Created By Jennifer

Garden Grill page

2011-03-23T07:57:00.000-05:00

This is a 2-page spread from my Disney album. I don't have very many 2-page spreads in that book but I love this one and its bright colors.

I used a sketch I have used before but it is a good simple sketch and I really like it.

12x12 Disney pages

2011-03-21T08:54:00.000-05:00

I am doing several traditional 12x12 pages in my Disney album. Here are a couple of them:

Disney album

2011-03-18T15:38:00.004-05:00

I have been working on my Disney album lately, I am almost done with it. I decided to do a sort of hybrid album. I took almost 1700 pictures plus all my photopass pictures so there was no way I could scrap them all. But when I was deciding which ones to I still printed almost 400 of them.

I am using these page protectors so I have lots of options for the putting the pictures in.

Here are some of the hybrid type pages I have done.

gift card holder

2010-12-24T01:04:00.004-06:00

I made this gift card holder at the last minute. I got the inspiration from this post: Present gift card holder.

Lichterman page

2010-11-23T13:38:00.004-06:00

Here is a two-page layout I did for Kaitlyn's book of us going to Lichterman Nature Center last summer. I bought this cute bug paper just to use on these pictures and then forgot to order the pictures (when I ordered pics for that time period). So I printed the pictures out at home (which I rarely do) and used another sketch from my Allison Davis sketch book.

First season of basketball

2010-11-18T12:04:00.002-06:00

This is another two-page layout for Kyle's sports book. It is from last season basketball. I had a hard time at first with this page because I was trying to use patterned paper as my background. Once I switched to the orange the page came together very easily.

I used this page as inspiration instead of a sketch this time.

Darth Vader page

2010-11-17T12:00:00.001-06:00

Here is another two-page layout I created this past weekend. This is for Kyle's book of Halloween last year. Only I am short one zero so I have to find one of those to put on the page.

Been a while

2010-11-16T11:49:00.004-06:00

It had been a while since I have created any pages. I did a few in May but they were just picture on a page kind of page and nothing really special. My husband got a new job so I was finally able to go to a crop on Friday night. Then I took my stuff out to my brother-in-laws house and kept on creating. I ended up with 13 pages from this weekend. I had recently purchased these sketch books by Allison Davis. Here is the link to those. I bought volumes 3 and 4 and I want to get the others. They are just really working for me (and Kelley I might add) right now.

So here is a two-page layout I made this weekend. This will go in Kyle's sports album.

Jonas Bros. concert pages

2010-03-17T22:22:00.006-05:00

We went to the Jonas Brothers concert in Nashville back in August and I took lots of pics. Here are 4 of the pages from that event for Kaitlyn's book.

I used this page for my inspiration from August 2007 issue of Creating Keepsakes. I really liked how the journaling fit in the circles on those squares.

I had used this layout for the page below before on a snow page from last year but I like the simplicity of it, especially on a page that doesn't need a lot of journaling.

The inspiration comes from this page from Scrapbooks, Etc.

Photo shoot page

2010-03-10T07:19:00.004-06:00

I took my kids to the park on an early spring day in March last year and last minute grabbed my camera and changed their shirts real fast so I could try and take some posed pictures of them. I have tried to scrap these pictures for about 10 months now and every time I get them out and try to pick out paper and a layout it just doesn't work for me. I finally did this page for Kaitlyn's book with the pictures of her. I really like how the page turned out.

I used this page from Simple Scrapbooks magazine for inspiration.

And here is what I came up with:

I did turn mine sideways from the layout of the original. This is one page down for March. I have 6 others that I have started but they need several things down to them before they can be called complete. Hopefully I can get that done this weekend.

big backyard page 2

2010-03-01T09:50:00.000-06:00

I made this page for Kyle's book of our Big Backyard outing. I had a lot of pictures that I wanted to include on this layout and couldn't really crop them down a whole lot. I kinda wish I had put the word backyard on the right side and centered the word big a little more on the brown part but decided to just leave it because it was fine.

I used this page from Creating Keepsakes, August 2009 as inspiration.

big backyard page 1

2010-02-26T09:00:00.000-06:00

We got this really cool new exhibit at the Memphis Botanic Gardens this past summer. It is a great place to take lots of photos.

This page is for Kaitlyn's book of our Big Backyard outing. I was at my BIL's house so I had to create the arrow myself since I didn't have a template. So don't look too closely at it because I am not real thrilled with the way it turned out. But I am very happy with the way the page as a whole turned out so I guess it evened out.

I used this page as inspiration that Lisa Bearnson did from Creating Keepsakes, January 2009. She used a Becky Higgins sketch as her inspiration.

Halloween 09 page

2010-02-24T08:54:00.001-06:00

I made this two page spread for Kaitlyn's book of last Halloween. I used a combo of these two pages from Creating Keepsakes, August 2009.

Here is my version

party page

2010-02-22T08:44:00.003-06:00

The other day I finally got my scrapbook mojo back! I made 17 pages in one day! We were out at my BIL's house and the boys were watching the never-ending Daytona 500. I have not made any pages since September. I made this two page spread of Kaitlyn's recent 10 yr. old birthday party.

left side

The left side of this spread was inspired by this page from Creating Keepsakes, July 2009.

right side

4th grade page

2010-02-16T09:48:00.005-06:00

I made this page for Kaitlyn's book. I had seen this page at Archiver's and used that as my inspiration:

And here is my version:

Project Life

2010-01-20T07:29:00.003-06:00

I participated in Project 365 for 2009 so naturally I wanted to continue and got the kit for 2010 called Project Life. So far I have taken a picture everyday but I am not sure that will continue. I have completed the first two weeks with the kit though and I am really happy with the way it is turning out.

