Tuesday Post

Now that tax season is over, I'm having a little more time to play with my supplies.....

Scrappin Days!

Here are a few more pages I've made.....

I made the majority of this page at Marisa's house a few weeks ago, but when I came home I added the ghost images from my very favorite Stampin Up set "Haunts & Howls" {retired}.

This second layout is my family at Gracie and Gaby's quincenera in 2008. Unfortunately Santos was not in the picture because he had to work that weekend and didn't join us for the trip down to Poplar Grove.

I love scrapbooking. I also love re-living the memories as I put the pages together.

Scrapalooza

Last weekend I got together with the 'girls' , Tiffany and Marisa. We all spent the day scrapbooking which was a nice change from our normal routine of making cards. I was so proud of myself because I didn't take a ton of embellishments but rather focused on the pictures and enhanced the pages using patterned paper in many instances.

I did pick up a book on a trip to Archivers titled "Playing With Paper" which was a great inspiration. Here are a couple of pages from the day...

Where has the time gone....

since I last scrapbooked??????

I haven't had much time to craft lately with the new job and tax season, but I did manage to sneak in a couple of pages over the last few days... Although I enjoy making cards, I do forget how fun it is to scrapbook with pictures. Enjoy!

You & Me and Me & You...

Back to scrapbooking... Here's a quick layout of me and Jess on New Year's Eve 2009. I decided not to over- think it and just go very playful.

Baby Album Part II

These are the last 13 pages of the album.... She is a new scrapbooker, so I tried to make this as easy as possible for her to just drop in 4x6 pictures of the baby.

I love how quickly this came together after thinking about the layouts. I really repeated three of the layouts throughout the book - can you tell?

Scrap Challenge Update

Although I haven't posted any recent pages, I have been creating pages to go along with my weekly challenge. Here are a couple that I created a few weeks ago. I'm getting together with the girls again this weekend to attend the scrapbook expo and plan to do more scrapbooking so I should have plenty to share next week.


I absolutely love this pic, it was taken with a borrowed Cannon Digital SLR. A friend at work let me borrow her camera for a weekend to give it a test drive. Truth be told it was hard to give it back. I thought maybe I can put my little digital camera in her bag and she would never notice I switched them- but I didn't do it :-)


Although the lighting was not great as I took these pics, I love the collage of pics in this 2-page spread. The focus is on the pictures and every time I look at this page, I remember how fun the family reunion was that Saturday in July!


Additionally, here are some more cards using PTI's button stamps - they are so darn cute... and to think I wasn't even going to buy them.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Scrapbook Challenge week #3

It's contagious....

I made these last week when I got together with my buds but did not have a chance to post them yet. I hope I think I re-inspired my friends to get back to scrapbooking because we all got some pages done last weekend! These pages are not super fancy, but again, I'm enjoying showcasing the pictures in a scrapbook page.

Scrapbook Challenge week #2

Here is the page I made this week in keeping with my personal scrapbook challenge. It was fun to create a not-so-serious page with various embellishments, stitching, and different titling fonts. I'm really excited about getting back into scrapbooking and look forward to re-aquainting myself with all the 12x12 paper, thickers, chipboard, and other embellies I have hoarded over the years!

The pictures were taken from my camera phone, so not very high quality, but the point of the pictures were very clear - Nicole is much too much like her Daddy! :-)

Monday Monday...

I'm so excited to post this page... Look at him, isn't he d-i-v-i-n-e??? (yum). Yeah, okay... This is a pic from a SOX game we attended on Mother's Day 5-10-09. We had pretty good seats and I had a pretty good zoom camera in hand.

Now, hopefully he can get off the injured list to play the rest of the season!!!

Puppy...

Although not real, Nicole loves her puppy as if it were a real live pet. Sometimes I wonder whom she loves more???

Since Nicole is a "blingy" kind of girl I added much glitter to this page by highlighting the stamped flower images. Tata for now...

Scrapbook Pages

Happy Thursday!

I have been pushing myself lately to scrapbook more and make less cards. Yes, cards are quick hits and provide instant gratification, but I have to remind myself why I started paper crafting in the first place - to document our life, my daughter, and our family memories. I have to say when my brother passed away last July, I was glad that I had plenty of pictures of him to share with my family and how they reminded us of all the fun times we shared together.

Therefore, my personal goal for the remainder of the year is to complete at LEAST 1 page per week. By doing this, I will have at a minimum of 30 pages by year end.

So here are this week's pages...

Friday Night Scrappin...

Long went the days of Friday Night Clubbing... These days it's Friday Night Crafting - where the heck did my youth go????

I was inspired last night to do a little craft room cleaning. Also I purchased another American Crafts 12x12 Album and was able to add all the scrapbook pages I had lying around. I didn't worry about what size they were, I just put them in their appropriate protective folders (6x6, 8x8, 8/12 x 11, and 12x12) and added them randomly into the D-Ring binder. It felt pretty good to get this into their new home and not worry too much about the pages matching the album sizes. Also, it came out pretty ecclectic and looked intentional so it all worked out well. This allowed me some extra time to create some scrapbook pages for some random pics I had decided to scrap a while ago.


This was a fun page since I didn't have to be so serious...


This is my younger sister sporting a New Year's hat that the kids made during our annual Craft for kids event on Christmas Day.

Nikko is such a clown, he put on his hat and pretended to strut down the cat walk. He is so funny and cute! I swear he is an old soul because he really gets what life is all about - living happy!

That's it for now. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Back to Scrapbooking!

Okay, lately I've been creating a lot of cards and not scrapbooking much lately. However, this week, I really wanted to focus on the craft that really got me into papercrafting - that is scrapbooking... I love how creating these pages makes me remember the memories and it makes me proud how I showcased the precious pictures of my family...

Here are a few pages I made this week...

Today...

Today is beautiful outside, so before I head on out to "play" I "played" inside for a bit. I thought it was time for a scrapbook page... Okay, so this one doesn't have any pictures....but it still counts :-)

Supplies: Stamps- PTI & Stampendous, CS & Ink - SU, PP & Chipboard - We R Memories

Here is a card I made that is not my typical style, but it came out very nice - I thought.

Supplies: PP&CS - SU, Stamps SU & PTI, Misc - Buttons

Have a great day!!!