Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Sleeping Beauty
Today's installment is of Sleeping Beauty. I LOVED putting this layout together as I really enjoyed the three fairy god-mothers and all of the extra flowers. I'm often envious of sleeping beauty as I never quite feel like I have had a good nights rest......I'm sure you understand!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Jasmine - Aladdin
Page four of this series is Jasmine. I struggled with this page more than any of the others and as a result don't love it quite as much as the others. It is one of those pages that look better in person. I did love the purple sparkly paper that I got to use as photo mats and LOVE the cut out of her and Aladdin going on their magic carpet ride.......I should add that each of these layouts takes between 6-10hrs of work...cutting out all of the cricut cuts takes a lot of time and patience.....just thought I'd give you fair warning in the event that you are trying to recreate any of these......
Monday, March 26, 2012
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Here's the next installment of my disney princess pages......and my personal favourite....Snow White!
I just love the way this page turned out! I made it at a scrapbook retreat and all of the ladies kept dropping by my table to see the seven dwarfs "coming to life". Some stickles to add sparkle, a flower here and there and some dry embossing on Sleepy's pillow and Voila......
I hope you enjoy!
I just love the way this page turned out! I made it at a scrapbook retreat and all of the ladies kept dropping by my table to see the seven dwarfs "coming to life". Some stickles to add sparkle, a flower here and there and some dry embossing on Sleepy's pillow and Voila......
I hope you enjoy!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
The Little Mermaid
As promised here is the next princess page. One of my favourites.....Ariel! I used my cricut for just about everything on this page and LOVE how it turned out. I love when I can do a "scene" type page and love the little details like the shells and the small ship at the top of the page!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! I should mention that practically all of the cuts I made are primarily from two cartridges - Happily Ever After and Dreams Come True. They are PERFECT for a princess album! They are discontinued but you can pick them up on Kijiji and/or Ebay......
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! I should mention that practically all of the cuts I made are primarily from two cartridges - Happily Ever After and Dreams Come True. They are PERFECT for a princess album! They are discontinued but you can pick them up on Kijiji and/or Ebay......
I am going to enter this in the following contest:
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Disney Princess Pages
Wow...it's been forever since I've posted on here! I can't believe how fast time flies by! I guess that's why we are scrapbookers! We have to try to document as much as we can!
I have been super busy putting together tons of premade pages for my boyfriend's neice and nephew and thought it's about time to post some of them......I'll try to get a new one on here each day to come and look at. Well....at least until I run out of pages =)
So here is the first one. I started the album off with Cinderella. All images were cut using my cricut...otherwise known as my favourite scrappin' tool!
I have been super busy putting together tons of premade pages for my boyfriend's neice and nephew and thought it's about time to post some of them......I'll try to get a new one on here each day to come and look at. Well....at least until I run out of pages =)
So here is the first one. I started the album off with Cinderella. All images were cut using my cricut...otherwise known as my favourite scrappin' tool!
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Thinking of you card
A member of our work family was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. She is too sick to receive conventional medicine and therefore is seeking out alternative medicine. This lady works in a branch of our company located in Alberta and we are in Ontario. She has no idea what we've been up to =)
A couple of ladies at our division have started to fund raise for her to help with some of the costs she is facing. Our boss has graciously decided to at least match the funds that are raised. We've had a bake sale, BBQ and are currently running a 50/50 draw. We also have a penny drive in place and every day that I go into the office people have been putting in $20 bills! One person tossed in $100 but sadly we'll never know who it was. Thank you to that person though!
What is so amazing is that because this lady works in Alberta, our employees have never met her.....but they just know that someone needs help, and in true form, they have answered the call. I work with an amazing bunch of people!
So, here is the card that I created for everyone to sign. We'll send it to her along with all of the $$$ we were able to raise for her! I saw the idea in a magazing and just made it a lot bigger! I wanted a card that was cheery and bright to help lift her spirits! I love the little tag that I hung on the pot. It says it all, "Wishing you Strength for Today and Hope for Tomorrow".
Please say a prayer for my coworker, Lorraine.
A couple of ladies at our division have started to fund raise for her to help with some of the costs she is facing. Our boss has graciously decided to at least match the funds that are raised. We've had a bake sale, BBQ and are currently running a 50/50 draw. We also have a penny drive in place and every day that I go into the office people have been putting in $20 bills! One person tossed in $100 but sadly we'll never know who it was. Thank you to that person though!
What is so amazing is that because this lady works in Alberta, our employees have never met her.....but they just know that someone needs help, and in true form, they have answered the call. I work with an amazing bunch of people!
So, here is the card that I created for everyone to sign. We'll send it to her along with all of the $$$ we were able to raise for her! I saw the idea in a magazing and just made it a lot bigger! I wanted a card that was cheery and bright to help lift her spirits! I love the little tag that I hung on the pot. It says it all, "Wishing you Strength for Today and Hope for Tomorrow".
Please say a prayer for my coworker, Lorraine.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Let's Go 2 The Ex
Wow...it feels like a lifetime has passed since I've posted a blog! The past month or so has been crazy busy at our house. I did find time to knock off a few layouts. Here is one of my favourites. I've been struggling with this photo for a long time. It was taken about 20 years ago and I only had one to make the layout with. Going to the CNE is one of my fondest summer memories from when I was young and I knew I wanted to document it some day in my album. There was so much I wanted to journal about it that I had to come up with a way to include hidden journalling. I hope you enjoy!
