Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Woodland Princess"

Here's another layout of my beautiful grand daughter for her fourth birthday photo shoot. I typically will scrap a double layout for her book, as well as for mine. That is why you see so many layouts of the same pictures! Sometimes I use the same basic layout design, and other times I completely mix it up. I almost always use different paper, though.

 Of course, she had a few outfits to use, which means I need to capture all of the outfits on layouts! :) I love this beautiful little dress and how she flows (and glows) in it.

 I loved the butterflies, dragonflies and mushrooms with the layout and the paper. It's a simple layout, but I love the feel of it...and the gorgeous baby girl is what makes it amazing!

 She melts my heart and I literally can't stop looking at her! Love her zest for life!

I used a little Wink of Stella on the mushrooms because all mushrooms should be shimmery, right?

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I have another Woodland Princess layout that I will be sharing tomorrow!

Double layout "Sweetheart"

Sundays are family day for us. Today our son and daughter-in-law invited us to their church and then we all went out for lunch together. We are empty nesters while our youngest son is at college, so we look forward to this time with our oldest and his family. We are so blessed to be near them and really enjoy being part of their lives and so close to our Granddaughter! She is such a delight!!

She is growing so fast! I can hardly believe she will be two in April, when her little brother is due to arrive. =) Until she has to share the camera with baby brother, she is my favorite thing to scrap about! I have several layouts that are done, and I just haven't made time to share them yet as well as another stack that I'm waiting for a nice sunny day so I can snap pictures.

This layout features her 9 month photo shoot. What a doll baby!

 The newsprint paper is Pink Paislee Secret Crush "Love Notes". The banner across the top is all part of the paper...so cute! I added the doily on the left from my stash for a little bit of journaling. A little bit of glitter paper is used as the matt to highlight one of the pictures. The title is cut with my Cricut. I have a very crafty friend who crocheted a whole bag of beautiful flower embellishments for me. Isn't it great??

I found the pink ribbon with the glitter scallop design on clearance. The doily at the bottom of this page is, again, part of the patterned paper and it made the perfect spot for some additional journaling. I used StampinUp's 5 petal and butterfly punches, and added rhinestones and brads to layer with the newsprint paper flower embellishments.

Didn't my daughter-in-law do a great job capturing Scarlet's personality in these pictures? I absolutely adore each one!

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Two double layouts - "Friends Always" and "Moomers"

Sometimes, I'm disappointed to find out that pictures of an extra special event didn't turn out like I thought they did. I almost didn't scrap them because I felt like they were too dark and blurry, and I didn't like the way I looked in them...You know how it is. Then I thought about the fact I didn't know when we would see these forever friends again. It's already been two summers since we've seen them. In this case, I decided preserving the memory of our time together was more important than how we looked, or the quality of the photos.

"Friends Always" - I didn't make a note of the brand of paper, but I believe it StampinUp designer series paper with 7 Gypsies washi tape. The scalloped circles were cut with my Cricut machine and cut down to the length of the photo.

 The paper butterflies are also from StampinUp. I inked them with red and blinged them up with clear gemstones that I colored black with a Sharpie marker.

 I used coordinating patterned paper for the title.

 It's a little unusual for me to only use three pictures on a layout, but the extra journaling helped fill some space. I'm so happy I scrapped our friends! She has been one of my best friends since we were four years old! Love you, Nancy!

While we were in Traverse City visiting our friends, we made our favorite stop at Moomer's Ice Cream.

"Moomers" - The woodgrain paper is Close to My heart with herringbone print on the reverse. The ice cream cone and letters are from random scraps.

 Moomers has fabulous ice cream and you can hang around outside and watch the cows in the field. The polka-dot paper was the closest I could come to a cow print. :)

 This is another super simple linear layout. I can almost taste the ice cream now.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. If you live anywhere near Traverse City, stop in and have some ice cream at Moomers for me. Yummy!

Two Page Layout - "What a Cutie Pie"

It's been a really long time since I've shared a layout of my precious grandbaby, Scarlet. We have so many darling photos of her. I seriously, can't keep up with the scrapbooking.

This layout features pictures from her 3 month photo shoot. Isn't she a doll baby? Okay..so I'm probably a tiny bit biased.=)

I found a wonderful stack of paper from My Minds Eye. It's bursting with chevrons, wood grains, and vintagey floral goodness. I thought it would be fun to tear the corners and add a layer of paper underneath. This was the first time I used my honeycomb screen. I just laid it down and sponged some ink in and around it, then sponged the torn edge with pink.

 The StampinUp paper butterflies were also sponged with pink. The banner is more MME scraps and Kraft stuck down side-by-side with faux stitch marks between.
The torn upper right corner is backed with another sheet stamped with the script from StampinUp's French Foliage. I added some additional banners and ball fringe.

 Thanks for stopping by today. I feel like I'm finally sliding into the weekend! Yay! We'll be heading for Florida on Monday for me to get continuing education credits for my insurance designation, followed by a beach vacation with my whole family! Can't wait!! I guess I'll have even more pictures to scrap when I return. =)

Pinterest Inspired Cards

Any Pinterest lovers out there? Oh my...I probably spend way to much time pinning. I've found some great ideas and it's an awesome thing to sort through all the great ideas when I'm ready to make a card.

1) Butterfly Love

This one caught my attentenion because of the pretty butterflies that popped off the white on white layers. This was the first time I'd stamped first, then dry embossed the stamped image. It's a great effect. Thaks for the inspration: http://www.bellarosecards.com/2013/02/bright-butterflies.html

2)Horizontal Pennants

I changed this one up with the colors, and the punched butterfly, but the inspration came from
http://caline-paperwitch.blogspot.de/ I love the way this turned out and I'll definitely make something similar again some day soon. Pretty simple and lots of fun with layering stamps and pennants.

3) Hello Cut Out

I've been wanting to try using the negative image on a card, and when I saw this one on Pinterest, I definitely had to give it a try.  http://noonuh.blogspot.com/2012/04/its-been-so-long.html . I couldn't find the actual post for this card because the pin was tagged to the home page of the blog. I practiced with a scrap first to know where to set the size dial on my Cricut. I popped up the negative, and punched a layered flower for the embellishment. Fun!

4)Distressed Sun Burst

The inspiration for this came from the printed paper and the sunburst die cut. I didn't follow the technique linked to the Pinterest image. Instead I tore the hymnal page to be smaller than the card face, attached it to card stock, inked my embossing folder, then ran the hynmal page through the press in the inked folder. The scalloped circle punched from glitter paper, gave it a little girly touch. Thanks for the inspiration: http://scrapperia.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/jetzt-muss-es-aber-reichen.html

Remember the candy wrapper flowers?

I realize we're well past Easter, but you can't scrap it until it's over, right? And..I don't get to scrap every day, so try to cut me some slack. Thanks! =)

Here is a layout using pictures that the three of us took together on our patio in the back yard. It was a lovely spring day and the flowers were made for this layout.
Here are some close ups of the butterflies.
You will notice Joel is missing and my journalling speaks to that....Becoming Three...After church he was off to an event with his fiance's family. Guess this will take some getting used to, just as it did when it was just Mark and I getting used to the idea of adding baby Joel to the family. Now he's all grown up. Big sigh...OK enough sap for one post. Thank goodness for Jacob filling in the gaps with sillyness. Silly boys! I've been blessed with two of them.

Thanks for looking and have a lovely Friday tomorrow!