Baby Album for my niece!

This is an album that I made last year for my niece who was expecting a baby girl. I did everything but the pictures for her so that she could easily finish the book (Livie is now 8 months - so expect to see lots of pics in the album). Putting together an album without pictures can be somewhat challenging, but I had alot of fun doing it....................when you have so many amazing products to work with...........it makes it quite easy!

So here are the pics.............hope you are inspired!
 This is the cover page
This is the Baby Safari Collection:

This is a double page layout

Another double page layout

This is the same pic as above but I wanted to show off my hand stitching - not too many people I would do this for......................

And this is the last page! And of course we know where the baby albums leads to - a scrapbooking addiction......and many more to come!!!!!

Thanks Mork for letting me show off your beautiful baby belly on my blog.........cutest little pregnant person I have ever seen.........................................and then we got "beautiful little "LIV"!!!!

Playin around

I am a Tim Holtz fan. I love to see what he keeps coming up with, and the product line is phenom!!!!

So on this layout I thought I would play around with some of his products that I had purchased.

The paper I used is Basic Grey and I stuck with a fairly plain background as I wanted to dress it up using Tim's masks. So the layout on the right - the bottom time pieces are using a mask and inking with distress ink. On the left hand side of the picture I used acrylic tiles and attached the co-ordinating paper pieces under them to carry on the paper pattern and add some dimension (loved this technique). Looks great outside of the pic. Of course I made my own flowers using circles and scallops, distressing, and adding buttons as my accents.

The layout on the left pretty much speaks for itself. I did use the inking technique on my tag so that it would match the rest of the colours in the layout. I really enjoyed working with these elements and for sure will be trying other variations.

This is a closer up pic so that you can better see the masking as well as the acrylic tiles on the left side of the mat. The flower I made here is with the scallop punch and circles.

Hope you enjoyed this layout!

I have been working on a layout for a submission for Heartstring Designs and will post this layout as soon as I can!!!   Top secret for now?  

 I have not gotten to the prom layout.......but I have to find just the right papers and accessories.......and of course ""TIME"" ..........u know!!!!!!!!!   Hope to have it done soon.

Thanks for visiting!

Stick needles in my eyes - instead!!!! LOL

OK......so 2 days........about 10 hours of straight shopping..........when all was said and done....yes we found a dress...................and this is how most of the store moulds looked like.....why is it that all of the tiny sizes are on the displays...............................the woman at our final destination were very sweet and over the top helpful.............................................so pages will follow shortly...................as soon as I regain my energy and stop shaking!!!!!!!!!!!

But so we could complete our "MISSION", I made sure we also got the shoes and bag..........

So we are good to go!!!!!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

This is one of the dresses..................but nope not this one!!!!   Only looked at about 200 dresses.......tried on probably about 100..............................more to follow!

OMG............OMG........................shop shop shop!!!!!

Ok we have put true meaning to the phrase "SHOP TILL YOU DROP"
Day 2.......off we go.............yesterday.................Taylor must have tried on at least 80 dresses.....went to Bridal Boutique............and every boutique in the Pickering Town Centre..........now we are headed to Scarborough Town Centre and then Yorkdale ............if no luck we will go to Vaughn Mills................OMG....what can I say.......................and of course they don't let you take pictures...."BUT" I will...................maybe my next post will be from a laptop in a jail cell......I cannot beleive they don't let you take pictures.....like I am going to go home and start making and selling prom dresses.........
So I'm off.........................hopefully I will be able to post that "WE FOUND ONE"...............Wish me mucho luck!!!!!!

Prom Dress Shopping

OK............we are on our way............prom dress shopping!
I'm sure this will be quite the layout...........camera in hand..............battery in charger!!!!!
Doubled up up the vitamins this am............................we shall see!
We're off................................

I think it works?????

OK....this is just testing....I finally figured out how to install my subscription link....so hopefully I get this update sent to me!!!!!!

My Little Clown Ryleigh - Using paintbrush for picture

This is my cutie patootie grandaughter "Ryleigh". All she wants to do is make you laugh. Just love her to bits. She also has the cutest little voice, she notices absolutely "everything", and the other day she says to me "grandma, l like yur new earwings"......yes her use of words is very interesting. For this layout I played with photoshop by using a black & white and colouring in just the hot pink glasses on the larger pic. It took a little time to get it, but is something I will for sure be playing around with a bit more. My next adventure is to take some photography classes as I "LOVE" taking pictures and would love to learn a little more about settings etc.,

Hope you enjoy my post

Older layouts

These are a couple of layouts I did two years ago of my grandaughters in their "Christmas" dresses that I bought them. Yes my picture taking has somewhat improved since then. Lesson do not take pics inside of clear sleeves............hmmmmm....you get glare....one of these days I will attempt to build one of the light boxes I keep hearing about............any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for visiting.....

Funny girls...........................nut doesn't fall far from the tree!!!!!!!

Ok so I have started my own "DESIGN TEAM".......lol ....my grandaughters have caught the crafting bug!!!!! They love my sizzix dies....especially the little people with clothes and hair.....needless to say I spend much time die cutting.....hard to keep up with the wardrobes!!!! So much fun!!!!!!!!!

OK....so this is not really a craft!!!!! But...made me smile on a COLD day!!!!! :)

Winter Exercise program...

Take one Weetabix.

Take an Aero chocolate bar.

Crumble the Aero over the Weetabix.

Voila!

AEROBIX !





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