I always get really excited when I have a new release to share here. My new December Moments collection is something I’m going to use for loads of layouts and holiday projects. This was a super fun design project. My daughter Riley created the color palette and designed one of the cards and one of the papers. It’s so fun to see her developing her design skills! Her enthusiasm has rubbed off on me and I feel like I’m having more fun that I ever have with designing. I hope you can feel that joy when you use these items for your own projects!

I love documenting holidays and special events on scrapbook layouts. It’s a fun way to be creative and also a meaningful keepsake to share with my family. As we start off this Halloween week, I thought this would be the perfect time to share some layouts to get us all in a festive mood.

How will you be celebrating Halloween this year? It’s an unusual time with the Covid-19 pandemic in full swing, especially here in the United States. Unfortunately, Utah is doing a terrible job of getting the virus under control and our numbers keep rising. We have a lot of kids here in Utah and I understand why they will still want to go trick-or-treating. There are precautions people can take to make this holiday safe and the CDC put out this list of Halloween activities with their associated risk + some ideas. It’s actually a great guide for several holidays so be sure to bookmark or pin it!

This is a crazy time of year so I think it’s only fitting to share some funnies to lighten the mood. Hope you enjoy these!

It’s been at least a month since I’ve created any sort of scrapbook page and I felt a bit rusty when I first opened up Photoshop Elements. It only took a few minutes to get back in the groove though and I just added and subtracted layers until I ended up with this fun spread.

I've published gift guides in the past and those posts are always among my most popular. I've felt discouraged though when later on some of the products get discontinued or are hard to find from the original links I've included. That's why I'm really excited about my new approach to sharing my favorites using Amazon Idea Lists. All the links are included and you can see the price immediately and also see what I suggest to go along with the general theme. I already have 8 great lists in place and I'm working on a few more.

Today is a holiday in the state of Utah. The 24th of July is known as Pioneer Day around here because that is the date that the Mormon Pioneers entered the Salt Lake valley (in 1847) and decided to call this home. The 24th is often just as big of a deal as the 4th of July around here. There is a big parade downtown + a marathon and many people gather for barbecues, picnics, and fireworks.

I used to really overthink the whole keeping holiday cards thing until a few years ago. I finally got smart and just decided to hole punch the entire stack of cards we received during the year and put them together with some binder rings and finish them off with a little bit of ribbon. I love this simple approach because I can set them out during the holiday season for us to enjoy. The only ones that don’t get saved are really glittery cards because, well…glitter!

I have to admit that I don’t work on a lot of physical crafts these days. I’m usually more into memory keeping projects and the majority of those are digital for me. But when I saw this idea on Pinterest I had a lightbulb moment and thought it would be super fun to put these together with my daughter, mother, and 2 sister-in-laws during our Thanksgiving visit. I just love how they turned out!