Emma's Easter LO... FINALLY used CTMH Paper Garden!!

Another LO I completed at our craft day was Emma's Easter LO. I love using the CTMH book Cherish for multi-photo, 2 page spreads! It really helps!!

Now to the paper. I am a paper addict. Are you? If so, you know how the disease works. You see paper. You buy paper. You NEVER use the paper!

I bought this paper literally the second it was available. This is the FIRST time I have used it!! (and it was still hard to get into it!)... terrible disease. :-)


I also used my CTMH Easter stamp set I bought last year and borrowed another stamp set for the other flowers I stamped and cut out. The flowers up by the title are from a stash of CTMH Big & Little Blooms.

Check back in a couple of days and you'll see my favorite thing to do for events! (hint: jake's easter LO- similar photos, same LO, WAY different paper... HOW will it look??)

Enjoy!

Kristin

Sympathy card

So, I apparently have sold my first card! And, I didn't even realize I would, lol!

A friend called/emailed and asked for a sympathy card. I had one, but I think she was looking for something a little different. My schedule was a bit tight and I didn't know if I could get one made, but I actually DREAMED this card...

crazy huh?? I used PTI, cricut cartridge Jasmine, cuttlebug folder, satin ribbon, and was totally done in 20 minutes!

Yea, crazy! Now, if only I could dream ALL my cards!!

Enjoy!

Kristin

New Things...

Last month a couple in our church was called to go to another church. He was to be the music minister. We were all excited for them, but of course, sad for us.

I wanted to make a simple card for them (and then forgot it at home, so had to mail it!)... never fails.

This is mostly CTMH paper- called Emporium (*thanks Melissa!!*), with a Verve butterfly I paper pieced. I kept trying to make this fit a sketch, but never could. It's a smaller size (b/c of how I kept changing things), so it's a narrow rectangle. I used cocoa cs that I ran through the cuttlebug (but I don't think you could even tell once I put all the pp on it!)...

What do you think??

Enjoy!

Kristin

Focus on Jake LO

At the craft day recently, I had one layout I swore to myself I would complete. Jake has long deserved what I call "focus" pages in our family album. Since I scrap in a Stacy Julian way, I have scrapbooks that are chronological and event-focused for the kids (helps to satisfy that Type A inside of me), but the artist in me? The one that sees all the hundreds of photos that don't "go" with a layout, but scream at me to tell a story?? THAT's the "BIG PICTURE" in my scrapbooking!

So, anyway here it is. It is some leftover paper from a StoryTellers Club paper from a GASC class from '08, blue cs, and lots of inking and some distressing. The pics were random but totally show off his personality- the crazy, playful 5yo boy, the boy who totally "gets" life as he was watching his dad play flag football on a camping trip, and this bottom pic is my favorite. That is my son... all intelligence with a beautiful smile!

Enjoy!

Kristin

Happy Anniversary!

So, this is my FAVORITE anniversary to celebrate every year- it's the one I celebrate with my dear, sweet husband! Today marks 12 years since I walked down the aisle and looked into his clear, blue eyes and said, "Yes, I, do."... forever. When we married we did not sign a contract, but a covenant between ourselves and God.

I love Terry more than most people can ever comprehend- even those who believe they know me well, more than those who think they know me best. I would say only the smallest of the smallest core has a clue how truly much I love this man and why. They know how special he is to me and to our little family. He is steadfast, a true man of God. One to be honored and respected. And, I do. I could write a large novel, so thick the pages would be difficult to turn of what he has meant and done and stood for in his own life (when no one was looking), for me (when he thought I didn't know), for his children, and for his friends (even when it was so very difficult)... and he would do it again.

I hope that the rest of our marriage continues to be as amazing as the first 12, and with Terry walking this adventure of life with me... how could it not?

(the card? it's nice... )

Enjoy!

Kristin

Anniversary Card- Love

Yesterday was our best friends' anniversary... I am hoping they have received the card (but know they are busy and she doesn't normally come here unless I specifically tell her too, lol!). I love celebrating their anniversary, because that sweet, dear friendship that goes so deep now... well, it is hard for even me to express in writing here on my blog (and I usually do NOT have a problem expressing myself- ha!). We've known them almost our entire marriage. Can't imagine what our lives would have been like without their friendship!

I used DCWV Glitter Stack from a year or two ago, with my fave- PTI cs (Chocolate). I paired it with a scalloped circle (love that cricut and cut files- not sure if it was from Okie or Capadia- I made this over a month ago!- but I'll give them both credit), and the big daisy stamp image from CTMH. The sketch is SCS from 6 to 8 weeks ago and I used it recently on another anniversary card too! Just to show how different a look one sketch can really give you!

I really hope they had a wonderful anniversary- can't believe we've all been married more than a couple of years now. Time flies! Our anniversary is Sunday so look for my card to Terry... 12 years for us! Wow!

Enjoy!

Kristin

Feel Better Soon!

Made this card for a sweet friend who was put on bedrest a few weeks ago. At 32 weeks pregnant, she was NOT ready to have her baby girl!! She's finally been released from bedrest (and even came to the craft day with us), and I just heard this morning that she might be having her baby! (but now it's okay :-)...

Enjoy!

Kristin