a little Mischief....

The Bohnart Family has been up to a bit of Mischief lately and I dived into the new paper pack by Close to My Heart to honor our Mischief.  :-)  What I love about this paper pack is its versatility!  It is a great fall paper pack- from your Spooky Halloween events to your family focused fall celebrations- this paper will work beautifully!

I have been scrapping a bit each day- trying to do a layout everyday or at least 3 a week.  So far I am keeping in my rythym.  I found I had a creative block for awhile and I think the biggest thing that was keeping me from Scrapping was I was OVER THINKING!  I started to question my own abilities and artwork- sad but true.  I finally let it all go and just started creating.  It is meaningful to me and having my children come home and look at the pages and remember these moments really helped me focus on my true WHY!

It seems lately that life has been whizzing bye.  Moving as much as we do often times helps me to stop and reflect on our journey and keep life in perspective as well as make me crazy setting up our home over and over again!  LOL!  I scrap to remember our journey and all the special moments and adventures!

So here is my take on the Paper Pack Mishief....

And here are a couple of other layouts I have done this week-

Life has been on a roll here with Patrick doing Fall Baseball and Ireland taking piano and horseback riding lessons.  It is so fun to watch them become more and more apart of their new community.  This is Patrick's first season of kid pitch and we are so proud of his growth with the big guys!

Then there is Ireland....fitting right in and making a name for herself!  I tell you the 1st week I volunteered at the school I was so blown away by all the staff that already knew my daughter!  Her new friends even helped her become a part of the safety patrols at school- which after the ceremony Josh and I found out is a big exclusive deal at this school!  CRAZY!  !  They had a cute slide show at the Safety Patrol Ceremony and it was fun to see Ireland up on the screen!  Pride beams from us and thanks for letting me brag a bit about my fantastic kiddos and how special they are

Serious Safety Patrol Cuteness!!!

Here is hoping that October is bringing you lots of fun and Mischief!

~Jennifer  :-)

C'est Magnifique!

I am having so much fun catching up on my scrapbooks minus the other day when I had to spend over an hour figuring out that I had scrapbooked pictures in the wrong year.  OOPS.  No major biggy other than a date wrong on a page and then sent me into a panic to look through the pages and make sure I had not made other mistakes!  So I am using this time to get caught up!  I feel like I have been working on 2006 and 2007 FOREVER!!!  This moving stuff really interfers sometimes!  :-)


   Let me tell you about my crazy, easy process of scrapbooking CTMH style- LOVE IT!  So this layout just started out with me looking at 7 photos and thinking hmmm how will I put this together.  FIRST step- the CTMH layout books(LOVE THEM ALL- you've got to pick one or all of them up, click here to check them out on my online shopping page)!  I took out the Magic book- looking through to see what layout with 7 pictures spoke to me.  VOILA!  It was the Shuffled Deck Layout on page 42.  Second Step- paper....hmmm...what to use???  The turqoise in the pool pictures really spoke to me and I wanted to capture that and the fun polka dot turqoise paper in the Magnifique collection really caught my eye!  So then I start pulling out paper and layering to see what combination looks the best to me.  Thrid- I cut the pieces out according to the directions and then glued the puzzle together and there is the layout!  


Of course if you know me I cannot leave paper ALONE!  I have got to distress it! 

 So out came the Pacifica ink and I distressed all the pieces- yep all of them!  Love that Distress to Paper Technique- simply swipe the edges of the paper in your ink pad!  There is no right or wrong!  Okay then I had to scissor distress some of the pics to give them interest.  Thought that would really help draw your eye to the 4 2x2 pictures layed in a row- love this techqnique too!  

 And if you notice I even had my Cricut Chirping today!  Boy is it ever fun to have your titles cut out!  I simply sanded each individual letter too! And I found Liquid Glass to be a great adhesive for these skinny letters.   I used the Jasmine Cartridge.  :-)

And I am so happy with my layout and of course I love remembering these fun days!!!!

 And I have been madly creating with this paper pack too...look at these FUN cards I made as well.....

I had fun with our Sparkles and Opaques that helped jazz these cards up and give them a little pop!

~Jennifer  :-)

cherries make me HAPPY!

So love the new Cherry-O paper pack- it just puts a smile on your face!  Tomorrow is Scrap N Play day and we are making these adorable layouts and cards- so super fun!  I changed up some of the directions a bit to maximize paper and also for personal preferrence- love the flexiblity!  I will be sharing with my ladies tomorrow at 10am and 7:30pm plus my Club to Go ladies will get all the scoop on the fun things we changed and modified!

Would you like to get some pages done and have an enjoyable "Girl Time"???  We would love for you to join us!

I hope these pages put a smile to your face and a spring in your step- they sure pick me right up!

and remember you can always click on a picture to see it larger too.  :-)

Okay I am off to do the fun afternoon piano, school and homework shuffle!  I am looking forward to next week when I get to go TDY and Daddy becomes SUPER DAD!  More on that soon!  If you are in the New Jersey area next weekend, I would love for you to come and say HI!  I will be working the Scrapbook Expo in Somerset, NJ.

Have a great day!
~Jennifer :-)

Miracles?????

Do you believe in Miracles?  I sure do and I love Close to My Heart's Miracle to celebrate National Scrapbook Month!!!!!

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You DON"T WANT TO MISS IT!



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~Jennifer :-)