New Layout- Simplicity

Well Summer vacation is coming to an end and the kids go back to school tomorrow. I'm trying not to cheer too loudly! I am looking forward to getting back to more designing and more scrapping and just generally being more creative and more productive!

I recently had a new opportunitty arise in the CT department. I have joined Karen Funk Designs new Creative Team. I am really excited because her design style is quite different from mine and I will enjoy cerating Lo's with her nice designs as well as my own.

For this page I used her new Simplicity Kit. It's a huge kit but you can also purchase it as seperates if you only want the paper or the embellies. You can pick up Karen's designs from Design House Digital.

I should also mention that I am so stoked that my daughter is finally allowing me to take photos of her again. Apparently now that she posts photos on facebook it is a huge advantage having a Mom that not only can take great photos but can edit them so that it looks like a professional photos shoot. (Those are her words not mine!LOL) I have already taken her out for two seperate photo shoots and I know that she has plans for several more.

Digital Scrapbooking Challenges- Open Book Challenge

Doesn't everyone love a good challenge. I think challenges are one of the things that have helped me grow creatively and push my skill levels the most. If I loose my mojo or am stuck in a rut I can always count on a challenge to help me overcome that.

Recently Audrey Neal of Be Audacious designs put out a message looking for some ladies to get involved with a new challenge that she was putting together. I admit that I was more than a little excited. I first worked with Audrey on the 2peas digital creative team and I love her work. She creates interesting and meaningful pages and she had some very cool digital products that she now sells at her shop at design house digital. These challenges are called the Open Book Challenges.

The Open Book Challenges are a series of bi-monthly scrapbooking challenges based on the books we've read and loved. Each challenge will have multiple prompts, both design- and content-based. The great thing is that you can use just one prompt, several prompts or all of them together!

I created a Layout for the first challenge based on the book The Help. The prompts I used were, the color scheme, using birds on my scrapbook page and using a scallop edge to hold my title. The prompts for journaling were also really cool and introspective but instead I felt that I wanted to journal about the role that reading has taken in my life.

I also thought that since I haven't put out a freebie in a long time that I would include a layered PSD template from the above Layout. Feel free to use it for the challenge or for any Layout you feel like creating. Just click on the preview to download.

Credits: Track Team Kit by Kerry'd Away Designs at 2peas in a bucket, Cherry Blossom Kit by Kerry'd Away designs at 2peas in a bucket and Cherry Blossom Frames at 2peas in a bucket.

Projects using my new kit All in the Family Word Art Blocks

Aren't these projects great. The first Layout is by Lorell, the second is by Debi and the last one is by Mary who is part of the 2peas Digital Creative Team

A Cool Challenge and Inspiration Blog: The Inspired Scrapper

I decided today to tell you about something a bit different than my usual businessy type posts. Today I want to wrote about a cool blog The Inspired Scrapper. Truth be told I may not have known about it except an old scrapper friend of mine took it over and she mentioned it to me. Some of the things that I personally really like about it is that it has some really fun challenge once a month, you have a WHOLE month to get your project done, every Friday there are new inspiring projects posted to get your creative juices going, and here's a cool one to me; it's Canadian run blog. (Go Canada!)

It's definitely worth the check out. I created a page for April's Challenge. The challenge this month was to scraplift someone whose work you admire. I choose digi scrapper Sokee.


Credits: Everything except the word borders were created by me under Kerry'd Away Designs Available for sale at 2peas. Bunny Tales, Track Team, Cherry Blossom Frames, and the word borders are by MaryAnn Wise.

Tying Up Loose Ends and an Announcement

It seems that every time I turn around I have a new announcement. Today I sent in a really cool kit that will be released on March 16th at 2peasinabucket. Say What, Yep you heard that right. I will be selling my designs at 2peas. I am super stoked and I can hardly wait until my first kit hits the store.

But in order to take up the new position I had to step down from my 2peas CT position. Sniff. I was a little bit sad about that. I will really miss the ladies from the team. Not only are they super talented but they are just all around great ladies. On Tuesdays we always had a little chat while we were waiting to sign up for our week of assignments. It was so much fun and I will really miss chatting and hearing what everyone was up to.

And so the last 4 LO's I post here will be the last assignments that I created as part of the 2peas creative team.

Stay Tuned for a Sneak Peek of my first 2peas release!

Feeling a Little Blue? Creating Lo's with the Colour Blue.

