Contest Winners & a Scraplift

Val — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:11:59 +0000

Wellllllllll, I only had five entries :P So, everyone wins! Just here in a bit I’ll be sending out giftcards to all entries in the songbirdavenue contest.

Here are the entries! (In the order of submission.) Great stuff, everyone :)

And thanks to my two judges Linda & Letti! Sorry for making you choose winners only to just blow on by your choices like this, lol.

And now, my scraplift using the June 2008 Songbird Avenue kit:

I lifted this layout by the kit’s creator (we were supposed to choose from her gallery). I feel like such a dork that I’m the first entry, hah, but the post popped up in my reader just as I was about to do something with that photo anyway, so…. :)

What’s a scraplift? I’ve been asked this several times now, so thought I’d just clue y’all in. ;-) It’s basically when you take someone else’s layout and re-do it with your own photos, papers, elements, etc. You’re just way inspired by that layout. Sometimes, I think that it’s also when you re-do a *real* paper layout digitally. Yeah, other genres of art would consider this plagiarism… lol… but apparently digital scrapbookers don’t and those that I’ve run across even seem to love to have their stuff scraplfited! So there you have it. :)

But, anyway, I want to do a book for my sister and now brother-in-law with their wedding photos, so I guess there we have one. I will need to make changes to it for the book, though, such as removing the date (why would we want to repeat that on every page?) and probably centering the layout more. I also got this kit from Shabby Miss Jenn to use for the book since my sister’s wedding was beach themed.

Told ‘em

Val — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 03:00:00 +0000

Okay, the whole E family knows now.
Tonight we had our E Christmas at Uncle C’s.
I’d wrapped up two of the keychains and wrote on them “To: J, From: ?” and “To: T, From: ?” or something like that. Then I put them under the tree and told Uncle C that there was something really tiny (wherever it was) and that there was one for mom and one for dad, but they’re not supposed to know who it’s from, so just give it to them at the same time. He did.
So they got them and they opened them and they were just kinda, staring at them. And my mom’s like… “what???” And then she looks at me… and just keeps looking at me funny… all the while my dad is sitting across the room going, “what?” “What’s this?” “Who did this?” “what does this mean?” and hamming it up with Grandpa and V and everyone.
Finally, my mom’s like, “is this from you? …are you pregnant?” I’m all, duh, hehe. And everyone just like totally freaked out.
Then C shouted it from the rooftops for those who seem to be deaf. They all had suggestions for names, too. Grandpa D. just doesn’t want any “Buckwheats,” he says. They are all blown away that we’ve already chosen names, hehe. Elijah Henry for a boy or Caley Elaine for a girl. (Caley = kaal-ee, although not sure how I want to spell it.) V kept shouting that, whoo hoo she was getting a grandbaby named after her, but my mom was not, her middle name being Elaine.

But all in all it was pretty cool.

So then we told Steve’s family…
Now, I’m actually re-adding this entry on 3-16-04, so I can’t remember if we went over to Steve’s parent’s house that night after that gathering, or if it was a few nights later. *blush*
Anyway, we went over there and gave them their keychains too. They didn’t exactly get it – or if they did, they wouldn’t say. So Steve was like hey – duh! We asked Sarah if she understood… she was like, “yeah.” “Well what?” “Someone’s going to have a baby.” “Okay, who?” “I don’t know.” LOL.

All in all, everyone is really stinking excited.

And so far I’m lucky, no morning sickness. Just really really tired and sore in some -er- places.

Oh, but K and L were the first to find out (after Steve and J of course) – it kinda slipped out right before BSF this morning. They both about had heartattacks lol!

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Contest Winners & a Scraplift

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