Scrapbooking Layout - "I love my jammies!"

Happy Monday. I did a layout over the weekend. My Granddaughter loves to wear her jammies and would stay in them all day if allowed. 


I used the Cricut cartridge "Flower Shoppe" for the little flowers and the Rosettes were made using my Martha Stewart Scoring Board. I cut two 12" long strips of paper. One started out 1-1/4" wide and the other was 1" wide.  I laid the strip on my board, right side up, and scored on each 1/2" line. I then flipped the strip over and scored on the 1/4" lines (between the 1/2" scored marks). I then folded it up accordian style, glued the two ends together and folded it in and glued the middle part to a 1" circle of cardstock. I did have to hold it for a few minutes while the glue set up. I broke the 'legs' off of a brad and glued it to the top center of the Rosette. 


I found Rosettes easy and fun to make. There are many Youtube videos about how to make Rosettes. This is one I watched.

I do not have a cartridge with pajamas on it so created my own using my Gypsy. The shapes it took to make them are: a heart, four round cornered rectangles and two ovals. The Heart was from cartridge Love Struck 2010 and the shapes are from cartridge Cricut Essentials. All the shapes were welded together so only the outline of the object was cut.

This picture of my Gypsy screen shows the shapes sized and laid out as I wanted them. 

I welded the shapes together and the did a 'cut preview'. The red line is what will cut. Pretty cool I think and fun to create like that. 

Other than the background paper I used my scraps for everything else. I think I foresee lots of Rosettes in my future.  My scrapping friend Frank used them a lot last year and he was my inspiration to finally try them. 

Have a good day all. I'm feeling much much better now.

Friday's Best

Hi all.... this has been one loooooooooooong week for us.  First three days were busy and yesterday hubby and I crashed; still have head colds. We gave each other permission to stay in our jammies. His cold ended up worse than mine after all. Today we ventured out in what we call "the shopping loop": library, Good Will, grocery store. After a 1/2 hour in the GW I was getting weak and told hubby we had to leave as I still needed to do marathon shopping at Safeway. I was so glad to get home. 


I'm happy to say I did get some photo sorting and a little more organization in my scrap room done this week. I'm actually ready to do some layouts now. I also have two books calling my name....


Cutie Pie Granddaughter was here Wednesday (also with a cold) and she let me know she likes my soft fuzzy bathrobe. She handed it to me so I put it on and she wanted up on my lap and I wrapped her up in it and she put her head on my chest and stroked and stroked it..."soft". How can one heart melt so many times and still beat just fine?  


A few pics from Wednesday:

.....the attack of the Green Caterpillar.....  

"I got you now......I win"

Have a good weekend all. See you Monday

Voice Message

Hubby and I came down with colds this weekend. His started Sat. a.m. as he woke up with (only) a sore throat. It is gone already...


Me: I woke up Sunday a.m. with a sore throat, runny nose and weepy eyes. I've been sneezing, blowing and coughing. 


a conversation between us late yesterday:


him: what are you doing?
me: sneezing, I have a cold.
him: well stop it, I don't want it. 
me: you gave it to me.
him: no no, I didn't have THAT cold.
me: hush up.


I always get things worse than him. No fair.


So our little pocket of fun this weekend was to occasionally listen to our first vm left on our phone by granddaughter.  "hi".... "wuv you"...  Listening to our daughter tell her daughter what to say made us realize that their voices sound alike even with GD's sounding younger. I think gd will also have our daughter's great projection. People used to ask me how such a big voice can come from such a petite girl.


Have a good Monday. I'll be back in a few days after I work hard at giving this cold to hubby.

Friday Ramblings

First thing to report is we have sunshine and blue skies...my how nice.  If you don't live in this region you might not understand how special sunshine in winter is. 


Granddaughter was here yesterday and was just starting up with a head cold. She had water weeping from her eyes and didn't understand it. She'd swipe at it and look at her fingers with great questioning on her brow. 


You might remember my post here that showed her kissing my 24" doll.  Yesterday I let her have it for most of the day and she had so much fun. That does require a lot of supervision from me as that doll really is not the type to 'play' with. Granddaughter just loves her so much.

...dancing again

Those two pictures were taken with different cameras. My big Cannon took the first one and my little Nikon the second.  Cannon wins in quality again...  I don't always like taking my big camera with me when out and about but my little one just doesn't take great pics.

Anybody have a recommendation for a good quality 'point and shoot' camera?

Hubby and I are attending an antique show this weekend. It would be fun to find a nice little something to enjoy in our home decor. I love the hunt. 

What are you up to?