I am not in the habit of entering contests but I do love reading scrapping magazines both paper and on line. One of my favorites is the Digital Artists Magazine that I have been getting through ScrapArtist.com. This month they are having a month long party on their blog site and so I decided to take a peak. Shouldn't have done it..  I have been lurking and entering several of the contests ever since. I haven't been a winner but I am finding out that contests are very much like challenges. I am so leary for some silly reason aboutentering a challenge. Perhaps now I won't be so frightened. Here is the layout I did for one of their challenges and the photo of where I had it sitting.

I used the paper from this months DAM kit called Calypso by Hollydesigns and the swirl and parenthesis are from ScrapArtist Lisa Whitney's kit Zesty. The word art is from the Digital Artists Magazine blog site and the font on the journaling is Georgia.

I finished this layout today of Mayumi and her children, Shannon and Cody at the new wading park the other day. We had just gone earlier to visit Robin and her new son. The new park with all of it's water spouting fun is located just two blocks from where I live. We packed snacks and watched Shannon and Cody run and play. The only thing missing is some shade for the on-lookers (we adults) to sit under. As the park just opened this summer, we are hoping that this oversight will be corrected in the months to come. At the least by next year.

The layout was made using a red paper from Two Peas- All Twitterpated kit by CheriMask, and the word art is from an Oscraps TaylorMade tutorial.

I have had almost no time to create and/or be on the computer this week. Then after thinking that I could spend the weekend creating, I remembered that Jon's company picnic is this Sunday at the race track (this should be fun). I will take my camera and see what I can get. It is so hard to believe that just a few months ago I was feeling creatively blocked and then with my copy of Cut Loose I am now finding all kinds of things that I want to scrap and wanting more hours in my days. I will post a few older things today and hopefully have something new soon. These were both done last fall. The puppy page is using a template from Jen Caputo from a class with Jessica Sprague. The second one was completed following a Jessica Sprague Friday Photoshop Tutorial.

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The lovely young friend of ours who was in the pregnant layouts that I did last week is in the hospital having the baby as I type this. We are all so excited to meet little Ryan. I gave his mother Robin an 8x8 album from Memory Makers as a gift and a coupon for photos each month for the first year. She was so thrilled. I had no idea that she wanted to learn to scrap. Now I have a new scrappin' buddy.

These photos are from the little album I made of pictures from her baby shower. I used the tutifrutti quick page album from We are Story Tellers by Paislee Press. It was such fun as I had purchased one of those little $1 albums at Michael's and it came together in no time at all. The paper I used for the cover is from Basic Grey. I added a few button brads and summer brads (unknown)... .. . ..