Sitting Pretty

A page for The Scrappiest sketch. I think it's perfectly acceptable to sprinkle some flowers on my sons' pages. With the word "pretty" in the title, how could I not use flowers! Someday, they'll hate me for it. I think I can handle it :)

Color at the Ecotarium

Playing along with the Ella Sketch for week #3 (deadline Thurs, Feb 4). Here's the sketch:

And here's my take:I used the same doodled frame from the Daily Digi kit--it's just too cute to not use more than once! I followed the sketch pretty closely. With this many photos, there's not much room for extras. I like pages like this: the photos tell the story and they whip up in a flash!

Patterned Paper = Cosmo Cricket; title letters are machine stitched to page.

Another ATC

I have a project planned for some ATC's that I was hoping to have more underway by now. Ahh, well. . .here's one I made following Ronda's awesome instructions.

Online Tutorials

Since it's February, the month of LOVE, I'm sharing what really makes my heart happy (besides my son just handing me half of his KitKat bar!). I am totally smitten with crochet. One month ago I was cursing the craft, but now thanks to some time with my aunt, a kids crochet book, and many, many viewings of Mandy's video at Little Birdie Secrets, I think I have it down (well, at least enough to fashion a decent looking flower and even a heart).

And then in a bit of blog catch-up this morning I finally got over to crafty chickie Lolly Chops to catch her fantabulous video on these little paper flowers. Do check it out, and scroll down a bit in her bog to see her absolutely AMAZING mini album cover.

Some close ups:

paper flower from Lolly's video made with a paper bag printed with vintage newspaper

Happy February!

It's a brand new month and I'm doing some thinking about my word for 20-ten.


Ali had this cool link on her blog [Spell with Flickr]. You type in your word and it pulls up photos of the letters. You can then click on each letter to change it.