Laura Vegas

Scrapbooking And A Little Bit Of Everyday Life

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  • making memories toil & trouble collection

    one of the other making memories collections i got a chance to create with, was the new toil & trouble halloween collection. i'm really liking what making memories has come up with for this  year's take on halloween. love the lighter shades of purple, orange, and green. and such a wide variety of great embellishments. they're having a lot of fun giveaways and sharing again today over on the making memories blog, so be sure to check in over there throughout the day. and i'll leave you with a few of the projects i created with this collection 🙂

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  • making memories noel collection

    summer CHA started today, and i'm going to be stalking all the blogs and sites over the next few days, looking for all the great new products coming out. one of those sites that always has a ton of CHA excitement is the making memories blog. they keep the new products under wraps until the show actually starts. even though i design for them, most of it is all new to me too. so i'm seeing most of it for the first time, just like you.

    one of their new collections that i did get a chance to work with, was the new noel christmas collection. you can see images of all the products in this collection HERE and HERE. here are a few of my projects that i saw in a photo of the booth, so i think they're safe to show you. will share more as soon as i can 🙂

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  • sarah’s favor to me

    i had to ask a huge favor of sarah this weekend. i'm getting ready to do some senior pictures for my neice, and i wanted to check out one of my favorite spots to take pictures. i was really just wanting to make sure the time of day i was planning on, would really work with the lighting and all. at first she wasn't thrilled. she was waiting for her friend to come over, to go swimming at my parents house. but she went and got dressed and ready for me. and once we were there, she got into it. and even though i was mainly wanting to test out the area, i ended up with 130 shots! here are a few of my favorites. i have to add my disclaimer. some of the colors on a few of these are looking a little wonky on this here blog. but they look great on my computer, and printed out perfectly. if you click on them, they look better. but i don't expect you to click on each one. lol! so i won't stress over it 😉

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    this one is my favorite of the night. i want to enlarge it. too bad all my hugely large frames go vertical on my walls. lol! a friend of mine asked if i tell my girls how to pose for me, or if they just know what to do after all these years of me putting them through these photo shoots. and it's mostly them. my idea of direction is saying "don't just stand there, do something". yeah, i'm not so great with posing ideas. lol! but luckily, they're pretty good at knowing what to do for me. and they know when to smile, and when not to smile. because i like a little of both. and when alyssa got back from her dad's and saw these, she actually said that she wants me to take new ones of her too. love that they occasionally enjoy doing these favors for me 🙂

  • bugs – a layout

    wanted to share another layout that i did over the weekend. another one of miss haley. she appeared on quite a few of my layouts this weekend. i was working on another project (more on that another day), and realized that i hadn't scrapped much of her lately. so i was making up for it with this last batch of layouts 🙂

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    a few weeks ago, i saw this pack of felt bug embellishments from sassafrass while out shopping. it caught my eye, and i thought it was the cutest thing. but what would i do with it, was the question. then i thought of haley, and her love of bugs. so i bought the package and put it to the side of my desk to eventually use on a layout. this weekend, i finally got around to working on this. i remembered this photos of haley from over a year, and she happened to be picking a snail off the fence. seemed to fit the theme.  i went with black and white photos, since she was wearing red in the pics.

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    seriously. how cute are they! i stuck a few in the jar, and scattered a few around the rest of the page.

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    the part about "she has been known to put bugs in her backpack, and bring them to my house in the morning". that is a true story. she once came with a live moth in her backpack. i avoided that backpack all day. wouldn't let her near it, or to open it. she's also brought little bug keepers, with random bugs and insects inside. and i make her keep it outside on the porch, and then take it home when her mom comes to get her. and everyday, when she goes home, she will pick up any bug she sees in my front yard. or she'll start digging around in the dirt of them. it really grosses me out. lol!

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  • refreshing H2O – a layout

    this weekend, i had a creative marathon. and i loved every minute of it. it's been a long time since i have scrapped just for fun. meaning, no deadline, no assignment, no specific requirements. just scrapping for fun, with whatever i wanted to use. actually, i checked my blog and the last time i had a "just because" layout, was back in the beginning of may. it was time. and for once, i had a free weekend with nothing big going on. so i devoted saturday and sunday to creating. i came out of it with 9 layout (5 of which are totally done, and 4 are almost done), 1 card, and 5 projects (4 of which WERE assignments). here's one of those layouts.

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    i had the new boardwalk collection from little yellow bicycle sitting out, waiting for me to find the time to create with it. i was digging around for photos, and came across these ones of haley from last summer that were perfect. this collection is definately geared toward the beach and the sand a bit more than regular water play. but there are so many great pieces to choose from, that you can still make a fun water page with it. 

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    these canvas border stickers are so cool. the large red circle border is the one that started this whole page. i liked that it pulled out haley's red shirt. but i had to use the wave border too. even though there were no waves on the slip-n-slide. it still meant water to me. lol! and how fun is that puffy "photo op" accent sticker. so cute.