Front page:

Week one:

Week two:

Some Christmas gifts

2010-01-20T07:18:00.006-06:00

Here are some boxes I made for Christmas gifts for my kids teachers. I put chocolate covered pretzels and a Starbucks gift card in each one. I followed the instructions found here on Splitcoast.

I also made this card at Archiver's one morning. It was a free make and take.

Plus I made this pail. It was a $5 make and take at Archiver's. However the line was so long to make it that we just got the supplies and took it home. I made it several days later then put candy in it and used it as part of my bunco gift.

I have had these pictures on my desktop to publish these for a while and am just now getting around to it. Maybe I should have made a resolution to be a better blogger in 2010.

Snowmen cards

2009-11-02T09:25:00.004-06:00

I made a set of cards for a friend of mine for her birthday. It took me a month before I actually saw her to give her this part of her gift but I finally saw her and gave these to her on Saturday night so I can now post them.

I made two different cards. The first is just a simple snowman card. The second is a sort of snow globe card. I have seen several people who made their version of the card on the back of the SU holiday mini catalog so I decided to join the crowd.

Supplies used: snowman stamp from TLC, snowflake stamp from SU Frosty set, white base, Brocade Blue and Close to Cocoa cardstock, Oval punch, White craft ink, Close to Cocoa ink, colored pencils, fancy scallop edge punch

Supplies used: Snowman stamp from TLC, Snowflake stamp from SU Frosty set, white base, Brocade Blue, Bashful Blue, and Close to Cocoa cardstock, Word Window and Oval punches, circle cutter from CM, white craft ink and Close to Cocoa ink, colored pencils, pop dots for the snowman

Another set of cased cards

2009-10-20T08:56:00.001-05:00

I made a set of these 4 cards for my secret sister also. I was inspired by these cards I found on a blog I follow. These cards are a great way to use some scraps of patterned paper.

Supplies used: patterned paper from American Crafts, Curvy Verses stamp set, Night of Navy ink, Navy ribbon, Old Olive, Rose Red, Regal Rose, and Sky Blue cardstock

Christmas card cased

2009-10-16T08:49:00.005-05:00

I made a set of these cards for my secret sister as part of her revealing gift. I had this card in my favorites on SCS. The only thing I changed was the ribbon color and the stamps I used.

Supplies used: Certainly Celery, Real Red, Always Artichoke and Chocolate Chip cardstock, circle punches, chocolate ribbon, Chocolate chip ink

Thank you cards

2009-09-25T07:43:00.000-05:00

I made a set these thank you cards for my friend Jayme who is getting married on the beach in a couple of weeks. I copied the idea from my friend Amy who copied the idea from the Archiver's website. They were very simple to make.

Don't Blink page

2009-09-23T07:14:00.004-05:00

I saw this page on Stacy Julian's blog a while back. I loved it and knew exactly what page I wanted to create using this idea. I have two children and the youngest started Kindergarten this year. I received some pictures in the mail yesterday (including this 5x7 that I had been waiting on to make the page with) and made this page last night. It is very simple but it is one of my favorite pages.

Journaling says: Don't Blink... cuz just like that your baby goes off to Kindergarten

It's a Blizzard page

2009-09-22T08:46:00.002-05:00

I copied this idea from a magazine of course but I love how the page turned out. I made this page for Kyle's book, it is from our snow day back in February.

8 pages in one night

2009-09-18T08:21:00.003-05:00

I am in the midst of a contest this year involving a challenge my CM consultant put us up to. The challenge is to create a minimum of 8 pages per month (it started out as 2 per week but then evolved). I am in the running with 3 other ladies. I am way behind at least 2 of them, probably all three. Part of the challenge is that you have to create at least your 8 pages each month. If all do that then the tie breaker would be who created the most. Well it was August 31 and I had not completed any pages for August yet so even though I had to get at 5:30 and go to work the next day, I stayed up, neglected anything around the house that needed to be done and scrapped. I got all 8 pages finished just shy of midnight (so I am not out yet). Here are 6 of those pages (2 of them are really bad), these are not my favorite pages by any means but they are not half bad and the best part is they are finished.

Fall soccer 08 pages for Kyle's sports album, I used an idea from a magazine for this layout

Softball 09 pages for Kaitlyn's book

Slip n Slide page. I had created the journal box and 6x6 strip on the right side of the page at Archiver's during a make and take weekend a while back. I was just waiting for the perfect pictures to put on it. So really all I had to do to this page was add the orange background paper and letter stickers, journal a little and this page was complete.

I recently got the new 12 inch circle cutter from CM so of course I had to use it on one of the pages.

Lego invitations

2009-08-21T07:59:00.002-05:00

Kyle is turning 6 and he wants to have a Lego themed party. I decided I could easily make the invitations. I was out of Brillant Blue cardstock which saddened me because that is the color I really wanted to use but I used Real Red, Glorious Green and Yoyo Yellow cardstock and my 1 3/8 circle punch with some pop-dots and here is what they look like:

And here is a closer look at one of them. The above picture is kinda blurry but you get the idea.

Baby thank you's

2009-08-20T10:51:00.005-05:00

I made a set of these cards recently for Sheri. They are similar to these I made before for Jessica except I made a boy version.

Supplies used: Brocade Blue, Sage Shadow and Night of Navy cardstock; SU retired patterned paper; scallop and 1 3/8 circle punches; Night of Navy ink; Very Punny stamp set.

Then I made a set of cards for Jessica. I used several cards for inspiration.

Supplies used: Bordering Blue, Night of Navy and White cardstock; Very Punny and Warmest Regards stamp set; Night of Navy ink; Square and Oval punches.

Waterslide pages

2009-07-16T08:31:00.001-05:00

I created these two pages trying to round out my 2008 pages. These are from last summer, one is for Kaitlyn's book and one is for Kyle's book.

I used Splitcoast sketch #153 for this page.

Kyle's L2L page

2009-07-15T09:48:00.003-05:00

I made this page for Kyle's book of him at Lads to Leaders in April. I used Splitcoast sketch #90 for this page.

I used some paper from a pack by Cloud 9 designs. The circles are punched out of a sheet from that pack. I used chocolate 3/4 inch ribbon from Stampin' Up. I typed my journaling on the computer.

scraplifted snow page

2009-07-13T11:41:00.004-05:00

I made this page for Kaitlyn's book, it is from the blizzard we had in February. I totally scraplifted it from one of magazine ideas (from Scrapbooks etc.). I used some Heidi Grace patterned paper and rub-ons with blue, pink, and white paper. I also used my circle punches. It is one of the few pages I did from start to finish all in one sitting.

Here is the page from the magazine:

And here is my version, I did orient mine landscape instead of portrait:

teeball page

2009-07-10T08:14:00.003-05:00

I decided to make Kyle a sports album. He has played 3 seasons of soccer and two years of teeball so far. I put the first soccer and teeball season in his regular album then decided I have way too many pictures already of this kid with some type of ball so I found a really cute sports themed album at Hobby Lobby.

Here is one page for that album. It is of him attempting to hit the ball being pitched to him instead of hitting from the tee. I copied this idea from one of my magazine ideas I recently purged through. This is one of my favorite pages I have done in a while.

Amy's sketch

2009-07-06T08:37:00.003-05:00

I am so into sketches these days. They are just great for giving me a starting place for the pages I create. I went to a crop recently at my CM consultants house and she had made this sketch for us to create a page with.

I love the sketch and hope she makes more (hint, hint!), she is good at it after all.

I made this snowman page using the sketch the night of the crop. It is one of my favorite pages I have created recently. I didn't even feel the need for journaling!

I then made this page a few weeks later using the same sketch. I switched the sides of the pictures plus I added an extra picture on the left side and made the title a little smaller.

Get rid of it already

2009-07-04T20:28:00.003-05:00

I have mounds and mounds of scrapbook magazines. I love to look through them. I have subscriptions to Creating Keepsakes and Scrapbooks etc. I am upset that Simple Scrapbooks is no loner in publication, I loved that one. I recently went to a "garage sale" at my LSS and bought a stack of old Simple Scrapbooks and Memory Makers. I don't really like Memory Makers (they were in the stack with the SS) so I immediately tore I the few pages I liked and put those to the side. I then decided that these magazines are taking over my space but could never bring myself to tear them up. Well I finally did. I have spent the last few nights tearing out the ideas that I like. I haven't gotten to the Creating Keepsakes yet, those are next. Now I just have to figure out what to do with the ideas I tore out and how to organize them.

The right stack is what I am keeping, the left stack is what I am getting rid of. Plus I added three more magazines to the pile after I took this picture!

Characters page

2009-06-29T09:39:00.000-05:00

I made this page for Kyle's book from our St. Louis trip in June 08. He loved meeting all the characters there. I took this concept from several pages that I had seen, mainly in magazines. I created the saying balloon on the pictures in a program on my computer called comic life.

I used some scrap patterned paper, CM navy alphabet letter stickers and a small green journaling box.

Random pages

2009-06-27T09:37:00.000-05:00

Here are some other random pages I have done recently.

So Proud page

2009-06-26T09:32:00.001-05:00

I made this page for Kaitlyn's book. I rarely do a page with only one picture but this pne definitely deserved its on own page. I used some CM perfect fit paper from the Celebration pack, blue thickers letters, blue and green accent paper and journaled with my blue marker.

Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus page

2009-06-25T09:25:00.003-05:00

My goal was to be cuaght up to Dec. 08 with both kids by Memorial Day. I almost made it. I only have a couple more pictures to sort through and decide if I am going to do pages for those or not. Anyway,

I made this page for Kaitlyn's book from this past Christmas. I didn't really use a sketch (a rare thing for me these days). I used some rub-ons, paper and journal box from the same company, I am just not sure which one. I have got to remember to write these things down.

Monogram teacher cards

2009-05-26T13:32:00.004-05:00

I made a set of cards for each of Kaitlyn's teachers (she has two main ones) for the end of the year. I spent all yesterday working on these cards and then even made a little post-it note keychain similar to these, and then the little turkey overslept, missed the bus and didn't go to school. She really didn't have to be there for these last two days anyway but still. So I told her she had to go tomorrow -- mainly to take these gifts I worked so hard on!

Anyway,

I used Chocolate Chip, Taken with Teal and White cardstock, Taken with Teal ink, 1 3/4 inch circle punch, scallop punch, Seeing spots and Antique Upper Alphabet stamp sets and some ribbon I had laying around. These are really simple cards but I hope her teachers enjoy them.

Santa was here page

2009-05-21T08:17:00.002-05:00

I made this page a while back for Kaitlyn's book. I used a SCS sketch but it has been so long ago that I do not remember which one I used. I used Rose Red paper for my background and Chocolate Chip and Rose Red PP for accents. I also used some CM stickers and chipboard letters that I inked with Garden Green (I think) craft ink.

shadow picture page

2009-05-06T13:22:00.003-05:00

I loved this picture of my daughter (and I took it by accident kinda) and wanted to make a page around it. I don't usually do one picture page layouts because I think it is kinda a waste but this picture I thought deserved its own page. Plus I loved the flower paper.

Supplies Used: Floral paper background, SU Rose Red accent paper, Slice diecut machine for the flowers and swirls, random stickers.

Eclectica Free make and takes

2009-05-05T10:24:00.001-05:00

Paula and I went to Eclectica on Saturday for their make and takes for NSD (National Scrapbook Day). They had two that you paid for (my post for later in the week, maybe tomorrow) and then these two cards that were free.

