New Boy Themed Challenge Blog

About a Boy Challenge Blog! 

Is a new challenge blog dedicated to getting those photos of our boys scrapped!

Also having a Design Team Call!

Head over and Check them out! About a Boy 

I can't wait until they start the challenges. Since my son was born second after my daughter I haven't scrapped as much for him, yet! 

Plus, I had Girly mode going!

Started scrapping my Bridal Shower, then trips/vacations, Honeymoon, Christmas/Holidays and then came Baby! 

If it's Groovy 4th Birthday Blog Hop Winner

All the names in the pot.

My wonderful assistant pulled our Winner today:

Contact me through my e-mail: mish086@hotmail.com

tiffany

If It's Groovy 4th Birthday Blog Hop

Welcome to the If It's Groovy Birthday Blog Hop! As we celebrate the 4th birthday of IIG. We welcome you to site back, take some time and visit the blog hostesses as each has prepared calendar pages that we hope will inspire you to crate your own:) We also have some friends who are playing along with us from the True XOXO blog and they may have calendar pages and/or holidays to share with you.

You should have just left January on Christa blog: Do What You Love


I picked February for 4 good reasons:
My Daughter's Birthday month
Snow usually accumulates nicely this month.
Hearts Day (coined by my daughter) aka Valentine's Day
My Husband's Birthday month


On to the page:

Here is a close-up of our February calendar: 

1st - Hubby's Birthday

2nd - Groundhog's Day (my US roots)

14th - Heart's Day (coined by my daughter)

18th - Family Day (celebrated here in certain provinces in Canada, not in US)

23rd - My daughter's Birthday (Bundled Up and Rosy Cheeks in photos)

All Bundled Up:

Rosy Cheeks still after hot chocolate which is still on her lips.

My Journaling on the steam lines.

Thanks for visiting! Please leave me a comment and if your not a follower...it would be great to have you! I will be giving away a Birthday Blog Hop Prize. If you leave me a comment and let know your Birthday month. I will place your name in the pot! I will have my rosy cheeks assistant draw and post on Monday January, 14th!  

Next up is another Michelle! So hop over to her blog: My Analog Life 

Here are each of the bloggers who have participated so if you get lost along the way you can always come back here and start over. We know there are blog issues sometimes so if anything wonky happens fear not and just slide back by here and start back over. Please do visit each of our friends as each has created very creative and oh so beautiful projects. Make Sure you go back to If It's Groovy when you are all finished. Let Deb know and tell her where your visiting us from. She will throw your name in the hat for a goodie prize from her! ♥

Representing January we have: Wendy & Christa

Representing February we have: Michelle  (((YOU ARE HERE))) & Michelle H

Representing March we have: Wendy & Miae

Representing April we have: Heather & Jaclyn

Representing May we have: Lindsey & Deborah

Representing June we have: Brenda & Khristen

Representing July we have: Jean & Tess

Representing August we have: Rochelle  & Faye

Representing September we have: Kelly & Tiffany

Representing October we have: Kelly & Alaina

Representing November we have: Heather & Kimmy

Representing December we have: Deborah & Queen Kat

Family - Judy, Gerry, Tristan, Uncle Tony?

My Page is up over at If It's Groovy...Stop by and see what we have been up to! Our 4th Birthday Blog Hop starts tomorrow!

After getting a bunch of photos from my Mother-in-Law I sorted through them and got them into some what of a chronological date order. This picture was actually one of the better spur of the moment shots of my Husband (young) and his Mom. Aside from those Photo Studio pictures there was not a lot of baby photos of my Husband...It amazes me how far photography has come.

For this page I chose colors that played off the purples in the photo. I love how the wine color works. By matting the photo with a larger mat on the 3 sides I hand-stitched with some embroidery floss in a matching shade as the die-cut paper. 

Stamped the family quote and fussy cut the sentiment, popped it up with foam tape and attached to a patterned paper mat. Cut out journaling strips which I still need to get those details from my Mother-in-Law to fill in, but inked up the edges. 

Cut out my title "Family" using Cricut machine than using a background stamp I stamped on the patterned image. Added the paper flower dot for the "i" and a pearl half. Added a few more of those pearl halves to the bottom edge of the die-cut paper too! 

Liftateers Year 4, Week #11 & #13

Getting Caught Up
Week #11
More from Baltimore Trip back in the 80's
I think this were pics from my 1st camera. 35mm of course.

Week #13
Balitmore Harbor Tall Ships

Paper Secrets SYAO - Round 2 - Week #49

This week I worked on another page for my Brother and Sister-In-Law.
I am putting together pages from their Hawaiian Wedding. I did not put a title on this page only because I was not able to be at the wedding and I need to get an idea from them about what was going on....insight, keywords they describe to know what will fit them.

Products: 8+ repeat shapes (hearts), tags, canvas/burlap, rick-rack.

Techniques: machine stitching & distressing

Handmade Stamped Tag with Canvas, Burlap and Distressing.

8+ repeat shapes (hearts), Tags, Burlap, Rick-rack, Machine Stitching and Distressing

Pop's Farm - IIG Challenge Scrap Snob Page

My Scrap Snob Challenge Page is up over on If It's Groovy.
So What is a "Scrap Snob" you ask....Well, Deb over at If It's Groovy gave us the task of using only one Brand for everything on your page.

I used all Close to my Heart(CTMH) products to complete this page.

The papers are from the CTMH Mayberry Collection. Inked Distressed the edges using CTMH Chocolate ink and Fussy cut out the stamped title using CTMH Token Alphabet.

Used CTMH fine tip side of the Chocolate Marker for my journaling. Distressed the CTMH Chocolate Cardstock using CTMH Edge Distresser. Stamped the Month using CTMH Classmate Alphabet and the Date using CTMH Amore Numbers. The Pumpkin/Indian Corn image is from CTMH Thanksgiving stamp that I used the CTMH inks and Blending Pen.

I did use my Sew Easy Tool to mark out my stitching BUT I did use CTMH twine. Picture is from 1976 but the journaled memories are current.

Card Lifters - Week #14

This is my 1st year joining the Card Lifters over on Fiskateers. Each week we are given another Fiskateer members card to "lift" (copy elements: design layout mainly, but techniques, titles etc.) I am hoping that I can get a stash of birthday cards by doing Card Lifters this year!

Here is week #14:

This one I loved the design for a Valentine's Card. SO I am ahead of the game on one card!