Hurley Hospital Scrapbook Layout

Here is one of 10 identical layouts which I made to donate to Hurley Children's Hospital for their premature baby unit. A group of us in the Northern Stars Team decided to make 100 layouts to give to the parents of the babies in the unit. My layout features the Everlasting Level 2 Paper & cardstock pack, Cocoa ribbon, buttons and sparkles. I also used Fun Flock on Santa's beard and hat to make them look fluffy :O)

Alaska Cruise Luggae Tag

Here is a cute luggage tag which I made from a mini clipboard- it is only small and just perfect for this. I used the CTMH Majestic Blue Level 2 paper and the R&R acrylic stamp set (unfortunately this is now retired - but I love it - so still use it). I colored the image using chalks.  Lots of ribbons at the top just finished it off and I used StazOn Black ink to stamp the word Journey on the metal clip.

Hope you like it :O)

Alaska Cruise Mini Album

This is a mini album which I made for myself and one each for the girls in my unit who had also earned the cruise - I think 7 in total :O) I used chipboard for the page covers and used the Coluzzle file folder template to make pages in the different sizes. I used the luggage tag which we were given by Close To My Heart as the decoration for the spine.

Here we are waiting at the airport to leave.

The left hand photo shows us at the Make and Take session that CTMH had arranged for us on the cruise ship. We made beautiful laouts and were given a Bamboo Linen album to put them in.

The left hand one shows me relaxing with Junea in the background.

These pages had mini file folders on them for journaling.

Leo and Elliott with the Juneau 'Eagle" as we got off the ship.

We went 'panning for gold' in Juneau - the scenery was spectacular and the water was freezing. So much fun to do this. The boys were so excited when they found gold and tiny pieces of ruby LOL.

These were 2 of the views from the train which took us along the Yukon pass in Skagway -

the scenery was breathtaking. ou can see the snow on the mountains.

Here is a totem pole in the village that we visited just outside of Ketchikan - it was really interesting

to learn all about how the totem poles are made and the history of the images carved into them.

This last photo shows Rich and I at dinner on the ship - I love this photo of us.

We had such a fun trip - this was our first cruise and our first trip with Close To My Heart.it was amazing - and I can't wait to take more :O)

Huge clearance sale at Close To My Heart........

.....  ooooh  what fun is this! Visit my website at http://sarabatkin.myctmh.com after 9am mountain time (That is 11am for us here in Michigan) and save up to 80% on the sale items. Note that regular priced items and sale items cannot be ordered together. Take advantage and stock up with lots of papers,stamps embellishments and more. These items sell out FAST so don't delay :O)

July 4th Altered Book

Here is a cute mini album which I made using an old children's book. It had thick chipboard pages. I sanded them and then added lots of adhesive to glue the paper and cardstock down.

Here I cut through one of the pages to make a 'door' and re-attached it with hinges. The photo was sandwiched between the 2 pages. Ribbon held on with staples forms the handle.

 

 

Again another 'door' with a photo between the 2 pages - the waxy flax stitching keeps the 2 pages together.

 

 

 I had loads of fun making it and I have to fess up to making this quite a while ago and found it the other day at the back of a cupboard LOL.  I Hope you like it too :O)