He Loves his Little Sister ♥

Hello! Happy Tuesday friends!!

Tuesday means it's time for a new Tiddly Inks Challenge! This week we're challenging you to Scrap It! It's just the motivation I need to get cracking on my daughter's scrapbook... she's closing in on the 1 year mark and I haven't done a single page yet- well until now!

I used the Baby Girl digital image from Tiddly Inks for this sweet layout of my son & his baby sister when she was about a month old! So very blessed with these two littles in my life and love to see how much he loves his lil sis! ♥



Now to get going on some more layouts...

Hope to see you play along- check out all the details on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog!

Chugging along...

with more layouts!

My son was/is totally into trains.  He loves this show on the Disney channel called, Chuggington- these train characters are just too cute!

He got a track set to go along with the trains for Christmas (2013) and I'm not sure who had more fun playing with them... Cayden or my hubs!



and I did this facing layout of all the trains he'd collected- he just loves lining them up (when they're not going down the track!) and saying each of their names!



Even with this page "done" I feel like it's missing something in that blue space... off to search my stash (or maybe the craft store) to find something to fill it! ;)

Boy oh Boy!

Surprisingly I'm still rolling out the scrapbook layouts! I found that it's helpful for me to have the photos I want to use printed out in advance, that way I have to do the layout.

For this one I used another sketch from The Memory Nest, even though it's a little late for the challenge, I really liked the sketch!



and here is what I did with it, I had these 3 photos of my son that just fit it perfectly...



Oh, and if you couldn't tell, I'm totally obsessed with using wood veneer embellishments lately.  It's about time I started using some of my stash!

*edited to add.. I remembered having this sweet Oh Boy Ian image from The Greeting Farm that would match my sweet boy!

I'll be back again soon with some more layouts!

Christmas in August?

Can you believe it's only 4 months away??? (YIKES!)

I'm not sure about you, but I LOVE Pinterest! So much fun projects and inspiration. That's where I found the inspiration for the photo we used for our Christmas card a few years ago... (still finishing that 2013- I can see the light! LOL)

My son (Cayden) received the Little Tykes Coupe car from his cousins and he absolutely loved it- and STILL does! I tied my 3ft artificial Christmas tree to the top to take a photos for our card.  It took a lot of goldfish snacks to keep him in the car long enough for me to snap photos! This first layout is just a few of the many "outtakes"...



and this is the facing page with the final photo on the Christmas card we sent out!



Thanks for stopping by... Happy Friday!

I'm off to polish off some more layouts!

Flipeez & Firefighter

Just another quick post to share a couple more scrapbook layouts I've done in the past few weeks...

My cardmaking mojo appears to be on vacation... hopefully it'll be back soon.  In the meantime I will gladly take this scrapbooking kick!

To go along with the previous page I shared (here) I made this layout to match since my son was wearing the same sweatshirt!



My son and my nieces all got these cute Flipeez hats a few years ago and he loved wearing it.  His is a puppy and when you squeeze one of the tassels the ears on the top flip up and down!

For Halloween the same year, (so close to finishing 2013!) we dressed Cayden up as a cute little firefighter. Except we had one problem- HE REFUSED TO WEAR THE COSTUME! Thankfully after a lot of patience & persistence he finally decided to wear it a little bit a day the week of Halloween! I took all I could get and as many photos as I could *just in case* he changed his mind on Halloween night!



And wouldn't you know it - he wore the costume all night and had a blast!

I still have a few more to share... but I'll save those for another post ;)

This Face... ♥

I found some time today to pull out some photos that still need to be scrapbooked... I'm still *SO* behind on my son's scrapbook, but have been squeezing in some pages here and there (that's for another post!).

I'm determined to get caught up... does that ever happen?

For this layout I decided to play along with The Memory Nest's August sketch challenge!



I used one of my favorite photos of my son from a few years ago and came up with this...



Loved being able to use up some patterned paper scraps on this page- that's what SCRAPbooking is all about right?

I'll be back to share the other layouts I've been punching out- once I can take some photos of them!

Thanks for stopping by...

More SD Layouts!

Just popping in to share a couple more scrapbook layouts that I did over the weekend, really trying to do some catch up! I'm likely about a year behind still! YIKES!

