California Christmas

I love our California Christmas traditions. We go swimming at my parents house. They heat up the pool and it is so nice and warm. Rain or shine we swim. I made this layout for the whimsical scraps and bugs challenge. We had to make a layout with snowflakes from any cartridge. I am on vacation and so it was interesting because I had to borrow a cartridge from a friend down here and I used my moms little bug. I love that I am able to still scrapbook even though all of my stuff is at home.

My sister is an awesome photographer and I had her take this today while the kids were swimming! These are pictures of me when I was a girl! We love Southern California!!!! Thanks Tracie for your awesome skills!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Christmas Card

Here is my first challenge for Whimisical Scraps and Bugs. You should go and check it out. The ladies created some amazing things!!! We had to use a tree cut from any cart. I used Joys of the Season for the tree, the star, and the word joy. I also used Calligraphy Collection for the frame behind the word joy. I do not even own these carts but I am LUCKY enough to have good friends that do!!! They were so much fun to play with and of course are on my new (and growing) wish list!!! I used diamond stickles on the stars and the tree and the word joy. You can never have too much sparkle at this time of year! I also used dark gold tuelle which is becoming another favorite thing to scrapbook with!

Hope you are truely finding joy this holiday season!

Teacher Gift~ Wordbook

I have to give a huge shout out to Monique (http://monkeydoodlecricut.blogspot.com/) for her inspiration and wordbook cutfile! I am now totally obsessed with them and I can think of ANY occasion that could warrant a wordbook! THANKS MONIQUE!

This is my first one that I have made. It is for Mrs. Peart who is my daughters AMAZING teacher. I am so blessed to have the most amazing teachers for my kids this year! The colors that I chose are perfect for her! She is bright and fun! If you haven't had a chance to make a wordbook you should try!

I first cut out the pages of the book out of CEREAL BOXES! (I started using my chipboard but I was having to do multiple cuts and every so often it would get off and ruin my chipboard!) So I switched to cereal boxes and I don't really notice a difference in stability!

Here is the part that makes is so easy! I cut out the 1st page with the paper that want to cover the letter "P page" with (for this book). Then I take the paper that I want to cover the "E page" with and FLIP IT UPSIDE DOWN and cut the "P page" again. Then flip the paper so that the pattern shows again and then cut the "E page". That way the paper will be the same on both sides of the paper. (*if you will notice that I DID NOT do this for the first page of the book, but I figured it out for the rest of the pages!!!!)

I wrote on each mat what size picture to put in so that it would still have a border around the picture.

I used George for the rectangle, Base Camp for the letters, Home Accents for the embellishments, and Stone Script for the words on the last page. I used glossy accents from Tim Holtz to glue and to make the work "FAMILY" shinny.

I am almost finished with the other Teacher wordbook and then I will post that too! Thanks for stopping by...

Party Invites

I made some party invites for a friend whose little girl is turning 1. She has a snowman themed party and wanted some cute invites with snowman on them. I knew that I for sure wanted the adorable snowman from doodlecharms and I knew he needed to be on top of some cuttlebug snow! I think they turned out so cute. I hope she likes them as much as I do!

Happy THANKSGIVING!!!!

Another Onsie Baby Card

I love the new arrivals cartridge! There are so many cute cuts! I used the onsie cut (again!) and I used the mini monogram cart for the scalloped square. The threading water punch is on the edge. The Welcome stamp is from Stampin' Up.

Have a great day!

Halloween party Thank you note

We went to a SUPER FUN Halloween party at our friends house and so I made Tammi (the hostess with the most-ess) this silly thank you. The bat is from Paper Doll Dress Up and the punch is MS drippy goo.

THANKS LISA for the Googlie eyes!!!! I love them!

Halloween Card

I was going through old pictures and I found this picture of my Mom and my Sister from the 80's. I laughed so hard when I saw it and I knew that I had to do something for Halloween with it. I hope they laugh just as much as I did! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Itty Bitty Baby Book

I made this Itty Bitty Baby Book while I watched Conference. There was no rhyme or reason for how it was put together but I wanted something that I could put all of the kids baby pictures in! I think it is coming along but I still need to add the title and the journaling.

Candles from Super Sat

These are just a couple of the candles that we made at super sat. Thanks to Deborah (Scrapping moms scraps) and (Robyn) the pink stamper for the directions!!! They are WAY easy and turn out super cute!

Exploding Box ~ "Where does the time go?"

This is the exploding box class that I taught at Super Sat. It was a lot of fun! I found the chipboard clocks and that inspired the "where does the time go?" box. I started with pictures of my husband and I as babies and then pics of us growing up and then of us together in school, and then our wedding. Then finally of us with our first child, our new family of 3, then our family of 4, then family of 5, and ending with our most recent family photo with all 6 of us!

It was a very fun day of crafting!

Stampin' Up workshop

I went to Moniques (monkeydoodle) Stampin' Up workshop and it was super fun! (here is a shout out to "the ROYAL COURT!") We made 3 cards and this ADORABLE Halloween Gift bag. THANKS MONIQUE!

Crazy Monkey

Here is 1 of 4 layouts that I got done at my 12 HOUR Swarm!!!!! A little too much socializing and not too much working! BUT IT WAS A BLAST!!!! I still am going to journal about my "crazy monkey" Jerry. He is a hoot!

Still need IDEAS for alternatives for googly eyes for the animals on New Arrivals?!?!?!?!

Have a good one!
Jenny