Thursday, April 28, 2011

Finally finished these




We got together last Friday to make some pages and have an exchange. LOVED the exchange. The gals did such a great job. I love that I can work with such talented people that push me. I had such a struggle finishing these pages. I couldn't get things to balance out. The idea behind these pages is to make them interactive. You can lift flaps, pull tabs, and open "books." The trick is to make slices in the covers that I slide them into in order to make interactive parts accessible. CTMH's newest book, "Magic" shows all the instructions for this. I love that it allows me to add more pictures\journaling than the basic page would. This will come in handy at Christmas time, so I don't have to make so many pages. There are two flaps to open and one tab to pull out that has all my journaling.

pssst....Heidi



I have really acquired a love for purple....not as drastic as my first love, red, but lovely anyway. In fact, I just painted a wall in MY bathroom a lavender. LOVE IT. I had NO girly pictures to use with this layout from 2009, so I got to skip ahead to 2010:) We learned this technique at girls' weekend called bandana technique. The purple background paper on the left is what I made. The rest was easy. Girly pages always are. sparkles, butterfies, flowers, buttons, ribbon,....and it was all CTMH!! Love the new alphabet, too:)

Sa-weet

These were for all the kids on Easter. I had some batter left from the cake below, so I whipped these up.

I finally found a use for these flowers that I made a few months ago:) Scott liked the jelly beans better, though:)








I finally got back into makin' cakes. I have been without a house, kitchen, time, etc for the last 2 years. Whew. It felt great to get back into it. I am especially lovin' my tip that lets me add filling to my cupcakes. I tried some new flavors, learned some new secrets:), and met the worst cupcake pan ever invented!!! These were for a gal at work. They were orange flavored with marmalade in the middle. scrum scrum