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Rebecca

Sharing some new creations etc.

WOW its been a long time since i've posted! a lot going on at home... trying to finish up the official school year, get our summer plan going, figure out curriculum for next year... get the house in passable shape.. And of course, been scrapping up a storm! I'm feeling like i accomplished a lot this month, i made almost 50 layouts this month. did several online crops, which of course bumped up my totals a LOT, and had a lot of fun doing it. I killed ALL my scrap-room kits this month, and by the way, i'm loving the scrap-room model of kits! i get 2 or 3 out of each kit and can add in embellies as needed, which is nice becuase i have a pretty good stash. then i can decide if i like a page kit enough to by more, like in the case of the BG Sugared which i LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOVE and must have more.

A page in time is similar. Instead of 4 smaller page kits you get 3 larger ones.. so you can get LOTS of layouts and still have a variety of 3. I like to add my own carstock, since i have a stash, and that stretches my patterned paper, but in my DT designs, i used mostly just the kit, but if you add cardstock and embellies you can stretch those babies like CRAZY!! here are the kit creations from the DT of A Page in Time which are up! i had an AWESOME time working on this kit!

Ok, so finally, i'll post a few examples of what i've been working on... nothing earth shattering but fun, and cute i think :-)

This used one of my back ScrappersXchange kits, which by the way ROCK!!! these are the bedrock of my stash. Her kits are $35 shipped and last you FOREVER! which i like! i love having a stash to refer back to. and while you are there, check out the

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where she hosts challenges every week with awesome prizes and periodic crops and monthly contests!!! while i certainly do enjoy winning every other week or so, its only fair to share the wealth, so come check it out!!!

Anyway, this layout used one of my back kits from Scrappersxchange



ok, i absolutely love this one!



here's some with my last couple personal scrapper kits




Journaling reads-

That the course of my life is so drastically different than i ever could have planned. When i was in high school, i planned to go to a prestigious college, be a high powered trial attorney and have a maid. Little did i know that God had other plans for me. I also didn't know how His plan would change me and how wonderful my life would be.

And a few of my Scrap-room layouts

A TOOOOOOOTT!!!!

I am so humbled and honored to announce that i'm serving as the guest designer for the June kit from A Page in Time!! I'm so very excited, first because all the entries in the contest were outstanding, I think i would have had to flip a coin to choose, or dice or something! Secondly, because i find myself being drawn to kits that contain several lines in one, not several matching lines but several different ones. I just get a lot more out of it that way, as much as i LOVE having several of the same line. APIT is unique because they DO have several of each line and still have 3 different kits contained in the one kit. I'll be posting my designs here as soon as the reveal is up so keep an eye out! :)

sharing some things i made this weekend...

This weekend i did a cyber crop at A Page in Time and it was a BLAST! i only was able to scrap a tiny bit friday and saturday and then most of sunday, so i got the bulk done sunday. I was shooting for quick and easy this time because it was a crop, LOL, and also though because for the first time in ages, i'm actually quite behind where i want to be. i went through my month in review books and realized that i'm missing August, October and November of last year and jan and feb of this year :-( not cool i need to step it up! Anyway, so this took a big chunk out of some pages i've been intending on doing, yay! and i'll be posting one thing i won next :-)

Technique- sharing art with your children.

I'm so hoping my mother in law doesn't see this for a while because this is something i made as a gift to her. i wanted to find a way of incorporating the children into this book, because Children's art is timeless, and they SO love joining me in the scrappy endeavor and i so often brush them off, it so messy.. my personal weakness. I actually made this for a design team project but it didn't work out the way i'd planned, so i'm sharing here with you all instead. I wanted to come up with a new concept for a minibook. Minibooks tend to be the same old same old. I wanted to think of something unique. Cuz i'm just like that so anyway, here it is! I used the new cosmo cricket blackboard, both the Abby book, and the Fleurist shapes... which by the way, the package of those is HUGE you get a TON of them. very good deal. The coolest feature of the blackboard is how you can write on it and it just pops.... i wanted to emphasize that with this book.

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