Elizabeth

Normally my husband is not the best photographer in the world. Really, he’s not. But every now and then he surprises me with a photo that I love, and this is one of them. He was standing on the top of a wall trying to get a photo of an Arizona sunset. The sunset photo didn’t turn out so good, but then he turned the camera onto Elizabeth and took this beautiful photo of our little girl. (March 2006)















Credits:
Background paper is a blending of IOD’s lemongrass paper, ScrapArtist’s kraft paper and Nancie Rowe Janitz’s Autumn Glory overlay. Frames by Katie Pertiet. Leaf and floral elements by Sausan Designs. Ribbon, and textured circle by Corina Nielsen (Tuscan Villa kit). Staple from IOD’s essentials kit.

Hanukkah

2005

Journaling:
Most of the important friendships I have had in my life have been with Jewish girls, so it only seems appropriate that your best friend is Jewish too. I’m so glad that you have a friend like Taylor where you can be buddies and still have very different backgrounds and beliefs. I hope you two have many years of friendship ahead of you; a friendship filled with both differences and likeness.















Credits:
Tracey Gilbert Monette (Clever Monkey Graphics): papers and elements from her Hanukkah kit now available at Scrapbook-Elements.
Katie Pertiet: pinned tag. Ashley Olson: flower. SMD: paint.

Concentrate

July 2005

Journaling:
You were nine weeks old and you concentrated so hard on that toy in front of you, until you couldn’t stand it any more and had to reach out and grab it. This was the beginning of your love affair with toys.















Credits:
ScrapArtist: papers from the ‘All American’ kit and the ‘Magic of Fall’ kit. Michelle Coleman: stamped alpha.
Amy Martin: folded ribbon, pinned ribbon.
Corina Nielsen: burlap flower, button.
Natalie Braxton: thinz on stringz (flowers).
Meredith Fenwick: paint brush.
Katie Pertiet: pinned tag.
Zftamp: stitching.

Two Babies

2 babies. A girl and her dog. Rachel and Lola, growing up together. November 2006.

In case you can’t tell, in the top photo Rachel is sharing her sippy cup. Next photo the two are snuggling. Bottom photo is of Rachel reading and Lola biting the book.
















Credits: Papers are from the ‘Bring it Lola’ paper kit by Lauren Reid. Crochet doily, flower and strip of paper in right corner by Sausan Designs. Paint by Nancie Rowe Janitz. Staples by IOD. Babies font by Miss Mint, covered in Lola paper.

Moving Sale

Tracey Gilbert Monette aka Clever Monkey Graphics is moving!

Beginning Sunday her designs will be available at Scrapbook-Elements, but for today only, all her designs are 50% off at Plain Digital Wrapper.

Go check them out! And then on Sunday go check out her new stuff at Scrapbook-Elements.

Santa

Santa, 2005

Here are my girls in their holiday sweaters last winter. Elizabeth was newly six years old and Rachel was just about 7 months old.

















These fun holiday papers & elements are from Corina Nielsen’s ‘Urban Holiday’ kit (Funky Playground). The staples are from her burlap shapes kit. The tin foil is from Miss Mint. The silver painted paper bag alpha is by Ashley Olson.

Little Miss Outdoors

May you always love being outdoors. Rachel, June 10, 2005.

You were a very easy going baby. But during those few times when you were fussy, the only solution was to take you outside for a walk around the backyard. Even then you loved being outdoors.

















Credits:
Corina Nielsen: papers and paper strips from the ‘breeze’ paper pack. Buckle with ribbon from ‘cool buckles’. All available at Funky Playground Designs.

Gina Miller: stitching. Amy Martin: ribbon. Ashley Oslon: flower. Miss Mint: tin foil. Jen Wilson: journaling tag. Michelle Coleman: stamped alpha

Sledding on Mt. Hood

This page doesn’t really need journaling, because Elizabeth’s facial expression tells the whole story, lol.

















This great template (quickest page I’ve ever done!) by Corina Nielsen is at Funky Playground. As is these fun papers (My Princess) and the felt flowers and that new cool clip (cute clippys). The thingz on stringz is by Natalie Braxton (on her blog). Top alpha by Miss Mint, lower alpha by Michelle Coleman. Thanks for looking!

Sweet

Sweet Baby Girl

Just a sweet photo of Rachel as she was learning to crawl last winter.

















All papers by Lucrecer Braxton (oScraps): filled with joy pack and so much cheer pack. Paint strokes by Nancie Rowe Janitz. Plumes by Anna Aspnes. Ribbons by Amy Martin. Flowers on string by Natalie Braxton. Tag by Katie Pertiet. Alpha by Jackie Eckles. Photo corner by Corina Nielsen.

First Paper Pages

So I never expected to find myself a scrapbooker. I didn't like any of the pages I had seen, and had firmly stated you wouldn't find me doing that ... stuff.

Then I saw my friend Tracey's pages, and they were a style I had never seen before. They were cool. So I decided to scrap. Its funny too, because Tracey is the one that introduced me to digi scrapping as well, lol.

Well anyway, here are what my first paper pages looked like. And no, they didn't look anything like Tracey's pages looked, lol.

(I did more 2 page layouts, but didn't feel like scanning them in, lol. Also, my apologies for the sloppy scanning job.)

Most Recent Paper Pages

I haven't done many paper pages since I started digi scrapping, but here is what my most recent page looks like.

First Digi Pages

As long as I'm sharing my first paper layouts, I might as well share my first digi pages too. Made with a freebie kit from Shabby Princess.

My obit.

Ever wonder what your obituary will say? Here's what mine will say, apparently...

'What" will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Santa Claus

Santa Claus & Elizabeth

December 2005: When Shaun took Elizabeth Christmas shopping for me they stopped by to see Santa. Of course, this wasn’t the official Santa visit with her sister, so she got to see him twice last year. The journaling says, “Does visiting Santa twice mean you get more toys?” (Which I think is a very good question…)

















This is a fun new kit called ‘Little Lady Holiday’ by Corina Nielsen available at Funky Playground Designs. Except the larger hanging snowflakes, which are in a new element pack called ‘Ribbon Flakes’, also by Corina and available at FPD. (the smaller flakes are in the Little Lady kit. I love the papers in this kit, it was like she made it just to match Elizabeth’s dress, lol. The staples are from Corina’s ‘Burlap’ shapes element pack. The stamped alpha is by Katie Pertiet, except for the ‘z’ and ‘&’ which are by Miss Mint.