Here's another scrapbook page from the book I made for my brother.  This was a real simple layout but seemed elegant enough for pictures taken at a wedding.  Do you see the lady on the left in the pink?  She's my grandma! The swirly you see was cut using the Decorative Accents die which can be found on page 207 of the Idea Book & Catalog. Thank you for stopping by today!  You all have been leaving lots of comments lately - I love it!  Thank you!!! Continue reading

My brother has given me permission to share some pages from the scrapbook I just put together from his military days.  He has just retired from the Air Force after 20 years of service and I had a great time making the scrapbook!  I would have liked to have had a little more time but I didn't jump on the project right away when it was given to me and then it caught up to me.  I had approx. one week to make the entire album. I used the Under the Stars stamp set to make my own DSP.  The letters were cut using the Naturally Serif die and the Big Shot and then I used the Circle Scissor Plus to cut Continue reading

I promise this will be the last scrapbook layout for a little while but I liked the last layout so much I decided to use it again with different pictures and colors, it really does give a whole different feel.  Be sure to check yesterday's Scrapbook Page if you didn't see that version of the page! This time I used the Inspired by Nature stamp set along with the colors of Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, and Garden Green. Here's the right-hand page.  Once again I used a bunch of different stamp sets to find the words I wanted to use.  What fun! Okay, now that I've shared so Continue reading

I've just been in scrapbooking mode lately!  ('Course I guess that's a good thing, I need to get pages done for Scrap Club!)  Here's my littlest guy, I just love these pictures of him!  He was in his pajamas but put a bib on himself and a fireman's hat.  I just couldn't resist taking pictures. Ethan's little shorts have elephants on them in various colors so I thought  it would be good to stamp the animals from the Animal Stories stamp set  on the Pumpkin Pie cardstock.  This is the first time I got to use my new Brights Buttons too!  How fun! This is one of the first times I've used the Continue reading

I have another scrapbook layout to share with you.  This is another layout we will be making at Scrap Club next Monday evening for the Scrap Club!  I love these pictures, I took them of a water fountain near the house we stayed in during our vacation.  The sun was shining on the fountain perfectly so that there was a beautiful rainbow, the rainbow reminds me of God's promise to Noah and each of us. Marina Mist matches the the pictures wonderfully so I decided I needed the to use it and I needed it in the form of designed paper.  I don't own any DSP in this color so I thought I'd make my Continue reading

I received pictures in the mail from SnapFish this week and knew right away I was going to have to scrapbook these cute pictures from Easter!  I love to see my little guys all dressed up in their Sunday best but seldom do I actually pull out the camera and snap a picture except at Easter. I used the retired color Elegant Eggplant along with our new Daffodil Delight and Peach Parfait.  The colors go wonderfully together!  I think Concord Crush would work great as well, however, I don't have any 12x12 sheets of cardstock in that color. The daffodil stamp set is from the Spring mini catalog Continue reading

I've been asked to create a scrapbook for my brother who is retiring from the Air Force in exactly two weeks.  Needless to say, that means I need to work fast! This is the opening page of the scrapbook.  I used our Real Red wide grosgrain ribbon along with Whisper White taffeta ribbon and the Courage stamp set. Here's a close up view of the the stamped images.  I spent a very long time coloring this, trying to make it perfect.  The quote from Churchill is heat embossed in white so it will stand out nicely. I know I promised to show you some peeks at the Funky Folds class, they're coming, Continue reading

I was given this sketch for our "10 minute" challenge this week.  I decided this would be best on a scrapbook page so technically I get 20 minutes to see what I can do with it. It's time to get started.  I'm not partial to 1 pages scrapbook layouts so I decided to do a two page layout. Here are some of the pictures I have to work with.  These are pictures from the park where we've gone on vacation the last two years.  I've got lots of pictures! Here's the work in progress.  To be quite truthful, I didn't do any stamping or anything fancy at all.  I simply worked with pictures, Continue reading

A week and a half ago we took the boys to visit the Choo Choo Barn in Strasburg, PA.  We had a fun time and I took lots of pictures, just in time for Scrap Club this month!  Almost everyone with little kids has some kind of pictures with trains, right?  It may be the kids playing with trains or a special train ride or . . . . I recently received the Choo Choo stamp set for free from Stampin' Up! so of course I had this set in mind even as I took the pictures. Hopefully you, and others that look at the page in person, will be able to tell that each picture is supposed to be a train car.  Continue reading

I've been given the above sketch and 20 minutes to make a scrapbook page.  Now to be quite honest with you, I hardly ever make single page scrapbook layouts, so I'm going to push myself a little further, I want to make a 2-page layout in the 20 minutes.  I have to admit, I'm going to be pushing it and it's going to have to be kept simple, but here we go. I grabbed up two sheets of Kraft (soon to be renamed as Crumb Cake) cardstock, the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set (retiring), Close to Cocoa craft ink and of course my pictures. Here are the pictures I plan to use.  These pictures were Continue reading

My hubby and I have now passed our 8th wedding anniversary and would you believe I still haven't gotten very far in my wedding scrapbook?  Every once in a while I do a layout but I just haven't had time to focus exclusively on the album, maybe one of these days, but for now, I'll work at it one layout at a time as I'm able. This is a fairly simple scrapbook layout using the Together Forever stamp set which is retiring, some Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon and the Decorative Accents, Naturally Serif and  Timeless Type Big Shot dies. We will be making this scrapbook layout for scrap club Continue reading

I made this scrapbook layout a few days ago.  This is a conglomeration of pictures left from different events that I've scrapbooked.  I thought it would be nice to make a layout just focusing on pictures of the boys doing things with Daddy. The boys truly do love to be with their daddy.  In fact, whenever I tell the boys that I have a party or class to teach they always cheer because they know they'll get "Daddy Time!"  Don't you want to help make my boys happy by scheduling a party . . . . ??! I chose to use the retiring Mellow Moss as the base for the scrapbook pages with Always Continue reading