All night crop completed....

This is one of my favorite pictures and when I found this journaling in a print advertisement booklet I knew exactly which photo I was going to use. This is my daughter and my grandmother (her great grandmother). I'm very lucky to have been able to spend as much time as I have with my grandmother and that my kids have gotten to know her. The paper is from Creative Memories and was part of our goodie bags from last night! So stinkin' cute!

As you can see, I spent some time on my daughters photos last night. This sketch is from scrapbooks etc magazine and I'm so happy with the way it turned out. Love these colors.

Willow and her ball. These butterflies were just perfect for her so I created this page around them :) The journaling was an interesting addition. I wanted to use this really skinny journal strip down the side of the page but it's much too small to do any kind of real journaling. SOOOOOO, I just picked 10 words that came to mind when looking at the photos and accented a few of them. There are perfect for her.

And last, Cam my handyman :) I've had these photos for over a year now and I had no idea what to do with them. When I had them printed from walmart I had a border added so that I didn't have to distress them myself. This made it extra difficult when making my page cause i didn't want to crop any of the photos. Had to leave the borders on. I think it turned out great though. I used "boys will be boys" cart on this for the hammer, screwdriver, and arrow font. I can't wait to show it to Cam, he's going to love it.

All in a days crafting...

This morning I got up feeling a TON better than the previous week. So, this meant CRAFT TIME! I discovered a Craft it Forward Blog Hop was in progress so I jumped in and made a few projects today. I'm totally happy with EVERYTHING I did today. Haven't felt this satisfied with my crafting since the last major crop I went to. Aside from this 100% Boy page, all these projects are dedicated to my Craft It Forward mission and will be donated to a certain somebody (who will remain nameless until they receive them). I can't wait to show them what I've been working on! Hope you get as inspired as I did today! Craft on my peeps.

This layout is a 12x12 and of a photo of my oldest son several years ago. I just love this photo because he still has his baby cheeks which he no longer has :( The title is from my brand new cartridge "boys will be boys" and it fit him perfectly.

This was the first time I had tried a banner. It was....interesting.

But I think it turned out way cute and think I'll be doing them more often. A great way to use up scraps.

I've been wanting to do a flower pot with 3-d flowers for a LONG time. So glad I finally got around to it today. These were a pain in the rear but I'm super happy about how much they pop off the page! This stamp is the sentiment inside.

I found these really cute paper flowers with button centers at Hobby Lobby a while back and just fell in love with them. These were an easy card to whip up and the 3-d buttons just make it that much faster. Very, very cute.

I loved this "smile" cut so much that I just HAD to carry it over onto a layout. I hadn't planned to cut it this big however, but when you press cut and walk away then come back to this size... you change your plans. I love the way it turned out though. And these cards? So fun! The texture plates were a blast to pound on, of course Heath didn't like the noise too much during his movie, OOPS, LOL.

This card is actually for a certain somebody of mine who will be turning 6 this summer. She even helped me make it and has NO idea it's hers! Willow kept saying, "Awe, that's so cute." and "Whoever gets this should hang it on their wall." Well, I'm thinking we just might!