Life in Technicolor.

Better late than never ...

Mother of the year award right here. I know my son is almost 5 months old, and its almost summer, but I just now ordered his birth announcements. HA! I ordered them from Shutterfly with some gift cards I had and I think they turned out great. Can't wait for them to arrive!

photo credit: Heather Cherie Photography

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announcements, cards, stationary and more!

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IT'S INSD WEEKEND! HEAD ON OVER TO P&CO & PERSNICKETY PRINTS.

First off, I have a little announcement. You may have noticed my new badge on the left sidebar ...

I am officially a member of the Pixels & Company Creative Team! So, so excited. If you are unfamiliar with scrapbooking, here's what that means- CT members basically do marketing for the company and designers ... for one, we create layouts with new products that are released. We also promote the site and designers on social media and other galleries. Along with other requirements. I've been a CT member for a designer, Robyn Meierotto, for about a year now, but now I'm also on the CT for the entire site! (Wahoo!)
And if you are a scrapbooker, it's the best weekend of the year. This Saturday is (inter)National Scrapbooking Day, and the team at Pixels & Company is bringing you the best deals! Freebies, prizes, sales, new products, chats, you name it. Here's a slight recap of the details:

See all that? Be sure to participate in the fun!

I think my favorite part of the craziness is the blog hops. The designers and creative team have put together 2 very special kits for you - for FREE! All you have to do is hop along with us, collect the codes and enter them at check-out and they're yours!

Start here to hop along with the designers to get this awesome iNSD More or Less Collab for FREE!

The Creative Team used the iNSD More or Less Collab to create a set of 59 More or Less Journal Cards. Since I'm brand new to the team I didn't participate, but the Project Life fan in me thinks they are fabulous! You can start here to hop along with the CT.

In addition to all of that goodness, there's a HUGE sitewide sale going on, so be sure to check out some of the old favorites and new releases in the shop.

Speaking of sales - I wait for this one all year. The HUGE sitewide sale at Persnickety Prints! I always save up all of my Project Life layouts from the beginning of the year on and print them during this weekend. I'll be printing my mother's day gifts and current family photos, too. :)

Here's the price breakdown ... such a good deal.

If you're not ready to print and want to snag the sale prices and print later, there are also print credits available on select dates this month:

And let me brag on Persnickety for a minute. Their prints are beautiful- great quality, amazing customer service and they ship orders FAST FAST FAST! While there's an overload of orders this weekend and it may take 5-7 days for shipping, on a regular week my prints arrive on my doorstep in 48 hours. AWESOME!

Happy shopping & scrapping, and have a great iNSD weekend! :)

BASICGREY: KNEE HIGHS AND BOW TIES (GIVEAWAY!)

BasicGrey is hosting a great deal now until May 12. Pick up the Knee Highs or Bow Ties Album kits for only $25 each! Enter the giveaway below and I'll give you a chance to win one for yourself! :)

The Knee Highs Album kit includes: a 7x9 album, with 5 tab pages, 5 designer insert pages and 6 page protectors, plus a 6x6 pad, element stickers, chipboard shapes, mini alphabet stickers and a book of snippets.

The Bow Ties Album Kit includes: a 7x9 album, with 5 tab pages, 5 designer insert pages and 6 page protectors, plus a 6x6 pad, element stickers, chipboard shapes, mini alphabet stickers and a book of snippets.

Each kit is $25 + shipping.

Purchase your albums here.

And now for the giveaway... good luck!

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AT THE CIRCUS.

The Shrine Circus was this weekend. We decided to go to the 11 am show on Saturday. It's our family tradition to go every year- this is our fourth year so far.

2010/year #1- Caleb and I went together on one of our first dates.
2011/year #2- We came back with Selah this year. She was 3 months.
2012/year #3- Selah was very interested in the circus and liked watching the acrobats and elephants. She was 1 year 3 months.
2013/year #4- This year we had both kids! Selah is 2 years 3 months and Soren is 3 months. Soren kind of slept most of the time and just looked around when he was up. Selah was in a trance. She loved everything about the show.

❤ #shrinecircus #selahgram @calebelijames

And then bubby woke up... :) #sorengram #shrinecircus

Best part of the circus is always the elephants. #shrinecircus

And here's the traditional photo Caleb and I take every year- you can see how much we've changed!

What about you? Does your family have a traditional activity you keep every year? Have you ever been to the circus?

ARE YOU A HOMEBODY?

Well, you should be!

Gennifer Bursett, Crystal Livesay, Karla Dudley, Robyn Meierotto, Just Jaimee, Wild Blueberry Ink and ScottyGirl Design are the Art Social Sponsors for the month of April over at My Scrapbook Art and they've come up with this awesome Homebody Collab!

The kit is just $1.99 - but is only available until April 15th, so grab it up quick! You get one HUGE collab that includes 2 templates, 3 alphas, 96 elements, and 37 papers. That's a lot of stuff at a great price!

Here's my layout with Robyn's portion of the kit. It was perfect since we just moved into a new house and I wanted to scrap it, but it could really work for anything.