Serious Croppin

Getting ready for some serious cropping this weekend. Brook and I are going to Scraptales for a all day crop on Saturday. I ordered 50 photos, so definitely have enough to do. Should be about 13 of us, and some of the girls are coming from a couple hours away. So should be fun.

I bought a new toy a couple weeks ago. Meagan had given me a gift card for Joanns and with a coupon, brought it down to where I could justify buying it. (It doesn't take to much to convince me I need a new tool, etc)

It is the Cuttlebug and it embosses and uses die cuts. Pretty nifty and not to big. I still love my Cricut but you can't use your coupons on the cartridges so they can still be pretty expensive. With this you can, so the accessories are not to much.
I finally finished the renion book from 2006. Here are few layouts. I am going to do a slide show soon and will post that soon

American Idol

I have been working on the past reunion (2 yrs ago) book and will post soon. It is a smaller album-a 8x8 size and after doing about 12 layouts I was anxious to do a larger size page. So thought I would do a fun layout...and who but Tyler would be a great fun subject. Used some of the $1.00 foam embellishment I bought at Target. Love the dollar spot at Target.

Srappin Update

Got these scrap supplies from Bri and Mike today for my birthday. Can't wait to use. Plus Meg gave me a Joann's card ...hmmm what to buy??? Luckly Jess gave me a Kohls card for some clothes for work which I really need, but never want to spend $ on clothes, just rub ons, pattern paper, etc.

Hey you have to check out this site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeritageScrapbooking/. I was checking out some sites and clicked on this and saw my layout on the home page! They do a poll on which layout gets the most votes and guess mine did for last month.

We had a nice crop last night. Brook had to leave around 9pm so that was a bummer, but Jenn, Meagan and I went to past 2am. Jenn was working on her honeymoon book, and Meagan pulled together some really good pages. Below in one.

Mosaic Pictures

There is a cool site at http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/ where I made this mosaic. It has alot of other fun tools. Check it out. Here are a couple more options

School Work Folders

Jenn has been working hard on her kids school folders. What a great idea. I have my kids stuff in big plastic bins. Sounds likes it not a really hard thing to make and they turn out great. She said she will bring them to the next crop at my house which is this Friday the 22nd. So we will be able to check them out.

Ann Arbor Scrappers

I started a group page about 2 years ago and never put the energy into it and just recently have been getting a few hits on it. So thought I would start putting information out there on other websites to see if we can get some more ladies around the Ann Arbor area to join us in our scrapbooking crops. The group site is :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/annarborscrapbookers/


Stop by and join and lets see how many new members we can get to join.

SIS Crop in Saginaw

There is going to be a crop in Saginaw on Feb 16th and if anyone would like to tag along let me know and we can drive together. It will be a all day crop. Above are layouts during our round robins, from our first crop These are so much fun and so much talent. Let me know if you are interested, we may have to let them know a count. I was planning on still having my crop the night before on the 15th. I will be putting together layouts for the crop the next day.
And.....if you can't make it to this one we are going to have one at Scrap Tales in Brighton in March. So you have to make it to that! Looking like late March, I will keep you posted.

High School Dances

This is one of the layouts I did Friday. I am working on my All About Me album. The pictures are not the clearest. I guess what can you expect for over 3o year old photos. I should've made prints and enhanced them.

This Friday Crop

So far we have 3 ladies coming to crop this Friday. Anyone else interested?? I hoping I can finish my reunion book that evening. Probably have about 5 more layouts to do. Then of course have to do the journaling. Below is a couple layouts I have finished already.


Hey ladies I was thinking about pizza that night, how does that sounds? So then you don't have to rush to have dinner before you come. Let me know what you think.

Jessica's Wedding Album Layouts