I just found this new Scrapbook Challenge blog:

http://www.RealLife-Scraps.com/

They have monthly challenges and have a prize drawing for completing the challenge.  Wouldn't you know it, my recent Green page was a perfect match for the April challenge about using green.  That was easy!  Be sure to check them out and help them get a good following.

Maze Book

I just did some research and found that TV Weekly and Inque Boutique are no longer making videos.  I will delete those links, but I did find you can watch their videos on google.  Here's one that I definitely want to try...it would be a great and easy grandma gift!

Green

This is all about me and my love of most things green:

This was my first time using ghost letters, staples (I think), and sewing on a page.  I used my nifty new cuttlebug piercing bugs to make the holes.  It was a lot of fun!
Page two of the layout.  The colors are a little clearer in person for the abc letters on the bottom of the page.  It shows the shades I love and those I don't love.
A close up on the journaling.
My super cute first page.

And the whole thing put together!  I had a lot of fun putting these pages together.  Courtney even got in on the action and made a page about blue for her.  I'll post that on my family blog.

part 2: photo collages

This second one is Bryce & Bettie's girls. They are the family that spends usually a couple evenings a week at our home.  I used my Cricut to cut out all the clothes and the slide.  The sun and cloud were my own design.  These were both done on 8x8 canvases.

Photo Collages

This year for Christmas I made two photo collages, inspired by Claudine Hellmuth's work. Here is my first one ever!  It is of my brother John's boys:

Cool Deal of the Day website!

I just found this:

www.peachycheap.com

Everyday they have one scrapbooking item for sale at a deep discount.  I'm interested to see what fun items they sell!

Now that we have moved, I am almost ready to get back into scrapbooking again.  Then I'll start posting again!

Christmas Extras

This is from 2006, our last Christmas in Broken Bow, OK.  The Grandma, Grandpa and Clayton came at the last minute and brought Laura and her children.  They were our extra people and they brought extra presents.  Courtney was the first asleep and got an extra present from Santa for that.    The layout is simple, but I like it.