Halloween Pails

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We made these cute Halloween Pails at the retreat as a side craft. I give them to each of the girls teachers filled with their favorite Halloween candy. I also make them some fall cards.


Debbie provided us with all of the supplies and only charged us $5 for each pail. That's a steal in my book.

Back from the Retreat

Just arrived yesterday from a four day scrapbook retreat at the Palouse Divide Lodge. It was another fun, wild and crazy time. I got a lot accomplished although I brought twice as many photos than I was able to get in an album but that's how it ususally goes.

Our hostess, Debbie, does an amazing job with putting these retreats together. She brings computers, Cri-cuts, paper galore, punches, Sizzix,adhesives, albums etc. Pretty much anything you need she has.

She also is very generous with give aways. I came home with many different sheets of printed paper, an apron, a chip board album, stickers, rub ons, paper flowers and so much more.

Yes, I am a little sleep deprived but feel so much more relaxed knowing that I'm caught up on my current photos. Yay!


Cricut Font: Cuttin' Up


Cricut Font: Cuttin' Up

I ususally snap photos of the girls' art projects and put them in their school albums. Otherwise I don't know where I'd store all of the art.


Cricut Font: Cuttin' Up - I see a trend here. I don't have that cartridge but now know that I must have it.


Page taken from a book by Creating Keepsakes called Scrapbooking Everyday Moments. Cricut Font: Pooh




Cricut Font: Street Signs. PAge taken from the CK book Scrapbooking Everyday Moments. This was my favorite page done the whole weekend.


Cricut Font: Storybook


I used this layout from Page Maps. It's also one of our challenges from the Paper Pals Scrap Kit Club this month.

Cricut Font: Stamped


Layout taken from Page Maps. I actually pulled out some of my old CM alpha stickers.


Cricut Cart: Accent Essentials. Layout: Page Maps


I enjoyed making a calendar page as our July was so busy.
Cricut Font: Stamped


Cricut Font: Jasmine
Layout: CK book Scrapbooking Everyday Moments

I made many more pages then these but these stood out as my favorites.

Bryan & Lisa's Wedding Album Completed

Yay! I've been working on this album in what feels like forever. It's not even very fancy. My excuse is that we had a very busy summer that kept me out of the craft room. The following are some of my favorite layouts from the album that I haven't shown already.


This layout was used from a sketch given to use at a scrapbook retreat. Unfortunately I don't know the source.


I used the 'Base Camp' Cricut cartridge here.


Layout using the April Challenge sketch from http://www.scrapbooking.about.com/ .


I call this my naked page. I wasn't very inspired by the pictures to do anything so I didn't. It's actually one of my favorites in the whole album.


I started to use a sketch from Page Maps but then realized my pictures didn't work if I cropped them so the background paper is about the only element from the sketch used.


The last page.

Cards

These are cards I used from the leftover materials from the Scrap Kit Club. All of the designs were lifted from the pages of the fall-winter 2008 SU! Catalog.

Blessed

Another challenge from Scrap Kit Club was to use the word "blessed" on a layout.

The Little Things

Wow, a scrapbook page! I'm working on a challenge from the Scrap Kit Club through Paper Pals. We're supposed to follow a Sketch from Sketch This (see link on side of blog). I started off following it but then strayed.

Flannel Night Gown

Josie's doll, Ellie, models this flannel nightgown I made from a Simplicity pattern (I don't remember the number). The fabric is from Nate's old PJ's that he wore a hole through.