Mickey Mouse Memorabilia LO page

I have started on the Disney World Vacation 12 x 12 Album.  This page hold some of the paper Memorabilia we collected while we were there.  The cut out is from Cricut's cart Mickey and Friends.  I got the idea from Pinterest.  I did sew the first layer down to the pants around the outside to make the sides more secure.  I also sewed down the first layer of the hands at the wrists.

Becoming a Princess, Bippity Boppity Boutique

We visited Disney World for Fall break and while we were there my granddaughter visited the Bippity Boppity Boutique in Cinderella's Castle.  It was quite fun.  Her Aunt Kerri took the pictures in the Boutique.  Her dad took the pictures before and after the appt.  Our appt. was for 5:20pm but Sadie didn't get to see her "Fairy Godmother" in training until after 6pm for her appt.

Emmett Turns 2

We celebrated Emmett's birthday this year with a Thomas the train theme..as you saw in my previous post..where i made his autographed LO page.  Here are 3 more pages i made for his birthday.
The first one is his cake that his Aunt Angel made. Then we have a page where Emmett is sitting unwrapping presents..the last page has more unwrapping and one picture of his sister Sadie and their Uncle Brad watching Emmett unwrap his gifts.  I used the Cricut Christmas cartridge to make the train and the font/numbers from Elmo's Party.  The circles and ovals are Spellbinders dies.

Emmett turns 2 Thomas the train style

My oldest grandson, Ayden was a train lover at this age..and we still have the train tables, and now Emmett our youngest grandson is all about it.  So his mom decided to have a Thomas the train birthday party.  I've made several things for the party and have purchased some decorations..as i don't have anything on my cricut to make that work. 

Here is Emmett's Autograph Birthday page:

i used the postage stamp from Sentimentals, and the clouds from Create a Critter. I found a Thomas on line and erased the Thomas name and added Emmett's name.  The postal cancellation, i did the same thing with, but wrote inside the circle.  I need to learn how to do curve writing.   I got the idea to put the dark paper sideways from a sketch in Keepsakes magazine.

We've also made some candy trains, and i substituted things that would be better for a 2 yr old.
We also used stickers from Target and i reduced the Thomas logo for the top of the trains.

Beckett's TV Debut

Last year Beckett was featured in the local magazine called Indy's Child for Autism Awareness month and this year he was on TV for a few minutes demonstrating his use of the IPad as his communication device..watching the show, i heard him ask several times for his fruit bites. :)  Then he responded to pictures and a verbal question using his IPad. 

Here is the LO i made for his scrapbook:

I am entering this LO in a challenge on A Cherry On Top using this LO:

More frames..i love these

I so loved the frame that i made of my youngest grandson, Emmett, found at this post on my other blog that i needed to make one of the other 3 grandkids for their mom..you've got to have a set you know!

Here are the rest of my frames, i used October Afternoon's diecut sets for the vintage look:

Preparing for Easter 2013

Here are a few pictures i received this year for "Preparing for Easter".  My daughter likes to dye eggs every year and decorate.  So i have 3 of her 4 kids that participated in preparing for Easter.  All three are my adorable grandkids!   I left the space for my daughter to journal.

close up-

I used a sketch from A Cherry On Top challenge shown below:

Grandson's Principal 9 week award

We were all pleasantly surprised to learn that Ayden our grandson was chosen for the Principal's 9 wk award.  I was out of time when they presented him with his award, so i was a bit disappointed, but his mom took some great pictures for me to scrap.  She will journal on the pages, as i wasn't there.  I do know she kept it as a surprise, so he didn't know until it happened.  The actual email letting his parents know is copied below.

Here is the double LO i made.  The actual award will go on the back of the second page.

Craft Time with my daughter and friends

I've totally been in love with this Marianne Die LR0242 and wanted to share the love with my daughter and her friend.  Well, turns out her friend brought her daughter too and so we made some cards...i gave a brief tutorial (cut out one set of dies step by step) and then they put their cards together and they colored their images.   Oh and i just noticed i also used my second favorite die from Memory Box..the flourish.

Here is my daughter, Kerri's card:

Here is Jillian's card:

Here is Jillian's daughter Alexis's card:

Fairy Frames for Kerri

These are just like scrapbook pages framed..except no pictures of people..but framed pieces of book illustrations.  I purchased frames at Goodwill that had matted book illustrations (i didn't know they were book illustrations until i took the back off and looked.  The frames were just painted cheap white frames..and from the looks of it the illustrations had faded badly...again i didn't know until i took the back off and saw the back of the illustrations that had been matted were much brighter.  My daughter Kerri has a room with some fairy images and she's always been fond of fairy things since we lived in Wales.  Infact i made a floral "halo" for her wedding to wear that was made like one of the famous fairy paintings. 

When i found these i knew i wanted to redo them somehow...and then i showed Kerri my past framed picture of my grandson Emmett (link is here) and she said she liked the idea..so we created these.  I am not happy with the photos because they aren't as bright as they really look, but these are the photos i can take with my phone...and i don't have my camera with me right now.

Sadie's 4th Birthday LO

Sadie's (my granddaughter) birthday was on Tuesday, March 5th.  Her mom dressed her in a cupcake outfit for her special day.  We didn't celebrate her birthday with family until Saturday.  This is the only picture that was taken on her actual birthday.  Her mom journaled on the page.

I am entering this LO in a challenge at "A Cherry On Top" called "Becky Fleck Sketch Challenge #36" and this is the Sketch:

Cake memories

These birthday cakes were all made by my sister, Pat..most of the pictures are at least 25 yrs old.  I'll add more as i find them or scan them.

Sadie's Little Mermaid Birthday Party

My granddaughter turned 4 this last week and we celebrated her birthday on Saturday. I made the gum paste decorations for the cake and decorated it.  Her mom made the cake and frosting.   Sadie was so pretty with her Little Mermaid costume on.  She had a really good time.

Here is the LO i made of the pictures her mom shared on FB. Journaling will be added under the Mermaid title.

Look who lost his 1st and 2nd tooth!

Ayden lost his first tooth on Nov. 3, 2012 and we were surprised when he lost his 2nd tooth on Dec. 5th.  His first pulled tooth hasn't come in yet, but his second pulled tooth is coming in now.  He was at Grandma/Grandpa's today because he came down with the influenza that is going around...he is the 3rd of the 4 grandkids that go the "bug".  He was feeling much better today, but was still tired.  I thought i'd have him help me make a LO.  He is writing and reading and i thought this would be good for him.  Plus he's helped me with crafts since he was 2.  I let him pick out the paper and showed him the LO.  After picking out the background paper, he didn't want to cover it up as he wanted to count the all the letters on the page.  Well, we went ahead and covered it up..and he was okay with that.  The hardest thing was for him to "think" about what he wanted to write.  He decided to write about the tooth fairy...and basically wrote that the tooth fairy came the first time and left him money, but the second time the tooth fairy didn't.

Here is my LO with Ayden: