Always.... and National scrapbook Day!!!!

Always.....Hip Kit has a challenge every weekend in there Facebook forum and there so fun to play along with. You dont have to use the items from the kit and by the end of the month Im happy about that because Im usually about ou and stalking my email saying my kit has been sent, then  I know its ok to start stalking the mail!! lol

I loved this challenge though. I love them all but Ive been a bit out of the loop, with kiddos being sick  and then me getting it and tryin to get back into the swing of things. But Im now back up and scrapping and got my home deep cleaned!!

So sat down to do this LO and it took me over 2 hours and thats not normal for me lol, but started watching a new TV series this past week when I was sick and decided to put it on while scrapping. Big mistake, I kept getting into the show and forgetting to scrap! I have realized I cant watch something Im really interested in while scrappin if I wanna get more than one LO done in the evening!! lol Its ok though, Im going to get off and shut down for the evening since National Scrapbook Day is tomorrow!! And that means a weekend full of scrapping, challenges and chatting!!

Speaking of NSD, Hip Kit club is having a online crop, thats where I'll be this weekend, and its open to everyone!! look them up on Facebook and join to participate in the challenges and chatting with all these amazing ladies!! I hope we see you there!!!

Happy LO :) Beautiful weather and needing new cardstock

Like I said before, Hip Kits April kit is so beautiful! I don't know how Kimberly does it, every month better and better!!

I've finally gotten to start playing with my April kit, but its been a bit delayed. Easter is over so things have gotten a bit calmer. But this past week its been so nice outside, that's all we've been doing!!lol Playing outside, riding bikes and going to the park. Yeah some of that is to tier the kids out some so they sleep better, but really we missed this amazing warm weather and its so nice to see the flowers and feel a nice warm breeze. We've had a few thunder storms here and there too and the pollen has been INSANE! Me and my oldest have been waking up sneezing, no voice and eyes itching, but we got back out and play in it everyday!!lol

On another note.... I'm needing to find a place to order my white card stock from. I've just been getting non-textured from Hobby lobby because its here, close and inexpensive. Well today taking pictures of my LOs I noticed the difference in the color and it really bugged me, to the point that I almost didn't share them. I've used American Crafts white textured cardstock before and am thinking of using it again, its always amazing, takes color great and always looks so clean and white lol. I'm just impatient,lol, I want it now so that I can scrap and do what I want, I will have to learn lol Im really upset about the way the white paper cardstock looks, it really makes me want to redo them, it kinda looks dirty :( I guess no more white cardstock until I order more, this should be interesting...

Got my April Hip Kit and my puppy is home!!

WooHoo!! Around the 1st week of every month I get really excited and start stalking my mail man, as I've heard many of you do that have a kit coming your way. lol Im late busting into it and getting to play with it though. :(  My kit showed up the day before Easter, literally as we were waling out the door to go meet up with some of our family for Easter type things. I really thought Id get to bust into it that night, seeing how my sister decided she wanted to keep all 4 of our kids that night, this never happens, lol, we usually have at least one kiddo. It was so sweet of her but I think shes still happy having just 1 kid lol. Anyways.... Well we got home so late, we were kinda wore out and I still had to make a bunny cake for the next day, so I got the cake in the over, my hubby started a movie and I snuck away to my scrappy room and tore into my box. 

And it was amazing!! To be honest I wanted more of the kits like I got last month, really I wanted all the add ons lol, but we had some things come up with part of our family that were more pressing. Our puppy, fur baby if you will. He had to have surgery, as you see. His hip socket had to be replaced. Hes only 9 months old, my poor baby!! Its just like another kid to us though, our baby was away from home for almost a week, it was only like that because out vet knew we had 4 kids at home and 2 were 3 and under. They wanted to keep him there till the swelling went down. But our baby is back home and is doing great so far. Poor baby just wants to cuddle and love on everyone. I wish I would have had my camera when one of our cats came in to see him, Meatloaf (that's our pups name lol) just started licking him. Hes happy to be home and we are so happy hes home and doing better!!

Now dinner is done, older kids are getting into there things for the night, youngest fixing to get ready for be and pup is already laying by my scrap room waiting on me, so I think I need to dig in to my kit tonight!

Spring breaks over :( and a few more LOs

Our Spring break was this past week. Ours was pretty uneventful. I say that but I think I spent a combined 19-20 hours in the car. UGH! I get it may not be that much in a week span for some but to me, in two days, its a lot.lol. And my back is killing me! But I have my boys back so it was all worth it! Oh I guess it would be better to let know that they were at there dads house, thats what all the driving was for. There dad gets them for Spring Break, So I was without my boys for a week, it made it way to quiet around here. I did have my girls, so it wasn't completely quiet here but quieter than normal. I have to say, being use to 4 kiddos all the time, having them here and seeing them and then 2 being gone, its such a weird feeling and I don't like it one bit!  

