Emily Jones

what do you think?

I changed it up a bit, added my fave happy yellow color....does it look boring? 

Be back in a bit with a longer post...also...how cute were the Emmy's last night?  NPH did an awesome job hosting, I <3 him so much!

and just for fun, here's a layout I never posted...this one I did a while back, probably in may??

journaling:

Jake, you love to take photos!  You steal mommy's camera whenever you can and I find your pictures on my memory card when I upload to my computer!  Sometimes you ask mommy to pose for you, and if I don't say cheese, you say "Mommmm!  You fo'got to say chhhhhhheeeeeeeeseee!"  I love that you are interested in photography!  My hope for you is that you will find a hobby that you love and stick with it into adulthood, it's so important to have a creative outlet!

If you get a chance, take a peek on Page 48. of Scrapbook Trends September 2009 issue!  My layout is in there!!!

Happy Monday!

-E

My Little Shoebox CHA Projects!

Hey Guys!

CHA is upon us again, and My Little Shoebox has some seriously cute stuff for you to see!  I got a chance to work with the line "Robot's Unplugged" here is what it looks like:

Here's what I made!

My 3 Little Nuts:

A layout about my feelings and anxiety about having three kiddos...

4th Of July Kisses!

Love how this line is totally perfect for Fourth of July layouts too!

Hi! card

Oh The Places We Go:
places we love to visit in '09

This mini was so fun to make!  I used the dividers to showcase the different places we visit, and inside each envelope is a little poem I wrote about each special place...

Check out the My Little Shoebox blog for other projects with the new lines!

-Em

i <3 Cosmo!

So, Cosmo Cricket (one of my favoritest manufacturers ever!) is having a DT call, and I thought I'd give it a shot!  We are supposed to show our projects on our blog, so here are some of my favorite Cosmo Cricket projects!

The Jones Family 1st Annual Memorial Day Camping Trip!
(AkA, the longest title for a mini ever! LOL!)

I used the Mr. Campy and Snorkel lines on this one!  Don't you love how they coordinated so well together even though they are two completely different lines?!

I used stickles to create the stars on this one...

Goofy In Goggles

I made this layout using the Snorkel line!  Isn't it perfect for this picture of Joey with his new swimming goggles?!

Lily Banner

Here is a super fun banner I made for Lily's room!  I'm thinking I'm either going to hang it above her dresser or above her changing table...isn't the Girl Friday perfect for a baby girls' room?!

If you look closely, you can see that the bloom of the flower is actually made up of a bunch of tiny butterfly punches! 

Meeting Auntie Sarah

This layout is all Girl Friday!  I love this line with it's whimsical butterflies and polka dots!  SO cute!

For added dimension, I stickled the title!

Play Time

This layout is also all Girl Friday, but I wanted to show how easy it is to turn it into a boy layout!  By using all the non-pink papers in the line, I was able to scrap these pics of baby Jake without it looking too feminine...

Hello?

This one features some of the Girl Friday line!

Little Swimmer

This one features more Snorkel, I just love this line!

Play

This layout is pretty much all Get Happy from Cosmo, I swear I used this one so many layouts last year and I'm still holding onto the scraps!

Girly Girl

Love love love the soft and sweet colors in Girl Friday and even though I didn't have the chipboard set for the line, I was still able to create a title by cutting out the letters from the patterned paper!

Yum!

This one is also Get Happy, love these newsprint letters, they are so fun to ink and play with!  I used a black ink first and then outlined them with yellow marker, then pop dotted them to pop off the page.

A Typical Joey Look

Cogsmo is still one of my favorite lines ever!  I love robots and the colors and characters here are adorable! I love how easy it is to cut out the cogs and by pop dotting them, they actually look like they could start turning any minute!

Hi Card

This is a fun little card and envelope set featuring the Get Happy line...such a fun and easy way to use up your scraps!

