{Scrappy Goodness} All Girl

I'm here to share another layout I did using the  Simple Stories So Fancy Line.  I am continuing my love affair with my kit from FotoBella this month,

This is a layout I did of my oldest.  A couple of weekends ago we went to the track to hang out.  The kids rode their scooters, John and I walked and I of course decided to take some pictures.  My oldest turned around an posed for me. This picture actually makes me a little sad.  She is growing up so fast. But, I am so proud of the person she is becoming!

This line reminded me of my love for doilies.  I haven't used any in a little while and this paper lined just screamed us them to me.

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness} Pool Time Love

Hello! Today I want to share a layout I did for the FotoBella design team.  I used the Walking on Sunshine line from Echo Park.  It is a soft, cute, summer line.  It works great for all those pictures of the kiddos at the pool or beach.  Which is exactly what my layout is about this time.

My oldest Jalyn is a little fish.  She loves to swim and bugs me to take her swimming year round. I thought that fish paper was so cute.  I knew I had to use it some how.  I the red and blue paper to look like waves, then kept my embellishments pretty simple since I had three larger pictures on the page.

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Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you enjoyed my layout.
Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness} You are beautiful

I have another layout to share with everyone that I did for the FotoBella DT. I used the Bo Bunny Enchanted  Garden Collection.

I have to say that when I first got this line I wasn't so sure about it.  But, the more I work with it and use it, the more I am falling in love with it.  I had this picture of Jalyn from when she had some face painting done.  It is a little hard to see but it is a large purple butterfly.  She is always posing and dancing around for me.  I just love the attitude she is giving me in this picture.

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Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness} Recorded This

Happy Friday!  Today is reveal day with ScrapMuch?!  I love reveal day, it is so much fun.  I'm so not going to lie I really struggled with this weeks reveal.  But, once I figured out the right pictures and papers, I was good to go.  I actually ended up really loving this layout and how it turned out.  Even of my rambling.

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Make sure you head over to the blog and see what the other design team members have in store for you.  I know you will love it.  Don't forget to link up your own take of the sketch while you are there.

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness} In Books

Hello and Welcome!  Today I'm sharing a layout I did for the FotoBella DT using the WRMK Jet set bundle.  I know this is a travel line but the papers are pretty versatile.  The colors are fun and bright which make them perfect for scrapbooking kids.

My daughter's nickname is goose.  Doing things like stacking laundry baskets and sitting in them is completely where she got this nickname from.  This is a normal occurrence  in our house and of course I had to snap a picture of it.

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Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness}Hello Story Week 1

Today I wanted to take a minute to share a layout I did for the Hello Story Class that I'm taking at Big Picture Classes with Ali Edwards.  I just love her and her class as been amazing so far.  We are three weeks in and I find that I can't wait until Thursday's when we get an new assignment.

Our first assignment was all about timelines.  I decided to create a layout about my oldest, Jalyn.  Let me tell you this layout was completely out of my comfort zone.  I never journal this much in the open.  If you have been a long time reader of my blog you know that I am a huge fan of journaling on the back of my layout or hidden journaling such as tags etc.  It actually has nothing to do with my handwritting, it is more about the content.  I don't always feel the most confident about what I write.

I saw this on pinterest and my brain went in overdrive to try and figure out how to turn it into a layout. This is what I finally came up with.  The biggest hurdle was figuring out what size the hexagons should be, then making sure it looked balanced.

The pictures I selected are a timeline format for sure, from when Jalyn was a baby until she was five.  The journaling is more random thoughts about here, some of them pertaining to the photo some that just popped in my head as I was working.

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Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness} Climber

Happy day to everyone!  Today, I want to share a double page layout I did using the Bo Bunny Our Lil' Monster I want it all bundle from FotoBella.

I don't normally do double page layouts, but I had these great pictures from when my oldest daughter was 2 years old.  The pictures were a little bit of a sequence of her climbing the rock wall for the first time by herself without any help for dad or mom all while holding a phone.

