Karen Johnson

Vinnie Pearce & CatScrap

Oh wow - have you heard? Vinnie Pearce is now a designer at Catscrap! I LOVE Vinnie's style. Check out her blog here - Right Now.

Dream About Christmas, by Natali

Everytime I tell myself no more spending, no more new scrapbooking kits I make the mistake of visiting http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/

Natali has a new Christmas kit out 'Dream About Christmas'. I dare ya to take a peak at it without HAVING to have it!

Living in California means we don't get to take many photos of cold crisp winter mornings and wooly sweaters, but I'd still like to create some festive layouts. I think this is the kit to do it with.

I can't wait to get my hands on that paper, shabby it up and sprinkle it with glitter!

Stories in Hand

I'm so excited to have signed up for Jessica Sprague's online class 'Stories in Hand'. Today is the first day and started with some great downloadable freebies to create a binder.

Here's a peak of what we get to make.

And did I mention the class is FREE!? How cool is that? It may be too late to sign up now but I'd definitely keep Jessica's blog in your favourites for more exciting online stuff.

A Layout

Credits:

Kraft Paper: Creshens with Daniella's worn photo overlay
Bubble Wrap Stamp: Creshens at Catscrap
Red Spotted Paper: Creshens with Lynee-Marie's tattered overlay 2
Red Heart Stamp: Creshens
Blue Note Paper: Shabby Miss Jenn, Posies with MMD's Crunchtime Template from Oscraps Coupon: Traci Simms at ScrapbookGraphics Worn photo overlay by Daniella at Catscrap
Green Flowers: Creshens, Bye-Bye Birdy
Gems: Natali, Freshness
Staples: Flegs, Strawberry Delight at ScrapbookGraphics
Pin Pokes: Rachel Young at ScrapbookGraphics

I Wonder...

I wonder if Joshua will remember sitting on the sofa in PJs, eating clementines the day Obama got elected as President of the USA?
:-)

Happy Halloween everyone!

Halloween Cookies

Two posts in one day - this one is to show you why I can't move in the kitchen - Halloween cookies!

Fresh out the oven...

The fun begins...

There's some very cute little white ghosts too, but I didn't get a photo of them and now it's too dark, but at least they are all decorated now. Just the packaging left to do. I've made some very cute gift tags for them. I'll post photos later in the week.

Joshua's First Haircut

I finally finished them! You can see from the photos these were long overdue. Joshua's first haircut was almost exactly a year ago!

This is actually my second attempt at the cards. I made some others a few weeks ago hoping to give them to Lynn before she left but I didn't get them finished in time and while they were hanging around waiting to be posted I decided I didn't like them and started again. I'm pleased I did redo them as these ones are much nicer.

The cards (which come with matching envelopes) and blue and brown ribbon are by Martha Stewart and the little silver hearts and the velum envelopes (which hold the lock of hair) are by Making Memories and the font is 1942 Type