The Price's April 2011

Here are our good friends Mike and Sandy with their boys Zak and Jason. This picture was taken at Easter this year. They live in Arizona and we were just out to visit them.

I used Creative Scrappers sketch #157 
and Pink Paislee "Bayberry Cottage" line.

Close-ups (click to enlarge):

Paper, Journaling spots, and Borders: Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage
Pearls: Recollections
Leaves and Flowers: Prima
Velvet Flower: Maya Road
Rub-Ons: Basic Grey
Distress Ink: Tim Holtz "Pumice Stone"
Twine: The Twinery






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Boys and their Toys!

This picture of my husband and our 12 month old grandson just melts my heart!

Sketch is by scrapbaby! sketches

Base Paper: BoBunny double dot "Buttercup"
Patterned Paper, Diecut Sticker & Large Letters: Echo Park "Little Boy"
Distress Ink: Tim Holtz "Faded Jeans" and "Barn Door"
Small block letters: Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type
Twine: The Twinery




Here are some close-ups (click to enlarge):

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Hello World! (Quinn)

Here is my sweet grand daughter standing on the front porch at her house. She is 17 months old in this picture.

This layout entered at Creative Scrappers for sketch #155

(I turned the sketch one time counter clockwise)

All paper and die cuts are My Minds Eye from the

Penny Lane and Abbey Road lines.

Fabric (circles) are Riley Blake Designs

Printed paper is vintage and buttons are from stash

Distress Ink is Tim Holtz  
White fabric flowers are Starbright by Colorbok

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Scoot! (Jacob @ 12 months)

Jakey loves to push things, ride on things, and to be outside! 
I found this little scooter at a yard sale for just five bucks - score!
I saw this awesome sketch at Get Picky and had to play along!

My layout:

All of the paper and elements are from the Crate Paper "Zoom" line. The base paper was a little loud so I lightly brushed it with parchment colored acrylic paint by Folk Art. Of course I had to use lots of Tim Holtz distress inks in "aged mahogany" and "mustard seed". The letters are American Crafts Thickers "Jewelry box".

I entered this layout at Scrap That Baby for Prompt #29 - Baby's day out.

Some close-ups:

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Cameo Mother's Day cards

With Jacob's first birthday party last weekend, we celebrated Mother's Day today - good thing because that gave me time to make these super cute cards! 

Here is how I made the cameo's:

I took profile pictures of the kids and changed them to black and white, then I printed them on regular white paper (next time I will use cardstock), then I cut them out, and then I painted them black. 

I got the idea for the card mounts from Gina at StampTV. (Gina is seriously talented and has awesome tutorials and beautiful stamps - check her out!) The red background paper on Jacob's is from Cosmo Cricket and the green background paper on Quinn's is from Echo Park. If you love cameo's/silhouettes, pop over to the Practical Scrapper's blog on Tuesday for more inspiration - or make one of your own and e-mail it to Christine for possible publication!
So - here are the pictures I used:

And here are the cards:

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Jacob's first year mini book

 

Huge Scrap & Stamp Yard Sale!

The Cozy Crop House's 3rd annual Scrap & Stamp yard sale is this weekend...May 13-14, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. TONS of scrapbooking, cardmaking, and stamping supplies, tools, totes, paper, embellishments, etc., all marked at incredibly low prices! These 40+ sellers are serious about moving their goods! Plus we'll have food vendors to support House of His Creation ministry. Come out for a fun day! 31 W. Millport Road, Lititz, PA.

Peek*A*Boo!

Here is Jacob playing peek-a-boo with his mommy out at his playset.
These pictures were taken April 27th, just a week shy of his 1st birthday! 
Happy Birthday my sweet boo!
This layout entered in sketch contest #154 at Creative Scrappers
and inspiration challenge#7 at Get Picky.

The inspiration photo and colors

 
The sketch


















Product List:
Base Paper: My Minds Eye Lush Blue
All other patterned papers: American Crafts Baby layout kit
Letters: Making Memories Alphabet 1 Rub ons
Tickets: Admit One Products
Rubber Stamp: Studio G
Scallop die cuts: Spellbinders
Butterfly punch: Martha Stewart
Border punch: Fiskars
Pen: Bic Mark it
Floss: DMC
Glimmer Mist: Tattered Angels Waterslide
Distress Ink: Tim Holtz; Faded Jeans and Mustard Seed

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Mommom loves her sweet girl!

