It was finally my turn to issue a scrappy challenge over at Two Peas.  My challenge, which closes on Tuesday, is to document a day in your life.  It can be as extensive or brief as you like.  I used my pictures from last week Monday’s a week in the life to document an ordinary day in our life.  and I know, grammatically it should probably be a day in our lives, but really, it seems as though there is only one life and we all share it- but I digress.  I started with the morning coffee, followed through breakfast, lunches, drive time, my work, my lunch, pick ups, activities, dinner and ended with bedtime.  I love these coordinated bright papers by Tricia Chapman, and kept it pretty simple by using a grid pattern with frames by Jen Martakis.

you can see the close ups of the pages and complete credits here.

The next layout is from Last week’s releases by Vinnie Pearce.  Love love love these rich blues. love. and Jordan’s funny faces make me smile.

credits here.

also from last week, I whipped up a few quick and easy hybrid cards with the help of Deena Rutter’s digital die cut files and papers from Carina Gardner of DHD.

and last little scrappy bit to share, I whipped up this little layout using goodies from Miss Mint’s latest releases over at Peppermint Creative.

credits here. and yes. those are marshmallows in my coffee ;)

and I wanted to share this card that I got in the mail. I have a pal Tina, who is from Hawaii but lives in Washington.  We “met” after Noel took Flat Joscie for a visit to her LSS.  Tina came by my blog and we’ve been online pals ever since.  On her last trip home, we were able to hook up for a craft-mance, as her DH called it. hee hee! Tina, FabuLisa and I hit a few shops and enjoyed counter burgers together, it was a great estrogen-fest!  But anyway. She won a give away on my blog a while back and sent me this stunningly gorgeous card. I LOVE IT!  check it, isn’t she awesome?!

Tattered Angels is celebrating National Scrapbook Day all month long!  Check out the educator blog today where the ever fabulous Liz Hicks is sharing her project today:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Come back again soon, I’ll have more scrap to share!

Love Love and Blog You later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

Back when I first started on Miss Mint’s Hybrid team I had one layout featured on the gallerystandouts.com blog.  I was pretty excited about that but never really followed the blog. You know, so many blogs, so little maid service. ha ha. anyway.  I was rambling through some blogs last week and came across a link to gallery standouts and followed.  I added it to the many on my Google reader and a few days later, i saw my pal Amy‘s LO featured there. I was like, hey that’s a cool layout Amy… and as I scrolled down, I saw my own it takes a village layout featured as well. I was pleasantly surprised.  Then two days later I saw my welcome to the family layout featured.  ps. i’m now reading the gallery standouts daily. ha.

I want to share with you what I’ve made lately with my twopeas goodies…

I love these templates byVinnie, it helps speed along the process. I also love these travel epoxies and Wilna’s Somewhere papers and elements. :)

Journaling: after a rough first part of the flight, Jordan finally fell into sleep peacefully.

Give Me Simple Templates 04 , Distress Brush Set 01, Travel Chic Stickers by Vinnie Pearce

Somewhere out there, Somewhere out there – Alphas by Wilna Furstenberg

another awesome template by Vinnie, Super sweet aqua and red papers by Jen Martakis, elements by Michelle Underwood.

Journaling: while watching the Olympics Jordan pulled out his sleeping mat and declared that he is a sledder, just like sonic, in mario and sonic at the Olympic Games on the wii. Feb 2010 ps, is sledder the word for a person riding a sled?

Give Me Simple Templates 02, Distress Brush Set 01 by Vinnie Pearce

Love One Another ADD-ON Papers, Love One Another, Notebook Basics by Jen Martakis

Prep School—Overlays by Carina Gardner

Beautiful Ending Page kit, Vintage Holiday Memories Page kit by Michelle Underwood

I am SO in love with Michelle Underwood’s happy spring colors in this i heart spring kit. those trees, clouds and everything. just happy! I also LOVE Erica Hernandez’s templates. This one was a sized for 8.5×11 and I just expanded to 12×12. and Wilna’s letters, again. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of those.

Journaling: i love listening to my iTouch. I have hours and hours of music to make me smile, dance and groove through the day. it’s just a bit of happiness in my pocket!

Letter Template Value Pack III by Erica Hernandez

I Heart Spring Solids, I Heart Spring Page kit by Michelle Underwood

Somewhere out there – Alphas by Wilna Furstenberg

Thanks for stopping by! :)  Check back again next time when you might get to see some new minty goodies, some glimmery goodness, some cards for operation write home… and of course some pictures from our daily life.  I appreciate you!

Love Love and blog you later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy.

Under the Weather: this layout uses a template from Vinnie as well as her Forecast and Distress Brush Set 01

journaling: Jordan has not been feeling too well this weeks so he’s hanging out at the house, watching the backyardigans and chilling out with Honey bear.

My Little Friend:  digi kit and template by Jen Martakis March Whimsy Photo-a-Day Weekly Templates Set 2, Basic Kraft

Alphas by Wilna Furstenburg Somewhere out there – Alphas Somewhere out there

Date elements by Kate Teague Life in 365

Journaling: We bought some play-doh brand moon sand from the navy exchange the other day.  But when we opened it up, it seemed kind of gross and oily looking and it looked like it might make a mess.  So we opted for play-doh instead and used the mold on the lid of the sand container to make castle shapes.  Jordan took a little piece of left over play-doh and rolled it into a little ball and said, “this is my little friend.  He is going to watch me play.”

So, I have been wanting to document Jordan’s “friends” for a while… and yesterday my new lens came in, so I quickly snapped these pictures and scrapped them.

It takes a village: to get Jordan to sleep.  He co-slept with us as a baby, and for a little while he co-slept with Jalen, but now he goes to bed, in his own room, in his own bed, all by hims…okay, with all of his friends.

I love Erica’s 8.5×11 template converted to 12×12 for showing off so many beautiful patterned papers courtesy of Tricia Chapman. total swoon fest over all those papers!

Letter Template #29 by Erica Hernandez

Bubble Gum Fun One , Bubble Gum Fun Two , Bubble Gum Fun Solids by Tricia Chapman

My Sister. My Friend by Vinnie Pearce,  Crumpled and Stitched Templates by Vinnie Pearce, Study Hall – full kit
by Jen Allyson (recolored alphas)

Journaling: yesterday we welcomed this super sweet little camera to our family.  We all took pictures of each other and watched together as each one magically developed.

and last, I wanted to share this with Troy, but if you’re interested too, by all means.  Here is a shot of Jordan’s honey bear.  It’s one of the first shots I took with the new lens.  and straight out of the camera (besides putting it into the frame and resizing for the web) here it is. i love it.

and then I tweaked a little, and I love this too:

so so happy! and we had some instax fun:

thanks for stopping by, i have quite a few more projects to work on!

Love Love and Blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy