Layout of my parents wedding day

Here I used the Amore paper pack from the Spring 2009 Idea Book. This is also a layout featured in the Worshop on the Go. I like the way it turned out. I have not scrapbooked anything about my parents. This layout really made me start thinking of how much I miss them and how little my children know about their Grandparents. I am commiting myself to scrapbook more about them and my life growing up.

Check out the blog hop!!

Go here to check out a "Blog Hop" of over 40 consultant's artwork featuring the new Summer products. http://www.tazzygirl2000.blogspot.com/
Have Fun!! I would love to hear some feedback of what you think of the new products and the blog hop.

New Summer Paper Packs

The new CTMH 2009 Summer Idea Book is live on May 1st. Here's a preview of the 5 new paper packs.

Bella

Tinkerin'

Animal Cookies


Moon Doggie

Back Country

Go here to see the idea book online at my website on Friday May 1st.

The shower favors

Well Saturday was the baby shower for Nikki. I put alot of time into making game gifts, favors and decorations. I'm glad its over. Here's the thinkgs I made. The gift bags I randomed stamped using the Tickled Pink stamp set. I love the set more everytime I use it. The treat bags are a template that you print and cut out, I then used my Cricut and the DoodleCharm cart. to cut the bottle out. The candle holders are dyed using ink. The cande bar wrappers were printed first then I stamped using Welcome Baby and adhered a small strip of DayDream Paper Pack.

Sneak Peek

Here's one of the new stamp sets from the Summer Idea Book. I didn't like this stamp set looking at it at first. I decided to open it and play. This is what I came up with. I used black cardstock and the B&T paper is the Amore pack from the Spring book and I used Tulip cardstock along with black & tulip ink to do the stamping. Let me know what you think, I am my own worst critic.

Stressed!

I have not posted in over a week maybe even two. I have been under an enormous amount of stress. Business is down for our main family business and my Nikk's (dd) baby shower is on Saturday and I have been stressed over that. I have been making the "game gifts". I'll try and get some pics of those today. I haven't been able to buy anything for the baby yet and that makes me feel terrible. Right now paying the bills is more important. We had a nice family Easter. The girls had handmade dresses from their Aunt Sherry, she also made made dresses to match their off brand American Girl dolls.
I was doing some reading about Scrap booking and how we as scrapbookers focus more on our children and people in our family and hardly ever scrap ourselves. This article brought up a good point, if when our children are grown and have children and they have a huge collection of scrapbooks about their lives but hardly have anything in them about their mother, the person who put all this love and time into creating these books. I really thought about this for a while. In my own thoughts I do like to see photos of me when I was growing up but I love to see photos of my Mother who has been gone since 1986. I would treasure a scrapbook about her and her likes, dislikes, hobbies, her family, things she did for us, things she did for her church or friends etc. After thinking about it like that I want to devote some time to scrapbook about me for my girls. I hate having my picture taken and there is only a handful of photos of me in the last 10 years but I don't think it has to be about the photos but about the thoughts, and things I do in my life. This is one more thing I have to add to my plate. LOL What do you think?