Just a series of silly faces Noah made while wearing his hoodie. He looked like a baby gangster, making the signs with his hand and everything. I believe he was about 4 months old at the time. Title, scalloped circle, and corners are from Storybook. 
This layout was my entry for the third Chirper Challenge. The instructions were to use a star, some form of "bling" and white space. The stars I used were from Graphically Speaking. The Twinkle twinkle is from Storybook and Opposites Attract. The silver and gold paper has a metallic sheen to it, and the stickles for the swirls give it that extra sparkle.
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Here's a layout I did of a day at the park earlier this spring. I wanted to keep it really simple and fresh looking, keeping the pictures as the focus. I just love the way the sun shines through Noah's hair on the swing, and the pictures of Jonah and Scott really show the way they love to spend time together. I used Printing Press for the title. Skittles are used throughout both pages (72 in all). I used small rub-on letters on the top picture on the right hand page. It says, 'Today was good Today was fun Tomorrow is another one.' You can see it better in the bottom picture. I think it took about 2 hours to cut out all those tiny letters and rub them on in the right spot. Sheesh! The floral stamp, clearer in real life, is from Fancy Pants stamps, and I stamped it in light blue.
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This page is all about the story behind it. Journaling reads:
Well, since I posted yesterday about Noah's food struggles, I thought I'd balance it with a post today about a success story during that time...Noah could handle carrots, and he actually enjoyed them, too (sometimes)! These pictures were taken during one of those rare "I'm enjoying my food" moments. The 'delicious' is done with the Word Jumble feature on Graphically Speaking, and the MmmmMmmm...is also on the GS cartridge. The journaling is done in between strips of different patterned ribbon from American Crafts.
This layout chronicles the time we had with Noah's food intolerances. Definitely not something I would want to do again, but it is something worth remembering because we have come so far since that difficult time. It has been quite awhile since we've had to force-feed him and now he will eat whatever we do without getting sick, and he does so voluntarily! What a turn-around and we know that God has heard and answered our prayers concerning this. 
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Journaling on this tells the story. "Oh, Jonah, did you really think we wouldn't notice?!? The pudding (and the guilt) is written all over your precious little face!" 
I was recently able to capture a bunch of cute shots of my little Noah when he was in a particularly good mood. We were actually at a dog show, and I think the picture of him sticking out his tongue (middle row, left side) is him trying to imitate them. So funny! 
Last week I went through a stack of old pictures. I found these ones taken from my niece's first Halloween, 7 years ago. Yes, I'm more than a little behind. I don't scrapbook chronologically (obviously)...just whatever comes to me at the time. I used the New Arrival for the pea in the pod and for the title. The scallop behind the square is from Storybook. The green strip behind the title is embossed with Swiss Dots. 
Well since I posted Jonah playing with the train yesterday, I thought I'd post Noah's layout playing with the same train today. I used Design Cuts With a View (DCWV) paper from the Nana's kids pack. The design came from Pages by Design. The train engine is from Mickey and Friends, and the monkey and elephant are from New Arrival. I'm not sure if it shows up well enough to tell, but the animals are similar to the animals on the background paper riding on the train. The elephant's head and the monkey's mouth are mounted on dimensionals to make them stand out just a little bit. "Play time" is done with Thickers, which are chunky stickers. I put buttons on the wheels of the train.
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This layout is of my Jonah playing with the train from when I was little. I loved that circus train, and now both my boys do, too. I also did a layout of Noah playing with it. Perhaps I will post it tomorrow. 
These are some of the first pages that I ever did with my Cricut. I really loved how Jonah's blue eyes stood out in these pictures, and I knew I wanted to scrap them. 'Blue Eyes' is done with George and layered with the Silhouette feature. 'Look Here' is from Printing Press and shadowed. I put little eyeballs in the 'O's of 'Look' and over each letter of 'Blue Eyes.' The words across the top are heat-embossed. The edges of everything are distressed with ink.
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This is a very simple and clean design. It was a challenge for me to use so many pictures on a single layout, but I think it works. The title was stamped with a Scrabble alphabet stamp set, and I designed the brackets. The journaling is from my perspective looking at the relationship between my sons. If you look closely at the pictures, you'll notice that sometimes it looks as if Jonah is hugging Noah, while at other times it looks as if he's strangling Noah with his hugs. It is a fun privilege to watch their relationship develop and I do have a hunch that they will be close friends as they grow up.
An explosion box is like a mini-scrapbook in a box. When you take off the top, the sides of the box fall open, revealing the pictures. This one is a family scrapbook that contains pictures of my family as well as my siblings' families. It is 3 layers deep, so it contains 22 pictures in all. This can vary depending on how many layers there are, as well as if any spots are reserved for journaling or other memorabilia.
A close up of the inside of the box top: the word 'Family' is cut with Alphalicious.
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Here's one of the first layouts I did after I got my Graphically Speaking and Storybook cartridges. The connected 'ones' are from Graphically Speaking, and 'Birthday Boy' and the flourish on the top left picture are from Storybook. I used the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug embossing folder and ran blue ink over the embossed part of the image.
This is the result of adding Stickles to the cupcakes. It's more dramatic in real life, but hopefully this gives you an idea. (For comparison, the cupcakes without Stickles are pictured in the post below.)
This is my entry for the Chirper Challenge (see post below). We had to do something birthday-related, and use green and a cupcake. After I completed this, I realized we were also supposed to have buttons somewhere on it. I tried to replace the red skittles on the cupcakes with red buttons to make them look like cherries, but it would have ripped the paper.
I made this spinner card for my niece's birthday. The Donald Duck head is a stamped image, and it spins across the greeting as you tilt the card from side to side. It sounds a lot creepier than it is in real life. It's actually pretty cute. :) A video would have done it more justice, but I didn't take one before I gave it away. Oh well, you're going to have to use a little imagination on this one! The spinner mechanism is made with 2 pennies...one on each side of the word oval cut-out...with a piece of foam mounting tape between them. This allows the pennies to roll across the cut out and the image to spin.
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Here is the anniversary card I made for Scott. I got the idea from 'lucydaubney' on the Cricut message board. I used Alphalicious for the ampersand and the letters, and Graphically Speaking for the heart and outline. The key is a sticker and I finished it off with a ribbon that represents our 'tying the knot' 6 years ago.
Here's a baby card I recently made. It is a surprise pop up card. It lays flat and when you pull the ribbon, the carriage pops up and reveals the sentiment below. The baby carriage is from New Arrival. The stamped sentiment, more visible in real life, says, "Thank heaven for little girls"
Earlier this summer, I was delighted to find several helpful video tutorials on YouTube for various cardmaking techniques. This card is called a double slider card and when you pull the ribbon on the top, one panel slides out of the top and another out of the bottom. 
Instead of "reinventing the video tutorial wheel" (RTVTW), I will simply refer you to the one I viewed.
This is a really quick and simple baby boy card. I used the Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots folder for the background and inked the edges. The image is a House Mouse stamp. Finish it off with a bow and it's ready to send! I made a few of these in blue and a few in pink.
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Thought I'd start off the blog with a scrapbook page that would also help introduce a little bit about me. I used Cricut Printing Press for the title, Fancy Pants stamps for the flourish and border, and Memory Makers stamps for the words.
Edges are inked. I used the scalloped sleeve from the Fancy Pants stamps as a stencil and inked over it with blue.
Another tool, also from ProvoCraft, is the Cuttlebug. It accepts both cutting templates and embossing folders. I use mine almost exclusively for embossing, and it is especially quick and easy to make cards with it, though I also use it on scrapbook layouts occasionally. It looks like this:
Look for these in upcoming posts!!
