Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Beautiful Moments

I had in my hands the new line of Prima.  I LOVE this paper.  This photo is me when I was 2 and it seems I am not happy about being on this little tricycle.  I used Martha Stewart circle cutters and cut out 3 various sizes of circles which I then distressed and  inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo.  I did this so I could use the little FabScraps - Bicycle chipboard.  I painted it with Adirondack Aqua Dabber and  inked it with Vintage Photo.  I then added little pearls.   I used BoBunny Timepiece and Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden papers which I curled up the corners and inked them with Vintage Photo.  I added the green and lace ribbon from Maya Roads.  I just bought some Prima Flowers and added them.   I used a stamp that I have which says "Life is full of beautiful moments, make them all count."  I really loved that quote and felt it works with the photo. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to look!  Please add your name to my friends and leave a comment which I really appreciate.

These are the items that I used:
Prima Romantique Collection - Crumper paper
BoBunny - Timepiece paper
Pink Paislee - Butterfly Garden - Botanical paper
FabScraps - Bicycle chipboard
Adirondack - Aqua Dabber
Martha Stewart Circle Cutter
Tim Holtz - Distress ink - Vintage Photo
Butterfly punch - large
Martha Stewart Buttefly punch - small
Prima - Avon Rose Collection - flower
Prima - Raffia Collection - blue flower
Prima - Gillian Collection - Pink flowers
Prima Rose Cut Out
Diamond Stickles
Maya Roads Green and Lace Ribbon
Maya Roads Stick Pins

Hugs - Ginger

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Remembering

This is a photo of me and my grandmother "Nenny".  I was around 7-8 months old and she was 38.    I was not sure that I really liked this photo but the more I looked at it I knew that I had to do a layout.  I was at The Crafty Scrapper and they had just received their latest shipment from Prima and I just LOVE it.  All the papers, flowers, and embellies are so gorgeous.  I used Prima Romantique Collection - Estella paper and Printery Collection - Love Ledger paper.  I thought it would look great with this photo.  I used Martha Stewart circle cutter to cut out 2 circles. 



I used Martha Stewart circle cutter and then I distressed the edge and used Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo.  On one of the circles I cut out little sections and ran ribbon around the circle and added orange pearls from EK Success.  The inner circle I folded the paper as if I were making a fan.  I also distressed around the cirlce and inked it as well.  On the edges of the fold I used Diamond Stickles to add a little punch. 


I found a little pendent that I have been wanting to use.  I also used Prima flowers, Avon Rose Collection and Country Rose Collection.  I found Maya Roads flourishes and painted them with Brown Dabber and then stickled them as well.

Thank you for looking!

These are the items that I used:

Prima Romantique Collection - Estella paper
Prima Printery Collection - Love Ledger paper
Glitz Design - Laced with Grace paper
Maya Roads - Flourishes
Tim Holtz - Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Prima Button
Prima - Flowers - Rose Collection and Country Rose Collection
Diamond Stickles
EK Success orange pearls
Maya Roads - Orange flower ribbon
Jolee's Fleur de lis
Martha Stewart Circle Cutter
Yellow Lace
Pendent

Hugs - Ginger

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Making Memories

This photo is my daughter Mandy and her son Logan.  Logan was around 6-7 years old.  He is now 11 so it has been awhile.  My daughter and her husband have been divorced since he was a year old.  Logan is the one who came up with the title of Making Memories which I believe fits this layout.

Here are the items that I used:

Creative Imagainations paper
Prima Paper
Prima flowers
The Girls Paperie alphabet
Chestnut Roan Ink
Jolee's fleur
Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Thanks for looking!
Hugs - Ginger

1st Haircut



I love this photo of my granddaughter Kenzie.  She is three and this is the first time she has had her hair cut.  As you can seen she is not very happy!!!  I wish the photo was better but it was taken with a cell phone and therefore it is not as clear as it should be.  I placed her hair that was cut in the little orange frame.  Once her hair dried you can tell she is a little blonde.  Her hair is still long but now it is all trimmed up and looking good!!!   Yeah Kenzie!!!

