Another Layout to share

Quickly before I turn in for the night, here is another all digital layout. Only my second one. I completed a few paper layouts tonight too, I only have 1 more layout to go before I have met my 31 in 31 challenge! YES!!!!! I will post pictures of the paper layouts that I created some time tomorrow along with the very last one for this challenge.

Another big post

Ok, here are the 3 layouts I finished yesterday and one that I managed to squeeze in this morning. I kind of laugh when I see them all together like this because my style totally changes with my mood. It's sort of odd. Anyway, here they are...

Hayley went through a phase right after she turned one, of taking her pants off and putting them on her head...I just HAD to document that. So cute, right? :-) I had a little trouble getting this one right and I still am not completely crazy about it. I may tweak it later...
Very simple and straight to the point.
Now, the answer here is YES I did HAND CUT the Dory and Marlin and paper pieced them together. I drew them by hand and also drew the title by hand. Hayley demands to watch Nemo every single day. Without fail. Every day. Some times she asks more than once a day, but I can only force myself to oblige once. I love Nemo, I think it's one of the best Disney movies ever, but I am SO burned out on it. She, on the other hand, still LOVES it.
And this one, I did some very rare for me stitching on the main photo. I don't do this often because it has to all be done by hand since I don't have a sewing machine because I don't know how to sew really. And it takes FOREVER. But I love the look of stitching on my pages so I think the end result is worth the extra time.

Only 4 more to go for my 31 in 31. And then it's on to making some CARDS! As much as I have loved doing this challenge, I am ready for a little variety for a few days. And then I can mix it up like I usually do with a little bit of both here and there.

3 more pages down

I have 5 more pages left to do to meet my 31 in 31 challenge. I finished 3 layouts today! YAY! Sorry no pictures to share tonight, I hope to share some tomorrow. It's getting late and I must go get some sleep!

Layouts 22 and 23

Here are my most recent layouts for my 31 in 31 challenge. I am only 8 away from being done! AHHH! So much pressure :-). I'm really hoping I can get them all finished, but I am still so proud of myself for accomplishing what I've already gotten done. This is by far the most I've ever scrapped in one month, probably the most I've ever scrapped in 2-3 months! It's amazing how much you can accomplish when you put your mind to it.
For the first layout I used a new color combo for me, but I found it on the kuler website. Then for the second one, I sort of scraplifted a technique Tuesday ad that I fell in love with as soon as I saw it! So if that layout looks familiar, that's why! :-) Hey, it still counts!

I've been TAGGED

Rules: (1) Link to the person that tagged you. (2) Post the rules on your blog. (3) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself. (4) Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. (5) Let each random person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their site.

Wow, this is the first time I've been tagged on my blog. How exciting! Thanks Katie! Ok, so six random things about me...let's see.

1.) I love love LOVE movies. Will and I have a mini-blockbuster at our house. We have hundreds of movies. (I am NOT exaggerating). We have 2 big CD cases full of our movies, plus two others for just the "kid" movies. Crazy, right?? My friends and I even do quote marathons back and forth with our favorites.

2.) I am a pile-maker. This little quirk about me wouldn't be interesting, if I didn't drive myself crazy with my piles. I've never been "neat" ever. Disorder has been my friend since I was a little girl. I used to drive my mom nuts. But it's controlled chaos because I know where to find things. Will, on the other hand is extremely neat, so he kind of keeps me in line. Since he's been gone, my piles have been driving me crazy. I guess he's rubbing off on me a little. But it still doesn't stop me from making the piles :-)

3.) I am dying to go to Europe. I especially want to see Italy. Big dream that I hope to accomplish sometime in the not so distant future.

4.) I am a big sucker for all things romantic. Flowers, candles, love songs...ahh, love is a beautiful thing :-)

5.) I love office supplies. It reminds me of the first day of school. Fresh packages of notebook paper, pens, paper clips. I love them all. I buy notebooks just because I think they are pretty and have tons of them stashed around to use as journals, or to house the many lists that I make but very rarely actually use :-)

6.) I would love to own my own business one day. Maybe a scrapbook store, maybe something else...it's a future idea that I've been toying with. I have this wonderful image of bins lining the walls filled with buttons, and ribbons, and flowers, and all kinds of other wonderful embellishments as well as open stock paper and such so people can bring in their basics like adhesive and their photos and have everything they need right at their fingertips to create. Sort of a build-a-page concept. Similar to build-a-bear but for scrapping. Any investors out there interested?? LOL

Ok, so now my turn to tag someone...I guess I will tag Michelle. I know you're supposed to pick 6, but my blog buddies have all been tagged...I guess this means I need to make some new ones!!

Will's Valentine's Day gift

Thank you so much to Ali Edwards for posting this amazing project! I was stumped on what to do for Will for Valentine's day. I wanted to do something special, but I didn't want to go over the top because Will is in Qatar and can't really do much in return and knowing him he'll feel bad if I do too much. SO, this was absolutely perfect. Check out the project for yourself, here. Now I do not sew...I don't own a sewing machine. So when I saw this, I was like...crap, I can't sew! But I gave it a shot anyway and hand sewed it, and though it looks far from professionally sewn, it came from my heart and I hope he likes it. Here is my version

I used my sizzix to die cut the hearts out of the pink and brown felt. The ribbons are all from American crafts Valentine's day collection (SOOOO cute!). I got one of them at the Pink house and the others were a gift from a good friend of mine trying to cheer me up from missing Will while he's away. You can download the inside pages from Ali's blog, which is what I did. I also included photos and then added the ribbons and other various embellishments to the inside. I should've taken pictures of the inside before I did all the writing and stuff, but you can check them out on Ali's blog. Thanks again, Ali for the wonderful project!! Hope everyone had a wonderful and productive weekend!

Real Beauty

Ok, this is layout number 21 for my January challenge. Cruising right along, right? :-) I am actually really loving this page. I wandered pretty far off my original sketch with this one, but I'm okay with that. I originally was planning to use blue and green for the color scheme, but the black and red just sort of started to take over while I was playing. It was all kind of an accident. I had an embellishment for another page on my desk and it landed on my page when I was moving things around and I loved the red on the blue background. SO long story short, my plan was completely altered and this is the result.