Mason's Annual Handprint~Year 5

You know the drill by now...Each year on his birthday, I paint Mason's hand and put it on a little painted canvas. I'm so thrilled we started this tradition because it's fun art for his room that is also a great keepsake that shows how much he's grown over the years! This year I chose charcoal grey & yellow paint.




Here are all the other year's posts, if you care to check those out:

2010

2009

2007 and 2008

The canvases will get bigger & bigger! *sniff*
Next post: Madelyn's FIRST handprint canvas!!!

"Rainy Day Lockout" Scrapbook Layout

It's hard to get your scrapbooking groove back once you've put it on the back burner, but I am determined to complete a layout or two each week amongst all my other projects! I quickly dug out some supplies last night and made this 2 page layout. It's not perfect by any means, but it is done.



Unlike most of my scrapbook layouts, this one's main focus is the journaling. It's about the time I got locked out of the house in the pouring rain with my 14 month old son inside! I know--Mother of the Year!


I hopped on the computer to journal the details of this particular story & it feels good to have it documented before I forget it all...or bury it deep in that not-so-happy memory part of my brain!



If you can't read the journaling, don't worry. After being locked out for 35 minutes, my husband came home & unlocked the door. My son was just fine--and I was a bawling mess!



I'm linking up here:

Mason's Annual Handprint~Year 4

Each year around Mason's birthday, I paint his hand & have him put it on a small canvas. I love this tradition that has become a collection of artwork to show how much he's grown over the year. Here are links to past year's posts about his handprint art:

2009
2008

New Digital Scrapbook Layouts

Ok, so the subject matter isn't new~ all from this last Christmas, but I just made these today!

Mason's Annual Handprint

Every year around his birthday, I paint Mason's hand and put it on a small canvas. I label it with his name and the date and you can really tell how much he's grown by his cute little handprint!
This year we made it on his actual birthday. It's nice to have a grouping of three now and it will only look better and better the older he gets (not that I'm rushing THAT!) I'm so glad I started this fun tradition with him!

Springtime Photos

April 2009




...digitally scrapbooked on scrapblog.com, of course! (click to enlarge)
I kept the turquoise butterfly as a constant on each page.

Happy Easter!

Here's a digital layout I made as an Easter card for our family:


(CLICK TO ENLARGE)

My Latest Layouts

I first want to apologize for the quality of these photos. They look ok on the camera then I upload them & they are really glarey and/or blurry. But I'm posting them anyway!
I'm so glad that I've been making time for scrapbooking lately. I haven't been going all out~just keeping it simple to increase the quantity of completed pages so that maybe I will get caught up before Mason graduates from high school!

Mason, 1 year old, July 2007

March 2008, 20 months

April 2008, 21 months

Little Heart Breaker

I actually got a couple of scrapbook layouts completed the other night! I'm so far behind but I'm trying to focus on getting back on track. Documenting Mason's life is very important to me, as is my favorite hobby, so I know I can get caught up!

I've been trying to work on old pictures that fit in with what's currently going on, such as these Valentine's layouts. I find that I'm more in the mood to make a layout about Valentine's day in Feb, and NOT in say, November! I know, I'm a genius! I'm trying to stick with the philosophy of "Keep It Simple," so they aren't all crazy embellished. I think it puts more focus on the pictures themselves.

Here's Mason's first Valentine's Day in 2007. He was 7 months old...

"Heart Breaker"

And this shows a progression of him opening his gift, with journaling alongside each picture. (I apologize for the terrible picture quality-it looks so much better in person!) The background paper has XOXOXO (click to see larger)

I think Mason approves!

You Are Outta This World!

My latest digi scrapbook layout (made on scrapblog) Click on pic to see larger

Mason's Handprints

You may remember (or may not) my post from July showing Mason's 2 year old handprint on a canvas. We made it together as a keepsake that I will eventually turn into a wall collage of handprints grouped together in his room.

Thankfully, (since the canvases were an afterthought) when he turned one, I had Mason make hand prints to give out at his birthday party as favors, so I had his little 1 year old handprint saved. I cut one of those into a square & decoupaged it onto a canvas & added the title & date. We're well on our way to having a handprint wall collage!

Mason, Mason, & More Mason

I'm officially addicted...to Mason & digital scrapbooking!