Everyone Loves a Good Quote

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
Angela Schwindt


when you were born, you were cryin and everyone around you was smiling. live your life so that when you die, you are smiling and everyone around you is crying.


reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. dream deep, for every dream precedes it goal.

This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit. Homer Simpson

Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...

I'm hittin' the road. Maybe I'll drop you a line some day from wherever I wind up in this crazy old world~Homer Simpson

CK Challenges

Just a few challenges from the CK mag website.

• Weekend Challenge: A Different Kind of Travel Page
• I like 2007 Hall of Famer Courtney Kelly's idea of scrapping a travel page about a place you haven't been yet, but plan to set foot in one day. All about taking your daydreams and translating them to paper. Download travel photos off the internet (or scan from magazines) to give your page some visual punch.

• Weekend Challenge: Scrap a Personal Fear
• Let me just say that I think 2007 HOF'er Jennifer Perks is a brave girl for putting this out there. She calls them "boat feet", her size twelve "ghastly white" footies. All I'm seeing are REALLY cute shoes!

  What trait or thing about yourself do you see as a flaw? The journaling opportunties are loaded with humor, so feel free to poke a little fun of yourself. Finding humor in the situation is really the absolute best strategy for dealing with it. Scrap and post your layout in our gallery this weekend. And you just never know, maybe like Jen's shoes and myself, a fellow CKMB might find something she covets in what you think is a hopeless situation-now wouldn't that be nice?

• Weekend Challenge: Scrap an Inanimate Object
• The pages of my scrapbooks are populated with the images of people I love. And rightly so! But our lives are full of objects that hold sentimental significance to us. Mere things can invoke feelings and remind us of loved ones or events. This weekend, break out your camera and snap a few frames of the personal artifacts your life. Teamed up with insightful journaling, these types of pages might just become some of your most cherished.

  Scrap on and enjoy.

• Weekend Challenge: Printing Text on Photos
• CK Contributing Editor and digital guru Jessica Spragueis here this weekend to help you learn a very useful skill in Photoshop Elements. Are you a traditional scrapper? No problem! The techique of printing text on photos is still something you can use in your scrapping. Jessica's layout is a perfect example of this hybrid style of scrapping. Just another way of placing your title or journaling on your layout.

• Weekend Challenge: Scrap a Christmas Tradition
• How many Christmas scrapbook pages have I done since last Christmas? Hmmmm...zero! And it's already December. Shameful, I tell you.

  Are you like me in that the season has just snuck up on you? 2006 Hall of Famer Heather Preckle claims this is just the second holiday layout she has ever done. Way to go Heather! If we got the challenger to be challenged this weekend, you can do it too. Break out the Christmas photos and scrap one of your favorite traditions. Get yourself all warmed up for present wrapping, gift giving and merry making by indulging in a little personal scraptime this weekend. And of course, don't forget to share with us in the gallery.

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Inspiration

Just a little bit of inspiration for future pages.

Creating Motion

Becky Higgins' Sketches