Recently I took a little peek at my Lo's in my gallery at 2peas and realized that the last 4 LO's I created are all blue. I didn't realize I had become so partial to the color. Blue does seem to be cropping up in lots of digital kits right now.

Here are two of my favourite blue LO's right now. The first is called Love Being with you. My CT assignment was to use Erica Hernandez's Funny Valentine Brush Set. I only used 2 out many many different brushes you could use. I think they would also be a great way to create your own custom papers. I'd also like to point out that some of the pp in the squares are from my blog freebie LoveBug Kit. The Lo itself is very near and dear to my heart. The photo is my dd with my 90 year old Grannie. She is an amazing lady, even now at 90 she is an upbeat and positive person. She still lives and maintains her own little house even though we lost my Grandfather a few years ago. I am so very happy that my own kids have had the opportunity to get to know her. She is the only surviving grandparent that I have left now.

This second one is also one of my Ct assignments. I totally fell in love with Holly Brooke Jones new Mod Moth Mini Kit. I loved the soft and whimsical design of her papers and those moths were so pretty. As Barb Hogan wrote earlier who knew that Moths could be so pretty?

Catching up on posting my 2peas CT Assignments

My blog entries really are rather willy nilly, aren't they. I think that has been my whole life lately. I do whatever is most pressing and hopefully complete it before something else crops up.

I can't really complain too much though. I am CTing with a site that I LOVE and designing digital products. I'm trying to get into a rhythm between the two but I admit that it is a tough balancing act at times.

Monday I spent most of the day running around trying to get my car situation sorted out. My Dad just recently bought a new car and they decided to help my brother and I out by giving their car to my brother Craig and my brother then in turn gave me his car. I've been driving my big ol' Mom Van since Autumn was born. It has been a good vehicle but it is starting to have trouble and it's cost me quite alot in repairs lately. My Brothers car is newer than mine and it has very low mileage. It's a white Honda civic sedan and best of all it's a standard. I love driving a stick shift! I will have to do a LO of it soon. Okay now back to why I had to run around. Well when I went in to get it insured it turned out that it needed to be Air Cared. I am really beginning to resent Air Care. I wasn't really worried about it passing the air care inspection but the real trouble was that my brother dropped the car off and took the plates. I ended up having to get a permit for the car, then drive it to be air cared then back to the insurance place to get it insured. Yikes. Now it's all done and I LOVE driving my new car. Hopefully I'll have completed the sale of my mini van in the next week. Of course I've spent the last day or so getting the said Van ready for sale. At least I have a buyer lined up.

So that is my sad (or is it happy?) tale and my excuse for not having posted any LO's lately. This first LO features Chelsea's Beautifully Grungy Label. I wanted to try something different rather than the standard label for journaling or a title. I decided that I could use it like a stamp on several squares. I thought it created some continuity in my LO and it's such a beautiful frame it was great to show it off in more than one way. I also was quite pleased with my play on words with the title. By the way my Dad is a really amazing gourmet pizza maker. They are so tasty and I think I gain pounds just looking at all the yummy cheese! My fav is the smoked salmon and brie cheese. My mouth is watering!

The second Lo I chose Michelle Underwood's kit Beautiful Endings. Michelle is such a talented designer. Everything is so real. Her embellishments have texture and dimension and her papers are unique in pattern and color. If you ever get a chance to pick up one of her kits I have no doubt that you will enjoy creating with it as much as I have. I also just love these pictures. My dd didn't even know that I was paying any attention to her but it was just one of those quiet typical mornings. I like that you can see the relationship between Autumn and Casey.

It's February Already

Now how did that happen. It feels like we were just ringing in the New Year and now we will be celebrating Valentine's Day, Cheering for the 2010 Olympics here in Vancouver, and wishing my youngest dd Happy Birthday. Yikes. Why does time speed up so much as you get older?

I have three more Layouts that I created for the 2peas CT.

I love this Lo. I created it for my brother and his lovely finance Beth. The papers I used are from Sugar Pops new kit called Lovebirds. The color combo is totally up my alley and the patterns are really unique too. Another things that I really liked is they had just the perfect amount of distressing and texture for me.

Any modern day Mom could relate with this LO. Just recently my ds gave his sister his nintendo ds. Of course she was ecstatic. When she plays she totally tunes right out and I happily took a whole series of photos and my dd didn't even notice what I was doing. For this page I used Brandy Buffingtons kit Cabanarama. It was so full of papers and elements. There are endless possibilities for this kit.

