Thursday, May 6, 2010

Recent paper crafts

I am WAY behind on my scrapbooking. The week before Aspen was born I printed out all the pictures I wanted to scrapbook that we'd taken in the last year and a half. I organized them into the books (one for each of the kids and a family album) so they're ready to scrap. Now I just need to make a goal to do a certain number of "catch up" pages a week, plus keep up on new things. Here's a page I did a couple of months ago of a 3-year old picture of Trey holding baby Caeden.
I used one of my newest toys... glue rub-ons from We R Memory Keepers with foil rubbed onto the glue - you can see how it catches the light. There are several different colors of foil, glitter and flock and I bought 12 sets of rub-ons since they were on sale for $1 each (90% off!)
Last month I made some little treat bags for Easter using the bird die cut from my new old machine:
And a set of thank you cards with Stampin' Up! paper, ric rac, and felt bird die cuts with a rhinestone eye:
Last fall my friend Jodee showed me a countdown calendar she'd made so I made this one in anticipation of baby Aspen: