Pocket Pages

I was trying to decide what to do with all the school work and birthday cards that I have saved over the last few years, as they are really starting to just be clutter sitting in the 12x12 box of "stuff" to be scrapped. Then, I came across an adorable pocket page that someone on the Silhouette Flickr group had posted.

I cut the front shapes out with the Cameo, attached those to 6”x12” cardstock and then sewed the whole thing by machine to the base. I will embellish them more as I decide what is going in the pockets (school papers, bday cards, etc.). Quick, fun, easy and it will clean up my clutter. Yay!

ANOTHER BABY BOOK LAYOUT

The shower's have come and gone but I wanted to show one more layout that I didnt' get to post last week. The stamp was from Laurie's Fiskar's baby stamp, the paper was from my stash and the buttons from Lauries stash. I also used some of Laurie's scrunchie ribbon, that stuff is awesome! Hmm, so pretty much this is Laurie's layout.. LOL. On the right you can see half of a page. I used a MS border punch on some polka dot paper, added a ribbon and called it a day.. LOL. This week I'll be preparing for a weekend crop that I'm off to Saturday! So, I'll be sharing and looking for some packing tips for sure!!

GET WELL CARD

We interupt baby week to bring you this absolutely adorable card that Dawn made, unfortunately, for my son who broke his clavicle. The little bow that she put on is where he broke it. The bow is made, I think, from bandage material. He thought this card was awesome! He is normally a snowboarder that thought he'd try skiing..YIKES, it didn't go well.. LOL.but this card definately cheered us all up! Love it Dawn!!!

BABY WEEK Continues.....

Baby Week Day 4! Here is a page from my boy book. I was getting a bit tired off all blue so I went with the yellow and mint green. I saw this weaving idea from some ideas Laurie had printed off. I really thought it was different so I tried it and liked it. The cute little stamps on the side are part of the set Laurie got, I believe its by Fiskars.

Baby Week - Day Three

Good morning, welcome back to baby week.  Here is a page I did for my album and I thought they could use this page for when the baby comes home.  I cut out Welcome Home from the Creative Memories Stork Cartridge, I just love this cartridge.  The rest is from the kit! So fun!!  I can't wait to give them the book!!

Baby week day two

As promised, I finished my first page of the book. The new stamp set I got at Amazon was the perfect touch. I wanted my cousin and his wife to be able to record the date, time and weight and length of the baby on the page.  I used some embellishments that came with the kit and I cut out the name Ava from the Creative Memories Stork Cartridge.  Perfect pearls above the photo mat and some glitter pen here and there, and that pink heart stick pin, I have been dying to use and I finally go too!. Done!  I love doing pink pages, I never get to, having two boys!!

Was it a tornado, a hurricane perhaps............

No, it wasn't a natural disaster it was creative minds at work.  Kel and I got together Friday night to work on our baby books, we had so much fun!  At one point I looked at the table and said I need to take a picture of this for the blog, the ladies will never believe it!  We did manage to crank out some pages that we will be showing you this week. Kel is doing boy and I am doing girl!  The picture of the stamp sets are ones I bought on Amazon.come and I love them!  I swear between Kel and me we used them all in one night.

Baby Girl Pages

Hello Everyone!! As promised here are some pages from my album.   These are actually Page 2 and 3. I am still working on page one.  So I figure they can have a picture of baby and mom and dad and baby.  I made the picture frames 4x6, double matted them and I used the All Mixed Up Cartridge for the letters.  I have page 4  and 5 complete as well.  I will show those tomorrow.

I hope everyone has a fantastic Friday and gets some scrapping done this weekend!! I hope to get at least half of the album done!! We shall see!!

Working on a baby girl album

Good morning!  I usually don't use an album kit, actually this is the first time I bought one.  When we went up to Hobby Lobby over the weekend, they had this for 14.99 and I had a 40% off coupon.  I thought the album alone is worth that and I don't have much time to get this done.  The shower is the 14th of January.

The papers and the embellishment are so cute. I figure I can add some of my own.  I will be showing you the pages as I do them.

