Christmas Eve

Colors : Holiday Red, Clover Meadow, Honey, Colonial White

Papers : Hollydays ('06)

Stamps : Homestead Alpha, Make it a Simple Christmas, No Peeking, Charmed Lowercase and Numbers

Accents : Liquid Glass, Yellow organdy, pop dots

This paper is so colorful, vibrant, and fun. I'm usually one for more elegant Christmas palettes and designs but for my girls this fits just so perfectly! A lot of fun stamping for embellishment. The tag has certain parts outlined with my black .05 pen, the same goes for the present. I also traced in the outside line in the alphas with the same black pen to give it some pop. Holly is stamped on col white then cut out and put on pop dots for dimention. I also liquid glassed the berries and the ribbon on the present.

The journalling square was fun to make. I RSed the border on the right then stamped and cut out 3 more holly to pop dot on the border for dimention. The present and holly in the corner are also on pop dots. Ignore my terrible handwriting! The present was colored in with the blending pen since I don't have any of the markers yet. Anyway, a Christmasy layout to put me in the Christmas spirit for the next month!

Lovely Summer

Colors : Baby Pink, Blush, Sweet Leaf, Cocoa, Colonial White

Paper : Cocoa Cafe ('05), Adorable ('07)

Stamps : Boutique Alpha, Free Spirit

Accents : Pink and Green flowers (Prima), White Daisy Just Blooms, Baby Pink nail heads and brads, Baby Pink Grosgrain, White seed beads, Green flower brads (Making Memories),

Close ups of some of the flower detail :

I loved making this layout. The colors are some of my favorites and these flowers are just so fun to use! The hardest part about the whole thing was cutting out my stamped letters, and that was just more time consuming than it was hard. The beads were another new discovery I made today since I had to think a little out of the box. Usually I use white brads, but I'm all out so I had to find something else to use until I can go to the scrap store (probably tomorrow or Tues at the latest!!). I've had these beads for a while, they came in the white daisy accents when they first came out. I just put a glue dot in the center of the flower then pushed the beads into the glue dot and voila! I'm thinking this would be great with darker beads for a sunflower... something to try later!

Laundry Girl

Colors : Amethyst, Breeze, Ocean, White Daisy, Cocoa, Bamboo

Paper : Cocoa Cafe ('05?)

Stamps : Simple Stitches

Accents : Simple Alpha Dimentional Elements, Ribbons and Tags Dimentional Elements, Amethyst Accents, sandpaper, white embossing, white daisy ink

Imagine Layout - Understudy (right)

This was an interesting layout to do. I picked the papers more because I've been wanting to use these cocoa cafe papers than because they matched the pictures. Since the pictures were mostly just white I could pretty much pick any paper I wanted. How the layout was choosen was actually pretty funny. I going to look through my Imagine again for another layout to use and I just happened to flip right to the Understudy page. I took one look at it and decided 'yeah, that will work' and went straight to putting it together. My favorite part of this layout is the dimentional C with its tags hanging off the swirly. Simpler than my last few pages but still very cute in my mind. The paper really takes the show in this page.

Girls will be Girls

Colors : Hollyhock, Cocoa, Sweet Leaf, Heavenly Blue, White Daisy

Paper : Groovy Blossoms ('06), Garden B&T ('07)

Stamps : Charmed Lowercase

Accents : Paper Flowers (Prima), Rhinestones, Silver Brads, Silver Hinges, Dimentional Elements Simple Alphas


This turned out so much better than I thought it would. First off I wasn't too crazy about all the pictures but I'm one of those people who likes include every photo in the scrapbook (some get hidden but most are showing). Second of all, I wasn't really into the layout I picked, Open Forum in Imagine, but the layout was the only one I found that fit with the photos though it's one of those layouts that I'm not too comfortable attempting. I've also been trying to use up my old '06 year paper to make room for the new stuff that will come out in Jan. I loved this square paper but wasn't sure it went with the photos since I usually match colors to clothing. However, despite all my reservations, I set to work and just let my inhibitions go. And it was worth it because I really love this layout. It brought out the good photos and made the not so great photos still look good with such a cute layout. I was going to do the flowers the same way they did in the example but decided at the last minute to just do my own thing. They really complete the layout!

Daddy's Girls

Colors : Sunflower, Kiwi, Heavenly Blue, Baby Pink, White Daisy

Paper : Precious Paisleys ('06), Harmony B&T ('07)

Stamps : Precious Alpha, Boutique Alpha

Accessories : Just Blooms in White Daisy and Autumn Sunflower, Green Paper Flowers (Prima), White brads and buttons, Baby Pink My Accents set pieces, Daddy's Girl Buttons (unknown), Edge Distresser, White Daisy ink


I have had these daddy's girl buttons for 4 years lol. I bought them just before Caitlyn was born and just hadn't found the right layout to use them on until now. They went PERFECTLY with the sunflower blooms! This uses Imagine's Subtitles sketch, the right-hand layout. It's been a while since I've done a really nice daddy/daughter page and I really wanted to make this one special since all three of them were actually smiling at the same time in the pictures! Tons of flowers and accents used in this layout but the turn out is well worth it!

Journalling : We love to sit on Daddy's Lap. It's fun when he chases us. We love Daddy! Daddy's funny when he reads stories. We love to dance with Daddy!

Creative Princess

Colors : Pink Carnation, Sunflower, Heavenly Blue, White Daisy, Baby Pink

Paper : Precious Paisleys ('06)

Stamps : Princess, Delightful Alpha, Homestead Alpha

Accents : Baby Pink Swirls, White Daisy Sassy Strands, Rhinestones, White Daisy Just Blooms, Pink Paper Flowers (Prima), Liquid Glass, Prisma Glitter

I still love this paper! All the CS was sanded on the edges for distressing and to soften the look so that it would blend better with the B&T. Lots of flowers, rhinestones, and glue dots were used. A little glitter for "Princess", "Girly", and the crown. This layout actually took me an hour and a half, mostly because I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with it. I kept going back and forth trying to decide whether to stamp out images or just use the flowers. In the end the flowers won out. I also printed my journalling for this layout because there was more that I wanted to say than I could fit in the journalling square with handwriting. That and I don't much like my own handwriting.

The outside line of the homestead alpha was traced with my glue pen, then I applied the prisma glitter. The camera washes out the colors, they are a tad bit more vibrant than this.

I wanted to create a matching accent and at first the script was going to be Cutie, but I didn't want the letters to look so much the same as in the creative script. Tiny rhinestones are adhered with liquid glass.

The crown was pretty fun. I wish I had the markers (my next goal to get) so that I could color the image in then stamp it and then color in the heart. But it turned out cute still, so I'm happy for now.

Journalling : Caitlyn you are such a funny girl! You made so much noise gathering things from around the house that I had to wonder just what it was you were up to. When finally the ruckus quieted down to simple tapping I discovered the reason for all your running around. You had built your very own computer, complete with an ice tray as your keyboard, and were typing away even as I typed on my computer! Ever my little Princess in your favorite yellow dress, I couldn't help but capture this creative moment of yours with the camera. Today you really were my Creative Princess!!