These are some of my favorite photos from last fall in our new home.  The leaves that drop from our maple trees are HUGE and plentiful!

Please stop by to see more Fall and School themed layouts in this September’s CREATE Magazine!

Products used: Patterned papers: SEI, We R Memory Keepers, Heidi Grace, Bella Blvd; Letter Stickers: Basic Grey, Authentique; Journaling block: Little Yellow Bicycle; Ribbon: Basic Grey; Dies: Cricut Chalkboard Font; Dimensional stickers: unknown; Sketch: Scrapbook Generation

I love, love, love the sketch this month for CREATE! I got right to work with my 6×6 paper pads constructing a super fun color scheme for these photos.  I wanted the beautiful pink flowers to jump off the page.  😉

Please stop by and see what my fellow designers did with this sketch and other inspirations this month in the September CREATE magazine.

Products used: Patterned paper: Bella Blvd, My Mind’s Eye, Making Memories, We R Memory Keepers, Recollections, SEI; Cardstock: Bazzill, Core’dinations; Letter Stickers: American Crafts, Studio112; Stickers: My Mind’s Eye; Buttons: American Crafts; Flowers: Making Memories, Prima

Please stop by and see all of the amazing projects in July’s CREATE Magazine HERE!

We got a summer themed color challenge for the July CREATE magazine. Red, 3 shades of blue, tan, and white. I don’t usually get very many photos for the fourth of July but the red made me think of berries! These are pictures of us picking strawberries in our front yard.  What a treat!

Products used: Patterned paper: DCWV, Little Yellow Bicycle, sei; Letter stickers: Little Yellow Bicycle; Tag: imaginisce; Dies: Silhouette Samantha Walker, PPbN Designs; Sketch: Scrapbook Generation

This layout was designed for the May 2015 CREATE magazine.  See it HERE!

For the May issue of CREATE magazine we were asked to show off Paper House and their fun themed papers and embellishments.  I got the Family Vacation set:

I picked out a silly photo of our son hitching a ride through the airport on our extra tall rolling suitcase.

Products used: Patterned paper: Paper House, My Mind’s Eye, We R Memory Keepers, Cosmo Cricket; Stickers: Paper House, Heidi Grace; Journaling block: Paper House

See all the great projects in the May 2015 CREATE magazine HERE!

For the CREATE journaling challenge this month, we showed off how to use a list. We went to this favorite park 3 days in a row while visiting San Jose so a list was a great way to recap the overall experience.

Products used: Patterned paper: My Mind’s Eye, Authentique, Basic Grey, We R Memory Keepers, October Afternoon; Letter stickers: Authentique; Stickers: Heidi Grace; Journaling block: Technique Tuesday; Washi tape: We R Memory Keepers; Dies: Cricut Type Candy Font

View the May 2015 CREATE magazine HERE!

This layout was created for the birthday theme challenge for CREATE. I took photos of Calvin at his 1 1/4, 1 1/2, 1 3/4, and 2 year “birthdays” for comparison.  They really turn from babies into little kids during the second year.

Products used: Patterned paper: Recollections, Fancy Pants, Crate Paper, We R Memory Keepers; Letter Stickers: Basic Grey, Authentique; Stickers: Bella Blvd; Journaling block: jillibean soup; Brads: Making Memories; Dies: Silhouette Scrap N Fonts

This layout was so hard for me! I was challenged by the March issue of CREATE to used chipboard.  I’m not a chipboard user. 😉 But I took my assignment VERY SERIOUSLY and thought long and hard about to do something a little different.  I decided to recreate the railing to our tree fort with chipboard to emphasize the photos. I actually used a needle and stitched rafia through the chipboard for dimension.  Read more about it in the magazine!

Products used: Patterned paper: Recollections, My Mind’s Eye; Cardstock: Bazzill; Letter Stickers: American Crafts; Stickers: Creative Imaginations, American Crafts, My Mind’s Eye, Martha Stewart; Dies: Sarah Bailey (Silhouette), Nathan Jenne (Silhouette)

These are my takes on the card and tag sketches from CREATE magazine, March issue.

One of the themes for January’s issue of CREATE magazine is LOVE.  Here are the photos I thought of first!

Products used: Patterned papers: Creative Imagination, My Mind’s Eye, Echo Park; Cardstock: Core’dinations; Letters: White Blossom; Stickers: Heidi Grace; Embellishments: Recollections; Sketch: Scrapbook Generation

Ice skating with Tobin on a “Mom and Tobin Adventure Day” last winter. I used the January sketch from CREATE magazine to pull this together!

Products used: Patterned papers: heidi grace, SEI, Doodlebug Design Inc, We R; Cardstock: Bazill; Letter stickers: Sassafras; Stickers: Doodlebug Design Inc, TPC Studios, American Crafts, heidi grace; Other Emb: Prima; Washi Tape: Little B; Die cuts: Cricut Type Candy Font