One Year Old!

How cute is our little boy! It is still hard to believe how fast his first year has gone by. This page is done in My Digital Studio. The background is Garden Green and I set the opacity to 89% so that I could have the stars pop out. I really like how the program allows you to enlarge the punch shapes to be what ever size you would like. I was amazed how well the Garden Green and Night of Navy colors matched Ryan's shirt.

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Finally, Ryan's thank you cards

So I have finally finished Ryan's thank you cards. I am not usually this slow. I feel so busy yet I don't seem to have much accomplished. I wonder if my list will ever come to an end, ha, not likely! So his cards are made using lots of different Stampin' Up! colors, punches and the Scallop Circles #2 die. I have enjoyed making all these Sesame Street characters but I am not going to be upset about having a little break from them.

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MDS Card!

I wanted to try a card on MDS so I thought I would try a birthday card. This is a very basic card and it didn't even take me 5 minutes to make it. I am still learning the program so I am starting out with simple projects. This program really is great, I definitely see me getting lots of use out of it. 

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Ryan's Birthday in MDS!

I decided to do a couple simple pages in My Digital Studio from Ryan's birthday. MDS is such a quick way to get caught up on scrapbooking.  I still do prefer cutting my paper, stamping and punching, but, sometimes it is hard to find the time. I think MDS is great because I can make an online book they way I would want it while everything is fresh in my head and then when I find/make the time to scrapbook I can refer to it.

I am excited, I just put in my Occasions mini pre-order, Yey! The new mini will start January 5th so if there is anything you still want out of the current mini you better get before it is no longer available.

Ryan's invitations

These are the invitations we sent out for Ryan's birthday party! I thought I posted them yesterday and then noticed I didn't, oops! I made these with the Scallop circle for the Big shot and several different Stampin' Up! punches. The last picture is of the box I created to hold one of each card. I will hopefully get his thank you cards done today, my fingers are crossed. My older son Craig who is almost 2 1/2 loves all my Sesame Street creations, he is constantly playing with them and naming who each character is. I am working on an alphabet punch book for him for Christmas. I have over 70 different punched creations that I have created my self as well as some that are other peoples that I have seen on different blogs and SCS. Whenever we are in my craft area he grabs my 6 x 6 pages and likes me to name them so he can repeat it, he has learned so many new words through my punched art.  He can even pick some of them out and tell me what they are. 

Ryan's 1st Birthday!

Happy 1st Birthday Ryan!

Here is the birthday boy, enjoying some cake. We were pretty happy when the blue icing washed off both the boys, they looked stained.

I really like to make my own birthday cakes. I am really happy with how cookie monster and elmo turned out. Ryan was eager to get into them, he already started to eat the word's before I got a picture!

This is the Birthday card that I made for Ryan. I have seen similar ones on SCS.

This is the card that Craig and I made for Ryan. I wanted a stamp that was just an outline so that Craig could color the picture in for Ryan. This stamp is not from Stampin' Up!, unfortunately they do not have any Sesame Street characters.

Here are the party favors that I made, I came up with the boxes on my own and then used the Scallop circle for the Big SHot. I did get the idea from SCS, I just don't remember who, sorry. I put a box of crayons, a bag of cookies and a Sesame street ornament on each of the young children's boxes, in the big kids I did the cookies and smarties or M&M's.

Sesame Street!

So I am getting ready for Ryan's first birthday! Wow does time ever fly by, I can't believe our baby will be one already. It is kind of sad yet exciting to move on to the next stage of his life. I am doing  a Sesame street theme and will be using these characters I made using SU punches. I will post the invitations, his b-day card, thank you's and treat bags this weekend.

Have a great day!