This week's challenge is based around this sketch. To be totally truthful, I just couldn't picture a card to go with this. I guess I'm not very good at sketch challenges. I decided if I was going to make something with pieces in this layout it was going to have to be a scrapbook page. Doing a scrapbook page means I get 10 extra minutes too! I have 20 minutes to get a page together. It's time to get this scrapbook page going! I began with a 12"x12" piece of Garden Green cardstock. Across the bottom I stamped the grass from Inspired by Nature. Next I ran to the Big Shot and cut a Continue reading
Kindergarten Scrapbook Page & Graduation
I mentioned the other day that I've been working on a "secret project." I was in the midst of making two scrapbooks, one for Micah's Kindergarten teacher and one of the teacher's aid to be presented at graduation last evening. I had some help but still a lot of it was my ball game and took several hours of work. I didn't take picture of all of the pages, many of them were layouts you've seen before, just with different pictures. This particular page that I've posted here was the last page in one of the books. I made this page up a long time ago with the dahlia fold flowers. Since the Continue reading
Mother's Day Tea Scrapbook Page
This scrapbook layout features pictures from the Mother's Day Tea held at Micah's preschool last year. I used some of the Cottage Walls Designer Series Paper (DSP) and carried over the colors used in that pack, Orchid Opulence, Rich Razzleberry and Certainly Celery. Around the picture of Jaan I used the Scallop Trim Border Punch. This punch was available for free during Sale-A-Bration at the beginning of the year. If you did not get the punch yet, I have good news for you, the punch will be available for purchase in the new Idea Book & Catalog which comes out in July! I just love Continue reading
Stampin' Up! Elements of Style Scrapbook Page
I used the new Elements of Style stamp set from the new mini catalog to make this scrapbook page. The colors I used where inspired by the couch in the pictures and they look great together with this stamp set! The colors used here are So Saffron, Brocade Blue and Very Vanilla. The So Saffron ribbon is retired but everything else is very much current at the moment although the Brocade Blue will be retiring with the new catalog. We will be making this layout for the Scrap Club tomorrow evening. I hope everyone will like it! I'm sorry about the 10 minute challenge I promised to post on Continue reading
Circle Circus Scrapbook Page
It's Scrap Club time of the month again! Here is one of the layouts we will be making this month. This layout is one of those all occasion layouts that will work for most any time. The colors on these scrapbook pages are Whisper White, Ballet Blue, Kraft and Chocolate Chip. I will be making a small change for Scrap Club, we will be using Very Vanilla instead of Whisper White. On the left I stamped with the Circle Circus stamp set. This is one of the stamp sets included in the Stampin' Up! sale of the month! If you purchase the Circle Circus stamp set you can pick a pack of brads for Continue reading
Vintage Military Scrapbook Page
I needed to make one more project for the Red, White and Blue challenge I mentioned the other day. Here it is! This is my grandfather. This is my favorite picture from when he was in the military and I wanted it to have an exclusive page in the scrapbook (I just love being able to make my own decisions like that!) Now I will be honest, this is a rather heavy scrapbook page. I used a few more layers than normal but I wanted it to look just right. Would you believe there are 9 layers on here? Yikes! Fill a scrapbook with pages like this and it would weigh a ton! Thank you for stopping Continue reading
Stampin' Up! Happy Scrapbook Page
I want to share the third scrapbook layout for Scrapbook Club this month. I came up with this page yesterday and I'm pleased with it. There is a bit more "white space" than I'm used to but I like it! I have such a happy little guy and this is a great way to show him off! Each of the squares you see are 2" in size. Now, more often than not, I take rather close up pictures which wouldn't have worked very well for this page. I had to find some pictures that were taken from a bit of a distance in order to get such small squares. If you're like me though, and have lots of close up Continue reading
Scrapbook Page with Animals Made from Punches
While preparing for the Punch Pals class I decided I would have to come up with a scrapbook page using some of those cute little animals. Yesterday, I finally got around to it! There aren't any pictures because I'm working ahead. My son's kindergarten class is going to the Baltimore Zoo next month. Wow! I'm ahead for my own scrapbook page and for Scrap Club! Yikes! What's come over me?! Isn't this Giraffe so cute? He is made from the Stampin' Up punches with some little googly eyes for the fun of it! I just think he's so very cute! Now of course my title says the page is going to Continue reading
Handmade Pansy Scrapbook Page
Please make sure you are sitting down, holding tight to your chair. I actually have one of the layouts for Scrap Club figured out already. Can you believe it?!?!? I can't! I don't know what to do with myself! I just can't seem to get things done early anymore. We are going to be making the page you see here along with the one I'm posting below this. It's a two-page layout but I have such trouble taking good, clear pictures of two-page layouts that I just took pictures of them apart this time. Some of you may recognize people in these pictures, in fact, you might just be on that Continue reading
60th Wedding Anniversary Scrapbook Page
Here is the scrapbook page I made of my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary. You may recognize this layout from those I did with the Scrap Club last week. When I was looking at these pictures of my grandparent's anniversary I realized they would fit perfectly on this page. For those of you who participated in the Stampin' Up! product share, the items are in and I hope to have them ready for pick-up and mailing on Monday. Thank you for joining us! Continue reading
Scrapbooking Old Family Pictures
I hope you are not tired of seeing the scrapbook pages I am doing for my dad. I've been in the mood to work on them lately and when I'm in the mood that's what I have to do! These are my grandparents, the pictures were taken just one year apart with their 50th wedding anniversary falling between the two pictures. I wish I could have gotten better quality pictures because these really do not do justice to the pictures. The hodgepodge hardware you see is some that retired a while back, I believe it was either Pewter or Antique Brass. You know, sometimes you don't realize a picture is Continue reading
More Kind Thoughts Brocade Stencil Projects
I hope you liked the card yesterday because I was still stuck in that same design mode today! I made both a card and a scrapbook page with the very idea I used yesterday To make this 4x4 card I used the Kind Thoughts Brocade Stencil from the Decor Elements brochure, the En Francais background stamp, Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon and Very Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware. Here is the scrapbook page I made with the same basic idea as the card. What do you think? This picture is of my parents, my siblings and myself. I'm the cute little one with pigtails! This scrapbook page is for inside my Continue reading