It Takes Soul to Love the Prairie

ScrapMatters has a free kit on Facebook, Modern Prairie Girl by Plum Dumpling Designs and Elise's Pieces.  I just had to make a page about our years living in the Iowa prairie.  By the way, prairie flowers don’t actually grow up to your shoulders, we are sitting in our back yard.

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Moments Like These

Happy Monday! It’s hard to believe October is here, but the leaves are changing color and the days are getting shorter and Christmas, yes Christmas decorations are already in the stores. Oh my. This week I had such fun with this layout for Jessica Sprague.com.  I loved this photo of Alex which accentuates her big brown eyes.  For the layout, I used Jodie Lee’s French Summer papers. Check them out HERE.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sunday Spotlight at ScrapMatters

This week I was selected for the Sunday Spotlight on the ScrapMatters Blog.  It was fun answering their question. You can find the article HERE.

For fun this week I made the kids coin purses. Arts cow had a special and I knew the kids liked anything that included their photos.  They were a hit! The kids loved them.

For this one, I used Amy Stoffle’s, His Adventure.

Disney 2010

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A Beautiful Mind

In the movie, A Beautiful Mind, members of the Princeton math department present their pens to Professor John Nash, played by Russell Crowe. The ceremony, albeit very touching, was fabricated for the movie. Last June the scene came to life as a group of seniors in Dave’s Advanced Placement Psychology class, one by one, walked up to his desk at the end of class and presented him with their pens. He is honored, flattered, and plainly moved by his student’s actions. What a beautiful tribute to a teacher with such a wonderful mind.

For this page, I used a template Jessica Sprague #1.1.4.  Boy does this make it easy to make a page.  Half the work was done for you.

I found great elements and papers for this alyout by Echo Park Hybrid. Their, For the Record Collection is perfect.

Happy Monday, I hope you have a great week.

Astro Blaster

It looks like Connor is suffering from costume failure here!!

I made these pages for a color challenge at ScrapMatters. This is the palette I used.

For the page I use Down the Road Designs Blast Off. Blast off is a fun space themed kit that is out of this world!!! This kit can be used to scrap all of those cosmic adventures that are needing scrapping!!

I hope your day is a BLAST!

P. S….. I Love You

Look at the picture of Dis-moi u secret and you can see why I chose to scrap with it.  The old-fashioned typewriter is wonderful. I remember typing on such a beast long ago. You can find all kinds of gorgeous kits by Steph.designs at  ScrapMatters 

Here is the page I made with it.

The journaling: 

September 22, 2011

Dear Mom,

I am such a poor letter writer, yet I would give anything to be able to write to you today. It has been two years since you left us and I miss you so much. I have so many questions to ask you and so many things to tell you.

I love you more and more with each passing day.

xoxoxoxox

Love always,

Carol