Valentine's Day | American Crafts Blog Hop

Happy Valentine's Day! So glad you joined me and the American Crafts Design Team Valeninte's Day blog hop! I decided to make two layouts for this year's hop. I love the Valentine's month of February. I really love all the PINK & hearts. Seriously my favorite holiday to scrapbook.

Celebrate Love by Erin Stewart

This layout is simple but bold. Supplies are a good mix of new AC products and older. Supplies: Paper: XOXO, Wood Veener Background: Daydreamer, Thickers: Twinkle, Embellishments: DIY Shop.

Sweet Valentine by Erin Stewart

Supplies: Papers: Flea Market, Polka Dot Party, Lucky Charm, XOXO, Thickers: Polka Dot Party, Embellishments: Polka Dot Party, DIY Shop, Cut & Paste

Thanks for taking a look at my Valentine's pages! Happy Love Day!

Next is Angie Gutshall...

Paige Evans

Meghann Andrew

Katie Ehmann

Patricia Roebuck

Lilith Eeckels

Becki Adams

Ashley Horton

Heather Leopard

Elizabeth Gardner

Gina Lideros

Diana Waite

Janna Werner

Jill Cornell

**Erin Stewart**

Angie Gutshall

Madeline Fox

Allison Waken

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December Album

December is here and I have been documenting it in a mini album.

I am using the Polka Dot Party canvas album. I really like the look of this canvas album. It is the perfect size to fit the 6x8 page protectors. The album comes with page protectors, canvas pages, chipboard pages, and printed transparencies. 

For the cover I added a snow flack ordainment that I bought in the Christmas section at Walmart a few years ago. I used them for embellishing wrapped presents, but they make perfect scrapbook embellishment. I just used my hot glue guns to adhere the snowflake, AC thickers, and the Elle's Studio tag.

The title page is one of the transparencies that is included in the album. I added a few embellishments from American Crafts Peppermint Express.

I added our Christmas card from Tiny Prints. Tiny Prints emailed me an email.  I planned on adding our Christmas card the album along with any we recive from friends and family this year.

I plan to add all the Christmas cards we receive in the mini album. It keeps them out of a drawer and documents the cards we received from friends and family. I ordered a few extra samples to add to the album. I love these designs and there are so many to choose from.

To add cards, just hole punch and insert. I cannot wait to fill this album with cards from our friends and family.

This is just the start to my December album...

Sharing Time

I have some new projects to share today with Crate Paper's products. I have been looking forward to fall so much that I wanted to make a page with last year's annual hayride photos that my parents have done for many years. Naturally I used the Farmhouse collection which is perfect for Fall or even Halloween.

Check my this page at the CP Blog.

I also made a mini album using the Peppermint collection. You can see more information on the album HERE.

this day 10 years ago

I was sitting in a classroom taking a English exam. Second period of the day in High School, ninth grade to be exact. It was like to any normal ordinary day except it wasn't. It was the day that change a whole lot. We could hear the shouts and screams from the neighboring classroom. Thinking may they are playing a game or some activity over there. After the teacher noticed the alarmed look in our faces, she told us why so much noise was made. I don't really think we comprehend what she said, but soon we saw the news and knew the gravity in which what was taking place. The rest of that day in the ninth grade will live in my memory forever.

Really that day was different, but really it change more than a day. It changed a part and pieces of my life. My husband was in high school also at this time. He volunteered to join the military 7 years later. Now he is about to go to war and fight for his country. This is where my life is changed. I now see things through a different lens. When it's your husband fighting for a cause, because of 9/11 he and I will experience a part of the event. The ten years after part. It's not just about those who were lost and their families though their lost is great, but for those who stood up and said I will fight for those lost and freedom so that this will never happen again. Volunteered to put their life on the line and to know that they might not becoming home. 9/11 has affected those who have did serving in foreign countries and their family. This tragedy has effected more than a group, but a nation.