Birthday scrapping

Last week, for my birthday, I got some free time to scrapbook. I'm trying to work on Nathaniel's baby pictures since 1) I haven't done many 2) he'll be six next month and 3) I forget what he looked like as a baby :(

I got 2 layouts completed and 1 more almost done - just waiting for journaling.

The double page layout was done using a kit from Miss Elizabeth (dollar store) that my sister gave me several years ago - when N was a year old or less. The vellum quotes I used on them are older than that - I got them when I did Joshua's baby album (when he was 3) 7 years ago.

The one page layout used a piece of Basic Gray paper that someone gave me - and the vellum quote was also in a box of stuff that the same nice person sent me. All the cardstock on both is Bazzill. On the one pager I also used my cool tab punch that I don't use nearly as often as I should because I love it!

Almost forgot about this one...I did this the week before. I just had to scrapbook one day...I needed my therapy :) I've had this picture printed out since December or January and just haven't gotten around to doing my annual "kids in front of the tree" page. So I trimmed it up, but left enough white for a border to look like I matted it :), found some paper I liked to go with it (a DCWV or PC Christmas stack - circa 2006 or 2007), some twine (from Storytellers - circa 2005) and gold alphabet stickers that I bought at Staples (probably 2004, maybe 2005).  Took me hardly any time at all, but felt great to get it done.  And I'm liking using up old stuff that's been kicking around for years.

Vinyl fun...

I've been wanting to do vinyl wall quotes for ages. Finally, I took the time to do it. It was part of Brian's Father's Day. He wanted this:


I used the Design studio program for all of these.  I welded "you" and "pray" using the program.
I used Cherry Limeade, Once Upon a Princess and Alphalicious for these letters.

I'd made these little swirly things to go at either end of the prayer quote, but decided I didn't like them. I like them here very well...they were on the Storybook cartridge. I may add something more -not sure yet.

This is one the kids asked for. My tan vinyl didn't show up as well as I'd hoped, but we know it's there. I used the Home Décor cartridge for the word "love" and Lyrical Letters for "is spoken here". This was my first wall vinyl attempt. The contact paper I was using as transfer tape was too tacky or something and things did not go well (probably being as it was pushing 1130 at night and I was balancing on the arm rest of the futon didn't help either). I used extra wide masking tape as my transfer tape the next day on all the rest and had no problems at all.

When we were at Brian's sister's last week, I loved how they had "Welcome" in vinyl on their front door.
So this is one I wanted :) I used Alphalicious and Bloom cartridges.

This was a quote I found on line because I wanted something in the kitchen :)
I used the Winter Frolic cartridge (for Season - I cut off the trees that were attached), Botanicals (capital letters) and Home Décor (love and hearts) 



More butterfly hats...

This one turned out infant size...I did it with the same size hook as I did the white one (G or H, I can't remember now) but it's a finer yarn. Going to try this with a different stitch for the body of the hat above the butterfly.

I did a little variation on this one..I did a cross-over or twist stitch on the body of the hat above the butterfly (you can kind of see it in the picture) and then used a contrasting color for the last row and the center of the butterfly. This one would probably fit Grace, but if I tried it on her she'd decide it was hers and it's really for the craft fair/gift/sell bag.

I've been wanting to see if this looked nice in just plain white, and it does. Again, this is probably the same size as the purple one, but I can't have Grace model it until she understands that not every hat is hers :)

MSD...

Well, I didn't really get much done for MSD this year. Just so many other things going on this month. This is one that I did for "Italy" a few weeks back. I never got it posted on the Storytellers site because I never had time to take a picture of it until yesterday.

Joshua - two years ago - with a lemonade stand to raise money for our library to help with costs so it didn't close. He raised over $100. I used a Storytellers kit for this, but I'm not sure what year it was from. loved the bright summery colors :)

Another hat...

Here's another hat...this one was going to be for the craft fair collection, but Grace decided differently. She likes the flower :)

I made it from this http://www.etsy.com/listing/62815194/crochet-hat-pattern-flower-power-cap

pattern.

My flower looked like I had sewn it on higher on the hat at first, but when I got finished I realized that it had slipped...but she doesn't care a bit :)

I made two more of the butterfly hats in the past few days...used the same size hook for both of them, but different weight/size yarn and one is about Grace's size and the other is infant size.

I'm enjoying making hats!

Flat Stanley...

In kindergarten here, they read Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and the make Flat Stanleys and mail them around the world to friends and family.

So far,these are the only that we know he's received. Hopefully in the backlog pile that his teacher has, she'll find some others of his. His almost twin (they're a month apart) cousin Geddy received a visit from Flat Stanley/Nathaniel and he showed FSN a good time in Payson, UT.

Then he and his mom emailed us the pictures, which I printed out and made this layout with.

Nathaniel loved the layout! And someday wants to go visit Geddy and his cool playground :)

Another old layout

Another old layout of Nathaniel...November 2007 in our front yard "raking" leaves.