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February Studio AE Blog Hop from Technique Tuesday

 

I do love winter - but I did enjoy this little taste of summer memories while scrapbooking snuggled in my quilt.  ;)   I think I'll spend the rest of February with the rest of my summer photos. 

For this layout I used Technique Tuesday's February Studio AE - Best Banners. 

 

For more inspiration using this month's set - be sure to stop by the following blogs: 

Ali

http://aliedwards.com/projects

Lisa Ottosson (our Studio AE guest)

http://elisabetottosson.blogspot.com/

Daniela

http://danieladobson.blogspot.com/

Linda 

http://milesofpaper.blogspot.com/

Nichol

http://nicholmagouirk.typepad.com/

Laura

http://itsallrosie.blogspot.com/

Jaclyn 

http://designsbyjax.blogspot.com/

Sharyn

http://sharyntormanen.typepad.com/

Teri

http://terisplace.wordpress.com/

 

We’ll give away a prize:

We are going to give away one $25 e-Gift Card to TechniqueTuesday.com to someone who comments during the hop. To be eligible to win, all you need to do is comment on any of our blog posts! The lucky winner will be announced on the 15^th on the Technique Tuesday blog.  http://techniquetuesday.typepad.com/

January Studio AE Blog Hop from Technique Tuesday

The tenth day of 2014, and I still don't have my planner. *twitching* 
I did, however, get the January Studio AE set - All my Heart. 

I had fun putting a little twist on the love theme, using the Williamsburg Alphabet Small set to drop in something my kid's love. I thought the set worked really well for our trip to the candy store. My kids LOVE LOVE LOVE the candy store.  ;)   I also used a Shimelle sketch for design inspiration. (I love sketches) 

Make sure to check out how everyone else interpreted the set: 

 

Ali

http://aliedwards.com/projects

Daniela

http://danieladobson.blogspot.com/

Nichol

http://nicholmagouirk.typepad.com/

Laura

http://itsallrosie.blogspot.com/

Sharyn

http://sharyntormanen.typepad.com/

Teri

http://terisplace.wordpress.com/

 

We’ll give away a prize:

We are going to give away one $25 gift certificate to someone who comments during the hop. To be eligible to win, all you need to do is comment on any of our blog posts! The lucky winner will be announced on the 15^th on the Technique Tuesday blog.  http://techniquetuesday.typepad.com/

December Studio AE Blog Hop from Technique Tuesday

This month we are sharing projects made with the December set - Great Memory. 

 

On a hunch, I wanted to see if the opening would be the right size for my Moo business cards. 

*squeeeeee* Perfect! What fun! 

 

I was originally going to trim the business card perfectly to size, but once I realized that they fit so nicely in the one direction - I decided to keep the size and just use the frame to highlight. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only four months until we go ballooning again! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Take a few moments and check out the rest of this month's inspiration: 

Ali

Daniela

Nichol

http://nicholmagouirk.typepad.com/

Laura

Sharyn

http://sharyntormanen.typepad.com/

Teri

http://terisplace.wordpress.com/

 

We’ll give away a prize:

We are going to give away one $25 gift certificate to someone who comments during the hop. To be eligible to win, all you need to do is comment on any of our blog posts!  The lucky winner announced on the 15^th on the TechniqueTuesday blog.  http://techniquetuesday.typepad.com/

saturday share

card made with Technique Tuesday's Season's Greetings and Chevrons Two Step

Today I woke up early, headed to the gym - then back at home I'm getting  it in gear. 

I'm holiday nesting. Purple Heart knows me well as they planned their visit for Monday. 

The boy's room is clean
Wendy is working on her room
I began some holiday baking (pumpkin rolls)
planned a Thanksgiving menu
last night I picked up a few things in preparation

And now that my Saturday cleaning is done - I'll sit down and wrap a few name exchange gifts, get a few things ready for the mail, prep my December Daily album, work on a deadline and write out a few more Christmas cards. 

I may actually meet my goal of getting the bulk of the holiday taken care of before turning the page to December. Boy, would that be fun. 

Happy Saturday! 

Welcome October

Christmas Cheer is part of the October Studio AE set from Technique Tuesday
This will be the album cover for last year's Christmas Card album. As soon as I figure out where my binding machine wandered to.

October is here - and it's one of our most beautiful falls. The colors are spectacular. I hope we don't lose too much with the rain in this next weekend's forecast....

As for September - boy, it was a busy one. 

• school began
• my new job began
• a whole lot of physical therapy for Brian
• volleyball tryouts
• filling out of a whole lot of applications for Allan
• several interviews for Allan
• a lot of traveling for the husband
• new posts put on the front porch
• a new bird feeder
• ordered another new toy - to arrive this week. more on that later. 
• ballooning
• apple picking and dehydrating
• and the passing of my father-in-law and traveling for his funeral

And now for October. 

• goal: Lose 5 pounds
• happening: more apple dehydrating
• hope: more ballooning
• happening: my mom is coming to town. she just called - still an hour or so away, but not staying at my house this time so I won't see her until tomorrow sometime
• happening: more traveling for the husband. He's in Kentucky right now. 
• happening: picking up new hardwood for the living room
• hope: getting the new hardwood put in
• hope: that husband will finally take a few days off to accomplish the task
• happening: fall services
• goal: a lot more creating
• goal: more routine
• happening: Wendy will turn 13
• happening. apparently: a lot of sleepovers being planned by the soon to be 13 year old. 
• happening: the same 13 year old will be doing volunteer duties at the library
• goal: paint a wall. or two. 
• goal: get some Christmas gifts made
• goal: order Christmas cards (trying to minimize last minute ack-ness this year) 
• goal: get all three kids pictures done. 
• happening: Halloween. 

