Birthday Day Scrappages

So I am just now getting around to working on Miles 1st birthday page. These have been so fun, because I love all the photos that were taking. It was such a perfect day. And each time I look at them I think of the warmth of the sun and the laughter in the air that day. I try to cherish each day with him. I know one day he will be a grown man and leave the nest. Knowing I will have all these wonderful memories is the only thing that prepares me for that.
I also took most of his birthday cards and put them in his scrapbook. I hope one day he will love to look back at them and read all the messages loved ones sent him.
( If you dont see your card or picture, Im not done yet!! )

I had a fun busy weekend! I got to go to 2 crops and share some laughs with friends and got a lot done in the meantime!
As you know I love to do altered projects. I found these ugly plaques at Mighty Dollar for one buck! Then I found the pair of dinosaurs for a buck too. I had a pack of dinosaur paper and simply covered it up! The cheapest, most simply things always turn out so darn cute!

Christmas 2010

Miles came down with a high temp on the 23rd. We thought for sure he would be sick all through Christmas. With lots of care and prayers he was feeling much better by Christmas day. We enjoyed a quiet day at home watching the snow fall and playing with Miles new toys. I did miss my family , but happy to spend it with my husband and baby.
Most of the day Miles stood in our bay window and looked at the window. He played with Handy Manny and his laptop.
The night before he helped his daddy make cookies for Santa. They turned out very well...yummy!

Photography

As well as doing hands on craftiness, I love to get great shots of people and nature. Here is a few shots of Gilreath Mill in Greer SC. Brett and I were riding around and found this awesome place right on the road. I dont know much of the story behind it, but the pictures turned out great.
Also inside, it is still full of stuff! I have no idea how long the stuff has been there. I cant imagine anyone being able to walk in there, the floors look like they would fall right through. But I would love to get in there and look around at all that old stuff.

Miles 1st Birthday!!

I cant believe a year has went by since I gave birth to my sweet baby Miles. We tried to give him the best birthday party ever! I know he wont remember, but he will always have pictures to look back on. And each year will only get better!!

So almost everything from his party was handmade......I find so much joy in doing this and plus I save the muhlaa!

Here is his cake. Simple small cake iced. I found some Wiltons candy decorations at Mighty dollar. So I used all the party hats out of it to go around the outside. The one on top was made by using my cricut.


I also made his cupcakes. These were very simple. I used my cricut to cut out each party hat, and then cut out a "m" to put on them for Miles. I got one of those cupcake stands, which I think made it look much nicer!

Making his party decorations were fun too!! Again I put that cricut to work!
I made a banner and with the left overs I made a poster. On the banner, I cut out scalloped circles using my nestiabilites and cuddle bug. I put a picture of him on each one from through out the year.



Miles loves his cake and all his presents, and thank you to all the wonderful family and friends that came to celebrate with him!

Treat Bags

These are special little treat bags I made for my 4 step children. They are crafty themselves and really appreciate any crafty thing they receive. So here are so some simple treat bags.
I found some orange bags a couple of years ago and K&Company put out these die cuts a few years ago. I think they still make them. Just glued to the front. Used some stamps and made some labels to jazz it up.
For the first time I attempted to make these chocolate suckers. It is a lot easier than it looks. I though they turned out pretty cute!
Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Halloween!

I love this time of year. The leaves, the crisp air and Halloween!
This year Miles is going to be a giraffe. And boy oh boy is he cute!
I also love craving pumpkins at Dan and Angies house each year. Although Brett did most of the work.

And you thought they were only cards.......

I have almost made it through all my baby shower cards. This was so fun to cut them up and put them together again!!

Baby Shower Cards

I love sending and receiving any type of card. So lately I found a folder of all the beautiful baby shower cards we got at our baby showers. What a better way to keep them than to put them in my scrapbook!
My friend Angie made me a sweet and oh so cute card, which is across the top. I matted it on the envelope she gave me, which matched prefect!
The messages are from the insides of cards. The bear and "baby" are from the covers of other cards.
Cant wait to get started on more, this was so fun!

Last week my family went to downtown Greenville and took some pictures. Miles is 11 mths now and I wanted to get some good pictures of him at the park. He is such a little wiggler. But we didn manage to get a few good shots. I cant wait to scrapbook them!

Paper Bag Album

So this is my 2nd paper bag album. I am still working on the 1st one. I made this for my mom for her 1st grandparents day. Its all in neutral colors because I had a neutral baby pack of paper. I learned that is the key to making one of these. If all the paper coordinates, it will flow and look a lot better than trying to match up scraps ( which you can still do) .

These are just normal size lunch bags, but I followed directions from watching youtube videos, I watch several so I wont call out just one. But one thing I did learn was to cut the bag to make it 4x6. It is naturally 4 inches but I cut down on the open part of the bag to make it 6. I think it will come about 7 inches. This helps in saving paper, since the paper I was using was 12x12. This left me with some scrap pieces that are perfect sizes to go back and make the pockets and folders.

