Happy Valentine´s Day!

Love is in the air and I LOVE My Minds Eye products! I always admired them for their colors, patterns, the richness and mostly because I can combine them with everything! So I decided to enter their challenge nr. 20 on their wonderful blog and these are my submission. The first one is a card...



I used Colorbok cardstock and embellishment, MME patterned papers, some random buttons and white Sakura pen. Lovely!



Plus I made a layout based on this sketch:



The theme was "I love something about you" and I used really non traditional and non red/pink colors. I have a little boy, so why not share my love with his favorite colors - blue, orange and green? I love how it turned out.



Cardstock - Colorbok, patterned paper - My Minds Eye, ChatterBox, buttons - other, pen - Sakura.
Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Just three pictures

I recently finished a layout about my poor Jr in hospital. When he was about seven months old, he had to stay in a hospital for couple of days. Not something, I would like to think about again and again, but hopefully one day he will appreciate my effort to create a page about it.



Cardstock - Best Occasions. Paper - Jillibean Soup (brown), ChatterBox (light blue), unknown (baby boy). Journaling - Deja Views. Flowers - Colorbok. Stickers - Sassafras. Other - white pen, 3M adhesive, unknown journaling block.

Last day of the first month

Who would believe that January will be over so fast? In the beginning of the month I came across a layout ticker, when I set a goal of completed layouts this year and every time I finish one, I tick it off. My goal was to have a 100 layouts by the end of this year and I am on my way. So far I have about 15... In one month!
Today I fell in love with my COLORBOK scrapbooking kit and did two layouts exclusively from papers and embellishments from this kit.
The first one is about adorable playtime adventure and the second one is just a simple reminder how babies grow so FAST!




(For some unknown reason I can´t take pictures of square layouts with all four sides straight. Is it time for a new camera? :) )

I am currently working on a baby girl layout I am really excited about. Lots of pink, ribbons and cure accents :)

Remembering Christmas

Would you believe they were here not even a month ago? I love Christmas and that´s why my December Daily album is still in progress... working on it every day! But the pictures are never ending, so are the embellishments I would like to add, papers I would like to use... This is one of too many pages I did and I have many more of them. My huge Christmas paper stack is providing me a source of endless inspiration. This WOW layout nicely says everything that need to be said about the first Christmas JR actually remembers. A big tree with loads of gifts underneath... Wow.



Eleven more months and we can celebrate again!

Winter Blues

I can't wait the beginning of winter to come. Or at least fall. After my first California summer, which started in March, I am seriously tired of swimsuits, shorts and tank tops. I want to wear jeans, boots, cardigans and dark colors. I want to scrapbook wonderful pictures of bundled up baby, rosy cheeks from cold and full colors of nature... instead of this yellow blah that is all around. To make my mood better I scrapbooked some winter pics from previous winter... and started to sing Christmas songs and looking online for some Christmas themed paper. Winter, where art thou?

Water Water

Summer is here! Hot days have come, we spent couple of days by water and I started scrapbooking some pictures related to water. The weather totally inspired me and I picked some nice blue papers out of my collection.
For HOLIDAY @ home I was inspired by the Anna Griffin chair rub-on and I really wanted to use it on page. I found one perfect picture from our last year summer and it looked perfectly together. Few stickers and flowers and my "masterpiece" was done :D.


Blue cardstock is from Bazzil Basics Paper, stickers are Sassafras, BellaBlvd and JoAnn, flowers are JoAnn, buttons come from scrapbooking store in Napa and rub-on chair is Anna Griffin.

The next "water" project is with pictures already I scrapbook thousand times... Back in 2009 Jr. was watering Papa's garden every day... and I took pictures. Many of them. This SPLISH SPLASH layout contains the last four of them. I didn't want anything complicated, just baby, blue color and water. I found this perfect journaling block saying splish splash and that pretty much influenced my title.



Happy summer!

First Lesson

When Jr. was five months old (almost two years ago!!) I took him to a swimming lesson for babies. He had fun, kicking his tiny legs in water and splashing all around. I scrapbooked this pictures way back then, but I decided to give them new makeover.



I used similar colors, yellow, green and blue and play a little with scalloping scissors. Blue paper is Martha Stewart, green and yellow are K&Company, scissors are all Fiskars and letter stickers are K&Company again. Oh my tiny little baby, now you can almost swim by yourself and don’t need any lessons.



And this is another layout from the past. So simple and clean – that’s totally my style. I had this big Jillibean Soup orange scrap of paper and in Napa’s store i bought this woodland whimsy hedgehog from TPC Studio. With a little help of Mulberry Paper Flowers and Colorbok letter stickers it made a perfect page for my perfect son (just kidding. Actually, no, he IS perfect, lol).
So far so good. I have been making lots of cards recently, I will post the pictures soon.

It´s Raining Day

What can you do with a baby when the weather is not cooperating? 

A, Suffer trough the rain and take him for a walk anyways.

B, Took him to the nearest mall and let him play with other hundreds of toddlers, who are hiding there because of the weather.

C, Play costume play!

My sister came home with a new fedora and Jr. was really happy trying it on. He was smiley superstar, waiting for the camera to take pictures. Isn´t he adorable? 

Parenting means showing your child fashion choices from early childhood :)

When You Will Grow Up

Not a long time ago I was thinking about my future kids professions. It all happenned when I attended a Slovak folklore birthday party for a famous 80-year old choreographer.

He is known for bringing Slovak traditional dances to life and as a "thank you" almost all dancers made an appearance with their presentation. I thought the little dancers were totally adorable and beyond cute, and I decided to "sacrifice" my daughter for the sake of traditional Slovak dance. I said sacrifice because I know few people who used to dance as kids and basically they consider it a high form of children slavery. Because parents did not respect their wish NOT to dance and forced them to be involved in an activity they hated. I really don´t want to be this type of parent, but as long as my little girl will be all cute and dancing like a ballerina, I am into the dance class.

It was somewhere in 2007 and I wanted to have three children, two boys and a girl. My daughter would be a dancer, but what about the boys? Again, the cuteness factor. I really like hockey players and cute little boys skating on ice, dreaming big and playing hard. I wanted my son to be a professional ice-hockey player. The last baby, my dream baby named Gabriel, would be a journalist. I am the only one in my family who can write, so why not pass it to my son? Also, there was a famous journalist from the 60´ies called Gavril Gryzlov, Gavril means Gabriel in Russian. It would be nice to pay him a tribute this way - name my son after him and send him to Columbia University to study journalism.

By now, I just started having my kids. Jr. is adorable and cute and he can choose what he wants to be. He loves to comb hair, clean windows, drive a car, cook and massage. If he wants to be a masseusse, as long as he is happy, I will support him. Bye-bye free ice-hockey matches, welcome free massages!

Peace

I am lazy to write. Enjoy some pics, I will think about some words:)