! Sketches January First Challenge.

This is my page I created for the January first challenge at Stuck?! I used some older pictures of my son.

This is the sketch that my layout is based after. I really like this Sketch. I think I am going to use this sketch again. I am going to flip it sideway and use this year Christmas photos.

Happy V-Day Card with free Digi stamp from From the Heart Stamps Inspiration

Today I made a card for  From the Heart Stamps blog. I used this week sketch #49 and this months free Digi stamp.

 

From the Heart Stamp blog is offering a FREEBIE for everyone to get started in the SOTM challenge this month. This is a progressive challenge, meaning you need to play along to receive the next image for free, so be sure to read the rules so that you don’t miss out on any freebies. Want some FREE digi stamps? Play along this month and you will get a new freebie next month via email. If you missed getting this stamp for free, you can purchase it in the store and play along to receive the next freebies.