Sunday, January 30, 2011

NEW 52 - Week 4

Okay so we just finished week 4 of NEW52.  This week, we kept it simple and went to a NEW park.  Well, actually the park itself is not new.  It is not new to my husband as he remembers playing baseball there when he was younger.  However, it was NEW to me and that is what matters.  It is a quiet little park with a nice playground for Bostyn to play in.  However, the whole time I was there I kept asking myself if I am letting Bostyn play in a gigantic kitty litter.  Immediately she wanted to take off her shoes to run and play in the sand.  She had fun and we made sure to wash her up as soon as we got home.  I love the bottom photo because it is very rare for me to capture such a smile on film.



This week, I spent a lot of time scrapping as I was very inspired by Fei-fei's Stuff spotlight at the O.  So to start things off, here are a few double pagers using Shaui's stuff.




I also completed my Ostash challenge using this new kit, Dialogue, by Paislee Press and One Little Bird.  They will begin their month long spotlight tomorrow and I can't wait to see what this dynamic duo has in store for us.  I really loved using this kit to document all the funny things Bostyn is saying at 27 months.


Now onto Mscraps 1st birthday celebration.  It all started with an awesome blog train where I collected tons of new goodies to play with.  I had a free day at home yesterday and a bunch of challenges to participate in.  I have to say that the mscraps team is very unique with their challenges and I think that is what drove my creativity in overdrive yesterday.

To start, I love a great template because it usually allows me to break away from my regular style.  This one is no exception.  I was going to do a very monochromatic color scheme but I felt that it needed some sort of pop of color, so I added the red.  To my surprise, I found that I had received a Gallery Standout for this layout.  Thank you Katie for noticing, this just made my day!


A scraplift challenge using a photo of my cousin's daughter celebrating her 1st birthday.

Non-photo challenge, a very sad piece for me to write and scrap about.

Topsy-turvie template challenge, this was my favorite challenge this week as they gave you pieces of a template and you had to use only those pieces to create your layout.

I love a good white space challenge, especially when paired with Nini's wonderful word art.

I'll leave here as this was a very long post.  Have a good week!

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