Little Pink Flowers

Boy & Toys

This page was so fun because little Benjamin - only 5 now - took these pics of his toys all by himself.  Sweet hey.
The journalling reads:  Benjamin loves to take pictures and he loves his toys.  These are pics he took himself of his toys all lined up and posed.  You can tell he had some help from his brothers for the one of him playing with Spiderman & Dr. Octopus.  Benjamin, you are such a sweet happy little soul.  You are very easily contented by a variety of things.  You are an eager participant in anything that includes other people.  You always make us laugh and I love your sense of adventure and big imagination.

Thanks for stopping by!

All Grown Up

Wow, this whole digi scrapping thing has really taken a toll on the old emotions - lol!  Looking back at all these pics of my boys really tugs at the heart strings - time gone by so quickly, moments that are only memories now.
I have a few more pages to share with you - I hope I'm not boring you with all these pics of my kids and for you card makers out there - don't worry - I'm still making cards!!!
Here is my week 3 bonus layout:
The journalling says:  time has flown by as you have been growing up.  I guess you'll always be my little boy.  I still enjoy the time we spend together.
this is Isaiah when he was 14 - 3 years ago - wow - he's really changed in the last 3 years - he kind of still looks like a little boy here and he definitely looks like a young man now - lol!

Allll Mine!!!!

I am SO excited about this page!  I used the layout from my assignment from week 2 but the rest is alllll me baby!  I used papers, elements, brushes, alphabets,etc and did it all by myself.  I am tickled with how this turned out!

Sketch Challenge Wednesday

The first Wednesday of every month is our Prettie Wednesday Sketch Challenge. Our sketches are done up by the fabulous Frances!!!

Here is this week's sketch:

 

Here's what I came up with:

I'm loving these colors right now!  This sketch was a bit of a challenge for me but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out!  I love this new Apple of My Eye stamp set we just released!

Okay, so now its your turn!  Go and get stamping and upload your card to the Paper Pretties challenge gallery for your chance to win a $15 gift certificate for the boutique!  Be sure to use the keyword PWC80!

Oh, but before you start stamping, head over to visit Julie, I'm sure she'll have something wonderful to futher inspire you!!
 
  

A New Bird

Welcome to our Prettie Peeks for Paper Pretties December Release! We had so much fun last month using a well known song for our peeks that we thought we'd try it again, and since we love giving things away, we'll have the same rules for prizes as last month -

leave a comment on a card from the new releases in the pretties gallery and we'll pick names for you to win the new releases.

This month, in keeping with Christmas we've chosen a well known Christmas carol - Winter Wonderland!
Each day two of the Prettie Girls will upload their challenge cards based on this song. If you stop by the Pretties Gallery and leave that Prettie Girl a comment on her card, you'll have a chance to win the new set that has been used in that peek - make sense?
The contest will end December 2nd and the winners will be posted on the Paper Clip. You can find the link to the specific cards in the Paper Pretties gallery on each blog post. So, lets get started! Here's my card based on the lyrics - GONE AWAY IS THE BLUE BIRD, HERE TO STAY IS A NEW BIRD!!  Do you see him?  Do you see that little bird???

This card uses our Unknown Blessing set.  You can find this card HERE to comment on it and be entered to win this set on the 1st of December at the release party!!
Don't forget to stop on by the party in the Paper Pretties forum on December 1st at 8pm EST when all the stamps will be released for sale.

More Up & Running

I have another page to share with you - hopefully, you're not getting sick of my digi scrapping!!!  I just love to show off my kids and scrapbooking is very fulfilling to me - my way of preserving my love for these wee ones I've been blessed with. 
Here is another page I did during my class:
The journalling reads:  Eli is very sweet, is always eager, loves to play in the sand, has beautiful brown eyes, has very long lashes, makes me smile.  How sweet is that little face??!!!

I'm finding the premade kits a little challenging in that it is more difficult to choose a photo to fit with paper than it is to choose paper to fit a photo (colors and theme I mean).  This was actually the 2nd go at this one since I wasn't happy with the first pics I chose.  They and the journalling was very forced and I don't think scrapbooking should be like that.  It should be an free expression of your memories and love - at least that's my opinion. 

I am really liking the class by Jessica Sqrague.  I have learned SO much. Much much more than I expected to, and have actually had fun doing it.  I find learning new technology such a pain in the butt but I have really enjoyed this.  I do have one small negative critique - neither of the fonts used in the journalling square were included in the class materials so I very literally spent hours on the internet trying to find the fonts and/or ones that matched the ones Jessica used (which matched the alphabet which made the title).  I did find that very frustrating and think that all of the materials you need should be included in the class materials.  (having said that I am self admittedly anal about everything being matchy matchy!!)  However, I am still planning on taking more of her classes and would recommend these to anyone.

Edited To Add

Okay, now that I know some more fun stuff I can do on photoshop for digi scrapping, I went back and edited this page to add some dimension.  Let me know if you can tell a difference:
Before 

After

Hint:  Most of this page was flat so there wasn't too much I could do to it - and really I didn't want to do too much b/c I didn't want to take away from the focal point.  The only elements that were added to this page were the 'chipboard' star and the frame around the pic.  Can you see the difference?  Huh?  Can you?

Oops I Did It Again

Yep, I did it again.  Gosh, can I just tell you how much fun this is!!!  I signed up for another of Jessica Sprague's classes and here is my week one project.

This one is a little plain and very flat looking to me but its only week one right?  The journalling reads:  I would never had guessed that when I had 9 month old twins I would be sooo excited to be having another baby.  You were such a SWEET SURPRISE!  One that I never imagined but one that I will love forever.
I think this would be so pretty with real ribbon and a real chipboard star!  I'm excited to see how my digi scrapping changes and evolves and I'm really excited to learn more advanced techniques to bring layouts like this to life.

 

Who's Ready for a Sale???

With the economy still a little low and the holidays on the way we figured you could all use a break to buy yourself a treat or another stamper on your Christmas list.  SO, to celebrate the American Thanksgiving, Paper Pretties will be having ALL of our Thanksgiving, Christmas & Winter stamps 30% off for you!!!  The sale will be effective from November 26th until the 30th.  Then on December 1st we'll be releasing a bunch of NEW stamps - yippee!!!  Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

In the Meadow...

...we can build a snowman!  There's my inspiration from Winter Wonderland for this card for our Prettie Peeks:
This is one of our new images by Jennifer Lambein called Heart of Joy.  It comes with 2 sentiments as well. This is just one of the images that will be released on December 1st!  How cute is he!!  Now head over to visit Heather and Jennifer and see what peeks they have for you!!