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    i love this sun decorative edged paper. at first, i was going to use yellow cardstock on the top of the layout. but then i saw the sun paper, and it was perfect. i added some fun embossed cardstock sticker clouds at the last minute. i used my making memories slice and the summer design card to cut the word "refreshing" from one of the red pattern papers, and then added some clear stickers to spell "H2O" for the rest of the title.

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    here's a close up shot of the journaling. sort of close up. i should have zoomed in a little more, now that i see this. click on it to read it larger. the journaling strips weren't standing out enough against the pattern paper. so i inked the edges with a red ink pad.

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    LYB boardwalk – double sided paper, twister
    LYB boardwalk – decorative edged paper
    LYB boardwalk – canvas stickers, borders
    LYB boardwalk – embossed cardstock stickers
    LYB boardwalk – clear stickers with foil accents, words
    MM slice – summer design card

  • gift tags – making memories blog

    want to see how i took one basic tag, added in one cute shape, and topped it with one sentiment, and came out with 5 very different gift tags? you can check it out over on the making memories blog :)

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  • my island today

    havn't shared a photo of my island lately. it goes through stages, depending how much is going on in my life. sometimes, it's clean and empty. meaning my life is totally under control. rofl! that was funny. what? my life, under control? yeah, right. lol! 99% of the time, it's covered in a wide variety of stuff.

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    what's going on today? well, i have some CHA stuff going on, that i'm getting ready to mail off. i have another layout that i'm mailing in to the magazine. i have a few projects that i just got back from the magazine. i have a basket of product sitting out, from putting the finishing touches on a project. some random supplies and tools. i have my new camera, that i havn't had time to play with too much yet. i have my cute iron bowl of yarn balls, that i move from the family room when the daycare kids are here. i have extra clothes, in case the baby spits on me. i have my extra hair products, since i usually end up getting ready downstairs (since joe works nights and i can't get to my bedroom all day). so yeah. that's my island. i'm not going to show you the kitchen island right now. it's smaller, and yet it has even more stuff on it. lol!

  • CK summer camp 2010

    it's that time of summer, when all we hear is "i'm bored" and "i have nothing to do". usually, it's coming from our kids. but i know i'm sort of feeling it lately too. lol! so it's the perfect time for CK summer camp 2010, a weeklong event over on the Club CK site.

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    you can check out the summer camp agenda and find out what all is planned for the week.

    you can earn merit badges. and for every merit badge, there are chances to win prizes. i think the first merit badge is genious, the orienteering merit badge. on your way to earning this badge, it will take you on a full tour of the CK club site. it's a great way to learn all the great stuff that the site has to offer.

    there's the camp meet and greet, called getting to know you games. a great chance to share a bit about yourself with the other campers, and also for you to get to know other campers by seeing their layouts. the idea is to create and upload a page about yourself. i have a layout about myself that i've been meaning to do, and will try and work on that one as soon as i have time. but here's a layout that will work for now. it's an older one, done probably about 6 years ago. but it's all still true 🙂

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    one of the first activities today is the flag ceremony. you can learn all about using flags and pennants on your layouts and projects, get a free download, and even earn your flag etiquette merit badge for participating in the challenge. banners are all the rage right now, and i'm hoping to try this out on a layout. but for now, here's a card i created a while back that fits the challenge.

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    hope to see you around camp 😉

  • it’s someone’s birthday

    we just want to wish joe a very happy 41st birthday today!

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    he is the best husband and father that we could ask for, and we appreciate all that he does for our family. he's only a few hours into his special day today. and already he has dropped alyssa off to the church for her planning meeting, picked up breakfast for sarah and me (he ate his there), went and got me starbucks, went back to pick up alyssa from the church, and went back to the store (which he was just in 20 minutes ago getting me starbucks) to get me chips for the appetizer i'm making today. that's the kind of guy he is. he'll put us and our needs ahead of his, and never complains about doing those things for us. we love him for it. happy birthday babe!!!

  • songs i’m addicted to right now

    i had some other stuff i was going to blog about, but have too much going on right now to type it up. my sister is coming out today from colorado, to visit for the weekend. my brother and his wife are hosting a family crab & shrimp boil tomorrow. tomorrow is also joe's birthday.  i have lots of scrapping projects to get done this weekend. joe's umpiring 2 games on sunday. and alyssa and my mom are both working at the church on saturday and sunday to get everything set up for bible day camp next week (alyssa helps out, and sarah will be in drama camp).

    but i still wanted to post something. the other night, i was looking for a video for one of my new favorite songs. that led me to looking for video's for other songs. and next thing you know, 2 hours had passed. lol! anyways, thought i'd pop the video's on here for my top 5 listened-to-songs right now. these are the ones that i keep going to on my ipod.