Trying to scrap my way to the new Hawaii Pictures

I am so behind on my scrapping, but I think I will get the new Hawaii pictures printed and start them anyway.

Here are a few layouts I've completed since the last time.

 The first two are of Callie and Kayana playing in our back yard on Easter.

 This is an earlier easter of Callie and Kayana tormenting each other.

 James, Angie, Brandon, Caitie, and Matt - my babies.

 This is from our first trip to Hawaii. Matt and Aliese got to help open a coconut.

 And for a real throw-back - James leaving for Illinois on his mission over 13 years ago.

June 2013 Layouts

 

These are pictures of my grandchildren, Aliese and Sean with their new brother, Xander. Yes, the cream dots are paper punched and glued around the blue paper. Yes, I am a little bit crazy.

Matt and I spent a day at a lake near our house.

I never thought I'd use the back ground paper on this one, but there is always a use for nearly every paper. After we got back from the lake, we made a baking soda bomb and lemonaide in a bag.

My granddaughter Kayana and I almost share a birthday. Her day is two days after mine. The embellishments were cut from patterned paper.

 

February Pages

I've had a little time to scrap this month. I need to make a big dent in my paper stash before yard sales start up again.

 

This first layout is pictures of my grand daughter, Callie, in 2011. The flowers are a Cricut cartridge. The background is white paper with a polka-dot vellum overlay (yard sale). The green and blue papers are from my stash. I Frankensteined some sticker letters for the Es in the title. 

 

 



This is Callie bug. The flower centers are old buttons. She was so brave on the slide.

Callie: Cinderella and Kayana: Belle (another grand daughter) dressed up as Belle and Cinderella for Halloween. The border punch is by Martha Stewart. The carriage was made with white glue and micro beads. I made it on top of a page protector and then glued in the completed page after it dried.

My grandson, Isaac, dressed up as a fireman for Halloween. The dog is from the Create a Critter cartridge from Cricut. Most of the patterned paper was from a yard sale.

These pictures are from fall of 2011 when my son started third grade. I picked up the stamps from Hobby Lobby on a clearace sale.

 

 

Matt and his friend went trick-or-treating together. I stamped the spider web on the layout and used silver embossing powder. The title is Thickers. 

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.