Shutterfly album

So, I've had a free 8x8 book sitting in my Shutterfly account for a month or so (courtesy of Archivers), and finally put together a quick book. I just used 19 layouts from this year, and needed a cover page. Here it is - I used some of my favorite photos from the year not otherwise in the book:





CREDITS:
template by Sliva
all papers (background and frames) Jeannie Papai - Tantalizing Solids
Border and Numbers - Jennilyn - Fairdust Combo












I also finished a layout of a trip to the Museum of Science and Industry with my son.

CREDITS:

All papers - Jeannie Papai - Elemental Scraps Birthday Bash Bag (Down-n-Dirty 2 Paper Pack)

alpha (Museum) - Jeannie Papai - Dude this Rawks

Frame Cluster - Nancy Comelab - Dani's Birthday grab bag

Paper Tear template - Cottage Arts Newsletter Freebie

font - Eurostile

here's a bit of our Christmas!

Every year, I buy an ornament for each of my kiddos. In 2003, when he was 1 year old (about 1 month from being 2!) I started Nate on a new series of Hallmark ornaments - all firetrucks. In 2005, when Bella was 15 month, Hallmark had a new series starting of birds, so that is what I've been collecting for her. Here is this years tree, their newest ornaments, and the two of them!

credits:

Solid Papers, Print Papers, and Ribbons - Raechel Knight - 12 Days of Christmas Series

Template - Simply Sarah blog freebie (but I adapted it quite a bit)

font - Elegant

photos processed with Graffi's Photo Action, Lomo Effect.

New CT Layout

Here's a layout with Kiki Halbert's "schtuff" I love these Artisit's Palette papers - such pretty watercolor-y pastels. I thought they went perfectly with Kiki's new Icy Journal frames for girly winter pictures!!

CREDITS:

background paper and paper for side squares - Kiki Halbert - Artists Pallette papers

template shapers (used on 3 side squares) - Kiki Halbert - Die Cut Edgers

overlay - Jennilyn Designs - Fairy Dust (used on photo, with frame opening removed)

Frame - Kiki Halbert - Icy Journal frames(and snowflake extracted)

font - Selfish

CT Baseball Layout

Here's a layout I did of the final 2007 game at Wrigley Field. I tried to take photos to do a merge/panorama, but I could'nt get it to layout right and match the exposures (some of the field was in shadow, other parts were not), so I did a stacking-look to show the view from our seats. Kiki's baseball kit had the perfect Cubby-blue paper and adorable baseball tags! Wish the season had ended better, but there you have it!




CREDITS:
Kiki Halbert (KikiScraps) - Swing Batter Kit at Scrapbook Elements- all papers, journal strips, baseball tag

L Holt- Baseball Vintage Kit- Baseball Brad
fonts: Tahoma Small Caps
















And here's another SPORT layout about my sons first team-sport experience: Box Ball Soccer! His favorite color is orange, so he lucked out by being placed on the orange team!!!

CREDITS: Papers and stitches - "Dude this Rawks" by Jeannie Papai and Jana McCarthy at Polkadotpotato.com

template - Jeannie Papai "Get Shaped" at Polka Dot Potato

Alpha - Darcy Baldwin "Dust Bunnies" (recolored and layered)

Soccer Ball patch - CMS "Grungy Athlete" freebie kit

Photo Shoot Outtakes

Here's a quick storyboard of some of the silly shots of my two kiddos which came out of the Christmas Card photo shoot. All elements (eyelet, ribbon) and papers (plaid, star, brown, check) are from the 12 Days of Christmas components by Raechel Knight.

ps - I don't know why the image is so cruddy - but if you click on the picture, you can see the storyboard at a much better resolution!