CM NSD make and take

2009-05-04T13:19:00.003-05:00

I went to a crop last weekend at my Creative Memories consultant's house for NSD. We made a card using her sketch and our free gift (which was a pack of 3x3 squares).

Sorry for the orange background, it was the only paper I had handy here at school to make a background with quick.

Kaitlyn's L2L scrapbook

2009-04-28T07:45:00.007-05:00

My daughter, Kaitlyn, participated in the Lads to Leaders program at our church. One of the events you can compete in is scrapbooking. She worked on the group scrapbook for our church and it won 2nd place. Then she also completed her individual scrapbook. They have to have some things included such as a cover, table of contents, introduction, conclusion and it is supposed to center around the theme of convention this year which was "all that you command us we will do and wherever you send us we will go", Joshua 1:16. Her scrapbook won 3rd place in the 3rd-4th grade division!

Sorry the pictures aren't that great. I was so proud of her and she was so excited!

Kaitlyn-- Happy New Year page

2009-04-27T12:27:00.001-05:00

Here is a simple page I made for Kaitlyn's book of New Year's eve photos. I used some CM perfect fit paper from the Everyday pack, green and orange CM accents, and some sparkly black letters.

Kaitlyn -- Christmas morning 08

2009-04-24T07:55:00.002-05:00

I am still working towards my goal of being caught up through Dec. 08 by Memorial day. I am going to a crop tonight and hope to finish up a few events and get the materials organized for those last few pages I will need. Here is a page I made the other day for Kaitlyn's book, it is from this past Christmas morning. I do so many Christmas pages through the years that I am trying to steer away from the traditional red/green papers.

Supplies used: Pink Passion background paper, Green Galore accent paper, random tree patterned paper, CM Christmas stickers, Green Galore ink, Brushstroke alphabet stamps.

Kyle - Christmas morning 07 page

2009-04-23T07:49:00.001-05:00

I made this page of Christmas morning 07 for Kyle's book. I used another Becky Higgins sketch. Love those! I also used some random polka dot paper for my backround, Real Red and Soft Sky accent paper and some other random stickers I had in my Christmas sticker pile.

Christmas tree page

2009-04-22T11:46:00.004-05:00

This is a really simple page. It is for Kaitlyn's book for the Christmas 2007 section. I loved the paper and didn't feel as though I needed to add a whole lot to it. I found the rub-ons, sticker journal box and paper at Archiver's.

Delta Fair page

2009-04-21T10:09:00.004-05:00

It has been a while since I have posted anything. We were busy at the beginning of the month with Lads to Leaders and then we have had soccer, softball and now teeball to start. The month of May is craziness for us. We will be at a ballfield somewhere on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays and maybe some Sundays for practice. Wednesday nights are church nights so that leaves me with Tuesdays and Fridays. Hopefully Tuesdays can be TV nights and Fridays can be scrapbook nights. We will see. But I do have several pages already done so I have things to post for at least the next few days.

Anyway I made this page for Kaitlyn's book a while ago. I used sketch #160 from splitcoast.

Supplies used: SU patterned paper for the background, Lovely Lilac, Pink Passion, and Tempting Turquoise accent paper, 3/4 inch circle punch, and the Slice for the letters.

Fingerpainting page 2

2009-03-31T07:35:00.001-05:00

I made this page for Kyle's book of him fingerpainting at my niece's birthday party. Just another simple page but I am slowly but surely getting caught up to my goal, which is to be caught up through December 08 by Memorial day in both my kids books. :)

Kyle - Easter 08 page

2009-03-30T07:28:00.000-05:00

I made this page for Kyle's book of Easter last year.

I used a sketch for this but I don't remember which one, it was actually a while ago that I created this page. I used my CM perfect fit paper for the green and yellow and used some scrap stripe paper for accent. The chipboard letters are from SU and I inked them with Chocolate Chip craft ink. Then I used an SU chocolate chip marker for my journaling and some random easter egg stickers on the top righthand side.

Kyle-Christmas at Gran's 07 page

2009-03-28T07:22:00.000-05:00

I made this two page spread for Kyle's book. I used a Becky Higgins sketch again (love those).

Supplies used: Red background paper, Kiwi Kiss and Night of Navy accent paper, Quirky Alphabet lower stamp set, Night of Navy ink and marker, CM navy number stickers, scrap stripe paper

take my picture page

2009-03-27T07:34:00.000-05:00

I love my son! He was playing at his cousins party and came and said Mommy come take my picture. So I went around the corner and he thought my SIL's front porch was the perfect setting for a picture because it had a swing, LOL! I only took a couple and then he was off playing again but I thought that would make a cute page. I still need to write that story at the bottom but here is the page (almost finished).

I used splitcoast sketch #130 for this page and some of my perfect fit CM paper.

hotel page

2009-03-26T13:22:00.003-05:00

This is a page I made for Kyle's book from our trip last summer to St. Louis. I used a Becky Higgins sketch for this page.

Supplies used: Only Orange background paper, Pacific Blue and Green Galore accents along with some SU DSP from the last catalog, Square punch, Orange letters from Making Memories, SU marker for journaling

more baby shower thanks

2009-03-24T07:45:00.000-05:00

I made a set of these cards for a girl at church. Her shower was Sunday. I had some extra pieces so I also made a gift card instead of a little tag.

Supplies used: white card base, Brocade Blue and Sage Shadow accents, old SU patterned paper, All in the Family stamp set, scallop punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, word window punch, everyday saying rub-ons,

Scrapbooking process

2009-03-20T12:43:00.004-05:00

I made 5 pages last night while watching ER and an old Without a Trace. I haven't taken a picture of them yet but I thought I would share my scrapbook process. I have set myself a goal of 200 pages to complete in 2009. 100 of those for my project 365 which will really end up with about 106 pages in it but the last few won't be complete until January so that will technically be 2010. The other 100 are for my other albums, mainly Kaitlyn and Kyle's. I am in a challenge with my CM consultant to complete 2 pages per week. So far so good, or at least pretty good. I have only had 2 weeks this year that I have completed 0 pages and last week I only completed 1.

