Baby, It's Cold Outside!

It's finally cold outside and it feels like winter. Vicki released a fun winter kit today called Love To Chill. I scrapped last Christmas Eve's photos with it. Yes we had a white Christmas in 2009! I'm hoping for more snow this year...that was so much fun. Annie didn't know what to think.

You can get this kit at Plain Digital Wrapper. Super cute.

Scrapbook pages

I'm loving being on these creative teams because it forces me to scrapbook :) Not that I have to be forced...I love it but it forces me to find time. I have thousands of photos on my hard drive that need to find a home! Mel Hains released two new kits last week and they are beautiful. If you like them go check them out at Gingerscaps where she is guest designing this month.

First is Happy Snaps. This kit is so perfect for me. It's all about the photographer. Thanks Mike for the photo of me on the sideline!

Next is Mother Wife and I used it to scrap some photos of my grandmother, my mother and myself. I don't think I ever saw this photo of my mother until a few years ago, and it's pretty weird and cool at the same time that we have the same pose for a portrait taken in high school. If I remember correctly she wasn't even at that photo session with me!

More Scrapbook Pages

I know I'm a year behind but hey...one year isn't too bad, right? This week I used two awesome kits designed by Vicki to scrap last years holiday festivities. She released the kits in her store at Scrap That Idea today so you can get them too.

This is last year's Christmas Tree in downtown Fort Worth and I made the page using the Jolly Christmas kit. I love this kit. It might me my favorite so far. I'm into non-traditional holiday colors this year (wait until you see my Christmas Card!) so the teal and lime green made me happy. I love the silly photos of me too. Yes my husband puts up with me ;)

Breakfast with Santa was scrapped using Christmas Time. It's a more traditional kit with reds and dark greens. I like the sloppy border paper in the kit. It rocks.

Get Jolly Christmas at Scrap That Idea here.

and get Christmas Time free when you buy Jolly Christmas. What a deal. You can buy it here too if you don't want both kits.

Cool Stuff at Scrap That Idea

This month at Scrap That Idea you can get a beautiful collaboration kit called Christmas Past. Lots of traditional reds and greens. I scrapped my photos from last year's family Christmas with it. Love those glittery swirls. My husband hates and I mean HATES real glitter that gets all over the house, which I of course love, but I can put all the glitter I want on my digital pages :) 

 Here's the full kit. I just used a tiny sampling of it to create my page. Go get it at Scrap That Idea.

They also have a new kit called Winter Chill. I love the blues in this one and the snowflake paper is super cute. This is a page from last January when it actually snowed in DFW. Normally we get ice but we got real snow. Annie was not sure what to think about it at all.

 You can get Winter Chill totally free if you spend $5 this month. What a deal. Get Winter Chill here.

Holiday Card Templates

It's the time of year again to make holiday cards. Red River Paper has contracted me again to make some fun templates for you to use to easily make your own custom Christmas Cards. I've created three designs for 2010 and I love them all. They are bright fun colors and easy to slip you own photos into an customize the text. If you've always wanted to make you own holiday cards and have them look professional...here's an easy way to do it. Just go to Red River Paper's site buy a template and some of their amazing cardstock which is pre-scored so it folds nice and neat, pop your photos into the template in photoshop, print and voila! Custom Holiday Cards. Here are the designs I created with some photos from my recent sessions in them. It took me longer to pick out which photos I wanted to put on teh cards than it did to actually create them from the template.

Holiday Blue with photos of Isla. She'll be about 8 weeks old on Christmas, a perfect Holiday gift. If she were mine. I would customize this card with her date of birth and weight in the empty white square and make it a combination birth announcement/holiday card. It's a portrait orientation card that when folded her feet would be on the back and the family photo would be on the front. Too Cute!

Holiday Red with photos of Roman, Lydia and Brian that I shot this evening. Roman is a cutie and I love photographing him. Lydia is amazing and already had her house totally decorated with real presents under the tree. I am such a slacker. All I've done it take other people's holiday photos and create three card designs ;) This one is a landscape oriented card and when you make it you have to put the photos on the back in upside down but I've taken it apart here and put the font on the top for you and the back on the bottom. I don;t want you to have to turn your computer upside down to see the back. lol.

Holiday Green with a photo of my sweet nieces I took on Thanksgiving. This is also a portrait orientation card so the photo will be on the front and the date will be on the back when it's folded.

Try them out. Each design comes in four different sizes so you can print different sized cards for everyone on your list.

Love Yourself

This week Vicki has a new kit out called Love Yourself and it's all about scrapbooking photos of well, yourself. It's a really pretty kit and I used it to scrap this photo of me that I took at the new Cowboys Stadium last year. We know I love the stars :)

If you aren't digital scrapbooking yet, you should be. Start with a photo of yourself and this kit. It's easy. Get it here.

Isla - Fort Worth Newborn Portriats

I spent Saturday morning with little Miss Isla and her amazing parents. She was born about three weeks ago and is 7 pounds of pure perfection.

Ten little fingers...

...and ten little toes.

Beautiful.

Look at this gorgeous family.

Congratulations! I hope you love your portraits.