After the longest scrapping break I have ever taken, I am back and in action. I went to my first crop this past weekend and managed to knock out 11 pages. I was working on a few challenges and just trying to get caught up on my pictures. It is bad when you stop taking so many pictures because you feel so far behind as it is, you don't want to add to the mix. 

I was trying to get some pages done for my favorite scrapbooking site, www.scrapbooksteals.com. Here is my take on the recent challenges.

Challenge #1 and Amethyst #1
A Hunting we go, Easter.

 Here are Challenges #2, #3 Scrap your real life, and your scrappy space.

And here is Challenge #4, Something old, Something new. The challenge was to use the old adage of something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

I went with these great pictures of my son and his "Fobby" from thanksgiving where he was "helping" cut sweet potatoes for dinner. In all actuality he was just eating the raw potato and having a blast doing it.

My old are the thickers that make the title, they were the first I ever ordered over two years ago.

My new is the paper used for the layout, it was an impulse buy around valentines day.

and the Blue is the paper and banner, with the very nice blue colors.

Summer ATC's

As part of the group I was a memeber to Crafty Enablers, we did an Artist Trading Card (ATC) swap. These were the 18 I made. It was my first time and I was super self-consious about them.

Twine Giveaway

Occasionally, I stumble across an awesome give away. This is one of them for some TWINE!! I love twine it is crazy how much I love twine.

here's the link, make sure you put your name in the hat.

http://whiskergraphics.com/blog/2011/07/brown-bakers-twine-giveaway/

52 Layouts in about 52 weeks MWM# 52 Can I play!?

Some 52 weeks ago I found a great site called www.scrapbooksteals.com. Because of all the great women on this site I have found a great way to keep my pictures and perserve the memories. Not only do I now have a very full scrapbook for my son, but I also have been able to share the fun with my friend Julie and Valerie. I never would have thought I would enjoy scrapbooking so much. My husband would say it has taken over my life, and in a way it has. I get to preserve the memories and stories that so many lose over time.
Heres to another 52 weeks of layouts and scrappy goodness.

MWM #52 Can I play!?

CE Blog Challenge July

I was lucky enough to find a great group of women, who share my love for all things crafty. We just started doing a monthly challenge. This months was to use no patterened paper 0_0.. I only have 8.5x11 non patterened paper. So I was alittle out of my comfort zone. I had this picture of my sister, brother and I from May 2010 and I wanted to get it scrapped for some time. This seemed to be the perfect layout. It all worked out.

MWM # 51 First Week

It is hard to believe some days that it has already been 51 weeks of Mojo's. Thanks to scrapbook steals I have an album full of beautiful layouts and a great memory book to pass on to my son. This weeks layout was a two pager and I choose Andrus first week on earth.

Eva Turns 1

My neice is turning one on July 10th and I was lucky enough to be able to hitch a ride to N.D. with my dad. So I made her a little memory book. I started with a plain chipboard album, then traced and cut out pieces of patterned paper adhered them to the chipboard. Then I embellished and left space for some small pictures. I had such a blast working on girly pages and with girly papers. So here it is in all its glory.