After my pictures are printed I put them in chronologically order. I then pick a few pictures from an event and pick out the background paper, accent paper and embellishments I am going to use.

I put those in this organizer with these folders I got from Creative Memories.

I usually scrap somewhere other than my house (my BIL's, crops, Archiver's, etc.) so this way my stuff is ready to go anytime I want. Then when I sit down to create the page I have all the stuff there. There are plenty of times I decide I want something different for that page so I just save it for later or put it up and work on a different page.

I have also been using sketches a lot lately. I have printed hundreds of them and have a notebook I use to help inspire me.

Some of the sketches I use are from Splitcoaststampers sketch challenges, Becky Higgins sketches, and other sketch blogs. There is a very helpful website here that I found while surfing one day: Sketch Lover.

I find a sketch I like and then arrange my page, I adhere everything then add my stickers or embellishments. Last is the journaling. I am not a big journaler. I have also been typing my journaling a lot more lately. I still handwrite some because I think it is important to have my own handwriting in my books but it just looks so much neater to type and you can really set the tone of the page with the font you choose.

It is a rare thing for me to complete this process from start to finish in one sitting.

bowling page

2009-03-16T10:00:00.000-05:00

Kyle and Kaitlyn were both on bowling leagues this past summer. This page is for Kyle's book.

Supplies used: I bought the bowling paper from my LSS, Real Red accents, square punch, cardstock stickers, typed journaling,

Enchanted Forest page

2009-03-14T10:24:00.001-05:00

This page is for Kaitlyn's book, we visited the Enchanted Forest at the Pink Palace in December. It is a simple page and I didn't even feel the need for journaling.

Santa Storytime page

2009-03-13T07:32:00.002-05:00

I made this two page layout for Kyle's book. We went to a friend's house for Storytime with Santa and Mrs. Claus in December.

Supplies Used: Green and white cardstock, red patterned paper bought from Hobby Lobby, Real Red accents, typed journaling using RGB codes for Real Red, Cardstock stickers,

Another baby shower thanks

2009-03-11T13:36:00.005-05:00

I have another baby shower to attend this afternoon. I made a set of these cards for the mother to be this time. I had this card in my favorites folder at splitcoast. Then the creator of that card had linked this card as her inspiration. There is hardly any stamping, just a lot of use of punches.

I made a set of 12, using 3 different DSP (though from the same pack). Here is the three different styles and then a closer look at one of them.

Supplies used: Pink card base from Hobby Lobby, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum and Regal Rose SU cardstock, white cardstock, SU patterned paper, 1 1/2 circle punch, 1/2 inch circle punch, silver brads, Thanks stamp from Live Your Dreams set, Perfect Plum ink, Plum ribbon, white gel pen

Sisters album

2009-03-03T07:15:00.000-06:00

I made these mini albums for my two sister-in-laws who turned 30 last week. I used the badge covers you can buy at Wal-mart and some scraps to make these. They are both identical.

Beginning St. Louis page

2009-03-02T07:47:00.000-06:00

Her is a a page I made for Kaitlyn's book. I have ended up with about 10 pages in each of my kid's books from our Six Flags trip and we were only there 3 days. I should have just made a mini album from it but oh well, too late now. This year we hope to go back (or somewhere similar) and I will know better.

I used some more of the CM perfect fit paper along with the storybox journal cards for accents, and some brown letter stickers from Remarks. I also used a sketch for this page but I have been using so many of them lately that it is becoming hard to keep up with which one I used.

more make and takes

2009-02-28T07:50:00.000-06:00

Kaitlyn and I also made this mini album at Archiver's on Saturday. This was a pay make and take but only costs $10 (well worth it). Here are the pictures of mine. I haven't put a title on it yet because I am not sure what I am going to use it for. We used the bind-it-all along with some pre-punched photo sleeves. I bought some extra while there to make some more of these. They were quick and easy.

Project 365 pages

2009-02-27T07:03:00.005-06:00

I finally made a decision about how I want to do my Project 365 pages. I did not order the kit from Becky Higgins and I ended up regretting that decision. So I have been searching for a way to create my "pages". I thought about getting the page protectors that have the 6 4x6 slots in them and just putting two journal cards in the bottom slots. I had seen several people who are just doing 2 page layouts in different styles. I thought that was kinda what I wanted to do but I just couldn't figure it out. Then I saw this page on the Two Peas website. I can print 3 1/2 by 5 pics at Wolf Camera for 6 cents so I thought I could even print for fairly cheap.

Here are the first 3 layouts I did. I started taking my pictures on Jan. 1 so my first week just had 3 pictures. However I forgot that when I started doing the pages last night and I did the first 7 pictures on two pages. I had to figure out how to "fix" my mistake.

I decided I am going to do a different strip pattern for each week. I like this layout and am glad I finally figured something out to do so that I can get caught up with it.

Free make and take

2009-02-26T07:40:00.000-06:00

Kaitlyn and I went with Kelley to Archiver's on Saturday and did the make and takes. These two were free. We made a little journal card and a circle Thanks card.

Here are the ones I made.

more baby shower thanks

2009-02-25T07:41:00.001-06:00

I had two baby showers to attend last Saturday (at the same time). Here are the cards I made for Amy. I cased this card and then made a small 3x3 with some let over pieces as my gift tag.

Supplies used: So Saffron card base, Regal Rose accents, Georgia Peach DSP, Rose 3/4 inch ribbon, Chocolate chip ink, All in the Family stamp set, Scallop punch, 1 3/4 circle punch, SU markers.

