My Review

Originally submitted at ScrapbookingAlley.com

More Beautiful Than the Picture!

By JeepMama-Ar from Arkansas on 1/28/2010

 

5out of 5

Pros: Archival Construction, Strong Construction

Best Uses: Display, Home

Describe Yourself: Photo Enthusiast

I love this album! It is so beautiful, it's embosssed, and the window is easy to access. Much better quality that other albums I have purchased.

(legalese)

What I did on Sunday, Jan. 18

I'm so excited to actually be working on MY scrapbooks again! Not that I minded making the Christmas presents that I did make, but WHEW they take up a lot of time... three month to be exact! So now I'm making progress once again on my family's book.

Scarlet Lime-January 2010 Kit:
CTMH-Twitterpated WTOG:

CTMH-Back Country WTOG:

And that's it! I'm still working on our camping/biking trip to Mt. Magazine, hopefully I'll finish that up this coming weekend.

I will have to retake these pics as I hate them in the page protectors, but time time time.

Cards for a Sick Child

A friend of mine (hey, Wendy!) said she would like to start sending cards to a sick child and wanted to know if I was interested in joining her.... I said sure! I'd make em if she'd write & mail em, I went thru all the cards I already have made and have 23 that I think "our" girl will like. Plus I made these this past weekend:

They're not very exciting, but I kind of like them. I didn't stamp anything, just a little distressing on the last one.

If you're interested in getting more information, you can contact: Shannon McDermott, Kiss Crop & Shop, http://www.kisscropnshop.com/; she'll be more than happy to provide information to you to help make sick children happy.

Ribbon Holder

My awesome husband built this ribbon holder I designed. My first design was way too small for al my ribbon, so I gave it to my bff and she loved it! I love my new one... this is actually ALL of my ribbon (ok so there's a little in a ribbon dispenser too)

Scarlet Lime Challenge Met!

All of these pics are of our trip to Texas at the end of May 2009 for Ron's nephew's (Samson) high school graduation. Believe me, there will be more pages of our trip that I just haven't had time to finish yet.

My bff, Tricia, challenged me to use part our Scarlet Lime December kit & I HAD to go take care of it ASAP! Please click on the picture so it will blow up or you will miss some of the very small details! While I didn't use any of the ribbon/fiber that came with the kit, I did use a pale blue CTMH ribbon on the top pic of Ike in the tree.

Left page: Ike in the tree in the front yard, everyone went to look at him acting like a monkey!
Right page: various groups of people playing, mostly brokendown in age groups.



A few months ago, CTMH had a grab box sale and I just had to get one. The following papers were included in the box. I've had a hard time using them, but they worked perfectly for our Texas trip.

Left Page: the super clear sky all the way to Texas, it made for a great drive.
Right Page: Samson's invitation and senior pictures.

Finished my MIL's Album for Christmas!

Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed doing them!

Not everything is CTMH as I went with what worked best for the pages. Please let me know if you'd like to know the name of a paper & I'll do my best to find out what it is.

Did someone say.....

What goes perfectly with scrapbooking & card making? CHOCOLATE!!! Therefore, tonight I signed up under my sister CTMHer, Sheila Cantonwine, who will now be my choco-upline :-)

Once I get my kit, I'll be looking for people to have me feed them chocolate (not necessarily my hand to their mouth, but you know what I mean).

And I must appologize to all, it's been so long since I posted a picture of anything but I promise I HAVE been scrapping! In fact, just last Sunday I actually finished my mil's Christmas present.... her childhood - it's 99% black & white photos from the early 30's to the 60's, it was an amazing project that I love doing every minute. I will take some pics and get them posted of the best pages. I cannot wait to give it to her.

On a funny note, my devil kitty it currently digging thru our clean laundry pulling socks out of the pile & taking off with them. I think he thinks one is a mouse! lol Crazy Gigi!