Our Valentine's

The photo Valentine's went sent our loved ones.

I let Gracie browse through the party favor section at Target and she came up with these recorders, so we bought pretzel bags from the craft store and printed these little Valentines to slip in the bags and sealed them with washi tape.  It was raining when we took pictures of our Valentine's so the photos are a little dark, sorry.

Owen's Valentines I copied from the internet.  I got the idea and printable jar here.  They were super easy.  I used lollipop bags from the craft store.

December Daily Completed

I finished my December Daily before the end of 2012.  I took some quick pictures (aka.  bad photos) of the pages to share.  This was a great way to do a DD album.  I put no planning into any of the pages, I just stuck a photo on a page and jotted a few quick notes.  The goal was simply to document a few special memories from December.

December Daily 2012 {pages 1-4}

Here is a look at my first 4 days of my December Daily.  I am only doing a single sheet for each day, so days 1 and two face each other when you open the page and days 3 and 4, etc..  I put all of the pages from the kit in to the binder randomly and I simply scrap my photo onto the page and add the little things to go with it.

December Daily 2012

I am back with the beginning of my December Daily for 2012.  I am using the Teresa Collins kit this year and keeping it super simple with a single page for each day.  Here is a look at the quick, little title I put on the cover.  The little album came with this kit.  I will be posting the inside pages soon.

Heidi Swapp Memory File

I am finally going to get around to posting all of my projects I worked on this summer.  This was the Heidi Swapp memory file I created to submit for the design team.  I had really wanted to get Owen's 1st birthday scrapbooked and since special events like 1st birthday's often have multiple photos I want to include, this memory file was the perfect solution.  These are pre-printed file folders that I cut up and sewed together to make a little book.

The large cake photo has journaling and a star added to the photo before I printed it at Costco.

I love how it turned out.  I just took this project and slipped it into a page protector in his regular baby book.

Beautiful Moments in Time

I am back to a little more traditional scrapbooking these days.   As I switch out photos in frames throughout my house I like to scrap my favorites, like this photo I took after Gracie got her haircut.  I did this page quickly using some Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic collection, and a few scraps from older Basic Grey.  The Beautiful word is Echo Park this&that.

Heidi Swapp Media Team Projects

In July, I decided to make a few projects to submit for the Heidi Swapp Media Team Call.  I didn't make it but it definitely wasn't a waste of time since I now have some great new projects.  I used Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic bowties to make a cute little piece of art for my craft studio.  It sits on my shelf and reminds me to follow Heidi's tag line, "Make pretty stuff!"  perfect for my little creative space!

I purchased a photo frame at my local craft store.  It came with a boring, white photo mat.  I traced the old mat onto one of the Heidi Swapp color magic memory files to create a new pretty mat for my project.   I used teal acrylic paint to get the beautiful blue color and pattern.  It is super easy and I love that you can make the resist have as much contrast as you want by deciding how much ink or paint you wipe off.  I actually wiped it off in the beginning and then decided I wanted less contrast, so I just painted over it again.  I cut a small square of burlap and put it behind my bow ties.  The bow ties come with adhesive on the back and it was strong enough to peel and stick the bows to the burlap.

There you have it, my first Heidi Swapp MT application project.  More Heidi Swapp projects coming up next.