This last Layout is near and dear to my heart. The photo is of my dad when he was a little boy. What I love about these old photos is that not only am I getting a chance to peek into my dad's childhood but I have memories of my own associated with this photo. When I was in my teens I was staying overnight with my Grannie. Her and I began to go through her stacks and stacks of old photos and she let me pick some to bring home. As we sorted through them she would tell me little things about the photo. In this one she ohhh and awwed about how cute my dad looked and this was one of two photos that she really adored of her son Robbie. Even the name Robbie holds special meaning. Only my grandparents are allowed to use it. And I can still remember the proud look in my Grandfathers eye when he would talk about his "Robbie". (My Grandfather passed away a couple of years ago. ) Funny how just one little photo can hold all that.

The frame is a debut release from Kenner Road. I am looking forward to seeing what else Kenner Road will be bringing us. I love vintage elements and papers just like this.

Well here's to a productive week for everyone. I hope to work on some more kits for my own shop and I also hope to create some more pages. Plus my youngest dd just switched from morning kindy to afternoon. I'm not sure how I feel about that quite yet. At least I didn't have to rush to get her out of the house and in fact I'm still sitting in my pj's and it's almost 11. (Really, I am going to get dressed as soon as I'm done here!Hehe!)

Our Little Secret

As many of you know I have 3 kids. My oldest two are two years apart and then there's a big ol' gap between them and my youngest. She is my baby and I think because I have known even when I was pregnant that she would be my last, I have always hung onto each little stage. I don't want to miss a single thing.

Which brings me to the fact that I picked up this little girl long past the time that it was necessary. (Dare I admit that I still do from time to time.) About two years ago I ended up needing to go in for surgery to remove a sizable tumour from my abdomen. I was told in no uncertain terms that there was to be no bending, lifting or carrying heavy loads. It was tough because Autumn and I were just so used to the whole Mommy will pick you up thing. This is when we came up with the hand hug. It was a way to still feel close without her jostling or hurting my incision and it eliminated the picking up. Now even two years later and fully healed we still do this. It is very comforting for both of us and it has come in handy on many occasions. Really anytime is a great time for a hand hug but I will tell you that when you are in major pain and you haven't seen your children for several days there is nothing better than those kids running into your room and squeezing your hand.

When I'm old and gray I hope my kids won't even have to think twice about that little hand squeeze.

Credits: A Sunday Kind of Love by Michelle Underwood, Sparkle Brush Set by MaryAnn Wise and Deckle Frame also by MaryAnn Wist.

Working on Creative Teams

Over the course of the last year and a half I have been very fortunate to work with some very talented ladies and some amazing designers.

When I first decided I wanted to be a part of a CT, it didn't go as well as I had hoped. In fact I faced several rejection emails and of course several no responses. The first designer I ever worked with was a woman named Laura Lively. 6 months later I went on to CT for Sande Kreiger, Kate Teague, MaryAnn Wise, Jen Alysson, and Carina Gardner. Every team taught me a little bit more and I think I grew much faster because of my time not only with the designers but because of the ladies that I also CT'd with.

As you know I am now part of the CT digital design team for 2peas in a bucket. I am also CTing for MaryAnn Wise and more recently Jen Martakis. I love it. Somehow I have become incredibly busy. I don't mind though, it's a wonderful to feel excited and energized about all the possibilities ahead of you. I love spending my day being creative. Now if I really get it together I may try a few sewing projects.

My own designing is beginning to grow. Before Christmas I faced a similar process as I did for CTing. Lots of no responses, some rejection (all very nicely worded and polite but still rejection is tough to swallow sometimes) I did get some very practical advice and that in fact prompted me to take an illustrator class with Carina Gardner at Jessica Sprague's site as well as purchasing illustrator. (I love illustrator but I will leave that for another post!) Just after Christmas I was invited to design for a site called scrapinsiders.com. So a new journey begins. I will have a more official announcement in the next day or so when my very first kit will be released.

What would a post about CTing be without a few Layouts from said CT position. This first Layout is of my lovely dd pouting and it is a familiar scene around here. I used Chelsea Parsons Milly and Molly kit and it has the cutest little illustrations on it. I have also always loved the way her kraft paper really looks like kraft card stock with all those yummy flecks and bits. The other product I used on this Layout is the 99 cent labels by Shimelle Laine. The cool thing about this kit is that you can use it digitally or she also includes a pdf file so that a paper/hybrid scrapper can easily print it out and use them on a paper project. How cool is that.

