Bouncing Baby Layout

ooOOOOooo!  This is exciting!  My official first ever challenge entry.  Whoo!  I’ve been browsing the scrapbook challenges (which seem to be few and far between compared to card challenges), and I decided I liked the options over at The Paper Variety.

The tic-tac-toe board really appealed to me because it’s almost like a create-your-own challenge.  We’re going with the diagonal

LAYOUT- SPRING COLORS-STAMPED SENTIMENT

I’m not sure the title of my page counts as a sentiment, but this is my first attempt.  Rookies get more wiggle room, right?  (Let’s hope.)  So here’s my layout…

Cuteness!!  What is it about a laughing baby that’s so contagious?  At 10 months old, Madeline could only sit on the trampoline while her sisters bounced around her.  These pics are tame compared to the jostling she took a couple times.  Almost three years later, she’s bouncing circles around her sisters!  They grow so fast…

The products are all from Heidi Grace Designs.

Easter Banner FAIL!!

cricut
If we don’t celebrate our failures as well as our successes, how can we maintain any perspective or expect to grow, right?  Well, here is a great big craft FAIL!




I enjoyed making a cupcake wrapper banner a while back (I think I blogged about it) for a friend’s baby shower.  It turned out kind of nice, so I thought it would lend well to a whimsical Easter banner.  Uh…..

Not only are the triangles too small, but the yarn makes it look like a balding  Raggedy Ann doll.  Plus, in the top photo, you’ll see how I tried to make one of those accordion flowers that Melissa Laverty is so good at and it imploded.

But you know what??  I’m displaying it smack dab in the middle of the living room for now, because every time I walk by I giggle.  And if you can’t laugh at yourself once in a while…
Happy Spring, ya’ll!!

Love Bug

I used to be one of those scrappers that HAD to create in chronological order.  With only one child, that was easier to do.  Now with three, I go with what is inspiring me at the moment.  That also means that yes, Madeline is three, and I’m still working on her baby album.  And that’s okay!  No mommy guilt, here.  
Had I done this layout three years ago, I wouldn’t have considered felt hearts or crimped strips.  (Okay, the crimped strips are pretty 2007)  BUT!  I didn’t have my Cricut back then for the funky lettering, and that’s brand new heart-themed paper from Close to My Heart.  So there ya go.  Lexi may have a bursting baby album, but Madeline’s is more evolved.  I’ll call that win-win.

Easter Layout

I definitely need some ideas to mix up our Easter traditions.  The Easter bunny strings up the house leading each kid to her basket, but that’s getting weak.  I need to go bigger.  Any ideas??

Spring felt topiary

I’ve seen this little project on so many blogs, that I had to give it a shot.  Talk about easy!!  Before I go through the steps, I better give credit where credit is due.  Here are some of my favorite examples.
Simply Designing

The Modern Cottage

The Boatwright Family

So here are my three easy steps…
Cut out three inch circles of your fave color felt.  (I used about 60 or 7 sheets of felt)


Fold each circle in half twice.


And finally pin to a styrofoam ball.  DONE!


I’m considering constructing a huge “R” for our porch (but that’s a loooot of felt.)  Good thing I have child labor available.  : )

Wishful Thinking Layout

Here is one of the layouts I did for Lexi’s half sleepover birthday party this past summer.  Having 15 girls here ranging in age from 3-8 made Simon (my nephew) feel like a rooster in a hen house.  He appropriately used the floor to ceiling mirror in our basement to get himself pumped for the occasion.  However, it didn’t even phase him that he didn’t get to stay for the party.  Heading to the movies and pounding a giant bucket of popcorn with Uncle Rich was just as good…

The One and Only...Jasmine!

Even people who don't like dogs like our Jazzy.  She's just a good pup!  And she had some pretty big paws to follow.  Beamer was the stuff they write Oscar-winning screenplays about, but Jazzy has to be the easiest-going dog that ever existed.  Our kids can pile-drive her, dress her up, tease her with treats, and she comes back for more.  My favorite part about Jazzarella, though, is the special relationship she has with Rich when neither of them think I'm looking.  I knew what I was doing when I sent him out to pick out our pup.  : )