It's February all ready?

My design team challenge is up at Scrapbook Star - head on over and play along.



This month it's all about the ruffles. I really like adding ruffles to my layouts and cards it adds such great texture and depth.

Here's my layout:


This year for our 18th Anniversary Mike and I went away (no kids) to Seattle and saw Gomez. It was a great weekend!

Fleur's Freaky Friday Fun

Head on over to Scrapbook Star for some Friday Fun!

Today my challenge is Disney - here's my layout



I made this project using the February kit which is awesome! Come join me for some FUN!

Buttons

Our new kitten Buttons is so cute she likes to sleep on my desk and play with my keyboard when I am trying to scrap. It's nice to have a girl in the house so I can do some pink layouts like this one!

Online Crop

Come and join us tonight at Scrapbook star for the January online crop - it's all about Something New.

Sneak Peek

The February kit at Scrapbook Star is gorgeous. It features the Jenni Bowlin red, black and cream line and has lots of fun embellishments. Here's a few sneaks...

Life Is Brighter

With Valentine's Day around the corner I wanted to do a special mini album for my family to let them know my life is brighter with them in it.




For the inside I used the new Zutter removeable protector pages which I love and I used the Bo Bunny Love Bandit papers and embellsihments.

Blog Award

My scrappy friend, Jemma, gave me this Beautiful Blogger Award. I was totally shocked so thanks Jemma!

The award comes with the following responsibilities:
1. I must thank the person who bestowed this honor upon me. (Thanks again Jemma)
2. Copy the award and place it on my blog.
3. Link to the bestower’s site Jemma's Journey
4. List seven interesting things about myself - hmmmm let's see:
1)I was born in Africa
2)I eat cheese every day of my life (I would not be alive if it weren't for cheese
3)I drink a Coke every day (Yes Eleonor I know it's bad for me but I can't live without it)
4)I fell in love with Mike (my DH) at first sight but he wanted nothing to do with me - I showed him :)
5)I took a year of Premed at university
6)I love music - It's one of the things that gives me strength to get through the bad times and let's me let loose for the good times. The right music is food for my soul (right now that's Muse)
7)My second son Linden was born on my birthday (go pisces) and when he's bad or acts up my husband always makes the comment "Well he is born on your birthday" and I always say back he is so not like me (well shhhhhh don't tell my DH but boy is he like me LOL)

5. Nominate seven bloggers that I find beautiful:

Eleonor who makes me laugh all the time! (BTW how was your trip with the aliens :)

Sam who I wished lived closer to me and had her amazing store a lot closer too :)

Tara whose scrapbooking style is so different from mine but her layouts are totally amazing

If you love making cards then Erika's blog is a must - they are amazing!

Heather's blog Green Apple Girl - love her layouts!

I met Janis on the Scrapbook Star message board and I fell in love with her bright, fun layouts!
Sarah's blog is full of goodness go check it out!

Thanks that was fun!

New Zutter Products

With CHA just around the corner there are lots of sneak peeks of upcoming prducts. Here's Zutter's newest. The first.....is the DISTREZZ-IT-ALL.....this is an amazingly powerful, handheld electronic distressing tool.

And second.....the all new ZUTTER KUTTER.

I am also super excited they have corrugated cardboard covers coming too!

Whistler

With the Olympics coming to Whistler in a few short weeks and my husband Mike gearing up for his part in the opening and closing ceremonies I thought I would change my header to celebrate Whistler. I've added a few of my favorite photos from Whistler over the last few years.



We have been so lucky to be able to go to Whistler every year (thanks Pat and Kingston) and the boys loved learning to ski and snowboard. It is an amazing place to just walk around and has amazing restaurants and stores. The instructors we've had so far have been awesome and Rhys snowboarded down Blackcomb with Mike for the first time last year (I was so proud). One of our favorite things to do is swim outside while it's snowing. This is such a fun place!

Getting Organized

I am really going to try and get organized this year so I made a letter orgainzer for our front hall. Here's a sneak peek of it.


Head on over to the Zutter Zisters site here to see the whole thing. You can also check out all the other amazing projects from their design team while you are there.