Annual Christmas photo

Hello everyone!  I thought I would share a page I made with some of the pictures from our annual Christmas photo-shoot.  I love to get the kids pictures taken every year and they are usually pretty good sports about it.  The kids put up with a lot of poses and then tend to get a little stir crazy after a bit, so then I tell them to pose however they want.  When I said that the little two made silly faces, David simply turned around, clearly over it all.  I did get some good ones though, so it was all good!

 I used the My Memories Suite 6 software to create the page.  I used one of their premade templates and just dropped my photos in and added my background papers and embellishments.  There are so many premade photo layouts with this software, so you can start your page off easily and make it your own with papers and embellishments.  

 I used some elements from the Mad With Plaid kit from Sahlin Studios.  You can find the kit here.

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Mc Teacher Night

Hi everyone.  I have a new page to share today! Yea.  I have been away from the computer lately making 100 party favor bags for an upcoming event and am happy that I have a new page to share finally!!
The elementary school had a fundraiser on Tuesday at McDonald's and of course the kids wanted to go.  It was fun to see the teachers out of the school environment and it gave them a good excuse to have some french fries!  Jillian's Teacher was on duty while we were there, we missed Zachary's teacher, but we did meet Ronald McDonald!

I used papers and stamps from a kit called Zest.  You can find it here.

Here is the sketch that I used.

Super fun kit, so much here that I haven't even scratched the surface.
http://the-lilypad.com/store/Zest.html














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The Ridges Sanctuary

Hello everyone!  Today I am sharing a page I made with photos from our family vacation this summer.  One of the places we like to visit while in Door County Wisconsin is the Ridges Sanctuary.  We have been going on hikes there for many years and they have been taking up a collection for a new nature center.  When we arrived this year we saw the wonderful new nature center up and running.  They were still adding exhibits but the area that was finished was a butterfly area and we were just amazed at what we saw.  There were many caterpillars eating milkweed, but also other butterflies in various stages of life.  We saw one butterfly fanning its wings which were still dripping from just being hatched.  We saw another caterpillar wiggling around while hanging from the top of the mesh enclosure.  The woman who was working there told us that she thought the caterpillar was about to shed its skin so we kept watching and sure enough it split open its back and wiggled out of its stripped skin.  It was somewhat gross and amazing at the same time.  Then we watched as it turned into the bright green chrysalis you see in the photo.  Wow!  We were all mesmerized.  
I remembered this wonder paper that I bought months earlier and just had to use it for these photos.
The kit was called RSVP and it is really pretty.

You can get a whole bundle, which is on sale as I write this for just $8.38. Here is a link.

or just the embellishments.

Or just the papers, love the gray and yellow!
15 patterns and 5 solids for $3.99 as I type this up.

There are even some really pretty journal cards for pocket scrapbooking.  These are fun to just layer on a page as a tag or journaling space. 
I bought the bundle, couldn't help myself.

I used a sketch that I have used before. 












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Zachary Starts Third Grade

And here is my third back to school page!  Three kids, three pages! :)
I used the same download that I used for Jillian's page, Hello School.

 Here is my sketch

And here is the Hello School download.  Last time I looked it was on sale for just $4.54.  There are 18 papers and lots of embellishments in this one!