ELiZaBeTh CaRviLLe and ELiZaBetH CarViLLe LyNN

Here is another layout of Ellie's baptism. This is my grandma holding her. They share the same name, other then the Lynn that i added to Ellie's middle names. My grandma was so important to me growing up and i love looking at this picture. The baptism outfit is the same one that my niece Brittany and Ben were baptised in. Prima paper, prima packaging, prima bling, prima flower, smooch spritz, craft supply flowers, and of course my VINTAGE flower center. I glimmer misted the craft flowers. I really love the Prima stitched paper...

Ellie's BAPTISM

Here is a layout of Ellie's Baptism. I have had this paper prior to even having a baby girl so i have had it for a while. It is not what i would typically scrap with now, but since i had it, i decided to use it. I had to glimmer mist it, to had a little messiness to it. Prima bling, flowers, and butterflies. AND A HORRIBLE PICTURE OF ME!!!!! actually i can not believe that i have posted this on the blog.

CtMH TopStiTcH MaKE anD TaKE

here is a super fun layout that Michelle Chikos who is a Close To My Heart consultant did for our monthly kit club. The paper pack is topstitch. Cathy from Altered Art had some luminiere paint that i had to streak across the page. It was to CLEAN for me prior to that. This picture of Ellie is one of her in my favorite outfits. We went to the circus last year, and she did not like it too much, so we played while my mom and Ben stayed and watched the circus. I spent this weekend a Michele's seriously scrappin fun retreat. It was PHENOMENAL!! I had soo much fun with my Friends. I won the BIG prize... Thank You Michele!!

HanGinG FrAMe

I saw this frame at the retreat in Chamberlain. Lynn with scrappin ladies had this as a class and i fell in love. The frame is from adorn-it, and it has a plexi center with vinyl wording about family. i am a little of a perfectionist and did not like how the letters transposed to the plexi, so i decided to make it a frame. This is one of my fav pictures of Ellie and myself, so i had to use it. The paper is from MME quite contrary line , the embelishment bling are prima, and i made the rose with core-dinations. All of those came from THE PLAYGROUND. Then the beads, man do i love vintage jewelry, and to top that off with a lovely vintage rose link from a necklace. I love love love how this turned out. Oh yeah, i am really into my glimmer mist, so i sprayed it with marshmellow!!

PriMa STitChEd PaPeR~ I'm LoViN' IT

how fun is this prima stitched paper?? i absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it. simple layout, yet it looks like it took a lot of work. Cathy @ the Playground will be getting some in, so others can have have the joy of playing with this mulberry, yep i said mulberry, paper!

I am BAAACK~ Boy DoES tiMe FLY

It has been a long time since my last post. i have been crazy busy. including going to the scrappin ladies retreat in chamberlain. i mainly worked on a birthday gift, but i did get a couple of other things started. i did finish a layout prior to the retreat, i took 10 nights of work. i believe it was well worth it.. the base paper is an orange piece of mme, that i layered music pages on, then covered with jenni bowlin white acrylic paint, and then distressed using tim's distress inks. i glimmer misted the paper and the chipboard faith word. it was a process, and in this process, the cat attacked faith and hence, the rip in the chipboard. i also used utee for the cross, and made a tule flower. then for the pearls, wow! i am loving my vintage jewelry stash.. the picture is of Ellie's hand/bracelet i had made for her baptism.

My SeConD HyBriD

I really like this one. It was my first digital layout. I just love the simplicity. I added a distress stickles, prima butterfly and flower. along with one of my special little blings that i have. the ribbon and blue paper were left overs. Actually the ribbon was on my scrap table, i had put them on my christmas tags. So i thought hey, lets put it on.

My FiRsT HybRiD

This is my finished project!! not to bad. All of the digital elements were from two peas. Thanks!
Then i added a few primas, and i had the happy day sticker and bloom and grow stickers, ????. Of course bling! Check back soon for the other one. I LOVE it!

2nd DigiTaL

Wow, i figured out how to decrease the file size, so i could post my 2nd digital layout. i have printed these, however i did not like how my printer printed them, so i tweaked my printer and hopefully i can reprint them without lines on them. and of course the lovely rocket scientist that i am, i took the ones that i did print to work. do think i can remember to bring them home?? nope, i am sooo excited to get out of there, i would leave my keys, purse, phone and self behind if they were not all grouped together and needing the keys to get into and start the car. yep, i am blonde. some would say it is drugs, i am just a TRUE blonde!

EllIe'S 2nD BirtHDaY

My Baby Girl turned 2 on the 28th of December. With all of the Christmas bustle, i decided to wait until this weekend to have a birthday party. It was a small party, my parents were in Minnesota watching the Vikings kick some rear, so i just had my sister and aunt over. The party turned out quite nice. I picked My Little Pony for the theme, not knowing how Ellie would like it! and Wow did she really like it. She picked her Ponies out of the cake that she wanted to eat, yes, i cut right into the middle of the cake, for my princess. I bought the cake image off of ebay, and that made this cake simple, simple to decorate. It was actually the quickest cake I have ever made.

TwEEt as PiE EarLy BirD

I can not remember if i posted this layout. but i adore it, and since it is my baby girl's 2 birthday i will post on of the cutes pictures.