On my second Layout I again used a kit by Shimelle Laine. It is called Can't buy me love. It has lovely rich colors and is filled with hearts perfect for any kind of Valentine Layout. As you can see I didn't use it for a Valentine Layout, I used it for this teen kind of Layout. The cool photo mask is from MaryAnn Wise's flakes of snow photo mask kit.

Have a great Weekend.

Happy New Year Everyone

I've had quite a year! I was just taking stock of everything and so much has happened. Courntey started high school, and Autumn started kindergarten. Casey came into our life and stole our hearts, but we lost our both our dear Guinea Pigs in 2009. (Cocoa in Jan 2009 and Snowball almost a year later at the end of Dec.)

My digital scrapbooking has come a long way too. In Jan Sande Kreiger (then at 2peas now at Basic Gray) asked if I would like to be on her CT. (OH yeah!) and then later that spring I asked Kate Teague if she would be interested in having me on her CT. Then in August I applied for MaryAnn Wise's CT and ended up on her team as well as Jen Alysson and Carina Gardner. I left Carina and Jen's team to take up my position at two peas with their digital CT. I also had several layouts published. The first. One was even in Becky Higgens column which I had dreamed of for years. I created 130 new Layouts and even started this Blog! I also took some baby steps towards designing my own products.

Whohooo! I feel so happy today! It's the end of a year and everything has been tied up and neatened up. All loose strings are tied and I am ready for a productive and exciting 2010. There will certainly be some adventures ahead. I hope you will join me here from time to time to see what exciting things are in store.

Here are two Layouts I created for 2peas. The first uses the fabulous Erica Hernandez's So Happy Together Mini Kit.

The second features Jen Martakis' Simple Starts Template #10. Whohoo, gotta love a template that cuts your completion time down to half!

Well have a Happy New Year and here's to a fantabulous 2010!

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. I've spent the last few days visiting with family and enjoying my kids. Autumn was rather over excited on Christmas Eve and by the time we made it to bed she was sobbing inconsolably. She insisted that Santa wasn't going to come because she had just been too naughty this year. It was a tough moment but I gave her a big hug and told her that I didn't think Santa would think she was too naughty to stop at our home.

I have a few more Layouts to share that I created for my 2peas assignments. The first is called Have Santa Hat. I used Holly Brooke Jones Snowfall Mini Kit. I loved the Gray and White Pattens and the pops of red. She also includes these super cute stickers like the little bird and a snowman. It's a great kit.

Here is the second: Big Girl Earrings. I used Erica Hernandez's template #27. Templates are a great way to speed up your scrapping and they are very easy to customize. In this case the template was in an 81/2 by 11 format and I adapted it for a 8x8 format.

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas.

Full Credit List:
Have Santa Hat: Snowfall Mini Kit by Holly Brooke Jones @2peasinabucket.com, Word Doublets by MaryAnn Wise @2peasinabucket.com, Grunge Neutral Papers by Mary Ann Wise @2peasinabucket.com, Twine from Punky Monkey by Brandy Buffington @2peasinabucket

Big Girl Earrings: Template 27 by Erica Hernandez @2peasinabucket.com, Background PP from Urban Chic Solids by Jen Alysson @2peasinabucket.com, Coloured PP Button Border Solid Paper by MaryAnn Wise @2peasinabucket.com, Button Border Embellishment Pack by MaryAnn Wise @2peasinabucket.com

Drive by Posting

Just a quick post today. My 2peas CT assignment for this week I chose a super cute quickpage On TV by Chelsea Parson. Seriously I love anything that Chelsea does so I was so happy to work with her design this week.

The design itself is super easy to work with, you could easily just throw a photo underneath, add a title and some journaling and you would be good to go. I of course have to make things more complicated for myself and I add to the page a bit. I also converted my photo to black and white and added some grain to it so that it added to the retro feel. The other thing I love about this quick page is that it only cost 99 cents. How crazy is that!

Our Must See Holiday Movie List:

And then things got buuuuussssyyyy!

So the Holiday Season began and things got crazy busy. This creating a magical Christmas can keep a girl busy. I'm having a great time though so I am not regretting this decision to focus on making this the best Christmas ever.

I haven't posted any of the LO's I created for the 2peas CT Team.

Last week I created 2LO's both from two of Betsy Tuma's new releases. The first is So Flakey and the second Charmed Christmas. Betsy's kits are always really cool and she is a genius at creating very life like metal embellishments.

