First, I have to give a big shout-out / thank you to Crate Paper. I was extremely fortunate to be a winner of their brand new Christmas collection, Peppermint. It's such a fun and versatile collection and now that I'm not in school, I'm really excited to try doing another December Daily / Journal Your Christmas. This will definitely be making a showing in that project! I got home from work the other night to find this box of goodies on my doorstep:
They were really generous and I'm really excited to get in and use it. The embellishments are all super fun and I love the patterns of the paper, stickers and chipboard. So, thanks again Crate Paper!
And, I finally managed to finish a layout I've been working on here and there for the past few weeks. It feels a bit off to me, but I'm just happy I actually did something! This is my first layout of William.
Mostly I just wanted to get myself back scrapbooking again, so I tried to keep from spending too much time worrying about what supplies I was using and all that. I pulled from my scrap bin, jars of stuff just sitting there, a package of chipboard letters that was handy and a few sheets of paper that I bought recently that were still sitting out. You'd think it would come together faster, huh? lol.
A few close-ups:
I've had that copper thingy forever. It's an old K&Co piece. I got some inspiration from Keisha Campbell on the tags - they're manilla tags that I stamped and then cut out. I added part of a Tim Holtz journaling tag and some Jenni Bowlin chipboard stars with Stickles.
Here, another old embellishment - this was a Foofala swirly thing... kind of like an iron-on. More stars, the other half of the journaling ticket and then a date stamp and ticket die from Papertrey.
It was fun to do something again - I need to do more. I've been super tired lately, though... not sure what the deal is. It's been a bit long for me to still claim I'm recovering from school, after all.
Speaking of school, last night we had the chance to go to a special EMBA fireside at the Marriott School where Elder Neil L. Andersen from the Quorum of the Twelve came to speak to us and Elder Steven J. Lund came with him. He was totally casual - just chatted and joked and instead of giving a prepared talk, he took questions from the audience and he and Elder Lund answered them. They talked about everything from finding balance in your life and how to determine if our program was a success to how to become more Christ-like. I got to sit in the front row (because I'm a nerd, remember) and when it was over and they shook hands with the others on the stand, Elder Andersen walked right up to me to shake hands. It was such a treat and a pleasure to hear and learn from him in such a small group - there were maybe 200 people there, and it's very rare to hear from an apostle in a group that small, so I feel quite blessed. It's a great additional perk of doing the EMBA program at BYU to do these types of things. Plus, I got to see quite a few of my friends from class - always fun.
Anyway, that's it for now! Hopefully I'll get some more scrapping done soon.
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