I loved the idea of using all the trees and clouds for this layout since it was outside.  They are all over-sized so the work well on a double page layout.  I also knew I didn't want to just line the photos up on the page so I tried to stagger them a bit sort of like the rock wall.  I then went through all the embellishments and found a couple more of them that had the same tree theme to add to the layout.

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Thanks for stopping by today!

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Family Goodness} My scrappy girl

Today I wanted to share a scrapbook layout with you.  However, I didn't create it.  Jalyn did!  She loves to craft and always asks to scrapbook with me.  I have to say that I am always so proud of her layouts.  I even started a scrapbook for her of everything she as created.  On the back of the layouts I'm adding the date of when she created the layout.  I think it will be fun over the years to see how they change and evolve.  I hope she continues to love scrapbooking has she gets older.  It will be such a fun activity to do with her.  And how fun for to want to preserve her own memories as well.

So on to her layout... I did help her cut out the journaling cards but she decided where to put everything and what she wanted to do.  She picked out all the paper and brought it to me and asked to create a school layout.  Have to love this girl!  I'm one proud momma!

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness} Birdhouse Joy

Today I wanted to share one more layout I did using the Basic Grey Fresh Cut I want it all bundle from FotoBella.  Just in case anyone is keeping track, I have completed four layouts with this kit, a card and a Welcome Spring sign.  I also have one more layout in the making and enough supplies to probably make two or three more.  I love the idea of these bundles and getting everything that goes along with a product line.

Here is my layout that I wanted to share with you today.

Today I wanted to talk a little bit about hidden journaling.  If you have been a long time reader of my blog you know, I am madly in love with hidden journaling.  I use it on a regular basis.  I don't hate my handwriting but it isn't my favorite either.  It is always nice and neat, just not really the most elegant script.  This line line has a lot of great journaling cards with it.  I decided to use the one with a bird on it in order to write the story about my daughter and this birdhouse.  It provided a great embellishment as well as the perfect card to use for hidden journaling.

I took these pictures before I wrote out the story about my daughter.  But, this is what I added to the card.

"Jalyn my sweet baby you were so excited when you were done painting this birdhouse.  I just had to take pictures of your joy and how proud you were.  You talked mommy into buying this birdhouse for you at Micheals.  Lucky for me it was 40% off that day and you had been on your very best behavior.  I love to see your joy when your crafting and hope it continues as you get old. Much love my precious."

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Hope you enjoyed looking!
Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Family Goodness} My Valentine Girls

I can't believe it has taken me so long to get this posted but such is life.  I had created a small Valentine's themed photo shoot for my daughter's the other day.  They couldn't go to school that Friday because it was cancelled due to snow.  What a better way to keep them entertained other than doing a photo shoot.

I do this all the time with them.  Dress them up in matching or similar outfits throw a white sheet over the back of the couch and make them pose.  They love it and so do I.  It also creates a bunch of laughter and free entertainment.

So for this shoot, I decided to change it up a bit.  I hung up a lavender sheet and some red hearts.  As you can see when you look at the pictures I hung them  a little high.  Next time I will have to keep that in mind.  I took over a hundred pictures in less then an hour.  These are just a few of my favorites from that day.

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

{Scrappy Goodness} Love

Hello and Welcome!  Today I wanted to share a layout I created for the Scrap Our Stash Challenge #12.  The challenge was to use the sketch, heart patterned paper, prepackaged hearts and arrows.  I also am entering this layout into Kelly's February color challenge, Rochelle's Tic Tac Toe board (diagonal-one word title, heart, lined paper) and Kristi B Word inspiration challenge (love).

I don't know how I managed to combine all of these challenges into one layout but I did and it was a lot of fun seeing if I could get all these challenges into one layout.

So on with my layout.  I did this layout about my daughter's.  I happen to catch them in a moment when they were sitting nicely together,sharing and creating Valentine's cards.  They actually usually play pretty well together but this day they were being sisters and pestering one another.  I went downstairs to do a load of laundry and came back upstairs to see that my husband had sat them both down and told them to color for a little while.

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Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica