Sugar Cookies

Baking and decorating sugar cookies is one of the holiday treats that we did when we were kids. I can remember my mom having all the neighborhood kids over to help bake and decorate (and of course eat the icing). My daughter and I bake and decorate sugar cookies each year.

For the new Scrapping the Everyday challenge at Inspiration Lane I decided to scrap the recipe for sugar cookies that my mom uses.

I used the gorgeous collab kit Mayhem and Mistletoe from the Inspiration Lane Design Team.


Here's my page for the challenge to scrap a recipe. This is the first time I've ever done a recipe page and I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. Some day I would love to do a whole book of scrapped recipes.

A Little Bit Newsworthy and Typo Alpha

I have a couple of older products from Sir Scrapalot Designs to share with you today.

The first one is called A Little Bit Newsworthy and I love all of the newspaper elements in it.


The other product is an alpha. Love the funky letters.

I used both of these to create this layout. My husband found a huge moth by our back door a few years ago and had to take a photo of it. Notice the penny in the picture for scale. The moth had to be about 3 inches across...I've never seen anything like it.

New releases at Inspiration Lane: December 5

As usual there are tons of great new products at Inspiration Lane this weekend. There are two new mega kits available free with purchase this week. The first one is Peppermint Twist available with a $5 purchase.


Here's a layout I did with the kit of my daughter on St. Nicholas's day a couple of years ago. She always puts out her stocking on the 5th and St. Nick fills it with Christmas goodies.


There is another mega kit called Mayhem and Mistletoe and if you spend $8 in the IL store then you get both megas for free. They are jam packed with so much wonderful stuff from the IL design team!

JennCK has also put out this fun set of templates. I love all the possibilities with these.


I paired it with this gorgeous kit also by JennCK designs.


Here's the layout I did about my DD with pictures and her stuffed unicorn Shine that she made at the Teddy Bear Factory.


I also used another template with this kit available with the December Club Click membership at Inspiration Lane.


The layout I did is from Easter when my DD was a wee thing...She always had a such a big grin for the camera and loved getting right up in front of the lens.

I also wanted to share an incredible promotion that shelleyrae designs has going on right now.


The image is linked to her store. She has such an amazing variety and all of it is just lovely. This is such an awesome deal so grab it while you can!

Winter Wishes

Wow my 100th post!

Last week Sir Scrapalot Designs released a bunch of new products in his store. I fell in love with Winter Wishes as soon as I saw it. It's just so cute!

I love the little snowmen especially but was really excited because even though it's a winter themed kit it can be used for so much more. I did this page about the silly faces my daughter loved to make when I took her photo.


I love it when I find a kit that's versatile like that. Not only did I get to make this layout of my adorable little girl but I already know which kit I'm going to use when she builds a snowman this year.

New Challenges at Inspiration Lane

It's time again for new challenges at Inspiration Lane and again I'm hosting two of them. The first one is my quote challenge. I knew I wanted to do something with a Christmas theme so I chose this kit by Sherri Tierney.

I decided to change it up a bit and do something different so if someone who didn't celebrate Christmas wanted to participate they would be able to. So instead of a quote the challenge is to use a holiday song title as a the scrapbook page title. I chose O Christmas Tree and here's my layout.

For my Scrapping the Everyday Challenge I got to thinking about some of the things I would like to accomplish in my life so I decided to make the challenge about scrapping your goal(s). I used this kit by Pixel Pisces Designs.

Here is my layout. There's probably no rhyme or reason to the goals I chose but they're all things I would like to do.

New Releases at Inspiration Lane: November 27

Here are the other layouts I promised you, even if I didn't get them posted over the weekend as promised.

The first one is from a kit by Pixel Pisces Designs.

We always loved going to the Ren Faire and this was certainly one of the highlights!


Next up is a kit by Laura Bozeman Designs, love the non traditional colors in this kit!


This layout is of my husband's and my first Christmas together.


I love themed kits and this one by Serene by RW really caught my eye.I thought it was perfect for this layout of my DD's favorite breakfast!


This next kit is by the Inspiration Lane Design Team and is free with a $5 purchase through Nov. 30th.

My DD has a small stuffed pig collection so I did a page about her pig family.


I'll be back tomorrow with two new challenges at Inspiration Lane. See ya then!

This blog has been a wee bit neglected lately. With being sick and then the holiday I haven't been posting near as much as I'd like. I thought I'd ease back into it with a layout I did with a new paper pack by Sir Scrapalot Designs.


