Emily Jones

layouts!

Hey all, it's been a few too many days since I blogged..sorry!

I have been having a lot of fun with the family lately...we went to the Children's Museum on Valentine's day, and also saw Avatar in 3D....on Sunday my mom came over and we played!  We made cards and I did a layout, it was great to see Mom...love our talks. <3

I'm still working hard on the Challenges, and I have a couple to share today!

Challenge #5 was to use a print design as inspiration, so here was my inspiration:

the words just spoke to me, and immediately made me think of a certain picture of me and Mr. Jones on a vacation we took last year.  Here's what I came up with:

I love how simple this one came out, I just really wanted the focal point to be this photo.  I seriously LOVE this photo.  (And would you guess it was taken in a dark hotel with a DISPOSABLE camera?! )  Just one of those happy accidents. :-)

The word COZY is stickled with copper stickles, in case you were wondering. :-)

Challenge #6, was all about using a specific time as the focal point of your layout.  I knew exactly what time I wanted to use immediately.  2:46 pm, the time my entire day revolves around.

I wanted again, for the photo to be the focal point, and if you look closely you can see in the rear view mirror, the line of cars behind me, and well as the line in front. 

I then punched the circles, and added them to the layout, and embellished them with the super cute Making Memories clocks and other random trinkets.

Challenge #7 is all about the number 7, using 7 in any way you want, a list of 7 things, or 7 random facts, etc...

I chose to showcase the craziest 7 years of my life, the first 7 years of my relationship with Jim.  We had a crazy whirlwind courtship, wedding, three babies, and buying and selling our first house in the span of those seven years! 

to create the hidden journaling, I punched scalloped circles with my Marvvy Giga punch in card stock and in patterned paper.  By layering the card stock and PP, and securing it with a brad at the top, I created little hidden journaling spots.

I embellished the scalloped circles with more of the Making Memories clocks, and other jewels and punched butterflies.  Each scalloped circle reveals journaling about the year it represents. 

And a just for fun layout...I did a super quick two-pager with the pics from Joey's V-day party last week, I love when some pages just come together fast!

Also, one more little piece of scrapbook related news...well okay, it's not little!

Please, if you get a chance, hop over to Bella Blvd, and join us for a Blog Crawl!  

Straight from the Bella Blog:

Consider yourself formally invited....and please be sure to pass the invite on to all your friends too!

It's going to be *awesome*! I'm so excited to be pairing up with some newly found friends and colleagues, Jill from Jillibean Soup and Nikki of Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker. It's going to be *HUGE*!!!! With nearly *50 handmade giveaways* from all our design team members, and *3 large product packs from each company!*

On Friday, March 5^th be sure to visit Bella Blvd, Jillibean Soup and Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker for all the information on where to go next and how to win!

Mark your calenders!!!! It's a date!!! We can't wait!!!!

I will personally be giving away two handmade cards made with Bella products on my blog...so be sure to come back so you can see them!

Happy Monday!!!

Valentines Party!

Yesterday was Joey's Valentine's Day party at school!  I decided to go in and help out in the classroom, so I made some yummy Gluten Free cupcakes, I packed up the little ones and the camera and we headed to his class.

Joey had a blast making his Valentines, we ended up choosing these cute little boxes and inside we put candy, and on the outside we used stickers to write his classmates names on them.

Here are some pics from the day:

These are the gluten free cupcakes I made....I just used the Betty Crocker GF mix in chocolate, and they are so good!  I frosted them with Pillsbury funfetti, our favorite!  And topped them with candy  hearts!

 

Here is mister Joey at his table...he is wearing his 100th day of school hat they made earlier that day, and that is Ms. Harper his teacher.

This is Joey's Valentine's box...stuffed with valentines, the kids were so cute passing out their cards and treats.

My little social butterfly....

Jake wanted to help Joey pass out his Valentines, Jake carried them and followed Joey around while he passed them out. 

Here's Jake enjoying a GF cupcake!

 

Joey reading his Valentines.

Miss Lily enjoying her cupcake....love her messy mush!

 

Joey let Lily sit by him and do some "home work" :-)

Lily loved the bingo counters at the desk.

All in all it was a fun day!  I ended up taking Joey home early after the party and we went and surprised Daddy at work. 

Jim's students graduated from his class at the college yesterday so they were having a party of their own!  We showed up just in time to steal Jim away and head out for an early dinner at Azteca.

Such a fun, fun day.  We don't have any big plans for the big V-day this year, but we'll probably put the kids to bed early and snuggle up with a movie and some wine.  What are your plans?  I'm thinking of renting "The Time Traveler's Wife"  that seems like it would be a good V-day movie. :-)

Be you.

I finally got a chance to watch Julie & Julia the other night, and I have to say, it was such a delightful movie!  I loved it start to finish, and it completely inspired me to learn to be a better cook and to finish things that I start. 

I have the same problem as Julie, I am very good about starting things, a new hobby, a book, etc...and I usually quit halfway through.

Something I've recently started to do (if you've been reading my blog you already know this) is to work challenge by challenge through Elizabeth Kartchner's 52 scrapbooking challenges.  I made the goal to get 52 pages done in 52 weeks, 1 challenge per week.  So far I've been doing pretty well, I have made it to challenge 4, which is what I'm sharing with you today!

Challenge 4 is all about using a song as your inspiration for your page.  One song that has been running through my head is a song from the TV show Wow Wow Wubbzy.  It's a definite favorite in our house, the songs are so catchy and always have a great message.  The ones we love the most are "Don't Lie" "Don't Give Up." and "We're All Together."  I chose "We're all Together" for my page because the song speaks about how important it is for us to embrace our own individuality, and how boring our world would be if we were all alike.  These are the lyrics to the song:

We're All Together

Lyrics: Bob Boyle / Music: b. Mossman

You are you and there's only one
You are you and that’s what’s fun
We're all different and that is good
Cuz we're all part of the neighborhood

Eric likes turtles and the color blue
He's really nice but he's not like you
Robin likes music and sitting in the pool
The things you like are what make you cool

We’re all together
But we’re not the same
We’re all together
But we are not the same
What fun would it be if you were like me?
There’d be nothin’ to do if I were like you

Kate is Kate and that is great
Pete is Pete and that is neat!
No one’s like Larry
And no one’s like Gus!
Everyone’s different on the planet of us

Like a lemon is different from a lime
And a nickel is different from a dime
Andy’s not Randy
Sandy’s not Mandy

We’re all different and that is dandy!

We’re all together
But we’re not the same
We’re all together
But we’re not the same
What fun would it be if you were like me?
There’d be nothin’ to do if I were like you

We are all together
But we are not the same….
We are all together
But we are not the same….
We are all together
But we are not the same….
We are all together

But we are not the same….

Here is the layout I created:

 

I love these pictures of Joey, these were taken on picture day in September, and I'm so glad I took them because Mr. Jojo did NOT smile in his school pictures.  He is also wearing a sweater made by my mom, his Nana, which he insisted on wearing for picture day because he thought it would be special for Nana to see him in his sweater for his school pictures.   Totally his idea, he is so sweet.

So, I am going to continue to plod along on my journey to finishing these challenges, and will share them here as I finish them!  And of course, I am doing these as well as DT assignments and other pages too, so in reality I'm doing a lot of scrapping lately!

I hope you'll join me in the challenges too!