Every year we get the most amazing gifts from Charlie's cousins in Italy. What do we send them? Nothing. So, this year I decided to make them each a frame and put a photo of my three beautiful kids inside. I was able to take a photo of each of them before Charlie mailed them.
They are very simple but I love how they turned out! Happy Wednesday.
A good friend asked me to make her two youngest boys a scrapbook. I made one for her oldest, Silas, and she wanted one for the other two boys. Here are a few photos...
The cover of Miles's book.
The first page.
First tooth.
First Halloween.
Recollections page for mom.
And one for dad.
The cover of Titus's book.
The first page.
First tooth.
Mom's page.
And dad's page.
Hope you enjoyed!
In November of 2010, my beautiful niece had twins. Soon after they were born, I started on their scrapbooks. Two weeks ago, I finally finished. Just in time for their first birthday. I hope they were worth the wait. The books are a month to month, first month through 1st birthday. At the back are blank pages for extra photos.
Addy's book.
The first page with her stats.
1st month and 2nd month. There is also a spot for mommy to jot down some notes.
After the first birthday page comes the Reflections page. There is an envelope for mom to write a letter to Addy reflecting on her first year.
And an envelope for Dad.
And one for big sister Savanna.
Jaxon's book.
Jaxon's stats page.
2nd month page.
3rd month page.
An envelope for mom.
Dad's envelope.
And finally, the envelope for Savanna.
Sorry it took me so long to finish Amber. Kisses to those babies and Savanna.
I am down with the Flu which means I am not quite feeling like posting much. I will leave you with a project I made from an online class I took earlier this summer.The background is white so it does not show up. I hope you are having a great week!
I got creative last night while the family watched Transformers. No school today for the kids and I am off to Tysabri. I hope you all have a great weekend.
When I get ready to make a scrapbook layout, I will often ask the person in the photo what they think a good title will be. A couple of nights ago I found two photo booth photos that I wanted to scrap. One was of me with Patrick and the other was of me and Vinny. I first asked Vinny what I should title her page and her first response was 'WTF, Why That Face?'. The next day I asked Patrick what he thought of his photo and he had the same response that Vinny had. So, I decided to go ahead and use the same title for both layouts. I posted Patrick's layout yesterday so today I will show you Vinny's layout. I hope you are all having a great day.
I have been trying to convince Charlie to join the Knights of Columbus for many years. Recently, at church, they made an announcement that they were accepting applications. Patrick told Charlie if he joined, Patrick would also join when he turns 18. So, he did it, he joined the Knights of Columbus. Last night was the Induction ceremony.
Charlie is in the back row in the blue shirt.
I actually scrapped yesterday...
If you want to see the photo better, just click on it.
Today is my great niece Grace's birthday! Happy Birthday Miss Grace. We love you.
Well, that is all for today! Have a great Wednesday.
I finally scrapped! My poor Mitchell did not feel well yesterday so I kept him home from school. So, I wanted to stay upstairs with him without catching whatever he has. So, I scrapped instead. I had some photos from 1991 that our good friend Sam took. I decided to scrap some of them before I lost them. Here is the two page layout I made...
I looked pretty good back then, don't you think? A quick two page layout that only took me about one hour. Love it when that happens. Have a groovy day!
Remember the photos I posted last week of my very messy scrap space? Well, I finally finished cleaning and organizing it. It is now ready for me to do a little scrapping. I had hoped to this weekend, unfortunately I was down with my monthly Tysabri headache. Today is another day and I am hoping to spend a little time working on a few things. How was your weekend? Here are some photos of my clean and organized scrap space...
This table was a dining room table I purchased at a consignment store. It was meant for our dining room which turned into Charlie's office and a guest room. So, we cut off part of the table and put it in our scrap space. My side of the table. Vinny's side of the table. Most used punches. Scraps. Words, gems, eyelets, rhinestones, brads, and other embellishments. Patterned Paper. My desktop. The lint roller is for picking up glitter. This holds mostly rub ons and thickers. This cabinet was also purchased for the dining room. I took the doors off of the top part. The bottom part holds things that I don't use as often like glitter and my embossing materials. The top part holds the following... Buttons. Flowers. Clear, acrylic stamps. Chipboard, mini albums and ribbon. On top are my magazines and books. This is a view of the dormer. More dormer. Wrapping paper and gift bags. Individual alphabets and numbers. Tools are on the bottom shelf and cards and envelopes are in the plastic folders. Paints and rubber stamps. My favorite drawers from IKEA. They hold my inks and borders. Cardstock and themed patterned paper (Christmas, Easter, etc). Well, that is all there is. I hope to have a few projects done soon to show you. I hope ya'll have a great Monday!
I took a fun online course this summer from Jessica Sprague called Photo Editing: Frame Ups and Special Effects. Since our weekend was pretty boring I thought I would share some of my projects from the course. I completed the projects using Photoshop Elements 7.
Using frames and words.
Brushes and words.
Vintage tint, frame & brush.
Vintage tint, frame, and brush.
Textures.
TTV or Through the Viewfinder.
Two versions of texture with words.
Selective/Spot recoloring.
These are just a few of the concepts that I learned during the class. It is so fun to play around with photos. The cool thing about Jessica's classes is that she keeps your class videos and information online indefinitely. So, if I forget how to do something, I can go back to the video and review it.
I hope you had a great weekend.
