My House was Almost on Fire

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I went to a crop at M’s school. Quite fun. Got two stamp sets too, Made from scratch and Say It Simply. I hope to play with at least one before the weekend’s over. They’re past hostess sets. I’m thinking of doing M’s V-day cards from scratch. Nineteen plus five, kids and teachers.

At the crop I did two pages. I didn’t feel like hauling all my stuff so I did two digi layouts. Actually I think I’m only going to paper scrap at home or if I crop at an LSS. I like being surrounded by products and have the ability to just grab whatever I need. It sounds expensive (dangerous you’d think) but it’s actually cheaper for me because I don’t come home to something I later find out don’t need and my pages turn out the way I want them… and 100% complete.

Here’s my digi page detail. The first I used Annie Manning’s new kit. I really love this kit. So, so cute. I don’t usually layer this much but she made it quite easy and addicting. I had to tell myself to stop before I lost M’s picture in the elements.

The next one is another M page. I can’t get enough of doing an M page! I thought or had the intention of doing a page for the hubby but noooo… the M was more fun. So here it is. I used paper, staples, and buttons from Dani B (she retired from designing), Jovia’s new Not So Serious flowers and I {heart} u and Ephemerals II, Shabby Princess metal and buttons, Annie Manning’s tape measure, ribbon, and whatever that sparkly thing is behind the flowers. If you pay really close attention to the staples, they’re not quite centered. They’re way to the left, more stapling the paper than the picture. Well, I did that on purpose because when I do paper scrapping, I could never staple straight, so why make it perfect in this digi scrap, right? {::SMILES}. Also, as I was finishing this, M and dad came by and she helped me put the final touches. Some items she personally picked are: The horse and that sparkly thing — what is that thing? After the two final touches, she said, “That’s pretty. I love it, mommy.” She’s naturally sweet, I promise. Every sitter dream child to watch!

My house. I almost didn’t have one. We live in the country, on some acreage and our neighbor decided to burn his trash. He put the fire out but not good enough. Hubby smelled smoke, looked out, and saw the neighbor’s back yard in flames (about 300 feet away from us — I’m really bad with this but we’re a good distance). He ran over there, told M to stay in the house, and got the neighbor. Another neighbor saw the fire too and he came over to help. So hubby told me all this over the phone. When I got home, the grass that was just about 30 meters away… hmmm… how many feet is this… 100-ish feet… was burnt. Although not super close it was pretty close to be scary. I’m glad hubby was home AND noticed the fire early (I wouldn’t know what to do if something happened to them). He had plan on taking my car in to the shop — I had a flat tire yesterday — and we might have been homeless if hubby and M went out since our neighbor really thought he put the fire out and was relaxing on his computer when hubby got there — he actually thought hubby was joking. I’m glad it wasn’t meant to be that way and I can still blog in my office with my two dogs breathing next to me. We have no grass on one side of our property but hey, it’ll be nice and green again sometimes this spring.

That’s our weekend story. Besides the incident, all is great and I got pages done. Laters, Miss M wants to play.

Another DigiScrap

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Well, another layout for January. I had so much fun with this layout. Not because I am scraping my favorite subject but it’s because I finally got to use the element set from Jovia Devoe. Isn’t she awesome? They look so realistic (look at the butterflies and wings). There are a few other items I want to get but I want to only get them when I need them or when I’m going to use them. I’m not going to hoard on the digital stuff since I can reuse the ones I already have over and over again. I’ll just get those that I really need then.

So here are the rest of the credits:
Ronna Penner Express Yourself Word Art
Jofia Devoe Ephemerals II
Weeds and Flowers Gina Huff
Shabby Princess Sun Porch

Journaling:

I know that you just can’t wait to grow up and be a big girl. You can’t wait to go to the big girl school, you can’t wait to wear mommy’s high heel shoes, you can’t wait to get your own diamond ring. Yes, you want to be a big girl, ”just like mommy”, you’d say. But no matter how quick you want to grow-up please always remember to be that girl we love so much. The one who loves to giggle and thinks that everyday will be a great day. The one who always smile, even after a fall. You are the joy and love of our lives and we want you to always cherish every moment of your life. Every day is a special day and every day something new will come your way if you open your eyes.

For this layout I played around with a lot of the filters settings using the filter gallery. Using the gallery gives me the option to layer the filters. Try it out. I’m not sure if PSE has it but Photoshop does, I know CS-CS3 has this feature. Now, for this, I didn’t write anything down. I should. So next time I’ll share what type of filter settings I used. This way you can try it out too.

Have a great day!