Happy Birthday Crystal!

This is my daughter Crystal LaShea Hart. She was born on July 30, 1984. I wanted to highlight Crystal this month on my blog because July is her birthday month and she's my favorite daughter. Crystal currently live and work in GA. I'm very proud of Crystal for all the things that she has accomplished this early in her life. My only desire is that one day, she will be married and have at least two children, so that I will have the chance to SPOIL them; but mostly I desired that she will follow the WILL of God for her life and live and love HIM above anyone else. Happy Birthday Crystal!. Love you much, MOM!

Pink breeze and Crimson heat!

I'm ready to design the wedding reception of two young brides getting married in July.  One bride has chosen the color pink and the other has chosen crimson red. I have an idea of what I'm going to do and I can't wait to see it all fall into place. 

But, I want to know what's your idea of a pink wedding? When you think of crimson red, what comes to mind? I'm excited for both of these brides. I can't wait to see their faces when they walk into their reception venues. Don't get me wrong; I'm not bragging, but I thank God for the gift He has placed within me.

Crimson red's wedding ceremony will be outdoors, so I ask for your prayers because it is extremely hot in North Carolina, especially at 12pm in July.

Stay tune, I'll post some photographs after the events.

Meet the Davenport's

Karen and Aldred Davenport wanted something different for their wedding. They opt for a small intimate affair with family and close friends with a sit-down dinner reception.

Aldred is an adventerous outdoorsmen and Karen is very laid back, so they went with a earthy color palette of blue, brown and green. Each guest received a blue box of chocolates to take home as a thank you gift from Karen & Aldred.

Karen & Aldred will remain working and living in Fayetteville NC.

My Black & Blue Wedding - March 2010

I'm so excited for this young couple. Though they experienced a few bumps in the road prior to their wedding date, I pray that the blessing of Abraham will be upon them as they begin their new life together.

Jamar & Ashton have many things in common, i.e. they share the same birthday, both of their fathers are named Willie; many of their close family members also share the same name; and her maiden name is 'Black' and her married name is 'Blue'. (Black & Blue, a  great wedding theme & color) The bride chose pink & orange as her wedding colors, as you can see in the sand photo above.

Thanks Jamar & Ashton for allowing me to be a part of your special day. A special thanks also to their parents, Willie & Angela Black and Willie & Evelyn Blue; all of Fayetteville NC.

Wedding Scrapbook Finale

Embellishments: Here is a link to a great idea to embellish your wedding pages. http://www.scrapbooksetc.com/techniques/stamping/projects/stamped-scrapbook-page-backgrounds/?page=10 We will talk about this subject more later.

Now that you've purchased your scrapboook album and papers, get your pictures in hand and let's begin putting together the pages.

Let's start by telling your love story with the engagement photos first, then the wedding photos.

- Select a photo and the paper that compliments the photo (solid color or decorative cardstock paired with solid color or decorative paper) .

- Trim (paper trimmer or tear/rip) your top sheet of decorative or solid paper so that your cardstock (bottom sheet) will also be seen.

- With double-sided tape in hand find the perfect placement on the page and tape your photo to the paper. You can also use glue dots or a glue stick.

-You can add embellishments (anything that adds more beauty to a page i.e., brads, buttons, ribbon, rub-ons, staples, glitter, beads, jewelry, and ...) at this time or you can complete all of your layouts and then go back and add the embellishments.

- The first and last page of the scrapbook album will be single page layouts.

- The second and third, fourth and fifth, etc pages, can be designed as double page layouts if you like.

- Scrapbook pages can be created with simplicity or not. This is your wedding album (your dream), just be creative.

Honey, it's cold outside, Burr!

It finally happen; we received almost 2 inches of snow yesterday in about 3 hours. I'm warm (in the house of course) working on Valentine cards, gifts, etc; so I'm very content. I have 3 weddings coming up with the first one in March, so my evenings and weekends are busy. To the right are some night and day photos of the snow. It's really been a great creative outlet for me, surprisely.

Wedding Scrapbook - Choose One

To the left are photos of two 12x12 scrapbook albums. You can purchase albums as plain or fancy as you want.

If you purchase your albums from a craft store, you will either find them on sale or you can use a coupon. The black & white album was purchased from Michael's and the blue and white one from Hobby Lobby.

I have posted two wedding scrapbook articles from http://www.scrapbooketc.com/ for you. This will give you ideas from completed pages that you can scraplift or jumpstart your creative flow. Search through this site and I promise that you will throughly enjoy it.

Stay tune to find out what tools you will need to complete your album. Blog in later for more...