Welcome to the bi-annual Seasons of Change blog hop, where you get to meet the retiring, returning, and newest DT members of Scrapbook Challenges! If you’ve just joined in, hop on over to the beginning at
If you’ve arrived here from Shelly’s Blog, you’re in the right place! This term, I am happy to say, I fall into the returning DT category. I had so much fun with it last time that I’ve decided to stay on board! With the introduction of new teams (sketch team and challenge team) I felt like I would best be able to serve my beloved Scrapbook Challenges community by being a member of the sketch team. I look forward to Pamela’s newest sketches and jump right on them as soon as I can, so I look forward to sharing my results with you throughout the next 6 months!
I started off as a paper scrapper about 8 years ago, but I’ve moved more towards digital the past 5 years or so. This year, I’ve decided to make a hybrid album, much in the stylings of my scrap idol, Ali Edwards. I’m taking on her “One Little Word” project, with the word “focus” because, although I have a lot of areas in my life that I’d like to improve with new year’s resolutions, I know I really need to just focus on one at a time. Focusing is something I struggle with, so this is a resolution in and of itself I guess. SQUIRREL! Anyway, I hope it’ll give me just enough paper scrapping to keep my hands on crafting appetite satisfied. Digital is great and all, especially for making the yearly family album that I do, but nothing beats spending several hours elbow deep in papers, prints, and spray glue…. yeah spray glue. I know… not the typical scrapping adhesive choice, and the fumes are definitely not crop friendly, but I love the total adhesive coverage it gives. Anyway, enough about me and my weird paper scrapping habits.
For this sketch, I went with Pamela’s 2-page version and went my usual digital route to help finish off my 2010 book.
I have recently become a DT member at Raspberry Road Designs too, so a lot of the digital kits I use now are from Susan there at RRD, including this one I actually suggested she put together, called Candy Cane Lane. I love the kit she came up with and it fit right in with my red and white peppermint themed Christmas decorations this year. I got a little playful with the journaling layout, as you can tell! I like it though!
Journaling:
New Family Traditions:
Most of our holiday festivities, in years past, have amounted to us loading up the car and taking it all to do while in Tyler/The Farm. Now that both of the kids are old enough to enjoy Christmas, we felt it was time to start celebrating the holiday in our own way. So for the first time since we’ve been married, we had Christmas as a family in our own house. We brought in some old traditions from our own childhood, like Christmas jammies the night before presents, and having cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
We started a few new traditions of our own too. Jonah enjoyed looking for Christopher, the elf who came to keep an eye on their behavior, in his new hiding spot each morning. We made sugar cookies together, told the Nativity story with the help of the Little People set,
and we went to look at the lights at Deerfield.
All of those traditions are nice and all, but the one I like the most is how we decided to handle the whole matter of gifts to each other. In order to put the emphasis on giving, rather than receiving, we limited gifts to one from each person to each person. Then instead of sorting them by who they were to, when it was time open, we sort them by who they were from so each can take a turn giving a gift.
Now that you’ve had a little preview of me and my style, here’s a little preview of some of the fabulous prizes to be won on this blog hop adventure you’re on! Not, that you haven’t seen them on everyone else’s blogs, but they’re so awesome they’re worth seeing again aren’t they?! I wish the DT was eligible to win too! Haha!
1. For one person who leaves a comment on all the blogs in the hop, they will get the new Spring Market collection from Webster’s Pages, including chipboard buttons and twine.
2. For one person who does a layout based on the sketch and posts in the HOP ON section, they will get the Be Mine collection from Echo Park Paper Company.
3. For inviting people to join the group, one person will get a collection of adhesive from Helmar.
4. For one new member over the weekend, they will get some new Spring Market Unity Stamps (Released 1/7/11 – They’re so brand spankin’ new the photos hadn’t even been released to us when I wrote this post!)
Now that you’ve seen all the goodies, hop on over to
Thanks for stopping by, and I look forward to seeing you on the boards!
Since having him, I feel like I’m actually happier seeing him get his gifts than worrying about what I get myself. So seeing so much love poured out on him just makes my day. I really do appreciate you ALL!
