Shopping Party Fun!

This is a page I did for a challenge. I had to use cardstock, 2 patterned papers, a button, stitching and a free item of my choice (the ribbon). Thanks for looking!

Back Cover

I secured the ribbon with a chip-paper tag from the Daisy D.'s "Cool Dude" collection (ribbon, paper and tag from SBCH June Kit). This way it can't get lost or scrunched and will always be handy to use in closing the mini-album.

Dedicated Team

Photo of Noah in preschool with his EA, Miss Heather (Noah/ H. are seated together on floor to the left) and Teacher Lori.
B/W photo of team: 2 Therapists: Mark & Kelly, SLP: Colleen, Team Leader/OT: Natasha.

Patterned papers: SCBH June Kit
Arrow and quote about people: Imagine That.

(All photos by Ali, June 2007, except round picture of Lori: Peter took it in Dec 2006. )

Journaling says: "Thank you for helping me aim high..." "And onward I go" (next to the chasing-bubbles photos.)

Inside front cover

Click twice on picture for an enlarged view of details!!
Inside: Noah's age & date are below photo. Beside pic, it says "Beautiful soul." This photo by Pete, May 2007.
Facing page: Trail quote from Imagine That.
Muddy hands/funny-face photo by Ali, June 2007.
All papers and ribbon: SBCH June kit.
Font: Chisel Thin.

Gift for Teacher Lori

This is a Coin Folder mini album with chipboard cover and back for Noah's Teacher Lori.

Coin folder by Bazzill, from June kit: SBCH.

There are several pages. Patterned paper is Daisy D's textured "Cool Dude" line; all papers and organdy ribbon are from SBCH Kit, wide cream rickrack is from Imagine That "travel" kit.

Photo by Tammy Pyette of Enchanted Portraits.

Hope you like it! Scroll up to see the rest!

Oma's 90th Birthday!

I made a card for Oma Agnes' 90th birthday. She is Peter's Grandma (Oma) and our children's only living Great-Grandmother (Ur-Oma). She lives in Germany and is still in her own home, and has been known to chase the wild boars out of her garden! She joked with Peter yesterday on the phone about being old. What a character.

The font used for the German greeting (= Happy Birthday Oma) is called "Cotillion."

Enjoy! Thanks a million for looking!

Inside the card...

A birthday card for Patricia

Peter's sister's birthday is coming up and I had so much fun with the Father's Day cards that I decided to do a birthday card for her! I love how this turned out.

More cards:

This card is for my dad in law (Doug). It has an old fashioned pocket watch image on it because he enjoys geneaology and I used the watch could represent the passage of time.

The verse I chose for the inside of the two Father's Day cards says: "You're the kind of Dad most people wish they had." Perfect! Hope you like them!

My first-ever card...!!

I have been using up scraps of cardstock and patterned paper and have made 4 cards: my first attempts. The first 2 were Father's Day cards, and the next 2 were birthday cards. Had fun- really enjoyed this!

Of course we enclosed photos of the kids inside all 4 cards!

The card above is for my Dad. It has music notes along the top because he likes to play the piano and music is a HUGE part of his life. :)

All About Easy...

Journaling reads:
I don’t believe in making things complicated. With a big family, the simpler the better for me! This way I have more time to spend with everyone.

This was our lunch on Christmas Day, 2005. We had vegetables and dip, mandarin oranges, plus crackers, cheese, lean ham and turkey slices. I took photos because it all looked so beautiful! The veggies were all sliced the evening before so this was easy to put together.

