Family of the Groom - Two Page Wedding Layout

Merry Christmas Eve to you all! I'm continuing to post my son and daughter-in-love's wedding album layouts. They are such a beautiful pair and we are so happy they each found each other!

Here we all are, trying to look cute for our pre-ceremony family photos. I look back and think why did I buy this dress? Oh well, it is what it is and I'm my own worst critic. Everybody else is lovely, though and oh so photogenic.

 For this layout I used a mix of wood grain paper and a petite floral. After all, they are wedding photos. The beard, mustache, and tie are quite fun to put with the floral! A little bit of washi tape along the edges of the floral, again, make it a little more manly.

I adore the picture of our grandbabies smooching on their Uncle Jacob! What could be cuter!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are enjoying the wedding album!! It was so fun for me to put together for them. 

Family of the Bride - Two Page Family Wedding Layout

I've been so busy with Christmas preparation and appointments that I haven't posted for awhile. Today I'd love to share with you the Family of the Bride layout for my youngest son and Daughter-in-Love's wedding in the fall of 2017.

 The left side is the bride's immediate family. Aren't they all so photogenic?? Each of the pictures make me smile.

 The upper right picture is us with the lovely bride to be! She's a keeper for the whole family! The journaling block was written with my Cricut. I love to use Bible verses, especially for a wedding.

I love mixing patterned paper like this, especially when I happen upon two different brands in my stash that work not only great together, but with the pictures. I searched Design Space for a shape that would work well with the flourishes on the patterned paper. I was pretty pleased with my find and cut them in a pumpkin color.

Thanks for stopping by. Next up later this week will be the grooms family (us)! Blessings to you all as you are probably scurrying around like me with all of your last minute projects, shopping, baking, wrapping....and enjoying!!

"Team Groom" - Two Page Wedding Layout

Hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. It's probably my favorite holiday!! We were truly blessed with wonderful family moments and yummy food...If I do say so myself. 😄

It's time to share another wedding layout. Today, it's the boys group photos!

 Of course, there will be some silliness with this bunch. They all have fun together, which makes a great photo shoot. I love the mix of fonts on the title which left just enough space for the wood mustache. There is no lack of facial hair, man buns, and long flowing locks on these handsome men.

 I used a mix of scrap patterned paper across the middle of the page to anchor the photos, and matted the photos in burgundy to help them pop on the wood grain background. The mustache paper scrap banners were another nod to the facial hair, adding yet another touch of masculinity to the "Team Groom" layout.

Again, I must apologize for the darker yellow look on the left side. I will have to be more careful to have more even lighting next time I photograph my layouts.

Make sure you come back for the next post featuring my daughter-in-love, the beautiful bride! Have a great week!! Stay warm and cozy.

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Happy Together"

Young love! These two are married now, but were just dating (seriously) at the time of our family photo shoot. With each family picture we took, we made sure we took one without her in it. I felt terrible doing it, but honestly, you just never know if they're going to last. If they don't last, you're likely not to hang any pictures with her in it. Yes...it happened before, so I was a bit gun shy.

 Katie was very understanding about it. Thankfully, we never had to post the pictures without her in them! We never even printed them! She's a keeper and we are so blessed with two wonderful daughter-in-loves.

 They celebrate their first anniversary this weekend!! Woot! So excited to watch them grow together in love as their future unfolds. They're so great together!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Hope you are enjoying all the layouts from this photo shoot. I'm enjoying reliving the memories as I post them.

One Page Scrapbook Layout - XOXO

Oh my goodness! This little girl totally melts my heart! The sweetness and the attitude meld together for the perfect combination of strength and beauty.

The freckles, and the mood of this picture is just too sweet. This sweet thing is the first girl in our family for a long time, so I love being able to pull out the florals, light pink ball fringe and everything girley for her layouts.

It's hard to see in this pic but I used Wink of Stella on the flower to give it some shimmer.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today for one of my rare one-pagers!

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Sweet Treats"

There's a cute little old fashioned ice cream shop in Upland, IN where we occasionally stop when taking my son to or from Ball State. This time, we shot a few pics and it turned into a pretty cute layout.

 We look a little tired after packing up my son and all of his school belongings after his summer session. It's so much work! I'm so glad that he's now graduated and we're done with the twice a year manual labor of moving him. Plus it's so great to have him home!!

 I love this vintage look striped paper from Crate Paper "The Pier" collection, and Fancy Pants "Summers End". The wood grain circle banner is Studio Calico, and the red ribbon is Paper Studio. Most of the buttons are StampinUp plus a few miscellaneous buttons from my stash. The cute big mouth journaling tag is from Smash! It seemed appropriate for filling our faces with ice cream. I failed to make a note of the cartridge for the bowl of ice cream and the title.

Hope you like the vintage vibe of this little layout. Now I'm hungry for ice cream! Thanks for stopping by today!

Two Double Layouts - "Country Girl" and "Good Times"

Birthday celebrations are the best!! My sons share the same birth date in August, so we almost always find a way to celebrate the day as a family.

 This year, we made the short trip to Muncie to celebrate on Jacob's turf at Ball State. Cammack Station is one of the local hamburger joints with a vintage vibe and yummy food. There were a bunch of tractors on display across the street, so we took our turn posing on them and letting Scarlet turn the steering wheel.

 We got some great shots, even though she wasn't especially smiley that night. She's so adorable with or without the smile. The patterned paper and chipboard embellishments are Echo Park's "This & That". The banner is cut with Art Philosophy and SU's bitty bracket punch.

 These pictures bring back so many memories from the boys' birthday last year. It's always a hoot with this family!

 These pictures were taken inside the restaurant. The patterned paper from SU fit the vibrant vintage theme of the restaurant perfectly. The title is cut with Cricut's "Paislee" with an orange block out shadow.

 The Studio Calico wood grain circle banner just happened to be lurking in my stash. I love it when that happens. I cut the bracket map with Art Philosophy and sliced it in half to use on each side of the collage of photos. The Chevrons were punched out and faux stitched with a fine marker.

I hope your week is blessed and filled with fun family times.

Masculine cards - Father's Day, Sympathy, and Birthday!!

Hello! It's Monday and I'm mourning the weekend already! How about you? We got away for a brief northern Michigan getaway to a friend's graduation open house. It was way too quick of a trip, but we enjoyed the sunshine and time together.

I have a lot of men in my life....Okay, so that didn't sound good! LOL! I have a wonderful husband, two boys, a wonderful father of my own, and so on. It's always a challenge to make a manly card. Last year for Father's Day, I created this one for my husband. The card was inspired by one I saw on line and I, unfortunately, didn't save the information to give proper credit. I more than likely found it on Scrapbooks, Etc. Hopefully I'm giving credit where credit is due. Here's the card.

 I had so much fun making this. I whip stitched all the way around the edge. The lined paper on the inside helped me to keep my writing straight and it seemed to add to the grungey look of the card.

The chipboard was from my stash, along with the buttons and the twine. I like the carefree feel of it. I remember it taking me awhile to make, but I do love the way it turned out.

It remains to be seen whether I'll get any Father's Day cards made this year. I have no scrap room during the summer when my son is home from college, so I haven't decided whether I can live with my creative mess in my dining room.

The next card is a birthday card for one of my nephews. I'm sure guys don't typically "cherish" or hang on to their birthday cards for very long, so I tried to make it a quickie and I've already forgiven him for probably tossing it after a week...LOL!  Hopefully the thought of me slaving over it is still appreciated. =)

I used Tim Holtz distress ink "antique paper" and a woodgrain background stamp. The vertical stripe is tape from a travel collection. The striped piece was from my stash. I stapled on a few pieces of twine and tied them in the center sith a smaller piece. Stamped a grungey sentiment and popped it up with foam adhesive. A pretty quick card!

Next is a sympathy card for a guy at work who recently lost his Dad.

I used black, red and kraft card stock. The clock and vertical sentiment are Tim Holtz, and the Praying for You sentiment is StampinUp. There are two layers of red. The bottom later was dry embossed using a checkerboard folder.  I layered it all up and inked all of the edges.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a great evening!

Baby Girl Shower Decorations - OWLS!!

Hello friends! Happy Easter to each of you. What a great day to celebrate the hope we have in our risen Savior!

I'm excited to share some of the decorating details of the baby shower we hosted for my daughter-in-law a few weeks ago. I'm finally getting around to uploading pictures. These photos are of the details before we put it all together. You'll have to stop by later this week to see how it all came together for the actual shower.

The theme was owls!!! Woot! Can I just say we've all been a little owl crazy ever since. Have I mentioned lately how excited we are that our fist grandbaby will be a girl!!! There has not been a Leonhardt girl since my husband's older sister, over 60 years ago!  

The invitations were pretty simple to make. I used fuschia polka dot textured card stock, and a lighter pink scallop edge along the top. The owl stamp and matching punch is from Stampin Up. I used this stamp and matching punch so much for all of the shower decorations, I was afraid I might wear it out. =) It saved so much time. I love it!! The details for the shower were typed into Word and printed four-up on white paper.

My sweet and helpful hubby helped me make the owl chocolate lollipops which were used as favors and part of the centerpieces on each table. We had light and dark chocolate, white chocolate, and pink...of course! We bought pastel colored eyes and attached them with a few drops of melted chocolate. Aren't they cute?

The centerpieces are tin pails covered with wood grain paper. They had a very earthy organic look. They look better all put together, but I wanted to give you more of the nitty gritty details here. I found some great fuchsia rose trim and used glue dots to attach it around the pails. Inside the pails is a square of burlap with several threads pulled from the outside edges in order to give it a good fringe on all sides.

I purchased some twine balls to place in the pails and push down into the burlap squares. The chocolate owl lollipops will stand up in the center of the balls, poking through the holes in the twine ball. It's a great way to keep the lollipops propped up and evenly spaced. 

The banner was so much fun to make!!! Here it is before being fully decorated. Each piece of the banner is about a foot long. I used store bought doilies on each one to highlight one letter from our future grandbaby's name. Again, you will see the finished product in a later post. I cut out single flowers from the trim used on the centerpiece pails. Later I added a bunch of whimsical felt flowers from Stampin Up. I had all of these things on hand in my stash. I will later remove them from the banner so I can re-use all of the flowers. Yep...I'm cheap likf that. =)

I wanted to surround each of the centerpieces with confetti type flowers and owls, so I got out my punches and got to work.  Picture all of this times abot 20!! =)

 

 Then I made a bunch of cupcake picks using a scalloped circle punch and more stamped and punched owls. I simply taped the toothpick to the back of the cirlce.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!!! Check back later this week and I'll show you how everything looked the day of the shower.