Here are the items that I used:

Basic Grey Life of the Party "Block Party" paper
Basic Grey Life of the Party "How you've grown "paper
Basic Grey Life of the Party "Popcorn poppin'" paper
Prima flowers
KaiserCraft frame
Bo Bunny trinket
Maya Roads stick pin
Maya Roads scissors
Chestnut Roan Ink
K & Company Key
Hole puncher
Martha Stewart Circle Cutter
Maya Roads orange ribbon
EK Success Pearls
Diamond Stickles

Thanks for peeking!
Hugs - Ginger

Monday, September 19, 2011

Dream

I found this photo of my parents which was taken in 1949 after they were married.  I love the look my dad is giving my mother.  They were so in love with each other.  She was 17 and he was 24.   Today she would have been too young to get married.  However, she had already graduated from high school and was enrolled in a secretary school.  They were married for 61 years until his death in April 2010.  He is missed every day!  They had 4 children which I was the oldest.  My dad named me Ginger. 

These are the items that I used:

Maya Roads red rose ribbon
Kaiser Craft lamp post
Chestnut Roan Ink
Prima flowers
Tim Holtz Dream tag
EK Success Pearls
Martha Stewart Circle Cutter
Lace Doily
Jolee's Pocket Watch

Thanks for peeking!
Hugs!  Ginger

Princess

I really love this photo of my granddaughter Paityn.  However, since this was taken she now has had her hair cut short which is sooo cute!!  Another layout on that!!!  Paityn has always called herself a little princess so therefore I really thought this layout would work.   I really love the papers and used various ones with flowers. I then found a paper that had Cinderella so I just cut it out and used it as well.  I love the transparent flowers and added Dream & Giggle to the stem. 

Here are the items that I used:

Chestnut Roan Ink
Prima Flower Vine
Tim Holtz Giggle and Dream
Martha Stewart Circle Cutter
Maya Roads Green / Lace Ribbon
EK Success Pearls

Thank you for looking!

Hugs!  Ginger

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Merry Christmas

This photo is my daughter Heather and her boyfriend Troy.  This was taken at our home a few days before Christmas.  We had several reindeer show up and this photo shows them holding on to one of the deer.  I did this layout for the Design Team of The Crafty Scrapper.  I love the papers and embellishments that were given to me.

Here is a list of the items:

My Minds Eye - Lost & Found Christmas - Christmas Bright paper
My Minds Eye - Lost & Found Christmas - Christmas Santa paper
Cosmo Cricket - Yes, Virginia papaer
Maya Roads - Cloth buttons
Prima - Guava Peony Brahms flower
Prima - Flowers
Bo Bunny - Christmas Buttons
Jolees pocket watch
Ribbon - Green / Gold - not sure who made this
White Lace ribbon - not sure who made this
Pearls - EK Success
Maya Roads - Snowflake
Chestnut Roan Ink
Diamond Stickles
Viva Pearl Pen
viva - Ruby Glitter Liner
Maya Roads - Stick pins

Thanks for looking!

Happy Holidays!
Hugs - Ginger

Treasured Times

I love this photo and layout.  I did this for the Design Team of The Crafty Scrapper.  This photo is me and my granddaddy, Nenny, and my younger sister Sally.  It was taken at our home in Van, Texas in 1954!  That was a very long time ago.  I also felt that this photo really fits in well with the papers that was given to me. 

Here is a list of the items that I used:

Cosmo Cricket - Santa Letters paper
Cosmo Cricket - Trim-Trim-Er-Ee paper
Viva - Glitter Liner - Ruby
Martha Stewart - punch
White Flowers - not sure who made these
Chestnut Roan Ink
White Lace - not sure who made this
Red Ribbon
White Ribbon
Prima Flower - Buava Peony Brahms
Prima - Glitter Spray Maple Gold
Maya Roads - Stick Pins
Prima - Shaimar Cal Chrisitta Flower
Maya Roads - Flouish
Aderondach - Red Pepper Dabber
Glitter - White
Diamond Stickles

Thanks for looking!

