Showing posts with label Blake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blake. Show all posts

Day 28


 Today I am thankful for Blake my youngest son! He is my cuddle boy!
He is the sweetest thing and is just growing WAY to darn fast!
I love you my Boo!



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Tessa

Two for One Special!


Here are some more layouts that I did last Friday at the crop I went to. The first is on my oldest at the pool at a local motel when the in-laws were in town. I used my Fiskars Boundary Waters to create the edged cs for the blue piece. The large sand dollar I cut out using my Expression. I then sponged some Creamy Caramel ink onto it to help define the cuts. The Bo Bunny strips I punched the edge using my SU scalloped border punch. I hand cut the wavy piece of Cosmo Cricket Snorkel. The cannonball strip is also from Cosmo Cricket snorkel line. I used an old page maps sketch to start - as usual! HA!
 My second layout for your viewing enjoyment is of my youngest son Blake on his first birthday - but they weren't really birthday pictures. I had trouble coming up with a title and journaling for this one! Finally came up with Sweet One as a kind of play on words with the fact that he was turning one! This paper is all from a MME stack that I got at Hobby Lobby - I vowed not to buy stacks any more but I love this one! The orange border I punched along with my Fiskars Threading Water punch - it is my go to border punch! I traced the glittery stars on the brown with a white gel pen to make them stand out more and then cut stars out of another sheet of paper and popped them up using dimensionals. The journaling spot sticker is from Making Memories Animal Crackers Jack. The title letters and swirls are from Pink Paislee. This layout was for the Scrapbook.com Old Page Maps Challenge LO #1.


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Tessa

Dino-riffic!


 So with CKC Des Moines looming (July 8,9, 10 - hotel and classes booked!) I decided I better get my mojo going!!!! So last night I scrapped YAY! I managed to finish a layout and part of another! More on that later! I couldn't finish the second one because I can't find my SU black marker! Gasp! thinking maybe I should have more than one! I think I am either going to have to run get one today or order a couple from Amazon to have on hand! Anyway more on those layout later - after I photograph them and upload. This morning I was still feelin scrappy - yay! And so I did a digi layout!!! Woo Hoo! The layout is for one of my favorite online digi sites My Life and Scrap. It was a scrap lift challenge - always good for inspiration!!! This is how it turned out!
 Isn't my Blakerboo cute?!?!??!?
 I used RebeccaB's Ruffy Saurus kit for this layout but did some color changing to better match the pictures! Thanks for looking!
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Tessa

Peek-a-boo


You know as a teacher you think I would KNOW to read directions carefully and refer back to them as needed! Um no such luck! I played in the Scrapbook Variety challenge on SCS last week and it was a cake challenge! Very fun! You were to pick a kind of cake pm the hostess of the challenge and she would send you the recipe! Recipe being things you had to use on the layout. This was my recipe: Fruit Cake - black background, stamping, hardware, buttons, chipboard, use a punch. However I had been looking through the gallery at other peoples layouts for the challenge and so when I went to create mine, not at home where I could check a computer, this is what I THOUGHT my recipe was: Black Background, Buttons, Chipboard, Doodling and Bling and use decorative edge!So my layout follows that recipe VERY well! Too bad it's the wrong one and not really for anything! READ the directions and better yet PRINT them out! SO here's my badly followed scrap recipe cake - although you know it turned out much better than a cake would have if I would have veered from the recipe that badly!
Isn't it CUTE? My first circle layout! I really like the way it turned out! And the series of photos - showing him playing peek-a-boo? TFL!
Tools:
CS: Bazzil with an edge Black scalloped circle
PP: Pink Paislee Vintage Moon
Other: White Gel Pen, Basic Grey and SU buttons, Glitter Thickers


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Tessa

Christmas Pics


Here are pics from this year's Christmas! No order or rhyme or reason to them just my faves! I had a bugger of a time getting them to upload to blogger for some reason! GRRRR!

My sweet Baby Blake - this was him after mommy was trying to get a cute pic of him in a Santa hat - which totally didn't work! He hates hats! But this is precious and a pretty good trade off!

My silly oldest child - I can see the layout now - Have a cool Yule!

