Posts Tagged ‘baby announcement’

weekend inspiration.

Friday, January 7th, 2011

As we head into a weekend I wanted to share some fun ideas with you, curtesy of a few dear readers like yourself.

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{ inspired by her creative paper uses }

Rosie in South Australia didn’t have a hard time thinking of ways to use the bonus designer cardstock in her Amber Edition of Project Life. First of all, she took some “blah” magazine holders and turned them into darling-yet-functional accessories.

She also framed some of the paper. Rosie wrote: “I do this all the time. I have white frames in my hall and rotate regularly with the kids’ artwork, Christmas wrapping paper at Christmas time, quotes and sayings etc. Even fabric looks great. You don’t have to be an artist to create great looking art! And all of this costs next to nothing. I am looking forward to making cards with the rest of the paper too. The cardstock really is a great addition to the kit.”

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{ inspired by her enthusiasm }

I enjoyed a good laugh reading this email from reader Denise in Pennsylvania: “After daily checking the UPS tracking website… And by daily, I mean about ten times a day… IT ARRIVED! I just spent nearly two hours setting it up. It was two hours of bliss!”

She continues: “I was alone in the house & this was my conversation out loud:

12:43 PM: “I hear it! I hear [the UPS truck]!”

12:44 PM: *waves* “Thanks, Mr. UPS man!” (He looked at me like I was absolutely insane).

12:45 PM: Grabbed my camera and started shooting!

1:00 PM: (Started Opening)

1:10 PM: “Hey, Where are my month bookmarks?”

1:11 PM: (Opens another box) “Oh, they’re here!” “THEY’RE HERE! THEY’RE BEAUTIFUL!”

1:12 PM: “I thought I was supposed to have bi-fold journaling cards.”

1:13 PM: “OOH! There they are! Oh my goodness. This is awesome.”

1:14 PM: “This is awesome.”

1:15 PM: “Becky Higgins, I love you.”

1:17 PM: “Seriously, Becky Higgins. Your website doesn’t do this project justice.”

1:20 PM: “If I had a million dollars, I’d buy this for everyone I knew that was getting married, having kids, moving… everyone!”

1:45 PM: “Becky, I heart you & Project Life”

1:50 PM: “I LOVE THIS! I LOVE THIS I LOVE THIS!”

3:30 PM: My parents come home as I’m sitting in the middle of Project-Life-land and asks how my day is going. My response? *grins* “Oh, nothing. Just having the best day of my life.”

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{ inspired by her loyalty and awesome project-follow-through }

Karen in Wisconsin wrote: “I just wanted to share with you how much you have inspired me. Your blog is about the only blog I read and I try just about all of your ideas. I’m not one to come up with crafty things on my own BUT I LOVE to copy good ideas! I wanted to show you just SOME of the examples. THANK YOU for all your wonderful ideas!!!”

Photograph inspired by Tracy’s picture in this post (3rd one down). Announcement inspired by this post.

Inspired by this post – making your own custom coasters.

Inspired by all the spray-painting posts. For example, this one.

Inspired by the Gratitude family project in this post.

Inspired by how we organize in our home office, as shown in this post.

Inspired by a photo display in our home office, as shown in this post.

Inspired by this post about making digital invites.

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If you’d like to share your projects with me, particularly if you’ve done something outside-the-box with your Project Life kits or any Becky Higgins products, I’d love to see. Feel free to email your pictures to submissions@beckyhiggins.com.

baby feet

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Someone recently asked me if they could use one of my baby feet images for a baby shower invitation she’s making. I thought, Why not share these with everyone? If it helps someone with a project they’re working on … great! So here you go. Feel free to use these if you’d like. Just right-click on what you want and download it to your computer.

Consider this my random-act-of-kindness-of-the-week for you, my fine blog readers.

baby announcement; more Q&A

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Hi there.

We’ve been burning lots of midnight oil getting ready for this week’s launch of PROJECT LIFE. In the meantime, a quick bit of reading material for your day. First, a simple baby announcement idea and then a little more Q&A.

This is sweet Cameron.


I love the non-traditional shot of Cameron in my friend Kari’s arms. This emulates how loved this sweet babe is. Adding text in Photoshop took me all of about 5 minutes or so and the baby announcement was ready to print.

Added note: The 2 fonts (and likely the 2 most commonly used fonts on my computer) are Rockwell (“cameron thayne”) and Gill Sans Light (everything else).

For those just joining the party, I invite my blog readers to ask questions from time to time … and I answer a handful at a time. Here is the next batch.

Q: Everyone wants to know about the necklaces for their daughters…I want one for me. :)

A: They’re the cutest, huh? And it can be such a fun addiction to sit and bead and bead and bead. So relaxing. Anyway, I believe my friends got a lot of beads at usbeadery.com and craft stores (Michael’s, JoAnn) and who knows what other random places. There really are a ton of online resources for all kinds of beads.

Q: I was just wondering if you could PLEASE re post the meal planner PDF?

A: You bet. Here is the Word doc (in case you want to edit for yourself) and the PDF.

ShoppingList.doc

ShoppingList.pdf

Q: What’s your favorite adhesive?

A: For all-purpose paper-based stuff (like scrapbooking, card-making, etc.), I like the Duck brand Permanent Easy-Stick adgesive rollers.

Q: Did you take a photography class to learn to take such great photos?

A: Yep, a couple years in Photography in High School. And I got a D one semester. True story. The only D I ever got in school.

Q: Cookies are always on my mind…do you have an all time favorite recipe?

A: So hard to choose THE favorite, but I’m going to have to say Andes Mint cookies. I posted that recipe here.

Q: Do you let the kids watch DVD’s in the car?

A: Only if the drive is “longer”. Not around the neighborhood or running quick errands. I like talking to my kids. I also appreciate “quiet time” to think or make a phone call. So yes, the DVD player totally comes in handy for entertainment. Let’s be real.

Q: What is the first scrapbook project you would recommend for someone who has never scrapped before?

A: I seriously love that someone has asked this question because I seriously feel so strongly that PROJECT LIFE is the perfect first-attempt-at-scrapbooking type of project. You don’t have to “scrapbook” (cutting & pasting & figuring out what goes where). You don’t have to spend time choosing papers and embellishments. And yet you get the most awesome end result. And album with a far more complete & interesting look at your life than what most of us get with the traditional layouts we’ve been doing.

I’m a believer.