My first freebie template!

My husband finally got my Photoshop working, so I made my first template! If you'd like to grab the template I used for my "I love this face" layout click here.

If anyone uses it, I'd love to see your work.

I love this face.

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I really like the style over at Three Paper Peonies. A few days ago, I grabbed the ADORE paper collection and had to get to work on a layout right away. The challenge attached to these papers is to do a layout featuring a loved one. These are pics of Gavin in the bath on 11/10/2009. Who wouldn't fall in love with that face? :)

My Photoshop is acting wonky right now, but if I can get it working long enough, I'm going to turn this layout into a template.

The Great Outdoors

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The playground in our complex has wood chips under all of the equipment, and when there are no other kids around Gavin likes to play in them. He especially likes to find and examine twigs and rocks. :)

I love the way this layout turned out. The elements are all digital, but the style is very paper scrapping.

Our Wedding

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When I saw this kit, I wasn't sure what to do with it at first. So, I started digging though all of the photos on the computer. I looked at ones with my sister when we were little, and then through years of scanned and digital camera pics! Finally, I scrolled all the way down to my wedding folder. This is my favorite pic of us from that day.

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Close your eyes and sleep tight...

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Sisters

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August 2009 Wallpaper

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Not Even Three Days Old

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These are some of my favorite pics from our time in the hospital after I had Gavin. He was delivered by c-section on 3/11/2008 at 11:59pm. The poor kid got short changed by a whole day because the doctor didn't wait a minute.

Levi's 30th Birthday Cake

Here's a page to show off my husband's 30th birthday cake! Click the pic to get all of credit info.

Levi's birthday was in May, and I loved how his cake turned out. His favorite is white cake with white icing, which is just so boring to me. In February, I came across this blog post. I loved the pictures and how the cake looked when cut.

I was thinking about making rainbow cupcakes for my son's birthday in March, but I got really sick at the beginning of that week. His party was on Thursday, and I just wasn't up to it. So, I ended up just buying cupcakes for his party.

We had the party at Chuck E. Cheese, and that night he came down with croup! I ended up awake for hours in the middle of the night listening to him make that horrible cough, hanging out in the bathroom with the shower steaming up the room and then spending some quality time on my balcony in the cold air.

My parents and my MIL came the next day. And then when the grandparents were visiting there was too much going on so we grabbed an ice cream cake.

Obviously, this rainbow cake had been on my mind a long time! So, when Levi's birthday came around, I asked if he'd like the rainbow cake. He's usually up for anything I suggest and didn't let me down.

Instead of all that diet friendly recipe tweaking that the post up above does, I just made a regular white cake and added gel color to the batter before baking. Here's how they looked before stacking and icing.

And here's how it looked after icing, sprinkling on some candy sprinkles and adding the candles. I was a bit messy with the frosting, but it looks fun, right?

Birthday boy and crazy baby.

After cutting, it looked amazing! Check out those crumbs!

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Sweet

Quick post to show off the page I did today. Here's Gavin at about 5 1/2 months old. World's cutest boy, right?

All papers & elements are from Peppermint Smoothie - Full kit by Fruitloop Sally and Tracie Stroud available here and here!

I really love how this one turned out! Click the pic to see it bigger and to get the full credit info.

Happy!

Here's my first layout for the FruitLoOp creative team! Here's Gavin having fun at the spray park.

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I used Lizzy kit, which is available at Pickleberrypop and CatScrap.

I won a Loopy Guest Spot!

So a while ago, I did this layout of Gavin using a free kit called "The Cupcake Love Shop" by Fruit Loop Sally. She was running a contest for a guest spot on the FruitLoOp Team, and anyone who used her free(!) mini-kit could enter! And I won! So, I'll be getting to use her awesome products to create pages from now until the end of August.

I'm a little stressed over this, but I think it will be fun!