Our Godmother

I had these great pictures of the girls and their "Nanny" from the dance recital last year and I wanted to do something to highlight them. The girls don't have many pictures of them with Ashlie, which is weird, because we are with her at almost every holiday with a camera, lol. Anyway, here is my layout.....


Products used: K & Co. paper, Crate paper, Prima flower, Fancy Pants acrylic and felt butterflies, Kaiser Crafts rhinestones, ink pots, Stickles, Bazzill Cardstock, Cricut Jubilee cartridge

Melodee Langworthy Beach Book class

So I was fortunate enough to take a class with designer Melodee Langworthy a couple of weekends ago. We made the cutest acrylic beach book. I had never made an acrylic book and the fact that this one was a beach book and I just got back from my cruise, it was like a match made in heaven, lol. What I love most about this book is that Melodee taught us that it is ok to glue two pictures back to back and then use that (and that alone) as a page in your book. Do you know how many pictures you can fit in a book by doing that???? TONS!!!! In this book, I used over 40 pictures and really, I have room for lots more!!!! Here are just a few pictures of my completed book.....


me and Melodee


The cover of the book....

and here are just a few of the pages that I did....

Winner of the Cutting Cafe blog candy!!!

Ok, I drew a name out of hat and the winner is:


Dizzy Noodle: Very, very pretty! I like the design of your gift card holder.

Thanks for the opportunity to win and good luck to everyone!

:) Michelle


CONGRATS!!!!! I will get in touch with you to send you the file that I used to make my gift card holder! Thanks everyone for making this blog hop so successful!

BBTB Challenge and Blog Hop

Lots going on this week with BBTB. We have a challenge as well as a blog hop and chances to win some great prizes. Regina challenged us with the Storybook cartidge this week as well as some of her items from The Cutting Cafe . I used the round square card to make this gift card holder and now you can too!!! Just leave a comment and I will pick a random comment later this week to get this file for free! Easy peasy! Go and check out Carla to see what she is giving away!!!




Products used: Bazzill cardstock, Making Memories stickers and border, Prima flowers, Heidi Swapp flower and rhinestones, May Arts ribbons, Cricut Storybook cartridge, glitter

My "not so little anymore" girlies

Here is another quickie layout for the dancing album that I am working on. Every year I have the girls take a picture together when it comes time for dancing pictures. The colors of their contrasting costumes really brightens this up.


Products used: American Crafts cardstock, Making Memories pattern paper, Prima bling and flowers, Tattered Angels chipboard, ink pots, misc. rhinestones, May Arts ribbon

another round of dancing layouts

I hope you guys aren't getting tired of dancing layouts, lol. I still have several more to do before this book is finished. Hoping to get the done soon. I had to put the pics away for a few days and I was completely uninspired by them. I was glad to get as many layouts done as I have though. Some may not be my best work, but hey, there are done!

Fabulous: McKenzie's jazz number

Products used: American Crafts cardstock, Pink Paislee paper, May Arts ribbon, Queen and Co. felt flowers, Spare Parts brads, American Crafts Thickers

Stilleto: Taylor's hip hop

Products used: Bazzill cardstock, ink pot, KI Memories lace cardstock, Making Memories stickers, American Crafts rubon letters

Saved: Taylor's tap number (I hate this layout....)

Products used: Bazzill cardstock, Technique Tuesday chipboard, Kaiser rhinestones and pearls, ink pots, Creative Imaginations letters, Making Memories glitter

Wizard of Oz: Fun number (another plain one that I don't care for)

Products used: Bazzill cardstock, velvet paper, Doodlebug chipboard letters, Fancy Pants felt, Kaiser Rhinestones

True Love

You know, as I am posting this, it just occured to me that I may have already scrapped this picture, lol. I can't remember. I love the picture so much, I just can't help it. We had family pictures taken in October 2008 by Stacy Landry Photography and I can't tell you how much I loved them. (If you are local and want some great pictures, give Stacy a try!)


Products used: Basic Grey Bittersweet paper, stickers, and chipboard, Prima flowers, Tim Holtz stamps, misc. rhinestones, Glimmer Mist, misc. trim

Project 365 - Week 17 and 18

With vacation and just being busy, I had gotten a bit behind on my Project 365 layouts, so here a couple that I did last week to catch up. I am going to work on last weeks in the next couple of days so I can be completely caught up.

Princess....Times Two

Ok, so this layout is just about as girly as you can get. The picture isn't the greatest, for some reason, I just couldn't get a good one. Anyway, I have been going through the gallery at 2ps and seeing all of these wonderful layouts using all of the new Prima stitched papers and thought I would give it a try.....here is what I ended up with

Products used: Prima stitched paper, Basic Grey paper, Heidi Swapp flowers, Prima flowers and bling, Spare Parts brads, SEI brads, Doodlebug rhinestons and sugar coated cardstock, Tattered Angels chipboard, Glimmer Mist, American Crafts flair button, Tim Holtz stamps, Fancy Pants transparency, Stickles, Cricut Storybook cartridge and Jenni Bowlin journalling spot

Project 365 - Week 16

Another installment for my Project 365 book. This is from our week on the crusie. I have the last 2 weeks done, just haven't taken my pictures yet. As usual, still loving doing this project. Love using up some of the supplies that I have stashed away. Love watching the girls look through all of the finished pages so far, just think how much fun it will be in years to look back on these pictures.

more dancing layouts..

Still trying to get the dancing album from last year done. Some of these layouts are a little on the "plain" side I guess, just trying to get them done.

If I Only Had a Brain (Taylor fun number)

Products used: Core'dinations cardstock, Rusty Pickle papers, Basic Grey chipboard, Making Memories glitter, Doodlebug glitter, Fancy Pants felt shapes

Little Egypt (Taylor ballet)

Products used: Bazzill cardstock, Creative Imaginations chipboard, gold ink, May Arts ribbon, Prima metallic flowers and butterfiles, Tim Holtz grungeboard

I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (McKenzie ballet)

Products used: Fancy Pants paper, Making Memories diecut paper, Basic Grey chipboard, Fancy Pants felt shapes, Doodlebug glitter and letter stickers, Stickles, misc. rhinestones

my girlies

Just a little quickie of my girlies from December 2007.....


Products used: Bazzill cardstock, Basic Grey paper, Prima pearls and flowers, Kaiser crafts pearls, Making Memories letters, Doodlebug Flock, May Arts ribbon, Glimmer Mist

Blessings

McKenzie made her first communion last year and looked so pretty in her beautiful white dress. Here is the last layout from her First Communion....

The title is an old diecut title from Deluxe Designs that is probably 6-7 years old (no kidding!!!) The lace was stark white and didn't really look right, so I took it outside and sprayed Glimmer Mist over to "dye" it the color that I wanted!! Just imagine the possibilities with Glimmer Mist and ribbon!

Products used: Crate paper, Bazzill cardstock, Karen Foster ribbon, May Arts ribbon, Prima flowers, Kayser pearls, Prima pearls, Fancy Pants chipboard, The Paper Studio lace, Deluxe Designs diecut title, Ink pot in Vegas Gold, Glimmer Mist