Lots of scrapping stuff going on in March!!

It's been a busy February!! I didn't get much scrapping time due to our big move, but I did get some cute pictures of Logan and Dan building things for our home.

I created this page for a valentine's day contest, using the theme "hold hands". I thought of Robert and Barbara and their hand-holding. Then, I dug thru mom's trip pics and found these.

This was a fast, easy one using an artsy black and white of heather.

I'm now working my way thru a big box of childhood pictures. They are a bit of a challenge, as they are small and mostly very dark.

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www.Scrapbookdreamer.com is hosting a March sketch challenge. The best Part?? This sketch has been created just for us by the ever talented Becky Fleck!! You can see her website and free sketches here: www.pagemaps.com. The winner will receive a $20 gift certificate with free shipping from the store!!

We are Home!

I will start with the most important room of the house, my scraproom :) I put up pegboard to organize all my goodies. This is just one wall. The room measures 10x10.





Our master bathroom is bigger than the bedroom! It has a this huge jetted garden tub, which we haven't used because it takes 2 water tanks to fill it, a big standing shower, double sink and double walk in closet. The bathroom measures 15x 14!!

Our dining room opens up into the living room. It has a sliding door that opens to a deck that goes between this room and the play room. Mom gave me the china hutch :)

Logan and Heather are really enjoying their new space. They are sharing a bedroom right now per their choice, which opens up the second bedroom for a play area. We've also utilized the family room as a toy room. so really, they have about 2/3 of the house for themselves!!

Just a wild and crazy picture of Heather. She was being very silly!!

We are packed...and outta here!!

In between a gazillion trips to Evanston for classes required for childcare licensing, we've been packing and getting ready to move into our new home. As of saturday, everything is finished except for some minor finish work by the carpet guys and the floor of the garage! It really looks great. I'll post some pictures of the inside/garage as soon as we close tomorrow and I can go up there and snap a few.

I've been adding some fun things to my scrapping repetoire. Since all my paper items are packed, I've been dabbling in digital. Let me tell ya, these programs have so many options, it's overwhelming! I'm using Photoshop Elements...and should probably get a book to learn how to use it! The great thing about digi scrapping is that I can print out the digi elements and combine them with traditional paper scrapping. I've wanted to learn to do this for a long time.

Here are some of my first digi pages!





This was a fast one--the fun black brushes are like digital stamps and super easy to use.

This page is my official first digi page. It took about 4 hours!! but, now that I know a few things, it's getting faster.

I put this one together last night in under an hour. I used all freebie elements found online. This is my first attempt at using a digi overlay, cutting empty circles, and using scalloped papers.

Ths page is not digi--but it has some exciting news!! I won my first big manufacturer's contest!! A copy of this layout was used by FiberScraps, the maker of everything on this layout, in their booth at the big Crafts and Hobbies Association convention in Anaheim. I won $100 and lots of free stuff made by FiberScraps. FUN!! I mailed it off to them a couple weeks ago for photographing, and possible use in magazine advertisements.