family twenty eleven

most of you that know me, know that I've been a paper scrapbooker since around the time our first son, Collin was born, about 12.5 years ago.  Then about a year ago I switched pretty much completely to digital. Well, now with creating a few paper lines here & there for My Mind's Eye, I've caught the paper bug again.  I've been working on my December Daily {updated photos to come soon... if the sun ever shines here again!} & so I've been picking up supplies here & there.  I also re-subscribed to get the Studio Calico monthly kits, which I always love.  Today, I really wanted to complete a paper layout... just to make sure I still knew what I was doing ;)  I started off with one of our family photos that my sister Carol took just before Thanksgiving. I used parts of the Studio Calico December kit, some of my Kraft Funday, & some other misc goodies {some of my digi designs even made an appearance}

as you can see I sorta went crazy with another new "supply" I picked up a few weeks back... a sewing machine!  I've been an admirer of stitched pages for a long time & I'm really loving it!

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Everyday Fun Borders	Everyday Fun Chipboard	Happy Days Brads	Everyday Fun Buttons
Happy Days Stamps	Emma's Shoppe Collection	Fun&Festive digital papers	Cool Kid Digital papers
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Happy December!

can you believe it? of course december with young kids in the house is the most anticipated month of the year, so we've been getting lots of updates from our 4 year old about it :)  Evan {9} woke up this morning & told his dad "happy december"! Which in turn, sent Lydia into MERRY CHRISTMAS month!!! lol.  unfortunately I've failed once again at getting an advent calendar together for the kids, but I may hurry & get a few things together today yet... maybe it will be an evening or after school suprise?

one thing I've been working on for december is my december daily {made oh so famous by miss ali edwards}.  this is my first year doing it {I'm not counting last year when I made a measly 3-4 digi pages}.  I started mine around thanksgiving, rounding up papers & elements from my older paper stash & my newest papers from My Mind's Eye & also some of my digi products that I printed out!

i started out putting together my cover. i made it pretty simple with some of my kraft funday elements, more may be added later, who knows. I modified a chipboard book cover i had bought last year when i bought my zutter.  i'm using binder rings to hold everything together.

i than went through my papers i had picked out & cut them to 5x7" {some may be different} & backed ones that didn't suit me. this is a partial lineup.

then i started with my number pages... i'll add in extra pages each day as needed.  i'm anticipating them being mostly plain kraft with photos & embellishements added as i like.

there's my peeks at my pages. i'll try to keep up with the blog & post my pages as much as i can.  i'm trying to make this as stress free as possible on myself & i've already decided that i'm probably going to be taking most of my pictures with my iPhone.  it just is always there & i've gotten so much better at documenting the everyday stuff because of it... that makes me happy. 

i've got my workspace all cleaned up & ready to go this morning... can't wait to get started!

are you joining in?

{robyn}

new release 11.10

hey everyone & happy Thursday! after a few gloomy days around here & yesterday even a little snow {gasp!}, I'm so happy to see the sun out & shining today, even if it is cold! I have a mini kit for you this week focusing on the idea of being thankful... {so very important!}

& of course, the creatives rocked it!

{by Shannon}

{by Shelley}

{by Allison}

{by Jennifer Hignite}

{by me} yep. turned 37 monday... yikes, seems I'm growing up as fast as my kids! lol!

remember, 30% off new releases today & there are some truly awesome new things in the shop today!

{robyn}

we were believers & breakin' out the paper...

source: MLB

first of all... World Series Champions... our beloved St Louis Cardinals!  We believed so hard in this team... each & every one of the pieces & parts of it.  But we still are in awe of what they've accomplished in these last few months!  What manager Tony LaRussa said a few days ago is so true "some say we're not good enough but our heart is always good enough".  Love it. I love how every single one of these guys is a great person as well as a great player & they all combine to make up the best.team.ever! Congrats Cards on #11 in '11... it was well deserved & you fought for it like true champs!

& now... to calm my nerves a little last night at the beginning of the game I decided to play with some of my paper stash I just received from My Mind's Eye!  I was super excited earlier in the week when I got a big box of my newest releases... Kraft Funday & Love Me :)

I haven't paper scrapped in a LONG time, but had fun playing with my new goodies! I forgot that it was a little nerve-racking having to make final decisons of paper cutting & embellishments without the convenience of photoshop :)  I do love seeing all the dimension & feeling the paper again though!

this was a pic of Lydia the day of her school pictures.  Most everything is from Kraft Funday... there are so many fun goodies in this line! love it all... I can't pick my favorite!

these pics were just taken yesterday of Lydia's owl costume.  On this one I used Kraft Funday, Love Me & Mischievous! also notice on both layouts I used pictures I printed from my Instagram!  I love how they turned out... I can't get enough of that app! So fun to put it all together! Hoping to play some more this weekend too... I might as well, I already have the mess started! lol

Thanks for looking :)

{robyn}

scrapbook inspiration via Pinterest

so I'm a total pinterest addict, which I'm sure anyone that has an account is. the problem is, although I've used some recipes, ideas, etc from the things I've pinned, I really want to make more use of it.  so I decided, I'm going to try to make one layout a week inspired by my scrapbooking inspiration board.  starting today... here's the layout I was inspired by...

by Kelly Purkey

and here's my version...

{sources}

hopefully, you'll see a new inspiration each week from me... I think this should be fun!

{robyn}