Heart Flowers

Papers: Basic Grey Jovial
Title: Basic Grey Junebug
Flower: heart punch
Got Sketch 104

Using up scraps

Made this card using scraps from my Jillibean kit last month from TSR. I followed Dawn McVey's flower tutorial, love the 3d look. Check out her tutorial: poofy vintage print button flower





My cousin went on a family trip in Texas and sent me some photos to scrap for her.

Rosettes

I've been playing around with making my own flower embellishments out of fabric and an old print book.




I made this page for my good friend Monica. She decided to eat right and workout and lost a lot of weight. Doesn't she look fabulous? Photo by Emily Andrews.

Bootiful

bootiful, originally uploaded by Lan A.

A layout I did several months ago I forgot to post.

Hello June

I've already scrapped this photo but its a favorite so i'm going to hang this in my office at work


Inspired blueprints sketch #23


Make-n-take layout from my LSS, they were demoing the chomper tool, i don't round my corners a whole lot so for $25 I was not sold on it.


52 sketches 52 weeks


And I can't go w/o sharing pics of my baby, horrible focus on pax but i love the lighting on kenzie...still learning to shoot in manual.


and i have a new appreciation for newborn photographers...its harder than i thought even when they are sleeping


The kids ramshackled our closet and raided their daddys work shirts

Busy week

I've got so much to do this week, I've got a stack of tax returns to file for family just sitting on my desk that I've ignored for the past week, I've got a birthday party to plan, a house to clean, my sister and nephew are in town...and yet I'm here wishing nothing was on my plate and I could just scrap.

I've got like 3 more pages to complete in baby Koen's book so I can give it to my sister before she goes home next week...here's the latest one using an inspired blueprint's sketch.


This was based on a sketch challenge on TSR's forum.

Productive Crop

I went to Scrapfunattic's crop from 5:30-12pm on Friday and had such a productive night. I went alone but made some really cool friends, there was a gal there named Joni that cracked me up the entire night. Gotta love ladies who aren't embarrased to sing to a group of strangers while they crop away. I came home the kids were sleeping so I worked for another hour finishing up on journaling. Here are the results:

This is TSR's OA line, love it! I typed the journaling for these two pages a month ago.
- You still drink 2% milk from a bottle
- You’re not keen on the potty training idea yet
- You wouldn’t last an hour without your thumb
- You are #1 Thomas train fan, you even pray for choo choo train at night
- You repeat a lot of what your sister says, such as “you make me sad”
- You can count to five
- You are wild and funny and rambunctious
- You’ve been taking gymnastics for 4 months now and love it
- You beg to sleep at grandma’s house every now and then
- Your vocabulary has tripled in this last year
- You are a picky eater preferring cinnamon toast crunch cereal, only the
marshmallows out of lucky charms, and cocoa pebbles to any rice dish
- You love bubble tea
- You make this little squinting facial expression that’s just the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.
- You want to play soccer like your cousin Phoma
- You can climb into your own car seat
- You always ask Ba Ngoai to make you cake
- You are my jumping bean, always hopping around and running thru the house
- You had your 1st dentist appt this year and have a cavity on your front tooth
- You love to nite nite with mommy but love to watch horsey racing with daddy
- YOU make me happy, I love you.



I actually did Kenzie's page first and decided to just copy the design for Micah, same journaling so why wrack my brain for a different design? The color inspiration was from this blog: Color Combos Galore, using color combo #110

