A Couple of Layouts and an Update

Well it's been about a week since I have posted.  We were away at Great Wolf Lodge at the beginning of last week.  We all had a great time and managed to ride all the slides multiple times.  Of course there were a few nauseating moments such as going backwards down the Woolly Mammoth and when that happened a second time I decided that was no longer the ride for me.  Here are a few pics of our fun.

I love this picture because you can see the water park in the window behind the kids.

Bailey and Terry flying around the Vortex, which is my favourite slide.

Jared coming out backwards, poor guy because he is so light he would spin around in the tunnel on the way down, and said he almost flipped over a couple of times.  We decided it was best if he rode with someone else until he weighs a bit more.

Scraptures is finishing up their birthday celebrations with the winners being announced on Feb. 1st so I took some time to complete a couple more challenges posted on the forum. 

I have also been working on colouring in some images for Valentine's cards and hopefully will have an example to show you all in the next couple of days.

The Winner is ......

And the follower that wins is Wustaz.  Send your address to jenn_momof2@yahoo.ca and I will get your prize off to you.

Thanks to everyone that became a follower of my blog.

Welcome to Scrap~tures Birthday Celebration blog hop!!

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I used the December Card Kit to complete this layout of Jared's 8th birthday.  That is what I really like about the Scraptures card kit, it's not just for cards it can be used for layouts too and I often find myself using the kit to do both.  Here are some cards I made a little while ago with the same kit.



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More Challenges and Snow

I spent lots of time this weekend in my craft room and I made this card from a sketch at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog and got the idea to spray Walnut ink on the background and use homemade glimmer mist on the butterflies from a challenge on the forum at Scraptures. 

This weekend we had a ton of snow dumped on us, the dog had a bit of a hard time in the backyard but the kids had a lot of fun playing in it. 

Here a few more creations I made as a result of the challenges posted on the forum for the 1 year anniversary of Scraptures

Scraptures Challenges and Creative Scrappers Sketch #138

I am loving all the challenges over at the Scraptures forum for their 1 year anniversary, they have been so motivating and I am getting so much done.  The 9th challenge was to use grunge board on a layout so combining that and the Creative Scrappers Sketch #138 I completed this layout. 

I am working on completing more challenges so should have some more to post this weekend.

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The Things I Want Most by Richard F. Miniter

This was a really nice read, it is about the journey one family takes when the choose to foster an emotionally disturbed child.  The story takes place within the first year of the boy coming into their family and includes all the ups and downs that are involved in this kind of situation.  I particularly liked the fact that the book was told from the Father's point of view.  So often when I read these stories they are from a woman's point of view and it was a nice change to read a man's view and hear his take on fostering and emotionally disturbed child.  It was a good read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in family situations and real life stories.