Neat stuff

Here are some of the pictures from her book. As you can see I've even included pictures of the dogs. She really likes to point at the picture - then the dog. Her favorite page to look at so far is the one of her baby cousin Kate.
I made Ava the cutest little book yesterday. It has pictures of all of her family members with their names on the page as well. I used Microsoft Publisher but also used a lot of digital scrapbooking type things - backgrounds, embellishments, ribbons, and then printed it off onto photo paper. (I also had fun making some embellishments of my own - hello graphic design!) I then used my Xyron to adhere the "photos" with enhancements, and then used my Xyron to laminate the pages. Last, I hole-punched each page and put them together using rings. Hopefully Ava will really enjoy it and it will help her learn the names of her family members.

Here are some web addresses of sites that I really like. Most of them offer free items.

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com

This one offers a free monthly digital kit with background papers & embellishments. I used a lot of stuff from this website. GO to the "digital scrapbooking" tab and scroll to the bottom for past monthly kits.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/activityCenterHome?lc=en&cc=us&cat=47205&dlc=en&

This is a site by HP, Hewlett Packard that offers lots of free projects for download. Lots of the projects have pieces that I like and would probably use for other things. If this link doesn't work - just go to hp.com and click on "activity center."

http://www.onescrappysite.com/downloads.html

This site has tons of free fonts for download.

http://www.scrapvillage.com/fontsb.htm

Another site for free font downloads.

http://www.typadelic.com/free.html

This one also has some free fonts.

http://www.creativedelights.com

This is one of my FAVORITE sites for purchasing true type and picture fonts as well as other embellishments to print for cards and scrapbooks, etc. If you sign up for their newsletter you can get 10 free fonts. They also have pretty good periodic sales to watch for.

Well, I hope to have helped at least a couple of you!