Me opening my custom stamp pad holder - so glad hubby actually got a pic of me for once!
My boys in front of the tree! Aren't they cute?

Blake opening up a present from Grandma Ray and Papa Tim - look at that bow! My MIL has given me a complex about wrapping and bows! (not really she is a VERY nice woman)

Blake and cousin (something like 2nd cousin once removed but you get the idea) Taylor - they are 3 weeks apart! She is my cousins baby girl! We HAVE to get them together more - they live less than an hour from us!

Mommy and Blake Christmas morning - after a very long sleepless night - apparently Blake wanted to stay up and wait for Santa! Silly boy doesn't he know Santa won't come unless you are ASLEEP?!?!? Even if it is on the couch after the 5th time getting mommy/daddy out of bed! Man I should have retouched that photo!
Family Christmas Photo 2008! Not too bad - using the timer on my camera! And of course I learn about the backlight setting AFTER this pic! Next year!

My sweet baby boy and my sweet Grammie - his great grandma - my dad's mom - the matriarch of our family! There are now 5 generations living! She has 4 children, 9 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild - not counting the inlaws!
Here are my fave pics from Christmas this year....coming soon to a layout near you!
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Tessa

What a Deer!


I scrapped! YAY!!!! I was afraid I forgot how! LOL! I got goodies from Unity this week so I was dying to play! I just love this picture of Blake from last Christmas! The outfit was the CUTEST little thing EVER! It was so soft and fuzzy! And yes it had antlers - it wasn't mean it was CUTE! I wanted to play along with the Our Creative Corner Challenge today but I wanted to scrap so I thought ya know I think I can make that sketch work for a layout! And I did! I started with a cream piece of American Crafts cs, the Christmas collection I got at Mikes Black Friday. I stamped Unity's Worn Grid on a portion in Fired Brick Ranger Distress ink. I then cut my Basic Grey Wassail paper down and added a border sticker from the BG Wassail Sticker Sheet. I double matted my 4x4 photo on more Basic Grey Wassail and I used my Tim Holtz distresser to really distress the edges and then inked them with Frayed Burlap Distress ink. I added 3 pieces of PTI's Ripe Avocado double stitched ribbon folded over to create little tabs to the top and then added a wassail sticker, Making Memories poinsettia, and cut out image of Unity's do not open to the bottom left corner (image stamped in PTI Ripe Avocado). To create the title I used MME Bohemia rubons in brown and then BG Wassail alpha stickers and holly stickers. I jotted the date and his age in the bottom right portion. Thanks for looking! Man it feels good to scrap again! I actually finished another layout but am trying to decide something and I might need it for that so you only get this right now!

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Tessa

Sweet Baby



This is a layout for my last month as a Review Team member for Serendipity Scrapbooks. I received the Melissa Frances baby GIRL (?!?) kit but found that most of the papers in it were suitable for either gender. The base for this layout is one of the papers and well as the scalloped journaling tag in the bottom right corner. The scalloped edge and large bracket are grey American Crafts cs which PERFECTLY matched some grey fabric thickers I had!!!!! The twill across the page near the bottom is from Taylor Vanbruggen's store. The circle by the title I made with my JustRite stamper! Those little alphas are TINY! But it was so much fun creating my custom embellishment! It has his name and birthdate on it. I used the TNR font and tiny alpha on the wood stamper stamped it twice in Going Grey ink once on white cs and once on the blue. Punched them out and layered them! The journaling reads: Just hours old and already so totally wrapped in the love of your family.

Tools:
PP and Tag: Melissa Frances Baby Girl Kit available at Serendipity Scrapbooks
CS: White and Bashful Blue by SU, Grey by American Crafts
Stamps: Just Rite stamper
Ink: Basic Grey
Tools: Threading Water punch, circle punches
Other: Pale blue twill from Taylored Expressions, Grey Fabric Thickers
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Tessa


The Day After The Day Before


It is the day AFTER Blake's party and it's the day BEFORE his actual birthday!
Here are some pics from the party.

In all his birthday gear getting ready for cake!

The Birthday Boy after enjoying his CHOCOLATEY cake!



With Momma and the card I made him! He though it looked good enough to eat as he proceeded to put it straight in his mouth!


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Tessa

Happy WCMD!!!


