Happy World Card Making Day!

Bet you didn't know there was a holiday for making cards did you? Of course you did b/c you are all paper crafters! We celebrate everything!!!! :D Isn't it GREAT! I don't have any cards right now to share and we are about to head out to soccer games and grandparent visits but tonight maybe I can make some and then I will share them tomorrow! Make sure to check all the blogs I follow b/c LOTS of them are doing blog hops and giveaways! I will share some layouts I did for the Back to School Crop a few weeks ago over at Noel and have you all discovered Cassie!!!! Oh my word! LOVE LOVE LOVE her shop!!!! Go by and do some shopping today!!!!

This was for the Chemistry class to make our own background with mists.....:)

This is a file folder by Heidi Swapp and I am using it to house all the special papers from Savannah's first grade year! LOVE this idea! 

This was done before the crop and I was testing out that new punch! 

And this one I was just playing with a sketch and I love how it turned out too! 

Have a GREAT Saturday and go make some cards! 

WooHoo It's Friday!

Yay! We made it through this week and my week has been CRAZY! Come to think of it what week isn't crazy? LOL.....

Anyway....tomorrow is WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!!!! I know I'm silly for being so excited! Are you excited? Do you have big plans? Make sure you check out all the blogs for giveaways and inspiration! Speaking of giveaways, http://pamelasworldofscrap.blogspot.com/ has a HUGE giveaway! You should hop of there and enter to win!!!! WOWZA what a prize Pamela has up for grabs! :D Thanks Pamela!!!!!

Well the littles are out of school today so I've got to entertain them! Good thing I picked up some goodies to make spiders and monsters :)

Have a happy weekend!

Happy Wednesday

It's beginning to look a lot like fall! I'm soooooooooooo HAPPY about this! LOVE this time of year. I love cozy sweats, big sweaters, boots, fires, mulled cider smells....and YUMMY comfort food! What do you enjoy about this time of year? It's one of my absolute favorites!

I have been participating over at the Noel Mignon Back to School Crop! It's so much fun! YOU should come and join us! I know today is not Tuesdays with Noel kits but I really meant to get this up yesterday but between my Army Wives marathon I was having, taking care of mr little and teacher conferences it was kinda hard to blog! LOL......

So needless to say, no different than when I was actually IN school I'm procrastinating because the only layout I have finished is from the very first class they had over there! Which was Beginning Band with Leslie Ashe! I LOVE her! She is so amazingly talented and I LIVE to see what she creates! I scrapped almost exactly like she did......and I LOVED the outcome. I got messy, I layered and I just had super fun! I plan to start trying to change my mindset when digging into my creativity to produce more like this one:

Tuesdays with NoelMignon kit layouts

So technically it's Tuesday still....even though I typically try to do my blog posts in the morning times. But I'm hoping this week to get back to our

REGULARLY SCHEDULED BLOG CASTS!

It's been a crazy few months around here. First we're moving across the country, so I start packing....and then we're not so then I have to unpack and my house has been a complete mess ever since. My hubby and I FINALLY got our house back in order this past week, then we had a long weekend which I took most of that time to just relax with my family and be in the moment! In the meantime this past week I did manage to get some layouts done! One is top secret b/c I'm participating in Noel's layout tag for fall! So much fun! It's like playing telephone, remember that when you were little, only with scrapbooking layouts! It's FAB!

Anyway, here is a layout I CAN share:

I participated in the August sketch challenge by Julie Bonner found here! You should too!

I also used the beautiful August West Coast Kit which is all sold out...but....psssstttt....NOEL MADE A LIMITED EDITION that is VERY similar and she only has a few!!!!!! HURRY!!!!! 

Hope you guys have a wonderful Tuesday night, I'm hoping to get the littlest to bed ASAP and get some creating done! 

Insta-Friday

WOW! Summer is coming to an end! So sad. It's been a crazy and busy summer....N O T H I N G like I had planned. Visions of my summer included daily swimming and the occasional nap and snack in between. THAT'S IT. Not at all that way. It's the same thing I tried for last summer that didn't happen so I guess I will try again next summer. Eventually....eventually I will get there! Anyway-today I'm linking up with life rearranged for insta fridays! Here is a recap from our week

I took the littles for a picnic at the park and they loved it! 

I went shopping with one of my besties on Saturday! Had so much fun! LOVE her! 

We got FREE starbucks! It was well worth the drive to get! So yummy!

I found this HUGE box of poptarts that at first I thought was a GIANT pop tart....but its just a GIANT box of 48 pop tarts. What a bummer b/c it would be really cool to actually have a GIANT pop tart. 

We went to the part for some fun play time with friends.....

they refused to stop for a picture....don't they know me by now?

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They did manage to talk Tabb into getting on the merry go round.....it was GREAT!

Child training bible! I'm slowly working on this......will be so good for all of us!

We went to open house.  Savannah LOVES her teacher and she keeps asking me how many days until school starts. I think she is ready! 

Jackson found a Buzz book in the reading nook. 

And Savannah made herself at home in her new classroom! 

What was your week like? Link up and tell us all about it......

Friends for Life

So as I mentioned the other day, we are currently in "move across the country mode."  It's a stressful time in our house, but at the same time it's exciting as we are trying lots of new things as a family. It also contains a great deal of sadness as I realized this is the longest we have been in one place and the longest in any state! We had some friends, some of our best friends come down last weekend to send us off with well wishes. I LOVE them so much! And I started the documenting stage of that visit....scrapping one page! LOL....I have LOTS of pictures to scrapbook but this one I am sharing today is one of the cutest! Its a Shelby, a Jackson, a Minion, a Minnie and a Mickey kinda day! AND I participated in Creative Scrappers sketch 220! LOVE LOVE LOVE this sketch! Did I mention I LOVE this sketch? I also used the Boardwalk Kit from Noel Mignon...which is sold out but there is a limited edition one if you would like one that's similar! Hope you all enjoy it! :D

On Cloud Nine!

Good morning fellow bloggers! I have been absent for a while....after I just set a blog schedule for all the world to see! I know! I'm terrible! I have good reason though! We are moving and so this summer life changing event has taken over my life! So I will probably be pretty random on posts for a little bit but HOPEFULLY soon....I can get back to our "regularly scheduled program!"

Anyway want to give a HUGE shout out to Leslie Ashe! OMGoodness! She is on the Noel Mignon design team this term and I completely ADORE her work! She is one amazingly talented friend! I have followed her blog for a while and NOW she's on the DT where my home on the web is......and so I also follow her on instagram and facebook....Hmmmm is that considered stalking? (Shhhh....don't tell her, but I'm sure she won't mind....she is super duper sweet!) Anywho this week over on the message board the design team was given the challenge to lift a message board member.....AND let's see, Leslie is a DT member and yours truly is a MB member.....hmmmm 1+1=2 and you guessed it! SHE LIFTED ME!!!! (GASP) I'm STILL on cloud 9! I am starstruck! I mean....Leslie is FAMOUS in our little corner of this hobby world and I am so honored she picked me to lift! Here is her post! GO CHECK IT OUT!

THANKS LESLIE! you are DA BOMB!