Happy Holidays
Hugs - Ginger

Trick or Treat

This is a layout I did for the Design Team for The Crafty Scrapper.  I love these two little photos.  The photo on the left is my youngest son Chris dressed as Tonto and the photo on the right is my oldest son Ryan dressed at the Lone Ranger.  I made these two costumes which has been awhile.  For Chris and Ryan are now 28 and 30!!!

Here are the items that I used:

The Paper Loft - Scary paper - Hocus Pocus
Jenni Bowlen - Holiday 2011 - Starry Night paper
The Paper Loft - Scary paper - Boo
Ribbon - 3 kinds - not sure who made them
The Girls Paperie - Flowers - Toil & Trouble
Maya Roads - Stick Pins
Maya Roads - 2 leaves
Adirondack - Lettuce Dabber
Making Memories - Cut outs
Frame - Not sure who made this

Thaks for peeking!

Boil, Bubble, Toil, & Trouble
Hugs - Ginger

Happy Halloween

Here is another layout I did for the Design Team of The Crafty Scrapper.  I love this photo of my grandson Logan which was taken about 4 years ago.  I did his little face to look like Frankenstein and it turned out rather well!    I used the following on this page:

Creative Imagination paper
The Paper Loft - Scary paper - Spiders Web
The Girls Paperie - Toil & Trouble flower
Orange Ribbon - (2) and not sure who makes them
Jolees Cut outs - Monster, cat, & hat
Maya Roads - Leaf
Aderondack - Lettuce Dabber
Black Ink
Memory Makers - cloth buttons - spookville
Maya Roads - Stick pins

Thank you so much for looking!

Boil, Bubble, Toil, & Trouble -
  Hugs - Ginger

Christmas Mini Album

I just love this mini album.  It is one that was given to me from The Crafty Scrapper for the design team.  We were also given Christmas paper and embellishments to create something special.  I glued the paper on each page and then sanded it down nice and smooth.  I then added Merry Christmas.  I had in my own stash this pocket watch which comes in 2 separate pieces.  I added the little reindeer and then glued it all together.  I then painted it with Gold and then added Star Dust Stickles on top to make it glisten.  I also had the holly and berries which I painted with dabbers ( green and red) and then added the stickles to make it shine as well.  I felt that it just needed a little something else so I added this little flourish which I painted black and added…you got it….Star Dust Stickles!!!  This mini album had a chain attaching all the pages but I took that off and added my little red ring and added lots of ribbon.


The photo on the left is at my home a few days before Christmas.  This is my family and some reindeer that came to visit all the grandchildren.  They all had a great time.  The photo on the right is Mrs. Claus and Santa arriving that same night to make sure everyone has been good!!! 

On the left I added Bo Bunny trinket and a poinsettia with tiny white  & blue snowflakes with little pearls added to the centers.  I added our Family as well.  On the right I added Bo Bunny trinket with Maya Roads snowflake.  I added white ribbon which I painted light green with a green pearl.  I also added tiny little snowflakes as well.



On these two lovely pages I added the Christmas paper and added these two sweet photos.  The one on the left is my grandson Logan talking to Mrs. Claus and Santa at our home.  The photo on the right is all our grandchildren listening to Santa reading to them “Twas The Night Before Christmas”.  I just love watching their little faces as Santa is reading. These two pictures were taken a few days before Christmas which Santa also brought to them a little pre-gift. 

