Today Shel is coming out with another new great kit! It is for all those summer pictures you will be taking soon or if you are like me still haven't scrapped yet! lol Anyway, if you would like this FREEBIE go check out her blog later today!

Here is the full preview

And here is my two page LO.

My SP T-Shirt

I got my Spark People T-Shirt in the mail today and I think it looks great!!! I love it and can't wait to wear it at my scrapbook retreat with my fellow SP members! I have already folded it and put it in the suitcase to wear while I am gone! BTW this is another portrait DS took. Pretty good job huh?! lol

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I participated in another speed scrap last night.

Here are the instructions:
STEP 1 - CHOOSE 2 PHOTOS. The "catch" is that the photos have to represent before & after or opposites of some kind. Examples would be summer/winter, young/old, or maybe a drastic haircut...you get the drift. Let's see that creativity!
STEP 2 - MANIPULATE YOUR PHOTOS IN SOME WAY. Shape them, make them black & white, make cut-outs, whatever you want as long as they aren't in their original state.
STEP 3 - CHOOSE 7 PAPERS to use in your layout. They can be patterned, plain, or any combination of the 2.
STEP 4 - USE 1 PAPER AS THE BACKGROUND, CUT THE REST INTO SHAPES AND ADD SOMEWHERE ON YOUR LAYOUT. They can be squares, strips, circles, used as photo mats, whatever your heart desires.
STEP 5 - ADD ELEMENTS; 2 OF YOUR ELEMENTS HAVE TO BE EITHER A STITCH, FIBER, OR RIBBON OF SOME TYPE (This can be the same fiber used twice). The rest of the elements can be to your choosing.
STEP 6 - ADD A SAYING TO YOUR PAGE TO ACT AS THE PAGE TITLE. This can be an actual quote, poem, or just something that you think fits the page.
STEP 7 - ADD DROP SHADOWS TO YOUR PAGE IF YOU LIKE, FINISH "PRETTIFYING" IT, ADD A DATE IF YOU WISH

So what do you think? For printing it out do you think I should keep the circle until the butterfly? I am not so sure I am loving that, but since I had to use 7 papers I needed to do something with the 7th paper!

TP Roll Gift

Okay I got this idea from my friend Denice, and she got it from here . Anyway, I think theirs and the many others out there that I have seen are WAY better. But first, I only had a few hours to do this as the graduation was that night. Second, I don't have any stamps (which I think make it way cuter! lol Third, sometimes I take directions so literally that my brain doesn't kick in gear to think outside the box! lol Anyway, I am still very happy with how it turned out. This was for Tye's teacher at school.

Here is the front cover.

Here is what it looks like from the top and opened.

Here is the tag in the first slot. A picture of Tye and his teacher Miss Lorrie.

Here is the second tag, a little note from us.

And here is the last tag, a gift card to Starbucks.

Babe-A-Licious kit by Bits N Bobs (S2L Challenges also)

Bits N Bobs, who I have began CTing for, has a new kit called Babe-A-Licious in her store Exquisite Scraps.
So here are the pages I came up with. This first one is for the S2L challenge that one of the options was to do a page in honor of someone. I won't go into the details of the why of the page, you can read what is written. But here is my page either way! lol

This second set of pages was for this week's challenge which was to use a 6 x 6 paper on your page and a 3 x 3 paper on your page. They are both here on the first page. I went ahead and completed the second page so that I could stick with my 2 page LO and go ahead and finish scrapping the only other pics of Mother's Day in 2007.

Hope you like them, and if you like the kit, go purchase it at Exquisite Scraps.

More Quilts

So here are the quilts I did for my younger sister, Bonnie's kids. The first one is for Kendrick. I thought this was really cute with the Noah's ark and the animals and the alphabets on it. When I gave it to my sister she was in shock because the color of Kendrick's room was the same maroon/burgandy color and I didn't know it!! (as always click on the picture to see it larger so you can see the pattern on the material).
Here Kendrick is as a baby with his blanket! (He is now 5 just like Tye.)

This is Taylor's quilt (my sis couldn't find the pic she had of him as a baby with it--might have to take one NOW of him with it! hehehehe). When I picked this one I thought of their family and how they all love to go camping and thought this would work well for a boy.

This is Isabelle's quilt. I have had this material for awhile I am not sure when I got it or who I got it for, but I thought it would be darling for the little girl of their family! :-)

Here she is with the quilt. Playing with it. Isn't she just adorable?! :-) And it looks like she likes the quilt too!! YAY, I think I did good! :-)

What I got done at the crop today 060509

So today I worked on labeling some of my kits with my ACDSee program! But it takes forever and there is NO WAY even if I worked on it 24/7 to complete it by the time of the retreat, so I am not sweating it. I will work on it, but not stressing to get it done before I leave.

The next thing I did was 3 weight loss scrapbook pages for Kevin and I. No I am not posting those, sorry! lol

And the last thing is the speed scrap. Here are the directions:

Step one-Pick ONE picture!
Step two- Pick 8 papers, 3 need to be patterned
Step three- Create some sort of shapes with your papers (squares, rectangles, circles...whatever you prefer!)
Step four- Either make or place a border on your layout
Step five- Place ONE embellishment and ONE embellishment ONLY!
Step six- Make your title
Step seven- Add a date

So here is my result!! (click on it to see it larger).

Kit School Kit by Bea's Creations