I'm Here - I've been Busy!!

I have several new things I'd like to share with all of you in blog-land, so I am going to have to roll them out over the next few days.

With spring upon us, I have been eager to get some projects done around the house. So with hubby busy with the new deck, I have set to doing some spring cleaning and decorating.

Pennants have become all the rage in scrapbooking:



(Elizabeth Kartchner)

I have also seen lots them in decor magazines, particluarly those mags that come out of England (I buy a lot of those!) So when I decided Bryn's bedroom needed a little pick me up, I dug through my fabric stash and put this together for him:



Do you like?? And it was easy too!

A Mini-book and a Card to Share!

My parents live about 2 hours away from us. We see them usually about once a month. Since my parents retired, they have been world travelers. In the last year alone, they have been to Vegas, Australia and Florida and are planning trips down to Route 66 and to China. Wow! I can't wait until I am retired.
As a little momento to take on their most recent trip, I made them this minibook with up-to-date pics of the grandkids to share with people the meet along the way.












I am on March Break and have a little more time to do some papercrafting. So, I joined a challenge at

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/

Here is my card with fabric on it. I made a bunch of these fabric yo-yos a few months back and I am glad I found a use for this sunshiney-yellow one.

Check THIS out my Scrapping Friends!!!

Wow! Look at this woman's "Design Centre." Could it be more colourful, artsy and FULL?? My hubby says it looks like a store. I say it looks like HEAVEN!! Can you say JEALOUS!?!

http://bobunny.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-very-own-part-of-world.html

2 Card Sets

I have been a real push lately to use up some older scrapbooking supplies before I buy all the new stuff set to arrive in stores in the next few months (Okay- I admit it- I have already bought some new stuff!). So I have set to some cardmaking. This first set came together when I sat down to make 2 Thank-you cards for teachers at school who covered for me when I had to stay at home last week with three dreadfully sick children. Once I got started, I was on a mission to use up most of this matching patterned paper. Here are the results:









And my personal favourite:



I have loved the paper company "Imaginisce," forever. So, I have been holding onto these paper scraps FOR YEARS! I had to find a good use for them. Here it is:









Thanks for looking!! I'll have a mini-book to share next time!!

4 New Layouts to Share!!

Snow Fun!! (Fresh snow - fun for the big kids and a new adventure for Camden!)

Cam @ 1 ( I took these pics of Camden on the morning of his first birthday. I love them! I think they captured his sweet and wild personality perfectly!)

Christmas Princess (Afton dressed up for Christmas festivities. She asked that I use some of her Princess Christmas cards on a layout so here it is!)

Christmas @ Home ( 12 pics of Christmas morning all ion one layout!!)

Papercrafts and Home Decor

I am finding more and more that papercrafting is becoming part of the way I decorate my home. For instance, these 2 portrait collages in my home are based scrapbooking sketches I found online:

Here is the one in our living room:



Here is the one in the kid's bathroom:



Cute eh? Can you guess which pictures are Bryn? Afton? Camden?

(The top 2 are Bryn, the bottom 2 are Afton and Camden is the far right.)

I had a friend ask me to post a picture of the wall art I made for Camden's nursery. They are simply canvases that I painted, then mod-podged pictures that I had pieced out of leftover scrapbook paper. They hang over the twin bed I have in Cam's bedroom (this bed was very useful when he was an infant and I needed to crash closeby!)

My "Journal Your Christmas" Album

It is complete!! I decided I would be done creating new pages on the first of January (you can continue until the 12th day after Christmas if you so choose!) And here I am, on the 10th of January, actually clipping the final finished pages into my album. I could have been done sooner except I kept forgetting to print the photos for Jan. 30 (A Year in Review) and New Years Eve.
This is a project I am really proud of. It made me think about lots of aspects of Christmas that often slip my mind during the hub-bub of the holidays. I also like what I have done creatively. I have never worked in a 6x12 format so it was challenge to think long and skinny instead of big and square like I am used to. But I like how it has turned out and I will definitely make a mini-book in this size again.

Click on the little picture and you will be taken to a slideshow of my Journal.