My Memories Suite Giveaway

Hi all and Happy Halloween!  I cannot believe it is Halloween already.  I truly feel like we just started this year and now here we are almost in November!  Anyway, I wanted to share an adorable layout I created the other day using the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking software.  I am a huge fan of doing scrapbooking digitally and actually forgot how much I enjoy it until I opened up the software the other day to play around.  It is so easy to use and literally after opening it up I finished this layout in less than 30 minutes and it was the first time for me using the software!

Here is a larger photo of the 1st page.  I used a pre-made template for this one, changed the background paper, added a title, and the circle around the "Grateful for You".  I also added shadows behind the photos to make them pop a little more.  The leaves and the photo layout were already there.

This is the second page of the layout.  I did a "mirror" on my other layout and changed the photo boxes so I could fit more photos on the page.  I also removed two of the leaves and added a button to the remaining leaf.  I then added the 3 brads in the corner and shadows again to my photos.

I just love how these came out!  If you would like to find a fun, easy, software to use to start scrapbooking digitally I highly suggest you check out http://www.mymemories.com.  The digital software is so full of digital content like background papers, buttons, brads, shapes, word sayings, etc. etc. The best part is that you do not have to fill up a whole scrapbooking room with this stuff, it's all on your computer!

Lastly, the wonderful folks over at My Memories have given me one copy of the software to give away to my lucky readers!  There are a few ways you can enter to win this AWESOME software!

• Become a follower of My Memories on their facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyMemories/140359372717593, tell them I sent you (Jessica-Creative Stamper) and leave a comment below that you did this (with a way for me to contact you)
• Become a follower on their twitter page, http://twitter.com/#!/mymemoriessuite, and leave another comment below 
• Become a follower on their blog, http://blog.mymemories.com/, and leave another comment below 
• Lastly, become a follower on this blog, and leave a comment below (if you are already a follower, just leave a comment) 

Four chances to win in all!!! I will draw a winner, a week from today, Wednesday, Nov. 7th, please have your entries in by Wednesday morning 8:00am cst.  Good Luck!!

You are going to love this software, here is a link to their page so you can check it out.  http://www.mymemories.com

New Scrapbooking Room

For some time now, my husband and I have been discussing what to do with my son now that he has officially grown out of his crib and into a big bed.  His room was just a little too small to fit a full size bed in and for a while he was sleeping in the bed in the guest room.  Since he was sleeping in one room and his stuff was in another, he was getting a little frustrated.  One night he looked at me and said in the cutest way "me wish my stuff was in this room too" (this is from a 3 yr old).  So I took it upon myself to move everything out of the guest room and transformed it into his "new" room.  While I was doing that I got an idea...How about we move all of my scrapbooking stuff into his old room:-).  Well, my loving husband actually went for it and now I have a full room for all my stuff.  Boy do you not realize how much "stuff" you have until you move!  All of my things took up our loft for a while and of course, after 10 years of scrapbooking I have collected a lot!  I also got a new mac while doing this and while I love, love, love my Mac, it's hard to get used to a new operating system and just an overall "new" way of doing things.  I haven't been posting much as I've been re-doing the rooms (painted my new room and his) and I've been reading up on how to do everything and anything on a new mac.

This was my old space.  It's our loft and I always hated how it looked messy even when it was clean.

This is my 3 year old.  Goofing around while I was painting my room.

I wanted to share something awesome I did in my room.  I first painted my room "Tropicana Cabana" from Benjamin Moore.  It's a tiffany blue that I LOVE!  I then put up some decals that I found at Target from DCWV.  I cannot tell you much I love having my own space and a door to shut everything out!

 These are the decals on the wall, they even came with rhinestones.  Love it!!

 Thanks so much for stopping by today.

CWC Challenge #107, I Feel the Love Project

Today's post is a card I made for the latest I Feel the Love Project over at Madison's blog, Funky Cards. For October, she will be collecting Thanksgiving cards to send to the elderly men and women who reside at the Surrey Place Care Center in Florida.  You can read more about the project and how you can help out by making a card, here.

Here is my card, I used my Imagine and the Enjoy the Seasons cartridge.  This is my go-to cartridge lately.  It has so many great images on it!  I also used The Spring Chic cartridge for the orange chevron paper.  This card was created using the latest Mojo Monday sketch.

Thanks for stopping by today!!  I hope you are able to participate in this challenge this week, you can link up your card here at the Cooking with Cricut blog.

Cooking With Cricut, Challenge #105 Apples or Honey

Hi everyone! I am very excited for this challenge!  I can't wait for you to see what the design team has "cooked" up with their apples and honey over at CWC:-).  For my project today I had a little help from my kids. I knew I wanted to make a sign for them for the first day school back in August and thought they might like to help with that so I picked up this plain wooden board from Hobby Lobby along with some chalkboard paint so that we can use it over and over.  My daughter was all about it!  She loves to paint and loves helping.

Here is the finished product.

I love how it came out.  I added the apple from the Imagine Enjoy the Seasons cartridge.  Apples to me always symbolize school and I thought it would be the perfect addition to this sign.

 Here is my daughter painting the sign.  I love how she sticks her tongue out when she is really concentrating!

 Here is my daughter on the first day of school.  She was so proud of the sign!

 Here is my son.  I was just happy he posed for pictures!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to submit your entries for this fun challenge over at Cooking with Cricut.

Cooking with Cricut, I Feel the Love Project

It's time for another I Feel the Love Project with Cooking with Cricut.   For this months challenge, Madison has tasked us with making cards for a wonderful organization called Casa Pacifica.  You can read more about the challenge and the organization at Madison's blog.  We are making cards for all the kids for their annual Halloween party.  The task is to make something fun, but not scary.  Whenever I think of Halloween, I mostly think of crisp, fall days and pumpkins!  Fall is my favorite season, hands down.  Living here in the midwest all my life, it is truly a joy to watch fall come and the beautiful colors all around.

So here is my card for the challenge.  I used the Imagine Enjoy the Seasons cartridge for the leaves and the pumpkin.  The swirl is from a die I have and all the paper is DCWV Halloween and Fall stack.  The Happy Halloween stamp is from Stampin UP, Teeny Tiny Wishes.  I also used this weeks Mojo Monday sketch to create this card.  Madison has a goal of creating 70 cards and she already has a bunch linked on her website.  I made two of these cards to send, hopefully you will join us and send some as well!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to hop over to the Cooking with Cricut blog to enter in your card.