Look what I made....

I saw this on a link off Saucy's blog and I just had to try it...
I made matching long-sleeve onsies and receiving blankets...wouldn't this be the cutest gift ever!
Look out fabricland...here I come! (I even bought a membership there tonight!)

Wedding Gift Panic

Yesterday I checked out my girlfriend's wedding web page and almost had a heart attack!! Her wedding is in two weeks and I had planned on making an 8x8 album for her gift...problem is it contains 40 pages. Now I am a fast scrapbooker, but back to work full time and a 13 month old at home come on I am not superwoman! So last night I pumped out 24 pages between 8 and 11 pm!! Now I have to finish the rest and add a few more details here and there.
Here are a few pages to look at...

Wedding Gifts

These are pages from an album that i created for a wedding gift. It is the only scrapbooking i have done lately, other than preparing for classes!

Ebay

I am learning how to set up an ebay store and thinking about selling a couple of albums on ebay! My girlfriend has sold a couple of albums, as well as individual pages. I have these two albums that are already made up and ready to sell (they are leftover from a craft sale i was in last December) so i thought that i might try and give it a try. These first 3 pages are from an 8x8 school album that i made that goes right from kindergarten to graduation. It is in a black leather album and contains 20 pages. I was hoping to get $60 for it but we will see what happens.

The next three photos are from an 8.5 x 11 family album that i made. It is in a blue album that has a photo opening on the front and says family in silver. This album also contains 20 pages. It was supposed to be for a shower gift but my friend had a girl and so i made a pink album for her instead. This album has mom, dad, sisters, brothers, grandparents, and cousin pages as well as more.

I will keep you posted once i figure up how to set up my ebay store and get it up and running. Does anyone know how to do this?!?!?!?! Once I get it set up I will take better photos and crop them so you don't see my jeans (he he he).

More Gift Albums!

This is one of the new We R Memory Keepers chipboard albums at JSI! It was so easy to make! I painted it (inside and out) and added a few embellishments to the outside. It will be use as a guestbook at an upcoming retirement tea.

Here is the same album that i painted brown and added a few extra touches. This one is a wedding gift. I thought it was perfect because the page protectors hold 4x6 photos. Since the recipient of this gift is not a scrapbooker I thought they might want to put a few wedding pics in the album rather than a scrapbook.

Gift Album

Last night I completed a 12x12 album for a shower gift. I had given a colleague an album for a gift for her first child and was asked if I would be doing the same for her second child so I had a couple of colleagues go in on the gift with me and I created another album. Funny how I just posted a month ago that I was done with this (ha ha ha). Here are a few of the pages that I created for the album. They are a little less "busy" than most of my layouts. When I make a gift album for someone who doesn't scrapbook, I tend to make more simple pages with a few embellishments.

This page is for "daddy & me" and her brothers.

This page is just for a few cute shots of "Paige"

Here is a "mommy & Me" and "sisters" page.

When I make baby-gift albums I usually include the following pages:

1. Birth Stats (as a title page)

2. 6 to 8 pages for random shots.

3. Mommy & Me page

4. Daddy & Me page

5. Siblings pages (if necessary)

6. Family photo page

7. Grandparents page

8. First--Halloween/fall, Christmas/winter, birthday pages

Birthday party

Okay....so I have Ethan's 3rd birthday party to attend tomorrow night and I was thinking...I should make a birthday card (not buy one). As a scrapbooker I always feel guilty buying cards (I always think that I should make them), but the party I am going to is for Melina's son, Ethan. I think that Melina is the queen of card making so I am feeling a little pressured! Hope she likes it!!!!!!!!

After I made the cared I thought that I would make a layout to match (now I just need a photo). I know that this sounds backwards...make a layout with leftover paper from a card. Don't ask...I never seem to do things the easy way!!!

Scrappin'

Okay...so as you know we have 7 weddings to attend this year between June 9th and November 10th! so that means 7 shower gifts right?! I had such a great time making the mini album for my mom that i thought i would make a few for shower gifts. Some of the weddings we will go to i will make an entire album for a gift but i thought that i would give people pottery or a mini album as a gift.

Here is one that i made for friends getting married in July! I have to make another one as the shower is at the end of may.

For those of you that noticed my new title i have to say THANKS MELINA!!!! She made it for me and all i had to do was post it!!! I have such great friends!!!

mother's day gift

This is the AMM mini accordian album that i made my mom for mother's day. It is a 6x6 album and was super easy to complete! I am going to make two of them for shower gifts!

Great Gifts

I love giving personalized gifts for special occasions so here are a couple of gifts i have created!

This little pink album is an All my Memories (AMM) accordian album that holds 6x6 pages, and it is only $9.99 at JSI. I am giving this one to my mom for mothers day. I have color copied some recent layouts i did of rhys (color copied at staples and reduced my 12x12 page to 50%) and placed them in this album. It worked really well because my layouts tend to be bulky and would not fit in the album, but by color copying them the pages are flat and fit well into the album.

This album is a Maya Road 8x8 Chipboard album that Rhys and I made Joey for Christmas. I had to reduce the number of pages because i made it too thick and they wouldn't all fit into the album when i was done.