Darth Vader page

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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