Finishing those “Skills for Living” layouts

I think I have finally found the end of those “Skills for Living” photos and if Kaela ever says she wants to take this course again I will run out of the house screaming. 

We have scrapped MULTIPLE cooking project photos and now we move on to the “Sugar Baby” week.

  As we (and I say we because it was a family project) were participating in this project Kaela and I made a killer presentation documenting the week for her to turn in for a grade.  I planned on using this presentation in her scrapbook but her teacher had other ideas and kept it after grading.

There is no way to ever reproduce the original because Kaela was keeping a journal as she went but I have tried. 

Every layout uses my CTMH Cherish book so you will be able to make these layouts at home too.

As you can tell these are the “Being Pregnant” pages.

Kaela was not impressed with the whole not being able to reach anything :-)

Supplies used:

Cherish pages: 44-45

Papers: Rustic Trail (Retired)

Stickers: Purchased long before I was a CTMH consultant

 

   Here comes the fun part: caring for a baby

 

Supplies Used:

Cherish pages: 84-85

Papers: Rustic Trail & Felicity Collection (both retired)

Cardstock: Goldrush, Olive, Chocolate

Ribbon: CTMH Black Collection

Stickers: Too old to remember

I am so happy that this class is over!

Spring Cleaning – Give to a Charity

About once a year I really clean out my stash.  We all do it, we buy a single sheet of scrapbook paper with all of the intentions of making it fit somewhere in a scrapbook we are making.  Time passes and you realize that you have had that sheet of paper for 3 years and still have not used it.  The sad thing is your child is not in 3rd grade anymore and you have already finished those pictures.  (admit it!)

I have found a  children's hospital in CA that uses donated scrapbooking supplies to let patients  and families create a keepsake of the hospital journey.

They are running extremely low on:

Stickers

Paper (8x8 and 12 x 12)

Scissors (all kinds)

Pens (all kinds)

Adhesives

As you can see I am sending a couple of pretty good size boxes.

 

If you are  interested in doing a little spring cleaning of your own and would like to donate scrapbooking supplies too here is the info:

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Kim Ong

Child Life Department

505 Parnassus Ave

L181 Box 0210

San Francisco, CA 94143-0210

Kim.Ong@ucsfmedctr.or or (415)353-1203

March = Free Blocks!

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*Offer valid March 1–31, 2011. Limit one free My Acrylix® block per order per customer. Qualifying stamp purchases include A-, B-, C-, D-, and E-size stamp sets, including Stamp of the Month sets purchased at full price or at a discount. K-size stamp sets, Stamp of the Month sets earned for free, and Workshops on the Go™ kits are excluded. Close To My Heart reserves the right to substitute a block of a similar size or price.

Cherish

Remember that “Cherish” book that you have sitting on your shelf.  It is time to drag it out again and start pulling together beautiful layouts.  I own all 6 of the books that CTMH has put out and as each new book gets published I tend to forget the ones that I already own. 

Kaela has a set of photos that I am trying to scrapbook and as you know my child does not “do pink”.  Given that I am always trying to find papers and layouts that reflect her sense of style.  While working on the Sugar Baby Project photos the normal “baby colors” just did not work,

BUT

I have an old paper pack that fit perfectly!

 

Supplies used:

Cherish – Visual Texture pages 34-35

Rustic Trail paper pack (very retired)

Orange yarn that we used for hair

black button brads

DMC Thread – Ecru (Colonial White)

Up Next?

You guess…..

This layout is going to take a while to complete, but I finally worked it in my head how to attach the hair.  I will show you the layout when I am done. 

Promise.

Juggling Act with Sweetheart

  Yes you did read that right, these are the Sweetheart papers, flipped over! Kaela is not a girl that likes her pink but I have to sneak it in sometimes. The backside of the B & T is black so I was able to still get the pink that I wanted and the black that she wanted from the same paper pack.

I referenced Magic again and used Juggling Act on page 110 to complete the right side of the layout. 

Miracle & A School Project

Mom’s scrappin supplies to the rescue, that was the theme to this homework.  We broke out my paints, and she used my die cut machine with cardstock to complete the project but now I had to find a layout to work with the photos.

 

The main paper pack used is Miracle but I needed a pop of color to balance the red in the homework.

Showing off kids artwork has always been a challenge for me.  I was very grateful for Magic book.  I used the Backstage layout on page 28 to help me complete the layout.