Bus Rider

This layout is so fun!  I used mostly the Snorkel line, but the background paper is from the Jack's World collection...I also used some of the blackboard shapes and used watercolor pencils to color the stop sign...watercolor pencils actually work wonderfully on the blackboard!

Happy Campers

This layout is all Mr. Campy...I think this is probably my most favorite paper collection ever!  The s'mores totally melt my heart! (No pun intended! ;-)

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

This little mini is actually a little photo album that I altered...I think I got it at Michaels for $1.99 on sale, and I just fell in love with the bright yellow color!  I cut out the Popsicle from the Snorkel paper and decided this would be a fun little summer keepsake for Joey to show his friends when he goes back to school in the fall!

 

So there you have it!  My latest and greatest Cosmo projects!  Cross your fingers for me!  I love Cosmo Cricket and would be HONORED to have a spot on their team!  I tried out last year, but didn't make it, so here's hoping for 2nd chances!!!

I'm off to scrapbook some more!  I'm on a roll this week!

Hugs!

-Em

Congrats Are In Order!

To my sweet friend Michelle!!!!!!!!

She made it onto the My Little Shoebox Design Team!!!

There were over 400 submissions, I am just so proud  and excited for her!!!!!!!!!!  She will do an amazing job on the team, and  it's going to be so fun working with her..we can work on our monthly DT work together!

Here is what was posted on the My Little Shoebox Blog this morning!  Check out the other talented ladies who made the team!  Such Talent!  Congrats GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!

Meet our new team members!!

Hi there everyone!!! I would like to thank everyone for their beautiful submissions! Let me tell you, it was the hardest thing for me to do. I never expected 400 submissions!!!
Please help me welcome our wonderful new team members that will be working with the lovely Gretchen McElveen, Erin Yamabe, Danielle Holsapple, Emily Jones, Norma Kennedy, Jana Eubank, Molly Peckham, Michelle Lanning, Pattie Beltran, and Tanisha Long....

Robyn Weatherspoon

Melanie Stanczyk

 

Heidi Sonboul

Pamela Young

Michelle Magana

 

Bethany Kartchner

 

and our correspondents at the MLS newsdesk (they will be making fun videos)

Heather Brown

Erin Payne

My Little Shoebox May Projects!

Hey there!

Thought I'd share my MLS projects for May....this month we were lucky enough to partner with Hambly Studios and use some of their products in conjunction with our MLS product!  I LOVE Hambly, so this was extra fun for me!

Also, this month at My Little Shoebox, we are focusing on showing different techniques with our transparencies and chipboard, so I have added those techniques in my descriptions.  You can find the rest of the MLS DT's techniques and projects here starting May 1st!

Playing Ponies

Journaling:

This was the best $2.99 I ever spent!  I found this My Little Pony house at the goodwill and you fell in love!  You now have4 ponies and love to bounce them around their house!

Technique: I used a nail file on the chipboard letters to create a cross-hatched pattern.

Love Birds

Journaling:

We are totally snuggly lovebirds!  Even after all these years, you still make me weak in the knees!  I am so lucky to have  found you and made a life with you.  I love our beautiful family and I love you! April 2009

Happy Lily

Journaling:

You are always smiling!

Technique: One of my favorite things to do with chipboard titles is to layer the letter for extra depth.  I also ran out of the letter "P" and used letter "a" turned upside down with the tails cut off!

Another technique here is creating personalized embellishments with the transparencies.  I used the "Who's There" flowers and stickled them so they popped right off the page! 

Beach Baby (MLS and Hambly)

J0urnaling:

Lily, I think your fave part of our beach vacation was sitting on the beach in your baby bikini!  Although I don't think you liked the sand too much after you figured out what it tasted like!

Expecting You (MLS and Hambly)

I used my square punch to punch out the MLS patterned paper and the Hambly Overlays!  I didn't know if you could punch through an overlay, but surprise! You can!  I then stitched the squares with my sewing machine and embellished!

