New Digital Scrapbook Pages

This one is from Shae's birthday we took her to ride the Wild Woody Racetrack on the strip in Pigeon Forge, TN

This last one if my new desktop on my computer.

I made these new Digital Scrapbook Pages with recent pictures from our trip to the Smoky Mountains.

What I have been up to for the past few weeks.

I think that a couple pictures with captions will explain it all. Both of my girls have had the stomach bug that has been going around, and each of them have visited the hospital because of it, Anastasia only was borderline dehydrated and so they gave her meds and it really helped her along with 2 days of rest at home, but Shae on the other hand had to have IV fluids and meds to get her symptoms to stop. She also had to have 2 days rest per the doctor and it seems to be helping, but she is still very tired. We are at home today for her last day of rest before she can go back to school. Before this she had never missed a day of school this year and she was very upset that she would not get to go to school. She really loves going and getting to be with her friends. By the way in the first picture you can see a new finished object that I made for Anastasia. I made it with Lilly's Sugar n' Cream. The pattern is a improvised shell blanket.

I have been spending the day today updating my Etsy shop and I have alot of new items in the shop and I have taken so many pictures of items that I hope to get uploaded today. I have really not been keeping my shop up and I feel like I need to have a good showing this time around. I have books (with multiple copies) , yarn, knitting needles and handmade items that I really enjoyed making.

Update

I need to get some picture taken but the light has not been good around here for the past couple of days. I have two finished objects this week. I made Anastasia a crochet shell cuddle blanket, and I made Shae a large one square crochet cuddle blanket. I really enjoyed the process of making these blankets and I really need to get pictures when the light is better. I used Lilly's Sugar and Cream crochet cotton for each of these blankets and the best part is that I got these yarns on clearance at Hobby Lobby and only payed about $2.25 to make each of these blankets. They had the 3 ball value packs (2100 yards for kit) on sale for only $7 and it only took one full skein (710 yards) to make each blanket.

Hey there

I cannot believe that I have let a week pass with out a post. I had finals this week and the start of a new class. I have gotten a little creative work done also. I made a mini scrapbook for each of my daughters' teachers for Valentine's day. Let me know what you think if these pages. I also created a new template for packaging tea bags as gifts. I will post the picture as soon as I can get the camera hooked up.

I also started a new blanket project for Anastasia. Hobby Lobby had the 3 ball super saver Lilly brand cotton yarn on clearance, it is normally $21 for 3 large balls, and they had it for only $7. I picked the pink kit. It had two shades of solid pink and one ball of varigated. I love the colors and I might have to go back and pick up the blue kits for Shae. Each kit has over 2100 yards in it and this is plenty of yarn for a nice size throw. I also continued work on a baby ripple blanket that I am doing in two colors and one a 4 row repeat.

Another Small Layout

I have not had much time to work on these because I have been working on a few traditional scrapbook pages.

Layouts of the Day

These are for a 4x6 scrapbook for my mother for to take on her vacation at the end of the month. I love the way that these turned she loved them. I printed them at wal-mart today and they were ready in an hour online. Let me know what you think. I made these with a free kit. I will have to find the link and I will post it as soon as I can.

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Layouts of the Day

I did not realize that I had not posted the past few layouts that I have made. I have them posted in my scrapbook galleries, but I forgot to post them here. Please let me know what you think I really would love some feedback on these. Thanks so much in advance for your replies.

Layout of the day

This picture was taken on New Years Day. It was a sunny cool day and I wanted to take a few pictures out side.

How To:

I created the flower with a couple of patterned papers and clip art in a flower shape. I overlaid the paper with the help of a vector mask. Then I used the mosaic filter to change the look of the paper varing the size of the tiles and the grout. I then added a button embelishment on top for the center.

The Scallop paper border was created with a vector mask also. The shape was created in photoshop and then the patterned paper was laid over it with the vector mask switched on to shwo the scallop shape.

The frame was created with a layer mask painted white, and the photo was placed on top of it.

All of the elements and papers are freebies that I have downloaded from various sources.

I am working on a few designs of my own and I have a kit in progress and I am looking for people who would like to design a couple of page layouts with the papers and elements that I have made.

A New Slideshow

A couple of new pages

I am having so much fun with Digital Scrapbooking. Here is a page that I created using only freebees from Designer Digitals. I am trying to see how many different pages that I can make out of these freebees. There are 48 different sets of downloads and I think that just using these I will be challenging myself. I will be uploading them here as I finish them. I hope to be able to make at least double this number, by mixing these kits. This is one of my favorite sayings. I really want to paint it as a border in my bedroom. I think that this is something that you should always do to your children every night. The years when they want a goodnight kiss is so fleeting that I feel like I need to take advantage of it while I can.

