Most recent photo shoots

I thought I would hop on and share a few more photos of some of my recent shoots.  I did another family shoot and some of my kids at the pumpkin patch.  I love fall and all the colors that can be used for backgrounds!

This one was just snapped at our soccer game, but her eyes are just so beautiful!



The love these two brothers have for one another melts my heart!

This is one of my favorites!

Look how happy he is!  I adore this child and his whole family!

I love how big these boys seem in these pictures

Here are some more family pictures I took, I love how carefree the girls are!

These were from the pumpkin patch







Family Pictures

I have been spending more time with my camera than my scrapbooking stuff lately, so  I thought I would share some of my most recent photos.   I had some great families to be my wonderful models this time.

I'll start with my kiddos, well, because they are mine <3

Here are the Peck's family pictures

(I did spell her name right on your copy, I promise!)

Look at those eyes!  I LOVE THEM!

Who doesn't love baby pictures? 

And, lastly, the Smith kids!

Thank you to these beautiful families for allowing me to be their photographer!

Good Job Cards - Circle Blogiversary

It is the end of the first 9 weeks of school here, and both boys made Principal's list for all A's, so I made them each a card. My step daughter made AB honor roll, and I need to get her card done too,  but thought I would share these first. 


The first one I am entering in the Cricut Circle Blogivesary sketch challenge. I used the All Sports Cartridge and All mixed up.  I also used my iTop for the first time...that is going to be fun!

The outside says "you scored" and inside it says "Straigt A's"

The second card I made is for the Circle exclusive cartridge challenge. I used Pop up Neighboorhood for the truck and a mixture of A's from cartridges and stickers.

The inside says, "That's a truckload of A's"  Corny, I knw but he is 7 and will love it!

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend

Christmas Card Previews

I finally made something!!!! Not just one or two somethings, but 5 somethings! For tonight, I have 2 Christmas cards to share with you all.  The first one is for the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge, and is super simple the challenge was just to make a card. I used my Imagine and the Snow Angel cartridge.

All the ornaments were cut at 2 inches.

The second card is for the Circle Blogaversary Challenge to use your Imagine and to layer the cut. I used Snow Angel for this one too.

I Love those snowmen!  The background is also from Snow Angel. The sentiment says "warm winter wishes"

Thanks for looking, and  I hope to get more posted tomorrow, but no promises!

New Ribbon Storage

I'm baaaackkkkk! And while I still haven't had the time to create, I have some things to share. I have a new love for the website Pinterest. You have to be invited to join, but it is a lot of fun...think of it as a virtual cork board, a place to keep all the cool stuff you find on the Internet in one place so you really can come back to it later.  If you would like an invite, send me your email address and I will invite you.  This isn't a promotion thing, I don't get anything from new members, I just love the site and wanted to share it with everyone!

  That is where I found this brilliant idea, and it is so simple, I can't believe I had never thought of it before.

This is my previous ribbon storage, while it looks pretty, it was a pain to get the ribbon I wanted out.

This is the start of the new storage...and to think it all started with  simple clothes pin! I totally had  a *DUH* moment when I saw it too.

It really is as easy as it looks, put one end of the ribbon in the clothes pin, roll it up and tuck the other end into the clip.

Now, I am not close to being done yet,  but I have about 150 ribbon clips in my repurposed cheese ball container from Target.

So, if you are looking for a good storage system for your ribbon, try it out...oh and it is cheap!!!! You can get 50 clothes pins for around a dollar

I hope you have found this helpful, and thanks for stopping by after my loooonnngggg time off of posting!!!

Thanks

Just wanted to do a quick update to say thanks for sticking with me.  I have been so super busy with the kids out of school and our garden is going crazy that the only crafting I have been able to do is in my head, and well, that is hard to share here!  I have been canning about 28 quarts of veggies a day, and with at least 6 kids running around all the time,  I am just lucky that I am still sane, so one day hopefully soon I will be back and crafting!   HAPPY SUMMER

THEY ARE DONE!!!!

I just finished all of the baseball pictures for the county's Little League!!!! I just pressed "order" on a huge order of prints, so all I have to do now is sort them and hand them out! I am so excited to be done with them! I took over 900 pictures last week, and hopefully we can hand them out next weekend.

So why is this blog-worthy, well for a couple of reasons, 1. I have never been paid to take pictures before and to take them at this volume was a huge achievement for me and a huge boost in my self esteem too! 2. Now   I can scrap scrap and scrap as much as the 6 kiddos at my house all day everyday will let me.

Hopefully I will have some projects to share soon!

My scrap space

There was a contest on the Circle blog to show your craft space, well, I scrap at the kitchen table, and I have a buffet table that sits behind me with my Imagine and my E2, so here it is, in all its glory.

See how desperate I am to win...what a horrible picture, but oh well!  I hate being on this side of the camera!

Birthday Bash LO and a card too!

My son turns 7 today so I had to make him a birthday card and decided it was time to scrap his party from last year too!  I will start with the layout.  I usually try to add the cards or at least the invitation to my layouts for parties and such. For some reason I couldn't find the cards, but I did add the invitation and I used the thank-you note to journal on, then tucked them both behind the pictures.

Here is the double page layout

Here is a close up of the left side, and the cards behind the pictures

The birthday cake cut is from Birthday Bash and the puppy with the balloon is from Paper Pups

 Sorry for the glare, I  didn't notice it until it was loaded. Here is the right side

I finally got to use Four Legged Friends, both of these puppies are from that cartridge, the balloons are from the Celebrations cartridge and the 6 is from Hello Kitty Font.

The orange paper is from a large stack I got at Sam's forever ago, the green and other printed paper are from DCWV Celebrate Stack (super cute!!)

Here is a close up of one of the puppies, just because  l like him. The bag is cut from Birthday Bash also.

I used the scraps of the paper to make his birthday card for this year.

 I used Robotz for the frog guy and Blast off Imagine Cartridge for the 7 and for the inside of the card. 



Ok, off to wrap presents and make a cake! Have a great day everyone!