A Mini Album

I made this mini album for a taGteam challenge at Concroption. We were sent 6 paint cards and had to use them on a layout or project. When I first saw them, I knew I wanted to use these pictures of the kids on the slip and slide. The paint cards are the solid color pages (I traced them on pp to make the other pages) and they already had the little windows and the wavy cut on the bottom.
Supplies from Concroption: Daisy D's patterned paper, More Daisy D's PP, Tim Holtz Grungeboard Letters
Other Supplies: buttons, black pen, eyelets, paint, binder rings

Want some SEI?

They are giving this away over at the SEI blog. Simply go here and follow their directions! Hope everyone had a good Fourth of July!

Cocoa Daisy Daily Prompt

We are back from vacation and almost recovered from it after a week of being home! ;) It was a great week of camping! I have lots of pictures and woould love to share but my computer has been acting up and I am scared to download them! I think a new computer is in the very near future!

These pictures are for a CocoaDaisy Daily Prompt. We were to take pictures of what we did that day with our cell phones and not edit the pictures at all. Since I don't have a camera on my cell phone...I used my little digital camera that I keep in my purse. I had a girls' night out with some friends and we had some fun in a little boutique and had a wonderful dessert!

Crayon Rolls

I made these last night for our vacation! I got the tutorial here. The tutorial was well written and really easy to follow even for a novice sewer like me! A couple things I would change...not sure if I would use the iron-on vinyl. As she says in the tutorial it makes the crayons slide out a little easier and to be honest, I'm not sure I would care too much if the material got marked up! She has another tutorial here for one NOT using the vinyl! Also...I would probably not add the ric rac. But that is more because of my sewing abilities (or lack thereof!) than the tutorial or how it looks! I just didn't get it pinned right on either one. So on Isaac's there isn't enough showing and then on Erin's it is too much! But I LOVE the toggle on the cord! All the other tutorials I found used a tie closure and I knew that my kids can't do that! Isaac can do this all on his own! Which is great since he'll be in the backseat and he can help Erin with hers! All in all a very successful sewing project for me! :)

Graduation Congrats

Since Tadd is a teacher and coach at the high school he goes to graduation every year. I have gone several years too since the 6th graders I used to teach go to his high school. This year was even more special for me...this was my last group of 6th graders before I quit to stay at home. This was the largest class to graduate in Oregon this year! I think it was 507. The statistic that shocked me the most was that this class has people that speak 42 different languages! I thought that was A LOT! Especially for a small town girl who went to school where there was only 1 language!Also graduating this year was these 3 awesome girls. They have all been running for Tadd for all 4 years and we have quite literally watched them grow up! They have been God sends to us for their love of our kids too! When I told Isaac that the 3 of them were graduating (and then explained what that meant) he started crying hysterically. We will miss them for sure! For graduation presents I took the kids to Build-a-Bear and recorded the kids saying I Love You! I think the girls liked them! :)And since this is a scrapbooking blog, these are a couple of the grad cards I made this year! :)

Summer Soiree!

I am so excited that CocoaDaisy is having another online event! I hope I get a chance to play! Here's all the info in case you want to play along too! The design team is the best over there so at least check it out!Where: www.cocoadaisy.com

When: Sunday June 14, 12noon-4pm EDT

What: Join us for an afternoon of challenges, creation, chat and of course, giveaways!!

See you there?

A Little Color!

The end of the school year is always so hectic! Isaac is done with preschool and I officially have a kindergartner! WOW! My last group of 6th graders from my teaching days graduate from high school on Friday...can't wait to see them walk across that stage! And my first group of 6th graders are graduating college this year! Holy cow! Tadd is done teaching in one week! Can't believe the summer is almost here!
I have been playing along with some of the daily prompt challenges posted by Sue over at Cocoa Daisy. I think my favorite are her color atc prompts. I have decided to make a 6 x 6 color album just for me! I am using it as an excuse to play with my camera and editing program! Here are the ones I have done so far!