I'm working backwards with the most recent events first, I finally finished off the last of the layouts from our summer vacation trip in San Diego!

My sisters and I were determined to get some family photos on the beach!

(Unfortunately, 1 of my brother in laws had to travel last minute for work- so he's missing!)

and what's a trip to San Diego without a trip to the Zoo!?



(& see that cute lil Panda stamp? That's Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps!)



Thanks for stopping by! I'll have a few more to share later this week!

Good Day Sunshine!

Here's another scrapbook layout I made a couple of days ago and didn't get chance to photograph until this morning!

It's another from our summer trip in San Diego! It was my son's first time at the beach and he wasn't sure what to think of it all....


The first day he ventured out to the water (it was pretty chilly!) and took him a few minutes to warm up to having some sandy toes!


But after another day getting a bit closer to the water...

He wanted nothing to do with it! & was much happier building and smashing sandcastles as fast as I could build them! Oh well.. maybe next time :)

Oh and that awesome "Good Day Sunshine" title is a freebie from Kerry Bradford Design! I finally am getting the hang of playing with my silhouette- and it is the coolest thing! :)

Thanks for stopping by! ;)

1, 2, 3...

I'm so DETERMINED to do more scrapbook layouts.. I sat down last night to make of list of pages I wanted to do and it's very much longer than I'd like it to be!

I was inspired by the page I had created last week with the pictures of my nieces, nephew & son in their "flamingo" stance that I decided to do a facing page with them attempting to jump all together using the same sketch on The Memory Nest, only reversed.


Doesn't sound that hard right? Well... when your subjects range from age 2 to 15 it's a lot harder than you may think! LOL!

Happy Sunday... on to more pages!

Beach Beauties

Hey Look! I made another scrapbook page!

Now I just need to keep going...

I chose another photo from our beach vacation for my layout- my 4 nieces hanging out at the beach watching the sunset- we saw some gorgeous colors that night! (my 1st one is here in case you missed it!)   Wishing to be back on that beach right now...

& what perfect timing- Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is a mid-summer's challenge!



Then I remembered I had this *perfect* digi for my page from Chi Chi Memories Beach Time set.  The image actually only has 3 girls, but I printed 2 and flipped it (so it wasn't *exactly* the same) and added the girl on the far right.

I also mimicked the sunset colors by using some distress inks (yes, I've been using these a lot lately & am totally addicted), added some glittery embossing powder. Here's a closer view...


Thanks for stopping by!! I'm off to {day}dream about being back on the beach with the sand in my toes...

The Flamingo!

I finally felt the itch to do some scrapbook pages this weekend.. I'm SOO behind on my son's book!

I decided to work backwards and work with some recent photos, and picked some photos from my son & his cousins on the beach from our San Diego beach trip last month! :)

I went to The Memory Nest for some sketch inspiration & decided to use the Make It Monday Sketch



Now this was a fun series of photos to take... my son had just recently figured out how to stand on one foot, so we rounded up the rest of his cousins to get them to do the same- not that hard right?



Getting them to do it all at once was hilarious (so was getting them to jump together, more on that soon...) since my son is 2 and can only hold his balance for a few seconds! LOL!

& Adding that little flamingo from the Lawn Fawn Gnome Sweet Gnome stamp set was just what this page needed!

Hope to get to more layouts today... Happy Sunday!

My Waterbaby!

I did another layout! I'm determined to catch up I tell ya!

I had done this page a few days ago of my son's first time in the pool last summer..but though that it was missing something... until I remembered this uber-cute swimming boy image from Tiddly Inks!



Think he was the perfect finishing touch this layout needed! :) & just in time for the Warm Up Challenge on the Tiddly Inks Facebook page!

Hope you are enjoying your Saturday!

Little {BIG} Boy!

Just for fun I've been participating in one of the many photo-a-day challenges (#fmsphotoaday to be exact)  that are out there... yesterday's photo prompt was "To Do List." I've had an ongoing (& never-ending) list of scrapbook layouts that I've been wanting to get done- I'm so behind!  Anyway- this photo gave me just the push that I needed and I knocked out 3 pages last night!