Budding Artist (MLS and Hambly)

Journaling:

Lily you loved painting at the Children's Museum!  You were very excited to try it by yourself, and even though you got it EVERYWHERE it was great fun!  You painted such a pretty picture!

I created this paintbrush my free hand drawing the base and stem and used a die cut heart turned upside down for the brush!  I then flicked pink paint on the top and bottom of the overlay for added texture.

Congrats Card (MLS and Hambly)

So there they are!

Also, if you get a chance stop on over to Bella Blvd, where I am featured!

And oh yeah.....It's my birthday! ;-) Happy 25 to me!

-Em

Update

Hey!  I've fallen off the face of the earth!  Sorry!

My laptop is once again (DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THAT AGAIN) is in the shop.  Possibly from me throwing it off a 14 story building.  Okay, so maybe only in my fantasies. hehee...I hate that thing!
I am writing from J's computer, which is hard to get onto between him and the boys fighting over it! 

Not much to share today, lots of stuff going on at Joey's school, a couple projects and oh yea!  Joey's teacher finally got him tested for the gifted program and surprised us all by placing out of Kindergarten and into Second Grade!  How cool is that?!  He is such a smart cookie and we are so proud of him.  He is going to get some special work in the classroom and more one on one time with his teacher until the end of the school year and then next year will be a part of the gifted program that starts in first grade.  We made a decision a couple years back when we realized that he was very smart that we wouldn't want him to skip a grade.  I have known and heard people say that it did more damage than good to their child emotionally and socially to have them skip.  Do you have any experience in this?

What else have we been up to?  Hmmmm....well Sunday we went to the zoo with our friends John, Jana and baby Burton and had a great time!  Then Monday I babysat little Burton for John while he worked.  It was so fun (and exhausting!) to have another little baby in the house!  It was like a glimpse of what life would be like if Lily had been a twin!  Burton was great though, and ended up really clicking with Jake!  It was so cute, he kept climbing on Jake's back and hugging him.  At one point they snuggled up together under Jake's blankey and Burton almost fell asleep!  So cute!

Oh!  I also forgot to share that I got two layouts picked up for Scrapbook Trends!  One is for the September Issue and the other is for their Holiday Idea Book!  I'm so psyched! 

So, Monday is my birthday, the big 25!  LOL!  We are planning on celebrating on Friday at weekly poker night with my friend Jana, who's birthday is the day before mine, so we'll have a double celebration....then Sunday we're heading over to my parents house for my bday dinner.  I feel old this year.  LOL....I always feel older than my birthday though.  I feel like this year should be 35 not 25!  I think it's just because a lot has happened in the last 7 years! 

So that's what's up with me!  I am knee deep in my May projects for My Little Shoebox, and they are turning out CUTE!  I can't wait to share them! 

Oh!  And I hope you are voting for my boyfriend on American Idol!  He's gonna win!! I just know it!

Have a great day!
-Em

Thank You.

For the support.  For the kind words of encouragement, the comments here and the emails with your unfortunately similar stories.  I really appreciate you all.  But it's time to move on to happier things. 

I went to post a goodbye to my friends still left on that message board I spoke of, and found that I have been muted by whomever moderates the board.  Funny they felt the need to mute me when I never mentioned them by name, but I guess that's what happens when people start to become afraid of the truth.  But I digress.

So.

Here I am, looking forward.  Excited by the future and it's possibilities.

Really looking forward to taking off for the weekend with the hubs.  We are heading out tomorrow morning and will be back Sunday afternoon.  The perfect mini vacay.  Just what I need.

Check in Monday for some pics and layouts...

Love and thanks to you!

-E

My Little Shoebox Projects!!!

Here are my projects that will be in the My Little Shoebox booth at CHA!  I got to work with the ADORABLE, Enjoy Life line, which is so cute!  I love love love the rainbows and boomboxes! 

(You can click on any image to enlarge it)

Visits...

