Two new LOs

As you might have noticed I have updated my Creative Teams. I am now on several new teams and loving creating for them. I have been churning out LOs and am gratefully to be on CTs that make creations that inspire me.

One of my new CT has a great kit coming out real soon. It is pink and brown and I totally love it. I creative a darling LO that I will share once the kit is released.

Here's a few of my recent creations:

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Can't find the designer for this one...will update later

Kirsten first ballet class is 9/3. She is super excited and danced around the house in her new ballet shoes. Can't wait to get some adorable pictures.

New Layouts

The 1st one was chosen Layout of the Week at DSO

Credits for most of the above pages can be found here.

We didn't get too much damage from tropical storm Fay but we did get a little leak in the back door and a little water damage to the floor. Very minor to what I have seen today thus far. Lake Ella has totally flooded most of the businesses surrounding it. We went to visit the ballet shop and it was under water. Luckily we were able to go to her Kirsten's ballet school and get the items she needs to start ballet next week. She is also signed up for gymnastics beginning 9/15. She is super excited about ballet and I'm am sure she will have a blast. She has been wanting to practice with her Bella Dancerella DVD set. I really need to get a video of that is is so very cute and she is getting good too.

New Layouts & 8/08 Pictures

I made these layouts during Speed Scraps. Digital Candy had a speed scrap last night and another one this morning. Hadn't planned on getting up at 8am for the mornign one by by personal weekend alarm (Kirsten) woke me up 5 mins before 8. LUCKY ME! Anyways I meant to make them match since I was doing them as a 2 page LO. I'll be doing some recoloring I suppose.

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Pictures were taken 8/7/08

Kirsten the Ballerina and Layouts

I was searching for ballerina stuff online since that is the theme Kirsten wants for for B-day party. I came across a Dora Ballerina video on You Tube and there were tons of Lazy Town videos in the side bar. Kirsten danced to different videos for almost an hour. She even learn quickly how to use the mouse to pick a new video once it ended. We signed her up for Ballet classes that start 9/3. She really wanted to start today once we went into the studio.

Here are some recent LOs:

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Another LO was selected for LOTW

One of my brand new layouts (LOs) was selected for Layout Of The Week (LOTW) at Digital Scrap Obsession. Here's the one that was chosen:

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This picture was taken at Smuggler's Notch Resort in Vermont. We had a entire week vacation there and it was the first time Kirsten had seen real snow (not counting when they made snow at a Florida amusement park for "Snow Days"). It snowed almost every day we were there and we had a blast. The picture above is exactly what I saw as she peered through the fence on our back patio (all that was cropped out was the fence).

Yesterday when I was browsing through photos from our Vermont trip, Kirsten informed me, "I want to play in the snow". I told her to ask Santa for some snow this year. It looks like we will be planning another snow trip within the next few years. I have to say I am loving having a timeshare. Although they have been trying to convince us lately that we need to upgrade to points instead of weeks or we will start noticing we are limited in where we can go because point holders have priority. Well if it were free or cheap we would upgrade but they are charging over $5000.00 to upgrade. So I told them I was holding out until I noticed a huge difference.

We just completed a week (+ a few days) of Kirsten waking multiple times during the night. Saturday was the start of a new pattern (thank goodness because I was beginning to let her crawl in our bed way too much). Jake figured out she wanted to sleep with her door open. We think she got trapped in her room one day and had problems opening the door. So now we are leaving the door completely open for naps and bedtime and she has done really well. Of course the 1st time she made it through the night again we celebrated with claps and high fives.

Kirsten is going to stay with her Meme this week so Jake and I are gonna make some Mommy & Daddy plans!

Here's some more recent LOs:

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This is my new niece. She is my baby brother, Mike's little one. I am a bad Aunt and have the wrong birthday on there. it should be 6/10/08. It's she a doll? Kirsten adores her!

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Freebie: Daddy's Day Wordart & Templates

Here's the wordart I used in the Daddy's Day LO I made. It's nothing real special but I thought someone might be able to use it.

If this LO looks familiar and my baby look way younger it's because the pictures are from last year (2007). As I am editing my LOs for spelling errors I have found myself redoing a few LOs that I did when I first started digital scrapbooking.

In case your interested the journaling is mumbo jumbo about the reason the letters look funky. I wanted to late and all the painted letter were sold out so I bought plain one and wrap ribbon around them.
Kit is Just Dirt by Simple Sweet Designs. Word art was made using an action from Atomic Cupcake.

I have added links to my template freebies in the left column to make them easier to grab.

Ponies, Princesses & LOs OH MY!

Here's a few of my recent LOs:

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I have a few more but I gotta resize them 1st. Last week we took Kirsten to a local consignment shop and she got to ride ponies several times and see a few princesses and a pirate. She refused to within a few feet of the pirate. She loved it! I also got a great deal on some clothes. I bought 3T, 4T & one or two 5T. How can you beat 4 clothing items (many were 2 piece sets) for $5? I got 36 pieces/sets and paid $45! What a great deal! I love getting a good bargain. I should have took a picture of the stack I got but they are all strung out now between the laundry and drawers etc.

Pics from last weekend:

We went back this weekend and Kirsten rode the ponies again and we stood outside in the heat to get Kirsten her very own ID card. She thought it was very cool. We took a break from the heat and went in and found a few cool toys.

Saw this on another blog and had to try it. Have to say it's pretty accurate.

