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

Birthday Card

Practical Scrappers Sketch Challenge...all out of my scraps!

The Little Princess

Blog hop week is fun but not nearly as much fun as being a 2 1/2 year old and becoming a princess. She was so excited Christmas morning. She just wanted to put on her heels, dresses, beads...all her BLING.
Challenges:
Practical Scrappers - Bling
Sketchy Thursdays - layout
Cuttlebug Spot - Bling

Recipe:
Colorbok (black) Glitter Paper
Want to Scrap gems
Michaels - ribbon and large star
Beverly's vellum

For Jennifer

Entering challenges is fun, but life has much bigger challenges! This is dedicated to Jennifer who is recovering from removal of a tumor on her spine, just hours after delivering a sweet baby boy. Her wonderful witness to God's mercy and miracles (no cancer!) blesses us all.
Challenges:
Cuttlebug Spot - bling
365 Cards -Day 44 White Space
Pile It on - Say it with words
Simple Doodles - Inspire

Cuttlebug folder for embossing
Rhinestones- Kaiser Scrapbook
Verse - EK Success
Glitter dots - Stickles
All paper was scrap

Easter Flowers Still Bloom

Does this resemble the former post? When I took home the flower vase sleeves, I looked at them for days and didn't have the heart to just toss them away. As I played with them, a transformation took place. A card to continue the Easter joy on a birthday, as a get well wish or thinking of you.
Cricut - Walk in my Garden, Storybook
Punch - My Purple Studio

Easter Flowers

We had an Easter breakfast fundraiser for a young mother at church who suffered a stroke. And what is Easter without flowers and fun decorations. The flowers are real but needed to dress us the small cups we used for vases.
A line of punches on top and bottom of the sleeve, lined with yellow and then tulip cuts from Cricut "Walk in My Garden" to finish it off (matches the napkins in the background). The cross is 2 sided - green in the center with embossed crosses, inked a bit and other side has a soaring butterfly - Cricut Storybook - as well.
This is being entered in the Stampin Royalty Easter challenge.

Our Mission

This is the full mission statement as now displayed in the narthex of our church...keeping our goal in our mind and in front of our eyes.

For those who wonder about such things, the background is sueded mat board (recycled/rescued from a local frame shop) with Cricut cut vinyl lettering.

Proclaiming the Truth of God's Word

I've been busy finishing up some banners and displays for our church. We are trying to make our mission statement a larger focus of our decision making (based first on the Word of God). The banners show the 4 verbs, our actions inspired by God's love for us.

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!