Tidbit Cards.

This year we didn't have a big birthday party for Logan but still some people sent Logan birthday gifts and others didn't. I usually include his birthday pictures with a thank you, however, since not everyone sent gifts (which is fine) I decided to make tidbit cards updating on everyone what Logan's been up to lately to send along with his picture. Then on the back of the tidbit cards I wrote a personal thank you to each person who did send Logan something.

Materials: Light blue Bazzill cardstock cut to a 5 x7 size,
Party Hearty "Candy Buttons" cut to a size 4 x 6, and the
white cardstock I tried to cut down to a 3.5 x 5 but it didn't
work out so I cut it to fit within the mat;
Ink: Chalk Box in Lagoon Blue; Yellow ribbon.

The tidbit card design was inspired by my high school friend and fellow blogger, Nicole, at FromOurPlaceToYours, who made her own baby shower invites. They were so cute and the idea was stuck in my head forever! You can view her invites here! Now I just have to find envelopes and send them out this week.

My little man playing with his Woody figure and a random block while Mommy was crafting!

Christmas Layout

I just got around to scrapping Christmas from last year, which was Logan's 1st Christmas. We had about 3 first Christmases with Logan and tons of fun just watching him interact with his family.  I scrapped "Christmas with the Parks" a few months back so here is Christmas 2009.

"Merriest Day"

How cute are the tags?! They were a bit of work but they are cute.

Supplies Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper: We R Memory Keepers:

White Christmas "Winter Mittens", "Ho Ho Ho", "Wrapping Paper",

& "Santa's Helpers"; Embellishments: Ribbon: CTMH in Cocoa;

 Glitter Brad: American Crafts; Accessory sheet: My Mind's Eye-

The Merry Days of Christmas; Layout credit: CTMH Magic

by Jeanette Lynton "Final Act" 

I still have Logan's meet with Santa and another Christmas with the family layout to do! Then, I can possibly go back and finish our hospital pics and months 3-11!

Flap Explosion!

Yesterday we had another rainy equaling a perfect scrapbooking day. I have a whole mess of pictures to scrap, and I really thought I'd get to at least a few themes (topics) but instead I got held up on Logan's baptism pictures. Close to My Heart released add on flaps that attach to a page protector and it looked simple enough but it was way more tedious than I had expected. With that said I spent most of yesterday's and today's free time on it! Paper used is Emporium by Close to My Heart, ink was Color Box Chalk Ink in Chestnut Roan & embellishments are Emportium (CTMH) stickers. Here are the finished results:

Looks like a page!

What it says: Grandparents make the world go 'round.

Logan is lucky to have such loving grandparents! 

Opens up like a book! Wait, we're not done yet!

Fold up/down the two yellow pages and voila, flap explosion!

It's still incomplete but hopefully after Christmas we can change that!

Close up 1! Logan with godparents

Close up 2:

What is says:  "Let the little children come to me, and

do not stop them; for it is such as these

 that the kingdom of Heaven belongs" 

                                             --Matthew 19:14

(sorry for the lightness)

Close up 3: Logan with his uncle & Chris

Close up 4:

What is says: (Top) "The Great God between your two

shoulder blades to protect you in this life,

The Son of the Virgin Mary be close to your heart,

and the perfect Holy Spirit keep you in His care."

                                                                             --an old Irish blessing

(Bottom) "While we try to teach our children all about life,

Our children teach us what life is all about"

                                                                      --Angela Schwindt

Layout Sunday!

I've got a scrapbooking bug right now! Here are the seven layouts I whipped up this week:

"Easter Fun"
Materials: My Mind's Eye-"Unique" Delightful Collection, "So Handsome"
Brilliant collection, "Sugar & Spice" Dazzling collection

"Audr1na.Rose"

Materials- My Mind's Eye- Lost & Found "Happily Ever After"

Madison Avenue collection; Paper flower- Bazzill Basics

Paper in French Vanilla; Glitter Brad by American Crafts

"Audr1na"

Materials- Bazzill in "Berryliscious"; Basic Grey-The Olivia Collection "Marissa" &

"Candice"; Layout Credit: CTMH Magic by Jeanette Lynton "Secret"

"Yum"

Scrapbook Class at Eclectica Scrapbook & Stamps with Liz

"Best Buds"

Materials- My Mind's Eye "Checkered Out" Ooh La La collection, So Sophie

 "Sweet Chic" Graceful collection; Journaling Card- My Mind's Eye

"Sweet Chic" Graceful collection; Ink- Bazzinks in Gold

"Fall is in the Air"

Scrapbook class at Eclectica's Scrapbook and Stamps with Liz & Chelsea

"Sisters"

Materials- CTMH "Splendor"; Stickers- CTMH "Splendor"; Ink- Color Box Chalk Ink in

"Chestnut Roan"; Glitter Brad by American Crafts;

Layout Credit: CTMH Magic by Jeanette Lynton "Crystal Ball"

I love each and every one that I did! I absolutely love the picture of Chris with his two closest friends! The most tedious layout I did was the "Sisters" one. That included alot of tracing & cutting but it turned out really well, not perfect, but really well! I was happy with the outcome! I really need to invest in an easel, as you can see, I used my laptop and my couch as easels! Ha! I also hope Santa pulls through and gets me a Cricket or a Silhouette because all of these pages need titles!! 

