Emporium Clock

Here is a clock I made for my SIL Sandy - using the NEW Emporium Creative Basics Paper, my absolute favorite from the new Idea Book!

I ordered the clock through Oriental Trading - they also have square ones. Here are a couple more clocks I have done before...

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Christmas * 1989

Here is the layout that I did for this month's Reflections Challenge - I can't believe that this was almost 20 years ago - wow! I found this letter from my Great Grandma and Grandpa Sager - they had it attached to the picture at the top - the letter is tucked in a file folder behind that picture - I have also listed all the names on the file folder. Then I was lucky enough to find these other pictures from that same Christmas so I was very glad to get to put them together. The picture on the bottom left is me, my brother, and two of my cousins - it's amazing to see how much the family has grown since then - of the 4 grandchildren pictured there, two of us are married, one is getting married next Spring, and the other just left on his mission this year! There are now 10 more grandchildren (if I counted right), and my children which makes 3 (almost 4) great-grandchildren!

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The letter is so simple and sweet - it reads:

Dear Jena Vee,

Christmas is a time to celebrate the circle of our family's love. The greatest gift we can give to our grandchildren and great grandchildren is this picture of our family to remind you of the small family circle that has grown larger and larger over the years to include you and to eventually include your children and many others.
This testimony of the eternal plan of being a forever family is just part of the gift of life that Jesus Christ brought to us at his birth so many hundred years ago.

"I have a family here on earth,

They are so good to me.

I want to share my life with them through all eternity.

Families can be together forever

through Heavenly Father's plan.

I always want to be with my own family,

And the Lord has shown me how I can."

-Ruth Muir Gardner

Put this Christmas message and picture in a Book of Remembrance where it will let you keep the circle of our family's love alive in your heart and mind.

Merry Christmas with Love, Grandma and Grandpa Sager

Products Used - All CTMH: Traditional Holiday paper pack (retired), Classic Caps, Boutique Numbers, Adorning Corners

I Did It!

At the beginning of the year, I set a goal of how many layouts I wanted to complete this year. I decided I could do at least 2 pages per week, so I set my number at 104. Well, as of last night, I have reached my layout goal for 2008 and we're barely halfway through the year! I'm so excited, even though I still have THOUSANDS more pictures to scrap ;-) But I'm having fun and preserving memories, that's what counts, right? I know some gals who scrap way more than 104 layouts in a year, so to some it may not seem like a lot, but this was a good goal for me. I looked back at last year and estimated that I only got about 50 layouts done, so double that in half the time is great!

So, be warned, this is a long post of artwork! I am posting my goal reaching layouts that I've completed in the last week. I just noticed that they're all old pics - I really haven't scrapped much of my girls lately....hmmmm, interesting.

Here is a layout of my Grandma and Grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary back in 1995 - oops, I just noticed that I forgot to add my journaling piece on the right page. They were married in 1945 and still together! I still remember, at this party, how my grandpa flipped his hat around and scooped my grandma up into a big kiss - that's the pic that's framed on the left page.

The flip book opens up to the pictures of some of the grandkids holding the Top Ten List.

I used Reflections for these two pages. Products Used: Caprice paper pack, Boutique Numbers, Card Commentary, Chocolate Mini Medleys, Chocolate Ribbon Rounds, Adorable stamp set, Because I Love You stamp set, Square Window Charm, Honey Sassy Strands, 6-pocket Photo Storage Page (cut up to create flip book), Classic Caps, All You Need stamp set (retired)

Here is a layout of our County Fair back in 1989. I added Hollyhock to tie the colors into me, but now I really wish I hadn't - oh, well!

The left page with the large picture of my brother and me, will open up using a TrueFit Folio, and inside will be these pages. I just can't get enough of these stitched circles - they're so much fun!

I used a PageMaps layout on each of these - the first set of pages is from a layout from the PageMaps Book and the other set is from April 2006 - it's just the same layout flipped. Products Used: Sarsaparilla paper pack, Homestead Alphabet, Fresh Shapes Dimensional Elements, Natural Hemp, Star Struck stamp set, Black Bitty Brads, Bigger Brads (my girls helped me use my Desert Sand Embossing Powder to make these brads match the page - they love using the tweezers and heat gun!)

And here is the page I completed last night - I really struggled finding the perfect title on this one, I debated leaving it just 'Cherish' or maybe 'Cherish the MomentS' or 'Cherish the simple moments' - I am still thinking about adding an "S" to the end of Moments - what do you think? This is my brother and I twenty years ago - wow, I can't believe it was that long ago!

I used a PageMaps layout from April 2008 for this one. Products Used: Blue Ribbon paper pack, various Dimensional Element letters, buttons, Moonstruck, Indian Corn Blue, and Sunflower Waxy Flax, Indian Corn Blue RicRac, Sans Alphabet, Calendar stamp set, Delightful Alphabet, White Daisy Grosgrain ribbon

Thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for all of the sweet comments - they really make my day.

First Birthday Layouts - using photo pages

Here are some fun pages that I finished up yesterday - they are of Brailee's First Birthday. Now why exactly did I take SO many pictures of her eating the cake? Who knows ;-) and so to fit all of these pictures on 4 pages, I used the photo pages - I cut them up and used some as a flip book, and I cut one in half and used it between the cake pages. Can you believe that I got 27 pictures on just 4 pages! Wow, that's a lot of pictures now that I think about it ;-)

Anyway, here are the pages of her opening presents. The left page was done by Tiffany Cheney in the Themed Party Swap she hosted that I participated in last summer. I created the right page to match. I haven't attempted to cut apart my It's A Party stamp set like she did to get the multicolored rings, so I just left that stamp out of my random stamped paper.

Here is the page Tiffany created - I just added my pictures and wrote in the journaling jot.

I cut a photo page down to 6 individual protectors and created a little flip book - I then attached it ON TOP of my page protector using brads, so you can flip through the little book while the page is still in the protector. Does that make sense? Here is a pic of the flip book - here it is pictured outside of the protector just to reduce glare. The journaled piece is on the actual page and acts as a mat for the pics in the flip book.

And here she is with the cake - LOTS of pics on this one ;-)

My SIL, Sandy came over to scrap with me yesterday and she had an AWESOME layout where she had done little wrinkled strips under the pic and then faux stitched around it - it looked so cool and she inspired me on this layout - although mine didn't turn out as cool as hers, and I didn't stitch.

Here is a pocket page cut in half - to add 6 extra pictures...

And here it is in the album, in between the two cake pages...

Products Used - all CTMH: Good Times paper pack, Clear Buttons, Chocolate Waxy Flax, White Bitty Brads, Font CD, Spunky Alphabet (retired), Coluzzle Hula Alphabet (retired), Six Pocket Photo Storage Pages, Foundry Frame, It's A Party stamp set, Chocolate Bigger Brads, Boutique Numbers.

Colors Used - all CTMH: Crystal Blue, Twilight, Sweet Leaf, White Daisy, Chocolate, Buttercup

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