My National Scrapbooking Day Pages

I hadnt planned anything for National Scrapbooking Day but at the last minute my friend Wendy decided to come to my house and scrapbook with me late.. It was a fun change becuz' we usually scrapbook at her house with her huge room full of supplies. I finally had a chance to share a few things from my stash-it was FUN... We have been playing out pages from some scrapbooking trends magazines.. Always nice to get the juices flowing with ideas from magazines..
My 1st page is my daughter and my husband(Daddy). I might have went a little over board with the jewels but hey-bling can only make it look better..I got tons of those jewel clusters at Michaels on clearance the other day-so I stocked up on them in all colors. Love my felt green thickers. I have been journaling a lot lately around my edges-really liking the way it looks..

This page is of my husband, Roger and his Daddy, Roger Lee. They both have bees-so we both have lots of bee swarms.. Here is one they captured at my house last spring. I used glimmermist on my Big chipboard B-in forest green. I used my felt green thickers again-lovin that color. I got those pretty jewel burst at CKC in Louisville in tons of different colors in Feb.. Then I just got my cute lil bees at Michaels for 50 cents the other day on Clearance too-dont u just love a sale!!

This one is of my husband on a train at work one day back in April 2004. He is a Engineer for N&S Railroad but was working fireman this day. A man was out taking pictures of trains one day and asked these guys if he could take their picture-and he took it and mailed us this 5X7...It is great.. Very simple page of just layering paper over paper. I got these cute lil screw brads at CKC in Charlotte or Louisville last year.. I had to take pictures of most of these pages -mostly becuz they were so thick.. but this one becuz the strips were just not matching up at all..

This last one is of my daughter back in April 2006. This was her 1st trip ever to build a bear. I got this great tree CKC also.. Also got this stencil to this owl i used. Then of course everything looks way better with stickles.. just incase U want to copy this page-my pictures and pattern paper were 3X4 inches.. I seen this page made somewhere-but the squares where a lot smaller. I love how I was able to use 3 pictures on this.I have had these pictures to scrapbook a long time..

So I hope everyone else got to scrap some on NSD-if not-never too late to catch up!!

Messer Girls

Here is a page of my daughter and her 1st cousins in 2006 and then in 2009. What a difference 3 yrs make.. I hadn't sowed in awhile so we got the sowing stuff out for this page.. We used yet another page out of one of the scrapbooking trends magazines as our example.. I am in love with everything on this page.. I am gonna start sowing some more by hand.. I just got a bunch of those jewel clusters the other day too.. So I was excited to put those on...
Happy National Scrapbooking Day Everyone!!

My Family

Got a few more pages done this week... I think I am back in the groove again. Me and my friend Wendy scrapbooked 2 days this week.. Here is one of the pages I made this week.. It is "my family". It is me, my husband, my Mom, my Dad, my Brother, and my Daughter. The picture was taken the beginning of June last year at my Grandpa's funeral in Michigan. It is the 1st picture I have had of all 6 of us in forever and forever...
We did a little sowing here-and I am soooo not good at it-if u look closely u can tell.. haha... We seen a page like this in a new scrapbook trends magazine out. We just made it our own. I love my lace-I got this at a flea market in Lousville in Feb this year when I went to CKC.. And if U watch the next few pages I put up U will notice a big bunch of gems.. I got some cool clearance ones the other day at Michael's.. BUT of course I still need more-LOL

I Got to Scrap-YAY!

Well me and my Friend Wendy http://www.wendybaisden.blogspot.com/ finally took a whole day and did nothing but scrapbook while our kiddies were in school on Wednesday of this week. It had been weeks and weeks since either of us had put a new page out. So to get our creative selves going-we got some of our new scrapbooking magazines out and copied some pages.. We got great ideas and turned them to our own. So if any of them look familar to U-that is why.. We both got 4 pages done in no time today.. It has totally put me back into the swing of it..

Here is Kandis in 2000. She was only 2 and half years old.. Seems so unreal that this was 10 years ago cuz i can remember this day as clear as ever.. This is her dress she wore for a wedding as the flower girl for my husband's cousin's wedding. The 1st of many for her-lol. I took her to Olan Mills to get these pictures and it was so hot and humid out that by the time we got there her hair had all kinked up. So her hair was NOT in pony tails -hehe.. She did get Kid of the Week out of the 3rd picture too-aawwww!! lol.. I am not totaly done with this page-I want to hand stitch a stitch around the edges of the white cardstock.. I just have not got to it yet.. i will though-soon. This is my beautiful Mother in law with all her Girl Grandbabies. My sister in law-Kim www.epportraits.com ... I still have to journal on this.. My least favorite thing to do.. BUT I will not be finished with it until I do that.. Sometimes I just have to think about it.. I love to have the journaling-I think that is the most important I just seem to be the worst with the words.. I havent totally decided where to add it either.. I think i will put it either around the white of the edges or around the curves of the yellow clock?? I am in love with my new butterflys I got at CKC in Louisville. I bought tons of them in all colors.. SO U will see tons of them I am sure...

I have actually had this page done for probably 3 or 4 weeks and it has been sitting on my scrap table.. I had everything but a title on it and a picture.. SO once I got the picture still had not decided on what for the title.. BUT after a trip to Michaels the other day-I came home with this beautiful ALL OF US. It worked perfect and when I seen it I knew where it was going.. It was n the clearance bin too.. I got several of these title gem stone things. The picture really does not do it justice.. It is made of all jewels and the US is in baby blue.. I have decided to let my mother in law-Karis- do my journaling around the edges of the lite blue on all 4 sides.. I think it will be awesome to have her handwriting on this page . I think I am gonna have to start doing this morning often so I can get other people's handwriting down on pages forever!!!!

This is my Husband n my baby girl.. Kandis was just a few days old. SO this was Dec 1997-probably around Christmas.. These pictures melt everything within me.. They make me smile from the inside out.. I love these 2 more then anything.. oh how time has flown by

This is all the Messer Grandkids except Baby Nathan who happens to be 1 year now. At this point he was tired of taking pictures.. This is August 2009. These pictures were also taken by my sister in law Kim Messer who owns a photography studio, Eve Photography http://www.epportraits.com/ . There is another one of my butterflys I got at CKC and a pack of jewels that I got there also-in every color... I love this green. hehe

I am the Featured Member on Scrapbook Challenges for the Rest of April

I got so excited about a month or so ago to find out I was picked to be a featured member for the month of April on Scrapbook Challenges. It is such a great thing to be featured. They put a good size picture of U up - and a Bio - and some questions - then they feature some of your work.. So I will be featured from today April 15th til the end of this month...

This is what is written about me on my feature on my Bio and my questions I answered. there are the 5 pages I picked to let be featured.. Just a few of my favorites.. SO hard to choose.. lol