Yummy, easy and healthy—and we needed THAT after sharing a box of chocolates (or two) throughout the morning while opening Christmas gifts. ** Big Wink**

YUP: I’m all about easy!
December 2005


Supplies:
Ink: Memories (black)
Green CS: Pretty Paper Pretty Cheap
Dotted Cardstock: Basic Grey Dasher collection- Cranberry snowfall
Taupe CS: Fiskars
Twill tape: recycled from a beautiful "Happy Holidays" card from Sherry (TY!)
Arrow: Imagine That! (Travel)
Round metal brads: Make it Special
Fonts: title~Webster (in olive green) ; journaling~Myriad Condensed
"E A S Y" letters ( in olive green) font: CK Gift

Post-it Note Holder

A cute idea I found on one of my favourite scrapbooking sites. This little project used scraps of cardstock, thread, and floss, plus some metal buttons from the Frenchy's button-bin to create... Now, this is the first one, I'll do better at it as I practice this... the flap is closed with adhesive velcro and there is a square Post-it notepad inside!! Enjoy! :) Thanks for looking!

Crystal Tree

Here's a new LO that I did last night after the kids were asleep. I played with Provocraft's coloured MicroBeadz. Love them! Sorry you can't see the delicate beads in the pic, they are so tiny, delicate and PRETTY! Easy to work withg too...LOVE this hobby! It gives me the bvest of every craft and tons of fun supplies to PLAY with! !

This page shows the kids' Crystal Tree from December 2005. Thanks for looking, I really appreciate it.

~ Journaling reads:

"Crystal Tree"

This delicate Christmas tree was created from a kit we bought from Scholastic Book Club for the kids during the holiday season. The tree was made from cardboard, and was set in a little shallow dish, and decorated with a star and beaded “garland.” A special solution was mixed and poured into the bottom of the dish, then the tree “grew” bright green crystals over a period of a few hours. It was amazing to watch. Kate thought the little tree was pretty topped off with the gold star! The boys were transfixed with the way their miniature tree “grew.” ~December 2005

Supplies:
Font~ title: SBC Courtney's Journal
Font~Journaling: Century Gothic
CS background: Basic Grey Acid Washed (wild ginger)
Grey journaling block: Pretty Paper, Pretty Cheap Stickeez tree shapes and bottom border pattern: Provocraft MicroBeadz in Cobalt and Green: Provocraft
Circles: Glue dots
Green grosgrain ribbon scrap (Thanks Mom!)
3/8" mauve satin ribbon: So-Facile (Home Sweet Home)
Staples: X-acto, standard

Kate and her horse Oaklee

Our beautiful Kate (13) riding Oaklee (5) at Rohan Wood Stable, May 27, 2007.

Fixer

Journaling reads:

This photo was taken by Wing Imaging in October 2000, when Peter was honoured with the 14 Wing ‘Technician of the Quarter Award.’ In the photo, he was working in the lab, repairing a radar antenna from the CP-140 Aurora search aircraft.

When someone asked him what his Daddy’s job was, Daniel always replied “He’s a fixer!!”

Photo credit: Wing Imaging, October 2000

Patterned CS: Grandpa's Closet Diamonds (TY Pam!)

Charcoal CS matting main pic: Pretty Paper Pretty Cheap

Patterned paper: basketweave- Provocraft: "By the seashore" #42-5352

Leather look for title and strip on tag- unknown (from Rewards Dept Store)

Fiskars Country Colours collection for journaling block on tag

Memories Ink-black (TY Mom and Dad!)

Metal Tag (TY Pam!)

Brown multi-toned ribbon scrap (TY Mom!)

Vinyl scrap (recycled)

Fonts: (title) Sizzix Sizzlit- Nouveau

Journaling: Indy 17 (Broderbund- The Printshop Essentials, version 20 CD)

Based on a sketch created by Lisa ('pinkephelant') @ SB'ers CH site.

Cheery Vest

Hope everyone had a nice long weekend. Mary was over to visit today, it's always nice to see her. Noah got and gave a lot of snuggles. Thanks also for looking at the new pages Mary!
Here is a new December 2005 page for you all. ENJOY and Thanks for looking!
This is our Daniel Cole at age 4 1/2 yrs old in a Christmas vest from Avon that I actually found & bought at Frenchy's! As of 2006, ALL our boys have worn it. Font is Sizzlit: Nouveau. Fir green CS: Bazzill, Red CS: Bazzill. Tree and star PP's: unknown, small dotted PP: Forever in Time (6x6" pad of soft greens, item #SP-200E, Multicrafts Imports). Thread is a dk fir tree green, Guterman: #794, Swirls: Li'l Davis Designs Stripped Chip (heart doodles), Acrylic paint for doodles is Plaid brand #ZD200-41 in Hunter green.

