Double Tri Shutter Mini Photo Book

  This was a fun little mini album project I helped a girlfriend make for her Brother and SIL new baby boy.  Have always wanted to try one of these and was a lot of fun.  I found the tutorial on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/user/JohaneWilson .

 
 He's such a cutey!  I love this picture where it looks like he's winking at you..lol!!

1st Birthday Pics

  Like a little pink princess, Isabelle was the star of the show at her Birthday BBQ last weekend.  The timing was perfect as her Nanny and Papa were in town as well as Leah so we were able to celebrate with them as well as our friends in town.  She's wearing an adorable little outfit picked out by her proud Daddy which matches her sucky perfectly.

  The sun shone all day and there was hardly a mosquito in sight.  I couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.  It was so nice to have family and friends gathered together, an event that proves more difficult as more of us move further and further apart.  I can't believe my baby is already a year old!! :o( 

  These blue and pink cupcakes disappeared quickly with the children gobbling two each.  I even made the icing from scratch this time, not bad for the non-baker LOL!!

  Isabelle very daintily picked off and ate all of the icing from her pink cupcake, licking off her fingers carefully between each bite.  Her buddy Levi ate only the cake and skipped the icing, they could have shared one between them.

  Once she was done with the icing she decided to play with the cake that was left behind.  So much for being dainty.  She spread icing all over her tray and filled her bib to the brim.

Isabelle's first steps !!

  Just as I thought she would never walk, she took those first akward steps on the eve of her first birthday.  She was a little slow to get moving but gained momentum with each step.  This new game of walking to her sibblings continued through to bedtime.  With my other two, once they figured this out there was no more crawling.  But Isabelle has tired of this new game and is back to familiar ground scooting around on her bottom.  With some encouragement we can get her to take a step or two, but she is not eager to walk as her sibblings were.  OK by me as she is growing up way too fast anyways.

Easter Layouts

  It was kind of nice to be able to work on some Easter layouts in the springtime instead of at Christmas or Halloween, even if it's Easter 2002.  The bright, cheerfull colours made the cloudy, grey day feel a little less gloomy.  Sorry about the poor picture quality.  I was having trouble with lighting and didn't want to use the flash as it tends to wash everything out.

  I found the tutorial for this Dalia flower here.  Helen Croft has many fabulous flower tutorials on her website.  I didn't know there were that many types of flowers out there.  The satin outfit Felicity is wearing in the top left corner of the layout is one that Doris picked up and my Mom trimmed with lace and embroidered a heart on the front of it.  It looks very old fashioned and could be something my great grandmother would have worn.

  I tried to make this layout a little more masculine by incorporating more blues and greens, although the pink still managed to sneak in there.  I drew in the stitching lines and outlined the flowers with a white gel pen, and the journaling and "Happy Easter" were done on the computer in Photoshop Elements.

Easter Baby:
Patterned Paper: Imaginisce "For Peep's Sake - Color Me Happy",  "For Peep's Sake - Tiptoe Through Tulips",  BoBunny "Alissa",  My Minds Eye "Magnolia - Starburst",  Cricut Cartridge: Storybook, Cardstock: Stampin Up


Happy Easter:
Patterned Paper:  BoBunny "Alissa",  Imaginisce "For Peep's Sake - Tiptoe Through Tulips,  Border Punch: Martha Stewart,  Buttons: Close To My Heart

Glimmer Mist Layout Inspired by Jana Eubank

  Jana Eubank an incredible designer for Tattered Angels created a layout that just blew me away using Glimmer Mist and a stensil.  I just had to create a layout using her page for inspiration, and here is what I came up with.

  I used my cricut and a whole punch to create my stensil instead of a purchased one.  I just loved the effect of outlining the finished shape as Jana did and so I scraplifted that as well.  Check out her blog From My Feathered Nest to see all her fabulous work as well as the origional layout.

  I used the Cricut to create most of my embellishment, and layered rubons with the diecut images and some chipboard images as well.  This is a much busier style of layout than my usual but I love the overall effect.  The only thing I wasn't crazy about was that the paper I used as the background was not overly thick and warped a bit from the moisture of the glimmer spray.  I tried drying under a stack of magazines, but this didn't seem to help.  Since I'm using the Creative Memory style book I had to adhere the page to another one so this helped a bit.

Rub-ons: Stampin Up,  Patterned Paper: Close To My Heart "Daydream",  Chipboard Accents: Basic Grey "Sugared",  Cardstock: Stampin Up & Unkown,  Glimmer Mist: Tattered Angels "Coffee Shop",  Cricut Cartridge: Storybook

Isa Video

Isa is a going concern these days as she's discovered her ability to slide her way across the hardwood floors. The slippery surface once presented an obsticle as she couldn't keep her knees under her, but now she has discovered that she can walk with her hands and just slide her bottom making all my hard floor surfaces perfect for this technique.

I can't believe how quickly she's grown. At 8 months it's already hard to imagine the 6lb tiny bundle they presented to me at her birth. She's probably closer to 18lbs now and is turning into a little person. Yesterday she waved goodbye to her brother as he left for school, and she loves to repeat my name "Mom" whenever she wants something. I just wish I could slow time down and savor every single moment, but as hard as I try moments come and go, and my baby will grow just as my other two have.

Embellish Magazine Colour Challenge With Stripes

  Back with another colour challenge by Embellish Magazine , and this one was way out of my relm with the colour PURPLE arggg!!  So of course I had to try it. The problem was, did I own anything in the colours? Well, with a little borrowing from a friend, and a little digging in my scrap drawers I found the perfect papers for this Challenge.

  Here is the inspiration:

And here is my take on this:

  I added a warming photofilter to the photo to make it work with these colours and really like how it turned out. I just love this page and think purple has moved from dreaded to one of my favorite.  I can hardly wait to move on to the next challenge as they keep me motivated to get more of my scrapbooking done.

  The sentiment is one of the new stamps by Papertrey Ink, Inside & Out: Baby. I wrote the word 'Precious' using Tim Holtz Distressed Stickles Walnut Stain.

The patterned paper is from Stampin Up, and the flower is Prima - Fleur Danseur Releve.  Also used Prima - Say it in Pearls Swirls Cream.  Cardstock - Unknown.

  I covered a little orange box in white paper and inked it with walnut distressing ink then spritzed it with glimmer mist.  I then added a snowflake patterned paper by Basic Grey.  Using my Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge I created the layered "Season's Greetings" and glittered snowflakes. (Martha Stewart glitter)

  This was to hold a few cookies baked by Kieth to give as a little something for my neighbour who always sends us some baking.

These Sock Monkeys were too adorable to resist.  I discovered them at our local craft fair this November and ordered one for each of the girls.  They have thier names stitched on the bottoms, and I was able to chose which socks I wanted them made from. You can find them on  Mrs B's Website.

  I love this picture of Isa in this little hat that came with the snow suit from Grandma and Grandpa.  The little bear was a gift from her brother Tristan.

  On Christmas Eve we heard the Fire Truck Sirens and looked out the front porch to see a neighbour's truck in flames.  The flames were so high the coating melted off the power cables above and they had to shut off her power.  Thank goodness no one was hurt.  Our stellar fire crews had the flames douced in a short while and left an icy skating rink in the road.  This was rather exciting to watch and gave Kieth and I a break from our Christmas wrapping.

Baby Thank You Card

  It only took a couple of weeks, but I finally finished and mailed this card to my Aunt and Uncle who sent the most adorable outfit for Isa.
  I used double sided adhesive to create the glitter border around the Thank you cardstock tag, and white glue to create the glitter dots on the flowers. The stamp is by Close To My Heart, and the border punch is by Martha Stewart.