- You still snuggle with your blankie for comfort, it used to be the pink one with butterflies but now it’s the pink one with a teddy bear
- Your most irritating catch phrase is “Say sorry to me, why are you still madding mommy? I want to see you happy”
- You still give me big bear hugs everyday when I pick you up after work
- You can count to ten but can’t say the entire alphabet yet
- You think every letter M you see is your name and a W is upside down
- You love to take baths with bubbles and wear your goggles
- You have a hate/hate relationship with your winter coat mommy bought you
- You wear a size 13 Hello Kitty shoe and pink crocs
- You’re only 3 but wear size 6/7 toddler clothing
- You rarely take naps anymore except on Tue/Thur after preschool
- You love to give mommy’s tummy a hug and talk to your baby brother
- You sleep on the top bunk bed on most nights but with your Daddy every now and then
- You will try and eat anything
- You love to watch iCarly and Drake & Josh
- You love to play doctor & pretend you’re sick
- You can ride your bicycle to the park and back
- You told me you wanted to be a good scrapbooker just like mommy when you grow up
- You are still shy yet very stubborn and determined to have your way
- You fight with your brother constantly but also help him out all the time
- You make me happy, I love you



This is the title page of an All About Me album I'm starting. I have separate albums for each of the kids: Kenzie is Pink, Micah is Green and our family is Black, so now my pages will be in Red. I use the cheap ole HL AC 3 ring binders, love the ease in adding refills! This is a pagemaps sketch.


I love this AC Romance line of papers. At the crop I tried out the storybook cricut cartridge to cut out the hearts, isn't it cool?! I told myself I would not buy another cartridge after getting the SCAL but this would be on top of my list. This sketch is #10 from Inspired Blueprints



And this is sketch #9 also from Inspired Blueprints, using TSR's tinkering ink kit


This is sketch #7 from 52 sketches in 52 weeks

Vday weekend

Was trying to get a self portrait with the timer set for an all about me page but the kids wanted to be in on the pic also


My girlfriends took me out to lunch at Yia Yias, we exchanged cards and I made them each a layout. It turned out to be my favorite ones...i was up til 3am finishing them the night before. (oh and when I came home from having lunch, Kenzie asks me where I've been and tells me "momma, you look super duper cute!" almost broke my heart when she said that since my DH once again did nothing for me, not even a card this year...gotta love daughters)






This is the title page for my 2009 month in review album...lifted from the talented Brenda Carpenter


I altered some prima flower boxes to hold these hershey kisses for the kids.

Cricut Vinyl

I had a couple friends over Friday night to scrapbook and they wanted a demonstration of my cricut machine since they are just new to scrapbooking and saw it advertised on tv. I must admit I haven't used mine for almost a year since purchasing it but now I'm hooked on it because of the vinyl and thinking of getting the scal to cut any font from my computer.

I've been searching for just the right quote for several weeks now and just happened to be browsing layouts and blogs and saw this quote as a blog header and decided to steal it for my room (thanks Pearl). Wish I had enough of the red vinyl to keep the same font but I used it for two other projects and stretched the scraps as much as possible.


The picture on the canvas was just taken this weekend. I didn't have any good pictures of both my kids so I decided to take them to portrait innovations. I wasn't impressed with them but I did love this shot and it's the only print I have so it's proudly displayed.



This was a lift from my friend Gretchen, it was a lot of fun playing with inking and random circles after sticking to boxy designs lately.


These two layouts were created from inspired blueprint's sketches, they have an amazing design team and wonderful inspiration.

August layouts

I signed up for another on-line scrapbooking class, it's called Got Sketch 102. It's a 4 week class beginning September 1st but the forum is already open this week with a beginning sketch challenge!

Here are a few items I made this weekend:


This is a little mini album to hold all the wallet pictures I took of Kenzie's 2nd b-day gifts. Great way to use up my scraps.


This is an altered altoid tin to hold pictures of my little nephew, soon to arrive next month!

July layouts

This layout was inspired by one of Shannons (2kidsandsomepaper blog). I notice she uses these stick pins on almost every layout she creates and I'm getting to really like that trend.


Papers from Cocoa Daisy - Journaling is about how Kenzie's imaginary playmate has always been Abigal but now she has a 3rd named Tanna. Even Micah calls out to Tanna.


This layout was inspired by Jana's Summer Night layout (Frommyfeatherednest blog)


I found out last week that this layout I submitted was chosen to be displayed in Taryn's scrapbooking retreat house, the Hamburg Hideaway (see link on the right). I was so excited and honored. There were a lot of very good entries and winners.