Sleepover - Two Page Scrapbook Layout - Grandchildre

 Being a Grandma may be one of the few things that gives me purpose lately. Helping them navigate their young lives and hopefully passing on a legacy of strong family, unconditional love, and faith in the Lord. My two crazies...keep me sane...even when I'm feeling discouraged.

Don't get me wrong, these two give me a run for my money sometimes! I love the creativity and the smiles captured here during one of their sleepovers. Hot Wheels, fairy garden fun, coloring, reading on the porch, making chocolate chip cookies, eating them, and bedtime stories!

I love this water color distressed paper. The photos are matted in a light blue to help them stand out on the paper. I found some closely coordinating flowered and numbered paper for the brackets and banner strips. Lastly, I added a few directional stamps along the edges. Using my Cricut for journaling is a Godsend because my own writing is awful. I wish I could write this neatly with my own hands. 

The title is from Design Space. The layering helps give it dimension, along with the chunky baker's twine bow tied vertically around the entire left page. Simple, with lots of fun pictures that bring back memories of a few years back. That's what it is all about...keeping the memories close in our hearts. 

Hope you are starting to enjoy the beautiful early summer weather! It's not my favorite season, but I do love temps in the mid-70's!

Have a blessed week!

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Smile"

This little guy is getting so big. I love watching him grow up, but not too fast. He's full of life and promise! I can't wait to see the plans that God has for him.

 
 We're so proud of my son and his family. I've posted other layouts that featured my granddaughter, but this one is all about Sawyer. He is one and a half in these pictures, but now he is four! Guess it's time for family pictures again?

 Our photographer did such a great job. She was so patient and fun!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Believe it or not, I have a few more layouts from this photoshoot. :) Love my family!!

One Page Layout - Happy Birthday Gramma

Birthdays are so much fun! Grandchildren definitely make getting old so much more worthwhile. Here's one of my favorite little one-page layouts from my birthday a few years back.

This vintage paper is from Echo Park "This & That" along with all of the stickers and die cuts. I felt it was pretty appropriate (given my age...lol). The title font is from Cricut's Jubilee "stilts" and the lovely pink brackets are cut with Cricut's Art Philosophy cartridge.

I apologize the pictures are a bit smaller than I normally post. Blogger is being dumb and not letting me change them to a large size. Not sure what is going on...but it looks like I need to live with it for now.

Hope your week is starting off well. Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Two Page Layout - "Tin Caps"

It's baseball season. Fort Wayne has a new minor league stadium right downtown.  It's open for walking on non-game days. It's a great addition to the fun things you can do downtown. Our team is called the Tin Caps, and they are pretty fun to watch, even though, I'm pretty open about the fact that I'm not much of a baseball fan. Each year the company my husband and I work for sponsors a picnic for the employees at one of the Tin Caps games.

These pictures were taken at last year's company picnic at the ballpark. We bought extra tickets for our son and his family to join us. What a joy to share the evening with them!

 You can tell that baseball isn't Scarlet's favorite yet either, but overall, I think she had fun exploring the baseball park. The patterned paper here is all StampinUp! The baseball was cut from Cricut's Sports Mania cartridge. I inked around the edges with Tim Holtz Pumice distress ink.

 The brackets were cut with Cricut's Art Philosophy cartridge, and the title font is Jubilee. The paper flowers and butterflies are also from StampinUp! and the edges are inked with red to give them a little dimension.

I can't believe she's 2 years old already and she now has a baby brother. This layout is such a great reminder of the fun memories we had with our family that night. As the journaling reads, she is way more entertaining than any baseball game. It's kind of fun to do a girly baseball page!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I appreciate you all.

Two page layout - "Owl About You"

If you've been following my blog for very long, you've probably started to notice a little bit of owl love going on here. I do love them!

Here's another two page scrapbook layout of my son and his precious family from last fall. These pictures were taken when Scarlet was six months old, last October.

 Their pictures turned out great. Photo credit to Eta Fe Photography. This adorable owl hat!!! I have no words for such cuteness, especially when it's placed on our beautiful granddaughter. =)

 It's a little hard to see here, but the scalloped adhesive ribbon under the pictures added a little bit of soft coziness and texture. The brackets were cut with my Cricut out of a nice gold scrap of patterned paper from my scrap box.

 The title was cut with Cricut's "Hoot N Holler" cartridge. There are so many cute owls and owly phrases on this cartridge. If you love owls like me, it's a must have.

Here's the whole layout. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a wonderful week.