Swinging!

For this layout I wanted to do some editing of the picture before making a scrapbook page. My son was swinging at my parent's house, and their swing just happened to be hanging off of the poles of their clothesline. At the time, it was full of clothes, and didn't make for the best background. So I searched for images in one of my computer programs and found this tree. I very carefully cut out my son and the swing from the picture and combined the two together.

On The Road Again....

Here's a page I did for my daughter's book for the day she got her driver's license. The big yellow sign was actually something we put in the rear window of our van while she was learning. This helped keep the impatient drivers from honking and getting upset since she WAS doing the actual posted speed limits!!
I added a scanned image of her actual driver's license (with the mug shot picture - LOL) and added some Cricut made signs and a road for the finishing touches.

Where's My Blankie?

This is another layout I did for my now 22 year old son's scrapbook. I got interested in scrapbooking when my kids were in their teens, and had a lot of catching up to do. (Of course scrapping is now much more fun with my Cricut!)
On this page he is getting a much needed "snuggie fix". It was SO cute, we were having fun playing outside when all of a sudden he heads for my laundry drying on the line - insert thumb in mouth - all better!

My "Son" o-gram!

This was pre-Cricut so I had to cut out the pregnant silhouette by hand...again I saw this layout in one of my many idea books and thought it was a cute way to scrap your ultrasound pictures. I think it's a perfect way to share baby's REAL first pictures.

Halloween Calendar

This is a cute layout that I found in one of my old scrapbooking books. I thought it would work great for a Halloween layout. I made it look like a calendar page, and for each day of the week is a picture of my son at Halloween when he was that age.

For instance on October 1 - he was one yr. old, Oct. 2 - he was two years old, etc.

I've used this same layout for Christmas photos of my kids opening their presents. Cute idea I think.

Rocky Page

Here is a layout I made WAY back in 2002 - I had each family member pose holding on to big boulders, then carefully cut around each, mounted them onto black paper and stacked them on top of each other - I think it came out rather interesting looking.

A Page from Vacation

Another of my favorite non-cricut scrapbook pages.

This one is from our water rafting trip we took back in 2004. It was a really fun experience - unfortunately for us it was kinda cool weather and towards the end of the day it really downpoured. We made the most of it though, and I think our two boats had the most fun of all. The water was freezing (the coldest water I have ever felt!!!) My poor sister-in-law didn't want to go in, and said that if Cindy went in she would. Poor thing, next thing she knew, over I went - and she had to too!

I really like the dimensional layout in this one.

Okay, there is a story behind this one!

One day, when my son was still very small, he came across his picture that they took at the hospital of him on the day he was born. Now after being in labor for TOO many hours to count and pushing for TOO many more hours to count, I finally had an emergency C-section.

When he finally arrived, his head was quite mis-shaped from being stuck in the birth canal all that time.

So...and here's the story behind the picture. When he saw his picture for the very first time, he thought it was a picture of E.T.

We still don't let him live that moment down, and to this day (he's almost 23) we still joke about "E.T. phone home!"

Of course, being a mother, I just had to do a page on it, so he'd never, ever forget!

More Scrapbooking...

I got on the scrapbook wagon when my kids were already in there pre-teens. I had a lot of catching up to do and felt a little bit over-whelmed to say the least. Here is one of my favorite pages (pre-cricut) from my daughter's book. It was taken on Character Day at school. Dr. Seuss was always a big hit at our house!