I can crawl!

A gift for a friend, the picture will be added later! The critters are all cut from various Cricut cartridges.

All Girl

Little Lucy has been all girl from the start and loves dressing up. This was her first animal print outfit. The pink "co-ordinations" paper is embossed with an animal pattern, inked and sandpaer distressed. The animal print paper is flocked, black flower is glitter paper from Target. Polka dot and fuzzy ribbon are from Joanns. Pink bling and black pearls are from Want to Scrap, Lettering is Glitter Bling and bead flowers from Beadables. This is being entered in the Practical Scrappers ribbon challenge.

Touchdown Recycled

The chipboard circles are gone but the frame remained and when it was set down and landed on a picture, an idea was born! I have several others in the works now...usually those pictures "leftover" but still cute - so they are going into a "year end" frame/collage.

No recipe this time...its all leftovers!

Mmmmmm Good

Remember when life was simple and all it took was a thumb to satisfy! The characters are Cricut cuts.

Flower Fun

I took a clearance bargain from Michaels (6/25) and just had fun with some translucent stickers. I love the way they change colors where they over lap with colors...kaliedoscope fun!
Stickers were Miss Elizabeths. Figured this cost me twenty cents to make...yeah!!!

Spring Fling

I was given these pictures from a brunch I recently attended...Nila and I had a blast.
I'm entering it in Practical Scrappers (sticker challenge).
The large "smile" sticker had to be placed on white first for it to show up... but it soooo describes our times together...and it was fun to find I had flower stickers to make a matching table napkin.

Brunch recipe (ha!)
Paper and brads- Making Memories
Ribbon - orange and floral - Michaels
- polka dot - Offray
Stickers - smiles, flowers - Miss Elizabeth
letters - colorbok
Cricut - watering can - Walk in my Garden
leaves - Storybook

Food should be her middle name!

Lucy loves food of all kinds and goes at it with such enthusiasm it is a joy to watch...and yet, she's still tiny!

Ribbon and rickrack - Joanna
Brads - Eyelet outlet
Paper - DCWV

Love and Laughter

A picture of the special love between a mom and her first born.

All paper and chipboard are colorbok.
Ribbon from Joanns and Michaels
Brads from Eyelet Outlet

Practical Scrappers - ribbon
Crafting for Caitlyn - blue
Dancing in my Pajamas - photo inspiration/dots
Creative Belli - die cuts
Penneys - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie (What's cuter than love!)
Pile it on - spring=flowers

Cute as a Bug

If you can't find the right paper...stamp it! If you'll look carefully at the straps on lovely Lucy's dress, you'll see the floral print and well as the large flowers matching the stripes.
Ink and Stamps - CTMH
Brads - Eyelet Outlet
Bugs - Cricut Garden
Font - Cricut George
Paper - Miss Elizabeth

Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008 was the first year that Lucy could really participate and she loved it. Timmy was so excited...he wanted to sit and play with each toy right then. I loved having the whole family together. Special time, special memories.

This layout was submitted as a guest designer at Practical Scrappers in the "stamp" challenge.
Recipe:
Stamp - Stampin' up
Ink - Close to my Heart Stickles used as "lights" and on star stamp
Mitten buttons - Dress It Up
Ribbon - green - CTMH red - Michael's "Basic" gold - Offray

That Tickles!

I was honored to be asked to be a guest designer for Practical Scrappers. Their theme was flowers and I knew immediately what picture I would use. I first thought I would get ready made flowers to complete the ones in the photograph. When I couldn't find any, I thought I would make my own. Matching paper was the next challenge but I knew I was going to have to add hi-lites anyway, so took what was close and had fun making it match.

All paper came from DCWV stacks.
Flowers are layers of "daisy" shadow from "Walk in my Garden" Cricut
They are colored with acrylics, markers and chalk. Centers are from pompoms, embroidery floss and fringe trim.
Letters are Cricut Jasmine, highlighted with Stickles
Ribbon is by Carnival Crafts.
Baby is a gift from God!

Stephanie and David

A remembrance of my niece's wedding. Their picture is mounted on their invitation envelope and holds the journaling.
Dark Blue and white paper are DCWV. Green and silver DCWV metallics.
Flowers are ??? Beads and jewels are Darice or Want to Scrap
Letter font and swirls are cut from Cricut "Storybook"
Border punch is Fiskars.

This is eligible for several challenges:
Practical Scrappers - flowers (41)
Creative Inspirations - leftovers (metallic paper and flowers)
Delightful Sketches - love
Pile it on Challenges - flowers

Homerun Honey!

A Challenge Winner! Practical Scrappers for unique use of brads! Woo Hoo!

A cute little girl who loved to dress up and still wanted to play baseball! Still loves to dress up...

Brads are from misc. makers and all are altered to look like baseballs.
Sports Mania Cricut cartridge was used for the bats (altered with CTMH inks) and silhouette, George for font.
Gold infield paper is by Crate Paper, green is DCWV

Mommy's Helper

The little girl tries so hard to help and please...she is a joy!

Paper is Miss Elizabeth's.
Cricut cartridge "Walk in my Garden" was used for the flowers and wheelbarrow.
Font is "Lyrical Letters" Loop de Loop
Brads are from Eyelet Outlet and Joanns
Ink is CTMH

Good Catch

Just a tiny baby, but you caught our hearts.

Bats and glove - Cricut sports mania
Letters - Cricut Lyrical Letters
Star eyelets - Eyelet outlet

My First Christmas

Lucy loved all the lights, paper and glitter that comes with Christmas...and was very good about not touching the tree. The perfect little lady. You can see the joy she brought to our celebration!
Paper - green is Reflections Gemstone cardstock, blue DCWV Metallics
Letters- Cricut Storybook
Trees - vellum cut with Cricut Merry Tags
Punch - EW snowflakes

Fun in the Sun

Lucy has always loved water...bath, sink and best of all POOLS!

Paper is from Miss Elizabeth.
Embelishments from Joanns
And yes, those flowers are blooming in our yard in January. I love So Cal!

"Sand" Clemente Beach

A fun day remembered with 4 fun patterned papers.
Paper was from Miss Elizabeth, the brads from Eyelet Outlet.
Starfish from "A Day at the Beach" Cricut cartridge.

Wedding Fun

What fun it was to layout these pictures and remember a fun week on the road in Dallas and Waco. Lucy loved being dressed up and shown off, for Timmy dancing was the highlight. And my daughter was a radiant beauty.

This layout is being submitted for the Practical Scrappers "Love" Blog hop and specifically the "Love " BINGO. It has more than 4 pictures, is a 2 page layout, both ribbon and bling and more than 10 flowers...and that spells LOVE!

My Big Brother

The eyes of Lucy at 8 months old tell the story of her love for her big brother.

Paper is Close to My Heart and the ornaments are dry embossed and sanded to show white core.