Mini Albums

I have not done any work lately on my family albums or Ryan's, but I have been busy with other projects. In May I tackled a digital album and loved it. Still doing it from pre-designed pages, but moving things around a little more. I did it for Ryan's class and some of the other parents bought copies, too. Such a nice plus to digital-you can easily do multiple copies!

Then I finally did my little Team Trek album. I've doe a little journal style album all three of the years I have accompanied our juniors on the trip. This one was very easy because I just made it 4x6 and zuttered it together. Didn't have to paste many pictures in, just punched them in with everything else.

I plan to do something similar with all the prom pictures I have of my kids.

Finally, I completed an album for my sister for her birthday of our adventures from her birthday last year. I used a kit I bought last fall and all the goodies in it. She got it this weekend so I can show pictures now!

Birthday bracelet

My mom made me this for my birthday.



A few years back I made her a "Nanny" bracelet for Christmas and I kept meaning to make a "Ryan" one for me. I was so surprised and excited to get it. She even made it a little small, as my wrists are one part of me that have stayed unusually tiny, and she used turtle charms on it! So cool! Thanks mom!

I can finally post this...

I made three special projects awhile ago (with my wonderful zutter). They are envelopes bound together to hold letters to children.

I stuffed the envelopes with pre-printed stationary reading, "A letter from Mom/Dad on your first birthday" from 1 all the way to 18.

Made them for my friends Katherine and Drew (who are adopting, so the usual Baby's First Year album just doesn't work), Kirsten and Rich, and Cory and John (all of whom just celebrated first birthdays with their little ones).

They were so fun to put together and I know that years from now the kids will love them!

Got her game on!

With Scott out of town and a free Friday night, I emailed my crafty friends to see if anyone wanted to come over. Only Carrie took me up on it, and here's some of what we created last night.

I knocked a few more things of my "to be created" list with these cards:

these were based on some cards made by a woman at my school (remember Katy? It took a little while, but I found a smaller scalloped square punch).

and these were inspired by the ones Katy made a few weeks ago when she was here. Both are gifts for a friend.

Carrie, inspired by a set of felt letters and doo-dads she had, got her game on with this little album:

All she needs is to put in pictures! What a satisfying evening!

Zutter

Is my new favorite tool. I have made five albums using it and it is so easy! You can bind together all kinds of stuff (I have just started!). Mostly, I like that I can make it the way I want to.

Here's one project. I need to take pictures of one other. Both are gifts where lots of friends wrote messages, I took pictures of those people, and then binded it all together. Easy!











Love this new stamp, too!

I also have another project I did, but can't post that yet because it has not been mailed. Stay tuned!

Craftapalooza 2

My sister is in town and we are feeling crafty! I was working on a "Words of Wisdom" album for a friend's "green" baby shower, while Katy made these lovely cards.

At one point she asks, "Do you have any green?" To which I just laugh. This is what my workspace looked like:

Getting creative with paint!

I finally had some free time today and Ryan and I used it to paint. First I finished a layout I had started over Spring Break with pink paint and a foam florish stamp:



Then I made some cards that I'd been imagining in my head for awhile. 4" x 4" card (you can make 4 of these from a piece of 12" x 12" card stock) from free Archiver's cardstock, ivory paint swirled in the background, and a "Me and my Big Ideas" jelly sticker:



Finally, a page I've been thinking about for awhile. I've had the pictures printed, the title in my brain, and a bunch of supplies collected to do it. Today, I went by Archiver's (I have coupons that expire on Monday burning a hole in my pocket) and picked out new and different paper to do the layout:



Bazzill, Archiver's and CM cardstock, paint (made the circles with the top of a wine glass!), and BoBunny patterned paper. Wanted to do it 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" to go in my moments albums, but too many pictures led to a 12" x 12" layout. Not sure what to do with it now, maybe a frame.

TFL!