My next page uses Anastasia's favorite quote. " I love you to the moon and back", when ever she tells me that she loves me she will say that to me, and I love if when she says it.

New Pictures

I have been sick since Friday afternoon. We spent the long weekend at a friends about an hour and a half from our house. They have 2 children about the same ages as our girls and we only get to see them every couple of months or so. Well I ended up sleeping most of the weekend because of my cold and any medicine that I take knocks me out for the count. I did get a few new pictures of the girls though. They are very experimental so please let me know what you think.

Digital Layout Of the Day

I made another layout over the weekend. Let me know what you think. I am having so much fun with these. It is really helping me to get my pictures onto layouts. I had a few printed at wal-mart and I love how they turned out. I framed the previous layout and I plan on making a 5x7 album for mother's day for my MIL and Mother.

A New Layout

I completed 8 traditional scrapbook layouts over the last week but I still cannot find the cable for my camera. I have a mini memory stick so it doesn't fit in my reader (ugh!). I made this digital layout to show. I took this picture last January after school on day. I was a unusually warm day, so we went to the park. We took a walk down to the small pond and they decied to walk back and forth across it and on one of those crossing they decied to hold hands and I was lucky enough to catch it with my lens.

Can't think of any thing clever

I hope that you all are having a great holiday. I know my girls are having a great day. I hope that you all are able to spend time with your families as this is the most important thing at this time of the year and all times of the year. Be thankful that you are healthy and safe, and that you are are together.

Merry Christmas To All

I think I might be too busy to post over the next few days.

So, here goes, MERRY CHRISTMAS I hope that you all have a good one. I have included a few of our new ornaments that we have aquired over the past few weeks.

The Star is from Khols and the Strawberry is from Bloomingdale's

The Snowman bell is from Kohl's and the Good Night Moon is from Bloomingdale's. the Gingerbread Man is one that Anastasia made in Kindergarten last year.

Here is one of my most recent cards. I used the Making Memories Distressing kit and a Marvy 1' circle punch and one blue snap. I set the snap with the fisker's eyelet setter and punch. I also used an ink'ed phrase stamp for the happy birthday.

Pink Pig Pictures

This is my niece Jessica, and my mom and the girls. Waiting in line took for what seemed like forever.

We knew we were close when we finally saw this.

Gingerbread and Christmas Cleaning

Today has been spent cleaning out my cabinets and my counters and getting it set up for the luncheon that we are hosting on Christmas Eve.

Here is a picture of our gingerbread house that we made last week. We had to decorate the roof flat while the rest of the house parts dried.

Shae and I also made a batch of Peppermint Bark. She got to use the hammer to crush the candy canes and she loved it. This is the recipe that I use. It is my own and I really like the way it tastes.

12 oz of vanilla bark

12 candy canes crushed

4 drops of peppermit extract

Melt the vanilla bark in the microwave until smooth in 15 sec. spirts. Mix in candy canes and extract. Spread on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and chill to harden. Then breakup into pieces. enjoy

This weeks update

We have been really busy this week. We made two countdown calendars, one for each of the girls.

Anastasia's is a bottle cap tree with round tags for the covers and I left the strings because I thought it would help her pull the tags off each day.

Shae's is made out of origami water cups that were glued to a piece of poster board.

Each of these took less than one and a half hours and they offer a fun change of pace.

I really can't believe that these pictures are so dark, but I don't get home until late and it is still dark when I leave so I have to deal with afternoon light and the dreaded flash.

Cupcakes Cupcakes and more Cupcakes

We spent the afternoon a couple of weeks back and made 2 dozen cupcakes. I have been meaning to post these pictures but I keep putting it off. So since I said that I would post everyday for the month for the month of November. I would love to be a little more creative with my post but I am having a little trouble being creative off the computer also. I guess I am in a creative block right now. I have completed 5 more Zentangles, 2 last night and 3 more today. I need to get them scanned in so that I can post them. So my post today is all about the inspirations in my life. My baby girls.

New job and much more

I started a new job on Thursday and, so it means early to bed and early to rise and not much more than housework in-between. I have been able to get some crafting done though. I started a crochet blanket for my bed. It is in the round, and I am about 20 inches from side-to-side. I was gifted a full cone of yarn at the Peachtree Handspinner's Guild meeting last Saturday and I came home knowing exactly what I was going to make. The yarn is a mercerized cotton in a creamy color. I really love how it is turning out. I am just using a double crochet stitch with an even increase all around. I just finished a pair of baby booties today with a dark pink cotton and a brown ribbon as the tie. I really need to take some pictures. I feel bad that I have no pictures to go with this post.
On the job subject, I am not working as a Substitute Teacher at my girls school. I love the time that I am there. I have been there most of the school year as a parent volunteer and I really just love knowing that I can be there if my children need me and I can help out where I am needed, and help their teachers.