I hope everyone has a GREAT World Card Making Day and gets some quality stampin time! This day has an extra special meaning to me. You see last year on WCMD (Oct. 6) I was all set to work on assembling all but the crucial info and pics for the baby boy I was expecting. Well that and catch some good sales! Blake had a different plan! Around 1 pm my water broke however I was having no contractions or pain of any kind so I wasn't SURE it was my water. I ran to Target and some other errands during which my water started GUSHING! I made it home and told Andrew this was it and we got to the hospital around 4 pm. Blake was born at 7:00 pm on the dot! So I will always think of my baby on WCMD no matter what day it falls!

Here are a couple of cards to share with you today!


This card is my baby's birthday card for his party today! More about that later! I made this using Simple Birthday Thanks - you know that BIG cupcake! I love this stamp but hadn't used it yet! I paper pieced the top by stamping in white craft ink onto some patterned paper. I stamped the cherry on pure pom cardstock and the base on bashful blue and flipped it over after cutting it out and ran it through my paper crimper ~ which I think is maybe the 2nd time I've EVER used it! I stickled the cherry with Diamond stickles and the spots on the cupcake with Baby Blue stickles - also used those in the punched out area from the ticket corner punch. I tied some choc chip twill around the base and some bashful blue taffeta ribbon too!


This card is for one of the WCMD challenges on SCS! It was a sketch challenge and I {heart} a good sketch! This is old DP called Apple Cider - I really like it! The sentiment was stamped in Versamark and then embossed with COPPER ep! I don't know where it came from but I think it's perfect for this card! I punched that out and layered with more Apple Cider DP and ran some River Rock stiched ribbon through it! I added some cream DMC floss to the choc chip buttons and put one on each panel. Thanks for looking!!!!

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Tessa


Mini Vaca - PICS



Looking for the perfect berry.


Blake and Daddy at the kiddie carnival - Blake wanted DOWN!


The great fisherMAN!


This one's for Heather - see the boys hats?!?


Mama and Blake at the kiddie carnival.


Family pic at the game - Blake stayed home with Grandma.


Kaden and Louie the Springfield Cardinals mascot!


This is one of the berries Kaden picked!


Blake, Papa, and Grandma Ray at Silver Dollar City


Mommy MAKING Kaden float - the boy needs swim lessons!


Daddy and Blakers in his life jacket - he HATED it!


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Tessa

Party Like a Blog *STAR* CASE!


Over at Serendipity Scrapbooks they are having a Blog Party all month long! How fun is that?! Lots of motivation to blog and scrap sistahs coming to your blog and leaving comments! There are also some challenges! This particular post is for a challenge to CASE (copy and share with everyone) or scraplift a layout of a fellow blog *star* and post it on your blog of course! I chose to CASE Jen at (Simply Wonderful). I love her blog and we have similar styles and she's also my partner for the Team Challenge at Serendipity! This is the layout of hers I chose to case. Isn't it GREAT?! As I was perusing her blog trying to decide which layout of hers to use it just jumped out at me! I was kinda looking for a LO with white space - I needed one of those for Challenge # 10 over at Totally Random! So this layout (mine not Jennifers) will be appearing over there too!

The layout I did is the title page for my baby's album. He's only 9 months old so I figure I am doing pretty good keeping up! (ok maybe not) All my paper is by MME except the cardstock the photo is matted on which is Blue Bayou from Stampin Up. As you can see I kept the general layout and colors the same just tweaked the papers and sizes a bit. I loved the ric rac on her LO and so I used some on mine I bought the Ric Rac collection from CTMH it is so neat! Several different colors and sizes of ric rac! Mine doesn't have the title really or journaling - Just the big chipboard B for baby Blake! Right under that is his name and date of arrival! The big chipboard B is from Cosmo Cricket - the buck naked (giggle) chipboard that has alphas and lacing cards and other elements. I am going to make a lacing set for the boys but had lots of extras and thought it would be cool on this page. I painted it with MM scrapbook paint in Shopping Bag! (perfect for me lately! need to stop though) I then threaded and tied some Blue Bayou stiched ribbon in the holes. I am finally liking Blue Bayou and it retires in a month! I also used Blue Bayou stiched ribbon going across the page. I got to use my new Threading Water punch - I am loving it! It is a smaller scallop than I thought. I am hoping I will be able to layer it with the new scallop border punch SU is coming out with! We shall see. Thanks for looking and thanks for the inspiration Jen!