On the left side I added Maya Roads greenish blue rose ribbon and I had a little snowflake but then I added a rose ornament from Maya Roads to make it really stand out which I then added a little green glass piece to the center of the rose.  I also used Bo Bunny Christmas ornament and added the little glass pieces to it as well.  I then added Star Dust Stickles to the little berries in the paper.  On the right side I added another snowflake which I painted with a dabber and then added another little snowflake on top with a green glass piece.  I used by Graphic 45 a tag of Santa reading to children which worked perfectly with the photo I had taken.  I used ribbon to place it on the page and then I added a little lace flower and added by Bo Bunny a cardstock button and ran thread through it.  I then added stickles to make it all twinkle!!


The photo on the left is my grandson Logan and on the right is my granddaughter Kenzie on Christmas Eve.  They are all given a gift to open for being so good throughout the year!

On the left I already had a wooden frame which I painted using Pepper Dabber and then added Logan’s little photo.  I was given by Maya Roads a brown clock which I used Aqua ink and then added white and blue snowflakes and then added a little pearl to the center of each one.  I also used Bo Bunny brown button and added white ribbon which I painted blue and then of course I had to use stickles to give it a twinkle.  On the right side I added a blue border around the photo.  I was given a white cloth button (on the top right corner) which I made a pretty little bow and then added a white button which was given to me and a little cardstock and tied it all on with a blue thread.  I was also given a little teapot and cups and a cupcake which I thought looked really well with the photo of a little girl and her doll.  So…I painted the teapot and cups plus the cupcake.  I then added the black design.  To finish it all up I added more stickles!!!



I love these two photos.  The photo on the left is my other granddaughter Paityn.  She is opening her little gift on Christmas Eve which is a very cute little phone.  She loves talking on the phone so this gift is perfect.  The photo on the right was taken on Christmas Day which they both received these little chairs and was more than happy to seat awhile!

On the left I used gold ribbon which I added a crystal buckle to it.  I had by Jolee an old key which I added more ribbon and a little Christmas ornament.  I then added by Maya Roads the leaf stick pins.  I was also given a brown snowflake from Maya Roads which I added Chestnut Roan ink and placed it behind the little photo.  Then I added white and blue snowflakes and then added little pearls to the center.  On the right I added little paper tags from Graphic 45 and then added a little wooden ruler.  I then added blue ink to the edge and added red rick rack ribbon which I added little black pearls.  I had another white cloth button which I added poinsettia and added leaves to the back of it.  I did paint the button red on the edge and then added by Maya Roads leaf and pearl stick pins.  I had more red rick rack at the top of the page, added black pearls, and then used Bo Bunny trinkets at the top which I added pink glass pieces around the border.


These two last pages are the finale of Christmas Day.  We are all so tired that we all eventually took a nap after opening the gifts and eating a very large dinner.  On the left side is my son Christopher and his wife Ashley who was pregnant with their second child.  On the right is my daughter in law Tiffany and my oldest son Ryan.  My two daughters and I were just watching them nod off to slumberland.  LOL

I added green rose lace by Maya Roads on the left page.  I used by Jolee a pocket watch and added a chipboard tag of a little child sleeping which goes perfectly with the photos.  I tied both pieces together with  green/gold ribbon and added a blue button.  I also added a tag at the top of the page and added stickles to make it all shine.  On the right I had this beautiful white flower which I added a glass button ornament and put a stick pin through it to hold it to the flower which is all by Maya Roads.  I then added white and blue snowflakes with a pearl in the center to give the flower an extra dimension.  In my stash I had the two little frames that I placed around their photo and then had this little tag and a little trinket to the page.  I then finished it up with stickles!

Thank you so much for looking at this mini album.  I hope you have enjoyed viewing it as much as I did putting it all together.

Here is a list of the products that I used:

BoBunny Father Christmas papers
Reminisce paper
Graphic 45 paper and tags
BoBunny Trinkets and tags
Maya Roads ribbon, cloth button, white flower, and stick pins
Jolee pocket watch
Art Parts Studio 490 large pocket watch
Chestnut Roan, Blue Aqua ink
Star Dust Stickles
KaiserCraft Frames
  • other items from my personal stuff
Hugs - Ginger