This page turned out really nice. I put all the flowers on from some stickers I got from Dollar Tree today. I made the swirly's with my glaze pens. And of coarse the chip board for the title. We won't live in this house forever so I wanted it scrapped. We've been here 3 years I think. This is our 2 home we've purchased and it is a little big bigger than our first, so maybe our next one will be just right. I only wish the picture was in the summer when there was greenery.

Gingerbread House

Noah's Gingerbread House he made at school. He had a lot of fun creating his yummy house. When he brought it home he wanted to eat all the goodies off of it, but I said no. So we kept it for decortation for a couple of weeks then threw it away. This page took me a long time to do last night. I had seen and idea in a magazine and was going to use it. After spending all the time creating the design, I decided it didn't work with this layout and ended up with this.

Ouch!

It's been over a week since I've scrapped. When my husband is gone at night working I seem to get a lot more done. He left about 8:40 tonight and an hour and a half layer a new layout. Check it out.

Dress up a Picture Frame

This frame I got from the Dollar Tree. I had some cute art cut outs so I glued them to the outside of the frame. I also used a glaze pen to write name and date on the frame. This is such and easy way to dress up a frame. You can hot glue items like legos, baby pins, flowers etc. What ever the photo calls for. Give it a try on your next photo frame.

The last few layouts

The "Sleep,Baby,Sleep" Layout is precious to me since it has my cutie Ethan. I changed the photo to sepia and used a 5x7 photo in a www.feelingscrappy.com weekly challenge. It was a color challenge using blue and brown. The big ribbon on the corner of the photo I took off of a package of flannel blankets. I just put the date of the picture. I didn't think any other journaling was necessary. The picture speaks for it's self.

The "He Is Here" layout turned out really good. Simple, but I really like it. I really liked the whole look and didn't want to break it up with a lot of writing. I put the journaliing on the back of the page. My friend Trudy and I made some challenges for ourselves, one being to use an arrow on a page. I chose to use it on this page pointing to the new arrival. Since I didn't have one I made one. I later wnt back and put a date and place on the layout and journaled on the back.

That is one thing about my scrapping, it's pretty resourceful. Since buying scrapping supplies is a treat at best, I have to make all my stuff count. If I see something in a layout that I really like, I will try to make my own.

The Care Bear on the birthday page I also paper pieced and I think it turned out really cute too. Th cloud is also just a free handed die cut I did.
Th journaling I did in a white pen because I wanted it kept light.

Sometimes it makes scrapping one page very lengthy when you have to make your embelishments from scratch, but in the end I usually like those layouts the best because they are all me!

Back at it

Since before Christmas I couldn't find the time to scrap. To busy. But I am back at it and finished a page tonight. It is of Eve from a few years ago during Noah's soccer camp in July of 2005. Boy was it hot. I was a few months pregnant with Amelia too. After she got restless I found my sunglasses and she had fun playing with them. It kept her busy for a little while anyway. The layout was a weekly sketch challenge from feeling scrappy web site. Hope you like it.

Contests

These 2 layouts I have posted on feelingscrappy web site. One was a monthly contest and the other is a weekly challange. Plus I'm almost done with our own group challenge. I only have 6 more to do. I will get pictures of all 25 and put them on a slide show. Won't that be cool!!!