Brrrr : Using Betsy Tuma's So Flakey Kit. I also just love these photos of my dd. They are from last winter when we got a whole ton of snow but she just looks so darned cute.

This second LO is for my JYC Album and it uses Betsy Tuma's super cool Charmed Christmas Digital Kit. It was a perfect way to spice up a page of journaling.

I promise to post more often. I hope to have some more freebies soon.

And the Holiday Season Begins!

Yeah I'm so excited. The Holiday Season is here. I have so many ideas about how to make it a fun and happy season. I hope you will check in on me from time to time to see what I'm up to. I of course have my Holiday December Daily that I will be sharing and other tidbits. (like Holiday Freebies)

In Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas she suggested that your first page be like your Holiday Manifesto or some sort of declaration to explain what you are planning with your album. Here is the first page for Dec first.

Betsy Tuma's Sweater Weather Papers-His

My first assignment with the 2peas Creative Team was to create two Layouts using Betsy Tuma's New Sweater Weather Papers and Alphas. They were really neat to use. The papers were full of texture and the patterns reminded me of retro Christmas Sweaters. (I'm sure my Dad had one or two.) The alphas were really cool too and not only is there a set of patterned alphas that cooridinate with the papers there is also a set of solid alphas.

Here are the two kits that I used in my projects. She also has a Sweater Weather Solids and extras kit that all co ordinate. Not to mention that last week she released Sweater Weather-Hers. You can check them out at 2peas in a bucket or just click the preview.

The first Layout is of our beloved Casey. I love how when I'm busy working on something at the computer he lays nearby all curled up. The photo had a lot of texture and warmth so I wanted to make sure that I captured that in my layout and the sweater weather papers really helped me do that.

This is an older photo of my youngest dd. It's always been one of my favourite photos and I love how she looks so bundled up. Once again the sweater weather papers seemed perfect for the feeling I wanted to convey.

Credits for Cozy: Sweater Weather His papers and alphas Betsy Tuma, Film strip by Carina Garder, Stitching Basic Stitches and antique stitching by MaryAnn Wise.

Credits for Sweater: Sweater Weater His papers and alphas by Betsy Tuma, Background pp Grunge Neutral Patterned Paper by MaryAnn Wise, Antique Pins by MaryAnn Wise.

All products can be found at the 2peas in a bucket Digital Store.

Extraction Tips & Tricks

There are one or two things that you can do in digi that you simply are unable to duplicate in traditional scrapbooking. One of my favourite digi techniques is extractions. I don't use extractions on every Lay out but every now and then a Layout seems to call to me to be extracted. There are many ways to approach extractions but which ever way you choose, it takes practise and patience to get the look you want.

I know some people like the magic eraser tool but I rarely use it because I find it either erasers parts of my image that I want to keep or leaves too sharp an edge. I do sometimes use the quick selection tool but only when the contrast between the part I want to extract from the background is high. Otherwise I use the marquee tools to create a selection around the image I want to extract. When I first started it took me a very long time but now I can extract an image quite quickly.

Another real key for me has been making sure that I put a small feather on my selections. (around 3-5 px) I find that the feather makes it look more real when you place it on a different background especially hair. Once I have finished the selection I click Ctrl J then I use a soft round brush with a lowered opacity to clean up any rough edges.

One neat trick I learned recently from the Pen Scrappers Site was to use the pen tool to pull some hair out along the edge. There is a cool tutorial on the site called the pulled hair technique. I won't get into a ton of detail but if you think it sounds like something you'd like to try you can check out the tutorial by Margie Lundy here.

If you are new to the technique I suggest you try something simple like an object. Humans can be tricky because of hair and I still find hands and feet tricky a bit tricky too. I hope you will give it a try. I've included a recent LO that shows a number of extractions. Fun hey!

My Son

Although you might not know it from the number of photos or scrapbook pages I have, (or lack of) I really do have a son. It's tough for him, because not only is he the middle child, he is also the quietest and the most reserved. How do you make yourself noticed when your older sister is outgoing and talkative and your younger sister is gregarious and silly.



Although I am of course proud of all my children, J is the sweetest. He is the first one to say Mom, sit down and relax. When I was sick he told me he wouldn't allow me to make dinner and made me lie down while he made dinner. I am not the only one that J takes the time to help. He is like that with all those around him, both friends and family. If he thinks you're sad, he'll come sit with you, when a neighbour had to go to the hospital, he offered to take care of their cat. Yes my J is a bit of an unsung hero.


