New Grandma Pictures :) (Sorry, no crafts... all baby!)

I'm SO excited!! My son (& GF!) made me a Grandma yesterday, Jan. 9th at 4:46 pm. Bentlee weighed 8 lbs, 2 oz and 20 in long. I may be biased, but he is adorable!! I'll be working on a Grandma brag book soon to hold all the photo's I've taken so far. Here's just a highlight...

The very new Bentlee, at just under 1 hour old with his Grandma:

The very proud parents:

The very proud Daddy:

The very proud Grandma:

Pick Pocket mini album

Hello!

Shortly before Christmas someone on the Cricut Circle message board posted a really cute project they found on following the paper trail blog. I had to check it out and I was amazed with so many of Laura's projects! I broke down and bought her instructions for the pick pocket album, a first for me. Since I paid for the instructions, I can't post how I made my project, but I can show it to you. I will point out the the spine isn't exactly correct, but not bad for the first try. :) I was amazed how much work this was!! Each page holds a total of 7 objects, pictures, keepsakes, whatever, and there are 5 pages in this book. I will eventually make one for my parent's Canadian vacation, which is why I bought the instructions/pattern in the first place.

I love how the cover turned out. (click on the picture to make it larger)

(Sassy approves anything with ribbon!!)

Thanks for looking!

Color Blue Winter LO

Good Morning!

This week at Sweetsassydiva's we are using the color blue in a lay out. Sticking to only one color was a bit more of a challenge than I expected it to be. I did use the color white on the two ornaments and for the picture placers, although those will come off when I put my pictures on.

Both of the ornaments were cut from the Christmas Solutions cartridge. The long one was cut at 5 and the round one at 3.5. I didn't care for the way the center turned out on the round one, so I "fixed" it with stickles. The dark blue base paper I used has a high shine to it, but doesn't show up when laying flat.

From the MS Seasonal cartridge I welded two of the snow borders in Design Studio at 2. I saved the cutouts from the border and sprayed half of them with Memories Mist, Blue Hawaiian.

I added most of the snowflakes to my page using pop dots.

The word Christmas was cut at 2.25. The cats were playing on my table and lost the dot of the "i", so I used stickles instead.

For the frame for my pictures, I used a 6.5 square and in design studio I welded a shape on each side from the Storybook cartridge at 4.25.

Thanks for looking!

Easter LO

Good Morning!

I'm still working on getting caught up on last years pictures.

MS Seasonal:
Rabbits cut @ 2
Grass cut @ 1.5
Bunny frame cut @ 3.5

Easter 2010:
Border cut @ 3

I used pink and purple liquid pearls on the border flowers. I also used up some old stickers.

Country Life:
letters cut @ 1.75

Paper Trimmings ~ Borders

Good Morning!

Just a quick post to show some of the borders found on the Paper Trimmings cartridge. I cut all borders at 1.5, all of them were longer than 12 inches, but I only used 12 x 12 papers. I also have a new "helper". Sassy is still around, but she prefers to "help" with the blogging while Trouble "helps" when I'm at my table. Rummy sits high on his post and just watches or sleeps. lol I guess it's all a good thing, or I would feel like I'm talking to myself here. :)

Pam's Sketch

Good Morning!

I've been on The Bugbytes Design Team for a little while. If you haven't been to The Bugbytes, you really need to check it out. Not only is Pam (the owner) a very talented woman, but she has really stacked her Design Team with great people!! (Not sure how I ended up there, but I wasn't going to turn her down. lol) Pam also has a blog called Papillon Digital Designs. If you don't already know, Pam does some awesome sketches! While I don't normally follow sketches, both that Pam has done have inspired me. Both of her sketches can be found Here. The first one I made back in May of last year, which can be found here.

For today's layout, I used several cartridges and a lot of stickles. While Pam's sketch calls for 1 4x6 picture, I just couldn't decide what picture I liked best, so I used two 3 x6 photos instead. My youngest son bought his (very) pregnant girlfriend a pair of earings from my favorite jeweler for Sweetest Day. The look on her face was priceless!

Recipe:
hearts from MS Seasonal ~ 2.25
(Welcome) sign from Home Accents ~ 2.5 x 10
Tulip from Art Nouveau ~ 3.0
Sweetest day using Ashlyn's Alphabet and purple Cricut markers
The border was cut using a MS punch.

Thanks for looking!

30 Story Lay Out

Good Morning and Happy New Year!!!

While it's not my "New year's resolution", I am trying to get caught up on my layouts! I can't believe how far behind I've gotten.

The pictures are of a 30 story building being built and the write up about it in the Milwaukee Journal in March 2011. My eldest son is an IronWorker and he wears his tool belt and hard hat every day. The bucket is included in my layout because that's what the men use to carry their tools to and from the job site and some of them also use them to sit on. On this job, my son was a "rod buster", he spends his days using wires to tie up the steel.

For this Layout, I mostly used the Handy Man cartridge. I cut the tool belt and bucket @ 4. One of the pliers was cut @ 3.5 along with the tape measure. The rest of the tools were cut @ 3. The borders on the pictures were cut from Home Accents @ 1.06 and the word story was cut from Ashlyn's Alphabet @ 1.5.

Thanks for looking!