B-A-B-Y Word book

I love doing mini-albums for friends. This mini word book is for a friend who just had her first grandchild - a sweet baby girl named Alexa! She's only 2 weeks old so I was able to get this one done quickly!! And with brand new photos just taken the day before I made the album!

Scrap Your Story

Scrap Your Story, a new challenge blog, will launch in just 12 days with weekly challenges and the opportunity to win monthly prizes. The goal of this new blog is to get you to create layouts and tell your story! Go take a look...there's already a challenge posted for you to enter!

Week 19 FTS Challenge

I have completed the FTSCC card challenge and hope to complete the layout tonight...we'll see what I get done.
The sketch that we were given is below. We had to use 2 techniques and 3 embellies. My two techniques are 3+ pattern papers, stamping; Then I used ribbon, flowers and a tag. Here is my card.

This card is also entered in the following Challenges:
 *Simon Stays Stamp! - anything goes
 *Make It Monday - anything goes

I finally got the layout done. I used the following sketch. The two techniques I used: misting with a mask and monochromatic. The three embellishments I used are ric rac, something wood (heart with paw) and a ticket. I also did handwritten journaling. Our son's family just acquired a dog. Todd had been opposed to having a dog but the kids finally won him over. BUT, the compromise they had to make was letting Todd give the dog a middle name...Johnny Football! So they got the dog and named her Keisha 'Johnny Football' Blackmon! They brought Keisha with them at Christmas and she and Sadie met for the first time. It didn't go so well - they ended up in several brawls! So we kept a close eye on them and kept them separated most of the time.

Friends That Scrap Challenges

I'm still working on Christmas photos but these are from this year! These two photos show the children listening as their mom reads the Christmas story to them from The Brick Bible story book. We give them a book that tells the Christmas story every year at Christmas. We look for something that will be fun and hold their interest as well as tell them why we celebrate Christmas. This year's book was a lego book - all characters were constructed from Lego blocks. It was very cute! My layout used the Wk. 18 sketch which I rotated and used border punches. My colors are monochromatic, I used sticker letters, and replaced the flowers with strip banners and journaling strips.

I also just completed the card for our weekly card challenge. These were the requirements and the sketch, then my card and what I used.

Use 2: square card, punches, chipboard
Use 3: monochromatic, black and white, an animal, ribbon or twine, bling, 2+ ink colors, something metal

For my card I used:
square card and border punches
black and white, twine and bling

This is a window card so the images are actually on the inside peeping through the window.

Meet Trinity Jeanne' Finley

She was born at 3:19 am Rwanda time (about 7:30 pm the day before our time) today, Jan. 27, weighing 2.2 kg (4.96 lbs.) and 17.5 inches long. We met Trinity via Skype just a few hours after her birth. She looks a lot like Tori (our daughter) did! I'm sure that Will is a very proud big brother although we haven't gotten to visit with him yet! Tori and Greg Skyped us about 12:30 am to give us the surprising and wonderful news. She came unexpectedly early - about 8 days - and Tori was only in labor about 3 hours...so it happened very quickly. We are so thankful to our Lord for His watch care over Tori and Trinity during this birth so very far away from us. And our joy is overflowing!!

I now have a new scrapbooking subject!! :-)