Stuff.

First Day of School - 2014

my boy started kindergarten... the years have passed entirely too fast.  But he absolutely loves school and that makes me happy.

 

 

 

Templates: Crystal Wilkerson Pack #8

Kit: School Daze

Journaling Card: Little Learner Journaling Pack

Staycation mini-kit

It's been awhile since I've scrapbooked... but I'm back and so are The Ettes with three cute new mini-kits... and of course with everything they do I'm in love!

This one is Staycation... I love the flowers!

 

Kit: Staycation mini Kit

Template: Joanna Ellis

First Mother's Day...

11 years to get him and it was so worth it! 

I'm using a new drop shadow package... some of the shadows are bit weird.  Do they look too off?

I'm might tweak with a couple of things but basically its done.  Any thoughts or changes?

Thanks for looking!

Kit: Spring Bloomers Kit @ DDE
Template:  Chrissy W @ Elemental Scraps
Font: Pea Faye  @ KevinandAmanda.com

Easter '09

I'm so tired of my style... I'm in a straight line rut... ugh.

I love this kit though!

Kit: Crystal Wilkerson April 365 Kit @ Two Peas in a Bucket

I looooove Owls...

Today is new release day at Two Peas in a Bucket and Crystal Wilkerson has a new, super cute May kit.  If you buy the May kit today you can choose any one of her $4-$6 kits for FREE!

Be sure to check out Crystal's blog for details and lots of fun pages made with the kit!

And I looooove the owls in the kit.  Can't wait to use them!

Here's my page with the kit... so fun to work with!

Kit: Crystal Wilkerson's May 365

Template: Janet Phillips (retired)

Pioneer Trek

New Tall Dark and Handsome kit at the Ettes and Co.

changes, suggestions, etc?

Thanks!

 
Tall Dark and Handsome at www.ettesandcompany.com

Fort Morgan

Some of our vacation pictures...keeping these super simple so that I can get them done... these will find their way in to a Shutterfly book...

 

Everything from the new Pirate Collection kit from the Ettes & Co. (www.ettesandcompany.com)

Thanks for looking!

Breaking Dawn Release (Twilight Series)

8.5 months pregnant standing in line at midnight with a bunch of teenagers for a vampire book... sad but true. :)

Any changes or suggestions?

Thanks for looking!

  

Paper and Embellishments all from Crystal Wilkerson's March 365 kit.

Template from Jen Caputo

Font: Pea Faye (www.kevinandamanda.com) & Courier New

Love at First Sight...

One for the baby book.

Journaling: 

I don’t know if there are words to express how I felt when I met you the first time. We had waited and prayed for a child for so many years and then finally, there you were...this perfect baby... this miracle...this most precious gift from Heavenly Father... how do you put those emotions into words? When they placed you in my arms for the first time I couldn’t believe you were really there... my child... my baby boy...this little person whose movements and habits I already knew so well. And while I say it was love at first sight... the love started long, long before then. Welcome little one.

Kit:  February Kit by Crystal Wilkerson

Template: Tiffany Tilman at Little Dreamer Designs

New Year's Eve Engagement

A fun one of my sister and brother in laws New Year's Eve Engagement that I got to help plan!

The journaling is a bit cheesy but I thought cheesy journaling was fitting for such an occassion :)

Kit:  February Kit by Crystal Wilkerson

Font: Pea Faye

Lucky

These are totally dorky self portraits but I love them... I love these two boys so much!

Let me know if you see anything that needs to be tweaked.

Kit: March 365 Kit
Template: Rounded Corner Template

Both by Crystal Wilkerson available at Two Peas in a Bucket

happy boy

I love this picture of little one and my little brother.

Sorry the white on white is hard to see.

Kit: Feelin' Happy Collection and Template: Templ•ETTES Collection 2  both by The Ettes & Co.

Super simple page but I really wanted to focus on the picture and journaling.... let me know if you think it needs anything!

Journaling:

This is the place where we brought you home from the hospital... where holidays and birthdays are celebrated, where our memories are made, where after praying for you for so long... you made us a family.

Address changed to protect the innocent

Kit: Feelin' Happy Collection by the Ettes & Co.

Going Home...

with our wee little one... one for the baby book.... I know that the pink is non-boyish but I'm ok with it

And the verdict is still out on the staple in the heart.  Yes or No?

