Quick Tip

I posted this layout that I made for Treasured Memories last week, but I thought I'd share a quick tip for printing your journaling on a journaling tag.

I wanted to add the free printable that I shared in the original post to this journaling tag on the bottom, right hand side of the page. 

If you've never done it, it's pretty simple. I sized the printable file to fit the white space on my tag, printed it on a regular sheet of paper and then taped the journaling tag over it, careful to ensure it lined up perfectly. I re-fed the paper in and hit print again. Presto.

Just peel the tag off the paper carefully and you have a perfect embellishment.

Easter on the Farm

Being from a farm allows you a few more experiences than other kids. Gracie may have always lived in a city, but she's a farm girl at heart. She loves the animals, the wide open spaces, and the experiences available to her at Grams and Papa's. 

A friend took a bunch of the community kids on a wagon ride and Gracie loved it! 

Here's a close-up. Yep, she enjoyed herself.

Then, back at the ranch, Papa got some baby calves in for the kids to pet.

Gracie was in love.

But how could you not love these little knock-knee cuties?

And, she felt for their moms, who were missing their babies.

"Perfect! He's trapped in the snow and all mine."

Easter Eggstravaganza!

We were lucky enough to have two Easter egg hunts over the weekend,

one at my parent's community clubhouse and one at my parent's house. This lucky little bunny brought home a bag full of treats.

Gracie loved it! Check out how ambitious she was:

Enjoying her first Easter treat.

Then the next day, we celebrated with my mom's side of the family at my parent's place. 

The kids loved the candy scramble, much more exciting than just finding eggs, there was candy flying through the air!

Then it was on to the hunt.

Good fun was had by all and I've discovered yet again, that I take care of my kids better than I take care of myself. Gracie's sugar intake has been closely monitored, mine, sadly, has gotten out of control.

It is a Good Friday!

My own little Easter Bunny!

Birthday flowers all ready.

I'm married to a poster-boy!! Check out this picture of my hubby. This is actually a life size display. Yowza. He is really, really ridiculously good-looking ;)

And the other model in the family. Check out this Diva:

What's New at Our House

Easter treats:

A visit from my cousins and their kids. Here's Evelyn and Emma, 2nd cousins born three weeks apart! 

Gracie modelling a new spring outfit:

Yummy caramel, pecan monkey bread:

Making Easter crafts:

This girl is so strong! Hanging out with dad:

Gracie's Barbies doing push-ups.... they didn't get that figure by laying around!

;)

Treasured Memories Projects - March

Some more layouts I've done for Treasured Memories. 

This month, I got a kit full of My Little Shoebox products. Very girly and pink and an interesting mix of old-fashioned and modern designs. I liked it. 

Luckily, I just happen to have oodles of cute, baby girl pictures to use with it. 

Unfortunately, without really thinking about it, I made four layouts about a sleeping baby.... I usually try and mix it up a bit more than that, but oh well, the designs are quite different.

These first two utilize song lyrics. Both of these songs are kind of our go to lullabies in this house. Emma really likes Twinkle, Twinkle at the moment. It's amazing how a certain song can calm a baby down. 

I used my Cricut to cut out the title and the laser-cut roses (kraft) on the layout above and to cut the stars and circles out of the white cardstock on the layout below. I'm really loving it at the moment. Design Studio made it alot more useable, and it's free!!

I splattered a bit of paint on the layout above, because the background looked a little boring... I think it works. I also added some Kaisercraft pearls to the star and circle cut outs to make them 'twinkle'. I also popped the three clouds around the photo mat to make them stand out a little and add some dimension.

Since I have a ton of sleeping pictures, I wanted to make a layout to use up a bunch of them, and grids are the best way to make a multi-photo layout look clean and uncluttered. The line border was a simple freehand, messy one that I drew with a pen, making about 7 passes to make it a little thicker.

These flower die-cuts in the first layout and the one above (see them by the 'True Love' sticker?) are from My Little Shoebox as well. I like the roll-up flowers. They add a little dimension and look cute.

This layout uses the roll-up flowers, too, but I chose not to roll them. I just left them as they were and tucked them behind some other elements. I like them either way. 

I used another song on this one (I actually forgot). You can see it on the journaling card. I think it's so cute and fitting. What sleep I'm getting is usually still spent worrying/dreaming/thinking about my girls. If you'd like to use this, too, it's a free printable that you can find here.

I sewed on this layout a little bit. If you look close, I freehand sewed three circles behind the photos, and it just peeks out around the title. I used a wide zig zag, a narrow one, and a straight stitch to make it.

In case I haven't sold you on a Cricut or made you want to add Design Studio to your current Cricut projects, check out the arrows and feathers on this layout. They're from a free cartridge on the Design Studio. I love both of them.

Travels Documented

When we got home from Europe, I decided to document our travels so we can see where we've been. I bought a huge map for our wall, mounted it on corkboard (so our wall doesn't get tacked up) and bought colourful pins. 

It's colour coordinated to show where we've each been or where we've been together. 

A few close ups:

It's fun. I like it, but it just goes to show how many places in this world there are to explore. We've travelled quite a bit, but there's plenty of room for more tacs!