4th Birthday

Have I mentioned I'm terrible when it comes to the big event layouts? Yeah.

So I'm just now doing my son's 4th birthday layout. He turned 5 almost 3 months ago. And no, I haven't done the 5th birthday layout yet.




Anyway, I used Close to My Heart's flip flap pockets to add more pictures to the layout (both the pic of my son and the pic of the birthday cake have more pictures underneath them). Pretty much everything except the felt, the scooby doo, and the "4" are from Close to My Heart. The felt (stars and border) is from Fancy Pants, the scooby doo was from an extra invitation (that I made into a card for his presents), and the 4 is using a die cut from Papertrey Ink.

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A Love of Reading...

Here is the most recent layout I've done of my kids. My daughter has started reading chapter books to herself, and I was excited to get this photo of her reading to her little brother. The book is one of the Frannie K. Stein books. My kids love those books!




These pages are from the Lucky Workshop on the Go kit. I rotated the pages 90 degrees and altered them a bit to fit my photos. The round reading stamps are from Papertrey Ink (All Booked Up), the alphabet stamp is Old World Alphabet from Close to My Heart.

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End of Kinder

This is another layout I did during my scrapbooking weekend in June. This is the end of the year program for my daughter's kindergarten. She and some of her closest friends were particularly sad because she knew we would be homeschooling in the future.




I've been posting some really simple layouts to show that not every page in my scrapbooks is a "work of art." LOL. Sometimes you just need to get the pictures on pages and into your albums.

I have been doing a little bit of scrapbooking recently, so I should have some new layouts to show soon.

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Smile

This is another layout from my scrapbooking weekend in June. These were pictures left over from the Grandma's visit, but there just wasn't enough room for them. It's rare I can catch his smile so many times in one day. Usually he spends his time making funny faces or rolling his eyes at me. Yes, literally rolling his eyes. He is only four. :)



Supplies are all Close to my Heart. Clover Meadow CS, ink, Tinkerin' pp and title stickers. I inked the base page, the strips of pp and the photos with clover meadow ink.

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A Visit with Grandma

My mother-in-law visited us for a short weekend in May. We did all the typical grandma visit stuff that weekend. This is another layout I finished at my scrapbooking weekend in June.





Supplies:
Paper: Close to my Heart
Letters and heart flourish cut with cricut

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Brother Sister Friends

At the end of June, I joined some internet friends for a scrapbook retreat in WI. We had a great time. And I actually got some layouts done! Win/Win. :)

This is one of my favorites. A couple of random photos left over from other layouts, often these end up being my favorite layouts.

Paper, ink, letter stickers are all CTMH. Used Tim Holtz Die cut for the heart, wings and crown. Used some stickles and a fiskar border punch and called it good. :)

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1st day of preschool layout

Yes, I know this one is really late. My daughter was 3.5 years old in this picture. She is now 6. But those big event, typical scrapbooking pages have never been my thing. I like the little stories that go with everyday life much better. Did I ever mention that my son's 1st year album isn't done yet? Yeah. And he's 4 now. My daughter's 1st year album is ALMOST complete. Just lack the first birthday layout to finish it up. You see a pattern here? :)

Anyway, on to the more interesting aspect of this layout. That flourishy heart. I knew I wanted something flourishy in that corner. I grapped the first thing in my blank chipboard/grungeboard drawer and this is what I withdrew (this is the picture after I applied black copics and fruit punch stickles that is):


And this is the beauty of grungeboard. I can use my copics to color it, then apply stickles to it. Then after all is dried, bend it into any shape my heart desires. Even a heart! :) Here's a close up of the heart:


Papers are close to my heart (notebook), grungeboard from Tim Holtz, chipboard "1" from Heidi Swapp, fruit punch stickles from Ranger. That's it, as easy as could be.
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Stamping Layout

The forum I participate in was having a scrap olympics for the month of March. Of course I signed up for way too many events! LOL. One of the events was Stamping on a layout. So here is my layout:





I had a great time making this layout. The papers are from Close To My Heart. The stamps are from Close to my Heart and Papertrey Ink. And the ribbon is from Close to my Heart and Papertrey Ink. Lots of little things on this page including more of the flip flap photo protectors from CTMH. Truly a great little invention that makes it so much easier to include more photos on your layouts. Remember you can click on a photo to get a better view. Oh yeah, dh reminded me to tell everyone that this layout took 2nd. :)

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Hawaii

Okay, I'm lumping all of my Hawaii layouts into one post. Just easier for me that way.

There are multiples of some pages, because I used Close to my Heart's flip flap memory protectors. These are 4x6 photo protectors that have a flap and adhesive so that you can put several together and make a little flip book. Adhere it right to your page and voila! Lots of pictures on your standard 12 x 12 layout. Sorry for the glare but they are difficult to photograph when they are in the protectors. And the layouts for all three of these pages are from the Moon Doggie Workshop on the Go.

The second page has the flip flaps protectors (2 of them for an additional 4 photos):



Here again, the second page has the flip flap protectors (another 2 for an additional 4 photos on the page)



On this one, the first page has one protector, the second page has 2 protectors.




Supplies:
Paper: Close to my Heart (Moon Doggie)
Ribbon: maya road
Stamps & bling: Close to my Heart

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Eating a sandwich?!

This is a picture of my son eating a wrap. Now before you think I'm nuts, scrapbooking a picture of my son eating a wrap, you have to understand, my son does not do this. He doesn't like many combo foods, things have to be separated into individual components. The kids had been out playing in the kiddie pool, and we came in to have lunch. Suddenly I saw my son eating the wrap whole. He didn't open it up and start eating each part individually; he ate it WHOLE. I had to scrapbook it. :)

Papers: Close to my Heart, Bazzill
Ribbon: PTI
Stickers: Basic Grey
Journaling spot from a swap.

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Who me? Couldn't be...

This is an old picture of my son. But it was one of those "gotta scrapbook" pictures. His highchair tray was on the dining room table and some newspapers were placed on it. In the other room, I hear this clatter and came running to find this. He now loves this book "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?" and we play this game often, so it seemed like an appropriate title.

Supplies:
Paper, Stamps, Ink, Ribbon: CTMH
Letter stickers: Basic Grey

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I can read

Switching focus this layout is about my daughter. After having a bumpy start with learning to read, we decided an incentive, My Little Pony amusement park, was in order. Less than 6 weeks later she had earned that toy.

Supplies: Paper & Library card stamp is Close to my Heart. Ribbon is American Crafts. Chipboard is Making Memories I believe. And of course, I had to use stickles from Ranger.

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Some scrapbooking

I've done some scrapbooking which always makes me happy. This layout arose because of that swimsuit picture of my son. I couldn't help but look at it and think it looks like those pictures you would see in the teen magazines. Makes me wonder what my son will be like as a teenager then an adult. Perhaps we get a little glimpse of the future in our kids faces. What do you think?

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1st Day

Continuing on our journey through my daughter's first year album, these pages are from my daughter's first day.





Metal brad and turn are from Oriental Trading Company. The transparency overlays are from Little Yellow Bicycle, black letters are unknown, and all papers are from Close to my Heart. Once again I used sketches from one of the Close to my Heart's books.

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