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Well I don't know about your family, but here at my house the kiddos haven't had a drop of sugar yet and they're already bouncing off the walls with excitement for tonight. I wanted to get some cute pictures of them in their Halloween shirts (a little tradition at our house) so I grabbed some pumpkins at the grocery store and away we went. I think they lasted a total of five minutes but I am really happy with the results.
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Oh the joy of being a four year old! Boston can hardly contain his excitement and wore his costume all afternoon. When I had to make a quick trip to the store he insisted on coming in all dressed up. Thank goodness for camera phones - I love that I could catch this moment.
Thanksgiving: a day of gratitude and togetherness. Also known as the family ritual of stress-induced headaches and overeating of mashed potatoes and pie. As long as you are (over) indulging, might we suggest a simple indulgence in the easy to do Gratitude Memory Box class?
We are going
to make everything easy and stress-free for you! You won't need
to go shopping with the crowds because the kit can be purchased
online and it will be sent directly to you by Adornit! Also, I will walk you step-by-step in Big Picture Scrapbooking
fashion through the process of completing the project.
Click here to register, class starts November 5th.
It's time for another blog event from Adornit! We’re “making it merry” and you’re invited to join the fun. With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time to start those handmade Christmas projects. We want to see YOUR ideas and share them with everyone in blog land. Come share your creativity, be inspired and be part of our Make it Merry Blog Hop.
The blog hop will begin on November 13th, to sign up email [email protected]. More details to follow next week.
This entire Fall season I have been keeping my eye out for one of these Gingerbread kits that we had made last year. Yesterday I braved the crowds and went to Joann's (hear my whining and groaning) to get something some stuff that I can only get there for sewing and as I was waiting in the check out line I discovered a kit!! I am a lover of all kits whether it's scrapbooking, quilting, or even these gingerbread kits. It's such a huge time saver to have the gingerbread all baked and cut, icing, candy, and instructions.
Boston was sooo excited and Daxton couldn't wait to eat all the icing. It was a tad stressful because our house fell apart three times but at least we got a few pictures. And now my Haunted Gingerbread Mission is complete! Next up... the annual pumpking walk. Can you believe Halloween is next week???
P.S. Apparently Daxton found some scissors today because as I was combing his Faux Hawk this morning I noticed that half of it was missing and was cut down to the scalp. If you look at that picture above of just him you can see it. I guess he'll be getting a buzz tonight. I tell ya, this kid is our quiet mischievous one and all I can do it laugh about it.
When
you see a collection of paper and its matching coordinates, do you follow what
the themes of the papers might suggest and scrap photos accordingly?
These warm autumnal papers perhaps suggest Thanksgiving layouts and autumn
excursions to the pumpkin patch. Believe me, if I had decent such photos, I
would have scrapped them, but as it is, I think the papers work awfully well
for my baby girl in blue. *laugh*
I opted for a very easy going square design for this layout. I had several
photos to showcase her conquering the big slide on her own, and together
they tell the complete story, so I wanted to make sure that they are
all included. With lots of photos, I went on the light side for
embellishments. Overall, I am a less-is-more type of gal, so this is what I
came up with. I trimmed out the center of the flower on the stickers and
popped it up with 3-d adhesives. I must mention how much I love that little
owl sticker as embellishment. This is probably an
overused phrase, but my little girl is a hoot to me.
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Fall in Love 12x12
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Rickrack Stripe 12x12
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Sticker - Groove Move
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Sticker - It's Groovy
It
all started for a little Chinese school girl in the early 80's, when China
was still largely closed to the world, when her world was still blue and grey.
Then came a vendor, waiting for the kids outside of the school gate, he
had colorful stickers. The school girl fell in love with the stickers and began
collecting them with all the pocket money she had... She didn't have much,
but she had enough to amass a tiny treasure box of stickers, one that she keeps
still... Many many years later, she walked into an LSS, a grown
woman, with a professional job and disposable income!!! There were WALLS
of stickers, rolls and rolls of stickers, sheets and sheets of
stickers... Finally, that love affair was realized, fully, passionately,
and continuously. Stickers, oh goodness gracious, stickers...
So now back to AdornIt, one of the main reasons I love this brand is the
enormous collection of stickers, cardstock ones at that! In fact I know
exactly the first set of AdornIt stickers I bought, because I used it on the
front and back cover of a mini-album that is in the Oct 2009 issue of
Scrapbook Trends.
There are so many ways to use these fabulous cardstock stickers, here I have
focused on the boy birthday line and the stickers from that collection and made
three birthday cards. I love the fun fabulous colors in this collection and
they don't have to be for just boys!
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Make a wish cardstock sticker
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Celebrate Boy Sticker
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Twitch 12x12
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Birthday Wishes Boy 12x12
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Hullabaloo 12x12
Well,
it is October after all, to get in the mood for Halloween, let's scrap some
costume photos! This is my little one dressed up like a dinosaur, back,
in, March. Sigh, I doubt I would actually get any pictures of the REAL deal of
trick-or-treating. Oct 31 in Minnesota is bitterly cold, not to mention without
much sunlight by the time I get home from work! This Halloween does fall
on a Saturday so there's a little more hope of getting a few pictures than the
previous few years.
Well, if that adorable Wicked Dots paper doesn't put you in the mood to scrap
Halloween photos like it did me, I don't know what will! Those precious
spiders on the papers are almost as cute as my little dinosaur! And they don't
throw tantrums! BONUS!
I actually happened to have a sheet of super tiny photos that I trimmed into
diamond shape to accent the lower part of the layout, it worked out quite
well!
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Trickery 12x12
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Spooky Webs 12x12
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Wicked Dots 12x12
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Halloween Defined 12x12
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Squiggle red
How do you get started on a scrapbook page?
Do you start with products first and find matching photos? Or, do you begin
with products that you love and find photos that would work with the
products? Well, I do both. In this particular case, I fell in love with
the Lollidots paper and it was a struggle for me to cut into it. I played around
with the whole sheet for several days before I finally got out the
scissors.
I also am not a print-photo-as-I-scrap type of gal. I have hundreds of photos
printed and waiting for me to scrap. In this particular layout, I would
have preferred more than photos so I could trim the photos to line up with
the existing lines on the paper, but I'm a firm believer in good-enough, so I
used the three photos I had and created this layout.
I used a piece of label paper and traced the shape onto Flutter Flight, and
hand-stitched it onto the layout and then journaled. I also think the
birthday girl sticker sheet's "...and many more!" describes our
family's raspberries consumption quite accurately, so I added that in there for
accent as well.
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Lollidots 12x12
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Flutter Flight 12x12
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Doodly-Doo Daisies 12x12
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Sticker-Flutter Flight
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Sticker - Girly Wishes