What your Fridge saids about you:

You like to be surrounded by things you love. You aren't exactly greedy, but you can be materialistic at times. (this is an inaccurate part)
You tend to be a fairly thrifty person. You splurge occasionally, but you're mostly a saver.
You are a very adventurous person. You love to try new things, and you get bored very easily.
You are responsible, together, and mature. You act like an adult, even when you don't feel like it.
You are likely to be married - and very busy.

What Do the Contents of Your Refrigerator Say About You?

New Layouts & More

Here's some of my recent LOs:

We had a great July 4th. We went to a fireworks display that was held at a local church. I came up with the bright idea of putting earphones on Kirsten to muffle the sound and she wore them and love the fireworks this year.

Her current is 34 lbs (same as November 2007) but she has grown 2 inches and she is now 3 ft 2 in (38 inches). You can tell it too because she has lost her baby fat and is slimming up some. Her language skills are soaring and she is getting smarter and smarter everyday.

This was our family July 4th picture and it was taken in front of the huge oak tree that shades our house.

I used American Pride by The Digi Twins.

Here are some of my other recent LOs I have yet to share:

This LO was done for Danielle's CT Blog Challenge. Head on over to the blog to participate! I hear Danielle is working on a great treat for those who play along. I used her Beautiful Day Freebie from her blog (6/21/08 post).

This was another LO I did for a challenge. We were asked to scrap 3 places we wished to visit one day. I picked Paris, France and Hawaii. Kit is Sprite Freebie From Britt-ish Designs.

Journaling: You love your new V-Smile game system. You have definitely inherited Mommy & Daddy’s gaming gene!
I used: Becky Wallace's Grab Bag (6/08), Atomic Cupcake Chipboard Action used for Alpha

Paper & Photo corners from Danielle Corbitt's Attach This.
Swirl: no TOU
Used Atomic Cupcake transparency action
Tag from ASterigou Floriade

Kit is April Showers by The DigiTwins
Date Strip by Britt-ish Designs
World Art by Elegant Wordart 2

OK here's the link to my album since there are still some I have yet to post:

http://picasaweb.google.com/AmandaDawnRN/LOs

I got Layout of the Week on Digital candy!

My "Tree Hugger" LO was chosen for LOTW at Digital Candy. Here's the link:
http://www.digitalcandy.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=6144.

I have a few new LOs that I will share later when I'm at home. I should get back to work now :)

My "BIG" Tree Hugger

Here's the LO I did today. As soon as I saw this kit I knew exactly what pictures I was going to scrap with it. Check out my adorable little Tree Hugger! She is getting so BIG!

Journaling: One morning when I dropped you off for school you asked me "Mommy I give tree a hug"? I told you to go for it and you did. This picture was not from that day but the last time you gave that tree a hug during the last week that your school closed.

Kit is Tree Climber by Danielle Corbitt (coming soon to digitalcandy.ca). Date stamp is by Brit-ish Designs. Template is from Aggie Aviso Journaling is Scribble.

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TOOTING MY OWN HORN: I just got notice that one of my pages will be featured as part of the Down Load A Day blog post on June 28th at http://digital-scrapbooking.org/main/

Say Cheese LO

Another new LO from tonight :) I've been playing over at http://www.digitalcandy.ca and got some RAKs (Random act of kindness) items. I made this LO using a quickpage and alphas from a grab bag from Becky Wallace.



BTW for anyone that was still waiting on "my news" it was a possible job change and didn't work out, I'm okay with it though. I'm sure God has a plan and I'll just wait around and see what it is.

New LOs

Journaling: We met another couple at McClay Gardens and took some shots. We ended up with a few good ones but it got dark quick so we ran into lighting issues.

I used Chirpie Love and Pretty Pins 2 for this LO. The template is my template #5 and can be downloaded below. I made the paper using a filter in PSE. I'm not thrilled with this LO but hopefully it will grow on me. The lighting was terrible on the day we took the pictures and they aren't the best but they still hold a memory that I wanted to capture. I just love these pins and the little chicks are adorable!


Temp by Ferg Designs Kit by Franziska Attmann


I love this new LO. Template by Aggie Aviso. I can't find the kit but will try to update when I do. It's a neat one.


Kit is Sunday Morning by Ellie Lash Designs. Temp is by someone else but I think I deleted it already :(



Kit is from Digitreats add ons (some old one). The word art is from Elegant Word Art 2



Tomorrow is house cleaning day...What Fun! I really need a good house cleaning service.

I'm a Aunt Again!

My little brother & his girlfriend welcome a beautiful little girl into the world today. Her name is Summer Rayn. I don't want to post her picture online so if any family members want to see a picture e-mail and I will send you one.

New Daycare Update & a New Template

Kirsten is loving her new daycare. She had no problems at all staying on the 1st day and told us bye and then went about eating her breakfast and check the surroundings out. She has been so perky when I pick her up each day too and yesterday she wanted to give all the teachers that were sill there "big hugs" before she left. Today one of the teachers asked me if she is potty trained yet. I of course responded "no" but we are really working on it. She then told me Kirsten has been keeping her pull ups dry at school and telling them when she needs to go potty. So we had a little talk on the way home and it didn't work because she refused to go potty before or after dinner and of course wet her pull ups. Hopefully with them working with her at school and us at home she is will staying dry at home more too!

Here's a new template, click to download:

Templates 5 + 2 & 3

So I felt bad after my last post and made a new template. I'm liking it too. It is from the Nov./Dec. copy of Scrapbooks Ect.

You can now download templates 2 & 3 that were in the Autism Kit:




Happy Scapping!

I would love to see the LOs you make using my templates. Shoot me an e-mail to Amanda_Dawn at USA dot com