Journaling:

You were Eleven Months Old when you met your Papa Chuck and Grandma Jennifer for the first time.  They were so excited to finally meet you, their only granddaughter!  You all hit it off immediately!  We are so lucky to have visits with Papa and Grandma!

Your Laugh

Journaling:

Lily, your laugh is the sweetest sound in the whole world!  There are many things that make you laugh; getting tickled on your chubby thighs, or under or chin...you laugh when your big brothers make silly faces at you, or when Molly comes up and licks you!  You also laugh when Mommy or Daddy steal your binky and put it in our mouths or when we put bunny friends' ears to our nose like you do!  We sure love having a happy, silly, baby girl like you!

Kindergarten Photo

Journaling:

Joey, your Kindergarten pictures are so cute!  You are making a totally goofy "Joey" smile, but it's totally you!  You looked very handsome in the Polo shirt from Nana that you picked out to wear too! 

My Little Pumpkin

Journaling:

Lily sits on a big pumpkin at Picha's Pumpkin Patch!  -October 2008

You're My Every Day

Journaling:

You three fill my day with such joy and blessings!  I am so lucky to get to spend my days with you!

I wish I was going to CHA this year, but alas, I can't afford it this time, but I can't wait to see pics of the booth!  The MLS DT has been busting their booties to make such cute things with all the new releases! 

Which one is  your favorite?

Album Tutorial

Hey..Here is a little tutorial I have posted on the MAA Blog...

You should seriously check out the blog regularly for the AWESOME tutorials from the other amazing girls!

Creating An Awesome Album With "Left-Overs"!

If you are like me, you have leftover bits and pieces of your acrylic albums hanging around...I always save a page or two out of my albums,and they definitely come in handy later!

Here is the formula to making an awesome album of leftovers!

Grab up whatever leftover acrylic pages you have on hand....I happened to have 2 sheets of 8x8, 2 sheets of 6x6, and two 6x6 tabbed pages...I ended up choosing the four 6x6 pages...

Then, to supplement extra pages, I used four 6x6 squares of patterned Overlays.  (2 of each pattern)

Once I decided the order I wanted my pages to go, (Mine is: Acrylic, Overlay, Acrylic, Overlay etc...) I decided on a theme.  I wanted to make my album a travel journal documenting my trip to CHA this past summer, so I chose travel themed papers and embellishments from American Crafts.

I cut 6x6 squares of my travel themed paper to supplement my album as well...to bind it, I used blue binding rings I found at target...

For the journaling, I decided I wanted to give my album a very structured, more uniformed look, so I typed all my journaling and adhered it to the right side pages of the album.  Each journaling block represents a different topic in the album.

Inside my album I added ephemera and souvenirs from my trip including buttons from the show, the hotel key from my hotel room, my show badges and my plane ticket!

Here is my final result:

CHA Summer '08                                                                                                                 

By Emily Jones

I hope you all are inspired to dig through your stash and create a "leftover" album of your own!

-E

Hey all...

This week's challenge is up at The Design Experiment!  Check it out, it's a doozy!

Here is my layout for the challenge:

This ended up being so completely therapeutic for me. I sat down at my desk to write this letter 
while everyone was out of the house. Just me and my thoughts. As the thoughts poured onto the 
paper, it was a huge release. I also included letters to my husband and children just in case, God 
Forbid, I'm not here in 2013.


 


I had so much fun with this layout! I used some pink glimmer mist and a Heidi Swapp
mask to make patter on the background...Lot of American Crafts goodies on here too!

Here is another layout I did awhile back at a crop...

This is toddler me...with my "Blankie" I used to carry this ratty old thing around with
me everywhere!

Oh, and look! I have a baby mullett!


 
 
 I used the Sept Scarlet Lime kit and a Jenni Bowlin shaped paper on this one...I'm 
beginning to scrap my vintage pics a lot more now, and I love how this one turned 
out!

Hope you all are having a great Monday! Anyone have any good links to inspiring 
layouts or projects to share?!