Christmas Time at our house

This is a page I created just to show a few highlights of Christmas 2005. It's so much brighter and clearer, and has more "punch" in real life.

Cinnamon Buns were made with Marla C. "Flylady's" recipe, served on my Grammie's Rosecliffe Alfred Meakin platter. We make those every year now.

Noah has a red dot on his nose (That's from preschool: a cute reindeer nose!)

Santa hats are fun treats given to the kids by Oma and Opa years ago.

Daddy made the gingerbread house with the kids this year. It's our first one!

The 2 wooden reindeer in the pic on the journaling block were made by my Dad. Red reindeer was made by my sis-in-law Patricia. Thank you!

Journaling reads:

It's Christmas time at our house:

~ Cinnamon buns on Christmas morning

~Christmas tree all decorated

~Kids playing with new toys

~ Gingerbread house built

~Grandparent visits

~Rudolph noses

~Santa hats

Supplies-

CS: Pioneer, white.

Red dotted CS: Basic Grey's Snowfall Cranberry- Dasher Collection DSH-636

Olive green subtly patterned paper: unknown brand-Thanks Casey!

Colorbox pigment ink: Cranberry (TY Mom/Dad!)

Holly: Royal & Lagnickel Inc. Rub-On #THO387

Circular 2005 date stamp: MM Rub-On #25799

Joy sticker: Deja Views Wonderful Words (WW-155)

All styles of gold stitching: DCWV Rub-On (Thanks Cas!)

What I like Best about Me

This page is called "What I like best about me" and describes Noah's laugh, grin, and sense of humour. He's wearing a yellow shirt my parents got for him in England- so cute on him!
The big yellow brads are from the Dollar Store.
Cardstock is Bazzill: Pomegranate
Font: Trots Medium
"Happy Face" paper from 2005 SB'ing calendar by Accord Publishing- Thanks Mary and Gil!

Thanks for looking!

My Favourite Toys

Here is a page all about Noah's favourite toys. It lists the following favourites:

"My animals, my books, my Magnadoodle, my blocks, my Leap Pad, my "string collection", and my animal cards."

The t-shirt he's wearing came from Zellers and is MY favourite. I'm sad that he's grown out of it now!

Cardstock: all Bazzill, also Bazzill scraps used for the buttercream journaling block, blue photo mat & title block.

Patterned papers:

Toys- K & Co. 'Tommy's Toys'

Red mini dots- scrap, unknown source

My Favourite Book

Here is a page that describes Noah's love of books, and shows him reading his favourite book: one from Grandma and Grandpa. He's wearing panda bear jammies that his Grandma made for him.

"All about Me" Bulletin Board Display

Here are some of Noah's "All About Me" pages for the Bulletin Board at his preschool where he is "Child of the Week."

I am going to post these one at a time. Just scroll up to see them. Here are 4 of the 11 pages. I'll post the rest next week when I get them all back from the Bulletin Board display.

All are done on Bazzill Pomegranate 8 1/2x 11 cardstock. The first pic is a little brighter than it is in real life.

Bouquet from Mom, Dad, Mary, Gil, Alex & Cody

These are carnations, my favourite flowers. Thanks for caring and sending them to me! I just LOVE them!! Love you, too! Made my day when they arrived.Thanks again!

Rainbow

This is Daniel with one of his Play-Doh creations in October 2005.

He created the picture and spelled "rainbow" all by himself. He was so proud! Heck, WE were so proud!!

Fonts: title- Christie; journaling- Arial Unicode MS.

Sizzlit "Nouveau" font used for RAINBOW title.

(Each letter used up small scraps of PP, in colour order of the rainbow.)

