Eight is GR8!

Kaylee is turning 8 and getting baptized on Saturday! We love this sweet, caring girl of ours and we're proud of her decision. We're looking forward to a memorable weekend with family and friends.

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Here are the announcements/invitations that I created. I created standard sized cards for family and bookmark sized cards for her friends.

I FINALLY used my Cuttlebug which made these really fast and easy. I embossed and sanded the front out of Breeze CS. I used Amethyst CS and stamped 'Eight is gr8!' using black ink. Ever since I made the card (posted here) when my nephew turned eight last year, I knew I wanted to use the same idea for Kaylee and I think it worked perfectly for these!

Here is the inside - with a poem I found on Sugar Doodle.

And here are the bookmarks - I stamped them with the corner flourish from the Key To My Heart stamp set in Breeze ink.

And then here is the Baptism Book that I created for her. This was another super easy project but I am so thrilled with how it turned out - I can't wait for her to fill it in! I used Silhouette Simply Snapshot 9x9 pages along with a 9x9 Accordian album. Thanks to a file I found on Sugar Doodle, I just copied and pasted the information I wanted to include in her book. I did have to tweak it to fit and change some things to my liking but it went together really quickly!

Here are some close-ups of each page...

...this is the cover - a picture of her in her white dress will go under the Top Coat.

...here is the back cover

...here is where friends and family will sign

...Articles of Faith page

...Baptism Day details that she will fill in afterwards

...Church Leaders page

...the left page here will be filled in by Kaylee - I saved the right page for something special - I hope it works out like I want it.

Thanks for looking!

A little late, but...

... I hope you had a Happy Valentine's Day! Since I was such a procrastinator this year - big surprise ;-P - we didn't get these Valentine's done until the last minute, and then I forgot to take pictures of the ones the girls made for their classmates! But here are the ones I made for their teachers at school.

Monthly Word Puzzle Workshop

Here is my upcoming workshop - choose from the following options: (2) 6x6 layouts, 12x12 layout, or (3) cards. View the details here. If the 6x6 options look familiar, it's because I am 'stealing' the ideas for those ones from the Unit Monthly Word Puzzle Swap that we did a while ago - you can view all swap pages here. Techniques/Products featured in this workshop are Stamp Rolling, Second Generation Stamping, Sculpting Foam, 3-D Foam Squares, Waxy Flax

6x6 Option

Card Option (all patterns from Originals)




12x12 Option (pattern from Cherish)


Thanks for looking and for your comments - I really appreciate them!

Cherish Challenge

Here is my layout for this month's Cherish Challenge - the left page is also a sneak peek at this month's Monthly Word Puzzle Workshop using the February Word Puzzle and the Key To My Heart stamp set. This month's featured products/techniques are Stamp Rolling, Second Generation stamping, and using Sculpting Foam and 3-D Foam Squares.