Rotating Display

This month Allison found a bulletin board with a box on the bottom.  She is a big St. Louis Cardinals Fan, if you couldn't tell by now:)  This is her tribute box to games she has been too.  The box is handy for her to place replicas of her tickets and other memorabilia.  The bulletin board background is an easy way for her to swap out pictures of her most recent visit to the stadium and game.

Reusable To Do List

This month Allison took an 8x10 frame and put a piece of decorative lined scrapbook paper in it. She used scrapbooking stickers to add the "To Do" title and put start bullet points down the side of the list.  This will go up by the front door of her apartment with dry erase markers to add and erase items that she needs to get done.

Anniversary Scrap

This month I decided it was finally time to start an anniversary scrapbook...but given that I had about four hundred some pictures from our first anniversary alone it was a little daunting.  So instead of a full on scrapbook, I decided to just add a little scrap touch here and there and make it more about the pictures.  Below are some of my favorite pages.

I also am attempting to get a little more organized in my scrapping department and I saw a quick idea on pinterest that I figure I can use until I decide for sure how I want to organize permanently.  I cut apart a Kleenex box, wrapped it with duct tape and hot glued on some flowers.  Then, I took toilet paper rolls cut to various heights so hold all my pens and make them easier to see.

Crafts revisited...

So January always seems to be the time when I remember how far behind I am getting on my scraping ... so I have been trying to get caught up again starting where I left off in the fall (of 2011 ...ugh) so here is a sample of the pages from our housewarming party.  

 

Also for birthdays and anniversaries this month Mike has helped me make a few more of the yarn wrapped letters with fabric flowers.

Puzzles

I am having puzzles made for my older niece and nephews for Christmas this year.  Below are the images being printed on the puzzles.  Luke's will be 99 pieces while Ethan's and Lilly's will be 30 pieces.

Halloween Bookmarks

 This month I made some Halloween bookmarks from a digital scrapbooking kit by Irene Alexeeva.

SMASH

I've thought the SMASH journals looked fun for a while but I'm not much of a journal writer. My oldest started all day, everyday preschool and after a few days of comments and stories, I knew I had a great journal to write each day! It is fun to hear her stories and hopefully this will get me over the journal slump! Plus, the products are quick and easy to use!

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Scrapbook Pages

 This month Valerie made a "quilted" scrapbook page out of pictures of her old high school marching band t-shirts.  She stitched the title of of Marching Band (seen below) to tie into the quit theme.  She decided that showcasing her memorabilia this way was easier than making an actual quilt out of all her old t-shirts.  Certainly much quicker too:)

Baby Book

This month I created a baby book for two new nieces that are on the way soon!  I used Photoshop Elements to make the pages with a purchased digital elements kit by NewlifeDreamsDesigns.  There were 20 pages total, here are just a few.

Scrapbook Page

This month  Jessica made a scrapbook page for her son's daycare.  The theme was, "All About Me!"

Remodels and Farewells

 So I figured the last month of summer was a good one to fit in some random projects.  First on my list was our Before and After House Book.  We bought our house as a fixer-uper and have put in quite a bit of work so we figured this was a great way to display the change and will be a nice keepsake of our first big project together for down the road.  I finally got all my photos printed and put the before/after shots for each room side by side writing what we had changed about each room and our favorite parts of turning our house into a home.

For my second project I put together a gift basket for my best friend who is going back to school this fall in California.  I got some practical and gag gifts and attached ribbons and notes to each item explaining why it was a college essential.  She got some good laughs out of it and ensured me that it would be put to good use.

52 Things I Love About You Book

 These are the supplies that Allison used.  Standard Deck of cards, hole punch, adhesive, stickers, 1 inch metal rings.

 Allison printed out a list of 52 things she loves about her man and then cut them into slips of paper and attached each slip to a card.

For the front and back "cover" she covered the Jokers with scrapbook paper and used stickers to embellish the front.

More May crafts

I made another exploding album for a baptismal gift, a train birthday card using the Silhouette, and finished a monkey album I had started back in September!

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Exploding album interior

I made this exploding album for my niece's baptism. I received one of these from Gail for my daughter's birthday. There are simple steps to making this album which can be themed any way you choose.

Exploding Album

I made this exploding album for March. I'm giving it as a gift in April. I will post pictures of the inside after the gift-giving is done. Stay tuned...

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Picture Board

This month Allison updated her bulletin board with a red, white and black background and some of her favorite pictures.

14 Days of Valentines

So instead of the 12 days of Christmas I decided to do the 14 Days of Valentines for my Hubby. Each day he got to open a card that either had a gift, theme for the day, or a date plan inside. The first day he got a muffin tin countdown that each day had one of my favorite love quotes for him to read. The numbers, muffin tin countdown idea, and several of the dates we had I borrowed from The Dating Divas! Below are a few pictures from the two weeks: Day 4 was breakfast in bed, Day 6 was a special Monday morning CD/itunes mix for his drive to the office with lyrics that I love written out, Day 8 was baking dessert together, Day 9 was a specially packed lunch (note: my attempt at Mater thanks to the Funky Lunch Bunch) and the last day was the all about him basket - with 100 reasons why I love him and small corresponding gifts. Happy Valentines Day everyone! : )