Happy Fall

Now that it's *finally* starting to look a little like Fall around here, I took a few pics today and made a Fall collage. Happy Fall!

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Scrap n' Art Jan/Feb 2010 Page Calls Now Open!

Scrap n' Art is looking for the following for our January/February 2010 issue. Each project submitted will earn the submitter a raffle ticket in our drawing for a prize pack worth over $200, including products from Karen Foster, Nikki Sivils, Genuinely Jane, Hambly Screen Prints, and Prima! Submit as many projects as you'd like to all of the categories below:

January Jewels - Layouts/projects featuring lots of bling-a-ling!

Winter Blues - Layouts featuring the color blue

Slush happens - Layouts featuring snowy, icy, winter photos

Valentine Gifts, Layouts, and Cards

Love Notes - Layouts featuring notes written to others

Hybrid Layouts & Projects - combining both digital and paper

"New You" layouts - Scrapbook pages about your goals, resolutions, intentions

Before and After - Layouts/projects showing the beginning and end result of a project or journey. Examples: A weight loss journey, remodeling your kitchen, etc.

Masculine Layouts & Cards

Layouts featuring negative space
Layouts & Projects featuring your favorite tool techniques

Deadline - November 15th, 2009

Email submissions and questions to submissions@scrapnart.com

My Name's In Lights!

I recently won the September Cosmo Cricket Challenge at sb.com. Not only did I win a great prize of Cosmo Cricket goodies (which I can't WAIT to get!!), but I am also featured on their blog today!! So exciting!! Go check it out!! (Scroll down for my layout "Gift of Love".)

Squeee!!!

Fun Layouts With Vintage Photos

Recently, my Mama showed us some old pictures of her and Daddy when they were dating and also some of their wedding pictures. She also had some older pictures of my sister and brother when they were babies in the late 60s. After my sister, Ginger, scanned them in and shared them with me, I used iPhoto to alter and enhance them. Then I had them reprinted so I could create some layouts with them. It was so fun!

Here are some I got done. I hope to do some more soon!

This first layout is of Mama and Daddy when they were dating. They look so happy! I love this picture of them.



Here is a layout of their wedding picture. I entered this layout in the September Cosmo Cricket Challenge on scrapbook.com and I won! Yay!



This layout is of Ginger, when she was about a year old. So cute!



This next layout is of my older brother and sister when they were babies, the year was 1968 (way before my time, LOL!).

Journaling:
Ricky was just a few days old and Ginger was 16 months old in this picture. Ginger had already claimed Ricky as HER baby and she was so happy when Mama laid him in her lap. But, when Mama took Ricky away to change him, Ginger was clearly thinking, "Oh no she didn't!". :D

I LOVE these pictures of them. You can clearly see how happy Ginger was in the first pic, holding Ricky in her lap, and then the disappointment on her face in the second picture as Mama pulls him away. SO hilarious!!



And this last layout is of Ginger, around the year 1968, on our Uncle Gene's boat.



So that's all I have done for now. I love scrapping these old pictures and telling the stories of my family.

The Cuteness Is Overwhelming

This. Is the Cutest Thing. That I Think I Have Ever. Freaking. Seen. You must go. Now.

Here's a little snippet of the cuteness.




Be sure to keep scrolling and clicking to see older posts. There are pages of cuteness to behold. :D