You melt my heart

The newest challenge at Sweet Peach Crop Shop is to do a layout that is out of your comfort zone.  This is what I came up with.  I love patterned paper and most of the time feel the more the better.  So working with a very busy sheet of patterned paper for my background can be difficult for me because it means I need to keep the layout simple.  In this layout other than the background patterned paper there are only 2 other strips of paper and a scalloped sticker.  I highlighted some of the background paper with stickles to make it pop.

Sweet!

Remember when the word "sweet" used to mean something sugary tasting or a nice person.  That is what I thought of when I first saw the challenge for Sweet Peach Crop Shop to use the word sweet in your title.  But of course now it means lots of other things.  Jacob has a fondness for that word so I thought it would be perfect for these pictures of him climbing the rocks at Garden of the Gods, since he thought these rocks were "sweet!"  I used a sketch from Sketchy Thursday.

A laugh

A laugh is a smile that busts!!!  How perfect is that tag for these pictures of Autumn.   It seems lately I'm surrounded by little babies.  I miss the days of cuddling those little ones, when they were just content to be held and cooed at and rarely made a peep.  But they do grow up and I have enough drama with the 3 I have so I'll just have to coo at everyone else's babies because three is definitely it for us.  I used a sketch from Bo Bunny for this Layout.

Aril "Countdown to spring" kit

Have you seen the newest kit at Scrap Friendzy.  It is full of bold colors and fabulous embellies for only $25.  They are almost sold out so get yours while you can!!!!  Look at just one of the amzing layouts created by Amy with this kit.

A Boys life

What could be better than a cabin overlooking the pond.  It has taken quite a while for it to get built since Billy lost interest every time the boys lost interest which  happens pretty quickly.  It is finally done and one day I will get a picture of the completed cabin.  They enjoy camping out down there doing all the boy stuff, of course they also take their computer with them every time to watch movies when hey get bored with the outdoor stuff :)  This was for a challenge at Sweet Peach Crop Shop to use packaging.  The packaging is the cardboard stars.  They came off a box that my scrappy supplies were delivered to me in.

You Make Me Smile

Another wonderful day with the kids favorite people, their cousins.  It is such a joy to see how much the kids enjoy spending time together.  I used a sketch from Liz over at Sweet Peach Crop shop.

My Pretty Valentine

Well this title has a double meaning.  She picked out her own Valentines this year and chose the barbie ones because of the pretty dresses they were wearing.  But then of course Autumn is my own pretty valentine.  I used a sketch from StuckOnUSketches.