Gonna be busy. 

time to make some more lists, and find my binding tool......

be good

 

 

September Studio AE Blog Hop from Technique Tuesday

A share, a blog hop, a tease....

For my part in the blog hop, I used the Daily Photo by Ali Edwards , the Studio AE stamp set for September, as part of my Summer Manifesto album. Item number five on my summer manifesto was to go ballooning again - and while the weather this year has been crummy for flying, and my schedule is busier than ever - I DID get to go flying. 

The journaling about this event is going to be on the left side. I'll share the album complete when it's done. All in all, I did pretty well with my 15 item summer manifesto. 

And because we are celebrating the third year of Studio AE - we've invited over even more participants in this month's blog hop. Make sure to take the time to check them all out!

Ali

Daniela

Nichol

Jaclyn

Laura

Tobi

Linda

Sharyn

Tanis

Ashley

Teri

AND - 

We’ll give away some prizes:

We are celebrating the third anniversary of Studio AE this month this month at Technique Tuesday! So guess what? We are going to give away three $25 gift certificates. To be eligible to win, all you need to do is comment during the hop!  The three lucky winners will be announced on the 15^th on the Technique Tuesday blog. http://techniquetuesday.typepad.com/

Thanks so much for stopping by! See you again next month!  

 

 

 

 

July Studio AE Blog Hop from Technique Tuesday

For this month's blog hop, I just happened to have my set out on my desk, pondering which direction to go, when I glanced up at one of the kid's artwork above my work space. I was instantly inspired. I took that heart/block design and pulled from it into my own design. 

Fun!! 

The set this month is called Label Maker and offers up a lot of possibilities for both cards and layouts! 

Please be sure to check out the other blogs for even more inspiration and a chance to win! 

Ali

Daniela

Laura

Birgit

 Nichol

Sharyn <------- 'tis me

Teri

 

We’ll give away a prize:

A $25 gift certificate to someone who comments during the hop. The winner will be announced on the 15^th on the Technique Tuesday blog. http://techniquetuesday.typepad.com/

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July

layout made using July Studio AE - Label Maker

July took me by surprise. I don't remember it coming so close to balloonfest before. 

June was crazy busy. Art camp, volleyball camp, soccer and soccer camp, balloonfest, graduation, parties, guitar lessons and school finishing up. 

I had been looking forward to July for a couple weeks now. July isn't nearly as scheduled as the last few months have been. There are only three things written in red on the July page and that feels wonderful - especially since we tackled one already yesterday with Brian's dentist appointment. (He's decided he never wants to get a filling again). 

In July my hopes/plans/happenings are....

• a fourth of july parade
• fireworks at greenfield village
• I'd love to go to Bay City and see the Tall Ship Celebration. Has anyone been? Advice? Suggestions? Week day? Weekend? Will my little boys love it? (I know I will)
• a water/splash park
• a lazy schedule 
• a trip up north for a wedding (the third red mark)
• ballooning
• kayaking
• my husband will be traveling for work most of the month
• hoping the teenager actually gets some hours this month. The weather has made his landscaping hours practically nonexistent which has been extremely frustrating. 
• putting together a quilt top
• more layouts/cards
• more biking (I biked a little bit the end of june..planning to carry it through)

And THAT is it. 

Long overdue for some unscheduled days. 

 

June Studio AE Blog Hop from Technique Tuesday

Good Morning! We had a super full weekend over here - again - and I'll have a weekend wrap report coming up tomorrow, but for now - it's blog hop day again. This month we played with Fun in the Sun by Ali Edwards - the set for June. 

For this layout, I pulled out some pictures from about this time last year. Especially fun since some of those same cousins are in town again this week. In fact, one of them is upstairs giggling with Wendy as I type this.  Fun times. Summer often means cousins in this house. 

For the We heart sunshine stamp - I stamped on white cardstock and colored the image in with my markers. I masked the image to outline with the sunshine rays.  The summer day stamp I stamped on patterned paper and cut out. 

To mark the names of the girl cousins - I just used letter stickers to mark the first letter of their names - that should be all we/I need to trigger the right name years down the road.  ;)  

 Thanks for stopping by! 

Be sure to check out the rest of the hop for inspiration and chances to win! 

Ali

Ashley

Linda

Daniela

Nichol

Laura

Sharyn <------ that's me

Teri

 

Prize:

We'll randomly pick one lucky commenter to receive a $25 gift certificate from Technique Tuesday.com. the winner will be announced on the Technique Tuesday blog sometime on the 15th. 

eta: My apologies for the word verification. I normally remove it for hops, but this morning when I did so, I got hit with a dozen computer generated spam messages instantly. Usually it takes a few days for them to find me. darn spam. 

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June, June...you sneaky snuck.

Studio AE - Fun in the Sun

Several times this past few days I heard various statements that were all pretty much the same:  Wait. It's June?!!!!?  

Sneaky sneaky June. 

May was busy. So much so that I don't know if I even care rethink it all for a recap. 

wore
me
out.

This past week/weekend was a busy too. I still haven't had a moment to really go through my photos - hope to catch up there this evening and plan for an overshare tomorrow.

As for today .... this moment...

• four days left of school. I work all four days
• my mom took off this morning after the boys woke up for school. 
• It sure is a beautiful morning. Scrounged up enough energy to hang two loads of clothes on the line. 
• Should be a beautiful night for baseball. 
• And sneezing. The cottonwoods are shedding. Looks like snow outside. 

Tomorrow I'll do more of a recap and think about what's coming up for June. Today I'm regrouping. 

Happy Monday
Make it awesome.