Miracle Kit Accordian Album

The Miracle Kit is available from Close to My Heart from now until May 31st for National Scrapbooking Month. The kit includes instructions on how to make 2 double page layouts, but after I saw how Vicki Wizniuk used hers for an accordian album and generously published her dimensions and instructions, I decided to make this project as a Mother's Day...

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Ailis has a scrapbook!

And this is her first real creation! I gave her an old calendar to cut up, and this is what she came up with. She was soooooo excited for me to put it on my blog, so how could I say no? P.S. - she is 5!...

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Design Dollies Sketch Challenge

I just got a whole schwack of photos printed at Snapfish, and I was pretty excited to get scrapping them, so when I saw the sketch from Design Dollies this week, all I needed to do was find 2 horizontal photos and go from there. I really love how the title turned out! I just clear embossed the letters, then painted some orange over top. I also managed...

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Design Dollies, Sketchy Thursdays and Who's That Girl

Whew, long title there. This is also layout #23 in my quest to complete 120 layouts this year. Hmmm, I might be a bit behind...So Sketchy Thursdays has a sketch this week that I sort of followed, plus they joined up with Who's That Girl this week, and their challenge is a theme: "Right Now". Then there's Design Dollies, who wanted to see the colours...

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Grumpy Brenna (Layout #22)

Brenna turned 8 weeks old yesterday, so I took a whole schwack of photos of her, trying to get her to crack a smile, and these are three of the cutest. We've started calling her Grumpy Brenna, because she cries a ton, although the last couple of days she's been more content to hang out on her play mat and look around at the world around her. This...

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JUGS and Sweet Stop Card

Finally I get to take part in a challenge! Feels like it's been forever! The challenge at Just Us Girls this week was to use pink, green, and lavender to make a birthday card. I also used the sketch from Sweet Stop, and a button and bow to complete the challenge. What do you think? I love the rhinestone square, and the butterfly inside is actually...

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Hot Little Momma (Layout #21)

When Jason took these photos of me last summer, I was really self-conscious. I was only in the first trimester, and I thought I looked fat, not pregnant. Now I would love to have this bod back! So, this layout serves to remind me of how cute I looked with my little baby bump!I LOVE the hot pink and purple on this page, but I didn't have enough purple...

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Topstitch Thank You Cards

Everyone has been so kind in sending gifts for Brenna! We even had a group of women from my husband's office bringing dinners to us, complete with salads and desserts - it was fantastic! What a nice thing for anyone to do for parents of a new baby! So I decided to make some homemade thank you cards to give out. I think the Topstitch paper pack looks...

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Another Nolan Page (layout #20)

Probably everyone is totally over the Olympics, but here's another page just the same. I'm not sure we would have even gone to the torch relay, because my husband usually avoids community events like the plague! But Ailis had to sing with her daycare, and Jason (my hubby) actually volunteered to help set up, so we couldn't really miss it! Nolan put...

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The Mad Scientist (Layout #19)

I love these photos of my little boy, Nolan. He's such a unique kid, and totally unlike myself. It drives me bonkers, because he'll just take stuff - duct tape, batteries, my best scissors, or in this case, lemon juice and baking powder - without asking. At the same time, it's pretty cool, because he's using his mind to create and experiment. I...

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Layout #18

Here's a layout I made very quickly using a Reflections pattern called Sidebar-Mainframe and some old Cosmo Cricket papers. I loved these papers when I bought them, so much I used the colour palette in my old house, but the papers themselves have been in my stash forever. I'm glad I was able to use the title strip, as that saved a bunch of time. The...

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Layout #17

Yay, another Brenna page done! This is how we spend our evenings from about 8 or 9 until 10:30 or so. It's pretty nice, I must say! For this layout, I used the Reflections pattern book from Close to My Heart, and it came together in no time. The hardest part was getting some of those rub-ons transferred properly. Felt like my arms were getting a workout!...

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Layout #16

I just placed my order to Close to My Heart, and I decided to get a 12x12 calendar for Brenna, you know, to record all her special moments. This will be the first page! I'm totally digging the black and white photos lately - they make it so easy to use any colour paper, and the patterned paper here is one I've had forever. I've been slowly and steadily...

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