Good Morning Everyone!!

I just have to share with everyone the wonderful thing that I have just discovered! It is a company called Send Out Cards. Oh my goodness! This is the coolest program I have found since I found Memory Mixer (the awesome program I use to digitally scrapbook with)!! I am totally loving this!

What is it?? You ask...well - let me fill you in on the details of this truly incrediable company:

SEND OUT CARDS!!!!!

It is an online greeting card company that lets you pick your card or a postcard, type a personalized message and even upload your own photos! Once you have completed the process, click send. Once you have "sent" your card, Send Out Cards Prints your card, puts it in a real envelope with a real stamp and mails it the good ole fashioned way!!

So the person that is receiving your card gets an actual card in the mail!!!

What about the cost you ask?? Are you sitting down??? A standard greeting card will only cost you $0.98 plus postage!!!! Add your own pictures to either the front of the card or the inside of the card and it will cost.....(are you ready for this?????) $1.47 plus postage!!

It is such an amazing service!! Want to try it out for free?? E-mail me at laura@happy2scrap.com or call me (419-494-2180) to find out how you can send out 3 free cards today!!

Let me know what you think!

~Laura

P.S. I will keep you posted on a special scrapboooking project that I am working on with a "Send Out Cards" card!!!

My goodness it has been a long time since I ventured into the blogging world! So much has happened - I will recap it all for you.


November 4th: My birthday! It was a fabulous day! I had sick children, so I delayed my own thrown personal party till the next birthday. (Besides - it probably wasn't right that I was having a friend party on an odd year! At least that's what my children think!) :)

• November 9-December 24: I spent the better part of time taking care of my Mom, Dad & sister when my mother became suddenly ill. Life was really not enjoyable for this span of time. Although we did have MANY glimpses of the Lord's hand in our live. That was pretty awesome to see!! Check it out!!


• December 24: Daddy and I decided to bring Mama home so that we could care for her instead of having her in a nursing home.



• December 25: My last Christmas with my beautiful Mama


• January 2: My Mom, my best friend and confidant left this world of trials to wait for us in Heaven.


• January 6: Mama was buried and my Vivi turned 1! What a family party we had for her! I do believe she is the only child to have ever had so many family members present at her birthday party! My awesome friend Tiffany made the coolest cake! She made a big bear cake for the adults and a smash bear cake for Vivi. The look of shock on her face was priceless!! She kept looking from the cake - to us and back to the cake. REALLY??? I get to grab this with my hands?? Serious??? AWESOME!!! :)


• The rest of January is kinda a blur.....although they did find out why my Mama passed away. She had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. It is a rare disease!! 1 in a million people are affected by CJD each year. SOO....that being said - I have scientific proof that my wonderful, awesome, incredible Mama is a 1 in a million person!! :) Right there is a reason to smile :)



• February 10: My dear sweet Sailor turned 11!!! Oh my goodness!! I do feel very old!! He is that much closer to being a teenager! SCARY!!! :)

Although my life has been quite crazy - I took some time for me to scrapbook! (of course I did!! I would have gone completely insane otherwise!!) :) I am posting pages I used to make a calendar for our families. For more information on where you can buy the awesome designs that I used for each page, click on the picture. It will take you to a new page with all the details your heart desires and a bigger picture of the scrapbooked page! :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful day! Remember to take time to scrapbook your happy thoughts! :)


~Laura

Good Morning everyone!!

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful weekend! We had a great time listening to our Prophet during General Conference. I am looking forward to reading the talks and catching all the bits that I missed due to children being children!

With a new month, comes a new challenge! I am not really sure where I found this sketch - but isn't it lovely?? So to whom ever created this wonderful sketch - THANK YOU!!! I do know, however who created the awesome designs that I used for my version of the sketch: Audra's Little Scrap's!! It's called Autumn in the Air. Check it out - it's on sale!!





I just love the rich tones that this kit has to offer! Perfect for all the autumn pictures that we will be taking so very soon as the leaves change colors.

I'll post more pages using this kit later.








Also new to Audra's Little Scrap's shop is an AWESOME kit called Apple Pie. I love this kit and the cordinating Apple Pie Alpha that goes with it. Check them out too! They are also on sale for 40% off!!















I love using the traditional red & green Christmas colors for other events! Audra did such a nice job of capturing the red of an apple and the super green that one will find on an apple tree. Great kit Audra!!

I hope that everyone will have a fantastic week this week! My goal is to get my house clean again after the whirlwind of the last week or so!! We shall see if that happens!

~Laura