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Fresh New Beginning

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Today is release day for a new scrapping digi-kit by Amy’s Designs. It is called Fresh New Beginning and it is 50% off until Monday. This is a fabulous kit, especially since Amy used creative team input to design it and two of her CT had babies in the last month so Ann and I had new baby thoughts fresh in our minds.

The four layouts I made to showcase the kit actually don’t have a single baby in any of the photos. Shocking, huh! However, I came across a fabulous sketch, the Scrapbookbytes Nov sketch, that I thought would be perfect for pregnancy profile photos and that kinda jumpstarted the rest of the pregnancy documentation layouts. I do plan to scrap some baby photos using this kit, so I’m sure you’ll see more layouts posted here soon.

 

Growing a Baby Layout 1

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning
Fonts Used: Euphorigenic

Journaling on the second page of the double page layout reads: “During my pregnancy with Janette, I wanted to take biweekly profile pictures like I did while pregnant with Jessica. I started at 16 weeks, when it began to be obvious that I was expecting, but I forgot during weeks 22, 32, and 36.”

Growing a Baby Layout 2

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning
Fonts Used: Euphorigenic, Catherine’s Lazy Days

After making the above double page layout, I had one pregnancy profile photo left over, which I scrapped by taking inspiration from the Scraps N Pieces Nov. Scraplift/Smash It Up Challenge. Journaling reads: “Taken the day before Janette was born, I hadn’t anticipated this being the last profile picture.”

38 Weeks Layout

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning
Fonts Used: BlackJack

Finally, I decided that I should scrap Janette’s birth story, which I blogged about last week.

Birth Story Layout

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Fresh New Beginning
Fonts Used: appleberry, Joyful Juliana

Check out what the rest of the creative team came up with here and if you like to digi-scrap, check out the flier below for info on the Black Friday sale.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.

Curious George Birthday – Party Outfit

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This year, I decided I would sew Jessica’s birthday outfit myself. I did a bunch of web browsing for ideas and decided I wanted to make pants out of a Curious George fabric and a solid top with a Curious George applique. I spent quite a bit of time searching for Curious George fabric that was cotton. It seemed that all the options I found were flannel, which is more suited for pajamas, but I finally found some. The applique didn’t require quite as much searching. I ended up purchasing it from The Sew Princess. Technically, she doesn’t list just the appliques in her store, but she had the best George applique on her custom outfits and I asked if she would sell just the applique and she worked with me.

Since I had never sewn a garment before, I decided to test out my skills using a green floral fabric. It went much smoother than I anticipated, even with adding sleeves to the sleeveless pattern I decided to use. Thanks to my MIL Olivia for explaining how to read/follow a pattern and to Jillan for sleeve help. I had intended to have Jessica wear the green outfit so I could ensure I had proper sizing, but Jessica can be quite adamant when it comes to clothing and I could never get her to wear it. I went ahead with the party outfit and it did end up being too large, but better too big than too small. I ended up running out of time on the shirt, so Jessica just wore the pants with her party favor shirt at the party. The shirt gave me a lot of frustration. I don’t know if it was the fabric or what, but I ended up having to rip out the stitches for gathering the sleeves like three times on each sleeve. It was quite annoying. I did end up finishing it in time for Jessica’s two year portraits taken the Monday after her party. Overall, I was quite happy with how it turned out and I’ve already started my next sewing project.

Jessica in Her Birthday Outfit

Party Outfit with Alternative Favor Shirt

Go here for the post regarding the invitations and here for the post about the party favors. Stay tuned for more posts. I still need to share photos from the actual party.

Turkey Day

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Today is release day for a new scrapping digi-kit by Amy’s Designs. It is called Turkey Day. Don’t you just love the little pilgrims and Indians?

Amy's Designs - Turkey Day

I have two layouts to share using this kit. I decided to use pictures from last year’s Thanksgiving celebration at our friends Aric and Kristy’s house. The first layout I finished showcases Aric’s turkey frying. I really like how my blocked layout turned out.

Turkey Frying Layout

The second layout will actually be the first layout when I get the layouts printed and put in a scrapbook album. I had started a second page to coordinate, but JAM4 decided to arrive early and I didn’t finish it.

Thanksgiving Layout

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Turkey Day
Fonts Used: Weathered SF

Check out what the rest of the creative team came up with here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.

Family

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Here is a layout I completed for two challenges. The first challenge was the Scrapbookbytes.com October Quote Challenge to use a quote about relationships. I really liked this quote by Desmond Tutu: “You don’t choose your family.  They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” The second challenge was the Scraps-N-Pieces October recipe challenge that required me to use journaling, a fastener (staple, brad, etc), a frame, at least 6 papers, and stitching. The hardest part of this challenge was the use of 6 papers. The pictures are from the Dzubinski family trip this past summer, both are thanks to my sister.

Family Layout


Digikit: Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ, Chugga Choo Choo (staple); Meryl Bartho – Walk on the Wild Side (stitching)
Fonts Used: WillyWonka (title), Undercurrent BTN (quote and date)

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.

Canadian Rocky Layouts – 6/18/10

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Today, I’m sharing five more layouts that will go in the album I’m making for my parents about their Canadian Rocky trip. I’m trying to finish it up before the baby arrives. All of these layouts are from the first day of their journey on the Rocky Mountaineer.

Journaling reads: “Friday, June 18, 2010 Our bus picks us up at the hotel and delivers us and several other people to the train station, where we board the Rocky Mountaineer for our trip to Kamloops. The train leaves Vancouver and travels east along the Fraser River.”

Aboard the Rocky Mountaineer Layout

Digikit: Connie Prince – Chugga Choo Choo
Template used as a sketch: Scraps N Pieces October Template Challenge
Fonts Used: Candy Squared BTN Striped, Catherine’s Lazy Days (journaling)

The next two layouts will be on facing pages. Journaling reads: “Our train car can hold 58 passengers, but there were only 31, so we had plenty of room to move around.”

Boarding Passes Layout

 Digikit: Connie Prince – Chugga Choo Choo
Fonts Used: {skinny} jeans solid (our route tag on map), Sweet Home Oklahoma (journaling)

Journaling reads: “From the top of Fraser canyon, an air-tram goes down to Hell’s Gate, where the canyon walls rise 3,300 ft above the rapids.”

Hell's Gate Layout

Digikit: Connie Prince – Chugga Choo Choo
Fonts Used: Apple Boy BTN (title), Sweet Home Oklahoma (journaling)

On this next layout, I used Sassy Lil’ Sketches Send Off Sketch 5.

Bridges Over Fraser River Layout

 Digikit: Connie Prince – Chugga Choo Choo
Fonts Used: Cinema Gothic BTN Shadow

I ended up liking how the sketch worked so much, that I made a coordinating second page by just changing the photo blocking and removing the title. Journaling reads: “After arriving in Kamloops, we walk around downtown before eating dinner on the patio at Frick & Frack, a Canadian restaurant similar to Chili’s. We retire to our hotel, just a couple of blocks from the train station and Fraser River.”

Tunnel Layout

Digikit: Connie Prince – Chugga Choo Choo
Fonts Used: ArtBrush

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.