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Happy Birthday Mom!

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Today is my Mom’s birthday. Happy Birthday Mom!

Back in June, I suggested to my sister and brother (well, more my sister-in-law) that we get all the kiddos together and have portraits taken as a gift for Mom’s birthday. They were receptive to the idea, so I found fabric and patterns for the girls dresses and Julia and I made dresses for the girls while my sister found coordinating blue polo shirts for the boys. We went barefoot for a fun summer feel. We used the Jackie O Dress for Jessica and Aspen, but instead of buttons down the back, we put a zipper in the bodice and didn’t cut the back skirt piece. We also didn’t do the lining. For Janette, I used the Abbey Dress, but I didn’t use piping and added ribbon like in the Jackie O Dress. I discovered the zipper foot and now I think zippers are fantastic.

Sarah came into town an extra day early for Aspen’s 3rd birthday party and Sarah, Julia and I met up Friday morning at the mall at the JC Penney Portrait Studio. Do portrait studios have a set number of photos they’re allowed to take per session? The photographer seemed to be waiting for the perfect shot at times. Five kids under five? The perfect shot is never going to happen. We did individual photos of each kid before getting all five together. She only took two photos of each individual kid. One of the two of Janette was blurry, like she overzoomed. Overall, I was not the most impressed with the photographer. She did take twelve photos of all the cousins together. Then three of Cameron and Trevor together. Two more of Aspen by herself. And none of Jessica and Janette together, because Jessica didn’t want to cooperate. For a grand total of 28 pictures in the 1 hour we were there. That doesn’t seem like a lot to me. I mean, she was with Cameron and Trevor for like 10 minutes and she only took 3 photos? Oh well.

We decided to choose the best group cousin photo (the photo in the first layout) for an 11×14 framed photo and a 6×12 easel framed photo that my Mom can put in her office with the rest of the grandkid photos. Then I took all the photos (we paid for the photo CD) and made the following layouts, which we put in an album for her. I spoke with her earlier today and she was really pleased with the present. That made me happy.

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter; button from Amy’s Designs – My Girl
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 71

Journaling reads: “August 3, 2012 When everyone was in town for Aspen’s birthday party, we took all the cousins for some family portraits. It was difficult to get five children four years old and younger to look at the camera and smile at the same time. The portraits still turned out super cute.”

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter; button from Amy’s Designs – My Girl
Font: Milk & Cereal


Digikit: Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock
Wordart: Word Art World – Cousins


Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter
Font: Milk & Cereal


Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter
Font: Dawning of a New Day

Journaling reads: “Jessica is 2.5 years old. Janette is 9 months old. Jessica is independent. Janette is laid-back. Jessica is a picky eater. Janette eats everything. Jessica is a good sleeper. Janette, not so much. Whatever their differences, they’ll always be sisters.”


Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Springing Into Luck; Mommy Made This – Springing Into Luck, Cardstock, Glitter; button from Amy’s Designs – My Girl
Font: Dawning of a New Day


Happy September!

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic

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Amy’s Designs and Mommy Made This collaborated on a school theme. They make me excited for Jessica starting her new year at Mother’s Day Out.

Here’s the preview for the portion by Amy’s Designs.

Here’s the preview for the portion by Mommy Made This.

I used both pieces to make these two layouts. Both layouts are of photos taken of Jessica in July. The first layout is of Jessica coloring with markers.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Reading, Writing, Arithmetic; Mommy Made This – Reading, Writing, Arithmetic
Font: KG Skinny Latte

The second layout is of Jessica painting with watercolors. Journaling reads: “When out shopping yesterday, Jessica picked out a wooden box to paint. After breakfast, we broke out the supplies and she went to town. She had a blast.”

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Reading, Writing, Arithmetic; Mommy Made This – Reading, Writing, Arithmetic
Template: Connie Prince – Project2012 February
Font: Janda Apple Cobbler Solid

Here’s to all your kids going back to school.

Circles and Scallops II

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As promised, here’s the second release for today. Lahni, aka Queen Wild, has a new template set today. I think it is such an awesome template set. I’ve already used 3 out of 4 of the templates. Her first set of Circles and Scallops has been so popular that she decided to create a whole new set! These are called Circles and Scallops II and they’ll be on sale (along with the rest of her store) for 50% off until July 25th. You can find them here at Berry Sweet Scraps or here at Scraps-N-Pieces.

Now you already saw one of these templates in use in my Watermelon Days post. Here are layouts using two more of the templates.

Journaling reads: Jessica is so sweet to her baby sister. She loves to give her hugs and kisses. Janette gives her big smiles in return. I hope they continue to love on each other as time goes by. My dream for them is to grow up to become best of friends.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Watermelon Days
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – Circles and Scallops II
Wordart: Memories by Digital Design – Sisterly Love Wordart
Font: DJB Lena (journaling)

Journaling reads: We went to Mandola’s for lunch. The dessert counter had too many goodies to be bypassed. Jessica picked strawberry gelato, because it was pink. I pointed out that the raspberry gelato was also pink, albeit a darker pink, but she had made up her mind. Jessica ate most of it herself, but shared some with Nana and Mama.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Watermelon Days
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – Circles and Scallops II
Font: Sketch Nice (title); kg Strawberry Limeade (title and journaling)

 

Check out what the rest of the Wild Princesses did with these templates:

Kendra used Go For the Gold by Scraps N Pieces:

Kandi used Long Weekend BBQ by True North Scraps:

And Artgyl Style P365 July Bundle:

Kortni used Sugared Sweets by Fit 2 Be Scrapped:

And Fur-Ever Friends by Scraps by Andrea:

Henriett used Shiver Me Timbers by Queen Wild Scraps:

And Nature Walk by Designs by Snowlady:

Lauren used Cowboy Up by Scraps N Pieces:

And Lahni used Grand Old Flag by Fit 2 Be Scrapped:

Kick It by Scraps N Pieces:

The Simple Life by Meagan’s Creations:

And Shiver Me Timbers by Queen Wild Scraps:

 

Enjoy your weekend! We are having fun at Lake Whitney with the Dzubinski side of the family for a little family reunion.

Watermelon Days

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Today I have two new releases to share with you. First up, we have Watermelon Days by Amy’s Designs. It is a super cute pink and green kit that is perfect to scrap your watermelon related photos, but also great for non-food layouts.

 And here’s the preview of the papers.

I have three layouts that I made with this kit. I will share one in this post and two in the next post, because all three of the layouts in addition to using Watermelon Days use a new template set by Queen Wild Scraps. All of these layouts are from last weekend when James’ parents came for a surprise visit.

Journaling reads: Nana and Grandpoppy came to visit for the weekend. It was a spur of the moment trip taken when Dawson left to visit his other grandparents. Jessica and Janette really enjoyed playing and otherwise spending time with them. I hope the girls can make lots of memories with Nana and Grandpoppy. It’s too bad that Jessica decided she didn’t want to be in a photo with them.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Watermelon Days
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – Circles and  Scallops II
Font: MA Smiles (title); Apple Boy BTN (title); DJB Lena (journaling)

Stay tuned for more layouts.

Quick Pages by Amy’s Designs

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Amy’s Designs has released two sets of quick pages. Quick pages are perfect for those scrapbookers short on time. All you do is add photos and journaling and you’re done.

The first set uses the digikit Ladybug. This set has 12 quickpages with openings for 29 photos. You can see the layouts I made using this kit here and here.

The second set uses Flashback. This set had 4 QPs with openings for 13 photos. You can see the layouts I made using this kit here, here and here.

Have a great day!