So you might think having 2 of the kiddos gone, I might get more scrappy stuff done, but nope.lol I did manage a few LOs and a canvas I made for my mom, but my back was so messed up, I didn't do much at all, but here are the few that I did get done. These were all made with the Hip kit clubs March kit. I did add a few of my own items in here and there.

This is my youngest, she was hanging out on the back porch with us at our old house, I looked over, she looked so cute, so I snapped a picture of her. I did use my own mists and doilies on this one.

I made this for my mom, something she could hang in her scrapbooking room at her house. She always loves getting pictures, Layouts or mini albums from me even though she scraps too. We just have different scrapbooking styles, so its always fun for us. I added my own string and mists on this one too.

Here is my oldest son, so proud of him!! This is him with his acceptance letter into ALPHAS. This is a group in his school and most schools for gifted and talented kids. He was so happy when he got in, and me the scrapbooker I am, had to take a picture of him with his letter. I also went and got him a bottle of sparkling apple cider to celebrate with,lol goofy I know, but I love to make a big deal over there achievements! This LO was also a part of a challenge from Hip kits facebook page.

And again, my youngest daughter. Cut the background with my cameo and added pieces of patterned papers behind it. She actually took this picture herself when she was about 7 months old. She liked to have my phone with music on when she was sleeping, well she woke up and managed to snap a cute, up close picture. I really just loved this picture!!

Im down to just a little left with my kit, I already ordered my kit for April, but I think when I get my May kit I'll have to order me some add ons! Definitely loving there kits, cant wait to get my April kit already!! But we are home, gonna make some dinner and then hopping to get some more scrapping done.

Photo Bomb

We like to play and have fun around our house and with four little ones its none stop! And a little crazy at times too!! Well me and my hubby can be big kids on our own, It was a nasty, rainy day out when we took these photos and our olders were at school, just had our youngest at home. We decided to take some goofy selfies and then out of no where our daughter popped in to the pics, so we kept going. She loves cameras, as you can see!! lol

I used my beautiful 2015 March Hip kit, and cardstock add on to make this layout, along with more to come. Out of my stash I pulled Heidi Swapp color shine and splattered and some of my thread. I did some sewing on my page and am still loving the new technique to me. And I also used my new silhouette cameo, (sooo loving it!!) and cut out my circle pattern in the background and painted it with gesso. 

Got my 1st Hip Kit Club Kit!!!!

Woo Hoo!! I got my First kit from the Hip Kit Club!!I have to admit I'm a little behind, I've had it for a week and haven't even posted about the beautiful kit. 

So this month was my first month for the kit and I got the main kit, the paper add on and the cardstock add on. To be honest I'm not big on textured or colored cardstock, I mainly stick to non-textured white, black and kraft cardstock. So I figured, everything is so beautiful why not try something semi new to me again. And I'm so glad I did!! 

So here is my first layout with the kit. I love the bright, springy colors threw the kit. I'm enjoying the cork too! Ive played with it a bit in the past but I'm hoping to play with more, I've already went out and bought more cork, lol

I've also had a sewing machine for years, made a few lap quilts but that's about it. I've watched so many youtube videos with everyone sewing on there pages so I dug mine out and tried it myself...Looks like almost all my pages will have sewing on them for a while, until I get tiered of it, or it breaks down again.lol

Getting it back a little

Well I finally got a few layouts done. No where near as many as I would have liked to have gotten done but its a start right? 

We got some snow here and I know a lot of others got it as well, but my kids loved it. They got snow days and got to stay home and play in it. The first time it snowed here it wasnt really snow, it was hard and more icy than anything so not a lot of fun. But the second time it snowed it was so nice and fluffy! We got the kids up in the middle of the night to just show them out the window and tell them that they were getting to stay home again and play in it this time. Of course they were jazzed lol. So the next morning me and my hubby got our munchkins up and dressed and headed out on a walk about in the snow. It was really the first time our youngest had seen the snow. Shes two but its never done anything for her to see before and she was amazed by it. It didnt matter how cold she got, she didnt wanna go inside. It was so much fun. I have so many more pics from our snow days to scrap and this definitely made me wanna scrap them. 

I scrapped some of the older kids game time, this was a little different for me though because I decided that I wasn't using any papers other than my back ground paper and the project life kind of cards. These were by We R Memory Keepers, albums made easy. I've had them for a good while and haven't touched them so I figured it was time to get them out and use them. I ended up happy with my layout though.

Now this layout of my youngest I'm just not that happy with. It looks lacking to me. I love the little area with her pics and I love the title, I really do like it all, maybe its because I didnt get a great picture of it?? Not sure. It was also my first time ever using my gelatos. I have sooo much to learn!! lol.