Finally Finished

I finished my December mini album a few weeks ago but never got around to posting it on my blog.  I really love making this album, this is my 5th year and each year they are completely different.  I think this year is my favorite so far!

Here's the last few pages including the January challenge at Scrapbook Nerd - confetti.

 

A special visit from Santa and a hug confetti page.

 

I used the rest of my Lawn Fawn sequins and used a punch to punch the patterned paper.

 

Making Christmas cookies for Santa.

Christmas day and opening presents.

 

Our annual skating party with the Lowe's.

 

So glad I finally got it finished and posted.  Can't wait until next year :)

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Scrapbook Nerd January Projects

It's my week over at Scrapbook Nerd for my January project reveals.  I received the oh so cute Bundled Up collection from Crate Paper to play with.  I love this collection!

 

For my first project I wanted to visualize my words for 2014.  I decided this year instead of doing a journal I wanted something I could put on my wall that I would see every day.

 

 

MOMENT - Laugh, have fun and enjoy every moment!

 

 

DO - If you can dream it you can do it! (Walt Disney)

 

STORY - Tell our story better this year.

 

I love that these will be on my wall reminding me every day to live in the moment, do what I love and make every day a story worth telling.

 

I will be sharing more of my projects later this week.  Thanks for stopping by.

 

Cypress Mountain

It's that time of year again, the boys all love to ski and snowboard!

I love how easy this pocket style scrapbooking is to get lots of photos onto my pages. I used the journaling cards and 12x12 paper from ruby Rock-it for this layout about the boys skiing at Cypress Mountain.

The stamps that come with this collection were the perfect size for the Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Tool Round 25. I loved using them as embellishments on these pockets.

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Everyday Awesomeness

Today on the Epiphany Crafts blog we are partnering with Chic Tags.  I really love this Happy Place collection from Chic Tags, the colors and words are amazing - perfect for layouts and mini albums!

 

First Up I made this layout with a few of my favorite photos from last year. I used the Happy Place cards and created a fun grid design then added the Happy Place Phrases to them.

 

 

I used the Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Tool Round 25 and the coordinating Bubble Caps to create some awesome embellishments.

 

 

 

I love the bright colors and fun phrases in this collection.

 

 

2013 really was amazing.

 

 

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Sharing more December Mini Album Pages

I didn't get around to sharing some of my December Daily pages and I am not quite finished so there will probably be one more post after this one lol.

 

Decorating the tree is always one of my favorite days.

 

My son was so happy to put the star on top this year.  He is now the tallest so he gets to do it lol.

 

One of my favorite photos of our Christmas Tree ever!

 

Love these shaped paper clips :)

 

Making Grinch Floats for our movie.

 

Buttons helping us wrap and watching my favorite Christmas Movie - Die Hard.

 

The school Christmas Concert was awesome and Linden had a solo and a big part.  He did awesome.

 

You can see a video of him here!

We got snow this year - enough to make some snowmen and women :)

 

Pancake breakfast with Santa at school.

 

We went to the German Christmas Market this year - the food was great!

 

Only a few more pages to go and I will be finished.

 

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Celebrating Birthdays

This year both my Mom and my Mother-In-Law turned 70 so I made a special card for each of them. 

 

They are both made using the Crate Paper Party collection.  For this card I used a chipboard piece from another Crate collection and added the years with letter stickers.

 

For this card I used my Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Tool Scallop Circle 25 to make the 70.

 

A fun border sticker and cupcake and a cute card is done.

 

I also made a general birthday card with the same collection.

 

I added the cute cupcake sticker to the journaling card and a sticker for the sentiment.

 



 

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Welcome 2014! Let's get this party started!

It's a new year, time to kick 2013 out the door and welcome in 2014!  As I have in the past few years I am playing along with Ali Edwards One Little Word.  I had a hard time coming up with a word this year but eventually it found me (actually three words lol).

My first word is DO!

 

This year I will DO what makes me happy, DO it from the heart, DO something unexpected, DO what I love!

 

My second word is STORY!

 

I want to make this year the year I tell our story.  I am hoping to do Project Life and really focus on our story in my layouts and mini albums.  This word actually came from the new One Direction song Story of my Life.

 

 

And my third word is MOMENT.

 

This year I want to stop worrying and live in the MOMENT.

I am looking forward to a beautiful year filled with wonderful moments, telling our story and doing what I love.  What is your hope for 2014?

 

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