Sticker strip (red) : Thin bright borders #18049 by N. Goodale

Sticker strip (turquoise and white): Waterfun Sampler by Pebbles Inc. (TY Pam!)

"Stitching:" Dee's Designs Distressed Effects Rub-Ons, DEF#116-2005, MME.

Circ. epoxy stickers- Studio Basics by C.I. (TY Nicole!)

Large bright buttons on left lower side: Imaginisce (TY Nicole!!)

Willie Nelson

The page posted below is of "Willie Nelson," one of my parents' cats. Story used as journaling was taken from an email my Mom sent in March, 2006. The pics were taken on Dec 25, 2005 at my sister Mary's home, and the page was a challenge I did as part of a fun crop for Scrapbooker's Clubhouse.

Journaling: "Willy sang the other night! A wild cat who has been around here this winter walked by the door just at sundown. Willy stood by the piano and howled for 15 minutes. He has about a three-octave range and his sides went in and out like a piper's bag. I was alone in the house and just sat and watched him, laughing. At one point he went “Yow yow yow” in about high C. I guess he really is a Willie Nelson after all."

Supplies: Die Cuts with a View (DCWV) Cardstock, doodling pen: black fine tip by CM. This represents my first attempt at doodling!

Purple braided trim on right side between flowers from my Mom-in-law (TY Chris!)

Small Fancy Pants flowers from Pam (TY)

Metallic brads: purchased on ebay, possibly American Traditional Designs.

Big buttons: Frenchy's, rescued from button bin @ .25 cents total!

Large flowers: cut from a box from a toy, thus recycled (Thanks Reg!)

'Music notes' rub-on used on lower edge of jrnling block: MME Dee's Designs distressed effects

Patterned papers: Slab, (TY Casey)

Ink: memories black (TY Mom & Dad)

Journaling block: Bazzill scrap, scruffed with Memories ink to add shabby-chic appearance.

Journaling block corners rounded w/ CM corner rounder tool

"Stitching" line: MME Dee's Designs distressed effects.

Title Letters: Sticko, red dot lettering (I painted over them before removal from sticker sheet with with FolkArt Plaid acrylic paint in # 635 Fucshia. Made the horrible orangey-red shiny unusable letters usable, textured and cool!

"W" turned sideways as part of the challenge- we had to turn the first letter 90 degrees!)

Our Front Door: December 2005

Page created May 6, 2007


Bazzill CS: "Denim"
Ink: Memories (Black), ColorBox (Royal blue)
Star Outline: MM Basic Shapes stamp
Star with swirls: Rubber Stampede stamp (ebay)
Red stars: Sizzlit die cut
Fonts: title~ Beach Thin, Journaling~ Vogel.
Blue pen: Zig Millenium


'Tree with words' idea based on a card from Cloudeight Stationery- 2005: Thanks to my friend Garnetta for the link!
Thanks to Sherry for the Sizzix Sidekick, used for red stars. :)
Thanks to my parents for the inks used here.

Wreath made by Bryan at Cubs, November 2005
"Crystal" acrylic stars: Dollar Store
Crystal-look cherubs: Dollar Store
Silver and navy wired/patterned ribbon: Dollar Store

Journaling reads:
Our Wreath Creation
I was so excited to see the beautiful pine wreath that Bryan made at Cubs! When he brought it home, we decorated it with gorgeous acrylic stars and cherubs. Kate helped me choose some rich-looking navy blue and sparkling silver ribbon. Everything came from the Dollar Store but it looked exceptional! We hung our creation from a shiny brass hook that Daddy installed on the front door of our home. Our wreath looked just beautiful and was quite eye-catching! We received many compliments on it throughout the Christmas season.

December 2005

All about wreaths: Wreaths are commonly made of evergreens as a symbol for the strength of life, because these plants can overcome even the harshest winters. The circularity of wreaths has been used to symbolize eternity. (Source: Wikipedia )

Lovingly Created

Welcome... This is a place where I can share my scrapbook creations with you all... I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I've enjoyed creating them.