Lazy Kitty

Walking through my stamp room this morning, I spotted my cat curled up in one of my canvas bins. I can't believe he was even close to being comfortable. He weighs about 16 pounds and totally filled up the bin. He stayed in there about 3 hours before moving on to a sunny spot on the floor. Isn't he cute!

6x6 Bree Scrapbook

I am participating (as a vendor) in a scrapbook expo next weekend and thought it might be a good idea to have an album that primarily uses Stampin' Up! products. My 12x12 album that I worked on at Jill's retreat is in an album I got from Jill and has a lot of elements from Creative Memories as well as Stampin Up.
Of course the subject of my album is Bree. This is the title page. I used the SU rub-ons I got free from the Sale-a-Bration catalog. I love them. Most of my previous attempts with rub-on stickers (non SU products) have proved disastrous . I really like the look of these! I also used Jill's Cricut to make the letters. She was so nice to leave it here for me to use. I love it! And so did my scrapbook friends last Tuesday!



The polka dots from the Polka Dot and Paisley set are stamped in Close to Cocoa. The Sweet Bundle of Love is from Sweet Celebrations. This is a great stamp set to use for scrapbooking.
I might add a pink gingham bow to the top left of the picture.












Pretty in Pink!
This time I made the polka dots pink and covered the entire page. This picture was taken in 2005 and was part of the photo session mentioned below.
Oh, she was so very, very cute!











These pictures are from Bree's "1st Official Photo Shoot" with her Aunt Julie. The rest of the pictures are great (not that I am biased).
This picture and the one below are black and white and I used the Crew Kids Girl Simply Scrappin' Kit for the 2 pages. The page is textured basic grey and the photo corners are made with regal rose. wild wasabi and designer paper. I used my new SU photo corner punch to make them.









Sometimes the photographer even gets to get her picture taken. She usually has someone stand in for her while she sets up her camera, then switches places (or sets the timer). Check out her blog for some great pictures she took over the Easter holiday.











The stickers are from the retired SS Kit "I'm Here" I have used this kit for some pages in Bree's 12x12 album...and I still have LOTS left over! I think I will use some to make some baby cards.

Even though you can usually only get one picture on a page, the 6x6 album can be a quick way to get a great memory album. I actually have 14 more pages done and have about 10 more pages that I will try finish tomorrow. My goal is to complete the pages in less than 2 hours. We'll see!

Scrapbook Pages at the Beach

Jill had a scrapbook retreat at the beach last weekend. I was there a couple of days to help her set up and to watch Bree. Thursday was absolutely gorgeous outside. I had to choose between playing on the beach with Bree or scrapbooking. It's not every day that I am in an oceanfront house, with Bree, and with nice weather.
I chose the beach!
The next day it rained, Bree was with her other grandmother, and I worked on my pages. These were the first 2 pages I finished. Yeah!


The next 2 pages show Bree having fun opening her gifts. I used the Cricut machine for the "1st" and for the balloons on the right.
I guess I should mention that these are pages in Bree's "Birth" Day Book. My plan is to make a four page spread for each birthday. I already had the "birth" pages done.



Birthday #2: There was a lot of water at Bree's 2nd birthday party. The colors for the pages are taken from her invitation. I used a Cricut machine to make the waves and the turquoise letters. I love the Cricut!
I'm glad Chris doesn't read my blog...I don't know that he would approve of this picture on the web. Oh well...it was for Bree!

CD Holders

I saw these cd holders on splitcoaststampers and had to make some. All of the stickers/accents are from retired Stampin' Up! Simply Scrappin Kits.
I used Today & Always and I'm Here-Girl kits on these two. I also stamped the green cd holder with a stamp from Baroque Motifs (one of my favorite stamps).












And here I used Winter Bright and Sparkling Holiday. I added some snowflakes stamped in white craft ink on the blue holder.
The cd holders are so easy to make. The folder is 5 1/2" x 10" folded in half. There is about 1/4" on the side that you fold and tape. I used the 1 3/8" circle punch at the top and then decorated with stickers from the scrapbook kits. That's it!

My Family

This is our Christmas Day 2007 picture. Bree was having a lot of fun helping Julie take this picture. Julie would set the timer (with Bree's help) and then they would run and get in place. And Bree would say "cheese." Aunt Becky would be so proud. We are so blessed to have a great photographer in the family. Needless to say, we have lots of pictures of Bree.
Check out Julie's blog and website to see more of her work.