Last year my DD wanted to make all the decorations for Christmas. This layout is of a few of the decorations that she made for our tree.



I have a few more layouts to post over the weekend so stay tuned.

Home for the Holidays

Sir Scrapalot Designs has a word art pack out new this week. I just love all the cute holiday sayings.
I'm so excited that we're going to be able to go to my parents home this year for Christmas (we weren't able to last year) so I did a page using the word art, Jolly Little Friends and Jolly Little Friends: Solids and Nearly Solids (also by Sir Scrapalot Designs) about what I love about being home for the holidays.

I'm so excited that not only are we going to be able to be there for Christmas but that most of my siblings will also be there. I can't wait to make new holiday memories this year!

Flavor of Life: Fall

Jen Yurko and Amy Stoffel have done it again...another flavor of life series and this one is just as yummy as the summer one was was.


You can click the preview to go to the page with the full Flavor of Life: Fall series or you can got to Jen Yurko's store to purchase them separately.

Here are a few layouts I did with the kits.


Caramel Appletini

Pear Berry Crush

Pumpkin Spice Latte
Butterscotch KissLove these...I'm really hoping they continue the series with a winter and spring collection.

Jolly Little Friends by Sir Scrapalot Designs

Today is new release day at Polka Dot Plum and as usual Sir Scrapalot Designs has a gorgeous new kit out today. I'm so loving all the cute doodled elements!

There's also a paper pack to match and for a limited time you can get the paper pack free when you order the kit!


Since I was little my family has celebrated St. Nicholas's Day. I've continued that tradition with my daughter and thought this kit was perfect to capture this memory.


I'll be back this afternoon with some more layouts (yeah I know I promised them for yesterday but time got away from me)...plus I'll have another new Sir Scrapalot release to show you tomorrow!

More new stuff from Inspiration Lane

I just realized that I didn't post these layouts yesterday like I had planned.

I don't know if I've mentioned it or not but Christmas is by far my favorite time of year so I was so excited to see this new kit from JennCk Designs.

I'm so glad that my mom gave me these photos she shot of my daughter and baby sister baking cookies together. I love that my daughter will have these pics to cherish of her and her aunt.

Next up is a new kit from shelleyrae designs. I love the colors in this one and all the cute doodled elements.
My daughter had so much fun bouncing a balloon around the living room one day I had to get out my camera and take photos. It definitely took me back to a time when I enjoyed doing the same thing.

I have one more set of layouts that I plan on sharing with you tomorrow. I'm soooo excited about the kits that were used to make them.....pure gorgeousness in action!

New Scrapping the Everyday challenge at Inspiration Lane

It's time for a new Scrapping the Everyday challenge at Inspiration Lane. Click here for the challenge thread.

This challenge is to scrap a recent purchase. I have been wanting to use one of shelleyrae designs templates so I picked one from this set.


Then I paired the template with this kit (also by shelleyrae designs). I thought the colors were so pretty and vibrant and loved the circle embellishment for use with the template I'd selected.



And here's my layout for the challenge.


The best thing about this challenge and the others at Inspiration Lane is that you can earn points for free product at IL. 5 points gets you $1 and this challenge alone can earn you 3 points if you use IL product and there are plenty of other challenges to choose from to earn even more points. For the complete rules on challenges click here. Hope to see you there!

New Releases at Inspiration Lane November 14

Another big release day at IL today. There are tons of great products and you can see them all here.

I created so many layouts that I'm going to be posting them all over the next few days.

First up is a mini kit by Laura Bozeman Designs. Love the green and silver together. So pretty!

In 2003 my husband and I hosted our first Christmas. It was lots of fun and I was so thankful for our family.


I can't believe Thanksgiving is only a couple of weeks away. This year has flown by. I just love this Thanksgiving kit by Jennifer Schmitt. This kit is huge. Lots of papers and embellishments to play with!


A couple of years ago I was sick over Thanksgiving so we had to cancel our Thanksgiving plans. This is what we did instead.


Next up is a new two page template by Jill DZines. Love the wavy paper in the background!

I took the right page and this kit (also by Jill DZines).

And scrapped this layout. Look at all those presents. What a fun day it was for her.


My last one for today uses this fun new kit by LemmonCity Productions.


We were lucky enough last spring to be rolling into town while my nephew was playing his t-ball game. We decided to go watch a few innings before heading to my parents house.


I'll have lots more of the next couple of days so stay tuned.