Busy Morning

My plan for today was to scrap the day away, isn't it funny how life gets in the way. Lucky for me I hit the scraproom at 7:00 AM and got 4 pages done before life started up; realized the dog tinkled in the living room, laundry piled up faster than it should have, husband called to take me to lunch, and since I was already dressed it was a great excuse to hit my local scrapbook store. They had the perfect paper I needed to do a special Baby girl scrapbook for a dear friend, CTMH has 2 stamp sets I wanted to use for the scrapbook but we don't have paper in the tones I have my heart set on. Thanks Scrap Shack I love you!!! Can't wait till I finish my to do list today so I can get started!! I plan on using buttons in the baby girl scrapbook but I know I won't have it finished for at least a week, have lots of family fun coming up that will keep scrapbooking on the middle burner (never the back burner).

OK, so here are today's button layouts, I used CTMH level 1 kits along with coordinating buttons to bling them out a bit, both layouts are of our oldest Daughter in 1978, see I am sticking with my plan to concentrate on our girls scrapbooks!! Yepee have 9 scrapbooks full already since Jan, most of the albums have around 40 pages in them, that is a heck of a lot of layouts!!

More Buttons

Wo Hoo, one layout 10 buttons, maybe I could clean out my stash at this rate. This layout is of our middle Daughter Amber taking a cat nap with Bob in 1982.

Here is a little tip that brought my love of buttons back, instead of messing with a needle and embroidery floss then sewing the buttons on the layouts, I now use Waxy Flax, this stuff is great all you need to do is thread it through the button hole and use sticky dots to adhere to the page, makes everything fast and easy, Waxy Flax comes in 10 colors that will coordinate with just about anything, give it a try!

I have Tyler today so one layout will likely be all I can get accomplished, we need to get our St. Patricks day cupcakes finished after nap time, that should do me in for the day!

Buttons galore

Are you like me when it comes to buttons, I have so many cute jars and containers with buttons in them but very few make it onto my pages so this week I will be dusting the jars off and digging in. The layouts posted here are the best of both worlds, I did use buttons and they came in the WOTG "You Rock" kit, sorta like a 2 for sale don't you think? I have had this WOTG kit for awhile now, I was to lazy to print the photo's that I wanted to use on the layout, finally today I thought this would be a great opportunity to kick off button week and let you get a peek of this kit. Hope to get an additional layout done with "You Rock" tonight but darn if I can find the photo's I want to use on the PC files.

Go collect all of your jars, line them up and dig in ladies we need to use them up to make room for more!!!! E-mail me your layouts using buttons and I will send you a little blog candy, together we can tackle our stash!!!!

A few more blooms

I know it is a new week and I promise we will do a new challenge this week but for right now I finished an additional layout using the Felicity WOTG this morning and wanted to share it with you. I scraplifted the layout on page 8 of the spring cattie, I did make a few changes since I was working with a 8x10 photo of our Daughters pre-school photo, from 1981, another oldie but goodie!! Also I don't have the stamp set used in the cattie (yet, wink) so I substituted the stamp of the month set from January to do the journaling block. I love how it turned out and am so happy to be using even more photo's of our girls from way back when. Will post again today with this weeks challenge that I finished a bit ago. For now ya'll get on the PC and order a Felicity WOTG, you will LOVE it!! Note the flowers I have been using do not come in the kit they are sold separately, the price is $7.95 for 105 peices, thats a really great deal.

Last of Baby Boy layouts

baby boy....

What the heck, why is it when I post layouts they sometimes turn on me!

I stuck with only stamps for my titles in this album, I have never been much of a stamper and didn't see myself as embracing stamps on layouts, stamps for me has always been about cards, however I was wrong! The more I use them the more I am discovering what a great tool they are and I am all about tools!! I LOVE my Cricut and do the majority of my titles with it but I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and give CTMH alphabet stamping a try. WOW is all I can say, it was so easy and fast two of my favorite things.

So if you are like me and hate to waste money on sticker sheets only to find you need one more letter therefor you must buy an additional sheet of stickers give CTMH alphabet stamps a try, don't get me wrong I will still be using my Cricut but in this economy I know it is hard for many ladies to make the investment on a Cricut and all of the cartridges needed. CTMH stamp sets start as low as $22.95 with the highest running $34.95, make sure and purchase an acrylic block that is large enough so you can stamp your entire title at one time, so cool

baby boy

The stamping done on the majority of the pages come in the Caboodle WOTG kit but I did add a few extra's in some places