Scripture Challenge - Joy

I did the next layout for my Scripture challenge last night...

The meaning behind this verse really gives me such an amazing feeling!! The Lord has given me so much and verses like this one help me remember to be thankful and praise Him for it all every day...

Beautiful...

I got another layout finished a few minutes ago and I am soooo in love with it!! My mother-in-law was just here visiting us, and on a trip to Michael's, she found a paper pad (K&Company Life's Journey) that she really loved, so she bought it. When we got home, she gave it to me!! She told me to just make her something pretty with it. Well, I did make something pretty, but it's for me, LOL!! I don't think she'll mind though since it's her gorgeous grandbaby. ;)

I guess I better get busy making her something with it too, hehe... ;)

Imagine...

I have a gorgeous niece named Marybeth who's 8 and quite an artist from what I hear. I saw this quote today and thought of her so I made her this card for inspiration...

I love how it turned out and I hope she does too! :)

Cards rock! ;)

I'm really getting into making cards lately. I'm not a pro at it or anything but so far I've made my best friend Cathy 2 of them and my mom-in-law Arlene one, and they both loved them, so I guess I'm doing something right. ;) I made another one tonight and when I went to share it with you all, I realized I haven't shared the others yet either. So, I'll share them all now...well, except for Arlene's which I forgot to take a picture of before I gave it to her, gasp!! ;)







So there they are...I hope you enjoyed them. Are there any other card makers out there? I'd love any tips you can share with me if so! :)

Things Above...

I did a layout a couple of nights ago with Emily on it that I REALLY love! I took a couple of different ideas from projects I saw online (see below) and put them together and this is what I got...

*Inspired by both Kelly Goree's "Love" layout seen here,

and Shanna Vineyard's "Lucky Me Grateful" journal seen here

Isn't it adorable?? ;) This picture is just precious to start with and then when I was sitting here working on the page, this Bible verse popped into my head. I think it fits perfectly...

This is your time to shine...

I got this amazing shot of Madison one day when we were walking to the bus stop to get Emily and I instantly knew I wanted to do some sort of page about time with it. I think it worked great!

I am SO in love with this layout!! First of all, I made it green...alllll of it, lol. I just adore the color green so I was really happy with that part of it for sure. ;) Second, it was so freeing to just throw everything down where I wanted to...no measuring to put something exactly in the center, or making sure everything was just right. The reason for this was actually a challenge in my scrapping group to do a slanted layout. Everything from the paper to the picture to the embellishments had to be slanted. It was a TRUE challenge for me, but I really loved doing it. I let my creative side take over and look what happened!

I seriously wish I could make myself do this more often. I just did one thing, and then another, and then kept adding more steps until the page felt complete. And I had so much fun with it! :) We'll see if I'm able to do it again or not though, lol...

Forever Friends

I was able to get another layout for Cathy done today...

These are some pictures she took of the kids last summer...aren't they so precious?? ;)