A couple of new ones!!

A sketch from here: http://dailyinspirationsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/sketch_18.html

I have always loved these pics of Asher and Shiloh. Every single time they heard a noise on the front porch they would RUN to the window and take their positions. Notice how Ash had to climb up on his toy to reach!! Make it sparkle. Another challenge from...you guessed it:http://dailyinspirationsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/make-it-sparkle.html. I have been really loving this blog!! You should really check it out.

This purpose of this page is to sparkle!! And it really does sparkle in real life. Just can't tell in these pictures. All the swirls sparkle and the pink birdy does too. I also stickled the whole thing up nice and pretty and used glitter brads. The picture really stinks and maybe I will re-take it later so you can get a better idea of sweet this page really is!!

Our Old House

I took a ton of pictures of our house when it sold last year. Our family will always have very very fond memories of our very first home. On our very last walk through, before turning the keys over, I snapped pictures of every nook and cranny of this house!! I want to create an album that we can look back on someday and remember our early years as a family. I want to point out that we no longer live in this house or in this town. In fact we live pretty far away:) That is the only reason I didn't block out the addy!!

I came across a new scrapping blog that I just love!! You should seriously check them out!! That is where the inspiration for this LO comes from. http://dailyinspirationsblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/lo-recipe.html I used this recipe. I love me some recipes!! They are great for getting me out of a scrapping rut and thinking outside my box!! The paper is from the DCWV "Green" stack. Let me just say I LOVE this stack!! My secret sister sent me the 8x8 stack and when Andy saw how much I loved it he went out and bought me the 12x12 stack. I was thrilled. The picture doesn't do the actual colors in the LO justice.


The bottom picture was taken just after we bought the house in November 1997. The upper picture was taken just before we sold the house in November/December 2008.

Wedding

I figured since my 15 year anniversary is coming up next month and I should work on getting at least a few of the photos into an album!! It's been a little intimidating because I am so afraid of ruining them!! I want my wedding album to be cohesive so I have decided to use the same line of papers throughout. Andy (yes he randomly buys me paper)came home one night with DCWV's new stack "La Creme" and I knew right away that it would be perfect for wedding pictures. The paper is gorgeous and has a flocked or velvety texture on many of the patterns. Which lends itself well to formal events.

Mr. and Mrs.

Look I was skinny and Andy had hair:) I used lots of bling on this page. The tiny flowers are Prima, velvety flowers are Bazzill and the polka dotted flowers are Petaloo I think. I cut the swirl with my Home Accents cartridge.

Always:

This paper is beautiful. I love all the flocking on it...you can't help but want to run your fingers over it. I sort of layered up the embellishments just a bit. One of my favorite elements to this layout, which is hard to see in this pic, is the lace pinned inside the frame. It looks almost like a piece of the garter. And I love the straight pin holding the whole thing in place. The frame itself was cut using Home Accents (do you see a theme here?) cartridge. All stamps are Autumn Leaves "scribbles". S.W.A.K or Sealed With A Kiss:

This one is not my favorite. After 3 days of messing with it though I decided to give up and call it done. Prima flowers and again I cut the corner swirly's with my Home Accents cartridge. It's very hard to see the epoxy SWAK letters on here but they do show up in real life!