Baby Ichabod Crane

Ichabod was dropped by a hawk today near Ryan's camp. A trucker brought him there because they were the closest place. The baby crane was placed in a box and fed watered down tuna as a snack. I am going to ask the vet about him tomorrow. If there is no where around here that can take him I will try to nurse him to health myself. Poor little baby. Look at those legs!

Another from the photo shoot

I'm running out of photos to do from the photo shoot. I think I only have one double and one single pager left to do.... I used Basic Grey Marakesh for this. It just worked really well with the colours in the photos. I designed this page a little different from usual. I said "I'm just going to make the background look pretty and figure out where the photos belong after that." It was a strategy that worked well actually.

All supplies are Basic Grey except for a few. The "LOVE" is Thickers (of course). The die cut Family pieces are old Daisy D. I actually bought them off Jen D at the LSS garage sale for $1. They coordinate perfectly! I bet she's sorry she sold them now!

On a roll....

I was looking at my latest Studio Calico kit. It's been neatly kept safe in its little paper baggie. I have another on its way any day now so I figured I'd better create something with this one first! I'm not willing to show you the rest of the layout until I print the picture to the correct size and put it on. I think it will be a lot better when fully complete.

Sometimes it's good to be a hoarder

Yet another puppy layout. I got inspiration for this one from this layout at 2peas. I had originally seen it in Scrapbooks Etc. Very cute idea. The following is a list of reasons why I like this layout:

1) It has my beloved Mackie in it.
2) I used really old paper. I mean really old. The baby blue lined stuff is Sassafrass from like 4 years ago. I've thought about purging it a few times, but hung on.
3) I didn't use pop dots. (Did that just for you Crystal).
4) Another old product - the little doggie in the flowers. That's from BG's Mellow line. About 2 years old.
5) I used another transparency.
6) I used my Cricut.

Thanks for looking!

You're the Coolest

I love it when you find paper that goes just perfectly with your photos. The green in Basic Grey's new Lime Rickey goes great with the walls in my bedroom! This layout was done in like half an hour. I did barely anything to it. The birdie paper was just so cute and I wanted to use a lot of it. I didn't really feel I could cover it up without making it look super busy. What do you think? Not too bad for half an hour. I never am that speedy!

Three Princesses

I had struggled with this layout so much. I attempted doing 3 different things before settling on this. I had problems with the colour in my photos so I decided to go black and white. Crystal and I had cut out the princess shapes a long time ago and I really wanted to use them. I do admit that I cheated by just smushing them all in the corner, but it had to be a one-pager to fit in the album at the right spot. It turned out okay. I used Basic Grey Euphoria, which is slowly getting on the old side. I also used a Jenni Bowlin halloween journaling card which indicates the holiday a bit more.

Steve goes swimming

Yesterday we drove out to the Beaton river (thanks Crystal for the idea). There's actually a sign that says "NO DOGS ALLOWED" but we were the only people there so we went anyway. Steve is nearly 4 years old and he's never been swimming. Mack immediately ran in while Steve was a little timid. However, we think Mack scared himself and Steve ended up loving it! He cried and cried when we went to leave.