Font: CK Ali's Writing

Kit: Feelin' Happy by the Ettes and Co.

Camping

One of our camping trips last summer...

Kit: Dude Collection  @ The Ettes & Company

Signs of Spring

I looooooooove this new kit by the Ettes!

The Ettes have a new kit out called Blue Skies

First Moments...

A page for the baby book... documenting the first couple of days with baby boy... love the colors of this kit!

Kit: Family Collection @ Ettes & Company

Amish Festival

 Amish Festival in Southern Oklahoma with our Young Women.

Beautiful... inside and out

Kit:  Mom's Life Collection @ Ettes & Company

Ivy & Calder

I think this one still needs a little tweaking but I love the pink and I love love love the bride!  :)

Kit: Be My Guest kit  @ The Ettes & Company
Flower: Feelin' Happy Collection @ The Ettes & Company
Template:  Templ•ETTES Collection 3 @ The Ettes & Company

Grandma

A page about my grandma... I've always loved this picture of her!

Kit: Be My Guest kit  @ The Ettes & Company
Template:  Templ•ETTES Collection 5 @ The Ettes & Company

Just Because

Paper and Embellishments: Mom's Life a new kit at Ettes & Company (love this kit!!)
Font: Pea Faye

Recipe Binder Cover

These recipe embellishments are sooo cute! They came at the perfect time... I'm in the process of redoing my recipe binder.

This will be printed 8.5x11 and will slide in the front clear cover of my binder.

Paper: Be My Guest kit  @ The Ettes & Company
Embellishments: My favorite Recipes @ The Ettes & Company

My Mom Is...

Paper and Embellishments: Mom's Life a new kit at Ettes & Company (love this kit!!)

exciting stuff!

I can finally share the news!  I've been selected to be a member the Ettes & Company Digital creative team!  Wahoo! 

Ever since I left working for the magazines I've toyed with the idea of being on a design team... I've wanted to keep my toe in the scrapbooking industry and have the incentive to get projects done on a monthly basis...

Enter: The Ettes & Company. 

I've loved loved loved their stuff for years... so when I saw their new digital store open last October I was thrilled!

I love their products.  Its cute, clean and simple... and totally my style.  I got up the nerve to enter their Creative Team call a couple of weeks ago and I found out earlier this week that I have been selected to fill one of their team spots.  I'm SOOO excited!  You can read about the announcement here.

Some of the fun stuff I'll be doing on my blog is announcing new product, showing pages made with their stuff and giving away freebies.  

They have some really fun Dig-ETTE-al kits, Click-pages, Templ-ETTES and more! Check out their cute Valentine's freebies.

Stayed tuned... lots of fun things on the Horizon... so excited for this new adventure!

 

Christmas 2008

I love these new "Click" pages... so cute and fast way to get a lot of pictures done.

Click pages: The Ettes and Company

Font: Courier New

Title page

For my mom's album...

Template: Janet Phillips (store closed)

Paper: Gina Cabrera Holiday Charm Kit

Flower Stamp:  Shabby Princess The Carousel Collection

Fonts: Pea Bonnie and My Own Topher (both downloaded from the internet)

Warm Hearts

Another  one for my mom's album.  

Doodles:

Jolly Holiday

Font: Pea Bonnie

Grandma's Little Helper

Thanks for looking!

Template:  Jen Caputo

Kit: Cozy Kitchen

Cousins & Friends

I love the quote:

Cousins are many. Best friends are few. What a rare delight to find both in you.

Kit: Family Roots by Dani Mostad
Font: My own Topher (internet)

Cemetery Scavenger Hunt

This is for my YW album... for our Wednesday night activity we took the girls to the local cemetery to learn about heritage and ancestors.

 

Kit: Autumn Wood @ Sweet Shoppe Designs

Title font: My own topher (downloaded from internet)

Font: Pea Jay (downloaded from internet)

Torn paper: Book Bag Essentials Kit by Gina Cabrera @ DDE

Waiting for you...

The first page for the baby book! 

Just FYI... this is not in chronological order... I realize I have many pages that go before this one in the book... but I wanted to journal what I was feeling right now.

Kit:  Land of Nod by Dani M @ Sweet Shoppe Designs

"Baby Mine" word art freebie here

Font: Pea Jay

Journaling says:

Your name is picked out

Your room is finished

You have more clothes than you’ll
probably ever wear

You have family and friends who
are so excited to meet you

 We’re patiently waiting...

 can’t wait to meet you baby boy!

