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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Happy Valentine's Day!!

Took a nice long weekend with the family. Mostly hung out and cleaned house, but that was nice too, in its own way. LOL.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! I hope you are enjoying this find Monday. I have the valentines I made for my family to share today.

This first one is completely cased from Janelle's blog. She received the highlight from Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday Challenge and I knew I had to do this for my husband's valentine.
I used my cricut (the heart from Lacy Labels) to make my heart mask. The sentiments are from Papertrey Ink stamps (Borders & Corners: Hearts and Heart Prints) and one from Little Yellow Bicycle ([all you need is love] stamp from their Love Letters line). Inks (black and cranberry) and the love medallion are from Close to My Heart. The ribbon is also from Little Yellow Bicycle's Love Letters line. What do you think? I love it, and can't wait to try it with some other themes, particularly Christmas.

These are the valentines for the kids. Totally inspired by Nichole Heady's blog here.

The cards are actually luggage tags again cut with my cricut (fabulous finds cartridge). I then covered the front in strips of ribbon and cut with scissors.


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37th Birthday

This is a birthday card I made recently for a friend's birthday. I was a bit apprehensive about making a cupcake birthday card for an adult, but I think she liked it. The cupcake and numbers dies are from Papertrey Ink, as well as the stamp set (Big Birthday Wishes), the paper (Wings) and ink are from Close to My Heart. I placed the numbers through my xyron sticker maker upside down and then covered them with prisma glitter.

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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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Jumping right in again...

No talking about that long absence. Really. I'm not going to apologize or anything. These things happen. Homeschooling has taken a lot more of my free time than I had even imagined. But now, I think things are settled in. I'm happy with the way our curriculum is going. Daily school is going smoother. So I hope to return to blogging more frequently.

Hope.

So here are a few cards I made using the Wings Workshop on the Go from Close to My Heart. I did alter them a bit, added some glitter etc.



I'm really rather excited about the spray pens that Close to My Heart are now carrying. :)

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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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