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8.15 Words On Wednesday: Then & Now | Digital Scrapbooking Words on Wednesday

August 15, 2012
Words on Wednesday
Sari

Howdy! This month one of the challenges we gave the creative team was to create a then and now LO. I missed out on a perfect photo opportunity this last week. My little nephew Zion (age 2 1/2) got home from church and everyone went to change… except Zion. My brother rounded the corner into the kitchen just in time to catch Zion poking his finger in the last roll and deflating it. He saw his Dad and grinned from ear to ear and said, “I did it! I did it!” He was so proud of himself. I can never resist the “I’m-So-Cute-A-Boy-Smile.” His Mom makes rolls of some sort 3 of 4 times a week… so I’m sure he has wanted to “do it” before. He didn’t even get in trouble, they just all laughed. They did have dinner a little late…. after the rolls had a chance to rise again. LOL! Aunts who are 3 hours away don’t usually get “those” pictures. I wanted to share the idea because it was fun! A pan of “before” and “after” rolls with a cute little blonde-haired boy. What ideas do you think of with a then & now theme?
The ladies amazed me again. First up is Kassie showing us a delightful LO of her two girl’s wearing the same dress about 3 years apart. Polka dots make everyone smile & that headband is sooo darn cute. It’s a very simple design with great white spacing, and the journaling is sweet. It’s a lovely timeless design. Makes me wonder if she’ll keep the dress and do the layout again with her first granddaughter. I just want to pick them up off the page and hugs those little darlings! Love the stitching!

Kassie

Next up is Kayla. I love this idea. One of my niece-in-law’s wanted to decorate her home with pictures of her grandparents and my grandparent’s homes and some of the homes my family lived in before I was born. My sister, Arlene, took pictures of the houses (some while she was in high school) and a fellow elementary teacher painted the houses. (Arlene bought a photocopy of the paintings so that her siblings could each have those pictures. Chelle might have them too.) My Grandma Pitcher had a pink house, My Grandma Griffin’s was white. The home I grew up in was white with green trim. Now that all of the houses have changed ownership and colors, it’s nice to walk around my apartment and see those images from my childhood and youth. Look at what Kayla designed.

Kayla

I saw a story on the TODAY show just this morning about a group of 5 guys who took a picture of themselves in high school. Somewhere along the passage of years, they kept re-enacting that picture and updating it. They have redone that same picture several times through the years. I believe they do it ever 5 years. Shannon has one of her favorite pictures of her girls from 7 years ago and then a more recent picture. What a wonderful way to update and compare her girl’s. I’m sure this design will be a favorite of her girl’s for many years to come.

Shannon

Heather used the ivy growth as a marker for the passage of time at a baseball stadium since it opened in 2004. I think we all use pictures or something physical to help us mark the highlights of our lives. How many of us have a wall where we have pencil lines showing a child’s name and date marking the passage of time and growth?

Heather

Let me give you a wrap-up of the products the ladies used.

Hope we gave you lots of ideas for Then & Now.
Hugs!

Leafy Treetop Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

August 5, 2012
Playdates
Sari

Hello Friends! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. Wow what a weekend! We have an annual family golf tournament (on saturday) named in honor of my father, The Glen Griffin Classic. You may recall, I don’t participate – the direct sunlight and allergies issues I have. So instead, we get babysitting duty. I love me some little peeps. I just didn’t know they were coming until yesterday morning. 7 of the peeps. (Jayley 12, Mylie 10, Ivy 7, Daizee, 5, Zion 2, Tanzi <1, and Nikkos <1) LOL! NOISE! MORE NOISE! My sister Barb and I (ages 50, and 45) don’t make a lot of noise, so having 7 of the peeps was pretty noisy! They were a lot of fun. Jayley and I played with PSE9 and Chelle’s Girl Power Reloaded kit. She did AWESOM! I knew she’d catch on fast. We also cut out (yes, by hand with scissors, yuck!) some of Chelle’s stuff & put it through my Xyron and made stickers. I’ve had mine for 20+ years and we use it all the time. Especially for sunday school lessons. I think I created a MONSTER! AWK! I definitely should have through that through better. LOL Oh & guess what? My adhesive cartridge is now gone! Love me some peeps!

Leafy Treetops reminds me of a favorite childhood church song and I’ve been humming it since I first saw this kit during the Iron Scrapper Week 1 kit & SOUL’s (Scrap Orchard Live) first live broadcast. I was thinking about Leafy Treetops and couldn’t help thinking about Labor Day and hauling wood when I was around 10-16. Labor day was definitely L-A-B-O-R day in my family. Dad would get us up at 5, we’d make a sack lunch, climb in the wood truck and head for the canyon. Dad would cut down the dead Quaking Aspen and start cutting it up. My job was to roll the big pieces down the hill to the truck. As I got older, I learned to stack the wood in the truck, just as tight as I could. If I didn’t, Dad would throw them all out of the truck and we’d have to hand them to him again and he’d re-stack them. Dad was a jokester!!! Just before he would fell the tree, and he knew it was going to fall upward, he’d yell, “Run! Sara Run! It’s come right at you.” Terrified, I’d jump and run anywhere that wasn’t where I had been! You could hear the tree knocking branches off other trees and I just knew I would die under a quakie! Dad would stand up there and laugh and then tell me I sure could run fast when I needed to. He did that at least once every “haul” and you never knew if it was real, so, each time we would run like crazy! He was a very funny Dad. LOL!

On to the products, this week we have Leafy Treetops & Leafy Treetops Quickies & offers CU Bubble Wrap Brushes for her CU friends.

Oh Snap! Kit, Oh Snap! Word Art & Oh Snap! Quickies: The Quickies are the new release this week. We previously released Oh Snap! Word Art & Oh Snap! kit was part of Chelle’s birthday daily download in July. I did the playdate on Oh Snap! in July. Here’s the link!

Chelle has started doing short video intros of her new products. What do you think? You like? Let us know, comment to this post. First is: Blending Photos & Second is: 5 Ways To Us Bubble Wrap. If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with these videos, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You Tube Channel.

Did you see Chelle’s post about Creative Club Digi (CCD) & Creative Club Digi Designer (CCDD)? Register HERE. Check out the links, Chelle has some introductory videos about each club.