Love Birds

Another picture taken on Ellie's 2 year photo shoot. Instead of being of Ellie, though, this one is of my parents. I love it! It's so fun to capture and record their playfulness, to show how much they love eachother! The layout itself is a scraplift from the SPS DT, but I like how it turned out!

Look at Me!

This is not Ellie, but her best friend Zoe. Also from her first birthday party. This one will face opposite the last layout in the album (assuming I ever get around to putting these IN albums), since they are the same event, same color scheme. They look better together than separate, I think. Anywho, these pictures have always cracked me up.

Going back in time...

Wow! This picture is from 2 years ago, at Ellie's first birthday party. She had so much fun playing with her friends, and I think it was the first time she really got to play with a bunch of friends at her own house. She loved it!

Happiness

More from last summer. I just have a ton of pictures from that, I think! But Ellie loves her grandparents, so it's worth documenting!

Giggles

Some pictures just make me giggle every time I see them. This is one of them.

She can fly!

I feel like there needs to be some sort of journaling on this one, but I don't know what yet. So this is it for now. It's another picture from her 2 year photo shoot, and I'm glad to be getting these done since her birthday is coming up again in 2 months!

This girl loves to create art...

Just documenting some of Ellie's creative side here...

Another NSD Layout: Enjoy Every Moment

I love the pictures we took of Ellie and my mom when we took 2 year photos last summer. There are a lot of them that I still haven't scrapbooked, though, because how many layouts can you do about 2 year pictures? I worked through some of them on Saturday, though, and this is one of them. I love it!

NSD Projects: Part 6

The final project from National Scrapbooking Day! This is my second favorite from the class. I'm sure I've got some travel photos from some trip or another that I haven't scrapped yet that I can put in this album. This one I love and would probably make again! (Which is cool, since I already have a second set of supplies for it from my door prize!!) This project used a TON of products from the new Heidi Swapp Travel line, which I LOVE!

NSD Projects: Part 5

This was the quickest of the NSD projects. It really just entailed cutting paper for the inside of the cover, then putting foil glitter flock rub ons on the surface of the cover. I love those rub ons, so it was fun to play with. I'm not a checkbook carrier, but this has a calendar inside and I think I'll use this as a year-in-review mini album instead. A good place to put the extra pictures from this year!

NSD Projects: Part 4

I wasn't as impressed with this project, mostly because it was so similar to (only more complicated than!) Ellie's baby announcements. And I made 40 of those.



Again, I used the back sides of all of the papers, so my tag album (you'll notice my little tags aren't shaped like tags, either, but file folders...) is peach and white with tiny polka dots instead of green stripe and green polka dot. I liked these colors much better! Ever the rebel...

NSD Projects: Part 3

This is another project that ended up looking nothing like the sample. I used the "back" of the paper (the green strip) instead of the front (which was a blue stripe - I didn't like the blue with the maroon and yellow!) and those cut out flowers on the front were supposed to be three flaps for hidden journaling / pictures. So... yeah. Mine is different, but I like it that way! (The girls sitting on either side of me have layouts that look very similar to this one, too... we were the rebels, LOL!)

NSD Projects: Part 2

This project was my absolute favorite of the day. This one alone was worth the workshop fee. It was such an original idea, and I can think of so many other uses for it! I'm excited to make more of these and think they'll be really versatile! And I'm going to use mine to plan this summer's mom and me hikes!



I don't know if you can tell from the pictures or not, but this little planner was made from a legal size clear paper keeper! Chrissy Doolen really outdid herself on this one. It's so GREAT!

NSD Projects: Part 1

I thought about making one giant post with all of the projects I made during National Scrapbooking Day. But instead I think I'm going to share them with you one by one throughout the week. That sounds like more fun. =D

So this is the first project we did at NSD. I should warn you that most of the projects I did don't look like they were "supposed" to. Some might say I have trouble following directions, but really my creativity just refuses to play in someone else's sandbox and takes on the project as its own. I'm okay with it.


I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this project yet. It was supposed to be a way to sort your pictures for different layouts, but I already have a system that I like, so we'll see what I do with this. It wasn't in my top 3 favorites, but I did sort of have fun making the little scalloped edges on the envelope flaps. And I think it turned out cute, once I figure out what to do with it.

National Scrapbooking Day!

What did you do for NSD? I actually went to the scrapbooking store and spent the entire day doing scrappy things. For me! I'll have to post the projects a tad later (and maybe not even this week, because it's a crazy week for me with Protocol and all), but for $80 and 7 hours we made 6 projects and had a blast! It was a like an all day mini retreat! Not only that, but one of the door prizes (which I WON!) was a full kit to make another set of all of the projects we made today! So basically, I got 12 projects worth of goodies! Yippee!

So it was good. I had fun. And now it's time for full Protocol mode to kick in. First class is Monday, 8:30 am. Bring. It. On.