Tools:
PP: All by MME
CS: Blue Bayou from SU
Ink: Choc Chip Stamp and Write Marker from SU
Embellies: Chipboard B from Cosmo Cricket, Blue Bayou Stitched ribbon from SU, brown ric rac from CTMH
Other: MM Paint in Shopping Bag, Threading Water Punch, Glue dots,


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Tessa

A Boy's First Hero................


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..................is his Daddy of course! This layout captures that idea for my hubby and our youngest son, Blake. I wanted pics of Andrew and Blake with him in uniform but Blake doesn't like it cause daddy is HARD (the vest, the radio, the gun, you get the idea) So I took these pics one night after Andrew got off work but he still had his SJPD uniform turtleneck on. I just love how it turned out! I hand stamped the title using Headline Alpha and my stamp -a-ma-jig - if you haven't ever tried one you really should! And have someone who knows what they are doing show you - I love it cause now I can stamp perfect titles!!!!! The journaling is also stamped but it is using Papertrey Ink's Simple Alphabet. I just love their stamps! And paper and ribbon and ink! This is using SU's I'm here Boy simply scrappin kit and a Janurary sketch from Page Maps. Oh and here is a close up of the journaling. It also shows the doodleing around the letters and on the blue stars that I did for some details. Thanks for looking
Hero Close up
Tools:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Choc Chip by SU
PP: Blue sheet with letters from I'm Here Boy kit from SU
Stamps: Headline Alphabet from SU and Simple Alphabet from PTI
Ink: Bashful Blue, Certianly Celery and Choc chip (stamp and write marker)
Other: Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon, stickers from I'm here kit, Spiral edge punch from SU, kraft knife,


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Tessa

~ * AKA * ~


AKA


Also known as! This scrap layout is of my little guy at 3 months. Isn't that picture hilarious! I still can't decide if I like it or not! I did this LO for a contest over at Scrap Freak it was to use an exclusive only for scrap freaks Page Maps sketch. It was a really cool sketch! The alpha cut out strip in the background was created using my friend Natalie's Cricut Expression and the design studio software. It is soooooo cool! She is supposed to email me the file so I can link it here so you can download it. I will also tell you the font cartridge I used when she reminds me. See I don't have a cricut - she does and so I just use hers. I did buy my own 12x12 mats so I am not using hers up - and I will buy her next set of blades if she lets me bug sit while she's at Disney later this month (ARE YOU READING THIS). Back to the layout. Started with a certainly celery base and used OLD basic grey papers called Baby Jack - not available anymore but I love them! Who am I kidding I love anything Basic Grey and especially BOY that is why when I saw it used on someone's layout in some gallery I had to hunt it down on ebay! It is a really pretty line of soft boy papers perfect for baby LO's. I used the page with the script on it to carry the theme of the letters. The larger pic is offset just a bit and the matte is distressed and inked. The smaller pic is matted in choc chip to make it POP off the page. The journaling strip is very vanilla CS torn and inked. The title is pale blue CM stickers on choc chip oval punched with my PINK Marvy oval punch and layered with a certainly celery PURPLE Marvy scalloped oval punch. I added some brads just for fun and paper piercing. The journaling talks about all the little nicknames we have for Blake - I never had nicknames for Kaden really but Blake I have tons! Boo Boo, Blakers, Piglet, Blakey Boo, Peanut, Baby B and more! Oh and see how the right side of the alpha strip is kinda crooked??? I fixed it!!!! And Mr. Blake is 9 months already!!!! WHAT?!? How did THAT happen? They grow up sooooo fast! Ok I am sad now. Thanks for looking!

Tools:
CS: Very Vanilla, Choc Chip, Certianly Celery all by SU
PP: Jack line by Basic Grey
Ink: Choc Chip for distressing and writing via stamp and write marker from SU
Other: Marvy punches, silver brads, Pale Blue CM stickers
Tools: Cricut Expression, Tim Holtz Distressing tool, Paper Piercing tool, Design Studio Software


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Tessa

Mi Vida Loca and a scrapbook page!


