4 Christmas layouts

I am actually in the pictures.

 

 Matt on Christmas morning

 

Kayana liked Santa but not enough to sit on his lap by herself.

 

Matt was pretty excited to get the new Zelda game - Christmas 2011

James, Aliese, and Matthew - layouts

I scrapped the pictures of the day James dressed up as Santa to surprise Aliese. These pictures are just a little over two years old. I am way behind. 

 

 

These pictures are from our trip to Orlando in 2010 - three years ago. Matt is trying to pose all GQ like his big brothers James and Brandon. 

Cards, Cards, and More Cards

My scraps are out of control and in an attempt to tame them, I've been making cards - lots of cards, and while my scraps are fewer, there are still far too many scraps, so I sorted them all out and chucked a plastic grocery bag full of smaller scraps.

I know I should post these over the course of several weeks, but I am going to post them all tonight.

No 12X12 paper was harmed in the creation of the following cards - all scraps. I need to make even more cards before I make any more scrap pages.

This card features beads, paper punched flowers, and a Cricut scalloped circle.

 

 

This card is for a father's birthday. The gold is heat embossed. 

 

This baby girl card features a stamp I bought for a quarter at a yard sale, a Martha Stewart border punch, and some really old Prima flowers.

 





 

I found this old baby bottle die cut while cleaning out my scraps. I decided to use it right then to make a card. 

 

 

 

These stamps also came from a yard sale. I love yard sales. I used glitter glue on the flowers.

 

 

The next two cards are almost the same. I used my Cricut to cut the flowers. One card has veiling between the layers of paper.

 

 

 

 

The next two birthday cards feature more yard sale stamps.

 

 

 

 

Card 1 has punched flowers with eyelet centers. I am determined to mine my stash.

Card 2 has a large silk flower with a felt and crochet flower, punched borders and pearls. It didnt' scan very well.

Card 3 is made from odd and end die cuts.

Card 4 has punched flower with a button center and a Martha Steward border punch.



 

 

 

 



I painted the zebra paper on the bottom of this card. The zebra is a stamp.



 



 





The stamp on this is from Stampin' Up.

 

One would think that after making all these cards, I would be out of scraps - but no, I still have way too many scraps. I'll just have to keep on creating.

 

Yes, I am still scrapping

sometimes that is. I've had a bit of a dry spell because of the holidays. I have taken a lot more pictures that are not printed. I really need to catch up on that.

This is my grandson, Isaac.

This is my granddaughter, Kayana.

This picture came out so blurry, and I'd already put the layout in her album, so I didn't retake it. This is my granddaughter, Callie

This is a newborn Kayana with her Aunt Angie, and her paternal grandma, Deanna.

Baby Jace - my grandson is now 9 months old. He is such a snuggle bug.

These are my girls when they were pregnant with their girls. The big flower is folded hearts. I used really old paper on this one.

This is a Birthday card. I need to make more cards because I've nearly depleted my supply.

October 22 - Layouts from Last Week

These two layouts show testing that was done on Matthew after he started having seizures. He is doing pretty well - only one seizure in the last six months. The paper on both of these layouts is from yard sales. I used up some old chipboard for the titles.

Little Kayana is so sweet. She was dancing to no music. The paper is also from a yard sale. I also bought the title letters from a yard sale.

 Matt's four and half year old Betta finally died. He was sad, so we buried Daniel in a little wooden box. The paper is a combination of yard sale finds and my stash. The flowers are Primas- old ones. The title stickers are also from my stash.

 Once again more yard sale paper. The flowers are cut using Cricut's Create a Critter. I love that cartridge. Kayana loves her Uncle Brandon and spent the day stealing his hat.

 One day while I was tending Kayana, she hurried to the tissue box and pulled out the tissue as fast as she could. She then began to eat it. The flowers are made from ribbon. The paper is more of what I found at a yard sale a few weeks ago. I bought a 6 inch stack of paper.

 Little Jace was born in March. His momma, Angie, was bathing him in my kitchen sink. He looked so worried. This page is full of old stash that I've had for a long, long time. I am determined not to buy anything new until I make room for more. I will still pick things up at yard sales though. I can't say no to a huge stack of paper for $5 or less.

October is off to a Good Start

So far this month, I've had three scrapping buddies join me. I've had scrap time with Caitie, Cayli, and Matthew.

I finished up all the Christmas layouts from our Grandma Catherine's Christmas party. I think I still have some to do from Christmas morning of that year. The paper came from a yard sale. I also used up more of the gift tags I bought from a yard sale. I am the worlds cheapest scrapper.

 

This one has a gift bag that a student gave me with lotion inside. I love the bag - it is so sparkly. I swear I am part racoon. I punched circles for the borders and used rick-rack to finish it off.

This is me with one of my students when I was a student teacher. He was the hardest working young man I've ever met. He was an ESL student. The border punch is by Martha Stewart.

 

I finally started scrapping Kayana's birth pictures. Her birth traumatized me a bit, so it has taken me a long time to be able to scrap her pictures, but they need to be in her book because she loves to look at it.

 

In these pictures she seems to be saying, "Oh Grandma, I don't feel so good." She had a hard time getting started, but everything turned out okay.

 

 This is my daughter, Caitie and her husband Nathan getting to hold Kayana for the first time. It was a long hard labor followed by an emergency c-section, and then Kayana was whisked away because she had a hard time breathing, so they had to wait to hold her.

These next pictures show her poor little face complete with the doctor's handprint, and her head which was bruised and bloody. She is able to grow hair, and her brain is fine - no permanent damage. Her face healed up after about a week. She did end up with some tiny scars on her head, but her hair covers them up.

Christmas in September

I've been scrapping Christmas layouts.

This is my little grand daughter, Kayana.
The paper is K&Company. The title is a gift tag. I picked up a sack of them at a yard sale. The border punch is by fiskars.

More K and company paper. The tree is another gift tag. The beautiful girl is my grand daughter, Aliese.

 

These are pictures of my daughter, Angie and her two children Isaac and Callie. The paper is K and Company

  More K and company paper. with some painted chipboard that I can't remember where it came from. I have a hard time remembering names. This is me holding my little grand daughter, Callie. I was lucky to get two grand daughters during the same year.

This is Angie with Callie. The paper is Cosmo Cricket. I bought it at a yard sale. There are scraps on the layout that are another brand of paper - but it beats me which one.

 

I have one more group of pictures to scrap from this Christmas party. I have one every year for my grandkids. We have a cake for Baby Jesus, the kids act out the Christmas story. We make pretzel , kiss, MM candies, and homemade pretzels. Each child gets to pick an ornament off the Christmas tree as well. Santa usually comes to visit at some point during the party.