Baby Shower Gifts

I made the following for baby shower gifts. First is the name plaque that I created from a metal "scroll" sign that I got for $6 on clearance at Hobby Lobby. It had "love" and crosses all over the front and was oriented portrait style. I covered it with paper that coordinates with the nursery colors and added the oval with the baby's name. Two holes drilled in the metal allowed me to thread some ribbon to hang it landscape for a nice gift. I am quite pleased with the outcome.

I also made a BABY mini album and a Grandma's Brag Book (that I forgot to take a photo of). Look at the cute little monkey from create a critter. I just love him!

This is the back of the album and there are 2 "micro mini" albums inside to add additional photos. I hope you like it! 

It has been a rough week for me but I am thankful to have "made it" to the weekend. Mike and I just returned from a nice dinner date at Clear Springs and are looking for a movie to watch on PPV. Happy Mother's Day to all of my blog friends out there. Be sure you tell your mother you love her - you never know when it will be your last opportunity.

Peace & Pretty Paper,

Robyn

Disney Layout

Plans are underway for my 2nd annual trip to Walt Disney World for The Scrapper's Dream Vacation (Cheryl's 4th, Wren & Jackie's 3rd). I smile every time I look at our photos. I did promise myself I would create a layout so  here it is and it really has me excited for the big trip! Cheryl came over yesterday and we were going to color with our Copics but after we talked for awhile and laughed a lot, this is all I got done.You should see what she is making! I am really eyeballing it! If she posts it to her blog, I will provide a link. Did I mention she is the rock star of paper?

        Blessings:

• A fun day scrapping with a good friend.
• An excellent night's sleep and waking up feeling rested.
• God's grace!
• A walk with my doggie this morning.
• Brother Jody continues to do well despite a few seizures this weekend.

Peace,
Robyn

Snapware Cricut Cartridge Case

I made this carrier for my Cricut carts. I saw a company selling them at SDV this summer and I thought "I can make that!" Well, I did and it was quite a bit cheaper than the ones she was selling. I got the Snapware containers from The Container Store. They sell one large and one small and call it a ribbon organizer or something like that. I bought another set of the small omes 50% off at Hobby Lobby. I have the dimensions of the plastic mesh somewhere. If you are interested, let me know & I will find them and send them to you. The cartridge bin holds 40 carts and the large bin holds 20 books and overlays**. I put my cricut tools in the third bin.
I made one of these for Cheryl as well. I think she likes it!

**I went through my books and tore out all the pages that are not in English. It makes it so much easier when I am thumbing through them.

Boo Book

I got this mini book out of a clearance bin while we were in Florida. I think it is 5"x7". All of the inner pages are covered with paper from a DCWV Halloween mini paper pack.

                           This little guy is my boyfriend! I had such a fun time with the Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge! A definite favorite cartridge

                                                                    

This house is from Stretch Your Imagination .

 Look at his little shoes!    

I have no idea why my pictures are all over the place. I don't think Blogger is my friend any more. I always get a headache when I want to put more than one photo in a post. Hmmm. What's a girl to do?

Graduation Album for Carol

I made this album for Carol, our foreign exchange student from Brazil that lived with us in 2000. She is a beautiful girl as you can see by the pictures. She also has a beautiful heart. It was very difficult for her to be away from her home but she wanted to experience our culture and strengthen her ability to speak English. She always had a smile on her face and kept her chin up on the days she was missing home. I wasn't always as kind to her as I wanted to be. It was a very difficult time in my life. My Mother became ill and died while Carol was here and she was a huge help to Mike and I and the kids.  I know it was difficult for her being so far away from home and experiencing my mothers death. I'm sure it made her miss her mother even more. She returned again a couple of years later with both of her parents and a group from church. They were here for the LCMS National Youth gathering and stopped for a few days in SanAntonio. It was neat to have her back for a  visit and to meet her mom and dad.  Carol turned 27 last month and graduated from law school a year ago. She sent us some photos and I had them printed and put an 8x8 album together for her.

I left the journaling spots blank for her to write what she chooses on them.

I also left some blank pages for her to add her own photos or possibly an invitation or program .

Carol, I know you read my blog....I will be putting this in the mail the first week of October. (I have to take it to show it to a friend.) Act real surprised when it arrives!! I am sorry it took so long but I hope it was worth the wait. I love you and hope to see you again one day soon.

Mike & Barbie Layout

Mike made the mistake of falling asleep after dinner at his Grandma's house and the kids played a little joke on him. Yes! he is really sleeping... haha! We have loved and laughed over this photo so much, I decided to make a layout with it. The paper reminded me of Grandma's drapes and it was real nice of barbie to wear a bathing suit that coordinated with the drapes and paper.

Toilet Paper Roll Mini Album - Disney Style

These are fun fun fun to make (and simple too)! I made these little mini albums to give to my Disney girls at our Scrapper's Dream Vacation at Disney last week. I took 3 empty toilet paper rolls and flattened them. I ran my bone folder back and forth over the edges to try and flatten a little more.
Next I covered them with paper and embellished with lots of Disney goodies and paper. This is also a good time to set them under a stack of books for a few hours to flatten them some more.

I made the tags with my cricut Mickey Font cartridge and design studio. As an after thought, I embossed one with my cuttlebug. These tags are good for adding photos or journaling.

I bound it with the Bind-It-All and added ribbon. All done!

I am happy with the finished product and I think they liked them! I am looking forward to seeing them after our great photos are added.

They call me Newbie

Saturday and Sunday I spent many hours scrapbooking with some of the nicest ladies! I had never been to a crop before and Cheryl wanted me to get my feet wet before we go to Florida next month to scrapbook with 500 of her closest friends. I was so nervous but it took me about 3o seconds to feel at home. The crop was at her friend Jane's home studio. Jane has the greatest set up as well as an awesome internet store named The Scrapbooking Factory. All her product is top notch and I bought plenty while I was there. The ladies kept referring to me as the "newbie". I was in awe of all the beautiful stuff they were creating. I didn't get much accomplished the first day because I just stared at all the great stuff around me. Sunday morning, my creative juices started flowing and I made a few things. I will be more prepared next time....Gosh it was a fun weekend!!!!

I love ribbon and thought I had a lot of it but take a look at this!!! Her collection wasn't even the biggest! They all brought their supplies in these sophisticated carriers. I was like a kid in a candy shop!

I absolutely LOVE this photo of Cheryl. Look closely and you will see she is wearing 2 pair of glasses! She said she doesn't do bifocals well and this works for her. The only problem is, she sometimes forgets she has them on and gets some odd looks from strangers! I would never look at you odd Cheryl, I'll just put your picture on the internet!

Everyone was hard at work making magic with paper.

I have a thing for flowers and Jane has every flower a girl could want. I want to put them all in a big bin & jump in! Take a look at the size of these babies!

A couple of simple cards I made. Top one is a general card and the bottom is a card for Mike's birthday.

This is a money envelope/ card for a high school graduate. Simple but nice for a boy.

A make & take card.

Everyone else uses embelishments on their projects. I on the other hand, see an excellent disguise. That is Jane with me.

This is my latest mini album. I made from toilet paper rolls. I saw it on the blog PawsN2Stamp. She has a little tutorial in case you are interested. It was super easy and a ton of fun!

I titled it "Life is Good" and put some random family pictures in it. I will make some more of these cuties.


I never thought I could have so much fun scrapbooking with other people. My reply when asked who I scrap with was always "Me, Myself and I". I think those days are over..... :-)

Thanks Cheryl, you created a monster!

If you are a scrapbooker, go to The Scrapbooking Factory and check out all her goodies. The paper and flowers are oh so cool!