Family Birthday Board

So awhile back my husband pointed me to this link. The link was a picture of the family birthday boards you see all over Pinterest now. But we saw the thing way before they all started popping up. I took note of it as a good idea for a gift and put the idea aside.

This year for Christmas, I decided it was the perfect gifts for our mother's. They both loved it. So here are our family birthday boards:

Yes, my family is much bigger than the hubbies...He's 1 of 3 kids, I'm 1 of 7.

I found most of my supplies at one of my favorite places, The Wood Connection. I'm sure you can find all of them at your local craft store, however. The letters I used for the months, were in my scrapbooking stash for years, same as the ribbons. The twine used I found at Target in their scrapbooking aisle. I'm too lazy to go look at the paint right now for exact colors, but if someone wants to know - I will find it.

Santa's Little Trouble Makers

There's been a lot of fun new kits for the Holiday Season released over at Trixie Scraps lately. She's been doing a lot of collab work. One such kit that came about was My Shelf Elf. This is the first year we've ever done The Elf On The Shelf thing at our house, so I'm just barely getting pictures of it.

However, I still found an awesome use for this kit and I of course made a few things with it.

First and foremost, I did a tutorial on how to make a Facebook Timeline Cover Photo. You can read the tutorial here and this is what it looks like:

The next thing I did with this kit was to make a scrapbook page, of course. I took one of the templates one of the CT members made, which you can find here and went to work. Here's what we came out with:

Getting Caught Up

One of the best things about being a part of the Trixie Scraps Design Creative Team is all the work I've been accomplishing in such a short period of time. Here's 3 more additions to my digi-scrapping world...

My first one was a post about getting your Christmas Cards made now. Read here for detailed instructions.

The next page I was able to create was about creating your own handwriting as a font. Yes it is possible and you can do so for free. Here's more info and here's the page I made:

Finally one of the other CT members needed a couple pages made to show off the template she made. You can download her template here and here's the page I made:

SUPPLY LIST:

    * CHRISTMAS CARD:
          - Winter On The Mountain Digital Scrapbooking Kit by Trixie Scraps Designs
          - Fonts: Grinched (Red Letters), Tonight's The Night (Green Letters) and my own handwriting (From)

    * ALWAYS THERE PAGE:
           - I'll Be There Digital Scrapbooking Kit by Trixie Scraps Designs
           - Fonts: Park Avenue BT (Title), Traveling Typewriter (Dates), and my own handwriting (Journaling)

    * TO SIR, WITH LOVE PAGE:
            - Apples For Teacher Kit by Trixie Scraps Designs
            - Fonts: Monotype Corsiva (With Love) and The Great Escape (Journaling)

Making Halloween

I love, love, love Halloween. I'm always on the lookout for more Halloween decorations.

This year I headed over to The Wood Connection towards the middle of September and had a hard time making decisions. I could've spent a boatload of money, which I didn't have - so I had to pick and choose.

These were the winners...

Then I decided to make use of a wood plaque thing that I bought off our area yard sale group on Facebook. I paid $7 for both, which is a little less than you'd pay for one. When I originally bought them, I didn't know what I was going to do with them, but I knew I'd figure something out eventually and well I've done one project and I know what the other's going to be. Anyway, here's what I did with it using this trick.

These were all so much fun to do and I love having these new decorations for the house.

My Story, My Song

Another layout I did for a post at Trixie Scraps.

When I originally started this layout it was meant to be an about me layout and it didn't exactly go according to the plan. I started journaling and then ended up forgoing that idea when my brain was filled with what I should do instead. So, I did it.

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Photo by Cindi Braby Photography
Defining Me Kit by Trixie Scraps
Fonts: Miserably Lose and My Own Handwriting

Why So Serious? - Revisited

I noticed I hadn't posted this layout yet. It was another one I did a post for over at Trixie Scraps, and you can read that post here. It was a post about using your imperfect photos.

This is a revisit of a previous layout, but I redid it in a 12x12 size and kind of like this newest layout:

SUPPLY LIST:
Pictures by Cindi Braby Photography
Everybody Fights Sometimes Kit by North Meets South Studios
Font: KG This Is Not Goodbye

Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning's End

Here's my newest digi layout.

I enjoyed making this layout so so much and I just wish I could've found the original picture I wanted to use. I have a picture somewhere on an old hard drive with the 1st day of school picture from his Kindergarten year. That's the one I wanted to use and the good news is, with digi scrapping - as soon as the hubby decides to get that hard drive out for me, I can replace the picture!

SUPPLY LIST:

Apples For Teacher Digital Scrap Kit by Trixie Scraps Designs
Font: CK Man's Print