Papercraft Haven and More

I love digital scrapbooking - being able to take photos and memories and create a page!  I love this picture of me, my husband, 3 of our grandchildren taken a few years ago!  Since then, their mother - Del's daughter, has had another baby, this time a boy!  This picture has been used in many projects...but this layout is probably my favorite! Your challenge is to find one of your favorite layouts to start with.  Find one quote that you can use to go with it!  Choose one accent color you will use - I chose pink to match the girls' shirts and bow...  Create a layout with black and white, with one accent color!  I really like simple layouts like this, that doesn't take a lot of time to create it!  If you don't have a particular software you use - look back to the previous posts and you will find links to software I would recommend!  Within the next few weeks I will be reviewing another scrapbook software, and how to add kits for free, so ma...

Scrapping with Lisa Designs has a lot of fun patterns for you to use!  Whether you do digital scrapbooking - or paper...you are sure to find a pattern you can use in her store!  This pattern was a lot of fun to use - with a picture of our grand-kids on a trip through our hometown last year!  The file I used is the Summer Bear - part of her weather bear series!  The rest are digital files I happen to have in my stash of files!  With Lisa's designs, you can always use them as she has them, or make paper piecing patterns out of them and change the colors she has used!  You can do so much with a paper piecing pattern and scraps let me tell you!   Now, Lisa is also looking to bring a few more design team members on board...  You can find her on Facebook here, and here is a link to her blog !  Great way to get free files to work on - I'm working on Christmas tags, cards and layouts I can use at Christmas time - make sure you check back...

Welcome to the Celebrate mother's blog hop!!!  If you are hopping along with us, then you should be at the very beginning! We don't want you to miss out on all the great projects you will see about mothers today!  Welcome back to our blog hops - only this time, you will see things a bit smaller, and with my cohort Deborah (who you will see next) and I taking turns each month!  We are excited to bring back the hops - so lets get started!!!!  Mothers - we all have one...or are one - they are a necessary part of our existence - and today, we celebrate THEM!  We have our own mom's, our mother-in-law's, step-mom's, surrogate mom's, our sister's who turn in to a mother figure, Aunt's, Grandma's.....  People who are in our lives that help us to become the women we are today - this blog hop is all in celebration of each and every one of them!!!  I am working on a mini album...my thoughts of being a mom when each of my kids were b...

With today's layout, I'm going to start with the particulars first - then the story behind the layout!  I feel the story behind the layouts are sometimes more important than the layouts themselves, but that is just my own personal opinion!  For me, I really like working with Lisa's designs as they are so versatile, and can be used in so many different ways!  After this project, I have a fun card planned with the pieces you will find here - being able to customize it to the school colors for the recipient - and maybe even adding a few thank you cards for the person to send out as well!!!  Plus I can use the full sized patterns for paper piecing a fun framed page when I actually get the prints for this wonderful day!  With this particular piece, I used 2 different patterns, both listed below: Scrapping with Lisa Designs patterns -       Graduate      Congrats Digital scrapbook paper - red I Believe in You saying - (digit...

Welcome to the Memories in Tyme blog hops - where you will find some seriously talented people who love to share their ideas with you!  Our hop today and  is anything relating to Mothers Day- doesn’t matter if it is a layout, card, mini album, or decorating item, if it’s about mom…it’ll be here!!!   We all have one, and some of us even have 2 - or mom’s we wish we ours, or our friends’ mom’s who turn into ours…  I have been lucky to have the amount of amazing women in my life, all who have taught me one thing or another about being a mom!   Let’s celebrate all MOM’s here!!!   Here is the blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way... 1. Lynda - http://www.memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/ 2. Suzanne - http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/ 3.  Claire - http://scrapmyway.blogspot.com/ 4.  Rachel - http://www.happyscrappinsquad.com/ 5.  Janet - http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/ 6.  Lori - http://scrappinmystressawa...

Welcome to the It's All Song blog hop!!!   We're so happy you could join us for this super-fun hop showcasing cards, layouts and projects that feature anything and everything about special songs in our lives!!   You'll find an array of ideas throughout this hop -- From decorations to gift ideas and more, we hope you'll enjoy each and every project along the way!!  Be sure to leave a comment at each hop stop to be entered in our Monthly Drawing!!! You are at the beginning of this fun hop, so lets get started! For the hop today, I've created a fun layout about a great song by Dierks Bentley called Long Trip Alone ! I've been through the wringer in life, and to actually still be here after the things I have been through is amazing! I wish I could explain all of it - but really, it's hard to go back down that road and be THAT person, but here's a brief synopses... and I mean - BRIEF! I had an ex-husband commit suicide 3 days after my...

**The links are now fixed for day one, and added to the post here - so please make sure you check out everyone's post...come back here and add your comment last telling me you checked out both days and you will get an extra entry in the drawing for January!!!** Welcome to the "All About the 70's" Blog Hop!!      We're so happy you could join us for this super-fun hop showcasing cards, layouts and projects that feature anything and everything related to the 70's!!   So pull out your bell-bottoms and peace signs, and join us for the FUN...  You'll find an array of ideas throughout this hop -- From decorations to gift ideas and more, we hope you'll enjoy each and every GROOVY project along the way!!  This is a TWO-DAY hop, so be sure to check it all out (besides, we have a FAR OUT prize for a random someone who visits and comments on each stop for each day!!)... We can guarantee some psychedelic excitement for this event... So let's get ho...