Hi all! My life has been super crazy (mi vida loca) lately! I know I know EVERYONE says that - but this is the last week of school. We had a garage sale this weekend my parents were down we went out to eat with some friends and worked on the outside of the house prepping it for paint! This week is our anniversary, Andrew's parents are coming to town, we are painting the house, putting down flooring, cleaning the house top to bottom, taking pictures to use to help sell it, and have a BBQ for Memorial Day this weekend. Throw in the boys, the pets and life in general and it gets MUY LOCA!

Anyhoo - I just realized this weekend that I can stick my memory card into our super duper printer and upload pictures! WOO HOO! I was limited cause our computer is so old it doesn't support the software to upload from my new camera! So I could only scan in things like cards - no layouts - at least not 12x12. So I present to you a scrapbooking layout! FINALLY! My first love in papercrafting was scrapbooking and I think I am better at it - but I love the more instant gratification of altered items and cards.

This layout is of Blake's ultrasound pictures. I had 3 ultrasounds with him due to some of the problems I had! I started with a textured cardstock base - love that SU now has textured cs. Then I took a strip of patterned paper with a blue brown color scheme and spaced it so that I could slide tags behind it for my hidden journaling. I made the tags with my Sizzix Big Kick and tag die.The numbers and estimated arrival date are a font I downloaded - I am a FONT JUNKIE! It is called artiststamp and I used the RGB color codes I found on splitcoast to get the exact match to choc chip! I found the perfect paisley stamp and stamped in white craft in the corner to carry on the paisley from the patterned paper. The title I cut using my friend's cricut. She was also the one who said I needed something more to divide the paper for my little tag pockets so I paper pierced them and then hand stitched on them to make the pockets more defined. I really love this layout. My PPPM friend Jodes will tell you this is the layout that took me 3 months to finish!!!! But I am back in the scrapbooking groove and I am thrilled! It just comes so much easier to me. Here is a close up of the hand stitching. Funny how I can't sew to save my life but I can cross stitch! I used white DMC thread and just went up and down - super simple! The little bracket there is a chipboard sticker and I thought it was cute cause those two show that he was indeed a boy! They are pretty poor images - our hospital's ultrasounds are awful! I don't know why they just are! Some these days are so clear and crisp - ours are blurry and just look like a blobby alien! I am so glad that I have this memory saved - it was so neat - each trip for an ultrasound was so different! The first time it was just Andrew and I, the second we brought Kaden and he loved watching his brother on "TV"! And he liked getting pictures of his brother! The last time I went by myself and it was at 37 weeks so I was close! It was neat like a sneak peek right before his birth! I would have had two more before my due date but thankfully he showed up 10 days early. I will leave you with a picture of the tags. Tomorrow is my second wedding anniversary! YAY us! I have my card ready - will try and upload tomorrow - going to stop and buy my rose tomorrow after school. We are going out to eat - Olive Garden I think. His parents are coming into town and are going to watch the boys for us.


Blake's Announcement




When I saw the I'm here set by Stampin Up I knew that it would be mine and I would use it for my announcements. The card is a tri-fold that I got the idea from someone on SCS. The middle sentiment is only attached to the left side so that it will open. I totally cheated and bought the cards premade at HL with velum envelopes. I need to take a picture/scan of the inside and post it as well!
Details:
Paper: bashful blue and choc chip from SU
Ink: bashful blue and choc chip from SU
Ribbon: Brown ribbon that Heather (chris1josh2) sent me for Birthday club.
Stamps: I'm here from SU

Who is the Krafty Mama?


Hi I'm the Krafty one! :) I'm the Queen to 2 little knights and a sweet princess. I married my knight in shining armor (kevlar) over 8 years ago and I am a REAL mom, wife and substitute teacher trying to be the best I can be! I love "krafting" but tend to buy more supplies than I actually use. I love make up, nail polish, hair products and fashion but have been known to leave the house in sweats a messy bun and no make up! I love to cook and bake but am guilty of feeding my kids McDonalds in a pinch. I love direct sales and have joined too many to mention! I would love to get to know you!

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