Lindsey's Creations

Today my daughter Lindsey was a busy little bee making a card for her teacher, her friend Ashley and for her aunt's baby shower tomorrow. Take a peek and leave your comments.

A card for my niece

My little niece Noa just had her 2nd birthday on 5/16. Her party was last weekend but I couldn'g go because I was sick with a stomach virus. Her mom is pregnant and I didn't want her to catch whatever I had. Anyways here is the card I made for her.

New Card

Tomorrow I'm having lunch with a good friend of mine who I haven't seen in months. She moved away briefly and rather suddenly and I didn't get a chance to say goodbye or at least give her a card. Well she just moved back to California so I thought since I'll be seeing her tomorrow I would make her this pretty card. I'm trying to get my creative juices flowing and not depend so much on copying other people's work although I do from time to time and there is nothing wrong with that. I just like to create something of my own for a change. When I was younger I had much more of a creative streak but now it takes a good while for me to come up with something new. I've always liked working with two or three color combinations but in watching videos and browsing through scrapbooking magazines I've learned that its perfectly okay to throw in different colors whether its three or five or more. No matter what it will look pretty in the end. I love flowers and couldn't help but throw in a few when I made this card. Please leave your comments and let me know what you think.

Hand-Made Card

I just wanted to share my recent work. Last night my daughter and I made a thank you card for her school band director. She plays the flute which is why we used these embellishments.

Memorial Day

Today was the first day that I didn't have to wake up early or rush to be somewhere on time. Its nice for a change to just sleep in and not have to worry about the clocking chasing me. We didn't do much today. The weather has been so peculiar lately. We can't really plan a nice day at the park with these dark clouds and cool air. We just spent most of our day indoors. Then later in the afternoon I remembered that Joann's was having a Memorial Day sale (40% off). I couldn't pass on that. So Lindsey and I went and did some shopping. I only wanted a few things but ended up spending over $100. I was so dissappointed in myself but then realized that I was saving $$ in the long run because most of the stuff I got was for card making and I always buying cards for either a birthday or shower for someone.


Before I forget, here are some pictures of my family.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Embellishments

This morning we took the kids to the park after their music lessons. I took advantage of some good photo opportunities. Some of which I will download shortly (I left the camara in the car, too lazy to go out and get it). Memory works has some really cool Fancy Pants and Daisy D's scrap paper designs that I can't wait to get my hands on. I haven't had much experience with embellishments such as eyelets and ribbons and things. Though I'm sure they're simple to use, it just never crossed my mind to use them until I joined Memory Works. I hope to really jump in and experiment with different things. I've been too conservative with my layouts and sometimes afraid to try new things for fear that they might take away the focus on the photos themselves. I've just learned to not hold back. There really is no right or wrong way to lay out your favorite pictures. Just gather some good quality paper that is acid and lignan free and some cute embellies and just have fun with it. I have attached a picture of the flowers I use. You can get a jar of 300 for $6.00. Not bad!

Sharing my work

I must have changed my template 50 times today until i could finally settle on one that I liked. I so wanted to work on my scrapbook today but my kids had a spring musical at school. I am amazed at how well Lindsey's jazz band has improved. They almost sound professional. I'll have to post a little video on their playing. They're pretty amazing for 5th and 6th graders.

I took pictures of some of my layouts. The picture quality is not the best. Maybe I can talk my hubbing into buying me a new camera. Wouldn't THAT be nice?