Old Layouts of Caroline

Caroline is 12 today.  I woke up and pulled out old scrapbooks of her.  I can't believe my old style.  I loved strolling down memory lane....

I LOVED this layout.  Now it makes me laugh...but it does make me smile because I love this baby book!  I know I've spent hours and hours of time making my scrapbooks, but now that time has passed since I've made them, I'm SO glad I have them!  I have always documented so many details of my girls' lives and now that I'm getting older I have forgotten so many things & I'm so glad I've got them!  They sure bring a smile to my face....

I used to do all sorts of paper-piecing projects.  They were fun to make!

My sweet baby girl

Kindergarten picture

2nd Birthday Party---Elmo!

Still love this Christmas layout!

I entered this layout in a contest on a local scrapbook store and it won 1st prize!  I was so excited!  I don't remember the prize though....

Love these pix of Caroline!

Well, I've been doing a lot of stamp camps and projects for my room...now it's time to get very busy on actually scrappin'.  Life is SO crazy right now, but I am forcing myself to get down to that room if only for a few minutes at a time to get some pages done.  I've got SO many ideas saved on emails, pinterest, and magazines!  Here is a page I've been working on this week.  I used my new stencils from Kiwi Designs (see website on right side) to make the borders and flowers.  The paper is Stampin' Up's new Summer Smooches paper.  Background cardstock is crumb cake.  Other cardstock colors are daffodil delight, real read, old olive, tangerine tango, rich razzleberry, and pacific point.  And, the pictures are my sweet Emily on her 9th Birthday! 

Cards from Jan's Stamp Camp

Went to Jan Burnett's stamp camp on Saturday morning and this is what we made:

My Lovely Scrapbook Room

I've been working hard getting my scrapbook room just exactly how I like it.  I'm not completely done, but here are some pix of some of my favorite parts!  I have a few more pictures, but they are downloading SLOW this morning so I'll have to post some more after work today. 

I bought these live laugh love letters as plain chipboard at Hobby Lobby.  I covered them with cute paper and Shayne hung them up for me. 

This is how I hang up my punches so I can see them.  I stole the idea from my Stampin' Up Demonstrator, Gina Fraser.  It's just shelving from Lowes.  I love that my punches are out where I can see them and they do get used alot!  My favorite punch is of course, my owl punch!

I took on old shelf from the girls' craft room that wasn't getting used and put all my stamp sets in there.  I now can actually see them and will hopefully get more use out of them!

My cards from various stamp camps

Love my owl rug that was a gift from my good friend, Kathy Golden.

My big owl was a gift from my good friend, Carrie Thompson.

My messy work space!

More photos will be posted later.....

Kiwi Website

When I was at the Louisville convention, Shannon (my sister-in-law) and I were just wondering around at the very end of the day and we came across this booth called Kiwi Designs.  The girl did this short little demo of some of her products.  I just absolutely LOVED the style of these layouts and she made it look so easy.  We both ended up buying 3 different sets from the company, and I got a card with their website.  Here it is:  http://kiwilane.com/gallery.html  I'm just getting around to checking it out again, and I've gotten REexcited about it.   Check out the layouts and go to their home page and see their technic.  The next opportunity I have at my scrap table I will be trying my new stencils out.  If I like them, I may buy a few more sets.  I just LOVE the look of these layouts!  Check it out!

Totally Bummed

I just read on facebook that one of my favorite scrapbooking magazines, Scrapbooks, Etc., is stopping the publication.  I just hate that!  I LOVE getting my magazine in the mail!   Here is the notification:


Meredith Corporation has made the difficult decision to close Scrapbooks etc. effective with the August 2012 issue. Scrapbooks etc. has been the longtime brand leader within the scrapbooking industry, but due to the longer term business forecast for the franchise and the industry, the corporation has chosen to cease publishing within this marketplace.
The August 2012 issue, with an on-sale date of June 19, will be released on schedule to our 350,000 subscribers and newsstand buyers through the scheduled off-sale date of August 14, 2012. The ScrapbooksEtc.com website will support the print issue throughout this time period as well.
Meredith Corporation continues our strong support of the crafts industry with our Holiday Crafts titles and our newest addition, Make it Yourself, launching in October 2012. And of course we will continue to serve the growing quilting industry with our multiple quilting titles and website, allpeoplequilt.com.
For questions regarding your subscription, please e-mail sbecustserv@cdsfulfillment.com. If you’d like to purchase past issues for use on a mobile device, go to www.zinio.com/sbe.
On a personal note from the editorial staff, we are grateful for your support through the years. We could not have asked for better readers, and we have loved seeing your scrapbook pages and craft projects in our inboxes, on our website, and on our Facebook page. You inspired us in our mission to give you the ideas and information you wanted to preserve your memories and express yourselves creatively, and we hope that we in turn inspired you to create great pages and projects.
We’ll be posting here on the blog for a few more weeks as the August issue hits newsstands. And look for a post celebrating some of our favorite projects through the years.
THANK YOU!

All Day On-Line Crop

http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/creativecrop.php  Here is a link to a 12-hour on-line crop for this coming Saturday.  It's free to register and there will lots of prizes, challenges, and scrapbook tips all day long!  Sign up if you are interested.  Let me know if you are doing it too!