A Fun Baby Gift

Tomorrow night I'm going to a little get together and we're celebrating one of our group who is expecting a little baby boy! So I wanted to do something cute and fun and (to maintain my image) a little crafty. So take a look at the cute diaper cake I put together! How fun is that!

There are a lot of these online, just search for diaper cakes. I found it quite easy. And because i have three girls, i even had way more than enough little hairbands to go around all the diapers. :-)

Little girls love fairies

I just finished up an after school class I was giving for some Kindergarten and First grade girls. Last week we decorated a gift bag with flowers and butterflies. This week, we made the frames you see below.



It was really fun. I got the fairy image from a free clip art site, and then took pictures of each of the girls. I drew out grassy hills and clouds for them to tear. Then we added flowers and butterflies and lots of gems.

We also made some cute tissue paper flowers. I don't have a pic of these, but basically you cut several layers of circles of colored tissue paper. put a brad in the middle, then crinkle. a lot. they loved doing those too. some pipe cleaner stems and we were good to go!

Gettin Girly

Can i just say... sometimes having girls is a lot of fun. I love making flowery pages and using lace and polka dots and girly colors. (Sometimes having girls is not fun, but thats for another time).

Below I used some new Prima Shabby Chic paper, and to accent the page i made some paper flowers.

To make these flowers, I tore some pages out of an old book my mom graciously kept for me for many years. It's nice and yellowed at this point, and I (most ungraciously) now rip the pages out of it to make scrapbook stuff. I think thats green though, so I am cool for today.

• I drew a four-leaf clover shape for this flower, doubled up the pages and cut them out
• then sprayed liberally with Glimmer Mist
• I dried with my heat gun, then wadded each flower into a ball.
• Unroll them, and layer as you like
• then roll up the edges or scrunch them together towards the middle.
  
  
  

Below is a new technique i haven't tried before. I just picked up some velvet leaves. They come in a pack of um, a lot. Not sure how many. I thought I'd try dyeing them with my re-inkers since those are pretty easy to work with.

• drop a little bit of ink onto a large plastic scrap or paper plate
• I used a water brush to pick up the color, squeezed out quite a bit of water to get the brush pretty wet, then brushed it on the leaf
• I was surprised at how the ink faded out from the orginal color, i think you'd have to use a lot of ink to get a more intense color
• let dry (heat gun again)
• attach with glue dots
  
  
  

Finally here is a third type of flower. I saw this done in one of the scrap mags, don't remember which one. but its really easy. actually easier if you work with large size flowers. as you do smaller flowers the paper doesn't want to stay together.

• cut a long strip of paper - i think this one was probably 4x9
• pleat-fold the paper
• bring the ends around and fasten together with one end becoming the center (i just stapled them because as the blog name implies, I am all about just getting the thing done...)
• I had to cut a smaller circle and glue the middle down on the back, because the center wanted to keep popping up.
• embellish center

Let me see if you go and make any of these. Share your links!

Somew new layouts

I've got a couple new pages to post after a lovely spring break.
The most recent is this spring layout, inspired by a challenge at Let's Scrap!. I used GCD's Homespun Chic line designed by Melody Ross, i love the bright colors and the embossed designs.



I wanted to add a little dimension but didn't really want to cover up the pretty paper, so using my craft knife, I cut around the flowers, slid the border underneath, then popped them up with some foam dots.



Next is a series of photos i've been wanting to scrap for a while. I love how many photos i got on two pages. However, this took a bit of photoshopping to get all these shots to the right size. Probably i could have just cut down 4x6 photos but i like to do it digitally before i print.






This is from a Let's Scrap sketch again. Thanks for the inspiration!!!

Easter Dresses

I know it won't last much longer, where i can talk the girls into wearing pretty dresses in coordinating colors. It's still a goal. we took these on Easter weekend, they don't know it, but i still want to get a real photo shoot in and do some close-ups. maybe the next sunny weekend. wink ;-_

Welcome Spring

Hi everyone!
I hope you have a blessed Easter. We celebrate Christ risen at our house, but the bunny does also come.