Snow Layout?

I know, I know, August isn't even finished and, not only does my new blog layout look like Fall, but here I am working on snow layouts.  I had the pics and I found the cutest kit at Eclectica and I had to do it!

"Playing in the Snow"

(Paper collection is Eskimo Kisses)

Mine is a little different in that I didn't have a distresser and the person who put the kit together did. The distresser did give it a little more dimension but it doesn't make or break the layout so you don't necessarily need to do it! When I was finished with these two pages, I had more than enough material to put together another page!

How cute is the deer?! I wanted to incorporate it somehow and I was able to do here!

Next LOs: Valentine's Day & the St. Patrick's Day parade!

An Eclectica Giveaway!

Remember yesterday how I posted my favorite Fall things?

and Halloween being one of my favorite holidays?

Well Eclectica Scrapbooks and Stamps is having a Halloween paper giveaway!!!

The paper is by S*E*I and is sooooo adorable!

It's really simple to enter too!

Just head on over to their blog!

images via Electica Scrapbooks & Stamps 

Scrap Pages!

I thought I had posted previously about how scrapbooking like crazy but it appears I didn't or I just can't find it...Anywho, after I came home from New Orleans I had this urge to just scrap! I did about 4 or 5 layouts and I'm still working I'm some others. They're not complete because they lack titles. Maybe they'll have some after Christmas if Santa delivers a Cricut or Silhouette!! Ha!

"Cutest Lil' Scarecrow"

(Logan's 1st Halloween)

Materials: Spooked Stars by My Mind's Eye, Halloween Harvest by Stemma; Stickers- Bat Chain by Stampendous, Bazzil cardstock

"Born in the USA"

(Logan's 1st 4th/Boatride)

Materials: Starburst Translucent Red by The Paper Co., Star Paper by Creative Imaginations/Helen Dardik, Ribbon, & Chunky Brads by Doodlebug Design Inc., Cardstock

"Christmas with the Parks"

(Logan's 1st Christmas Party)

This paper was actually a personalized. It was created by a scrap store called Scrap it Simple, located in Spencer, Massachusetts.  My future MIL got this for me at crop she went to. I loved it and this is my favorite layout. The one cardstock had the family last name on it and the other had Logan's name on it, which I used to fill in the ornaments!! Such a fun kit to display Logan's first family Christmas party!

"Beach"

(Logan's 1st trip to the Shore)

Materials: "On the Boardwalk Collection" by Graphic 45, Black & Orange cardstock

This layout is my 2nd favorite!

"Snip It"

(Logan's 1st Haircut)

Materials: "Brilliant" kit by Dreamy 2/My Mind's Eye, "So Handome" Refreshing Green & "Brothers" Seeing Stars.

The layout format for the first 2 layouts were taken from the magazine Creative Keepsakes (April 2010). The Christmas kit came with a suggestive layout that I used with a few tweaks here and there.  The "Beach" layout was my own thing that I came up with. It was part of layout of the month at a scrap store I would go to and I didn't like the concept so I went out on my own! The last layout is credited to my blogger friend and scrap instructor Liz. I had taken a class she instructed and she had given us alternate ways to use the layouts we learned that session. One of the alternate ways is the "Snip It" layout! I'm still working on my layouts. Right now I'm doing a zoo layout and LC's 2 month layout! I also hope to get out of my blogging funk that I'm apparently still in. =0)

**Hugs**

Needs a Title

I scrapbooked yesterday while I had Chris trapped in the bedroom because his presents were on the coffee table waiting to be opened and waiting for Logan to wake up. A while back, Chris' mom gave us a few pictures of Chris when he was a baby, mostly so we could compare Logan to our baby pictures. I ended up keeping those few pictures and decided to scrap them since I had the perfect paper.

The charred and inked paper was already done for me. It was done at a class back in NJ that I unfortunately missed, so I can't tell you the technique, but I can tell you that the paper was torn and then inked along the edges with black ink.  The paper used was by Stephanie Hunt's collection called "Estate Sale". The flowers were made using newspaper, black ink, and Mod Podge and kept together using brads (and those I made =)

Anyway, how cute was my man!? I see Logan in these pictures in how he's standing, the face he's making, just everything. I'm stumped, though, for a title. I was thinking of "Sweet Kisses" because of the little kiss Chris had received, but I also thought of "Lil' Kisses" and "Young Kisses". Help! =)

"You"

It's a beautiful day here in Memphis but I intend to stay inside for the most of the day, except for a quick trip to the post office, because my allergies have NOT acclimated to Memphis (outside). I also wanted to take a second to let the folks in Nashville know that they're in my prayers and thoughts. The flooding there is completely terrible and tragic! So keep them in your prayers too!

