Any Year Calendar Template

Spring fever has officially set in here. I am so ready to get our camper ready, so we can do more camping this summer. Our first time out though usually isn't until Hunter's birthday in May. We usually head to the local state park for the weekend to make sure that everything is in working order and we aren't too far from home in case we need to fix something. Going to the camper shows this winter was a lot of fun and now I pretty much have it set in my mind what I want our next camper to look like. Now the fun comes in trying to find it.

My mom, sister and I took Kailee shopping for her flower girl dress for my sister's wedding this week and you would have thought we walked into a candy store. She was running from rack to rack saying "how pretty", "look at this", "ooohhh", etc. It was so cute. This is definitely my little girly girl. Unfortunately the dress my sister decided she liked best couldn't be ordered in the colors she needs, so we still haven't gotten Kailee's dress. She did get to try a couple on though to see how the one company runs for sizes in case my sister spots another one she likes. As soon as Kailee go the first dress on she ran out of the dressing room straight for my sister and started twirling around saying "Isn't this pretty?". Even after trying on the three dresses we had in the dressing room she still wanted to try on more. I just wish Michaella would be this easy when it comes to shopping for dresses. lol. With her it's like pulling teeth to get her to even just start looking for a dress.

With how fast this year seems to be going, I started thinking about Christmas presents recently and how I would really like to get at least a calendar made for the kids' grandparents this year. This in turn led me to create this fun calendar template I have for you today. The Any Year Calendar Templates are going to come in so handy to get this goal accomplished.

These calendar templates come with three sizes, so they will be perfect for however you need them. They come in 8.5" x 11", 11" x 8.5" and 12"x 12".  The numbers are on 7 different layers making them easy to use for any year. Simply turn the layer on that has the first on the correct day and then erase any extra days at the end to work for the month needed. There is a layer for both Sunday-Saturday and Monday-Sunday weeks. I've also included 20 seasonal doodles to help accent the special days. Each date block is on its own layer making it easy to customize your calendar by using different colors or papers.



Here is some inspiration using my Any Year Calendar Templates.

Me

Carol (SM CT)

Jadelyn (SM CT)

Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

Feeling Lucky

Wow, it's been a full week around here. We had our first taste of spring on Tues with temperatures close to 70! But then Mother Nature decided just to tease us with that nice weather and dropped it back down to 30 with rain and wind on Wednesday. As the saying goes around here though...If you don't like the weather just wait a minute and it will change and it did. On Thursday it was back up to about 50 degrees. The hard part about this time of year is knowing how to dress the kids for school. They leave in the morning and it's below freezing, but by the time they come home it could be close to shorts weather. And yes once it hits about 50 degrees around here the kids are begging to get the shorts out again. lol. I even just about pulled out my flip flops the other day. It's no wonder I seem to have so much more laundry to do during the spring. lol.

And with that I bring you my next mini kit in my A Year in Pictures series. I just love seeing rainbows in the sky after a spring rain. They just make me want to smile. Along with the holiday of the month they became the inspiration for my mini kit.



Here are a couple inspiration pages from my CT and the ScrapMatters CT.





Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

Sneak Peek and Some Catch-up

I finally got around to uploading the pictures from off my camera to my laptop tonight from Paul's cake. It didn't come out quite like I had wanted it. Part of the problem was the fact that I ran out of icing. I had enough to get the grass done, but not to do the details on the train. It took more frosting to get it all frosted than I had expected. It might be do to the fact that I was working with a 10" cake base instead of my usual 8", or it could also be due to the amount of layers I had. Needless to say we had plenty of cake to eat and share. It was the same amount of cake that would make five dozen cupcakes. Thankfully my parents, brother, sister & future sister-in-law came over to help celebrate. So I sent half of the base cake home with them because I knew there was no way the five of us would (should) eat all of that. lol. Paul was pretty happy that he finally got his train cake, so I guess that is what counts.



I can't believe it's already a week into March. We have started our busy time of the year again. It was nice to have a bit of a breather in the month of February between everything. Michaella started volleyball practice last Thursday night and is enjoying it as much this year as she did last year. They have enough girls in her grade out that they are their own team this year, so that helps. We start going to tournaments next Saturday. This year they are every other week instead of every week, so that will be nice. Hunter thinks we need to fill those empty weekend with going to Tae Kwon Do tournaments, though, so we'll have to see what kind of weekends we have coming up. I'm thinking we will wait until the end of the month after he has tested for his orange belt to start going to those.

Dance recital and competition season has also started here. Michaella's winter dance recital was a couple weeks ago and afterward Kailee has decided that she wants to dance, too. Guess next year I will have 2 dancers.   Good thing she will be old enough to start next year.

