Me & Nonna

I'm excited to be venturing to the multitudes of pictures that are piling up. I love this picture of Cailey & her Nonna. My mom was watching cailey for me at my house while I did some cleanning up when I captured this picture (Jan '05). I had this picture printed and framed and gave to my mom for Mother's Day '05. So I had an extra 5x7 already handy. Therefore, that's why it was the first one to be scrapped. I still have to print the majority of my photos.

I really like this page. It was fun to do. Especially the sewing around the egde of the Background flower. I love using my sewing machine. It's a quick, fun & easy way to crank up my pages a notch. Makes them look more like the ones you see in the idea magazines.

Cailey turns 2

Here are some of Cailey's 2 year Proffessional photos. She had a few others, but I'm not going to scrapbook them. I mean it! Believe it or not, this page gets me completely caught up with scrapbooking her Proffessional photos.
This is now my new favorite page. I did some neat things with this one.
Round portion in the corner: The tabs with her name, I drybrushed the blue paper with some white paint, placed my silver metallic alph. stickers and then brushed decoupage medium over it giving them a glossy look. Plus I sewed zigzag stitch giving the look that the Striped & pink paper/tabs are sewn together.
I also distressed all of the paper with sandpaper. Looks cool.
And of course my usual ribbon finished it off.

Jouraling from page:
"You have grown into a beautiful Little girl! You are talking up a storm and you pick up new things every day! In this picture it looks as though you posed perfectly for the camera. We were lucky that they took the picture right as you were bringing you hands down. It just looks as though you are Miss Picture Queen."

Christmas 2005 - page 2

Here is the last Christmas '05 picture that I'm scrapping. Just a very simple page. However, it took me forever to decide what to do on this one. (Hhmmm...that sentence sounds very familiar)
Anyway, I was going to do a lot more with it, but after adding the picture, ribbon and brass charms (Are actually embossing stencils that I got on clearance at Walmart), I didn't really want to go any further with it. I didn't want anything to draw attention away from her face.

Christmas 2005

Here's a layout on some of her Christmas '05 pictures. I have one more page to do, but I'm doing it in another color scheme since the photos were so different. This one came out pretty quick and better than expected. I created 2 little ribbon snowflake accents with silver brads. I had purchased the snow tag many years ago and was happy to finally use it.

Craft Project

Well, I took a break from scrapbooking to do a little project. I was about to scrapbook this picture, but remembered something that I had gotten at Walmart on clearance after Christmas last year. I thought that this picture would be perfect to use. The kit included the box, letters & 2 small dowels all unfinished. And I painted, added some pearlized paper in the inside, painted the letters and added a powder dust glitter to the tops and then beaded some accents and a few blue feathers. It was Richard's idea to do a halo above the letters. I was already planning on beading the star and thought it would be great to bead a halo that matched. So thank you richard for that idea! I love how it turned out. I'm going to sit it on a shelf in Cailey's room. The up close picture is just to show the glitter letters a little better.
By the way, this picture was one of Cailey's 2 month photos.

More 2 Month Photos

Here's my latest page. I handstitched around the vellum quote. That's my favorite part. If you've already seen this page I mentioned that I handwritten some things that I didn't like. Well, I've fixed that problem. Here's the revised page.



Journaling under left picture:
Cailey, your Nonna made this quilt for your mommy when she was a baby.
You are also wearing one of my baby dresses. All Nostalgic!

Journaling under right picture:
I absolutely Love the look on your face in this picture. You are my Precious angel!