Charlie and the Trains | July 11, 2011

I scrapped! I haven't been doing nearly as much scrapping and have been doing even less posting on the blog, unfortunately. (My other blog is suffering too; I'm an equal-opportunity blog neglector.)

Last night I was baking and hanging around home when I noticed there was a Speed Scrap happening at ScrapMatters, and it was kicking off around the time my last batch of brownies was coming out of the oven. Perfect!

I grabbed this photo of Charlie playing with the trains, and searched my stash for some transportation-themed supplies, and this is what I created:

"CHOO CHOO!!! Charlie has lots of toys to choose from at Oma’s house:

cars and books and on and on. Today, he set up the trains and of course

I couldn’t resist getting out the camera to capture my favorite cutie.

- July 11, 2011"

CREDITS: Birthday Blog Train Template Freebie by WM[squared]/Whitney(whitneyt) and It's a Journey Collab by the ScrapOrchard Team
FONT: FG Sara Elizabeth

ABC Book | Christmas 2010

I've been doing a lot of organizing of my files on my computer and online. I've have tons of projects I completed over the last 6 months or so that never made it on to the blog, so I'm picking some of them for new posts, since I've cut back on how much scrapping I'm doing right now.

This book was a looooooooooong time in the making. I started it last spring, and finally finished it just a day or two before Christmas when I gave it to my nephew as a gift. The book contains a page for every letter of the alphabet, and two pages at the end show counting from 1-10. Since it's so long, I thought I'd experiment with a slideshow on this post. Here goes!

Susannah 10 months | September 2010

Isn't she a cutie? :-)

From The Auntie Album

CREDITS:
Girls Gone Wild by Dysfunctional Designs and Pixel Gypsy
Pocket Full of Templates 5 by Britt-ish Designs
Font: Clementine Sketch and FG Sara Elizabeth

Two takes on "Chef Aaron" | September 25, 2010

These pages show off all kinds of creativity. For Aaron's 3rd birthday, I sewed a kid-size chef apron and matching hat. His mom made sure to take some great photos and email them to me so I could make this scrapbook page (using Harvest Happiness by Jady Day Studio):

Click here for credits and more projects: The Auntie Album

Of course, being Aaron's mom, Sarah had to make her own page, too... and she picked the same page kit. Two scrapbookers, two pages, SAME page kit... and two completely cute and different pages! Here's Sarah's page:

For credits and more projects, please visit: The Auntie Album

Susannah is here | November 2009 ...and a Word Art Freebie

Little Miss Susannah arrived in November, and is the newest little person who knows me as Auntie Rebo. What's not to love?

I have been doing some serious scrapping this last week, so more posts to come!

CREDITS: Photo by Sharp Images Custom Photography, template by Stolen Moments Designs, Peach-faced Love Bird by Verena Designs, stitching from Birthday Party by Maria Designs, word art created by me. Fonts: Batik Regular, CK Becky

I completed this page for a speed scrap and one of the steps was to use word art, and there wasn't any in the kit I'd selected - aaaack!!! So I made my own, and you can grab a copy of you like it! There are 3 PNG files below, one of the whole thing, and one with each part, so you can recolor it if you'd like. :)

PC users: click on each image to open the full-size image in a new tab/window. Then click and drag it to your desktop, or right click and use "save image as."

Mac users: Ummm..... sorry, I don't know what the correct instructions are. Feel free to enlighten me!