Just some stuff to share

I just wanted to share some new layouts that I have done recently.  I hope you enjoy them.

An Announcement!

First I wanted to share a new layout that I did.  It should give you a bit of a hint of what my announcement will be.

Well if you haven't already guessed my announcement is that my husband and I are expecting our first child!  We are over the moon excited and can't wait to meet our little nibblet in January. 

Sketch Challenge

Head on over to Crafting Jewish Style to see our newest sketch as well as to enter into the Hanukkah in July contest to win a great Hanukkah prize pack!

Mini Album part 2

As I said before (in this post) for Mother's Day I made my mom and my grandma mini albums.  I realize Mother's Day was forever ago, but I just got around to actually blogging about them....Yeah I am a bad blogger...I know.  My grandma's album was shared in the previous post and her's was a "brag book" theme.  For my mom's I decided to leave it photo less and give her the option of filling it with whatever photos she wanted.  I did give her an extra trimmer and some adhesive and I have and matted out photo spots with specific sizes for her.  Part of this was because I just didn't have the time to find enough photos because I only had 1 week to make both albums and part of it was because the album had the title "Life".  Why this title?  Well I got this kit from Archiver's one crop and it happened to have the title of "Life" already.  Yup....I am super original.  My mom's album was substantially bigger than my grandma's so I won't bore you with all the pages, but here is the cover and a few on the inside pages.

 

 

 

 

 

My first Mini Album!

At 2 am the Sunday before Mother's Day I woke up with the most brilliant idea ever....I was going to make both my mom and my grandma mini albums for Mother's Day....Did I say brilliant or crazy?  The crazy was compounded by the fact that I had never made a mini album before, but slightly alleviated by the fact that I had two mini albums sitting around the house.  Today I will show you my grandma's album as it was the first of the two that I made.  I will show my mom's in a later post. 

I really had a ton of fun with this mini.  The fact that it was a clear acrylic album and each page needed to mirror itself on the front and back side was a challenge, but also took some of the guess work out of doing the back.  For a theme for the album I chose to do a Great Grandma's Brag Book and put photos of her four great grandchildren in the book.  It was a lot of fun to make.  Each kid also got their own page and I did my best to match the current personality of each kid with the design I did for the pages.  I hope you enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Folded Flower Tutorial

Want to learn to make these awesome folded flowers?  Head on over to Crafting Jewish Style for a tutorial I put up today!

Happy Mother's Day

First I want to give a big shout out to all the mother's out there today!  Especially my own mother and grandmothers.  A woman could not ask for better role models of strong and intelligent women than what I had growing up!  I love you ladies more than you can ever know!  So tell me...What do you love and cherish most about your mother or any other female role model you may have had?

Next I want to direct your attention once again to Crafting Jewish Style's blog.  This project I was tasked with creating a layout about an event.  It didn't have to be a specific event, but it needed to be an event.  I chose to create my layout about Simchat Torah.  Simchat Torah is the time of year when we celebrate finishing our Torah readings for the year and beginning again.  It is a celebration of the Torah and our story and history.  This year we went to Temple Micah to celebrate and had a wonderful time.  There was dancing and singing and clapping.  It was so full of joy and celebration it was truly a wonderful experience.  At the end of the celebration we unrolled the entire Torah to be able to see it in its entirety.  The whole scrolls are so big, long and intricate that it truly is a breathtaking experience.  The photo on this page is hard to see, but it is just a portion of the unrolled scroll.  From end to end there were probably 4 or 5 times as much as this photo shows.  I used Crafting Jewish Style's Rosh Hashannah line for this page.  The colors just fit so well with the photo.