Then after it dries you simply add the ribbon and embellishments. Here's where you can fix any imperfections with your cutting techniques (especially if you're like me) by simply covering them with the embellishments. Just add the buttons, ribbon, and flowers. I add a little 3 dimensional paint too just for kicks! And then Voila...you're done!
Oh, and this one is one of my favorites too because it combines my two favorite colors...which I would normally never do, but the page kit did it. I added the big orange flowers and the small red hearts. These pictures went perfect with the kit, huh?
I really love this page. The green paper and the brown stripe are the only things from the page kit that I used. The blue flower is from another page kit. Anyways, I love this page because if you look at the top left corner, it shows Eric and Blake walking hand in hand. And although you probably can't see it too well, in the bottom right corner, it shows Eric walking with all the boys.
This is my niece Taylor. I used the green paper from this page kit too. The rest is all mine. The words and date are cut out by my cool Cricut machine. I wanted to make it very, very girly. That's why I used lots of flowers.
See how behind I am.....this is from April of '06.
Here's just a whole bunch of pictures that I put randomly together that talks about how blessed I am.
Yesterday I went to an all day scrapbook crop with my friend Mindy. It was awesome. It was from 9-9, and I felt like I got tons done. My goal was to get 25 complete layouts done. I didn't quite meet the goal, but I did pretty weel. I think my total for the day was 30 pages...which included some one page layouts, but mostly 2 page layouts. I got all my Easter photos done from 2006 along with the boys' soccer pages, and most of the July 4th party that we had in 2006. Yup, that's how far I'm behind.
So I won some prizes while I was there, six to be exact. I took a picture of my three favorite ones (so as not to rub it in to Mindy too much). These are do-it yourselves kits that include all the stuff to make home decorations. I have a clock, the words HOME, and a clip board. They had a big wheel to spin, and depending on what you landed on, depended on what table you were able to draw from. I ended up getting to choose from table three three times!!! My other prizes included a Anna Griffin Paper pack, some pregnant stickers, and a bottle of paint. Who-heee!!!
It's been five years since my dad passed away, and well, it still feels like yesterday on some days. Of course, we've had three more children since then, and....well....I wish he was here to play with them. He would have so loved them. Anyways, I made a little album that tells some of the things I still miss. There were more things that I missed obviously, but the album was pretty little, so it only go the top few. (On a side note: I'm seriously liking making these little albums. I feel like I'm getting a lot done and well...there just fun to experiment with!)
Made a new album. I took these pictures of Luke last fall. You probably remember them from these pictures. I didn't want to put them in his regular album because well, there was so many of them and I didn't want a million scrapbook pages on just these pictures, so I decided to do a mini album. I used an old board book that we had that the kids never looked at anymore, and then I went to town on it. I glue, painted, distressed, stamped, and just had fun. I don't normally scrap like this, but it was fun to try something new. I used some quotes that I had already bought from forever ago and then found a verse to correspond with them. Hence the reason it's called the verse to grow on album. I'm thinking about giving it to him for his birthday.
His birthday is in a couple of weeks. I can't believe he's going to be SEVEN! Blake decided that for his birthday, he wanted to have a small party at the park. There are mostly girl kids in our church, and they are mostly younger than him, so this proved to be a problem for him because we all know that he is not liking girls right now. I let him decide who he would invite to his party. Of course, he chose the Hall's....right off the bat. And he went on to chose a few more people. He passed out his own invities. He cracked me up when he told me he gave one to an older man in our church. It was pretty cute. So, anyways, if you're a friend of mine, and you didn't get an invite....well, it's not my fault.....blame Blake!
Since the boys behaved so well while I was shopping, I took them to the park afterwards. Took a couple pics while I was there.
I'm so behind on my scrapbooking that I'm finally getting around to February of last year...sad, huh?? But I did these page, and makes me laugh. It's of me surprising the stink out of Eric when I gave him his X-box 360 for our anniversary/birthday present. And then this other page makes me laugh because it's when Eric got his silly big screen for his computer. The journalings are the funniest part. I hope you can read them if you click on the picture.
Here's the actual pages above, and below is some close-ups.
Even Jakeb liked it. I caught him staring at it later.
That would be National Scrapbooking Day for all you non-scrappers out there!!! Sad, but true...we scrapbookers have our own holiday! It's basically a ploy to get more business for all the companies out there, but hey, it's still cool that we have our own "holiday" too.
So, you might be wondering what I did on NSD. Did I scrapbook??? Uhhhh...not yet, maybe some time tonight. It involved socks, lots of them. I went garage selling (or is it saling) with the two younger boys. I found lots of cool deals for the baby girl, and even a couple for Kaleb. We went to this one garage sale and they had a large ziploc bag full of socks.....colored socks. Well, you all should know how much Kaleb loves his socks, so the minute I showed him the socks...well, let's just say his face lit up, and there was no putting those back. He carried that bag everywhere with him. In the van, he had to be holding it. The minute we got home, he had to put a pair on. Normally I like to wash things from garage sales before my kids wear them, but you try telling that to a 2 year old sock obsessed child. It wasn't gonna happen. By the time he went to bed, he had changed his socks 5 TIMES. He loves those socks..
For the baby girl, I found lots and lots of clothes. I tallied it up and think I got about 11 sleepers, 6 onesie/shirts, 7 outfits,a pair of shoes all in sizes 0-18 months, and I got Kaleb some pajamas too all for less than $25. I made out like a bandit!!
Here's my latest scrapbook pages that I actually like. The one with Kaleb and all the flowers makes me laugh. I dont' usually make girly pages for my kids. Sure, I might use flowers every now and then,but not this many....but man, the kid has a purse fetish, and so I thought a little girliness was slightly appropriate. Can you blame me??