Hello my name is Kelly. I was born a city girl in Michigan but can officially say I am a country girl now since I have lived here in WV now for the last 28 1/2 years. I still believe that those 7 1/2 years in the city have made me who I am now. I have been married for almost 13 years-met my husband on a blind date set up by my little brother. We have a 12 year old daughter named Kandis-incase U have NOT seen my scrapbook pages. I have to admit she is truly my life. I stay very very busy with her. She is in 6th grade and plays volleyball and cheerleads for her Christian School she goes too. I live for the summer. I love the hot sun, flip flops, french manicure on my toes, shorts, tans, amusement parks, NO school, sleeping in late, and laying out by our pool all day long. I have a major sweet tooth-lol. I would rather have sweets and chocolate then a meal. I could skip dinner and go straight to dessert any day. The next thing I love is to sleep-haha. I don't get very much during school but when school is out me and my daughter make up for it. We will stay up late and sleep in late. I am very close to my family-I actually live next door to my parents and love it. I am very thankful for such great parents. I think I have been scrapbooking faithfully for 7 years, no more than 8. Me and my cousin, Steffany, from Michigan had decided we were gonna start scrapping so we went and bought the essentials (we thought) to get started when she visited once. So we bought our stuff and then we didn’t even scrapbook until a year later. I don’t even remember why? Boys have my scrapbook pages changed over the last 7 years too, wowie!! I look back at the old ones now and laugh my head off but I am not changing them because that shows how much I have improved-hehe. I went from having my stuff in a bag, to a container, to now having almost a whole room of my own. I think I enjoy buying the scrapbooking stuff as much I as enjoy scrapbooking. That in itself is a major addiction!! hehe I scrapbook in spurts, I will go awhile and scrapbook everyday for weeks. Then I will go a couple weeks and sometimes a month and not touch anything in my scrapbook room. I Love to scrapbook with someone way better then by myself, I think that is always a big encourager too. I have some major addictions-jewels, stickles, flowers & pedaloos. I really need to use what I have bought now though before I buy anymore. I used to buy loose paper all the time, but I have only bought the big paper packs for the last couple of years-sooo much cheaper and I seem to use them way more. I love to layer paper, Ink anything, and tear paper. Just a few things I do on every page almost. I used to not journal on my pages but only would make sure the date was on the page. I try to make sure I journal on almost every page now-I think this is what is gonna be important on the scrapbook pages after they are passed down from generation to generation. I think we need to make sure U list who is on the pictures, because 3 generations down the way, they are gonna lose track of who people are and then the scrapbook pages are NOT gonna mean anything to anybody like they do to us or our family now. That is the reason I scrapbook too. I scrapbook to preserve the memories of my family. I want to pass down pictures, places, events and people from my family, to my daughter, to my daughter’s kids and on. What a great thing these books will be to show our history. They don’t seem like so much now but 100 years or more down the road they will... So remember-JOURNAL!!!Blog: http://scrapbookingbykellymesser.blogspot.com/How long have you been scrapbooking: I think for 7 or 8 years. I believe I started scrapbooking when my daughter was in kindergarten. Seems like that is when I remember starting to make books and pages for teachers-heheFavorite products: I love all things Tim Holtz-Ink especially. I love love Glimmer Mist and seem to have to put at least a dot of it on every page I do lately. I love my xyron sticker maker-I have a tiny one and the biggest one they make-I use the small one every time I scrapbook. It makes it so easy when I use my cricket to just run the letters thru it and then just stick them down. My edge distresser-love to make everything look like that-hehe.Favorite technique: Layering lots n lots of paper on one 12X12 page-the more paper the better. Then of course U have to ink it all.Why do you scrapbook: I scrapbook so we have the memories from that day . So we can look back and see and know by the journaling what we were doing and when and where and the date. I scrapbook for my daughter-so one day she can have all of these books for herself-like a journal of her life-a book for each school year-and every Christmas and birthday.. SO she can look back and see and remember all things good. Then I scrapbook the old pictures of her family and grandparents so she can know her family and her history. SO she can also pass these down to her kids and they pass them down-so our history will NOT be forgotten.Favorite color scheme: I love all paper-not really picky-if there is pretty paper-I can probably find a picture to go with it-even green and blue. I do use a lot of yellow and pink and purple…but I love it all...What size do you usually scrap: I used to only scrapbook 2 page 12X12 layouts.. I take a lot of pictures so I like to use a lot of pictures on a page, but since I have been scrapbooking a lot with my friend Wendy over the last year-she has got me doing 1 page layouts.. I like these too-I do miss using so many pictures though. I have never scrapbooked anything other than 12X12 thoughWhat do you love most about scrapping: Besides shopping for the stuff to scrapbook with and my new love for CKC's-lol I love when U get a page all done and u just look at it.. I love the idea that someday long time from now-I may have a grandchild or great grandchild looking at these too.What do you dislike most about scrapping: I hate when I want to scrapbook and just sit there and can’t get motivated-when I want to scrapbook with someone and I have no one-hehe.. Besides that-nothing to Hate-I love it all-lolHere are a few of Kelly's Favorite Pages:

Soooo busy!

So I have been meaning to blog now for awhile and I just havent had any time... SO instead of putting several different blogs with all kinds of pictures from each thing that I have been doing over the last month-I decided to post maybe 1 or 2 from each thing to explain and show-how busy my daughter keeps me-hehe!! I am posting pictures starting with the most recent .. This is a picture taken last night-March 23, 2010 at our County's Reading Festival.. My daughter won 1st place out of her school. SO she got to go and represent her school and get a trophy. It wasnt a contest-just a show kinda-nice-fun-Entertainment.. I was very blessed to have my Daddy & Mom(aka-Grandma and Papaw) come. Then is my WINNER!! lol.. Then my Brother, aka Uncle James, and his fiance' Kim..

Here is a picture of my drama queen in action... She has won the Reading Festival out of her school 3 years in a row.. woot woot-I cant help but brag.. Her k-4 teacher always called her -her little drama queen - so true-lol.

So last Thursday, March 18, Kandis' class and a few other classes traveled to COSI in Columbus Ohio.. So of course I went.. We stayed all night-we slept in the floor in the hall way-thank goodness that parents and teachers were allowed to bring air mattresses-hehe... I didnt get but 45 mins of sleep but it was only becuz' we had 2 snorers in our group-haha.. BIG snorer-yick!! haha If there is ever a next time-I will have my wax ear plugs with me-I so forgot them..

