Here are a few layouts from a couple weeks ago. One very fun date, one very happy girl. 🙂

Credits: August free pea kit by Tia Bennett, swirl made with Tia’s paper and Rhonna’s brush from the Pea Blossom kit. fonts: Pea Jenny Script, Porcelain

And here’s the one of our actual date – too fun!

Credits: Background, Hand Stamped Alpha and Graphic brushes 2 by Michelle Coleman, arrow doodles by Gina Cabrera and Dawn Stocstill, heart and sweet doodles, and glitter accents by Holly McCaig, family and dream doodles by Angie Briggs, and flower by Jen . whew. 🙂 Fonts: Pea Jenny Script, Journaling hand, MA Sexy, Artistamp medium, and Dirty Ego.

Thank you again sweetheart!

…seriously, Joshua cracks me up almost everyday.

A couple days ago it was, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?  I’m thinking about something that is cold and has a popsicle stick under it?”  Of course he got a popsicle after that.

The day before that it was, “Mom, the sun got on my tongue and it is very hot.”  He got one then too.  Silly, creative guy.

Yesterday Joshua was playing with a rolly-polly bug he found behind the porch swing.  “I’m going to name it Grandma Gedeborg” he says.  That’s love – bugs and grandmas.

This contest deserves a blog entry of it’s own. 🙂

Scrap Artist had a contest to describe why you scrap. The prize for the contest is a free custom kit made by two of the designers at Scrap Artist, Michelle Coleman and Dianne Rigdon.

Here’s the gorgeous ad header for the contest:

For the contest, we were asked to include images, color ideas and/or journaling on why we scrap. There were 80 entries and they were so fun to read through and see all the reasons that people participate in this wonderful artform.

Here’s the entry I posted:

fonts:Black Jack and SA Cinta, filter on photos: brownie by Virtual Photographer, color swatch and photos by me

I took these photos of Joshua within a minute’s time. He was just being so silly and hamming it up for the camera.

My journaling for the entry reads:
“I scrap to become more like my children.

My eye for detail and wonder of life (two of the qualitites my children possess) have grown since I began scrapbooking. I not only want to preserve my memories, I want to make my memories worth preserving.

My children teach me many lessons that I also see reflected in my scrapping. To use a few well-known scrapper’s mottos, I am able to see “the bigger picture” and “enjoy the process”. Now if only that undo button worked with parenting. 🙂

My children and scrapping remind me of the importance of quality play time. I also play dress-up on my pages and my imagination is free to wander.

Because of the digital scrapbooking community, I believe in friends that you cannot see.

I try to reflect my children’s expressive nature in my layouts, and it is also an outlet for me to express myself.

Scrapping helps keep me young and child-like. I am nowhere near grown up.”

Now, everyone that entered receives the kit, so I felt I had nothing to lose. I love Michelle and Dianne’s work. I have been a big fan of them and the Scrap Artist website for over a year now! However, I did not in a million years guess that I would be the grand prize winner! wahoo!

I received an email late Friday night from Michelle and I had a hard time going to sleep that night I was so thrilled. 🙂 I also received a congratulatory email from Dianne on Saturday. I am so excited to work with these ladies.

Check out Michelle’s blog entry about it. There she says “I loved the adorable, expressive photos of her son Joshua and her included color swatch 😉 Becky has won a $20 GC to the ScrapArtist Shoppe as well as a custom kit created specially for her and Joshua, she will be given access to a private gallery where she will be able to watch her developing kit and will have input on the final product. I imagine her photos will inspire a fabulous, playful little boy kit!”

In all seriousity – I am thrilled and stoked and a tad excited. This is so cool. 😀

You can’t win them all.

I found out last night that I did not move on to the next round in the Ultimate Digi-Scrapper contest. I did make it three rounds though! 🙂 Not too shabby. It was narrowed down from 380 to 200, then 100. My layout for Round 3 can be found here. The cut last night was to 40. Ouch. I did not make it but the challenge sounds so fun, so I might post in the “play along” gallery.

And for kicks and giggles, in the outside world, I could sign my name, Becky, Puddle Jumper and in the top 100 Digi-Scrappers. Ah, hahahaha. Seriously though, some amazing ladies went on and some amazing ones were cut too. I can’t complain. I have three gorgeous layouts I love. And then there are some of my very favorite “layout artists” that didn’t even enter the competition.  I don’t feel it’s a tried and true way to find the “top” digi-scrapper of course, but it sure is a lot of fun.

On to more scrapping news.

I entered the Shabby Princess NSD layout contest at The Shabby Shoppe. I won third place in the “Dinner Party” contest. I scraped some pictures of Jacob when we lived in Layton. He was 2 years old and would have picnics with his stuffed puppy, Tiny, all the time. Here’s the layout:

Dinner Party kit by Shabby Princess and Sara Carling, 2 from Distressed Alpha by Michelle Coleman, fonts: Journaling Hand and JWoodbury

I won 10 dollars PayPal cash. How cool of a prize is that? Sweet! Now to figure out what to spend it on. I like a dilemma like this. 😉