Peek-A-Boo

I took this pic of Princess Boo a week or two ago and loved it but since I've been in Atlanta for a HS convention and to visit a friend I haven't had a chance to look at my scrapbook stuff. Anyway, you know how much I LOVE the speed scrapping :) and it was on my calendar for last night. Wouldn't you know it... the theme was "peek-a-boo"... how cool is that? So I did one for the speed scrap and then this morning I blew the picture up and changed it a little... if you're browsing, let me know which one you like best :)

The Big Snow

I did this page while we were in Oklahoma City yesterday. The frame is from Dani Alencar's Miscellaneous Templates off of Go Digital Scrapbooking. Oh - the snow was earlier this year before I started digiscrapping. It was definitely a big one... by Texas standards anyway :) Check out that snowman that His Royal Highness built... it was HUGE! His Royal Highness is 6'4" tall and our snowman pal was just about as tall!

Armed & Dangerous

Here's a picture I threw together last night. I think I need the speed challenge for me to break outside of the box and add things - otherwise, the layouts look kind of plain. After looking at the one below I've decided to just keep it as is :) Hope you had an awesome 4th of July. We had a relaxing day at the pool and home, topped off with fireworks at the end. I'll scrap some of those next, but will also post just pics in the other blog.

I'm Addicted

To Speed Scrapping! What a blast! I did my second one today because I REALLY wanted the giveaway for participating... it was a beautiful kit. Anyway, this one was more challenging than the last since I wasn't familiar with some of the terms like "sunray paper" and "bracket mat". Of course I ended up having neither in my limited stash, so I spent over an hour purchasing and downloading kits from Go Digital Scrapbooking. With a $10 purchase I ended up getting the July Collab Kit for free, so it was worth it. Anyway, I ended up having to rush and get my page done. Here's what I came up with. I'm going to re-do it and make a few minor changes and post those later. The great thing about this is I never would have thought this up on my own... never would have put flowers in the layout because it doesn't seem like it "goes with" the picture and theme. Oh well - I'm learning to stretch myself. I do kind of like these last two from the speed scraps though.

Speed Scrapping

Oh my gosh... I just had the most fun doing a speed scrapbooking challenge over at Go Digital Scrapbooking. I've never done anything on their site, but since they have daily freebies I tried to visit just the blog daily to see if there was anything I could get to build up some supply. So today this challenge was posted on the blog and I thought I'd explore new waters. (Oh - and you got a freebie for doing it). It typically takes me hours - if not days - to complete a layout. Mostly because I still have no clue what I'm doing, but partly because I obsess over where things should be placed, should I change the color, etc. I'm about as Type A as you can get. So every ten minutes she posted something different that you had to do to create your layout. After the instructions were presented, you were given one hour to pull it all together and post to the gallery. Here's what I came up with. I love how we were all given the same instructions but came up with such different ideas! I used the Shabby Princess Shabby Mom collection for the striped paper and the Marie Mini-kit from Verena Karolyi for the ribbon flowers.

PIXEL FAIRY PRINCESS ROCKS!

I am sooo excited! I won a subscription to a Digital Scrapbooking magazine after posting on Pixel Fairy Princess' blog. If you haven't already checked out her blog, it is a MUST SEE. I'm constantly in awe at her layouts and photos. Her blog is actually what inspired me to start blogging and to jump back into scrapbooking. As a result, I've completed more digiscrap pages since starting this blog than I have traditional scrapbook pages in the past few years! She also does photo shoots, so if you're in Georgia or a neighboring area, check her blog out. If we lived there I'd already have her booked for a family photo shoot. If I remember correctly, her fees were very reasonable. THANK YOU Pixel Fairy Princess... you're AWESOME!

My Baby Went to Camp

Princess Tom-Girl is off at her first camp this week. It's a week-long camp with the church and one that I pressured her into going to... hopefully she's doing okay and having lots of fun with the 500+ other kids!!! She's there with a couple of friends so that should help, but she's my melancholy child and that means she can be down in the dumps before you blink an eye. I can't believe how difficult that first day was sending her off. I was fine until I pulled her aside to pray with her and the tears started flowing. I'm sure she thought I was losing it and didn't quite understand. The only time she's seen me cry is on adoption videos and she's just fascinated by that. Anyway we are half way thru it as of today. The next two days I'll be at a training for using a homeschool curriculum we're going to try out this year so that'll help me to take my mind of her being gone. I'm excited to hear how it went.