COSI had a high wire you could ride across on a unicycle with NO nets or nothing attached to U to catch U incase U couldnt make it... The weight on the bottom balanced it out.. If U were 250 pounds or under U could ride it.. Of course I had to ride it too-lol.. BUT here is my daughter. She was scared but not scared-she was funny... It was like riding a bike up a hill but backwards when u were going backwards.. so fun and so weird to think how it worked??

SO we were suppose to have our Homecoming at school toward the end of Febuary but we had so much snow it was postponed until March 9. It takes us a awhole week to get all of our homecoming stuff in..My daughter made 6th grade attendant.. She goes to a Christian School that is how come it starts at 6th grade with the attendants(middle school). So above is one of the days they had a pagent at school introducing the attendants and Queen nominees-so the kids could vote for Queen. My baby was so pretty... She is the one that is all little in the front with the sparkle skirt on-hehe... She has HIGH heels on and is still so tiny-ha

Then above is the SPORTS banquet we had at school on March 15.. Kandis' played girls volleyball for JV and occassionally for the high school. This makes her 2nd year and she ROCKS.. She is getting sooooo good.. She is soo little but can bust that ball right over the net.. She got her volleyball award for participation .. Then she got the most improved volleyball player this trophy.. yay!! Then she got a participation award for cheerleading.. She has also cheered for 2 years.. She cheers for both the JV and High School becuz we dont as many girls on both.. I am glad sports are finally over.. We have been playing or practicing sports since August and ready for a big break!!

So this is pictures of Kandis the day of the Homecoming Dance, on March 9th.. I somehow mixed the pictures up here.. She has the cutest lil boyfriend-but I wanted to post this picture my friend, Wendy took of her before we went to the dance.. It is so pretty.. My friend, Belinda Owens, did her hair-took almost 2 hours to curl all that hair.. So glad it wasnt me curling it-haha.. She was soo beautiful!!

So then of course if U have a homecoming dance U have to have a homecoming game and crown a queen right-haha.. So on March 8, we had the homecoming game. Before the game we did all the homecoming activites and Kandis' Daddy walked her out on the court.. What a proud Mommy and Wife I was.. They both looked so good.. I had to get a picture of them looking so good-haha... We WON Our game too-great way to END a season!!

Then finally me and Wendy ran off to Louisville, Ky to the CKC there.. I bought way too much and havent got to scrapbook but a page and half since I have been home and that was Febuary 26 & 27.. BUT it is as much fun going to something like that and buying all the stuff as using it-hehe.. BUT hopefully soon, U all will see scrapbook pages with these pictures on them pluse many more from these days out of the last month...

SO I am off again-just to bed this time-haha... so much to do-so little time-HURRY UP summer!!

or at least Spring Break-haha

My Girl

I havent got to scrapbook much in the last few weeks. Me and my friend Wendy squeezed in a few hours of scrapbooking one evening while my daughter was at her homecoming dance . We dropped her off -went back to Wendy's and scrapbooked for 3 hours then I picked Kandis' up. I told someone that either me and Wendy have too much scrapbook stuff to pick from and just seem over whelmed when we sit down to scrapbook or we have totally lost our mojo. We should of got way more then 1 page done in that much time.. lol This page was so much fun. I love all the layering. When we were done-it was soooo heavy.. It had a total of 6 papers layered. We used a piece of rick rack at the top. There is a tiny rub on in the corner . I used a felt font that was already a sticker for the my in red. I had pink puffy glitter thickers I had just gotten from big lots i used for GIRL. I used some hodge podge with pink glitter braders in different places. We had 2 different size heart punches we used for the hearts. I put some jewels on the hearts. I used a new stick pin I had gotten at CKC in Louisville on one of the hearts. Wendy has a Tim Holtz mini stapler-I used it in a lot of different places on the page. The big tall cute skinny bird with the cute legs is by Mind's Eye. I used this cute GROW bingo card. We had some cute circle things that had the months and years on them. I put a jewel on the month of October. We did our journaling off of the computer and printed it along with the title. We had some cute pearl strands we used to decorate. We punched out some photo turns with a small punch and I put a jewel in the middle of mine. I distressed and ripped my paper some on the 2 layer..

I was joking that anything we could find we stuck on this page-haha.. very pretty-FULL page.. something alittle different then I do usually.. We got the idea out of a OLD scrapbook trends magazine Wendy had. We just totally changed ours up.

Hope U like!!