January Challenges at Inspiration Lane

I know these are being posted a little later than usual but with the holidays I didn't have my layouts ready to go on the first. I have made one change with the Scrapping the Everyday challenge and have changed it from a twice a month challenge to a monthly challenge to give everyone more time to create their layouts.

One thing that I did with these challenges was to use project 365 friendly items. Designs by Jen Yurko has a new series of products out called It's a Colorful Life. Check out these fun items.

I used these three products for the quote challenge (aren't those brackets awesome?).


For the Scrapping the Everyday challenge I used products from 3 different IL designers. First I decided on this template set from Sarah Morgan Designs (perfect for weekly 365 pages).


I also chose this wordart set from Dielle Designs...love the way they look!


And last I used this page kit by Anja.J. I absolutely love the colors in the kit.

The challenge is to create a 2009 in review page. Here's what I came up with.


If you want to participate in these challenges (and more) check out the challenges forum at IL. By participating in challenges you can win points toward $$ to spend in the IL boutique. I really hope these challenges inspire you and I can't wait to see your layouts!

Back home after the holidays.

I was lucky enough to get to go to parents and spend the holidays with my family. We just got back over the weekend and I was looking through my galleries and realized that I missed posting a layout that I did just before Christmas so I thought I'd share it today as a way to start getting back in the swing of things.

First off I want to show you the absolutely gorgeous kit I used to create it.


I'm a huge fan of Rachael's kits and love that she always packs them full of so many great elements. This was such a fun kit to work with!

And now for my layout. This was a photo we took of my daughter when she was an itty bitty thing for a gift for my inlaws. I fell in love with this piece of patterned paper and just had to use it.


Hopefully now that January is here I'll be able to start posting my layouts regularly again. See you later this week!

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.