After a long Hiatus...

Hello all! It has been almost a year since my last post. I have fallen out of the Blog-o-sphere as it where, because I have been caught up in quite a frenzy of excitment. I have, since then,  gotten married, gone on my honeymoon to Hawaii AND bought a house! Below you will find a few pictures detailing those events

As far as our house goes, we have yet to move into it. The move is set for the end of January, but I did create this fabulous layout from yet another one of Scrapbooker's Bliss' contest pages

For this contest we were given the plain brown cardstock, the green striped paper, the blue paper, the dollies, the die cut, the brads dotting the flowers on the bicylce and the orange and polka dotted ribbon. The back of the paper is all decorated his cute little houses, so thats what gave me the idea to feature a picture of our new house, only I couldn't decided how I wanted to do it so I kept flipping the paper over and comparing different combinations, only to land with them in the sequence that they are, brown, green and blue...I though "Hey! Ground, Grass and Sky!" Thus, I created this layout with my house nestled right in there. My one friend looked at it and didn't even notice that the photograph was a photo, she saw it all as one which I thought was intersting.

One thing you should know about me...I buy 99% of my scrapbooking stuff on sale! I just feel wrong buying something full priced. For example, in this layout, all of the letters you see I bought at the Scrapbooking Carnival for literally a dollar a sheet,  I used some Bo Bunny rubons that I bought on sale and have had sitting around forever, and the cloud rubons I got in the sale section at Scrapbooker's Paradise for 80 cents! I glossy accented them to make them pop a  little.

The only thing I splurged on for this layout was that darned picket fence which I just had to have. It was almost $5 just for that embellishment! That is not something I generally do, but for some reason it spoke to me...plus I had a coupon for other things I was buying that day anyways so it was sort of justified!

One last exciting tibbit for this post...I was recently asked to be published in Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine! That is a far cry from where I was last time I posted! I don't mean to toot my own horn but I feel like I have come pretty far in my 2 years of scrapbooking! I have studied different techniques and tried to hone my own...I am pretty proud of myself! Unfortunatley I am not allowed to have the layout appear online anywhere until after it is published in the Spring issue that is coming up, but be assured I will post it as soon as possible. I used Graphic 45 Magic of Oz collection which was really out of my comfort zone! Be sure to look for it in the next issue!