We are headed up north for competition this year. Since we will also be around several of the rabbit breeders that have the breed that Paul thinks we should get the kids to show for 4-H, I said we could maybe get the kids' bunnies that same weekend. Right now the plan is to get two of them (and yes they will be the same sex because no I do not need little baby bunnies hopping around. ;) ). We already picked up the cage for them last weekend and one of Michaella's friends said she would help Michaella litter box train them. While looking at new campers during the camper show, the kids were looking at them and deciding if they bunk house was big enough to take the bunnies with us. :O

Thankfully just this week my brother and future sister-in-law moved into their new house that is only about seven miles from our house now! My brother has already offered to take care of the rabbits for us while we are camping, so that means we don't need to find a camper that will be big enough to take them along much to the kids' disappointment. lol. Though they are super excited to have them living that close and already have big plans on being able to go over to their house and "hang out". (I think my brother is just as excited about living so close as my kids are. Of course it's not because of being close to me...It's because of Paul. lol.)

And now for what you all probably are wanting to see... :) I'm so excited to show you my next mini kit in my A Year in Pictures series, that I decided to give you a little sneak peek of it tonight.



See you on Friday with the full reveal! :)

New Releases

To help kick things off for Queen of Scrap at ScrapMatters there is a Speed Scrap marathon this weekend.  The first one starts tonight at 10 pm ET. There are two more each on Saturday and Sunday. If you complete a page for all 5 of them there is even a special prize! So what are you waiting for...

I have a little something new for you today. I previously released these date elements while I was at Scrapping Fairytales, but decided it was time to bring them to my ScrapMatters store. The great thing about these is that they are fully customize able. The circle element comes in seperate png and layered tiff or psd files making it easy to change them. You can change each of the layers with either a color fill or use papers from the kit you are using.  They are 20% off through Sun.



Here is some inspiration using these fun date elements.







I'm already working on my next kit that I hope to show you next week. :)

Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

Leap Year Sale

Who's ready for a sale?! 

Today only my entire store (except bundles) at ScrapMatters is 29% off! Not only is the store on sale you can also get 2 free ScrapMatters Mega Collabs FREE when you spend at least $29. What better time to stock up on stuff for scrapping during next month's awesome Queen of Scrap contest. If you haven't yet signed up for Queen of Scrap now would be the perfect time to do that, too.

See you Friday when I show you my new release! Until then...Happy Scrapping!

A Special Kind of Love

I forgot to come and post here last week that I was moving my store to ScrapMatters. I had a great time while I was at Funky Playground Designs, but it was time to follow my heart and move back "home". All of my releases during my guest spot are in my store there along with my recent releases. Today I'm bringing you the new mini kit for my A Year in Pictures series. Can't wait to show it to you!

First up though if you haven't been to ScrapMatters in the last week, you are missing out on the fun coming your way for the month of March! Do you have what it takes to be the next Queen of Scrap? If you answered yes to that question than make sure to get over to ScrapMatters and sign up to play along.



Queen of Scrap at ScrapMatters is so much fun! I participated in it the last 2 years and was able to scrap over 60 pages in a month. Don't worry you don't have to scrap that many to get some really awesome prizes. Not only is it a fun time scrapping pages to earn prizes, it's also a great time to get to know more people in the ScrapMatters community.

And now on to my new release for today. This one is themed for all those loving moments you have throughout the year. It's the perfect kit to use to scrap your loved ones. It is 20% off through Sunday. Don't forget it also coordinates with all my other A Year in Pictures items.



Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

A Year in Pictures series

Another birthday... another cake done! :) Actually it was 2 birthdays, 2 cakes and 7 dozen cupcakes. Michaella was born on my mom's birthday. So that meant a cake for each of them, 3 dozen cupcakes for my mom and aunt (who also has her birthday the same day) to take to work, a dozen for Michaella's friend party and 3 dozen extra to put in the freezer for later. I had been asking Michaella since December what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, but she didn't give me any ideas until about a week before her birthday. She handed me a post-it note with several ideas. One of them just happened to match with what I had been planning on making for her, so that worked out great.



Not have only have I been busy making cakes this past month, I've been working on getting the first kit and other starter items for my A Year in Pictures series finished. When I first started digi-scrapping in 2006, I was only going to do it to create photobooks for my parents and in-laws of the kids each year for Christmas because I was a die hard paper scrapper. Little did I know at that time what it would eventually lead to becoming basically digi exclusive. :) I did great the first 3 years getting them done and printed in time. Then I had Kailee, and I haven't been able to get another one done since. My plan this year is to change that and surprise them with another photobook at Christmas. That is how the idea for A Year in Pictures was born. I came up with a palette in a full rainbow of colors and decided to use that as my base for all the kits and pieces. What's great about this is if you are working on a yearly album or calendar when you are finished it will all be coordinated! The pieces all mix and match, too, giving you numerous options with what you can create. This series would also work great for all of you doing P365, P52 or P12 this year. And with that I reveal to you my new releases for this week.









Also if you are a Disney fan and haven't checked out MouseScrappers yet make sure to head over there on Monday and check out the weekly scraplift challenge hosted by Aussiegirl. The participation prize is by none other than yours truly. :) Hope you like it.

Until next time...Happy Scrapping! :)