ever made your favorite page...

...and then had to WAIT to share it? Aughhhhh!!

Some of you know that I am a design team member for Get Meaningful. Well, Get Meaningful is getting a face lift for 2010! The new challenges and details will be revealed this week and I can't wait to share!

So, we are going to pretend it is Wordless Monday (LOL), and I will be sneaking you a peek, because I am THAT excited! Excited to share the new challenges, excited to share what I know, and excited to share what I made.

I hope you all can find time to play along with us!

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I'll be back tomorrow! Tuesdays are going to be my day to blog at Scrapbook Circle's blog. If you aren't following over there, check it out now and see what the DT has been posting to inspire you. I finished my "what to do with your scraps" project and will be sharing that tomorrow.

get meaningful: prompt #28

The Get Meaningful Prompt #28 is FOOD. I don't know about you, but I love food. Love to bake. Love to cook. Love to try new things. Love it all!

And I love this new holiday line from Pink Paislee. How stinkin cute are these papers?! I ordered them from Scrapfreak a little bit ago and have been hoarding them.

For Get Meaningful this week I documented how Nate loves for me to make hot cocoa, but he doesn't always like to drink it. He'll always eat the marshmallows or the whipped topping, but he doesn't like the hot drink. Silly boy!!


So click over to Get Meaningful and play along with us! We'd love to see what foods you love, hate, avoid, crave, dream about... you get the point.

Thanks for stopping by and reading this!

Supplies: Pink Paislee Mistletoe & Co. (pp), K&Co. (chipboard), Jenni Bowlin (letter stickers), Colobok (letter stickers), Making Memories (letter stickers), string

reality vs. perception

The next Get Meaningful Prompt #27 is ready for you today! The idea is to think back on a situation where after-the-fact your perception versus the reality of what happened was completely different. I'm sure we've all had those moments when we are in the thick of things we can't see the forest for the trees.

I chose to make a page about having Nate. The idea to have a baby seemed all well and good until I had to raise him! As mothers, I'm sure we have all been there where we say, "Wow, this is a tough job!" My choices for him now are so much larger than the initial fleeting thought on whether or not we were ready to have him in our family.

(And don't you just love "lil Nate" in the picture? He was adorable from day one! In this picture he was only 3-4 months old, I believe. )

I used some more of my Lil Scrappin Mama kit for this. That Nov. kit is so darn versatile! I never get tired of using it. (Do you have one yet? Hurry up....) Thanks for stopping by!!

family time

It's Get Meaningful time again! Twice a month Bree and the DT bring you an idea for journaling those special moments. This one is: Family Time. What does it look like? What are you doing? Who is with you?

I chose to make a page for Nate's book that has some of his family time without Mom and Dad. My mother-in-law knows I'm a nut about pictures, and if there is a picture with my son in it, I want a copy! Because I will scrap it, even if I wasn't there! This page is about those moments.

Grandma and Papa love to take Nate fishing when they have him for a play date. The journaling is about how special that time is, what he does when he's with them on these trips, and how much it will mean to him when he's older that he was given this time with them.

Make a page that documents these little moments. Our kids are trusting us as their parents to write these moments down for them so they'll know. As scrappers, we can capture the moments in style! If you make a page, make sure you link it up over at Get Meaningful so we can leave you some love on your blog.

Only Heidi submitted to my last challenge to play along with Get Meaningful and I'd gift a small prize. She gets enough mail from me already (lol), so I am offering this up again...

Post your link HERE ON THIS POST and to GM, and I'll send some goodies to a random winner if you play along. Come on, peeps... it's about FAMILY!!! We've all got 'em! No excuses!!


Supplies: Pink Paislee (pp), Pink Paislee (chipboard shapes & flower), Pink Paislee (sticker letters and chipboard letters), Maya Mist (blue), Tattered Angels (glimmer mist), Making Memories (journal spot)

get meaningful: school days

Get Meaningful is back up today with the latest prompt: School Days. What was school like for you? For your kids? Take a minute to journal about your experience attending school or in watching your kids go.

I couldn't, for the life of me, find a decent, worthy-of-scrapping photo of me from when I was in school. So, I went with Nate's preschool experience.


From past layouts, some of you know that I love to take pictures of Nate before he leaves the house. These shots are from this past week, and he is looking particularly handsome... and being quite a ham!

I wrote in the journal spot a bit about taking his picture before school, but the hidden journaling goes deeper into his actual experiences at preschool. Let's just say that Nate isn't a stranger to the concept of time out. (smile!)


Supplies: (My Lil Scrappin' Mama October kit!) Dream Street (pp), Dream Street (chipboard), Jillibean Soup (pp), lace ribbon, staples, twine


Hope to see some new faces playing along at Get Meaningful for this prompt! I think it's a fun one!!

lesson 24: dear.... for get meaningful

Just a reminder to get your pages posted to THIS POST and THIS POST by EOD tomorrow (Tuesday) to be entered to win a RAK from me!

Here is the reminder on the prompt info:

Writing letters is one of the oldest forms of communication. This lesson is about using a letter as part of your project. It's a great way to put a new angle on your journaling and can encourage you to capture a story you might not have otherwise.

