A Scrap of Life

Native Spirit  by Magical Scraps Galore is a Native American inspired collection that captures the essence of the Southwest desert. With its warm color palette, this kit overflows with native elements such as tepees, an Indian chief headdress, a dream catcher, a tomahawk, arrows and bows, native pottery, Indian symbols, Pueblo buildings, cactus and feathers, to name just a few. This collection also includes several of Marina's custom-drawn desert animals such as a coyote, an armadillo, a buffalo, a raccoon, a snake, among others, and is your perfect choice for scrapping your vacation photos as well as your favorite Indian princess. This kit includes 26 textured papers, one full alpha, 74 elements, PLUS you will get FREE with purchase the Label Pack with 27 labels of the most popular Southwest attractions! Grab it at 30% off at Scraps N Pieces and GingerScraps :     CT Karrie has created this great coordinating freeb...

Marina of Magical Scraps Galore has released a new collection, Wild Wild Life ! With beautiful rich colors, animal prints, tribal patterns, plus tons of unique themed elements and great animal silhouettes, this kit and coordinating cards are perfect for scrapping your Animal Kingdom pictures as well as your zoo trips and safari vacations! The kit includes  26 textured papers (10 plain, 16 patterned), 1 full wooden alpha, with numbers and punctuation, and 82 unique elements!   The coordinating card pack includes 10 {6x4} cards, and is totally inspired by Disney's Animal Kingdom park. Both the full kit and the cards are 30% off through September 8th , at Scraps N Pieces and My Memories .  Full kit: Journaling Cards: Here's some amazing CT inspiration, created with the Wild Wild Life collection :

Marina of Magical Scraps Galore has release a beautiful new collection, Welcome Baby! This is an adorable collection that celebrates the arrival of your sweet baby girl or baby boy. It features a soft color palette in pastel shades of pink, blue and sage, and is packed full with baby elements for boys and girls. Welcome Baby! includes 30 papers, 2 full sets of alphas, and 90 elements, and it's available at any of Marina's stores: Scraps N Pieces or My Memories at 30% off through August 7th!  Here's some CT inspiration: Don't forget to visit Marina's blog and grab her Welcome Baby! Freebie! Marina also has great news for those of you using My Memories Suite ... she's just opened her new store at MyMemories.com , and she's having a Grand Opening Sale through August 7th. All of her kits are available there, plus her new Album Templates for MMS she created using her kits, and which are sold exclusively at MyMemories.com :

So you know that I've resurrected the blog to share all my scrapbook goodies, but I'm going to be taking a short break from that while we head on our newest adventure - our first ever family road trip!  We take off in a few short days and I'm super excited.  I feel a little behind in our packing but that's a little hard when one of your kiddos is away at summer camp and the other one spends two days a week at doctors appt's (it's a long story).  Well... there's no excuse for Carissa other than she just doesn't find the time.  Plus a little help from Mom will probably ensure that everything makes it into the bag and we don't leave home without underwear or shirts or something. So why a road trip?  It is something that Brian and I have talked about for years and years but never got serious about.  Then my little brother got stationed in Colorado Springs, CO and it seemed like the perfect time to finally take that road trip.  Well... maybe not exac...