Good Tuesday morning everyone! Tuesday is the new day of my inspiration challenge and I’m very happy with my choice this week. I pulled this from a magazine a long time ago and was very inspired when I found it yesterday.

It worked perfectly with some photos from my daughter’s dance recital. Remember how I was complaining that my kids didn’t want me taking their photo any more? Now when they agree, they will only take goofy photos. Oh well, at least they are happy!

I did eventually get one photo of them not looking crazy – or rather, I was able to combine two photos to make one decent photo (ah the wonders of Photoshop!).

Can you tell it’s doctored?

I’ve decided to mix things up and switch my posting day to Tuesday, since so many other things seem to happen on Mondays. In the future look for a new inspiration challenge on Tuesday morning. I’ve got a fun one this week – I found it browsing through old saved files on my computer – love it when I go that! This inspiration piece is a table of contents from a magazine – I’m definitely going to be check out more magazines to see if I can find other interesting designs. It’s great for a list page for current faves etc.

Of course since it’s landscape rather than square it looks a little different, but I still like how mine turned out.

Some of the little things making me happy right now – taking joy in the small things. It’s all good. What’s making you happy these days?

I’m back! I missed last week – with Spring, crazy schedules and no mojo I missed the first Monday post in quite a while but I’m back today with a new challenge. This one is courtesy of one of my daughter’s books – I saw the cover and though it would make nice photo/paper block for a layout.

I decided to be a little adventurous and create my own background paper by covering the entire canvas with my journaling. It’s a little (ok a lot) wordy but I like the text background effect.

That was the weekend before last. This past weekend was just as crazy. Spring is nuts! At least we are having good weather for it! How about you?

Happy Monday everyone. It’s been a rough week in the Boston are – here’s hoping this week brings happier times that last week. I decided to go super-simple with my layout for this week. Here’s the inspiration piece:

It provides the perfect opportunity to use one large photo – I used one that I took this past week.

Since the kids don’t like me taking their photo any more, I have to resort to bribery and gimmicks. This photo was followed by a trip to a bakery Have a good week everyone!

Happy Monday! It’s Patriots Day here which means lots of re-enactments of the battles of Lexington and Concord (I’m right in-between them) but I’m spending it hopefully preventing any battles between groups of kids.   I found this week’s inspiration piece on the back of a cereal box. Yes, I can’t stop finding inspiration everywhere I look, even at the breakfast table.

You’ll have to admit that that looks like a scrapbook layout, no? Here’s my take, using photos from a few years ago:

It doesn’t feel quite finished – I need to embellish a little more but I’m calling it done for now.

Have you ever found inspiration in your kitchen? I think I’m going to go looking a little more to see what I can find!

Happy Monday everyone! Thanks to the fabulously talented Emily Pitts for sending me this next inspiration piece. She has a good eye

I love to get a bunch of photos on to my page – this is a nice, clean way of using 9 photos. Not much room for journaling however, but really, I didn’t have much to say. We went, we saw, we had fun!

Here’s my take:

Pretty clean and simple. I guess left to my own devices that what I’ll always be!

Some good news from here – it’s finally spring! Hopefully that will inspire me to pull out my camera. It’s been pretty neglected for the past while. Any suggested for getting out of a photo rut? My biggest problem is that my kids don’t want their picture taken and they are my favorite thing to photograph.

Happy Monday everyone. Can you believe we’re up to challenge #90? This Monday I think I should get bonus points because I used a photo from yesterday – if we were counting points that is, and we’re not. I didn’t have any inspiration pieces in my stash they were calling out to be used so I did a little web search and found this ad in the Designer Digitals challenge section.

Katie made a fun template to go along with it – you can download it here. If you’re not familiar with the Designer Digitals challenges you should really check them out – there’s 3 freebies every week and they’re always inspiring.

On to my interpretation – I liked the angled background and the elements overlapping the different sections so I decided to have frames overlapping the various panels. Photos are from yesterday and Easter 2007 – a lifetime ago for these girls!

I hope something here inspires you. Have a great week!