National Scrapbook Month

Happy National Scrapbook Month! On the 3rd and 4th, I got to go crop at my local scrapbook store with my amazing mom. She's new to scrapbooking, but is a very crafty and creative woman.



Here are a few of the layouts I did while at the crop.



These were fun to make, but also made me a little teary to see how much my baby has grown since these were taken! He's almost three now, and these were taken right around his first birthday. He was just learning how to climb when I took these.



I used Tie the Knot to cut the pendants, and stamped and embossed the letters on them. The "sunny days" and Sun with the cloud were cut using Celebrate with Flourish. "Let's play" is one of the phrases on Create a Critter, and the tree is from Pooh and Friends.

Isn't my boy adorable?

This next one I absolutely love. We had gone to a splash park and had a picnic, and he leaned into his daddy, and it was a picture perfect moment!



I cut a card layer from Damask Decor, and embossed a sweet sentiment - "There's no place like a spot in someone's heart."

The circles are cut from Accent Essentials, and I cut the banners with my trusty paper trimmer and scissors. The paper is from Bo Bunny's Knight in Shining Armor.

Thanks for stopping by!

Bundle of Joy

A few days ago, I received the Tiny Bubbles embossing folder and couldn't wait to try it out. I had a hard time deciding exactly what to do with it, but I finally decided on a Pooh card.

Using the Pooh and Friends Cricut cartridge, I cut Pooh at 2" and the moon at 1.5". I inked the edges of the moon with the Bisque ColorBox chalk ink, then ran it along with the Pooh cuts through the Xyron. Before I put Pooh together, I used my Pebbles chalk to add some shading. 

The bundle of joy stamp is part of the Nursery Icons clear stamp set from Stampabilities. I used sky blue ink from Inkadinkado's Cool Pastels pigment ink stackable multi-pads. The neat thing about this ink is that you can use it as a regular stamp pad or you can use it for embossing, as it is a slow-drying ink. I dusted it with clear embossing powder, then used the heat gun to emboss it. 

I finished the card with a couple of blue eyelets (using the Crop-A-Dile), and We R Memory Keepers Lemonade twine. 

I can't wait to give this card to a new or expectant momma!

Thanks for stopping by, and happy cropping!