Year in Review mini album

2009-02-24T09:34:00.002-06:00

I created this mini album recently and finally got the front finished the other night. I was going to label the front Year in Review but changed my mind at the last minute to 2008 adventures. It took me a while to find an album with enough pages for each month. I picked out my favorite picture from each month, which was quite a difficult task. Then I found this stamp set on sale and it was perfect for this project.

Supplies Used: Paper from American Crafts, Chipboard numbers from Basic Gray, Autumn Leaves stamp set "dated and noted", SU quirky alphabet, Cameo Coral ink, Night of Navy craft ink, Might of Navy marker, scallop punch, round tab punch, 1 3/4 inch circle punch.

New cousin page

2009-02-23T08:42:00.001-06:00

This is a page I made for Kyle's book. It is from May 2007.

I used some random patterned paper, Certainly Celery and So Saffron accents, journal card from CM, CM pistachio letter stickers, square punch and Bashful Blue SU marker.

Baby shower thank you's

2009-02-20T07:58:00.006-06:00

I have two baby showers to attend on Saturday. I made a set of thank you cards for one of the girls. I used this card for inspiration.

Supplies used: Pale Plum card base, Perfect Plum and Pretty in Pink accents, Old SU patterned paper, scallop punch, circle punch, Baby stamp from the Tag Time.

And Kaitlyn decided she wanted to make a card too. Here is her version:

HSM page

2009-02-13T10:33:00.004-06:00

A few months ago I took the kids to see High School Musical on ice tour. These are the pages I made for Kaitlyn's book for that event. I found this HSM paper and stickers at my LSS and used some red and yellow scraps. I also typed my journaling and printed it in black.

Parade page

2009-02-07T08:32:00.001-06:00

This is my two page layout for this week. These are pictures from the parade in Six Flags this past summer and it is for Kyle's book. I used the Becky Higgins sketch from the February issue of Creating Keepsakes.

Supplies used: blue paper from HL, random letter stickers, polka dot paper came from a big slab of paper I have had forever, and I typed the journaling.

glamEARized page

2009-02-06T07:36:00.004-06:00

I made this two page layout for Kaitlyn's book. I had finished the page a while ago but kept forgetting to print the journaling to make the page complete.

Kaitlyn had been wanting to get her ears pierced so for her 9th birthday she finally got to do it.

I used two different sketches from this blog. I also got that ribbon on some package and recycled it.

Supplies used: SU patterned paper (I forget the name of the pack), Tempting Turquoise paper, chipboard letters, white craft ink, journaling printed on computer, random polka dot ribbon.

GQ boy page

2009-02-03T08:28:00.001-06:00

This 2-pager is for Kyle's book. These are pictures taken last July at a park (the same ones from yesterday's post). I used a sketch from someone's blog but I can't find the blog I copied it from. I think it was Stamp with Heather (on my blogroll).

Supplies Used: Chocolate Chip and Basic Gray paper, random patterned paper, Soft Sky accent paper, Slice to cut the letters and Chocolate Chip SU marker.

You're Beautiful page

2009-02-02T07:58:00.000-06:00

Here is another 2-page spread for Kaitlyn's book. These pictures were taken last July at a park. I was inspired by a layout I saw in Scrapbook Trends for this page. I had bought this scalloped circle but was trying to use it on just one page and it wasn't working out as I wanted it to. Then I saw the page in the book that took the circle and put it in the middle of two pages and added the buttons at the top. Then I knew that was how I wanted to do this page. I think I needed a darker shade of green but since I am trying to use what I have, I had to go with this.

Supplies Used: Wild Wasabi 12x12 paper, random flower paper, brown scalloped circle paper from Archiver's, buttons, prima flowers, brads in various colors from Making Memories, brown letter stickers from Remarks, and Chocolate Chip SU marker.

Batman page

2009-01-31T07:47:00.000-06:00

I had no intention of making this page, I was just going to make a page of all the characters Kyle met at Six Flags this past summer but I found this red Batman paper and I knew I had 4 Batman related pics and the paper fit so well. Have you ever done that, created a page just to use some cute paper or stickers? HA!

This page is for Kyle's book. I found this Batman paper at my LSS and then simply added some Basic Black accent paper and journaled. It was a really quick page to do. This page marked my 29th page complete for this year so far. I hope to get some more pages done during the Superbowl. I have no desire to watch that game.

Fingerpainting page

2009-01-30T07:44:00.003-06:00

I really liked these pictures so I had to make a page with them. This page is for Kaitlyn's book. It is a pretty simple page. I used some more CM perfect fit paper from the Everyday pack, CM accent paper and some black rub-on letters.

Kaitlyn's 9th birthday

2009-01-28T08:49:00.001-06:00

These are pages of Kaitlyn's 9th birthday party. Again I used the CM perfect fit paper and accents.

Bartlett Celebration pages

2009-01-27T08:00:00.001-06:00

I use Creative Memories albums for my scrapbooks and they are in the process of doing away with the old pages and moving to true 12x12 pages. Once I get myself caught up I am going to switch to their side loading pages but for now I still have the old style pages along with some of their perfect fit paper (slightly smaller than 12x12). So I am trying to use up all the perfect fit paper that I have.

These pages are of the same event only the first one is a one-pager for Kyle's book and the second is a two-pager for Kaitlyn's book. Both use CM paper and accents.

Halloween 08- Kaitlyn

2009-01-26T08:27:00.001-06:00

Here is the page for Kaitlyn's book from this past Halloween. I used another one of Becky Higgins sketches for this page.

Supplies used: random patterned paper, Green Galore, Basic Black and Only Orange accent paper, circle cutter, random black letter stickers

Bull Riding page

2009-01-24T08:24:00.000-06:00

Another page for Kyle's book

Supplies used: blue, yellow and red paper from Archiver's, yellow alphabet stickers from Making Memories

O Christmas Tree

2009-01-23T08:19:00.000-06:00

Here is a page I did for Kyle's book. It is from Christmas 07 of him decorating our tree.

