So Easy to Love

Since a little bundle of puppy has stolen a little piece of my heart lately and taken just as much of my time I thought the "neglected" cat of the house was over due for a layout. He's still my cutie.

Puppy Love

We are watching my parents dog twice this week. I'm so excited for Bessie time. Here's the first layout I've done for myself of the puppy. I still have a few more pictures piled up and hopefully will get a few more this week.

Papers:
Love Story Collection - Valentine's Day - 12x12 Die-Cut Paper - Scallop Circle by Making Memories
Daisy D's - Maybe Baby Collection [Red Hot]

Letters:
K*I Memories - WILD THING CHIP ALPHA
American Crafts - Thickers

iScrap Challenge #12

I'm seriously behind on the year in review iScrap challenges I decided to do this year. What's a girl to do? It's been a hectic month, and it's going to be a hectic next month too. Maybe the summer will be better. Until then I'll just have to do what I can. Here's Challenge #12:


It's from a trip up to Napa Valley for a surprise party. We opted to make a weekend out of it and had a great time. The colors in the scan are a bit off, but it's close. I used a transparency overlay on the right side and a Me and My Big Ideas - Kay Flower on the top (these seem to go with everything lately) 3 different pattern papers and a card stock base. Overall I'm reasonably happy with the end result. The focus of the layout was supposed to be a random picture and I choose one of my favorite pictures from the weekend.

Addicted

For a while when I was younger I was into trading cards. There was something soothing about sorting, collecting and acquiring a complete set. For the last year or so these $1 Studio G stamp sets have been showing up in stores. Now unfortunately they have different sets for different stores, some sets go to Michael's, some to Joan's and others to JC Moore. You see the dilemma? Only Michael's are nearby our house and only one tends to have decent stock of the $1 stamps. Every few months a new series, this is series 11. And it was my lucky night because they had all 16 in the set. My other sets are missing one or two here or there since I just didn't get there fast enough. I love them. And even if I didn't love each and every one I'd have to have them all, because I'm addicted.

1st Acrylic Album

I decided to try out an Acrylic album. My parents are getting a new puppy and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to give it a whirl. I had a blast. I'd also just gotten my first kit from Create My Keepsakes featuring Pink Paislee. I couldn't have been more excited to dig in!! I also used some of the KI Memories Lace cardstock I've been saving for the right opportunity.

Front of Album

First pictures of Bessie.

Bessie starting to grow

Mom Kaylee and Bessie loving her tummy rubbed.

Chewing everything in sight.

The back of the album. A picture of all three sister. Too cute!!

Birthday Bowling

When Kyle and I started dating again, nearly 5 years ago, we talked about going bowling. We've been meaning to go, and wanting to go and the closest we came was wii bowling (fun but not exactly the same). So when our friend had her birthday party this year at a bowling alley we were totally excited. Finally we got our chance and hang out with friends all at the same time. We had a great time and hopefully it won't be another 5 years before going back to the bowling alley.

I used a tiny bit of pink paislee (the frame) and some papers from a monthly kit from coordinates collections and thickers for the letters..

Happy Birthday Scott!!

Today is Scott's Birthday. We met almost 14 yrs ago as we embarked on college and the road to adulthood. I'm not sure either of us realized the journey ahead, but I'm forever grateful for the friend I found during those summer days of college orientation. I realized a while ago I didn't have any scrapbook pages with one of my best friends, so when I came across this picture on his flickr site I decided it was the perfect opportunity. Here's a layout:


Making use of some Daisy D's paper. Simple and sweet, but remains one of my favorite layouts.

Here's the card (I made) and we gave him earlier this week. Still loving the Hey There Cupcake Stamp Set, and my gigga punch.



Happy Birthday!! Hope it's a good one.

Birthday Boys

Today is both my Dad's and Rich's birthdays. Birthday season is cranking up.



Here's the card I gave my dad over the weekend when we saw him. I waver between loving it and seeing the little technical problems. I do like the way the blue detail on the bottom (puffy paint) looks like frosting.... I don't like that it's not very even and was a pain to work with. I do like the cupcake and the sparkles, but wasn't quite sure about the colors. One minute love... the next I question. But I'm allowed to be indecisive right? We sent Rich one of the cupcake cards (an orange base) from an earlier post.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Vacation Album Complete

I finally finished an album for my husband an I. Despite the fact our honeymoon album lay nearly done and others by their very nature are "in progress" I can finally say I've finished a project for us. Here the slide show for the album.