Jayden update

Hey everyone.. its been a super long time since I've done a baby update (sorry about that.. life just kinda gets in the way often). Well I planned a party.. a very special birthday party for a very special baby thats growing up wayyyy too fast for this mommy!

just hours old

3 months old

On Friday (Jan 11) Jayden turned 3!! I cannot believe it, it feels like I just had her. I've been in denial since the last birthday so it was really hard to deal with this one lol. She requested (more like required lol) a tea party. So of course I had to do a mad tea party with an Alice/Disney theme.

4 months old

8 months old

1 year old

Jayden and her sissy Harmony

Jayden & daddy @ Disneyworld June 2012

Dec 2013 - almost 3 years old

3 years old 

Over the past 3 years she's learned to do so many things so fast. It's like she doesn't even need my help with anything anymore.. for all you moms out there I know you know my pain here and you can feel the sting lol. Nothing hurts quite as bad as her saying "no mommy, I can do it myself. I'm a big girl" except of course for the first time she told me the most hurtful thing I've ever heard in my life "Mommy, I hate you!" :( broke my heart! And the words turn into sentences, which turn into paragraphs.. and next thing they're in college lol.

Jayden favorites:

food: chocolate sandwiches (nutella), chocolate, candy, mac n cheese

movie: anything disney and care bears and my little ponys

person: her sissy Harmony & daddy

animal: dogs & cats "a debra" (aka zebra)

blankie: "ish blankie" (fish blankie w/ yellow ribbon trim her great grandma Larsen made)

Jayden dislikes:

using the potty chair

listening

being woke up

"Umm I don't wike monters and umm thats what i don't like and I dont wike the dark too!"

Jayden milestones:

speaking in sentences & paragraphs

learning songs and singing them with out missing a beat fairly fast

learning some letters.. what they look like and what they are "o, i, etc"

she can write "I <3 a="" and="" few="" her="" letters="" name="" numbers.="" other="" u="">

shes not scared of bath time anymore LOL

A few funny Jayden quotes:

Harmony sat on Jayden's lap and Jayden yelled "OWE! Break my legs!!"

"I'm big and that makes mommy sad and that makes daddy old!" 

LOL!!!

I wrote most of this awhile ago and am just now getting to posting it.. so long ago that it was supposed to be posted before her 3rd birthday. I figured I better get it up before I forget. 

Next I'll have a Harmony update.. maybe.... tomorrow?? That would be nice we'll see. yesterday Harmony was exactly 1.5 years old :(. Where does the time go? 

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Its A Boy

Another Tommy layout.. I know lol. I used Teresa Collins Imagine Baby Boutique cartridge for all of the pattern papers and the title and used the onesie that comes with the basic imagine shapes and filled with different patterns from the Baby Boutique cart. I popped up the circle that says "baby" with pop dots. I used some trendy twine for the line the onesies are hanging on. 

I used the Purple Pumpkin March sketch. Unfortunately I don't have any Purple Pumpkin products or they'd be all over this thing lol :).

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Purple Pumpkin - March Sketch
My Craft Spot - #90 sweet baby
Craftin Desert Diva's - linky party anything goes
DL.ART - Anything goes

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1st Thanksgiving layout

I made this layout for Tommy's baby book too. I used Create A Critter for the turkey and Wild Card for the "Thanksgiving". I cut them all on my gypsy and the "thanksgiving" I used as a mask and inked over it with red ink. The papers are from Joanns. "1st" is red Thickers and I followed a sketch from Paper Secrets.

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Paper secrets - Mar 1 sketch + Thickers
Crafting Diva's - Linky Party anything goes
DL.ART - anything goes

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Little Man layout

Today I have another layout for Tommy's album. For this layout I used all K&Co papers, red bakers twine, and the Baby Steps cartridge for the title.

I used the sketch from My Creative Sketches, but I flipped it.

I am entering this into the following challenge:
My Creative Sketches - February sketch

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1 month layout

I made this cute layout using only K& Co papers and my cricut.. I used Baby steps for the title and i cut the banners by hand. 

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:

More Than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #81

Craftin Desert Divas - Linky party anything goes

DL.ART - anything goes

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Fluttering by card

I just finished up this cute butterfly card. I cut the butterfly from Best of 2008 Cricut cart but this cut is also found on the Home Accents cart. I just cut the base out of purple textured card stock. 

I outlined the wings with orchid twine from the twinery and used Caribbean for the body. I also added two dots of orcid to the wings and 4 dots of caribbean to the wings as well as a caribbean swirl to show that the butterfly was flying. 

The butterfly is on pop dots and the twine is all adhered with Zig glue (I used a fine tip pen).

The pink dot paper is from DCWV Nursery Baby Girl stack. The blue cloud paper is from Recollections and I cut the banner shape by hand and inked the edges in blue. I added the sentiment  stamped in black, love the stamps but never use them. The card base is white card stock from recollections.

Hope you found this as cute as I did :).

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

The Twinery - Let's Polka... dot!

Simon Says - Anything goes

My Craft Spot - #88

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Stamp you love but don't use

Fantabulous Cricut - #150

DL.ART - Anything goes

Exploring Cricut - Animal

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Boy layout for sketch challenge

 Today I have a sketch layout to share with you all... I made this for an album I'm making for my best friend/cousin Mai.. its for her baby boy :D. I used all K & Co papers except the tan behind the pic mats which is recollections. I inked the edges of the journal box and added a light green glitter button. I added a banner of pennants at the bottom and used some red bakers twine. Hope you like :).

Heres a close up of the banner.. please don't mind the shine of the glue.. it doesn't really look like that but the way the lighting was it made it look pretty obvious.. just bad lighting today i guess.

this is a close up of the green button.. touch blurry sorry about that.. i don't normally take pics like this but i donno what the deal is today.. oh well.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

DL.ART - anything goes

Paper Secrets - Sketch + twist (use pennants)

On another note.. turns out Harmony still has yet to have her first sickness.. she was just having a bad reaction to teething.. shes doing a lot better now.. it was a canine on the right.

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

Apron Gift Bag

Hey everyone.. though it's been awhile since I've posted I've actually been more busy than usual.. I've gotten tons of layouts done and even a bunch of cards. Hopefully I'll have a chance to share them soon. 

For now, here's a gift bag I did. I used a kraft gift bag (I got a pack of them from Michaels using a 50% off coupon so it made them less than $0.50 each.. great deal!) and I cut the apron using From My Kitchen and my cricut. The base apron is striped cardstock from Making Memories and the pockets are pink recollections card stock. I adhered it to the bag with pop dots. 

Simple, fast, cute, and perfect for the gift that it contained.. an apron with a pic of my girls for my mom.. she loved it!! She refuses to wear it because she doesn't want to get it dirty lol!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - #149

DL.ART - Anything Goes

I hope to have a few more projects up this week.. we'll see how that goes. Harmony is going through her very first sickness today.. she woke up with a fever of 100 and threw up all over the living room and Adam. Poor little thing is miserable! And.. of course Adam is going out of town for Alaska again.. go figure, had to be during Harmony's first illness. He leaves tonight at 3AM and won't be back until Friday. So if I can find the time I'll have more stuff to post.

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

1st Smile Layout

Pretty simple layout I followed a sketch, used some peachy keen stamps for different smiles on the circle background paper, pleated a strip of blue card stock, added some buttons and put some yellow bakers twine on one in a bow. The title is cut from Create A Critter & Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art. I outlined "Smile" with black zig marker. The journaling box is a stamp... easy :)

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
My Creative Time - 1, 2, 3 
One Day at a Time - Birthday hop sketch
Fantabulous Cricut - #147
Simon Says - Have A Heart

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Adorable Girl Layout

I just finished up this super cute (in my opinion anyway lol) layout. I used imaginisce baby powder papers.

I trimmed different papers up to fit what I thought was close to the sketch. I also fussy cut 2 of the circles from one paper for the strip on the bottom of the pics.. and added pink iRock gems (which you can get at ShopPumpkinSpice.com) around each pic and one on the bottom circles (inside the flower). I inked the edges of some paper and inked the background too with pink ink. Sprayed the background with whine glimmer mist. And one of the pink paper strips I pleated. I cut the heart with my gypsy and Cricut Expression 2 using Craft Room Basics and inked the edges. The title is stamped in black ink and I outlined the black in hot pink glaze pen to help it stand out and fit in all at the same time. Hope you like :)

I followed the sketch at Imaginisce this month.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
Imaginisce - February Month Challenge
Fantabulous Cricut - #147
DL ART - #102
Pumpkin Spice - #5

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day (or night lol)!