First Haircut LO

I really enjoyed doing this LO documenting William's first haircut that I gave him! I used the "My Guy" page kit from Pebbles, Inc. and kept a lock of his hair in a 3L clear envelope. For the title, I painted some raw paper studio chipboard with my mm paints for "1st" and used AC stickles for "haircut."

The journaling is just a simple text box from MS Word with a background color of navy and white font. I often forget I can use this technique!

I loved adding this touch - We R Memory Keepers grommets with some ribbon from the kit weaved through.

Close-up of the 3L envelope with his hair:

Denver 2 pager!

Here's a long-overdue 2 page LO I did using the Basic Gray Granola line, the Doodletype font cartridge, some vellum, and a whole lot of buttons!

I had to slip in a pic highlighting how William slept all the way through his first plane ride... both ways!

I didn't apply adhesive all the way up the mountain layers so I could slip in the trail map from our hike (I couldn't find the original I'd saved... so thank God for the internet! :o))

A plethora of sketch sites!

Another great site – compliments of Michelle!

http://www.sketchlover.com/id6.html

First DigiKit & Freebie... and IMS is online!

I'm so excited! I have finally completed my first digital kit EVER! And furthermore, after many hours of toil and troubles my store is up as well! So basically, I have a store with one kit... haha. But rest assured, 2 more are on the way!

So, I would like to introduce everyone to "Winter Chill":

You can find it at my new store: imotionstudios.com! I'm having a major sale for the time being until things get up and running over there!

And here is the freebie for it - the freebies for my kits will only be available here on my blog! You can click here to download it!

Hope you digiscrappers out there like it! :o)

My latest online discoveries...

The Basic Gray Newsletter! Beautiful PDF downloads with tons of inspiration and projects using the basic gray line! http://www.basicgrey.com/index.php?src=news&category=Newsletters&osCsid=6dd04e46bdb6669f73a30d45f413bd3c

Free Card & Scrapbooking Mag! http://www.scrapbookandcards.com/index.html If you wanna subscribe, you have to pay for S&H, but you can download the PDF version for free!

Awesome Page, Card & Tag sketches by Beck Fleck! http://www.pagemaps.com/ (Thanks Michelle!) :o)

Puppy Dog Hat

William got this super cute puppy dog hat from his Aunt Didi and Uncle Rick for Christmas.  He’s never been much for wearing hats, but he wore this to play in all evening the other day!  I couldn’t believe it, and it was so cute I just had to share!

Photoshop Fairy Tutorial

I wanted to post my first tutorial, so I "jazzed" one up that a created a while back for the fairy image above. The instructions are for Photoshop CS3, but should work for most other versions. And as long as you are fairly familiar with Elements, you should be able to get by there as well. Some steps are optional, but they can teach you many different PS techniques to use on other projects!

CLICK HERE to download the tutorial in PDF format.

Enjoy! :o)

Awesome Calendar!

Just found this at Two Peas while browsing with Didi! We’re taking this project on! Anyone else wanna join in? :o)

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1426636

First Digital Photobook - Wil's first year

I am very proud of my first printed digital scrapbook ever! I made all the pages using lots of my favorite designer's kits (see their links under my favs to the right). I had several books printed up at Shutterfly.com as Christmas gifts this year - it was a great gift and so work the time and effort to see how much everyone loved it!

Click Here to go take a look at the entire book on Shutterfly!

I also have to give proper credit to Melanie Colosimo and her awesome layout templates. Without them, I could never have put this together in the amount of time I had!

Latest Round of Layouts

Here's the latest round of Layouts I've churned out... now that Christmas is done, I'm looking forward to scrappin' a whole lot more! I've got lots of catching up to do!

This LO is all about William's first attempt at crawling. I picked up the SEI "Dill Blossom" paper line at HL the other day and I love it! I also expiramented with the SEI Linen and Velvet specialty paper to cut the title out with my Alphalicious cart - the cricut cut right through it like butter! Click on the 4th picture down to get a great view of it!

Finally getting around to documenting William's first teeth! (He got the bottom two at the same time!) And I have to give credit to DH for this one... he came up with the title for me! :o)

My Mother's Day LO using Basic Gray's Urban Prairie Line:

His first swim! Lifted from Scrappin' Mama, Julie! :o) I believe the paper is from Me & My Big Ideas.

Big Boy Jammies

I bought William his first pair of “Big Boy” Jammies the other day and he looked SO darn cute wearing them! My little man is growing TOO fast!

Hello Kitty Birthday Card

I made this SUPER CUTE b-day card for my friend, Michelle using HER Hello Kitty Greetings Cartridge (lol) :oP I now know the font cart isn’t enough… I must have the whole enchilada! The real fun part was decorating it with gems, stickles and frosty pink fabric paint!

Fun with Mickey & Friends

William has shown a great interest in Mickey Mouse (he says “Mu Mou” whenever he sees him). So I borrowed my buddy Michelle’s Mickey & Friends Cricut Cartridge and went to work designing these for his playroom! I found the perfect 12x12 frames for these at Hobby Lobby for $4.00! (They were originally $7.99 marked 50% off). He’ll have a set of Pooh & Sesame Street on the way soon! :o)

More Visor Clips

These were a hit the first time around, so I ended up making a few more for Christmas gifts! Now if I could just find time to make one for myself! :o)

Altered Notepads

Another Chick N Scratch Idea! (I love her site!) http://chicnscratch.typepad.com/stampinacademy/2008/03/notepad-tutoria.html

These can be addicting! My friend, Michelle, actually (carefully) takes out the spiral of each notepad and then punches out the holes after covering with PP. Comes out much cleaner and neater… I’ll definitely try it that way next time around!

Post-it Note pads

A great tutorial for these is posted on the ChickNScratch blog (http://chicnscratch.typepad.com/stampinacademy/2008/07/bind-it-all-pos.html). Lots of fun to make and I finally got to use my Bind-it-all! Unfortunately, this is the only one I remembered to take pictures of!

Snowman Soup

I made several of these “Snowman Soup” baggies to add to all my gifts this Christmas. Super easy to make and very cute! Google “Snowman Soup” and you’ll get tons of sites with different takes and tutorials for this easy gift idea!

Candy Boxes

I got the idea for these on The California Stampin’ Blog (http://californiastampin.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-treat-for-my-hostess.html) . They made great personal gifts and were also the perfect size to slip in a gift card! I don’t have the big shot, but easily adapted the cover design using my Storybook Cricut Cartridge.

Easy Bath Salts

I picked up these bath salts in the dollar bin at Target a while back and found them easy to decorate with some PP and custom printed labels! My recipients loved the personal touch! :o)

Coaster Mini-Calendars

These were so fun and easy to make! Basically made from a coaster, covered with PP and a “bulldog” clip at the top. And then each of the months printed on Cardstock and adhered to a PP cut to 3.5 x 3.75 inches. Add a few embellishments, and voila! I was in a rush to get these done, so they weren’t very decorated – but given more time, I bet these can get really fancy!

Click Here to download the excel file I used to customize and print the calendars!