Archive for January, 2010
January 28th, 2010 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness |
I’ve been waiting to post these but I think it’s an OK time… Sending out lots of ~*~*~baby dust~*~*~ to anyone who is TTC this month or later on this year!
My latest set of new free blinkies are some cute ones for moms expecting 2010 babies:
Expecting in 2010 Big Blinkies – “Sky”
This set is completely new, but I’ve also completed the original set of Expecting in 2010 blinkies (in “Blush”) by adding the September to December versions.
I think I’ll be working on a new blinkie batch sometime too, so please feel free to comment if you have any requests or suggestions for the theme chosen! 
January 22nd, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
I was totally on a penguin kick this year for all the winter birthdays… you’ve already seen my 2 plum penguins birthday cards, so now time to take a peek at my two pink penguin birthday cards…
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette (NLA), Riding Hood Red (NLA), Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, and white.
Ink: Basic Black for penguin, with Riding Hood Red (NLA) for scarf.
Embellishments: silver brads, chocolate brown ribbon, dry embossed swirl pattern
Stamps: penguin from Punch Pals, flowers from “A Beautiful Thing”.
Punches: scallop circle, scallop edge, 1 & 3/4″ circle
Techniques: paper piercing, inked edges, embossing (using embossing folder)
I find I really like making a couple cards at the same time (with the same theme) because then I can mix and match little pieces to coordinate really well. For example, with these cards, I used the pink and red cardstock papers for different parts of the cards. Then you get to start by creating one design, but your end result is 2 (or more) cards that coordinate but aren’t exactly alike.
Believe it or not, I actually have 2 last penguin birthday cards to show you so stay tuned for those, and for other craft projects!
January 19th, 2010 -- Posted in EZ-blog Oven, family, pain / disability, pics, scrappy / stampy |
I know things’ve been a little quiet on the blogging side of things, but I assure you I’ve been turning my creative inclinations towards other passions lately and it has not all gone to waste. I took advantage of a good sale to print out nearly 300 digital pictures and have been working at getting my albums sorted out.
As a first completed project of the year, the “Family 2007″ layouts are now totally scrapbooked. This album (or rather section of an album; it shares space with 2008) was mostly complete for the longest time even before 2009 rolled around. Then I’d somehow skipped over November and December ‘07 in favour of jumping right into the beginning of 2008 and ending up scrapbooking from January to June of ‘08 in one big cropping weekend in October (which I paid for dearly in pain afterwards due to a fire alarm!).
In my recent album organizing efforts, the unfinished area stood out as a priority. So I finally chose some digital pics to print out from those couple months and got to work…
I finished the title bar to the first 1/2 layout of November (Paul’s 27th birthday), and then added another 1-page layout (of Stella’s 3rd birthday) on the other side. On the next pages, I did a 2-page spread with the title “Here comes Winter” and I think it turned out really nicely…
For the final layout of 2007, I did a 1-page layout which was kept to just one un-cropped photo and a block of journaling – all about my experience of being “Always behind the camera!” and why I love scrapbooking for my family.
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January 1st, 2010 -- Posted in family, friends, pics, scrappy / stampy |
I hope everyone has been enjoying the holidays with their families! We have had a very quiet & subdued Christmas this year, but there were still lots of great moments and memories.
One of my favourite things is when the kids do something all on their own that is special and thoughtful. I love the tags my son made this year – his handwriting is still in the early stages and he needs lots of room so he started each name on the front of the tags and continued on with each name around the back! Just adorable. As for my daughter, I gave her some money of her own to buy me some presents when we were out shopping together and she picked out some nice things for me, including a makeup brush set and a little face mask package.
I love thoughtful gifts from anyone – not just the kids! so I was thrilled with the beautiful framed set of photos our friend Kat put together for us and the cute candle set from Karen. My hubby did a great job of treating me to lots of nice things despite our tight budget and spent all of his Coke points on a magazine subscription for me that I’ll get to enjoy all year. I could only get DH one real gift this year, so I stretched it out and made it fun by having him go through a treasure hunt to find it (under his favourite chair where it had been for 2 weeks without him even knowing it! lol)
A portion of my Christmas gift money went towards putting together a new holiday album – I have already used up 3 full 12×12 scrapbooks just for Christmas photos from 1999 to 2008!!! So album #4 is in the works and I’ve already finished the title page. Right now I’m enjoying the task of sorting through all the photos to pick the ones that turned out the best to include in the new album’s pages.
Other 12×12 albums I still have some work to do in are: the Family 07/08 album, Harmony’s birthday album, Avery’s birthday album, and both kids’ school albums. I definitely feel like I’m less into scrapbooking these days than I used to be, and also our photo-taking style and opportunities have changed. The kids are older now, and less keen on posing for the camera so there really aren’t as many reasons to catch moments on film. And although they still seem to be growing and changing so fast, it is much less quick compared to when they were babies and toddlers, when their appearance and skill set could change in a matter of days or weeks! All of this has me wondering about maybe putting together a photo book for all the 2009 photos (and future years) instead of continuing to have family scrapbooks for each year. What do you think?