Supplies used: some random Christmas paper bought from Hobby Lobby, red accent paper from Creative Memories, chipboard ornament, Ruby Red craft ink, white sharpie pen

Christmas at Gran's pages

2009-01-22T07:43:00.005-06:00

I am working on getting "caught up" with my kids scrapbooks. I don't scrap chronologically, just whatever strikes my mood at the moment, but I put them in the book in chronological order. I should have Kaitlyn's book finished through the end of 2008 pretty soon. Here are a few pages I did for her this past weekend. The first is of Christmas 06 and the second is of Christmas 07 at my mom's house.

Supplies used: SU Pink Pirouette, polka dot paper from Archiver's (not sure the brand), CM Christmas stickers, SU chipboard letters, Garden Green craft ink, Best Friends alphabet set

Christmas 07

Supplies used: an old SU simply scrappin kit, Not Quite Navy paper, Close to Cocoa paper, Whisper White craft pad, borrowed clear alphabet stamps, white chipboard letter stickers

I am also very into using sketches these days. I printed a whole bunch of them from various places and put them in a notebook for easy access. Both of these were inspired from some sketches from an old (2003) sketch book of Becky Higgins.

Fake tree page

2009-01-20T08:48:00.003-06:00

Here is a two page layout I made this weekend. It is of Christmas time 2007. We got a fake tree for the first time. I used this page for my inspiration.

left side

right side

Supplies used: some random pattern Christmas paper bought from Hobby Lobby (don't remember the brand), green letter stickers from Making Memories, yellow paper from Archiver's, and the Slice to cut out the star.

Dianne's Cards

2009-01-18T21:58:00.004-06:00

I am back from my scrapbooking retreat and I completed 20 pages! Not as many as I had planned to finish but still good. I will be posting them over the next several days.

My friend Dianne made about 35 cards this weekend. I took some pictures and she gave me permission to post them here. They all turned out really nice. Here are just a few:

She even made matching envelopes!

Way to go Dianne!

Halloween 08- Kyle

2009-01-16T10:27:00.005-06:00

This page is for Kyle's book. It is of this past Halloween. I am getting very into using sketches to help me with my pages and I am really liking how they turn out and how easy they are to follow (so far). For this page I used SBSC62 from Splitcoaststampers.

Here is my page (not too good of a picture though):

I am going on a "scrapbook retreat" this weekend. Really it is just a friend of mine who has a friend that has a cabin on a lake in Arkansas and some of us girls are going to get away. It just so happens that we all scrapbook so guess what we will be doing all weekend. I am so excited I can hardly stand to be at work today. I have laid out about 32 pages ready to be scrapped so hopefully I will have lots to show over the next few weeks of pages that I got finished. My goal is to be finished with 2008 by Memorial day weekend. We shall see!

favorite photos page

2009-01-03T13:43:00.003-06:00

I have set myself a goal of doing 2 pages per week this year. Well really I knew I wanted some kind of scrapbook goal and my CM (and good friend) consultant Amy put out a challenge to her customers to do 2 pages per week. So my goal was set! I made my first two pages in the last couple of days and it is one of my favorite layouts I have done in a while. I totally sraplifted the layout from the Jan 08 issue of Scrapbooking Trends (I love those books). I copied pretty much everything, even down to the color scheme and patterned paper (or what I had that matched closely).

The left side:

The right side:

Mini coaster albums

2008-12-26T07:07:00.001-06:00

I have been so busy making photo tile coasters for my friends that I haven't had time to make much else. But I did make these mini scrapbooks from thin chipboard coasters for my BIL and SIL's for Christmas. I had printed the pictures a few weeks ago with every intention of getting these done early for Christmas but ended up making them late on Christmas Eve. I think they turned out fairly cute and my SIL's loved them. Anyone who doesn't scrapbook finds things like this great regardless of whether I think they are very good.

VBS 07 page

2008-12-15T07:01:00.000-06:00

I made this page the other night at my BIL's. It is for Kyle's book and it is from VBS 2007. I took inspiration from the picture in the top left corner to put the stars on the page. The picture of Kyle in the top right corner is one of my favorite pictures of him.

Supplies used: Red Riding hood CS, Yoyo Yellow and Brillant Blue scraps for the stars, CM star punch, and yellow letter stickers.

3rd grade page

2008-12-12T18:54:00.001-06:00

I made this page the other day for Kaitlyn's book. It is of her first days of the 3rd grade.

Supplies used: Pacific Point and Wild Wasabi CS, some random pattern paper, various rub-ons

Jane's Christmas Card

2008-12-11T09:47:00.001-06:00

I got this Christmas card the other day in the mail from my friend Jane. It is too pretty to not share. I wish I could take credit for this card, I love the way she used the silver on the back and then a separate piece of green for the front. The trees are embossed in silver and the Merry Christmas is embossed in red. The she even put some red bling on it! Gorgeous!

CM tags

2008-12-09T18:35:00.004-06:00

I went to my friend and CM consultant Amy's house on Saturday for her open house. She had some cute little tags for a make and take project. We used the CM tag punch to make all these tags. I didn't make two of them (she had 10). I took Kaitlyn with me so she could make some too. I ended up just punching the tags out and Kaitlyn really did the rest. She so enjoys doing this and these had very simple instructions that she could follow. Here they are:

And then this one is my favorite of the 10 she had even though the picture is not very good.

Hurricane Harbor pages

2008-11-25T07:15:00.002-06:00

Here are the pages I made for my kids book of our trip to Hurricane Harbor, the water park at Six Flags in St. Louis.

