Mary Poppins Layout -Stars & Motor Parade

You will notice that I don't scrap in any particular order. I scrap as a page layout comes to mind. This is another page for my disney album. The pattern paper is from DCWV EveryDay paper Stack (thank you Jeff for the B-day gift) the mats are cardstock from my scrap pile. The penguins....oh the penguins....what a time I had making them. I used the cricut Animal Kingdom cart but the problem was the penguin had a baby penguin in front of it and that really didn't work for this page so I had to cut it out in the blackout feature and then keep cutting it to get the pieces in black and white so I could layer it. Then I put a red ribbon around its neck like the bow tie on the penguins in the parade picture. The horse is from Dreams Come True Cricut Cart, used that to match the horse Mary Poppins is on. The pole under the horse is actually the wand for the Fairy Godmother but I cut the wand part of so I had just the pole. To see more of my disney album you can view those layouts in webshots album at http://good-times.webshots.com/album/556732428BLmjtH - Edit The Horse and pole idea came from Snowdrop on the cricut board from her Mary Poppins Page - Thanks for the inspiration! Sorry I din't know who you were earlier to give you the proper credit.

Happy Birthday!

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Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to Gabi (Ellie's daughter), Frickelfee's (from the sisterhood) sweetheart Tobi and his twin brother, Mel Gibson (the actor) and Chrissy (me). Happy Birthday to all of us! Happy birthday to all of us!! Happy Birthday!

Hope everyone that shares a birthday with me today has a wondeful birthday! Its hard to believe that I will be 30 years old today. Actually right now I am still 29 because I was born on 1/3/78 at 11:15 a.m. and it is only 10:55 right now, I still have a few more minutes to savor being 29. LOL!

Free Mammogram

It was on the radio this morning that the American Cancer Society has not received enough clicks onto their website to give enough free mammogram test to needy women. They are below ther limit. It takes less then a minute to do and you don't have to sign up for anything, no account needed. You go to the website http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2 there will be a box that reads click here its free you click the box and the next screen will appear thanking you and that it is. I am sure that we all have a friend or relative that has breast cancer, this is our way to give back a little to those less fourtante then us. If you do signup on the website they will send you a free Pink Ribbon Pin, but again you DO NOT HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR ANYTHING. You can also sign up for email reminders so that you get a daily reminder to do your "click". If everyone that reads this goes to the site and clicks and then they tell a friend and they click and so fourth we can make a small difference. There is also the link to the right of my page above where you would sign up to subscribe to my blog (that link will always be there). Thank you!

Sunday Scrapper

Thank you once again to my good friend Ellie
( http://scrapbookmamaof4kidz.blogspot.com/) I found the Sunday Scrapper group (http://sundayscrappin.blogspot.com/). It is a group of scrapbookers and cardmakers that help you to stick to your goals. I need all the help I can get in helping me stick to my goals.

This weeks question is: What are your scrapbooking goals for 2008 (I know your all sick of hearing about my goals -- sorry)
1. To Scrapbook at least once a week
2. To have at least 52 pages completed on Dec. 31, 2008
3. To send out more handmade cards for bdays, holidays and just because
4. To have my cards completed ahead of time so the night before a bday party I am not scrambling for a card idea and being up until midnight making the card

This weeks goals:
1. To complete at least one scrapbook page from our 2006 WDW trip
2. To complete a card of some type (birthday, valentine ect.)


I look forward to being part of Sunday Scrapper. I agree, Sunday's are great days to scrap! Thank you for having me be part of your group!

Valentine Day Card

Today I worked on a Valentine Card. AllThatScraps (http://www.allthatscraps.com/) is coming out with 2 cute stamp sets this Friday and they scream Valentine's Day! I so need to get them when they come out. All day I was trying to convience myself I don't need those stamps and I was trying to come out with some card ideas and every idea took me back to those stamps that are being released Friday! I'm serious! I was able to get pass that knowing I am going to order them. Once I decided I just have to have them I was able to make this card. All the paper used came out of my scrap pile. The Heart is a stamp from the dollar store, I had it for awhile. The Love stamp is another stamp I had for a long time. The Love stamp has heart confetti around it so I colored in the word love with markers in gray to match the silver on the ribbon. I chalked around the edges. The heart stamp is pop dotted onto the ribbon. I love Valentine's day because of the pinks we get to use, my favorite color is pink.

Counting Pages

What is the correct way to count your scrapbooking pages? Does a 2 page layout count as 1 page or 2 pages? I believe that a 2 page spread is counted as 1 page. Some may think that what I am about ready to say isn't fair but first hear me out on this. We are all aware by now that my New Year's resolution is to scrap a page a week. I will be counting a 2 page spread as 2 pages. Now that doesn't mean that this week I scrapped 2 pages so I can skip scrapbooking next week the goal is to actually scrap EACH WEEK! It only makes sense to me to count a 2 page spread as 2 pages because when you buy a book and you open it up there is a page on the left and a page on the right, each of those pages have their own individual page number. So I think its only fair to count each page regardless if its only a page or 2 page layout. I know, I'm anal. How do you count your pages?

So actually my New Years Resolution is 2 parts - To Scrap at least once a week and on Dec. 31,2008 to have completed at least 52 pages.

First Layout of The Year

First I want to say Happy New Year Everyone. Today it snowed so Jeff and I played with Buddy (our dog) outside. I don't know who loves to play in the snow more us or the dog. When I came in I figured I better keep to my resolution of a page a week, so I made this layout. Its a simple layout. For the title I used Creative Delights Campanion (http://www.letteringdelights.com/) font Tidings of Joy. The background paper had christmas lights on it and I had stickers of christmas bulbs that I put on a few of the lights. I am proud, I even journaled on the page (somethingI usually forget, but I'm getting better). And the red photo mats were taken out of my scrap pile, the green...well I didn't have that color in my scraps.