Google layout

Hello! I have been trying to scrapbook more layouts this year. Here is one I just finished.

I love scrapbooking birthdays, vacations and holidays but I also like to remember the funny moments. For instance, the day the Google camera car drove past us. My husband found the picture online and took a screenshot. The faces are blurred for everyone caught on Google Maps Streetview.

The Google logo and "search" button were very easy to create with Cricut Craft Room. The computer home page paper is by DCWV, The Generation Tech stack.

Scrapbooking = Happiness

I am a voracious reader. I am in a bookclub with some lovely ladies. I read for pleasure, I read for my bookclub and I read to scope out potential bookclub books. Every month, over wine and snacks we discuss our current selection as well as potentials for the future. That brings me to a potential book I am reading today. It is called, The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin.

This book was written in 2009 so it has been around for awhile. I have carried this book to hockey practice, and a few strangers have told me how much they enjoyed it. Great conversation starter!

The author of this book spends a year using a variety of techniques to increase her happiness. As I am reading it, I keep thinking of my own life. One area I wanted to talk about was scrapbooking. She discusses her research into keeping a "treasure house of happy memories". She says that, "Studies show that recalling happy times helps boost happiness in the present." I have to agree with her on this one. I love watching my children look over the family scrapbooks. They smile and laugh.

I was so inspired to keep scrappin' when I read this!

Gretchin Rubin also researched common interests amongst friends. She discovered that, "each common interest between people boosts the chances of a lasting relationship and also brings about a 2 percent increase in life satisfaction."

In other words, you, my scrappy/bloggy friends DO make me feel happy!

Scrappy Resolutions 2014

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I am still enjoying time with my family before everyone goes back to work and school. It is so nice to hang out together. I'm not enjoying the weather though. We are in the middle of a deep freeze. Yesterday, I think it went down to -50 celcius with the wind chill. Airlines diverted their flights because of the cold.

I'm hoping that if I write down a few scrappy resolutions for all the world to see/judge, I will be more inclined to complete them.

This year, I hope to catch up with my layouts. I have gotten a bit behind. I will document 2012 and 2013.

This year, I would like to journal on each and every layout.

This year, I will have more fun with all my scrappy toys and my fabulous and inspirational cropping and scrapping friends! (In person and afar)

Who's in???

Christmas tags - day 12

Woohoo! I am done making my holiday cards. I made 50 for friends and family and 30 for the hubs'co-workers. Today, I am going to show some gift tags that my daughter and I have created.

These tags were featured in the Cricut Craft Room last week. They were free but can now be purchased for $7.49. The cartridge is called Cricut Craft Room Exclusives Holiday Gift Tags.

For these tags we were playing with washi tape purchased from the Dollar Store. (Dollarama)

Thank you for visiting me during my 12 days of Christmas cards! I appreciate it.

Christmas card to mass produce - day 11

Yikes, I guess I fell off the blogging Earth last week. It was just one of "those" weeks but I'm happy to say this week is already much better.

The hubs asked me to make 30 cards for him to give to co-workers. I wanted to make a card that could apply to anyone one celebrating this holiday season. (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa etc.) It also had to be easy to create multiples of. Fussy Cricut cuts were definitely out of the question.

I love how all 30 turned out!

Curling Christmas card - day 10

This week, our city is hosting a major curling competition called Roar of the Rings. The winners from the week will represent Canada in the winter olympics. Everyone around me is super excited about the curling! That is what inspired this card.

If you are unfamiliar with curling, "hurry hard" is what they yell at the sweepers who sweep the path in front of the sliding rock.

Thanks for stopping in! See you Monday for day 10 of Christmas cards.

Penguins card - day 9

Welcome to day nine of Christmas cards!

This was the free cut file on Tuesday. If you are looking for it in the Cricut Craft Room, it's called Holiday Cards 33.