The first is Kaitlyn's two page layout. I used the Rainbow Sherbet paper pack as my base with Green Galore and Tempting Turquoise accents. I found these letter stickers that I wanted to use after I had laid out my page and they didn't show up well on the turquoise paper so I put them on white and cut around them. I also used Big Flowers and Little Pieces stamp set and circle punched the images to accent the page.

This two page layout is for Kyle's book. Again I used the Rainbow Sherbet paper pack (great pack for summer time water pictures) but this time I used Apricot Appeal for my accents. I stamped the letters using Letterpress stamp set with Tempting Turquoise ink. I think the left side of this page needs something else, I just can't figure out what it is.

More Photo Coasters

2008-11-23T22:24:00.003-06:00

I made three more sets of photo coasters on Friday night (I went to another crop). These are for my BIL and both SIL's families for Christmas. I am pretty sure they don't read this blog (I can barely get them to read my personal blog) so I think I am safe posting them. I think these turned out much better than the ones I posted the other day.

Kiddie rides page

2008-11-21T07:05:00.001-06:00

Here is a two page layout I made for Kyle's book. The pictures are of him riding the rides this summer when we went to Six Flags.

Supplies Used: Base is Pacific Point, Red Riding Hood and some random DP as accents, chipboard that I colored with the red marker, red and brown brads, journaling printed on computer.

8th Birthday party page

2008-11-20T08:20:00.004-06:00

Today is Kaitlyn's birthday so you get two posts from me in one day! My daughter turns 9 today!! This page is of Kaitlyn's 8th birthday party last year. I am really happy with the way this two page layout turned out. She had a scrapbook party. All the girls brought about 5-6 pictures and we made a photo card. I had the party at my friend Amy's house, she is my Creative Memories consultant.

I used a dark purple I got from Archiver's for the base with Tempting Turquoise, Pink Passion and some birthday girl pattern paper for the accents. I used two of the jumbo pewter eyelets and ran a piece eggplant ribbon through it. I had some turquoise bling that I added to the pink paper on the right side. I cut the pictures in the strip on the right side using my 2 inch square punch. I printed my journaling from the computer and used pink sassy CM letters for the title.

Photo coasters

2008-11-20T06:46:00.004-06:00

I was so excited to try these yesterday when I got home. I followed this tutorial found on Splitcoast (where else?). I am somewhat happy with the way they turned out. I think my coasters are too dark (you know not white enough). For some reason when I was swiping the modge podge on them they seemed to get dirty. By the last one I did (the one on the bottom right in the first picture) there was black dirty stuff on my brush, and I did wipe off the coasters. Oh well, I was just too thrilled that the pictures actually printed on tissue paper through my printer. I am going to try and get some different coasters and make several of these as gifts for Christmas.

Here are a couple of close ups:
I think the one of just my daughter turned out the best.

A girly page for not-so girly pictures

2008-11-19T14:03:00.002-06:00

Here is one of the pages I did this past weekend. It is the only page that wasn't a two page spread. I made the page real girly even though the pictures are not. This a page of my daughter riding a motorcycle and 4-wheeler one day out at my BIL's house.

So productive!

2008-11-17T10:25:00.004-06:00

I was so productive craftly speaking this weekend. I went to a crop on Friday night and then also scrapped at my BIL's on Sat. night and Sun. night. Since my stuff was so organized from me going to the crop it was easy to grab it and take it with me. I got 13 pages complete!!! Well almost complete, I am working on typing up the journaling now and then I will adhere those when I get home. I think that is more pages complete than I have done in 6 months so I am super excited about that. My last few pages were starting to look awfully boring though so I think all my creativity had left me by then. I will have all those to post in the days to come so watch for that. I also made 10 Christmas cards. I got the first finished at the crop and then it was easy to cut the pieces and put them together on Saturday morning.

Here is the picture but keep in mind that my little camera I keep in my purse in broke. The screen is cracked and just shows black. I can still take a picture but I have no idea what I am taking a picture of. This one is actually not too bad and at least it will show you the card. I am too excited about my progress to have to wait to share anything yet. I will try and take a better picture when I get home.

Supplies used: Red Riding hood base for the card, random Christmas DP, Gable Green for the scallop square, 2.5 inch scallop square punch (thanks Amy), 2 inch square punch, markers, celery ribbon and several hot spot Christmas stamps from Archiver's.

ETA: here is a better picture of one of the cards:

Free Make and Take (2)

2008-11-12T10:44:00.004-06:00

Archiver's had another free make and take this weekend. Here are the two things I made:

We used a piece of acetate to stamp the tree and then shaded the card with the green ink and a sponge. Simple yet pretty!

And I really like this gift tag. I especially like the glitter red paper we used (not sure if you can see the glitter part real well in the photo but it really adds something extra to the tag). Amy and I think we have the two scallop squares (I have one and she has the next size up) so I hope to make some cute tags at the crop this Friday.

Notepads

2008-11-10T08:24:00.000-06:00

I made these mini notepads and post-it holders the other day. They are pretty simple and again easily done with the Scor-pal.

Supplies used: Rose Red, Regal Rose, white cardstock; Rose ribbon; Live Your Dream stamp set and I colored my images with the markers.

Mini magazine holder

2008-11-07T07:50:00.004-06:00

I made this mini magazine holder yesterday to give to my friend Wendy as a small gift for her upcoming birthday. It holds 6 3x3 notecards. I got the directions for the holder here. With the help of the scor-pal it was really simple. I didn't have time to decorate the holder and the next one I make I will do that.

I used Regal Rose for the holder and white for the notecards. I used the Big Flowers stamp set and some random word set that I have. I used Rose Red, Regal Rose, More Mustard and Old Olive ink to stamp my images.

Softball page

2008-10-28T09:40:00.003-05:00

Here is another page I did last Friday night at the crop. It is a simple page of Kaitlyn's softball this past spring.

I am loving the new In Color Red Riding Hood, it seems to match a lot of what I have been doing lately!