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!
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!
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:
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. 
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.
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
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!
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. 
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. 
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. 
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.
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.
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. 
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. 
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:
