WeScrap NSD Blog Hop!

Welcome to the WeScrap's celebration of National Scrapbooking Day! In celebration of this wonderful event, we would like to share some of our FAVORITE THINGS with you today! So join us on our blog hop where you'll get inspired by some exciting challenges, cool prizes and you'll have LOTS of fun too.

As you hop along, each of our Inspiration Team members will have 1 word for you to collect. Collect all 6 words and hop on back to the Favorite Thing Crop Forum for your chance to WIN our GRAND PRIZE! See the Favorite Things Crop forum for details.

Another way to WIN is by leaving a comment on each challenge posting you see! Leave a comment for the challenge author and we'll give one lucky person a PRIZE just for leaving a comment!

Here's our Favorite Things Blog Hop rotation:

WeScrap Kits Blog (http://wescrapkits.blogspot.com/)
Sarah Nolan (http://www.theoccasionalcreation.blogspot.com/)
Victoria Lau (http://vjlau.blogspot.com//)
Bev Code (http://beeceecreativity.blogspot.com/)
Sue Sykes (http://www.kewl-beans.blogspot.com/)
Jennifer Benoit (you are here!)
Allison Cope (http://yourmemoriescanada.blogspot.com/)

My challenge for you is to use your favourite medium (paint, ink, gesso, etc).
Here's my example for you:

I used mist and paint on my layout. I couldn't choose between the two.

Now it's your turn!

To participate in our fun challenges, please create a NEW project following each of the challenges according to their creator and then post them in the WeScrap Gallery (http://www.wescrap.com/gallery/index.php) in your personal gallery and link them to the appropriate challenge thread listed in the Favorite Things Crop forum. You must be a member. If you're not, please register here. It's free and we're a fun bunch to chat with. We'd love to get to know you.

All challenge projects are due by Saturday May 14th at 11:59pm EST.

Your special word from me is: out

Good luck and Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

Wanna Win?

Join us, join us, join us!!! It's going to be so much fun for all levels of scrapping!
There's already a sign up thread going on for scraplift tag. If you want to join in the super fun game, get over to WeScrap right now and sign up!

News and Layouts

Hello! How have you been? I've been busy. And that's the way I like it. I have some news to share...I'm back on the WeScrap iTeam! Yay! I'm so happy to be back on the team. It was the first team I ever got on. I was around for a year before it was time to let someone else have a turn. Now I'm back again. So happy to be able to display this...

Yay!

I've gotten my scrap on lately. And it feels good.

His Trains: I bought up the Oliver line from BG when it first came out and just now dug into it for the first time. My mojo was majorly missing last year. Monkey loves his Thomas & Friends trains. We have three sets. If you have a Thomas fan at home, you'll know what I mean when I say we have the Trackmaster set and Take Along sets at home and the wooden set at my mother's house. This boy is all about his trains.

Sassy: Love me some Sass! Perfect for my little sister's new sassy haircut. My sister was known for her lovely, long locks. Now that she's done college and ready for real life (until she saves up enough money to go back to school for interior design) she decided she needed a new do. She went to the salon as a child, chopped her hair off as my mother cringed, and came out a young woman. 

And the layout I did up for my challenge at wescrap this month...

 Eyes always on Mama: More Sass! Love it! Muffin is a mommy suck to no ends. He can be passed on to anyone to hold, as long as he can still see me. I love seeing him peek over shoulders, peer around heads and crane his neck just to make sure I'm still there. He's my sweetie.

Before I go, I just want to share this month's kit from weScrap.

It's so pretty! I didn't get this kit, I'm on the rotation for next month's kit. But I have seen what the iTeam members who got this kit did. Beautiful work! You can check it the layouts at the wescrap gallery. And you can get your own kit here for only $19.99!

Until next time...

Something Scrappy!

I have been a bad. bad blogger. But what's new, right?

  

I had some time to myself a couple of weeks ago and worked on a banner. I liked it so much, I made a second one.

Monkey's (aka Chase) room has some mized media canvases in it that I did up using Monstrosity line. So keeping with the theme, I used the same line for these banners.It took three packs of Maya Roads banner albums to have enough for both banners. I sprayed the canvas pages with Studio Cailco's Mr Huey in Apple Jack (the bestest colour, if you ask me). I used my Slice to make the scalloped circles and the alphas.

