How Does Your Garden Grow?

I saw a message from my niece Erika asking that I make scrapbook pages for her [again]. Said message was somehow lost in a big pile of unread messages. Hadn't I played catch up with reading my emails, deleting unimportant ones and filing the rest in folders, I wouldn't have seen that request.

I found this picture in her Friendster site. I had a perfect kit to use for it. Something about Mom and Me. However, just when I needed it, I couldn't find it!!!

I am happier with this kit I found in Scrapbook Flair. I've been a fan of Scrapbook Flair and it has been a long time since I visited them. The cleaning up of emails reminded me. This kit is called Whimsical Garden by Gigi. [Thanks much for sharing, Gigi!!!]

I thought I'd do an extraction this time to get rid of the "noisy" background. In place of a bee flying around, I used a butterfly which is also included in the kit. The font used for the title is called Pussycat. It came with my CS3ext. I cut the pink border in half and inserted the title in between. So Erika, my dear... how does your garden grow? I see that Hannah is growing beautifully every day!

Once Upon A Time...

...not too long ago, there was a shy, quiet Princess who didn’t know what the future will bring.

She was known as Princess-Dream-A-Lot. She always day-dreamed all the wonderful things she could imagine, thinking, "why not"? If the dreams don’t come true, then at least in her imagination they did!

Soon enough Princess-Dream-A-Lot married Prince Forget-Me-Not. They lived in a castle in a kingdom far away. In due time the giggles and laughters of a young prince and princess filled their hearts with joy.

Princess-Dream-A-Lot saw all these in her dreams. She now knows that reality is far better than dreams.

The end...!



Well, not quite the end. Princess Dream-A-Lot still dreams a lot and is now also known as Princess Nag-A-Lot by the kids, Princess Scrap-A-Lot by her friends, and Princess Chat-A-Lot by her husband.



Parts of this layout is a sneak peek of what Cay has for us for May.


Supplies used: Cays Creations's Spring Blossoms : blue background with dainty embossing, the flower swirl stickers, and the yellow paper I used as a mat.


Ava & Lilly's Mommy [Scrapbook Flair] Spring Is In the Air blue mat and leaves.


CraftFairy: flowers and template used with the yellow paper from Spring Blossoms.


Font used: Vivaldi

..and yes, there is hidden journaling. It is a digital layout but it has hidden journaling.

TFL!

My Own Blinkie!!!

Cay made me this personal blinkie and I just love it! It is just so perfect because it has a fairy on it and I love fairies!!!



At last, after several attempts I was able to post it on my blog. I found out what the problem was. When Cay emailed me the link there were spaces where shouldn't be. I've noticed the email carrier I use does that. When people attach a hyperlink in their emails I can't always open it because of unnecessary spaces that appear wherever.

I am so loving my blinkie. Thanks so much, Cay! I love you!!!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter one and all!!!

I will be celebrating mine with family and friends - just for eats right after church. The kids [or teens] slept over at Jessica's house, then we will all meet at Emy's house for a little gathering [I really mean idle gossiping]. The men.... well, they will be bored. So perhaps they will all go back home to sleep. The kids... they will be bored too if there is nothing to watch on TV and I don't think Emy has video games at her house. So the kids will probably spend time in the park across the street and do what kids love best or maybe hang out at Gurnee Mills. As for us women.... it's scrapbooking time, yeyyyyyyyy!!!!

Cay has templates available at her blog. One of them is a freebie! Thank you, Cay! Have a wonderful Easter!

Life Springs Forth

All right...! this is my favorite layout of all layouts this year! I've never done something like this before where the embellies are larger than the picture...but isn't it just perfect? It seems that the trees, flower, and the bush [yeah, the small tree is a bush] are part of my backyard!

This is from Cay's second It's Easter Kit. Told ya it's full of awesomeness! I enjoyed making this layout so much. I re-sized and re-colored the flowers to have colorful ones, I colored some of the leaves on the bush. With the use of one of the papers in this kit, I made a border using a template I made. I just love it!

These are the 2 kits from which I made my new layouts. Cay has them available in her blog. There are so many beautiful pieces in them. I had fun making my layouts . Check out the trees and the birdies! They are so awesome! Well, not just them trees and birdies...! Check out everything. She's got cool papers and other embellies which you can mix and match!

Renew

If I loved Cay's first It's Easter kit, I love the second one even more! Everything in this kit is just awesome!

My first LO using this kit is about renewal.


Journaling: There's this side of Easter that some people forget about. It's not just about bunnies and chicks and chocolates and such. It is the forgiveness of sins and renewal of life!

The pictures were taken during Jessica's Easter confirmation. She chose St. Christina as her patron saint and my daughter Christina as her sponsor. Frances Cardinal George, 8th Archbishop of Chicago officiated the Sacrament.