Any helpful hints would be appreciated!!!

Cousin Page

Happy 2012 Everyone!  Here is a page I did of my son and my niece. Believe it or not, they are only 2 weeks apart.  My son is 5'10" and my niece is probably 5'3".  They are super close and they get along great I love it!!!

I was inspired by this page over at Nic Howard's blog,  http://nichoward.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/last-days-of-2011.html .  She has classes over at Big Picture Classes, http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/ and I took one of her classes and I was blown away.  She has such amazing talent.  If you have a chance you should really check her out.

I used some Tim Holtz' product on this page and the base brown is from Core'dinations.  If you ask Kel she may say I have an addiction to it (I don't think so, I just LOVE it)!!  The circle image is cut from Accent Essentials.  The tickets and the tape measure are Tim as well as the paper underneath the picture.  The lace is Graphic 45, again another small addiction I may or may not have.

I would still like to add some more things on the bottom, just not sure what yet.

Magical Memories

Good morning and Happy 2012! We hope that you had a fun and safe New Years and that 2012 has started out fantastic for everyone!

One of my 2012 goals is to get our trip to Disney scrapped before a year since we went has passed. That gives me till July. I started this weekend with making the album cover.

I used a 12x12 Modern album from American Crafts. I love these albums because they are made of heavy chipboard that you can decorate yourself. Right when we got home from the trip, I got a ton of papers and supplies from Scrap Your Trip. It really is an amazing site for all things vacation! I also got some supplies from scrapbook.com. To start, I laid down the base papers and inked up the edges with black ink. I cut the big Mickey ears out of patterned paper with my Cameo that I got for Christmas. The "2011" is a die cut from Scrap Your Trip and the bottle caps and title sticker are from EK Success.

I am going to keep this out in plain view in the scrap attic. Hopefully, this will inspire me to keep going and get this trip scrapped before July!

ROAD TRIP!

All of us ladies here at Serenity Scrappers are going on a field trip to Hobby Lobby. One opened up in New Hampshire, which is about an hour or so from here in Boston, Ma. Woo hoo. This will be our first to a Hobby Lobby...we are locked and loaded and in shopping mode! We'll have to show you guys our fantabulous hauls when we return! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU AND I WISH YOU AND YOURS THE BEST OF HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND SCRAPPINESS IN THE COMING YEAR!

Good morning everyone!!  Can you believe tomorrow is New Years Eve?  So crazy another year gone!!  I thought what better way to ring in the new year than with a baby card!  My cousin's wife is expecting and due in February,obviously they are having girl and her name is Ava.  I cute the little onesie from Stork's Delivery (Creative Memory cartridge).    Swiss dots folder for the back ground paper, I inked that up.  Ribbon from my stash. The name Ava is also cut from the Stork cartridge.

The thank you card is for a woman that I work with that made me two huge trays of delicious cookies, so yummy!!!  I cut the gift card holder from Tags, Boxes and and More, pg 112 cut at 8"  The thank you stamp is from StampingUP!, Alphabet soup and the Thanks a bunch in the corner is from My Creative Time, Many greetings set.  The white flower is from StampinUP! as well.

A Happy Healthy New Year to Everyone!!!

RIBBON TREE

This is just a fantastic tree that my daughter Amanda made. Omgosh. How we got here is quite a story.


I had orginally wanted to make these ornament trees I had seen. I shared the idea with our friend Susan. Now SHE wanted to make them. Sooo.. both of us were out in two different directions all day trying to find the ornaments we needed and store after store, text after text.. we failed miserably. We finally met up to try and put one together at my house with the supplies we both got. We were ON a mission.. let's just say...EPIC fail.. LOL . sooo.. meanwhile, Amanda's on the computer looking up crafts and she comes across this ribbon tree idea. Well.. we get so excited off we went to Micheals to get all the materials. I failed miserably and I need to make a few revisions.. LOL. So I will show you mine when I finish.. But, I had to show hers off.. she did a GREAT JOB!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas Everyone! I'm sitting here alone in my living room. It's so dang quiet. I kind of smiled and laughed to myself a second ago, and wondered how my kids got so big. It feels like it wasn't too long ago that by now they would have tore into every wrapped gift under the tree! Now at 17 and 19 they are happy to be able to sleep in and have a day off from school and work.

