You are my Sunshine!

There are some of my sons' pages that I did for them when I first started scrapping that "scream" at me to be reworked. Most of them are in Jon's album, his were the first pages I scrapped. Since I started scrapping in 2004, I have acquired A LOT of tools and toys that have made my scrapping "better". This Page of Ben's was one that I have wanted to rework. These pictures are some of my favorite of Ben and I knew they deserved a better page. I participated in an online crop this last weekend, It was hosted by Cheeky Chics to benefit The Tornado Victims of Oklahoma. One of the challenges was to have a sun in it and have yellow. I knew that was "my call" to rework Ben's page. I LOVE LOVE how it came out. The paper and embellishments are all Adornit . I used a layout from the July/August issue of Creating Keepsakes as a guide. The sun "rays" were not as easy to cut out as I thought they would be. I think I'm going to recreate this for some pictures of my Great-Niece. When I do that one I'm going to stack all 6 colors of papers and cut them at the same time with a rotary cutter. LOL so I will have enough rays for 6 layouts. 

The Original Page

 

The New Page





Little Red Car

This layout is my oldest son when he was 14 months old. The big red car belonged to my Sister-in-law Janie. It is a 1982 Trans Am that was a High School graduation present from her father. At the time she was just dating my brother and we had no idea how important she would become in our lives. The little red car was Matthew's favorite toy.

The paper is Echo Park from their Little Boy collection. The inspiration of the layout was from pinterest. The font is Cricut  Mickey Font welded on the Cricut Craftroom and cut out on the Cricut Expression. I printed 3 of the pictures. The first one I used as the base photo, the second one I cut around the big red car and my son on his car. The third one I just cut out my son on his car, I pop dotted the top two layers. It doesn't show much in the photo but it really makes it pop.

Ribbon Storage

New Boxes for storing my ribbon....after I started making bows (which I started doing to use up some of the ribbon I bought for scrapbooking) I started buying MORE ribbon...isn't that how it works out....who knew there was so much CUTE ribbon out there. So the boxes I was using in my post below was not working out...there was too much space at the top so if they got turned over...well it just would have been a BIG mess... My Mom found these at Costco for me and they are perfect...there was a space between the two rows of ribbon  I just took a 12X12 piece of cardstock and folded it into the long tube. I used my ATG gun to stick it down (double sided taped would work). I have them separated by color and then I have one that is all the ones printed with designs or characters.

 



This picture was taken about a month ago....LOL...I have one whole containers filled with just pink ribbon...and another with the printed...

Ribbon Organization Project

I saw where a fellow scrapper organized her ribbon by doing this....Okie's Ribbon Storage. I really like how it came out and thought I REALLY NEED to do for my ribbon. But I didn't have the plastic that she used for the bobbins and it freaked me out a bit on how long it seemed to take her. THEN I was reading a Hair Bow blog this week where the title of her post was "Get Organized Using What You Have"...This lady used 3x5 cards...I thought I have LOTS of 3x5 cards leftover from when my boys were in school and used them to make flashcards to help them study. SOOOOO my project for this last Sunday was to organize my ribbon...

First take 2 3X5 index cards and fold them in half...

Next Staple to hold it closed...one worked for me...

Then I taped one end of my ribbon and started wrapping.....

Keep wrapping until it is full and i used another piece of tape to keep it put...you could pin it or use a rubber band....

 I then used the storage container that I had stored my ribbon rolls in...I'm going to buy ones that are not so tall down the road....I went from 3 of these full, plus a ribbon bag...plus rolls stored here and there to two of these....organized by color....

DONE!!!

Pixie Hallow "BEAUTIFUL"

Layout for the "Strut Your Cuts" Challenge over at Scrappy-Go Lucky week 6. This layout is using Tinkerbell and Friends. This picture of my Great-Niece Cadence was taken last year at Epcot's Flower Festival. I've been meaning to get it scrapped BUT I "hate" piecing those little fairies!!! So again this challenge was a good kick in the butt to get a much needed layout done. I LOVE how it came out.

Supplies Used:
Plain Cardstock: Core-dinations
Pattern Paper: The paper with the fairy on it and the pink flower paper is from DCWV "Once Upon A Time" stack the purple swirl is Cloud9 "Pixie Hallow"
Cricut: Disney's Tinkerbell and Friends Cartridge ...Iridessa2 page 60 cut at 3.5"....Silvermist1 page 64 cut at 4"...Beautiful page 56 filigree feature cut at 10" (lenght setting)
Prima Flowers
Buttons
Signo Gel Pen

Ruffled Baby Dress

A few weeks ago my Mom prints off this crochet pattern and hands it to me. She said why don't you make one like this. I quickly read the pattern and thought that looks a bit hard, I put it aside. Last week we made a Hobby Lobby run, I thought let me get some yarn and try that dress. I think this is now my new favorite crochet pattern! It worked up really easy. This one is for my Best Friends Daughter (my fake Niece Sam's baby girl Sophia.) For those that don't know my "real" Niece Becky is expecting a girl in April and my "fake" Niece Sam  is expecting a girl in March ( actually I've already called it she is going to be born on my birthday). I've already made them each a blanket, a dress, and a few diaper covers. This is where I got the pattern ... Ruffled Baby Dress.

P.S. This is my "fake" baby....

XOXO

HUGS and KISSES for Cadence

Another layout for the challenge over at "Scrappy-Go-Lucky" Strut Your Cuts where they give you a list of 5 cartridges every week and you have to use only those cartridges for your layout. I've done one every week and it has really been fun. Sometimes VERY challenging because the cartridge I had from the list had no font on them to use for a title but it really made me look at the layout in a different light. It has gotten me to do layouts that have been needing to get done and MOST of all it is getting me to use my cartridges!!!

This week the only one I had from the 5 was Paisley. I've had this cartridge for about a year now and have not made a single cut from it. Whenever I think about that cartridge the image of the nesting dolls come to mind. BUT when I took a look at it this week I was surprised at how many CUTE images there were on it. Two layouts came to mind to do BUT as life happens for me this has not been a good week. My vertigo has been off the charts and no crafting happened. All day yesterday I kept thinking I NEED to get at least one done but I had a migraine that I could not shake. I went to bed early hoping that this morning I could get it done...since the time difference between Florida and Australia I had a little less than 3 hours to get it done then blogged....tick tick tick....

Here it the layout....I still need to journal on it but I wanted to make sure I got it before the deadline...tick tick....

SUPPLIES USED:
Plain Cardstock : Core-dinations and some shiny cardstock that I've had
Pattern Paper: K & Company "Jubilee Pink and Teal Collage" and "Jubilee Pink and Blue Collage"
"LaceBorder" is some that a good friend sent me...it is from DIY Craft it is self adhesive tape
Cricut Paisley Cartridge....Lipstick cut at 3.5" and OXOX cut at 2" both are shadowed....

Layout Sketch is from Sketch Inspirations Sketch # 305
tick...tick I need to stop now and post.... I have 13 minutes to post it...tick.... tick....