Finally some new stuff!

I have had NO time to post these pages that I did a few weeks ago. In fact, I haven't had any time to do anything else, and haven't even been able to surf around Splitcoast as much as I want to. This child is going through a fussy phase, and we think he might be one of the "lucky" ones who exhibits teething symptoms quite early. We can see four teeth, but can't tell if they are close to cutting or not. In any case he's fussy, temperamental, snotty (just his nose, not his personality!! hee hee), has a slight fever a lot of the time, and drooling like its an Olympic event.





In any case, I was able to do 4 pages at a crop I went to a few weeks ago. I'm so glad I got introduced to a lady who also went to it, and it turns out the group has quite a few members who live near me. They meet monthly, so I'll definitely look forward to hitting a crop each month and focusing on scrapbooking and cards!

Sorry for the bad picture. Its 7AM here, still dark, and we've been under a Winter Storm Warning since early yesterday. We got a ton of ice yesterday, then it turned into sleet overnight. It was sleeting so hard that it was thundering at one point overnight! We're supposed to get at least an inch of sleet, but could be up to 3 inches of sleet. How crazy is that?!?! (My mom is currently at the airport in Ohio trying to get on a flight here...its scheduled to arrive at 10AM my time...we'll see if she gets here. I'll apparently have some alcohol ready for her when she finally gets to my house, as she has already made it clear I am NOT to go get her at the airport).

(It is sleeting so hard right now that it sounds like rain. This is ridiculous.)

So giving the supplies for these pages is going to be interesting. I just don't remember a lot of it, so I'm going to guess. Obviously from the title you can see it is about my husband and son, who enjoy "bonding time", which typically involves a nap of some sort. I'm having a heck of a time getting the hubby to understand that, while these naps are sooooo cute, they are bad for two reasons: (1) Cameron is very close to rolling over, and (2) they throw him off the schedule I am determined to keep him on. So I try and keep all bonding naps to a minimum. :-)

Supplies:
Paper: Basic Grey Periphery, Stampin' Up Blue Bayou (retired)
Die Cuts: Basic Grey Periphery
Accessories: Basic Black Marker, black brads (unknown brand)

Will they be blue??

So obviously I forgot to post the last scrapbook page I made. And frankly, I made this a good week ago and haven't had a moment to post it, let alone make anymore! My son has been quite crabby this past week and has been demanding my attention. I'm attempting to get him on a schedule...and I don't think he likes it. :-)

So the point behind this page is whether or not my son will have blue eyes. His eyes are really blue right now...so I'm hopeful. I have blue eyes, but my husband has hazel eyes. So we'll see over the next few months what happens. I was reading on BabyCenter that some kids have eye color that suddenly changes up to 2 years out! That is just crazy. So who knows...but at this point, I wanted to chronicle his beautiful blue eyes.

Supplies:

Paper: Stampin' Up...I think its retired Soft Sky, one of my favs!!
DieCuts: Stampin' Up (retired Simply Scrappin' Kit)
Accessories: Basic Grey buttons
Stamps: Big Deal Alphabet, Stampin' Up

Time for some changes...

I needed an update on this blog. If I'm going to start posting my craft projects, then it needs to be pretty on the blog as well! Of course, the doggone title at the top looks ridiculous...but I can't figure out how to get that OFF. My wonderful "Inked Butterflies" pic was done a few years ago, and that is perfectly acceptable as a title, so I don't need a second one above that. But its a Blogger expectation. Oh well.

I have another scrap page to post, but I haven't taken a pic of it yet. I was all set to scrap tonight and seriously could not get anything going! I lost what little mojo I had. I just feel like my pages could be better, but I can't seem to gain the creativity to do them. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow and something brilliant will strike me!

Faces of Cameron

I finally figured out how to get photos of Cameron smiling: I had to do it on a sunny day when my camera's flash wouldn't be used! Every time I attempted previously to get his cute little grin, a red light would go off before the flash, and he would stop smiling. When its sunny, the camera clicks immediately, meaning I can catch his many faces.

So the two pages I created (using virtually ALL products from the Basic Grey Periphery line) were from a bit of time when he was "chatting" with me and happy as a clam!