I always say thank you when he helps me out but if anyone tries to go beyond a simple understated thank you, J gets very uncomfortable. I don't know if he realizes how unusual he is especially for a boy. He reminds me a lot of my dad who is also very caring. I wish I could show him how much I appreciate his very special personality, which brings me back to the beginning of this post. How do you celebrate and document the life of someone who doesn't really like to be in the lime light. I guess I'm going to have to get better at doing journal focused pages.


Not that long ago I created a page explaining to J why his sisters have double the scrapbook pages to his. It actually has helped a bit and now he is a little bit better about letting me take his photo. Truth be told though, I think he is only doing it because he knows it makes me happy. I love you son.

Supplies: Background PP-DigiKit - Paris & Co-French Solid 1 Paper Pack by Carina Gardner, Accent Paper @2peasinabucket.com- DigiKit - Watercolor Beach Papers by MaryAnn Wise @ 2peasinabucket.com, Card- DigiKit - Study Hall - School Cards by Jen Alysson @2peasinabucket.com.

Exciting News

Recently 2peas in a bucket put out an announcement, looking for digital scrapbookers to join their first ever digital creative team. The call ended on Fri November 13th and the team was revealed on Thursday Night in the Digital Newsletter. I am so thrilled to tell you that I am a part of the inaugural digital creative team for 2peas. It will be so much fun. The other talented ladies who I will be working with are:


Alice Wertz : Alice W
Audrey Neal : aneal
Barb Hogan : Barb Hogan
Christie Jurgens : chrispy_314
Christina Smith : soaring2him
Jennifer Hignite : mom2dylanNdrew
Holly Koenigsfeld : Holly Koenigsfeld
Iara Gomes-Bae : baersgarten
Janelle Miller : janellemllr
Karen Cole : coley k
Kathy Racoosin : kathyrac
Kerry Stewart : Busy.Butterfly (This is me)
Lucy Abrams : Lucy Abrams
Mary Jo Arthur : mj.johnston
Mary Rogers : SuperiorPea
Cheryl Manz Ametewee : Cheryl Manz Ametewee
Nicole LeBlanc : NicoleLeBlanc
Raven Edwards : flossiemae
Vanessa Matthyssen : Maithe
Wilna Furstenberg : Wilna

As I made my way to each new members blog I can't help but feel a bit awed and humbled by the amount of talent on this team and that I get to be a part of it.

It has been quite a process from when I first started digital scrapping two years ago until now. I find it so interesting looking through my gallery at 2peas. I can pinpoint exactly when I took a class or stumbled across a new inspiration. I thought you might find it interesting seeing my first layout posted at 2peas and a recent Layout.

Here is my first Layout posted at 2peas. Not too bad I guess, especially for a newbie. I created it for a challenge at 2peas. It's still an okay Lo but if I did it today I would probably tackle it differently especially the photo processing.

I created this Layout a couple of weeks ago. Today I love the photo processing. I love the colors and the design. I wonder where I'll be in another two years.

Credits for Baby Mine: Brown PP a freebie at Designer Digitals and the pink overlay a freebie from 2peas. Brush Work from Design Fruit.

Credits for Trick or Treat: PP from Spider's Web Papers 1,2, and 3. by Carina Gardner @ 2peas in a bucket. Flourishes from Always Corner Brush Set by MaryAnn Wise @ 2peas in a bucket.

Burning the Midnight Oil

Do you ever have one of those nights when you go to bed and an idea for a project jumps in your head. That is what happened to me last night. Usually I roll over and go to sleep hoping desperately to remember the epiphany. Occasionally I decide it's such a worthy idea that I jot or sketch it down in my notepad. However, last night the idea was so strong I could visualize the project from start to end. I kept thinking about it and then couldn't get back to sleep. I ended up getting up with the thought that I'd just "start" the project. Ya right. Once I started I couldn't stop. Next thing I know it's 2:30 in the morning and it dawns on me that I am REALLY going to pay for this late night creativity the next day.

And yes I am tired today but I have a finished layout to show for it! Hehe. Sometimes you just need to do what you gotta do.

Supplies: PP from my Winter Wonderland Collection: Snow Day and Nordic paper packs, Round Alphas are my Mini Round Alphas (available free here on my Blog). Stitching Basic Stitches no1 by MaryAnn Wise @2peasinabucket.com.