So its been a while due to a whole lotta stuff and blogging always take a back seat. Sorry! This weekend I was pretty bummed about not being able to join a scrapbooking group to attend a great 3 day retreat that was close to my place. Totally sucked! But I've already made arrangements with my dh to watch the kids so that I could join my sister and my aunties/cousins for a the annual Girls' Shopping weekend. And really I felt guilty about asking him for a second weekend. Sometimes a girl's gotta choose! But I was lucky to be able to participate in an online crop at Scrap Shotz so I still got my scrap on!
These are some of the cards and layouts that I made for various challenges. Sometimes its great to step outside your comfort zone and play a bit.
This tractor layout was very outside of my zone. I'm not a big angler or someone who uses green a lot. Weird though, my biggest paper stash is green (both pattern paper and cardstock) so it must appeal to me somewhere deep down lol!
These layouts were done with the Scrapshotz November kit featuring SEI moonrise papers and embellishments.
Except this card, it was done with last year's Bo-Bunny pattern paper scraps.
I also used a sketch from the new Becky Fleck's pagemaps 2 idea book. Its a great resource and worth the purchase price.
Saturday morning also included some bribing. I got some quick photos of my kids and 2, count them 2 family photos taken. Not 2 good ones, 2 in total. Thank goodness one turned out great!
My Owen has become a little monkey lately, demanding and *so* active! He always wants to see what's on the camera but never wants to stay still. I'm happy to get what I get with his photos!
My Abby, the poser. She was the most willing, except for her clothes. She was ticked at having to wear a shirt under her dress because it was cold. Bribery is fabulous.
Ethan, who hates getting is photo taken almost as much as his dad. He's always colder than anyone else, more tired than anyone else and more done than anyone else. You should see him when he's sick (rolling eyes here!)
the only photo I got! Thank goodness!
My card challenge for the crop.
This layout was done for a layout race that I participated in. I just grabbed some of my Echo Park scraps and threw it together.
The new family addition. I got the go ahead from Ron to get myself a new camera, well new to me. I bought this bad boy off of ebay (barely used) for $500 less than the retail price. I'm thrilled to say its great and I'm looking forward to learning all the ins and outs of it. Ron's thrilled because he gets my other dslr.
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Great family pic and you took only 2? It turned out so nice. Your new camera is amazing.
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