Jennie

a simple page of my bff Jennie for my "People We Love" Album...

Journaling:

The first time I met Jennie (in the SLC airport on the way to the Nash-
ville show)it felt like I'd known her for a million years... she’s one
of those kindred spirit. We have the same (warped, but funny) sense of
humor, we enjoy the same hobbies (scrapbooking, cards, making jewelry).
We both married boys from Louisiana... we both love Utah... she's a
returned missionary, I wish I were one... we’re called Jennie Ruth by
co-workers (it’s just easier that way). She has an infections laugh that
warms my heart... she is happy and peppy and kind and wonderful and I
love her more than words can express...

Kit: the Carousel Collection @ The Shabby Shoppe

Genuine Friends

A page about dear friends in Spokane.

There's a lot going on here... but I really wanted the journaling to be the most important part of the page so everything else was kept pretty simple.  It took me FOREVER to get all the journaling to fit... edit.edit.edit.

Aby's Baby Blessing

 

Kit: the Carousel Collection @ The Shabby Shoppe

Remember Stamp from Ali Edwards @ Designer Digitals

Template Freebie (pg 2)  from Jen Caputo

Baby Calvin

 

Farmer's Market

 

 

August Kit of the Month from DDE - Available for $3.00 for the next week

Font Sarah Lynne

Nativity

This layout was inspired by Allison Kimball... her page is posted below mine.

p.s. the text shows up fine in the original version.

Allison Kimball's page.

Football

This one is for our traditions album...

 

Paper, Alphabet, overlay (recolored) from MVP kit by Dani Mogstad @ Sweet Shoppe Designs

Template from Scrapbook Graphics

Fonts: Courier New and Susie's Hand (downloaded from internet)

Christmas Memories '07

I copied this page straight from Ali Edwards... I like the pattern paper that Ali used better but I'm not paying $4.00 just so I can have a matching piece of paper... and that's the nice thing about digital... If I find something else I like better a little later I can always change it.

let me know what you think.

Thanks!

  

Cranberry Paper from DDE

Journal box

December 25th (recolored)

Film overlay

Template by Ali Edwards

Hayrides & Bonfires

Mission pages

my brother's lds mission... pages for my mom's album.

Supplies:

Rust Colored Paper, blue tab, Stripe Paper & Grid Paper @ LIttle Dreamer Designs

Stars (recolored) @ Peppermint Creative

Templates @ Heather Ann Designs

Survival Campout

I know the kit is a bit cutesy for a survival campout... but I don't care.. I like it.

I like the simplicity of these two pages... the template came as a 12x24... before I print it I'll need to cut it down to two 12x12 pages.

Thoughts??  Any changes?

 

Multi Photo Template @ Heather Ann Designs

Gone Campin' Kit by Kristin Cronin-Barrow @ Sweet Shoppe Designs

Christmas Party

I liked the colors from the last page so I just tweaked the page a bit and made a new page...oh and I added some ribbon.

Supplies are all the same as the previous page.

Oh and you really can see the text in real life.

Merry & Bright

My sister's home during the holiday's.

The text shows up much better in real life... I think its the low resolution that makes it look lighter.

Template is by Janet Phillips... link is down a couple of posts.

Kit: Its a Wrap @ Sweet Shoppe Designs

Thanksgiving 2007

 

  

Kit is Forever Grateful at DDE

Template on first page is from Chrissy W at Elemental Scraps

Template on second page is from Heather Ann Designs.

Calvin's first visit to Utah...

A collection of Calvin pictures for my mom's book...

 

The first page is a pre-made page from The Bounce Album @ The Shabby Shoppe

The second page is a page I put together to try to match the first page :)  Supplies from the Bounce kit (not to be confused with the Bounce Album) also @ The Shabby Shoppe.

Template from Heather Ann Designs

Pioneer Day Celebrations

Pictures from childhood Pioneer day celebrations (a Mormon holiday)

Thanks!

Happy Trails Kits from Shabby Princess

Template from Janet Phillips new July Grab Bag @ Scrapbook Graphics 

Calvin's Baby Blessing

kit is Damask & Dots @ The Shabby Shoppe

http://www.theshabbyshoppe.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=240

Template is by Janet Phillips at Scrapbook Graphics

Pea Bonnie Script