Itty Bitty cards

Most of you know that Terra is having a tough time in the behavior department at school. She is getting MUCH better, but still has trouble keeping her mouth closed and listening.

I've been including little notes with her lunch box, and she abaolutely loves them. I ran out of the little green crayon cards i bought at Michaels, so i decided to make some itty bitty cards of my own to suprise her with. They are all 3 inch square.

They go on a smiley face system E=queen, S=Smiley face, N=Straight face, U=Sad face....so that is why most of them have a crown on it....

I think they turned out awesome, and I know she will love them as much as i loved making them.

Hello Kitty Goodie Bags for Terras Birthday Party!

These were so much fun to make! Terra helped cut out and count the letters for the names! And helped to glue on the Hello Kitty peices too!

Hello Kitty Birthday Card...by far the most favorite thing i've ever created in my whole life!

As you all know, Terra is slightly beyond obsessed with Hello Kitty at the moment. After seeing that the slightly larger than normal birthday cards are $4-8 at Toys R US, and they are plain and flat, BLAH.....I decided to make her a giant HK Birthday card...and LOVE the way it turned out!

The card is 10 inches square, and I also made a matching envelope. (Both are made out of 12x12 cardstock, email me if you'd like instructions! It's super easy once you figure it all out!) To cover the binding on the inside i had to also put a second color of cardstock in the middle to write on.

I LOVE the way it turned out, and i hope she goes as gaga for it as i did!

7/18/09 Crop Layouts

I was a busy lil bee!

Layout 1: "2nd lost tooth"
For this LO i asked Terra to describe what she thought the Tooth Fairy would look like....got some pretty funny responses, like "She flies into the house through our peep hole in the door!". I also did a block of hidden journaling, weighted down with a heavy button so she doesn't know until she is old enough not to "believe" anymore. Little girl tried to booby trap the Tooth Fairy!





Layout 2: "Gymnastics Program" ~2 pages
I like the way this one turned out!





Layout 3: "Artiste!"
This is the layout of the photos of the latest painting shes created. Too cute.




Layout 4: "4th of July 2009" ~2 pages





Layout 5: "You wearing your heart on your sleeve"
Terras big birthmark is in the shape of a perfect heart, if you haven't seen in lately!




Layout 6: "Kindergarten Musical"
Terras class sang and acted out "Little bunny foofoo", complete with mice and a Goon!




Layout 7: "Pool with Jennifer"
Photos of Terra and Jennifer (chris' sister) playing at the pool!




Layout 8: "Swimming"





I also started a "School book" for Terra. It is 8x8, and the book is a binder bound type from Making Memories, and is covered in an adorable pink corduroy!

I plan to make a 2page layout for each school year, Preschool to 6th grade. I've already made all of the layouts in fact, so i have no excuses. All I have to do is take photos and print them out! I am taking one on the first and last day, plus field trips and special school functions, and after school activities!

I'm a great Aunt! Man do i feel old!

...but dang it, he is super cute!

These are the "less than traditional" baby anouncements i made for my nephew to hand out!

Hope you like them!

New Birthday card i made

I made this for Jennifers birthday using my new Quickutz Owl die....I loooove the way the she turned out! :D

New Layouts from Friday nights crop

Bare with me, these dont have the journaling quite done, but the layouts are complete!

I was really proud of myself that I got a TON accomplished from 530p-11! Here they are:

"Full of Attitude" - 2 page layout
THIS is my Terra. She is full of attitude....she is 5 going on 17!




Field Day 2009



Goofy Girl



Green Thumb
Terra decided she wanted to grow some flowers, so i helped her plant a few Zinnia seeds. The tiny plants have since been moved to bigger pots, but i loved these first photos. She is REALLY good with them, and keeps them watered very well! No flowers have bloomed yet, but the plants are about 4 inches tall already!



Missing Tooth



She likes to Move it!
Terra dancing like noone is watching! I used scrap patterned paper and 2 different label makers for the journaling.




Me and my Shadow
Whereever Terra goes, Boots is not that far behind!



Toys -2 page layout
These are quick photos of all of TErras favorite toys as of June 3, 2009....Crayons, Books, Movies, Hello Kitty, her Race Track, dressup clothes, my old (non-working) cell phone, her remote control car, her pool floatie, her Littlest pet shop animals and her FP Airplane.





I decided to make a 12x12 album of yearly pages, so that we can quickly flip through and see Terras changed throughout the year. Each layout is for one year, and has a photo from each month. I am purposefully making them very plain and i plan to make them identical each year, aside from the patterned paper used and the placement of the photo block.

I swear i will keep it up and be sure to have the photos i need by the end of the year!

Year 1



Year 2



Year 3

Mothers Day Cards

Happy National Scrapbooking Day....a lil late!

So for those of you that are aware...Happy Belated Scrapbooking Day! For those of you that are unaware, its okay, i will explain. May 2 was National Scrapbooking Day...woot woot. I think it should be deemed necessary for all scrapbookers to receive gifts on the holiday...hmmm....who in Congress to contact to see about getting THAT started! LOL.

I got a ton of work done over the holiday weekend....here are a few of the layouts i was able to finish! I also caught up Terra’s Christmas and Birthday Albums which I was super duper behind on....so if you think that the following is a lot, multiple it by 3 and you have the true magnitude of what i did this weekend!

Easter 2009. The Big tree is on pop dots….I think this is the fastest layout I’ve ever done! I’ve been working very hard on not overdoing or over thinking layouts lately…I think it worked!

POP. Terra loves to “play bubbles” and she loves even more when someone else blows them for her so she can concentrate on popping them all!

Math wiz…this kid cracks me up, she LOVES to “play math”. Who would have thought something so smart could come out of ME!?!?!?!?

Great buddies. These are pictures of one morning when Chris and Terra were playing and being goofy…I love the last photo on this layout!

10 things I love about you. Of course this is a play on one of my favorite movies of all time, 10 things I HATE about you. I certainly have nothing but love for the kid, so I couldn’t possibly go with the correct title!

Calli….the Catipillar. Terra found Calli at the Zoo, and carried her around for THREE HOURS!

Silly, Crazy, Cool. This is Terra wearing my sunglasses one day. She was sitting on my lap and being goofy, so you know I had to whip out the camera!

Our family. These are 2 of Terra’s cousins from Michigan. She loved playing with them both and hated when they had to leave!

Memphis Botanic Gardens. These are pics from Terra’s last field trip to the Botanic Gardens. I love the way it turned out. I don’t think I’ve ever used THAT many photos on one layout before…but I think I pulled it off!