"Fly" Scrapbook Layout, from start to finish, "Pro 31 Designs" DT Project #2

Want to know how I created this adorable scrapbook layout of my son? Check out my video below where I share with you my thought process from start to finish.

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My First Design Team Project for "Pro 31 Designs"

I'm so excited to share with you my first Design Team Project for "Pro 31 Designs".

I knew the minute I saw some of the items in my Design Team box, exactly what I was going to make!

I had so much fun creating this project, and hope you give it a try to. Be sure to stop by the "Pro 31 Designs" etsy shop to find all the products I used to created my beautiful Bib Necklace with.




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Happy Scrapping!

It's finally here!

Guess where I'll be tonight at 12:01 am? Yes that's right, sitting in the movie theater hanging with my friends and watching




I can't wait!!!!

Big Announcement

I am so excited to announce that I am officially the newest member of

Be sure to check out my announcement video below and click on the "Pro 31 Designs" logo above to find all these amazing products I share that you can purchase from Pro 31 Designs.

I hope you will also join me in my journey and follow me with the links below.

My blog of course, you're already here. LOL!

Pro 31 Designs youtube channel

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Pro 31 Designs Facebook

Leslie Scrapsofmine Facebook

Scrapsofmine Youtube

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In Love with Smashing!

Back in June I purchased a Smash Book for myself as a birthday present. I was so excited to find the "Pink" hard to find Smash, that I couldn't wait to start collecting memoriblia to add to it. Needless to say, my Smash book was printed backwards, meaning the back of my book was the front. I was so upset and knew at the time, that there was a shortage of Pink Smash books, so returning it wasn't going to be an option for me. I decided to take my book apart and Months later, can I just say how in "LOVE" I am with Smashing!!! I've never been one to keep a journal or diary or even have an altered book for keeping memories in except for adding them to mini's or scrapbook layouts.

I haven't gotten a ton of pages done in my Smash, but I'm in no hurry. I love how simple, carefree, and easy this concept of jotting down memories is. I can't wait to start smashing some more!

Thought I'd share a few pictures of my Smashing.

Made a recent trip to Archiver and picked up a few new goodies for Smashing!

Pink Pen, Smash clips, & some Smash mini Pockets.

A few pages dedicated to ideas and quotes I love!

A page to remember Celebrating our 17 yr. anniversary in San Diego, CA

I decided to add my Smash pads to the back of my book by adding velcro to each one. This makes it handy to remove them and to have my journaling spots available and all in one place.

Happy Smashing!!!

In Loving Memory of Pepper

It's been a rough couple of days for our family. We lost of Sweet Pepper Dog of 13 yrs. You don't truly understand the pain of losing an animal if you have never owned one. Our home feels empty without her! I'm so grateful we still have a dog to come home to. Miley our Giant schnauzer is 3 yrs. old and has begun to brighten our spirits, but it still feels different without Pepper.

Pepper was the first dog my husband and I picked out together. She was our baby prior to having kids. She showed us unconditional love and loyalty everyday!!!

Pepper was born and raised most of her life in sunny California were she came from a pure bred family of Schnauzers. Both of her parents were prize winning dog champions.

Our family moved to Colorado 5 yrs. ago and Pepper joined us on our new adventure. She experienced her first plane ride, camping in the mountains and snow!!!

Over the past few months we could see a big change in Pepper. Her energy level was declining and she seemed to sleep a lot. She just wasn't feeling well. About a year ago or so, we found out she had a heart murmur. Over time her heart started to enlarge which lead to congestive heart failure, which was starting to restrict her breathing. There just wasn't anything else the vet could do for our sweet doggie! She will forever be remembered as the sweet little doggie everyone loved!

Rest in Peace our Sweet Pepper Dog of 13 yrs. We truly feel blessed you were apart of our family. Thank you for your unconditional love and loyalty! We love you and will miss you Pepper!

My New Embellishment Center

I've been on an organizing kick lately. I find it so much easier to create when everything has a spot and my desk/room is clean. I finally decided to reorganize my scrapbook embellishments. I wanted my most used products all in one place and close to where I scrapbook. So, after watching a few youtube videos and thinking about buying a clip it up. I decided that I didn't want to spend the money for a clip it up, so the next best solution was to try what everyone else who didn't want to spend the money was using. A shoe organizer!

Since the furniture in my room is black, I wanted a black shoe organizer, which wasn't easy to find. I ended up finding my shoe organizer at my local Walmart for around $22. It's not black but it looks pretty close, it actually called oil-rubbed bronze.

So far I'm very happy with how my new embellishment center looks! I ended up only using 2 tiers instead of three. I added some chipboard decorated with some cute polk a dot paper to each of the baskets as well as some cute polk a dot ribbon around the outside of the baskets.

For just around $22 dollars I found a great solution to organizing my embellishments.