and some more completed layouts ... yeah!!

Some of these layouts were already premade that I received from piffing on different groups .. ask me what piffing is ?!?!? besides addicting!! Some layouts were made by me just using my stash! I'm on a roll this year!

swaps that led to actual PAGES!

Just wanted to share some actual swaps I've done and have now become complete pages :) I loveeeeeeee page kits!!

and another ....

here were some kits i made but i don't have the before pics .. just the completed lo's....

swaps i have yet to do anything with ....

and some from page kit swaps I made with IAAST forum ...

and some more .... from swaps that work yahoo group ...

SYAO week 3

I've not had much Scrappin' time this week, other than working on swaps. I reaaaaaaaaaally need to cut back on those but they are just too much fun. Anyway I did take some time this evening to work on my Paper Secrets Challenge and here it is....

with a close up of my handmade bubbles. I thought they came out cute!!

SYAO - Scrap Your A$$ Off!!

I recently joined a forum called  "Paper Secrets" , well I did join last January but never did anything with my membership until this year. This year I wanted to participate in their Scarp Your Ass Off Challenge. Every week you get a sketch to work off of and those that complete the lo sketch move on to the next round. The challenge ends when one person remains.  Here are my week 1 and week 2 entries!

12th day of December!

Finished up a layout today for a group Friends that Scrap on yahoo. It's a great group of fun swaps, challenges and pif boards! Ask me more about it if you'd like to join! This month Kathy challenged us to a 12 days of Christmas Lay Out challenge. Each day the Elf would ask us to take a picture of one part of soon to be layout until the 12th day of December at which point we would assemble all the pieces and show it off in our challenge album for a random drawing. Well this is my layout! Part of my 12 day additions were the 5 (rings) buttons, the 7 brads, 8 inches of ribbon, white gel pen stitches, 12 or more words of journalling, 9 scalloped edges, 6 distressed sides, 1 photo, 11 inches of a pattern paper strip.... etc.. It was a lot of fun creating this layout and one of the best I've done lately. I guess taking your time and spending 12 days on layout really helps with the creativity of it!

More Scrappin!

Well in the busy month of December I got together with a few friends to scrap the night away. And seriously that's exactly what I did. I finished off a lot of portrait or single type layouts of me, my husband in school, my father as a young boy, and my grandmother at age 22 in 1943.  I also finished off a 2 pg lo spread of my son Tyler. I actually made two similar lo's, one for his books and one for mine. :) Enjoy and thanks for looking!

this was me!

my son Tyler ...

me @13

me @ 10

my dh baby pic

my dad's school pic 1951

the next several are of my dh in his school years...

my dad @ his 1st communion

my fav lo of the night, my grandmother at age 22 in 1943...

my father the tap dancer!