EliZaBEtH and FanCy PanTS

Fancy pants has always been one of my favorite paper lines. here is a layou using all fancy pants, except for the white letters/number and the bling. i was doing a STEP OUT of YOUR BOX, Kendra, and scrap more then one photo on a page.. this is my end result. I was finally able to scrap all of Ellie's 3 month picures!!! YeAH

BaSiC GReY ~ WisTeRiA

I loved this line the moment i saw it and had to get it. This is also one of my fav pictures of Ellie, just look at how happy she is. love, love, love the smile. The purple cardstock is bazzill, however it is majorly glimmermisted. The flowers are prima, and again glimmermisted. the patterned paper and chipboard, as well as brads are basic grey. Embroidered thread, DMC. and of course my beautiful beaded centerpiece is one of my favs..... i would like it to be my signature when ever i get the chance to put a beaded cluster on.. thanks for looking. did i say i love this layout??/

I LOVE THIS BEADED CLUSTER, it was one of my favorites. i gues i got to use alot of favs on this page......

HaLLoWeeN

Halloween~ i am running a little late for adding this on here, but i had it started on the first, however Ben's picture would not load, so i had to get another one. Here is the world's most handsome cowboy,,,,, BEN. he looked so cute.

This is a picture of my cuties going to my grandma's apartment. Ben was not cooperating for picures, and i wanted one with the 2 of them. not soo great!!

Princess Elizabeth was just loving the camera attention. i made her top with glimmer mist and bling. it started out completely white. the tutu is from hannahtutus on etsy. and this is the most gorgeous tutu. The queen (me) actually loaned Ellie one of my crowns for her hair.


thanks all for taking peak

FanCY PaNTs~ SwEEt PeA ~ eLLiE

this is a super quick page i did of Ellie. i am trying to get caught up a little and this is a super fun and cute way to get a page done. i put a fancy pants transparency over the picture and added stickles and bling to the paper. This is a picutre of Ellie @ 3 months.

OuR 1st CaMpiNG TriP in OuR NEW Camper

Well, almost a month after buying our new camper, we were able to go camping. Thanks to my dad for towing it up to the campground! Pat has to work till at least 7pm every week night and 6pm on saturdays. Well, my dad set up our camper, thank goodness he knows about campers, because i am a complete newby to the whole camper camping thing. I was then alone in the DARK, ok, i had electric but it was DARK outside, with the kids and Grace. Pat finally arrived around 10:30 pm. I DID NOT SLEEP @ all! Ellie kept me up all night. Pat went to work on Saturday and left by 7:30am. Did i mention yet, that Grace is in heat!! So KC is an absolute nut!! Pat took KC with him, so i did not have to explain the whole birds and bees to Ben, who can not stop saying WHY, WHY, WHY, even when you have explained everything possible and every different way possible. So i thought, I am going to be a good mom and take the kids to the lake and let Grace swim. We were having a wonderful time. Grace is an awesome swimmer and Ben did a GREAT job at throwing sticks in the water for her. It was time to go to the mining claim for a family get together so i turned to get everything in order, and Ellie threw something in the lake for Grace to get. The only problem is, CAMERAS don't float. In to the lake i went~ Ben screaming that i was going to drown, and Ellie looking so dang cute just waiting for me to retrieve her "STICK". No such luck~ and i was soaked!!! i had no extra clothes in the car, so all the way back to the campground, soaking wet and smelling like FISH! So now i have no pictures, just this blog for my memory of camping. We went to the mine, and wow, do i love my dad's family, THEY ALL HATE DOGS!!!! i could not hear one more word about dogs from my aunt or i would of ........ well, we made that a quick trip to the mine. on the way back to the campground it started pouring! i made 2 trips from the car to the camper and i was soaked all the way through my underclothes!!! so now, my type of camping is WiFi and cell service. so i was checking out 2peas, and my computer CRASHED!!! have i told you that, that is where all of my pictures were!!! yeah, no longer have my pictures!! Dell is sending me a new piece to hopefully fix my computer, but all info is going to be gone!!!! OUCH! so there was our first camping trip. many more like it, and i will decide camping is just way too expensive. And can i say that i loved my camera!! I hope Horsethief Lake enjoys it as much as i did!

Ben EnjoYinG LiFe a

i love, love, love kaiser. and i love my boy. this picture is one of my favs of Ben! People say it shows how much like his mom he is. all paper and brads are kaiser, life chipboard form TLC, and thickers! and when i do one of Ben, i must do one of Ellie~ i love the paper and easy of use of close to my heart. one last layout using this paper pack.

FiNaLLy I FiniShed Some PaGeS!!

I finally finished some pages i started a long long time ago! the first one is frome close to my heart~ i used the cricut to cut i adore~ i really enjoy how this one turned out!! the other one is all various items from my stash. i love how the tulle matches the tutu ;) Thanks for looking!

Close To My Heart

Here is the layout that i did at michelle chikos, a close to my heart consultant, retreat. i had a ton of fun creating this and this is my first page using a sewing machine. i LOVE how they turned out. We had a contest at the retreat, and i won with these!!!! i won a cool making memories wall storage unit!!! thanks michelle for the awesome prize and for a super retreat....