I'm Being PUBLISHED!!!

I am so excited that I can hardly contain it!!! I got a notification yesterday that one of the projects I submitted to an online magazine has been selected and will be in their February magazine. I don't know how much I can say about the project so for now I will keep it quiet. However, I will tell you that the website is www.scrapstreet.com and then on the home page you can click on magazine and it will take you there. Again, this will be in the February edition. I will post on my site as soon as the February edition is available and will tell you what page my project is on. I would love to get published more and in many more publications and I think this is a good start!

Reminisce "scrap" contest

So here is my entry for the latest Reminisce contest. For this contest you were to use a Reminisce collection (or 2 or 3) and then create a card for a friend from the left over scraps from that layout. So, I used two of their collections, the black and white collection and the girly girl collection. I had so much fun completing this challenge. Their black and white collection has been around for awhile now but it is a line I will never get sick of. It is so versatile and goes so well with just about anything. Thanks for the challenge!

All a part of God's plan

This New Year has begun with some highs and lows. On December 30th, we celebrated Christmas with my extended family on my mom's side. It is always a great time see my cousins and their families as well as my grandmother and aunts and uncles. We had a fabulous day and this is a picture of my grandmother with all 15 of her great grandchildren. That following Monday my grandmother got sick and on Thursday January 3rd she went to be with the Lord. She was 88 years old and had a wonderful life. It is comforting to know that we will all have the special memory of being with her to celebrate Christmas and what a wonderful day it was for all of us. She will be missed!!

On a much more happy note, I was thrilled to learn that my entry for the Reminisce "what's your type" contest has been selected as the winner. You can see my submission here on my blog. It was thrill for me to win. I have entered several of their contests and this was my first win. My next post on my blog will be for their latest contest so be watching for that. I love scrapbooking and even when I don't win, it is fun to be inspired by their contests to try new things. It is my ultimate dream to some day be a part of their design team, but I guess only if it is part of God's plan!!!

Gift Card Challenge

I completed this page as a challenge on the http://www.scrapattackscrapbooking.blogspot.com/
The challenge was to take a gift card and use the color schemes and layout of the card to make a page layout. I used the Panera gift card because I love the colors and I also love Panera! I truly had a blast doing this layout. Give it a try sometime if you need some inspiration to get a page layout completed.