I miss seeing the half eaten tray of cookies and milk that Santa ate and the pitter patter of Santa feety pajamas racing down the stairs, but, I do like this quiet too...aaaahaaa! I'm imagining all the neighbors kids screeching with delight as they tear, rip and possibly cut their way into the treasures Santa left them. The light up toys, trucks, fancy dolls and their amazing smiles that light up the room!

I'll get that soon, but it will be different now. My two will probably take showers before they decend, in fear that I will have the camera waiting for them down here. And goodness knows, we can't have bed head and mis matched pj's in any layouts mom will do... LOL. And as far as treasures Santa certainly didn't forget them .. And.....awww, we have each other, and we are grateful to finally be in a place we can call home after all our troubles and moving, in a neighborhood full of caring, loving families that have welcomed us with open arms.

Hmmm... it's not so quiet here now, there is the faint sound of my youngest walking towards my room looking for me.....Here we go! :) Merry Christmas all!

AND THE WINNER IS...............

AUDREY! I put 1 - 6 into random.org and #5 came up. CONGRATS Audrey. Please send me your address to Achildinmind@aol.com. You have won some shiny new stuff!! Some jewel brads and some glitter brads.. Maybe these can help sparkle up some New Years Eve layouts!!
Also, check out those awesome tags made by Dawn! some great xmas tags made by Dawn. THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR COMING BY TO SEE OUR CARD MONTH CRAFTS. THANKS FOR COMMENTING TOO. We here at Serenity Scrappers wish all of you a Joyous holiday!

Back to card month we go........

Good morning everyone. First of all, big props to Dawn and her wall art!! Amazing work!! Here are two more cards we did in the swap. Don't look too closely at the first one, embossing is NOT my strong suit!! LOL. The first one is done with little punched out leaves. The woman that prepared the card said she punched out hundreds of leaves, it took her forever! It came out so cute and so easy to put together. I hope everyone is done shopping!!! Have a great day!

WE INTERUPT THIS CARD MONTH TO BRING YOU...

Hi, sorry such a late post, I actually started this, then I had to walk away for a sec, 7 hrs. ago.. lol and never got back to it till now.. LOL Any..way...

These AMAZING wall hangings by Dawn. I wanted to get this up before Christmas. I've seen these in person and WOW they really are gorgeous. Dawn made the black framed one for herself and the other from her mom. This is so beautiful in fact, that I ran across the street with paper in hand asking her to cut the scallops for me from her Silhouette... LOL. I just HAVE to make one for myself. Within an hour Dawn had cut all the pieces from the Silhouette and I had cut all the other pieces using her paper trimmer! Now hopefully I can begin my construction tonight! There are a few more things that go into this piece, so I will take pictures along the way.

OWL CHRISTMAS CARD

Hiya folks. Here are two xmas cards I did for Dawn and Laurie. I was cruisin' around the digistamps sites and just HAD to get this one. He's just soooo dang cute.. LOL. I colored them with COPICS. I really need to get practicing. I don't use them as much as I'd like to, but did my best. I kept the card itself pretty simple, layering some papers and using some SU stamps. I'm working on one now for another friend of ours Susan. I found this awsome Holly Fairy digi I will use. I'll get that up asap. Have a good one!

Non Traditional Christmas Card

Here is how the conversation went. I asked my son what his teacher's favorite animal was. I said pick one from one of my Cricut Cartridges and I will make him a card for Christmas. He said his favorite is the shark. He loves, loves sharks. I said, I don't think that will make such a great Christmas card. He said, put a Santa hat on him. So that is what I did. Here is the finished project, lol!! Shark cut from Life's a Beach and Santa hat from Everyday Paper Dolls!! Too funny!!