I have to tell you a little bit of background for this page.  This is my little guy who spent every night of his first 3 months sleeping on daddy's chest.  These pictures were taken when we finally started transitioning himto sleeping in the bouncy seat out in the living room .  Daddy was holding him to get him to sleep and his eyes were just so heavy as he watched me take his picture.  For the record, this little guy is now 3, Jaan, and he still gets his Daddy up once a night at least.  He's Daddy's boy! I had a lot of fun making this scrapbook page!  When I went through my pictures to Continue reading

I had fun making this scrapbook page this afternoon.  I took these pictures a couple months ago and I've been wanting to do something fun with them.  The Not Quite Navy polka dot velum I used is from the Taste of Textiles pack.  The vellum is 12x12 and then I tore it in half.  Because of the nature of velum, I used Bashful Blue striped grosgrain ribbon along the bottom of the velum to cover up the marks from using snail adhesive.  The top corners of the velum is held down white eyelets. The bubbles were made using the various sizes of Stampin' Up! circle punches.  When I first made the page Continue reading

Is anyone tired of Ocean City scrapbook pages yet?  Well, as you can tell, we took a lot of pictures when we there almost a year ago!  One of these days I'll get them all done! I like this layout.  I wanted a way to feature some of the pictures of the ocean and sand that I took and yet I didn't want it to be exclusive to the scenery.  So, this is what I came up with. Down the center of the layout is double-stitched grosgrain ribbon and then I attached some hemp twine with partial knots tied in it.  There really isn't anything overly fancy about the page other than that.  The pictures of my Continue reading

I had some time to sit down and be creative today.  Yeah!  The good days are the days I get to create!  Unfortunately some days are a little easier than others.  It took me a while to get this page to my satisfaction but I like the final result. It's hard to see in this picture, but the cushion on my sons seat is a tan and brown plaid.  Because of that, I pulled the white and brown plaid paper from the Parisian Breeze Specialty DSP to use on this page.  The strip at the top and the box in the lower right-hand corner use this DSP. The large scallop circle you see was made on the Big Shot with Continue reading

What a fun scrapbook page! I got the idea for this from someone else a while back but I'm afraid I don't know who it was. The Scrap Club will be making a two page spread very similar to this in the month of April.  If you are part of the club you will receive an email in the next week or so with details about the pictures you need to bring. Thus far I don't have pictures printed for this page but I took a few the other day that I hope will work.  There are tall weeds in a marshy area behind our house so I used that as a background for my boys.  I can't wait to print one and get it on the Continue reading

Every once in a while I get around to working on a scrapbook page from my wedding.  We were married almost 7 years ago (it will be 7 on May 25) and I think I finally have 5 pages done or something like that.  I've been a little slow!  We did not hire a photographer for our wedding and not all the pictures turned out the greatest so they're interesting to work with. This is a two page layout I made yesterday.  The Perfect Plum and Whisper White roses were made with the Big Shot and Manhattan Flower embossing flower.   We are going to do a layout very similar to this for both Scrapbook Clubs Continue reading

I mentioned yesterday how I enjoy creating in black and white at times.  I thought I'd share a scrapbook page I came up with a little while back.  I'm still trying to decide what pictures to put on this page.  I think a nice formal black and white picture would be nice, I just don't have one.  One of these days I'll find the perfect picture. To make this page I used Basic Black, Basic Gray and Whisper White cardstock.  Along the bottom of the pages I stamped the swirly from Baroque Motifs stamp set.  The stripes were made with black and gray cardstock and then I used the scallop edge punch Continue reading

I received my pictures in the mail today from Snapfish so I was able to finish my lego scrapbook page that I started last week.  My sons love their legos so I just had to do a page with a small sampling of their creations.  I would have to fill 10 books if I took a picture of every nice building they make! Using the Stampin' Up! Label Punch made these Lego's incredibly easy to make!  Simply punch it from cardstock, and show just a 1/3 of the punch from behind a rectangle the same color of cardstock from our Bold Brights color family and you've got a Lego. Today is my oldest son's birthday, Continue reading

The Scrap Club in Stewartstown, PA will be making this scrapbook layout tomorrow evening at our first meeting!  I'm very excited to get our club started and meet some new faces! This layout uses our Bella Bleu Designer Series Paper along with coordinating colors; Very Vanilla, Kraft, Not Quite Navy and Chocolate Chip.  I added some ribbon and Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware and pictures from our last trip to Ocean City and here it is. Unfortunately the lighting was not very good when I took this picture so I don't think you're truly seeing the pages at their best.  Perhaps you should just join Continue reading

I have had this idea in my head for a little while now, I just haven't gotten around to putting it together until now.  My sons all love to play with legos (megablocks really) and I have a bunch of pictures featuring their creations.  What better way to show off those pictures than with a lego tower of my own on the page too! I'm not as intricate with my lego creations as my sons are (really - even with the real thing) but I gave it a try! I made these simply with rectangular pieces of paper and punches from the Designer Label Punch.  Currently I don't have the rest of the page done . . . Continue reading