Trophy Deer

This is my brother Ken. This past fall he shot a record mule deer. Of course I didn't hear about it until about a month ago. He sent me a few pictures and tried to explain the scoring of deer which is difficult at best. Apparently the world record score is 217. Ken's scored 193 -- enough to earn him a place in one or two record books. I thought this was worthy of recording in our family scrapbook . Being that it is a page about hunting, I thought it best to not be too busy. We had just gotten the new lines of Basic Grey so I used one that would help camouflage his orange hunting outfit. The journalling pull-out was so that I could keep it to a one-page layout and I thought the antlers would be a great way to pull it out. I used the leafless tree diecut at the store for the antlers and cut them out of grungeboard. The guys that come into the store appreciate it.

Best Friends - Family

This is my brother-in-law Jim. He was explaining cars and car parts to Lucas after hours of play wrestling. Lucas kept asking when we could go back so he could play with Jim and Jim asked if he could keep Lucas for awhile. They got along great. This was one of the only moments that I could get a picture of them because they were always moving so fast, everything was just a blur. So when we got home from Edmonton and all of the new lines of paper were in, I quickly threw together this page. I must tell you, throwing together pages is all we have had a chance to do at JSI. There is so much new product to put out, we spend all of our shifts making room and pricing and putting out product. There is something for everyone. Heidi Grace and FancyPants lines for girls and Cosmo Cricket and FancyPants for boys. Everyone seems to be finding something they have been looking for.

Nachos

Lucas had the largest plate of food and most expensive meal . . . even the waitress laughed. He picked the jalapenos off and wouldn't use the sour cream. But nachos and coke was the meal of the week for him. Can you tell I love the new line of boys paper ... "bicycle something"? Even with getting a pile of new stock in the store on friday, I got some pages done and up on my blog. Must get some sleep, these weeks get so busy that I can't even check my blog most days. Glad to get something new on here. New Basic Grey should be in soon which I'm sure will inspire all of us.

OMG

Lucas agreed to let me publish this page if I journalled in lime green. Janet, this one's for you! New paper and new stickers. To let you in on the why . . . we have had this horse in our family for awhile and it turns up in the weirdest places and scares the heck out of us. The day Lucas rode it in his boxers, was the day mom took out her camera. Lucas's sense of humor took over from there and "OMG" (Oh my God!). This picture is my desktop for my computer. It puts me in a good mood for the day.

Laughter

Faith and Cal have always had the same sense of humor. I love, love, love this picture. This BZOO paper worked out so well with it because it brings out their blue eyes and smiles. It took nothing but the picture and title to do this page.

1st Drive

I had to get these photographs. Remember driving a vehicle for the first time on city streets? Well, it was fun to go out with Jade and this new BZoo paper worked perfect for it. I cut the top of the little pocket out and put in her temporary learners licence. I found some old chipboard letters and the number one and included them. Then I added a metal "learn" embellishment that was in my stash, some journalling and a bit of some of our new funky holey ribbon.

Jade - Grade 10

All of my children's school pictures turned out really great this year. I still haven't gotten Faith's but continue to ask for it. I used up some older paper for Jade's picture, used the new die cut and a glue pad with acrylic stamps and some wonderful superfine glitter. Pretty, isn't she?

TXT QT

We got this "Text Messaging" paper in at JSI and since I had these photos of Jade with her old phone, it was very easy to get it all together. The "lined notebook" paper and the "texted paper" are reverse sides of a two-sided pattern paper. I even got to use the new bigger crop-a-dile to put on the letters. Cute and quick.

Massage Gone Terribly Wrong

Faith, Mike and I were over at Cal's for supper one night. Faith and Mike stayed for awhile chatting. I don't remember if Faith wanted the massage or Faith. I think they both wanted one which was the problem. They wrestled and giggled and Faith screamed (like she does) and then kicked until they were both out of breath. No one got a massage . . . but everyone was happy being together. Ralna gave me some new paper and I found some matching ribbon in the store. Circles seem to be in my scrapbooking style now and the title was again done on the Cricut. The flowers matched so well, I just went with them. Some of my favorite colors for two of my favorite people.