As soon as I started Monkey's, I decided to make one for Muffin (aka Jasper) too. I love how they turned out. Adorable!

Stay tune for more scrappy goodness. I'm working on a couple of layouts right now...And I may have gotten some good news a couple of days ago which will get me blogging a little more.

Until next time...

Time is flying!

As I try to figure out how to balance my life, chores, errands, weight loss and crafting; two little boys are growing up a little too fast.

My little Monkey is four years old! Four! I can't believe it. I asked him when he got so big. He told me it was when Wee Man came home. Monkey stands a little short of four feet tall and he weights around 40 pounds. He's still wearing 5T, but we're starting to buy size 6 now. His feet are huge, and he still has clumsy paws for hands. He's going to be a tall guy some day, I think. He loves chicken nuggets, french fries and grill cheese sandwiches. He won't touch a vegetable unless it's cucumber or red pepper. To say that he is Thomas the Train obessed would be putting it mildly. He can count to 100 (and to 10 in French and Spanish), knows all his colours, can do some basic math and spelling. This little booger made me a mommy; and I couldn't be prouder to call him mine.

As for Wee Man...He's now six months old! I'm not sure how long he is currently (6 month check up today), but two weeks ago, he was 12 pounds extactly. He's sleeping a bit better at night, he's eating rice cereal, oatmeal and, as of yesterday, butternut squash. He can roll from back to front, and front to back. He's currently trying to sit up on his own. He's not there yet, but I think he's close. He can sit for short amounts of time if placed in a sitting postion. He's also figured out what his legs are for. He can walk around a little with support. He's still toothless, but we can see the white bumps of strained gums.

These boys are my world right now. At their tender age, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Happy Love Day

 Today, I am saying....

Tonight is my weight in at Weight Watchers. No, no chocolates. Yes, yes veggies. And bad me for drinking diet pop instead of water so far today.    Why diet pop instead of regular pop? It's not because I'm a Weight Watchers member. It's because of the amount of sugar in pop. I stopped drinking regular pop when I was a teen. Yes, I know the chemicals in diet pop are just as bad. I'm not allowing myself chocolate and I haven't had a chip since November. I have to give myself something!

V-Day is not a complete bust in our Weight Watchers household. A certain little 3-year-old (almost 4!) took Lightning McQueen cards and homemade crayon hearts to pre-school this morning.

These ones aren't mine. Unknown source. But mine are just as pretty. I was just too lazy too upload the picture off the camera yet.

I also have a little display of V-Day goodies for my little Valentine when he comes home from school. The tiniest Valentine just gets extra cuddles since he's only 5 months old.

Hope you have a great day!

Layouts!

I've neglected this blog again. I'll post my Project Life pictures tomorrow again. Not all of them. That would just be too much. Maybe just from this past week with a few favourites thrown in for good measure.

Here's what we've been up to lately:

 Lots of cute-ness from Muffin (aka Wee Man. His nickname had to change at some point. Although he's still very tiny, he's grown a lot)

Lots of playing with new toys. Someone is finally big enough for his exersaucer. A Christmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa.

 Lots of baby wearing. See that itty bitty? That itty bitty is 5 months old now. And wearing clothes his big brother wore when he was 3 months old. He's fastly outgrowing his pants in length. His 3-6 months pants just barely cover his long legs. Yet as soon as you hold him up, they fall right off. His waist is a 0-3 month wasit. His 0-3 month pants look like shorts on him though. Even one pieces look silly on him. There's so much fabric, he gets losts. I'm so not used to a small, long baby. Monkey, although skinny too, was much bigger. He was wearing 9 month clothing by 5 months. 12 month clothing by 7 months. I've come to accept I shall never have one of those chubby babies full of cute rolls. My boys are baby sweet in their own ways.

I managed to get some scrapping done. Yay!

 New You - Muffin when he was only a few days old.

Baby of Mine - Love how this one turned out. These pictures have been waiting to be scrapped for a month now.

2 Cute - My boys! How I love them!

Squeeze Hug - Monkey and Charlie. These two are quite the pair. I love this line by Basic Grey!

And now I hear the cries of a certain little Muffin Man.
Until next time...