I didnt make a video ( I dont have the set up or quiet time). So I just made a slide show, but you can get the idea. I dont think I got the front inside cover. Maybe once my mom goes back and puts pictures inside I will make another slide show so you can how it turns out!

Baby Dinosaur

Miles is about 10 1/2 months here. He has really got the walking thing down! He is all over the place, no stopping him now. We call him the baby dinosaur, he looks like a T Rex with those arms and that growl........SO SILLY!!

Mommy and Me

Another one of my favorites! This was made using Bo Bunny paper, love their paper lines. Some neat looking ribbon/fiber stuff....just did a little pleating to make it look a little more girlie. The flowers are prima flowers, I think I mixed and match different sets. The Cherish is a rub on. thanks Angie! I needed a little sentiment and she had the perfect thing! And yes Miles is a boy through and through, so all the pink and ruffles are for me since I cant girlie up any of his pages :)

Sweet baby Miles

This turned out to be one of the most simple Layouts, but one of my most favorites. I kept it clean and easy. Miles is about 1 month old here and was starting to lift his head a little more. I think I got an amazing shot of him.

Welcome Great Pumpkin ATC

Fall is coming! My favorite time of year. I love the weather changing and it is time for all 3 of our birthdays! Brett in September, Miles in October and then mine in November. Let the fun begin! So to celebrate my favorite time of year I signed up for a swap on fiskateers.com to do a Halloween ATC. What better than The Great Pumpkin!!!

So this ATC involved a purple background ( Bazzil ) which I sprayed with this really cool stuff called Smooch Spray! You can find it here https://www.trendyrightnow.com/shopping/default.asp?GID=45 . I won it on a challenge from Fanceypapercrafters.ning.com. I printed my Peanuts characters from google, and cut them out. The best part was the moon! I love how it turned out. First I glued down some tissue paper on top of the yellow cardstock. Then I sprayed more of the Smooch spray (silver foil) all over it…next I took my circle punch and punched them out!

So welcome great pumpkin, I look forward to carving you next month!

My scrapbook shelf.....LOVE IT. My sweet husband made this for me alot cheaper than we could buy it. I love the peg board. Its not organized but couldnt wait to share!

Altered Letters

I love love love altering things. It is so easy and quick and can look like you spent all day on it. Here are the letters I plan on hanging in my sons room. I tried to do something that I could change the theme with. So this was very simple, wooden letters from Hobby Lobby, half off! Which made them only 1.50 a piece. Paper on sale, it took 3 sheets of 12x12. I just used a glue stick and covered the front of the letters and then used my fiskars handy knife to trim around the letters. I can get so close with it that I do not need to do any sanding or trimming. I just glued on some buttons and twine to add to it, but it really looked good enough without it. Ill be sure to post pictures once we get them hung up too.

Well friends it has been a WHILE since I have posted anything!! Ill try to do better.
So Miles is here and is 5 months old, I cant believe it! I have done a few things while I have been away that I would love to share with you all. Ill be posting soon!!

Valentine card for my sweetie. Making any kind of card for guy is always a challenge for me. I think these colors worked out well. I did get a little bubbling on the card, I should have used a different adhesive. But he enjoyed it anyway :)

Here is a new layout I did for a challenge, on one of my scrapbook groups. We had to go by a sketch and try to duplicate it . I used my cricut to cut out the heart, and used my distressing ink by Ranger. I used cute rhinestones and baubles to give it a little bling.

CDF Training

So on Friday Jan 30th, I had the opportunity to go to a Certified Fiskars Demonstrator training session at this wonderful scrap store, The Funkie Munkie! So my best friend Angie went with me and we had a blast! We met new friends and laughed and learned all together.
I would really like to thank Debby Lewis for coming up from Columbia to take the time to show us the way!
So here are we are!

Altered Projects

So thanks to the snow we got last night, I didnt get to go to work today. But was quite scary driving home though! So today I had to keep myself busy. I had bought this jumbo clothespin and mini clipboard for a buck a while back , so today I had time to do something with them .
Both of these were so simple! I covered with paper, made a few bows and added some lady bugs. I had gotten these cute lady bugs years ago at wal mart and didnt know what to do with them! So there you have it, I have now used them :)

Today I worked on a Valentine card for my mom. This was 4 heart shaped chipped board I have had and I just decorated each page, and used my wonderful Cropadile to punch holes in the top and added some rings and covered in ribbon. My fiskers hand knife worked out so well on this. What a time saver!

Penny Black Winter Tree

Penny Black makes beautiful stamps, I think they are most of my favorites . Here is what I call , The Winter Tree. A 6x6 card, the 2nd layer I tried to paper pierce by hand, so you can see some imperfections, but you get the idea. I stamped using Staz On white, which I am not crazy about. Yes it STAYS ON. And never comes off of anything it touches. Of course they sell their own cleaner, but its hard to find. But it dosnt stamp well even on this dark shade of purple I selected. So I touch up the tree with some Snow and some Bling. The ribbon is simply a black sheer with white polka dots.