To get my mojo started I checked out the latest challenge over at The Memory Nest and decided to play along with their Make It Monday #9 sketch challenge! I changed it slightly by using a 5x7 photo of my little guy that I had already printed out...



So that's one layout done and many more to go!

Hello...Handsome!

Popping in a little later than usual.. but I had the itch today to do a scrapbook page especially seeing the challenge at the 'new to me' blog The Memory Nest!



I just love this color combo and especially the twist of adding chevrons! :)



I *finally* got my hands on that "hello" die and just couldn't wait to use it on something!

I'll be back again tomorrow for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge!

Hitting the Slopes!

Happy Wednesday all!

I'm back again to share the newest release from Chi Chi Memories! Winter Sports is just the cutest ever... even more perfect with the Winter Olympics starting in a few weeks.

My sister took her kids up to try snowboarding (for the first time) over their Christmas break, she text me some photos of my nieces before they hit the slopes, and I just knew I had to scrapbook this photo for her!  & this snowboarding girl in the set couldn't have been more perfect!



and just another reason why I love digis so much, I was able to easily duplicate and flip another image of the girl to mimic my nieces in the photo!

Thanks for stopping by!

First Year

I've realized that I haven't shared the scrapbook that I've been working on for my son.  A few sneak peeks here and there ... but there are SO many more pages- I just haven't photographed them all yet and still trying to get caught up!

I recently have been reviewing my pins on Pinterest (find me here!) to remind myself of projects and things I want to do- I 'repinned' them for a reason right? I rediscovered a couple of layouts by Susan Weinroth I had pinned... These layouts she had done for her son's first year specifically. Awesome right? Totally inspired me and I wanted pages like these in Cayden's book.. so these are my take on them! Hope she didn't mind me "CASE-ing" her layouts!

I did this one about a month ago, I had a hard time narrowing down all the pictures I wanted to use!



I also remembered having this stamp set that has the month stamps just perfect for each photo! :)



More pages coming soon!

Enter the Dragon!

By the time my son turned one in May, I  really wanted to have his scrapbook up to date. I whipped out 2-3 pages a day- I was DETERMINED I tell ya! There are still a few pages completed that aren't quite "done" they're still hanging out there for the perfect embellishment to finish them off...Enter the Dragon

When Cayden turned one month old (its a significant celebration in Chinese culture) we had a big dinner to celebrate. Even though he couldn't really enjoy any of the delicious food because he slept through the whole party I had to have a page in his scrapbook for it! :)  Since he was born in the Year of the Dragon, I've been holding out for a perfect little dragon image/embellishment and I finally found one!  The awesome Sister Stamps came out with a dragon stamp and I was lucky enough to win it in a giveaway! Woohoo! I couldn't wait to get it colored up and add it to this layout!

Ok.. enough chit chat here it is!


and it a little closer up of the dragon...

Scrapbook Catch Up: 1st Halloween!

Happy Saturday! Hope you are having a great start to your weekends! It's rainy & gloomy here after we had some gorgeous weather all week! :( Boo!

The realization set in the other day (when my little guy turned 10 months!) on how behind I really was on his scrapbook.  I had a good head start on it when he was first born but then got a little busy -couldn't imagine with what?! LOL So that got my scrapping juices flowing and I've done 14 more pages since!

I got so excited when I saw this dragon from Pink Cat Studio- it's a perfect fit for me since Cayden was born in the Year of the Dragon and for this...


I'm so bad at using my stamps/digis on my scrapbook layouts.. working on getting better at that! :) Once I get my sunshine back I'll get to posting the other pages I've done too :)

Thanks for stopping in!

Ferris Wheel Fun!

Time for another challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week's sponsor is The Craft's Meow and the theme is VINTAGE!

Now, vintage style isn't really my "thing".. but I did the best with this scrapbook page I created with some photos from my sister's summer trips and my nieces' favorite part of them...FERRIS WHEELS! I used this Life is a Carnival set, distressed some edges with vintage photo distress ink.
See all the details here to enter the challenge on The Pink Elephant blog!

My Cutie Pie {Niece}

Just popping in quick to share a recent scrapbook page I made of my ADORABLE niece!


Isn't she just a doll? teehee :)  (the blank circle is for my sister to add journaling)

Have a FABULOUS weekend!