Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps.

Have you ever had the problem of having too many photos and you are at a loss on how to scrap them? I used Janet Phillips’ 2 Many Photos Templates for my son’s school album. He is turning the magnificent ten this year and I am planning a really nice gift for him. Pretty soon he will be needing adult acne treatment and scrapbooks might be too mushy for him (He doesn’t want to take pictures even, at this age!) so I will soak up all the attention he gives me whenever he pulls out an album and reads it again and again.

Here are a few pages:

SO one of my goals this year is to capture a decent family picture of us every month and scrap it. It sounds like an easy goal right? I mean these are people I get to see more than any other people in the planet. Getting them to take a picture is one thing, getting them to have a decent picture is another.

But I have accomplished January and February and feeling mighty proud already!

Every family should go and save for an Orlando vacation to spend a week in Disney World. I see events in scrapping galleries about Disney vacations and requests for the perfect Disney kit. Now, look no further because MandaBean has released the perfect kit for scrapping your Disney memories!

The kit is Dream, Wish & Believe and you can have the value bundle pack with great savings!

I know what I am scrapping with when we finally set put in Disney!

I love SSD’s TOTM – if you look at her gallery, you will notice her eclectic and eye catching style right away. I love how she fills them all in with bright colors, contrasts, details, amazing alphas and it still looks so well put together.

I used one of Darcy’s Inspired by Rubia templates – easily my favorite!

Credits:
Darcy Baldwin Inspired by Rubia
MandaBean Your Love is My Drug
Lauren Reid Year in the Round (part of SSD’s Click a Sig celebration)
Julie Billingsley Stitcherific Corners (part of SSD’s Click a Sig celebration)
Font: CK Puppy Love

Credits:
SSD’s March Treat of the Month Rubia Padilha
Lift of her page “I *heart* to drive”
Love Me Do by Heather Roselli
Lauren Grier Layered Up in You – Shapes and Scallops
Font: CK Puppy Love

What would be a page about my guy if there will no page about my boy? I scrapped about him a lot this past week – I was trying to finish his second grade album (he is just about to end third grade!) and I am 75% done. I would not do it again though – a few spreads per school year will be in his album since 1) It takes a lot of work 2) It’s impractical and 3) His sister is going to be in school next school year and I know I would not be able to keep up! I just need to have an album done because he participated in a lot of school activities that year.

I had my son when I was two months short of turning 20, so I didn’t have any health care insurance nor life insurance. I am thinking of getting my life insurance quote soon – he is turning 10 and me 30 by the end of the year so I better start now!

Here are his pages, more to come!

I have been scrapping a lot of boy layouts lately. I did some rearranging on my scrapbooks a few days ago and realized with a pang of guilt that my son is so much behind on pages compared to my daughter, not that he has been cooperating lately. He has been in school for most of the day for the past two years and it is just so easy to take pictures and just “be with” my little princess. My husband also has about 10 pages out of the 600 I have printed – so I told myself I need to try to make pages about them.

Making pages about my husband is harder, since I always seem to be lost for words, and everyday life with him is far and few in between because he works in the city. So I just scrapped what felt like scrapping, after all, this guy – he doesn’t give me the whole world at my feet – no diamonds, no shoes, no bags no fancy dinners, but he gives me himself, focus and all. I doubt few men can offer themselves up like that. And for that I am grateful. After all, before we had kids, he was my everything.

Have you scrapped the men in your life lately?

I hosted this week’s Take-Out Tuesday and Libby made a beautiful word art that is yours for the taking – grab it here!

I love quotes. Sometimes, when you are at a loss for words or just couldn’t find the right words to say, quotes are perfect and complete the page for you!

Here is what I was able to come up with:

My most favorite of the SSD blog features is Take Out Tuesday – the freebies are just a plus – it helps you create pages without having to feel limited by it. It is like the life insurance quotes I’ve been receiving, it gives me so many options!

Sheri whipped out this fabulous photo cluster for you! She wrote:

You can use the rounded corner squares for photos and/or papers and I’ve also included a text path to add another element of fun!  If you want to adjust your photos or papers to be at the same angle as the template, I have the rotational degrees listed in the layer descriptions.  The template is available as both a .psd and .tiff templates.  Thank you so much for playing along, I can’t wait to see what you come up with!  Don’t forget to link your images in the comments so I can leave you a little love.  {image is linked}

Here is my page, it’s a page that holds very big meaning for me:

Credits: The Very Thought of You by Scrapkitchen Designs and Krystal Hartley, font: DJB Sarah S

February is midway and I am only now blogging about this. Perhaps the quick trim burn and cleanse I have been trying to use also cleans out my memory!

February is here and we couldn’t be more excited because we’re celebrating 4 years of sweetness here at SSD with a month of special events! In addition to a brand new set of challenges for our February portfolio, we also have an amazing new Treat of the Month that we are so excited to shine the spotlight on! Leslie Coltrain is a scrapper with distinctive style and her gallery is going to knock your socks off. Lifting Leslie is the very first task that will earn you Sweet Reward points in this month’s portfolio, so get to her gallery right away and start looking for a page that inspires you! In addition to earning you a point, every layout posted in our special Treat of the Month Gallery this month will be automatically entered to win a $10 gift certificate to the shoppe! As if that weren’t sweet enough, don’t forget to look for more of Leslie’s work in the shoppe this month in our "Inspired By Leslie" templates created by Darcy Baldwin. Thanks for making Sweet Shoppe Designs such a sweet place to be over the last 4 years, we look forward to many more celebrations with you in the future!

Here is my page for her:

I love Leslie’s page, Bank On It, this is a literal scraplift! Thanks for the inspiration Leslie!
Credits:
Cloud 9 by Kristin Cronin-Barrow

You can get the limited edition Inspired by Leslie templates by Darcy Baldwin too: