tuesday

you will never have this day 
with your children again.
tomorrow, they'll be a little
older than they were today.
this day is a gift.
breathe and notice.
smell and touch them;
study their faces
and little feet and pay attention.
RELISH THE CHARMS
OF THE PRESENT.

enjoy today, mama.
it will be over before you know it.

-jen hatmaker



Having a blog hiatus seems to be quite the norm for me these days.  Life is so FULL right now and I am just trying to live it to the best of my ability.  I fall short, we all do, and I can simply try better tomorrow . . . at least that is what I tell myself :)  My 2 little ones are growing so fast.  The days are a fine balance between the "relishing" of moments & simply trying to survive all the obligations found within the ordinary day. . .

I think I owe someone a roller stamp . . . or how about we switch it up to 3 WINNERS!!!!  Yay!!  I have 3 to give away, the original Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic roller stamp I mentioned, a Dear Lizzy Neapolitan roller stamp, and an American Crafts With Love roller date stamp.  I think the last one was at Target only, I haven't seen it online anywhere.  SO let's draw some winners!!!!

#1  Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic Roller Stamp

ELISABETH BOTTOMS


#2  Dear Lizzy Neapolitan Roller Stamp

MARGIE


#3  American Crafts With Love Roller Stamp

JILL P


Elisabeth, Margie, & Jill, please email me at dailyscrap@gmail.com with your address so I can get these out to you - thanks everyone for your comments!!!

Now, on to some scrapping to share . . .

Noel Mignon's February kit, Lasting Love, was full of pink, red, teal, and grey - such a fab combo of colors!!  Below each pic is a "details" link to the post where you can find specifics on what I did.  Here's what I came up with . . .



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The layout above actually goes along with this month's sketch challenge at Noel Mignon.


You can find all the specifics to play along with us HERE.

Before I go, I wanted to answer a questions posed by "30 on Life"

30 on LifeJanuary 8, 2013 at 5:34 PM

I always love your work!! :) Do you have a formula you tend to follow? You generally seem to have a 'border' (so to speak) around the whole LO.

First of, thanks so much for following my work!!!  I'll be honest, I don't know if I would consider it a set "formula" but I do tend to often create a "base" for each layout I create.  The "base" usually consists of one or two sheets of solid cardstock.  I then build my layout upon that - typically with patterned paper.  I always like to either stitch or use pen to create a border around the patterned paper portion of the layout to help "ground" it to the cardstock.  Hope that makes sense & answers your question.  Maybe I need to do a video one of these days - a walk-through of my process???  That might be fun :)

Thanks so much to everyone for reading this blog over the past 3 1/2 years.  I happened to notice I have hit 203,193 pageviews as of today - crazy!!!  With a little number crunching I have figured out that ends up being about 1,200 pageviews a week - thank you so much for finding me & following along with me!!!!  Have a fabulous Tuesday :)