When I put Logan down for his nap I decided to get to work on my mini-book that I picked up at Eclectica yesterday! I've been itching to scrap and this satifies in less than an hour! I was hesitant on buying the kit because it was a little girlie but I think I was able to make it somewhat boyish.

I changed this up a little bit...Instead of going down vertically I did it horizontally.

"Handsome"

"Lovable"

(Mommy and Me)

The pink was ok because I was in the picture =)

"Happy"

The End

=)

Real Housewives of NJ premiered last night (my guilty pleasure)!! It made me miss NJ even though I lived nowhere near where they live! Ha! Glee's on tonight too!! I Love Love Love that show!! ♥

365 Days

My little man's first birthday is coming up on Monday. All I can think is "Where did the time go?" and reminisce about his first year. Gosh, I wish I could go back to the days when he was first born and everything was new and not so crazy. It was just me and him and I loved every second of it!

So I saw this scrap page model in a book where I order alot of my kits and paper and needed to make it. Thanks to Chris' step mom she made all the pieces I needed and gave me my "kit", so that I didn't need to spend over $100 on stamps! Here's the almost finished result (I need to write on it somewhere):

The clocks are stamped at the time that Logan was born! There's a smaller picture from the day he was born and a bigger one to commemorate his one year. I tied the ribbon around the month he was born as well! This isn't the exact layout that I saw in the book but it's darn close!

Scrapbook Saturdays

It's been a few days since I lasted posted something and partly because I've been upset about my impending move to Memphis. I'll try better next time ;-). 

Yesterday I went and scrapbooked to attempt to destress and it sort of worked. I got 2 pages done Yay!

These pages weren't so hard and they're still missing elements.  I'm going to try and find nautical buttons and put them on the end of the brown striped strips.  Anywho both pages were made using Martha Stewart's School Days Multimedia Pack 12 x 12 Paper (Boys). The letters were done on the Cricut (which I would like to own once I'm down in TN) using the Printing 101 cartridge. I would've liked to have done more but this is all time and Logan would allow for.  Enjoy!

Paper {{Love}}

I love scrapbooking and I'm pretty OCD with how I do it. I've done layout of the months and bought packs to complete photos and that's pretty much how I scrap.  I find paper I love and then find the photos to go with them. I used to us Creative Memories until my consultant stopped being one. When Chris introduced me to his step-mom my scrapbooking skills soared! No longer did I just cut pics and put them in a book with stickers. I now can use embellishments, stamps, stickers, the Cricket (which I'm gonna need when I move to Memphis), sticker makers, brads (I used to think it was just a name). I love everything about it! It is an expensive hobby though! Who cares right! These pictures I'll look back on and the story will be written down.

Sooooo I bought more stuff, LOL. Yup my order is going to be put in in April Woo. Just in time for me to use it out in TN.  So here's what I ordered:

"Caboodle" because it's so summery and boyish! I'll probably use this for Logan summer pics!
(Image courtesy of CTMH)

"Emporium" -- I'm using this pack for Logan's baptism pics.
(Image courtesy of CTMH)

I also ordered page protectors, flip flaps, photo storage protectors, and stickers that go along with the packs! I cannot wait to get them!!! 

Sundays are made for...

...making a cup of tea, turning on easy listening on the radio, and starting a scrapbook layout.  Since Logan was with his grandparents and Chris was  out for a bit I took advantage of the alone time to finish reading my mags and then start the scrapbook layouts for next month. I started at home and finished at Chris' dads house...Here's the final product (my camera gives these pages no justice)

Taking these pictures reminded me of how badly I need to invest in an easel and/or better camera.  Anyways I used the pictures from the day Logan was born...The technique taught for this layout was using a distressing tool like the one below.

The tool allows the paper to be frayed and curled, which looked further distressed when using a stamp pad (any color...I chose stamp colors Cocoa and Sweet Leaf sold by Close to My Heart).  I used glitter made by Martha Stewart to embellish the butterfly on the second page and Stickle glitter for the butterfly on the first.  The die cuts were made using the Cricket, however, since I didn't cut them myself I don't know which font box was used.

I picked up a copy of House and Home yesterday and fell in love with this fabric:

(photo courtesy of http://www.fschumacher.com/)

It's a bit expensive at $215 a yard but I love it...I saw this on a chair that had been upholstered using this fabric!  I wish I could post the chair but I can't find it.  Then I saw these chairs that looked fun and well I loved them too =)  Relaxation and fun are what Sundays were made for ♥

(photo courtesy of http://www.alannacavanagh.blogspot/ [Google search 1/31/10])