First Time Skiing

New, new paper, new acrylic stamps . . . fun, fun, fun. The acrylic stamp is the same as the wave in the patterned paper, so I used it on the chipboard letters and then glossy accented it. I did the tab on the top of the journalling block . . . but it wasn't dry before I left work. The tab has glitter on the stamp which I applied glue to. Cool fun, cool beans, however you want to say it. I had fun and so did Lucas and I at Table Mountain his first time on skis. These photos are priceless, forever captured and kept for him. I hope he enjoys skiing in the future as much as I enjoy creating the memories.

Snowboarder

Some new pictures taken during the school break. Jade trying out snowboarding for the first time. I used cardstock for the background, some Tim Holtz ink to "carve" the paper, then some Perfect Pearls to make my "snow" glitter. My journalling is in small statements about the day attached with brads. I love that I have these memories of the kids "firsts" eventhough they are getting older. Wait for the "first" pictures of Jade driving.

Prince Charming

I keep finding these adorable pictures of my children. When we got this froggy paper in, I knew I had to do the page. The green and burgundy frog paper are two-sided, the title was done on the Cri-cut and I glossy accented the froggy eyeballs. Just a fun page.

Rockstar

I had to use some rockstar paper. I used a gel pen that stays glossy to go over the doodles I really liked. Added concert tickets and it's a done deal. Love the pictures of Mellencamp. They ROCK!!

Untitled - Man I Must Have Been Tired

I have had this page unfinished in the backroom for months. I added some buttons today and some diamond glaze yesterday; the leather curly thing last week and the rest of the page was done in the summer. Now, after uploading it, I see that I have forgotten a title. Oh boy! This week's time off will be welcome. My mom looks so happy to have Sky leading her on her horse this past summer. Actually, we all had so much fun. My mother loves horses and Sky loved taking all of us for a ride on Niko. Niki is gone now; so it is so nice to have these photos.

Smile

A doodled page (white Gel pen) with a bit of patterned paper. Janys laughed at me because I finished this page in an hour or so. Cute, fun and therapeutic (with all of the doodling).

Marshmallow Fight

Again Basic Grey wins the paper challenge. I used some old scraps for the circles, embossed the title with white puffy powder, doodled with black marker and used up some old cardstock stickers. These are the pages that keep the memories alive. Cal found some marshmallows weeks after the war was over. What a hoot!

John Mellencamp

What can I say? Another concert, another few pages. We didn't have very good seats for this concert; but I did have to take some pictures. And boy, did we enjoy the concert. John Cougar Mellencamp and Tom Cochrane with Red Rider . . . ya baby!

Sunshine Valentine Book

I used our die cut machine to make this book. Then I used whatever I could find that was black, red, white and a bit of pink. I had fun and put a lot of meaninful words into this book using Cal's favorite colors. It took me almost three weeks to make this book mainly because all of the journalling and some of the doodling I did by hand. It was fun though. Again, as you can see, I used a lot of stuff I had in my stash. Fun, fun, fun . . .

Together

This was Jade's Valentine's Day gift to Nathan. He had been asking for some pictures of her and this seemed to be the way to do it. It is a Maya Road's chipboard album covered in Basic Grey 6" x 6" paper with cute embellishments. Jade did the journalling which mades the project all that much more special.

Mullingar

The house my mother grew up in is the white one in the foreground. It was moved from the top of a hill to their in-law's homestead after they moved on. My cousin sent this picture to my mother about a month ago. She has all of these memories about the house. I want to get them down on paper to accompany this page. It is one of those photographs which holds enormous sentimental value. I used quite a bit of old stash on this page. I like the pretty ribbon and embossing combined with the embossed binder twine on the bottom. While those times were a bit rough -- my grandmother always managed to keep her elegance present somehow.