Another Card Box

Recently finished making this tin. I've decorated it with the Bo Bunny Flutter Butter line. Such great papers and the colors are so pretty. They are just right to blend with the decor where I envision this box sitting. Shhhhhhh..... This will be a present for someone very special on my Christmas list. I'm also making a bundle of greeting cards to fill it. This way they will have cards ready when they need them and stored neatly in a decorative tin. In side I've made tabbed dividers to help sort the cards by type. The dividers have places on them to keep track of special dates like anniversaries and birthdays.

I hope they will like this!

Fall Memories

Earlier this week was election day. Since the kids schools and hubby's work place are all polling places, they always have off. This was the first year in ages that I was able to spend the day with the family! If that was not exciting enough, I also got some time to scrap!!! Yippee!! It felt great to create! We spend that day off together hiking and letter boxing. Got some good photos. Hubby snapped this photo of me and the boys. Yes they are all getting really tall. I will soon have to look up (literally) to the two oldest!

My youngest was collecting leaves, pine cones and rocks along the hike. Do you remember in grade school making leaf impressions? Well I used that technique to create the background for the photo. I used the leaves and pin cone that he collected to paint images on the card stock. I really like the pattern that the pine cones created. And it was so fun to do! I think I'll have to use this again.

Hope you are enjoying the wonders of Autumn!

{cardstock: Bazzill Basics, patterned paper: American Crafts, GCD Studios, edge punch: Fiskars}

Ghosts & Goblins

I was clearing off my crafting spot and uncovered this little album that I started working on last year! I got distracted by life and other projects and this poor thing became neglected. I was able to spend some time finishing pages for it. All I have left to do is add some photos from this years Halloween and I will have 1 Dozen Years of Happy Halloweens all wrapped up in a pretty little package that can sit out for all to see and enjoy.

The pages are a mix of digi and traditional scrapping. It was really fun to gather photos from the various years and relive the fun with the boys. We shared lots of giggles and laughs and memories. That's what it's all about, right?

I've included a few of the pages here for you. The album is Making Memories Spellbound. I used some of that paper, sticker and embellishment line too. As well as scraps and such from my stash.

Great Team Work!

An amazing interception and a great block led to a scoring drive! It was great team work. I was lucky enough to catch it all in photos. It so inspired me that I created a scrapbook page for my sons album.

Loved working with the BoBunny Press Grid Iron papers. They are so perfect for football pages. They have the precise look and feel of a grungy, muddy field. The colors and distressed look give an edgy feel to the pages.

I also used some really cool paper by The Paper Company. It is called "football" and it looks and feels like the surface of a football. It is embossed and has a slight gloss to it. I matted two of the photos that I wanted to highlight with that paper and cut the edges with deco scissors to go with the edgy feel of this page. I then used a cuttle bug die to cut some arrows. I mounted the arrows and the one final photo with some foam dots to raise them and highlight them even further.

*Tip*: To be a thrifty scrapper, I use the "negative" area of the foam dot packs to cut smaller sections for mounting really small stuff on my pages.

A Birthday

I know someone that is having a birthday today! My youngest. I made him a card. We'll celebrate tonight after football practice!

What Matters Most

We had just finished the "Kitchen Sink" at Beaches and Cream. Our tummies all filled from all that ice cream, we decided to take a stroll. There was a photo pass photographer along the way outside the Beach Club resort. We don't often see them posted here. On a whim we stopped and had him capture our picture. This photo has become a favorite of mine.

I knew I wanted to do something special to show off this photo. I just created this very dimensional page. Sunflowers are just about my most favorite flower and they always look like happiness to me. I was so glad when I saw this bunch at the craft store. I found the fence on clearance in the dollhouse aisle. I distressed it with some inks. The leaves and flowers were old stem goods left over from some long ago project. The fish netting used to hang in the boys bathroom before it was redone. The shells were collected on a vacation at the Outer Banks, and the starfish was found when we were on our honeymoon.

I'm hoping to find a nice shadowbox frame that I can place this in. I think it will look great hanging in the living room.

Family truly is what matters most!

Thanks for looking! Here are some other views.

Knights

Got some great photos in the parks at night during our recent trip. Really like this photo with the boys, my "knights"

Nice thing about digi-scrapping with a laptop - you can do it even if there is no power in the house (as long as the battery is charged). Yup that was the situation in our house today.