It's been forever since i posted. So I have plenty to talk about - I've been busy making pages to submit to the next book from Memory Makers Magazine. Got a nice email today that they would like to publish something I made! I don't know what it is yet, but I'm pretty excited that something got picked up!

I've also been working on the projects for my Paper Crafting class at school coming up in April. I'll be working with 6 kindergarten and first grade girls. I think we'll have a great time. Can't wait to show you all what we're making. I need to get pictures taken.

So I haven't been able to show pictures of very many things that I've done lately. Here is one that I can show you, i love the colors. I'm so ready for spring and warm weather!
This page uses new papers from My Minds Eye, with some hand stitching and striped ribbon thrown in.



Enjoy your holiday and spring break!

Frosted Beauty

What a beautiful couple of mornings we've had.
I took some shots of the frost, then PSE'd them and added some Frosted Window frames by Julie Makotinsky at LittleDreamerDesigns.com
TFL!

Tomorrow is Holiday Day!

I was reminded today that my 6 year old has designated her own holiday, since Christmas is over. So tomorrow is Holiday Day, wherein we recognize all the holidays.

I asked her how we would celebrate Holiday Day. And it sounds like a lot of fun - we will give presents to people (and maybe the sisters will give some gifts to her), we'll hide some eggs for Easter, and give more presents for White Elephant Day, and give hearts for Valentines Day, and give candy for Halloween. Thanksgiving and New Years we'll just skip, since she can't remember what we do on those days. :-)

I can't wait to see what she does. I'm going to try to pick up some heart candy today to help with the festivities, since i foresee having some problems with the Halloween part. I think I might have some plastic eggs tucked away. I'm kind of excited to do this! Anyone want to join us?

Having a good winter?
In my opinion, the only good thing about snowy cold weather is that i don't mind a bit going to the basement and scrapbooking all day long. Here are a couple i've been able to do this Friday and Saturday - I've been playing along at a crop at Scrap Attack Scrapbooking. Thanks for the inspiration!



The paper here is from Chatterbox and Sassafrass Lass (i still love those little birds). I grabbed some extra cork I had on my desk for the date there at the side, and used some velvet ribbon out of the stash from Stampin Up for the border. the yellow trim is MakingMemories, i think. The Kraft journaling box is from Maya Road. I splurged and got a couple felt stems from Prima, then added the layered flowers.





And since the youngest child just turned 6 in December, I am really excited to be scrapping her birthday so soon after the fact! Usually I'm about a year behind.

These are Prima stitched mulberry papers - i didn't sew on them, they did. very cool effect though. I did use a border punch from Martha Stewart to do the frame around the main photo on page 1. I also slightly dyed the Prima mulberry flowers, using re-inkers from Stampin UP.

Welcome to Chocolate, Can I Chocolate your chocolate?

I need a moment... sniff sniff...
I love Christmas holiday so much, and i don't want to go back to real life. ever.
and i want some more chocolate too.
um yeh, my hands are shaking, i'm a junkie.

but between my bouts of chocolate binging and coffee guzzling this vacation, i have done some scrapbooking too. wow, it really was a perfect holiday.

here are a couple of the pages I have made recently.

I received some gorgeous Webster's Pages from their 12 Days of Christmas crop, and i've been loving it. here is one page...




look - i sewed! and distressed too. i love how this came out. that side little curved die-cut shaped edge, i traced from another piece of paper, wrinkled and worked it to death, then did the pleating and inking.

Here is another one, using more Webster's Pages







and finally, one more from this fall, my youngest's field trip to the pumpkin farm. it was chilly but they thought it was great fun.







i hate that the green lace washed out so bad in the photo. its a nice soft green in real life. i used some Prima gem centers over Fancy Pants crocheted flowers, on top of Am Crafts felt flowers. Paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle.



well, real life starts in about 9 hours. i'm going to bed and hope i can sleep, my internal clock is way off. how was your holiday?