I can’t wait to share my 2 new collections with you but I’m even more excited to tell you about a brand new designer! My daughter Riley Cooper is making her debut under the design name of The Creative Coop and she designed one of the cards in my new Cozy Fall collection! She is just getting started but she’s always been brimming with artistic and creative talent. She’s been helping me behind the scenes here for a few months and getting to be a real whiz with Procreate and her Apple Pencil. She’s on instagram as the_creative_coop and you will be seeing more from her here as well.

The end of October is just a few days away and I’m posting my roundup prompts a bit early since I have 2 new releases coming to my shop later today. Also, people tend to get busy with Halloween and forget about doing roundups so it helps to get an early start.

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!

I think we can all agree it’s a tense time right now! One of my main coping tools is humor and I think it’s the perfect day to share some funnies. Hope you enjoy them!

I started this blog back in October of 2005 so I’ve now reached my 15th blog-i-versary! I started on blogger and mostly posted about digital scrapbooking products I liked and shared some of my layouts. As I built a following, I shared more of our life and expanded my blogging focus. I moved to typepad and stayed there for many years. I moved to squarespace about 5 years ago and hope to stay on this platform as I really love how easy it is to use.

I’ve been voting by mail for years and have always felt a little left out that I didn’t get an “I Voted” sticker. I’ve seen a lot of posts online from people who have mentioned that they will miss this little token of celebration this year as they vote by mail. Even the included stickers aren’t all that exciting, and I can’t print them out for creative projects. So, I created this file of printable “I Voted” stickers to share with all of you. No strings attached. Just a free download. I simply hope these will inspire you to vote!

I finally got my September roundup done! For the record, I'm already worried about how I'm going to do October's roundup since so much has already happened this month. I think I'll start my template now and add a few details and then revisit it throughout the month.

I have a new video tutorial to share about using a layered template in Adobe Photoshop Elements. You can watch me create a layout and learn about some of my favorite tips as you follow along. Be sure to like this video on YouTube and subscribe to my channel. You can watch the video right here from my blog, or hop over to YouTube.

Oh - and don’t forget that this is the last day of my STOREWIDE sale!