I love being his mom...(Ruby Rock-It:Mother Nature)

Hello everyone. As we wind down our celebration of Mothers this month I get to share with you all another reason why I love being a mom. My son! Although lately he has been in the stage of pictures being "not cool"...I do manage to get him to share a special moment with me whenever he attends a High School dance. As much as this photo makes me happy, it saddens me as well. Reality set in, this is the last High School dance photo, his Senior Prom. My little boy is all grown up and as I look at this photo it makes me see all the reasons I love being a mom. I see the little boy he was, I see the young man he is and I see the man he will be. I am so glad that he takes the time to take these photos with me so that I can share them with you!
Mother Nature from Ruby Rock-It, although soft and delicate is not just for those "girlie" layouts. I wanted to show you that it can be used with a little bit more "masculine" photos. For some reason we all think there is this unspoken rule that flowers can't be used for male pages, this line proves us all wrong. Although soft, Mother Nature can easily inspire you to pull out those photos of your sons, your husbands or your dads! Products used: 
RRBF- 
Mother Nature 12x12 Cardstock -
Harmony Bling Floral Strip Black 
Sugar Candy 12x12 Glitter Cardstock- Cool Mint 
Felt Icons - Butterflies 
Heart Stickers Black 
Chipboard Accents 35 pieces - Silver 
Fiskars: 
Flower Border Punch

My Mommy...with RRBF Mother Nature and Arcadia...

Hi everyone! This month over at the RRBF blog we have been celebrating our Moms, our Grandmothers, or that special someone who is like a mother figure to us. Without them where would we be? This Mother's Day I was feeling a bit sappy...my youngest will be finishing up her first year of Junior High and my oldest will be graduating High School and is preparing to go away for college this year. I started to go through some old scrapbooks that I had done and even though I probably should have left the pages, there were some that to me just needed to be "redone". This one in particular really stood out to me as one of those layouts, not to mention that it was perfect for the theme we are celebrating. This was my daughter's Pre-School graduation. I asked her to tell me some things about myself that made me special to her. Her response made me smile and made me laugh a little. In her eyes I was special because: I am happy when she gives me hugs and kisses, I am really good at matching her clothes, I am always hugging and kissing her, I make the best carrot cake, I like to drink iced lattes, I always say "I love you" and just because I am the best Mommy!
 I wanted to keep this layout pretty minimal because as you can see the Mother Nature and Arcadia lines basically speak for themselves.

The paper I used had a big "scenic" print on it and I really didn't want to cover it up so I used my craft knife and cut the outline of the prints out and used it as a photo corner somewhat.

Also this month Fiskars was kind enough to provide us with some of their wonderful punches so I created a giant photo mat and used the border punch to make it stand out a bit more. A little bit of ink and a few embellishments finished off my layout.

Products used:
RRBF:
Mother Nature 12x12 Cardstock - Postcard 
Arcadia 12x12 Cardstock - Halcyon
Sugar Candy 12x12 Embossed Cardstock Hexagon
Wedding Pearls w Silver Rim Blush
Fiskars:
Fiskars Flowers Border Punch

Some Kind of Wonderful...

Hi and I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day! Today I am sharing with you a layout I made using a bunch of Ruby Rock-It/Bella! Fundamentals products. I also got to play with a Fiskars Border Punch since they were nice enough to share some of their wonderful products with us at RRBF this month. For this layout I had the wonderful photo of my daughter only I wanted it bigger and since my photo printer only prints up to a 4x6 photo I got the idea to crop the photo into 4's and print each piece. Once I got that done, I simply matched them up on my layout creating a much bigger focal point. You can see the edges of all 4 photos but I think that is okay...kinda gives the photo a window pane effect which I think looks kinda neat.

I added some of my favorite products from RRBF...the Decoupage. I use this on almost all of my layouts, it really gives that extra "pop".

I made a couple of different borders and layers for this layout. I used the Fiskars Flower Border Punch for one and I tore some paper for another. Both of these layers I finished off by inking the edges just to make the stand out a bit more. Products used:
RRBF:
FD00- A4 Decoupage Pack FD94-
A4 Decoupage Pack RE79-
Reminisce 12x12 Cardstock - Tick Tock  
Mother Nature 12x12 Cardstock - Flutterby 
Arcadia 12x12 Cardstock - Harmony  
Bella! Bling - Borderlines - Pink  
Bling Butterflies 2pce- Pink 
Eklectique Tag Set 
Wedding Organza Brads - Silver
Fiskars:
Flowers Border Punch

Blog Hop with Ruby Rock-It

Hello Ruby Rock-it Fans! Welcome to our May blog hop! We are featuring 3 ranges that reach our softer side...Arcadia, Mother Nature, and Reminisce. These are all so delicate and dainty on their own, and blend just beautifully together! Come and hop along with us, leaving comments at each blog [including ours] to be entered to win an awesome Ruby Rock-it prize pack! Here's the order in case you get lost along the way...Remember to start here at the Ruby Rock-it blog!
Here's the order:
RRBF Blog
Kris Berc
Carrie Walz-YOU ARE HERE
Beckie Dreyer
Erin Yamabe
Pattie Beltran
Lisa Webb
Becky Olsen
June Goh
Liana Suwandi
Lisa Novogrodski
RRBF Blog
You have a chance to win one of these beautiful collections of your own....

Here is a card I made for you using some of these lines...

MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE A COMMENT ON EACH DESIGNER’S BLOG AND THEN ON THE RUBY ROCK-IT BLOG ONCE YOU’RE DONE HOPPING ALONG! RRULES-LEAVE A COMMENT ON EACH DESIGNER’S BLOG AND THEN ON THE RUBY ROCK-IT'S BLOG TO BE ENTERED TO WIN THE CARNIVAL KING PRIZE PACK. COMMENTS MUST BE POSTED BY SUNDAY, APRIL 7TH AT 11:59PM PST TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE RANDOM DRAWING. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE WINNER ON OUR RUBY ROCK-IT BLOG ON MONDAY, APRIL 8TH

We R Memory Keepers For the Record....Family...

My family...goofy, kooky, crazy...but no matter what you call us, there is never a shortage of LOVE! We had a wonderful family get together last weekend when our cousin flew in from California. By the time I got home my sides hurt so much from laughing so hard. I just love how much fun we have when we get together. I have so many pictures so I am sure you will be seeing a lot more layouts from this crazy fun day! For this layout I used another wonderful sketch from Scrapbooksteals.com. I also hate to waste so the this sketch was perfect because I used the inner circle from the layout I did with another Scrapbooksteals sketch. I also used the We R Memory Keepers "For the Record" again. I just love this line and I am sure you will too so make sure you go check it out!