Marshmallow Love & Nicey Jane

Today is a great day because:

1) I am making a huge batch of marshmallows-vanilla bean, strawberry, peppermint, and I might try out key lime. These make great little gifts to hand out to teachers, neighbors, and anyone else who loves gourmet marshmallows. Here's some tags to bag up your own peppermint & vanilla marshmallows- which were made using these brushes and these brushes




If you want the recipe for my chocolate covered strawberry marshmallows from last year, here you go. Here's the tags too!




2) Heather Bailey's new fabric Nicey Jane is FINALLY available in her shop!

I have been waiting to plan out my nursery until the fabric dropped and now I have to start my nesting phase. She has all kinds of promotions going on in her store so hurry up and get over there and start the new year like me-sewing, sewing, and more sewing. I think we should have a big sewing party at my house on Jan 2.

3) And of course today is the Crafteria! Let's all make a date to go out there tonight and oogle all the handmade goodness.

Photography & Design Month-The Cantrell Family

Sorry it's a little late guys, but here are some of the shots from your session yesterday! You guys were great and that Caden is a handsome little man. Check the website for more!

Handmade Holidays- Digital Kits & Christmas Cards

There are all kinds of amazing options out there for you to create your own handmade Christmas Cards. Start now to get them all ready to mail out in time for the holiday! Not only for Christmas cards, you can use digital holiday kits for invitations, tags, and a whole lot more. Two of my favorite scrapbooking websites House of 3 and Two Peas in a Bucket have more whimsical holiday digital kits than you could ever wish for. Here are a few of my top holiday picks:


Swirly Holiday Cards at House of 3


Christmas Countdown Kit at House of 3


Christmas Gift Tag Kit at House of 3


The Junquey Frame Kit at 2 peas


The 12 Days of Christmas Tag Set at 2peas


Ornamental Big Kit at 2 peas

Both sites have a great project section too that showcases all kinds of holiday projects from Countdown Calendars, to Scrapbook Layouts, to Gift Wrap and everything in between. Keep checking the Two Peas Creating Garden and House of 3's Inspiration House for some terrific project ideas


Christmas Cd Gift


Photo Gift Packaging


Spice Mix Gift


You can make your own Christmas Cards in a snap with these digital kits. But, if you don't have the time or the software to create your own, I'm still running a Photography Holiday Special- a family photo session & Christmas card design for $100. Schedule soon, holiday sessions are booking up fast!

Photography & Design Month-Kelly & Russell's Family

Sorry guys, I didn't know your last name:) Here's a couple of shots from yesterday, more to come on the website. Just so everyone knows, that baby was born last Wednesday. And Kelly looks amazing. Wednesday.

Amos Family Reunion

Tomorrow is our big family reunion so we are all gearing up to head out to McCormick Park in Scottsdale and spend some time with family. There is a Colon Cancer Run in the morning (which unfortunately I cannot participate in. sorry, got this big belly.) in honor of my dad's cousin Chadeen who passed away on Halloween. I was asked to design the shirts for the run/reunion and this is what I came up with.



There will be TONS of pictures taken tomorrow, so I'm reminding everyone in the family to upload them all to the Amos Family Photo Pool on Flickr.

Those of you that can't be there will feel like you were! Also, if you didn't get your t-shirt order in on time, we are taking people's names and sizes so we can order another batch next week and mail them off to people.

Now I have to go get my kids ready to go see my Aunties and drive them nuts for a while.

Photography & Design Month-The Estrada Family

Here are a couple of shots from the photo session I did with the Estrada Family on Saturday. They were so awesome to work with and their baby Micha was too stinkin cute! Check my website for more shots.

November is here!

Halloween was lots of fun, but I forgot my camera, so I have to wait for Kathie to upload all her pictures to show you my little Alice, Crew Chief, & Tinkerbell. They ate waaaaaaay to much candy, no dinner, and now Daddy has candy for a week. For those of you that miss the kiddos, here's some shots of the pumpkin patch.







Photography & Design month is underway, and I have a graduation photo session lined up this evening with my friend Ashlyn, which I will share tomorrow. I'm designing her graduation announcements too, so keep an eye out for those. Remember, if you want a photography session & card design in time for the holidays, email me at watsonfam2007@gmail.com!


Check out House of 3's Gratitude digital kits for all your Thanksgiving needs, like my blog background & header. They have cute printables for place cards for Thanksgiving dinner, and card kits to spread the holiday happiness.

Photography & Design Month

I've declared November National Photography & Design Month. I have all kinds of projects to start, work on, finish up, and get out before all the holidays begin, so I'll share some of those with all of you. I'm also going to share the digital kits and fonts I used, in case you were wondering, or want to use the same stuff in your own designs. For the P & D logo I used the French Ooh La La tag brushes & the Civilian Font from daFont.com

My sister Ashly's wedding is New Years Eve this year, and I'm finishing up all the labels for her invitations to go out next week, and they look a little something like this:

I used the French Ooh La La Brushes again, & the Didot font.

Also, my brother Lance & his wife Amanda's wedding is in February, and I just revised their invitations to look like this:

I used the Birds on a Wire kit, the Wicked Awesome Font, and the Adorn shaped photo masks. I also used the Didot fonts, the Chopin Script fonts, the Carnivale Freakshow, the Baskerville Old Face, and the Campbell font all from daFont.

The RSVP cards look like this:

I basically used the same kits as the above invitation, but I used the Snap Shot Flourishes 2 kit around their photos.

These two weddings are just the tip of the iceberg in my photography design month, so come back tomorrow for a special deal just in time for Christmas!!!