Lauri's Stampin' Corner

I love, love, love this old pattern! I had forgotten about it until Katie found the one she made several years ago in her scrapbook stuff last weekend. I decided to resurrect the pattern and do it for our scrapbook workshop tomorrow. I had learned how to make this little mini album at the Stampin' Up! convention several years ago and still love it today! I don't know about you, but I take tons of pictures! I usually print some of them in wallet size (two for the price of one!) then can use them to add smaller prints to my layouts, or like I did here, punch them into smaller photos. I used 23 pictures in this little mini scrapbook! That would have been a whole roll of film back in the "old days"! WOW! The mini book can be added to a page as an interactive scrapbook piece, or just carried along with you to show off those cute grand kids! Mine is going to end up on a scrapbook page with all the other pictures that I took!! I do love to take pictures! Here's a pictu

A friend sent me this recipe a couple of weeks ago and we loved it so much that I wanted to include it in my recipe book. I'm also in the process of making a couple more books for gifts and will also share this recipe page for our scrapbooking workshop this weekend. So without anymore monkey business, here it is: Isn't he cute?? I had problems finding any directions for a cute monkey, so copied a monkey picture on Michael's bib. (I'd show you a picture of it, but he got it pretty messy last night...he's started on cereal!). Katie just laughs at me! Here's a close up of the monkey... Here's the punches that I used: Face 2 1/2" circle punch, muzzle (I guess that's what you call it??) Extra Large Oval Punch, Black eyes 1/2" circle punch, behind the eyes (don't know what that's called either...sockets??) Full Heart Punch, Ears 1 1/4" circle punch and 1" circle punch, nose is a  trimmed 1/2" circle punch , and his stickin&#

I found this picture in my files from way back in 2005 when Gabe and Lily visited Santa. Gabe was only 2 at the time, and Lily just over a month old! I've always saved it for a special scrapbook page, and finally came up with one worthy of such a cute picture! Another demonstrator had shared the Top Note Santa on a card and I thought it was so cute...and what a great Santa to make for my special picture. It's one of my favorite pages!! (I think I say after each one that I finish!). I used the VersaMark ink along the bottom for my row of Christmas trees from the Season Of Joy stamp set... And here's a close up of that great Top Note Santa... His beard is textured with the Manhattan Flower embossing folder...who would have thought that a rose would make a beard?? The Always Artichoke strip in behind was textured with the new Stripes embossing folder. His moustache is cut with the bird punch, and nose an oval punch and raised with dimensionals, the eyes are a 1/2" circl

Katie and I had a fun, fun scrapbook weekend...something we haven't done for years! She had vacation on Friday for Veteran's Day, so early Friday morning we started pulling out our scrapbooking supplies. You don't realize how much you have till you have the whole table covered! (And that wasn't even everything!) Katie's new favorite toy is her Big Shot that she earned for half price as a qualifying hostess at her workshop. I don't know how many times she told me how much she loves it! I know I couldn't get along without mine! And some of the essentials to give you inspiration: Larry and Dickson were so patient with us! We had our stuff scattered for two days. We did clear a spot to let them eat at the table! Katie worked on pages from when Faith was born and I did several from last month and some from 5 years ago! Who says you have to scrapbook in order? I just let the inspiration hit me and then find the pictures that I want to put on the page. I must sa