You may or may not be interested in the journalling but I'm always squinting to try to read other people's so here it is it large print for anyone like me =)
Going to the Ex was always my favourite part of summer. It was the last "big" event I got to do before school started again in September. My Grandma and I would work for Nadrofsky Lumber all summer long, making pallets so that I could save some spending money to spend at the Ex. She and my Grandpa Orr, Great Uncle Tony and Aunt Wanda would gather my cousin Amy and I up and head down to Toronto. They would give us some of our money (never all of it as we were not much for budgets) and let us loose. We were always instructed to meet back at the flag pole at a certain time where we would "check-in" and always get some more money!
I have so many fond memories of Amy and I enjoying the midway and playing games. We'd always take some time to do a little shopping and play some games. We'd stick our heads in a photo booth for a few fun shots too!
I have two memories that stick out among the many.
The first was the year we went down and won the big stuffed animals. We had just started out in the morning, after leaving the parents and grandparents behind, we were dressed in our coolest clothes, bicycle shorts and hyper-coloured T-shirts, and decided to play games. I won a jumbo teddy bear playing a game where you toss a t-ball into an area of hundreds of cups, aiming for the coloured one in the centre. Immediately after that, Amy went to the game where you throw the baseball into the basket and low and behold, she won a jumbo parrot! The only bad part was that we had to carry these stuffed animals around for a few hours until we met back up at the flag pole....boy were we glad to get them into the van!
The other memory was while we were riding, "Music Makes the World Go Round". We were enjoying the ride when all of a sudden the guys that were running the ride started talking to us over the mic. They wanted to know how old we were, so, Amy looked at me and said, "Well Tam, how old do we want to be?" I think we told them 16 which was off by a few years as we were only about 13 or 14. As the ride came to an end they didn't let us off so we ended up riding it a few times in a row! After about the third time, a guy jumped into the seat with us and said to us, "hi girls, my name is Barry. Just think of strawberry and you'll never forget me." I guess he was right considering 20 years later I still remember. They finally let us off the ride and a couple of them joined us to go on a few more rides. I loved it as Amy was always scared of heights so I could finally go on some rides that she wouldn't go on. A while later we reallized that we were late for our check-in at the flag pole. We told the guys good-bye and ran to the cable cars. Half way across the park the cable cars stopped and we were hanging up there in mid-air. Just as we were about to hyperventilate they started up again and carried us across. We ran to the flag pole where there were some very cross adults waiting for us. We blamed it all on the cable cars (as we swore each other to secrecy about the boys) and finally were allowed to head off again. Many years later, Amy was my maid of honour and the secret of the boys was a secret no longer as she spilled the beans during her speech!
I'll never forget the fun I had with Amy and the memories that we shared while enjoying the Ex!
Going to the Ex was always my favourite part of summer. It was the last "big" event I got to do before school started again in September. My Grandma and I would work for Nadrofsky Lumber all summer long, making pallets so that I could save some spending money to spend at the Ex. She and my Grandpa Orr, Great Uncle Tony and Aunt Wanda would gather my cousin Amy and I up and head down to Toronto. They would give us some of our money (never all of it as we were not much for budgets) and let us loose. We were always instructed to meet back at the flag pole at a certain time where we would "check-in" and always get some more money!
I have so many fond memories of Amy and I enjoying the midway and playing games. We'd always take some time to do a little shopping and play some games. We'd stick our heads in a photo booth for a few fun shots too!
I have two memories that stick out among the many.
The first was the year we went down and won the big stuffed animals. We had just started out in the morning, after leaving the parents and grandparents behind, we were dressed in our coolest clothes, bicycle shorts and hyper-coloured T-shirts, and decided to play games. I won a jumbo teddy bear playing a game where you toss a t-ball into an area of hundreds of cups, aiming for the coloured one in the centre. Immediately after that, Amy went to the game where you throw the baseball into the basket and low and behold, she won a jumbo parrot! The only bad part was that we had to carry these stuffed animals around for a few hours until we met back up at the flag pole....boy were we glad to get them into the van!
The other memory was while we were riding, "Music Makes the World Go Round". We were enjoying the ride when all of a sudden the guys that were running the ride started talking to us over the mic. They wanted to know how old we were, so, Amy looked at me and said, "Well Tam, how old do we want to be?" I think we told them 16 which was off by a few years as we were only about 13 or 14. As the ride came to an end they didn't let us off so we ended up riding it a few times in a row! After about the third time, a guy jumped into the seat with us and said to us, "hi girls, my name is Barry. Just think of strawberry and you'll never forget me." I guess he was right considering 20 years later I still remember. They finally let us off the ride and a couple of them joined us to go on a few more rides. I loved it as Amy was always scared of heights so I could finally go on some rides that she wouldn't go on. A while later we reallized that we were late for our check-in at the flag pole. We told the guys good-bye and ran to the cable cars. Half way across the park the cable cars stopped and we were hanging up there in mid-air. Just as we were about to hyperventilate they started up again and carried us across. We ran to the flag pole where there were some very cross adults waiting for us. We blamed it all on the cable cars (as we swore each other to secrecy about the boys) and finally were allowed to head off again. Many years later, Amy was my maid of honour and the secret of the boys was a secret no longer as she spilled the beans during her speech!
I'll never forget the fun I had with Amy and the memories that we shared while enjoying the Ex!
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