Seeing Red

Hello, and Happy Lunar New Year! I've been working on some cards and projects the last few weeks, and am so happy to be posting on my blog again. It's been a busy time getting used to having a little one at school and balancing life with work and parenting. The crafty time that I can carve for myself is really special and allows me to feel like my own person again!

Here is a project that I made for adoptive families. I love that children are born in their parents' hearts from the first moment that parents conceive the notion of building their family through adoption. So I used my heart punch to punch out some hearts from Asian scrapbooking paper to display this love of parent to child. Hope you like it!

baby cards - adoption

Hello! I made a couple of cards today using SRM stickers for the baby sticker challenge on their blog. I was soooo happy to dig through my stash of stickers and find some SRM stickers to use for this challenge!!!

I used the SRM Adoption baby girl stickers for the first card, and their Family stickers for the second card. I created these cards with my little one in mind as we're coming up to our 4th anniversary as a family.

I used some pre-made patterned cards from My Mind's Eye that I found at Winners on the weekend. The images for the teddy bear and the butterflies were die-cut at my local scrapbook store at my Friday night crop. And the gemstone stickers are from Forever in Time. The heart brads are from Recollections. I used a googly eye for the snout on the teddy bear! hehehe! Finally, I used my Marvy border punch and my cuttlebug to add more interest to the cards.

I've also added these cards to the Paper Take Weekly Challenge. :)

Lifebook layouts

I've been working on putting together a lifebook for a friend of my sister. They recently adopted a baby boy!!! How wonderful is that!!! I've been creating pages that will be used to tell his life story, with space for pictures and journalling. I had to keep it simple as the album is pretty bulky, and it has to be sent in the mail. I didn't add any buttons/ribbons/brads, etc as per my usual style as I really wanted to keep the album flat (as per my sister's request). So what I created is a little simpler, but I still love it. I used cardstock from the DCWV Far East stack, and stickers from Creative Imaginations, Marah Johnson. I created the titles for the 6x6 book on my computer. At the back of the book, I typed out the legend of the little boy's name. Here is a glimpse of a few of the 40 pages I created.

Adoption Cards

I haven't been able to craft for a while now, so I thought I would share some of my favourite adoption cards that I have made in the past.