This is my sweet Quinn on Easter. She is 17 months old.
I just got this set of Close To My Heart stamps that are doilies -
oh.my.goodness, they are absolutely amazing. The detail is unbelievable and they come out so crisp and clean. (The one at the top is a little fuzzy - totally my fault as I didn't have enough ink on it and had to stamp it again. The one on the right could have used more ink also - totally a learning curve problem on my part! The one at the bottom came out perfectly, be sure to click on the close up of it to see how awesome these stamps work)

I used this beautiful sketch by Becky Fleck and entered her Page Maps contest

Here are some close-ups

Product list:
beautiful Quinn: Joel and Sandy
base paper: BoBunny "Coral Dot"
all other paper: Echo Park "For the Record" 6x6
gathered ribbon: Making Memories Wedding Trims
letters: American Crafts Thickers "Salutations"
flowers: Offray
distress ink: Tim Holtz "brushed corduroy"
pearl flourishes: Prima
brown pearls: Recollections
doily stamps: Close To My Heart "Simple Memories"
ink: Staz-On "jet black"
border punches: Fiskars and EK Success

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One Fine Spring Day

Here is my precious grand daughter Quinn. After her mommy put a flower behind her ear, she wanted to put one behind everybody's - including the bird and the dog!
All paper is by Crate Paper from their Pink Plum collection.
Letters are by various manufacturer's from my stash.
Sketch is by Jess aka Scrapbaby! for Memory Lane PA
Also entered in the challenge at The Paper Variety to use a number on your layout.

You can click on the images to enlarge them.
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Let Every Thing that has Breath Praise the Lord

8x10 canvas

Joy 8x8 canvas

pretty excited!

woot! 

I've been asked to join the design team 

at Practical Scrappers!

They have a fun site with lots of inspiration and different types of challenges going on - something different almost every day! 
(i.e. cards, sketches, element, technique) 
Plus, they have an ongoing list of project topics they are looking for - so, you can e-mail them a project and may get featured on their site or their facebook page!

Here is the current project list:
We are looking for projects featuring or about:

Birthday Layouts

Birthday Cards

Rain, puddles, umbrellas

Nikki Sivils

Butterflies

Little Girls

Lots of Pink

Moms & Kids together

Mothers Day Cards

Graduation Layouts

Graduation Cards

Layouts with our current sketches

Projects can be sent to:

practicalscrapperslayouts@gmail.com

practicalscrapperscards@gmail.com

-Please include a blog link when possible.

-Please only include one topic per email, but multiple projects on one topic are great!

-Please make sure your pictures are top quality...cropped tightly on layouts, clear, straight, etc. The picture quality should be as good as the work. 

www.practicalscrappers.com

Come play with us!

Swingin' with my Bestie!

Here are my grandbabies swinging together at Bryan and Robin's new home. We were all there for Bryan's birthday and it was just nice enough out that if we bundled up we could go play on the playset!
This layout is entered in the Polka Dot challenge at The Paper Variety.

Here is the sketch I used for the challenge at
Memory Lane PA on Facebook.
(I condensed it on to one page)

The sketch is by Jess aka Scrapbaby!
All product is Fancy Pants Designs
"Hot Chocolate" line
Mini alpha is Cosmo Cricket
Distress Ink is Tim Holtz
Pen is Pilot Permaball
Shaped die cut is Spellbinders

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Another fund raiser girl!

One of the students in the Christy Tomlinson She-Art Workshop I am taking has asked that we donate one of our canvases to a fund raiser she is working on. It turns out that the organization is near and dear to Christy's heart too! The organization is the Idaho Health Care Association -


"The IHCA is a non profit foundation that provides educational support for  caregivers of those working in long term care facilities, hospice programs, assisted living, and intermediate care facilities.  The Foundation Holds training and workshops for these caregivers and also awards scholarships to individuals pursing higher education."
  

Their theme this year is "Rising to New Heights". Here is the canvas I made for them: