Main Street Cinema!

This weekend, we celebrated National Scrapbook Day... and I've got some layouts to share!

But first, we celebrated Free Comic Book Day! Not only that but it was also May the Fourth (Be With You)... we arrived at our new local comic shop and found the 501st!

We got some fun pics, temporary tattoos for the kiddos... and, of course, some free comics!

 Came home and dove into some scrapbooking!
I love National Scrapbook Day! I found all kinds of inspiration! I gathered and/or particpated in challenges from Big Picture Classes, DisneyScrappers, StudioCalico, Echo Park, and Basic Grey.... I pulled out my photos from Disneyland in 2010 and dove in!

Here's the first layout I did

 This page focuses on the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland.
I tackled this one for a challenge from Disney Scrappers to use a wonderful Sketch from Susan Stringfellow, and sneak in at least one semi-hidden Mickey. 

The papers that I used here are Echo Park's For the Record, and they're all from the 6x6 pad... I LOVE 6x6 pads and use them a ton! The background is from My Mind's Eye's Kraft FunDay line

 More pages from NSD coming up!

8x8 October Afternoon Fun!

I buy a lot of 8x8 and 6x6 pads, and use them for all kinds of projects, especially 12x12 pages.

These three all use October Afternoon's 8x8 pads.


For this one, I broke out the Campfire pad and got to work.

These photos of the boys playing in the water are just so... them! Quite fun.
A little of this, a little of that, some Jenni Bowlin pennants and alphas... I really like how this came out... and yes, all of these are 8x8 papers on a sheet of 12x12 background paper.


This one uses some Sasparilla  and a little bit of Campfire

The photos here are of my boys with my dad on his birthday 2011. It's such a great multi-gen photo! I did not intend to use that die cut "Grandpa" that way but it caught on the photo and I really liked it that way!

And this one mostly uses the Rocket age line

 I adore this photo of my oldest and his Explorer Post on their trip to California (this one is from NASA Dryden) I really like the rocket and the Explore tag that I cut with my Silhouette, they really bring this together!

Backstage Tour

I got a lot done last week by getting my stuff and running away from home, to Archivers.

I needed the time VERY MUCH and was glad to get it... Thanks DH for being awesome about it.

Here's a fun layout... I think I may still add "Chick Fil A" in red to the title... I dunno. Do I know what these products are? Nope. I see some Studio Calico, Some Basic Grey and ummmm some other stuff. but I like it! and I'm happy with it. And these pics from the boys' backstage tour at CFA are super fun (Oldest was there too, but declined to be in photos... I think this was before he gave in to the inevitability that his crazy scrapbooker mother WAS going to take photos either way ;) )

Autumn Days

Here it is, Springtime in the Rockies... in Colorado, transitional seasons do NOT mean a gradual change in temperature between Summer and Winter... here, it's one day quite hot, next day snowing.

Like these two photos taken two days in a row in my front yard in October 2011.

For this one I've used the My Mind's Eye: Follow Your Heart line and a little bit of Crate Paper Toy Box too.

And here's another with the American Crafts Campy Trails Line -- I've got several of these soon to appear here, I've been ripping through this line that I've held onto for too long!

Love these photos of my older boys jumping off the swings at a nearby park.