just like her mom mini scrapbook

I love the theme for this baby gift mini album scrapbook by Lindsey Macdonald . She has made a super cute mini album for a friend who will be soon welcoming a brand new baby girl into the world.
The mini is actually for the baby. The first page says "...we hope you grow up just like you mom" and is filled with quirky stories from when mom was growing up.

It made me think back to what i was like growing up.
I wonder what my daughters mini would say if someone made one for her.
First 3 things that come to mind...

• stay away from cousins with golf clubs OR keep your cheekiness to a minimum to avoid golf balls to the forehead.
  
• eat 11 weetbix a day to keep my motors fuelled and running
• Love playing sport (eating weetbix is good for this)

What would yours say?

Winner of the scrapook perpetual calendar

After lots of calculating, scribbling, and cutting we have come up with a winner for the alterable perpetual calendar. In the end I numbered the slips 1 through 50 then added 4 more slips for each of those who shared the love and took out those that didn't belong (my comments etc)
Akw graciously consented to take time out from the Disney channel to pick a random winner out of the hat (or bowl in this case) If she had things her way we'd have twenty winners by now since apparently picking winners out of a bowl is way cool fun...
Anywho... Drum roll...
#21, does anyone have number 21

Jingle said...

I love this little calendar! How much fun would that be to create?!

February 10, 2009 2:10 AM

Congratulation Jingle! Send us an email and Wayne from the Woodshed will send you out your wooden perpetual calendar ready for you to alter.

Thanks to everyone for playing along with us. If you missed out on winning but would like to own one of these calendars then get along to Waynes Woodshed. He is selling the cheapest wooden calendars on Etsy... I know, I checked it out, actually I received my calendar from wayne about a week ago... can you belive it is still waiting for me to show it some love... soon I promise...

My Handmade Valentines Gifts

Okie dokie, pics of my last minute valentine's day treats for the fam made by my dd and me.
one for grandma, popstar, aunty char and aunty T, and one for dd's first ever teacher...

I whipped up some 'no glue required' fold up boxes to perfectly fit 3 Ferrer Roche chocolate treats. We decorated the boxes with scrapbooking papers by heidi grace, wrapped them up with cellophane and finished them with ribbon. By the time we got to making tags and finishing with the ribbon dd got restless (she even went so far as to say 'oh man mum... this is soooo boring" ) So we skipped the cute tags i had lined up and practiced tying shoelaces with the ribbon... kindergarten kids have no style sometimes...lol.

So I loved this gift idea so much that i thought i'd share a template with you all.

You can download the template here

Print it out when you are in need of a quick and easy gift idea - not just for valentines day.
They will make good teacher gifts as well.

Don't forget to enter our little perpetual calendar competition which ends on the 18th feb. just leave a comment on the calendar post for a chance to score a freebie.

more Valentine's Day Scrapbook Projects

Sharing some more Valentines Day Scrapbook Projects from around the blogosphere...

First up we have a fabulous valentines day card made by Carla Peicheff
She shares a tutorial and shows us how to make it on the Scrapbook Cards blog here.

Manuela makes a neat little valentines day tree which would be great for the kids to make.

Creative UK Crafter is giving away a sheet of free valentine's bottle cap printables that you can use on your mini albums, cards and altered projects. Print em off, cut em out, and tick em to your bottle caps for a fab looking charm.

Love this little tin of candies made by Amanda Muirhead, check the rest of the post for some great layouts and altered bottles.

How cute are these love blocks by an altered obsession love the bedazzled look. I know exactly where i can get some wooden blocks too. Yep from Wayne (aka woodshed) the wood crafter on Etsy...

A Sweet heart shaped Valentine's mini album at Sue's Stamping Stuff made with her nestie hearts. It's a lot like a star album with some subtle differences.

Kerin's Altered mini magazine holder and valentines cards.
Chelsea make some shabby chic valentines magnets, cards and gift tags, love that vintage look.

You have to check out these altered Valentines Mailboxes by the super talented Lysa. I would say they are hands down my favorite Valentines Day project this year. I sooo want one. Check out some more pictures here...

Also loving this homemade valentines family frame.

make or WIN a perpetual calendar

You are all probably thinking that we are well into the new year and that the time for giving out calendars as gifts has long passed no matter how cool they may look.
Not so, I say. I have recently discovered perpetual calendars... the type that never end, or at least the type you don't have to throw out (or recycle) at the end of the year. For those of you who have no idea what they are or how they tick they simply are a set of months and dates that you change daily to reflect the date. If you take a look at the pic below you will see how they work with this perpetual block calendar set made by Wayne. It has been crafted from wood and then decorated.

Wayne makes these cool little wooden sets (amongst a million other things) that he sells from his Etsy store. But he is all for sharing the love and so he has ever so graciously written us this perpetual calendar tutorial which you can find at scrapbook-crazy.com. Covered in scrapbook papers these little beauties look great. You can totally coordinate them to match the decor in your home or office. I have one in the post on it's way to me right now, so i will show you it when it is all spruced up.

So who wants to win one of these naked calendar kits?
Do you want to cover this little calendar in pretty scrapbook papers for your desk, or home. Wayne is giving away a perpetual calendar kit to one lucky reader. All you will need to do to enter is to leave a comment on this post before 18 Feb. If you want to be entered five times then link to this scrapbook calendar give-away post from a post on your blog or other scrappy site (just tell me you if you are due 5 entries in the comments and leave a link to the post )

My dd will be picking a winner out of a hat when all the entries are in.

Valentines Scrapbooking Projects

Try out some of these scrappy Valentines projects. Keepsakes, momentos, gifts and food....love it all!


Shabbychic Crafts shares a valentine cd and coupon holder complete with a set of Love Coupons that you can download for free!

I am in love with these hanging valentines by Talia. A simple project that she created in no time at all with her young girls running around.
There is a little 'how to' tutorial at the bottom too. She makes it seem all so easy. now if only i could take a picture like that i will be set..lol.

Talia also has some felt fortune cookie ideas and dangly words

Tracy makes some treats for your sweet and the shabbychicblog lets us in on a home decor project with some desoupage

Mmmmmmm cookies. Little Birdie Secrets makes chocolate dipped heart shaped cookies in a tin covered in pretty scrappy papers. I'm all about upcycling and food so i loooove this project!

Love Mini books by Ali Edwards and Little Black Scrap Cat. A Felt Valentines Day Countdown Calendar tutorial by Katie



Check out some of our older Valentines posts here and If you have a Valentines Project to share then let us know

make a smilebox for valentines

Some smile box lovin

for Valentines Day
2009.




There are a heaps of new designs, most of them have a scrapbook feel which i must say are getting better and better
send them to a loved one, print them for yourself.


check em out

waterfall scrapbook tutorial

A new mini album tutorial for a waterfall scrapbpook at Scrapbook Crazy. It's kinda difficult to explain how they work. If you can imagine opening the front cover of a book, pulling a tab on the right hand side (attached to bottom page) and all the pages open one at a time as you pull.
Lots of fun and actually pretty easy to make once you get the hang of it. For those of you whom have made waterfall cards and used the waterfall technique in your scrapbook layouts will be very familiar with the techniques used here. But if you've never seen them before then I recommend practising on a scrap piece of paper first to get a feel for it.
So check it out, give it a whirl and let us know how you got on with it...

waterfall mini scrapbook tutorial
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