Your letter can be to someone real or imaginary. It can be serious or silly. The point is to record a memory!

dear mr. grouchy

I have been doing the antsy pants dance dying to share this page with you. It's for the next prompt at Get Meaningful: Dear...

You are to write a letter to someone you would never otherwise write a letter to. I chose to write to Mr. Grouchy, the monster Nate says lives under the pillow. He said he was tall like Daddy and had a big mouth. My darling husband, with all of his room-clearing, police training happily went into Nate's room and swept it for monsters. Nate followed, and Mr. Grouchy has surfaced less since then.


I am so happy with how this turned out! For one, I love how the Monstrosity line from Sassafras Lass was just so perfect for this moment. No other paper would have done this topic justice!

Supplies: Sassafras Lass Monstrosity (pp), Making Memories (felt letters), Making Memories (sticker letters)


You have a couple weeks (until Oct. 13) to work on playing along with us. And, because I'm really interested in seeing who you would write a letter to, I am offering up a prize.

If you complete this prompt, link your page to Get Meaningful and then come back here and tell me you played. From the players' comments I receive here, I will pull a random winner for a RAK. Let's see those letters!

10 things i wish...

Are you playing challenges with all you've got? Are you playing everywhere you possibly can, and be inspired by the fabulous paper artists that you meet everyday? Does the idea of more than one challenge a week overwhelm you, but you just want to work them all in?

OK, well that describes me! I want to play everywhere and soak it all up! I love learning from and playing with all of the wonderful women that are out there in this industry.

So here is the crazy "I CAN'T BELIEVE I COMBINED 3 PROMPTS PAGE!" I can combine a sketch with a color challenge and then throw in a prompt. That's easy for me. But three prompts... whoa!

This page was built for:
• Get Meaningful: I WISH...
• The Studio Scrapbook 101: Summertime topic with a die cut page and long title
• Memories Always - Forever: Top 10

With all of that, I got this "10 THINGS I WISH WE DID THIS SUMMER" page. TA-DA! (jazz hands...)



Do you like the felt and button flowers on this page? They are made by Eve at Evalicious on Etsy. She is the sponsor this week at Sketchy Thursdays. We are so lucky to have her sending a prize pack to one lucky winner next week. All you have to do is play along with this new sketch. A winner will be randomly drawn from the players next Thursday.

Head on over to Sketchy Thursdays! Today we're giving away stamps from Unity Stamp Co. as part of our mega launch celebration.



Supplies: Little Yellow Bicycle (pp), Cosmo Cricket (bike), Evalicious (embellies), My Mind's Eye (tree), Making Memories (small lettering), American Crafts (Thickers lettering and flair), Karen Foster (white lettering), Creative Chaos (journaling spot)

get meaningful - cherished

Here is my Something Cherished page for Lesson #22 at Get Meaningful. I'm so excited to be a part of Bree's newest Get Meaningful DT! I really enjoy the prompts, and I like that I have a chance to explore and create on topics that are meaningful to me.

Lesson #22 is up and ready for you to play along. Are you up for the challenge? Get Meaningful will help your journaling as well as help you to create a book all for you! (Can you tell I'm excited?!)



This page is about Love Stone. My husband got this for me more than eight years ago, around the time we first started dating. I carry it in my purse everyday. When I saw this prompt, I thought about what I would be terribly sad to lose. Something I couldn't replace because of the meaning tied to it and not the dollar value. Love Stone was an obvious choice.

Every once in awhile I'll look at it and think back to when Brad and I were younger. We were so silly, and the stone makes me smile and think of the day he got it for me. If you can read my handwriting, click on the first image to read the journaling.



I hope this got you thinking about what you cherish. Head on over to Get Meaningful and start scrapbooking for you!

Supplies: Prima (pp), Prima (flowers), Amy Butler (butterfly), Basic Grey (letters), misc. buttons

got evidence?

Happy Friday! In my forum hopping on Scrap Freak, I happened upon Bree's blog, Get Meaningful. She posts challenges that get you up and out of the norm. Her focus is on journaling and writing about topics that you don't usually think about, let alone scrap.

This past topic was EVIDENCE. The idea that you leave behind a trail that explains who you are and what you are about. Deep, huh?! I love the idea of it. I have read each of her past few prompts and was never able to get one done. Until this one. I felt compelled since the idea of our own evidence was intriguing.

This page is about my coffee. I really do love coffee, and I'm one of the few people that can drink a cup at 9 p.m. and still sleep like a rock. Coffee is soothing to me and just oh so tasty! But as some of my friends and loved ones know... don't you dare put sugar in my coffee! The best way to drink it... Dunkin Donuts iced coffee with caramel flavor and cream. YUM!! I'm probably sipping one right now as you read this!



Supplies: My Mind's Eye (pp), Prima (flowers), American Crafts (Thickers), Karen Foster (letter stickers), Creative Chaos (journaling spot), random vintage buttons from an antique shop (thanks, mom!!!) and twine