New Year...New Page

Sooo.....is there a phrase for New Years that is comparable to "Bah Humbug" for Christmas? My husband and I live in Oklahoma, which is Central Standard Time. This should be your first clue as to my story. I convinced him to stay awake to watch the ball drop with me. Every New Years we've been together he has fallen asleep before the ball dropped.

Uhhhh, note to self: pretty much ALL television in Central Standard Time is an hour early, and is NOT on tape delay. Sooooooooo......a ball dropped. At 11PM our time. I flip on the t.v. at 11:45PM, ready to see it...and instead see all the geeky artistis singing from Los Angeles. Yay. Kind of an anti-climactic New Years!

In any case, I managed to finish another scrapbook page for my son's scrapbook. This is page #4 in the scrapbook, and also layout #4 in my 12-layout challenge on Splitcoast.

I'm creating this scrapbook with the intention of showing it to my son later in life. So lots of the pages will pretty much be designed with a "you" or "your" mentality, as if telling a story. This page consists of one of Cameron's first "real" photos, taken in the birthing center nursery. My husband loves this photo because he's sort of got his right hand up in a "Dr. Evil" stance. :-) I typed up a very simple birth story to tell my son, and it is in a pocket on the page.

Supplies:

Paper: Uhhhh.....whatever was on clearance at Michael's!! :-)

Accessories: Martha Stewart glitter sticker alphabet letters, Stampin' Up glitter, Making Memories brads

Finally something to post!

To get my creative juices flowin', I joined a challenge on Splitcoast to do 12 scrapbook pages by January 4th. Hmmmm. I've done 3, and one partial. It's now early on December 31st. Guess I better get crackin'!!!

I'm doing a scrapbook for my new little boy, who is now 3 months old. Hard to believe a year ago I didn't even know he was on the books for my 2008!! In any case, I decided that pages 2 and 3 of the scrapbook should be an introduction to who his parents were when he was born. I created a list of questions that I answered and made my son answer. I intend, whether successfully or not, to recreate this every few years to see how much the answers change. I figure my son MIGHT get a kick out of seeing how much his parents change throughout his life. Or at least laugh at us. Whatever.

So the pages are pretty simple, but still take a heck of a lot of planning when it comes to choosing cardstock that my printer likes (I have a great HP printer that I bought when we were stationed in England...but having to sometimes print on the A4 paper size that the Brits use made my printer sort of prissy and sometimes it won't take thick stuff), cutting it down to fit (because of course all I have in patterned paper is 12x12), then cutting it AGAIN to fit in the 8x8 scrapbook. But hey, it gets the job done! I chose pictures of when we were living in England for these two pages: my husband is standing in front of Stonehenge, and I'm on the Autobus down the Seine River in Paris.

In this picture you can see me "pretty" craft table, which is actually one of those fold-up card tables. It works out really well for me because if I ever choose to, I can quickly pack it all up and hide the evidence. :-) On my table you can see various new toys I picked up at Michael's (thanks to my mother-in-law for a gift card for Christmas, and a 20% off coupon I found in Parenting Magazine...I only spent 11 bucks! WOOHOO!!), as well as my baby shower book that I need to figure out what I'm doing with, another scrap page that is half in process, various types of adhesive...seriously, there are three...no FOUR types on this table at the moment, and another few in my craft bucket! Sheesh...

So I'll try and have a few more pages to post this weekend. I'm also going to TRY to participate in the Splitcoast New Year's Eve challenges which will be all day. We'll see if that happens. Having a 3-month-old is time consuming. :-) Of course, it also makes me screwed up on time...it's 2AM as I post this. Boy, tomorrow is going to be loooooooooong!

Merry Christmas!

I'm setting over a new leaf for this blog. In 2008, this will be the second or third post I've done. This is simply unacceptable. Yes, I've been busy (pregnancy, getting my Master's, moving across the Atlantic, giving birth, being a mommy...), but I need to start getting back into crafting and post some new stuff!

A forum that I belong to issued a challenge to do 12 scrapbook pages before January 4th. This is exactly what I need to light a fire under my lazy crafting butt! And I also want to get back into the Splitcoast daily challenges. My son received so many toys for Christmas, I know I can keep him highly entertained while I tackle my creative genious.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and I'll post some craft stuff soon!!