Oh, The Places She’ll Go….
Back in December 2007 (as I write that I can’t believe it’s been that long!) an online friend of mine was getting married and invited 6 or 7 other women (all on the same yahoo scrapbooking group) to the wedding, figuring none of us would come, of course. But 4 of us managed it! It was sooo much fun, my first airplane ride (NOT the fun part!!). And 1 of the girls wanted to come but couldn’t due to surgery a few weeks before and was still recuperating, so she actually made a paper doll of herself and Fed-Exed it to Texas so she could “attend” the wedding too! We had so much fun with that doll (and lots of embarrassment to go along with that) and took bunches of photos. Finally last summer I got around to making a scrapbook for my friend and I’ll share it with you below. I based it on the Dr. Seuss book “Oh The Places You’ll Go” and had a lot of fun making it. I used a scrapbook kit from SEI but didn’t use the actual album that came with it. This one is an American Crafts album (my favorite).
So take a look and tell me what you think in the comments!
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Twilight.
I have been hearing about this book (and this movie) for ages now and just wasn’t interested. I felt like the only person on the planet who hadn’t read the book! Then I saw the trailer for the movie New Moon and it got me a bit interested. So the other day I finally got my hands on the book Twilight at the library and started reading it……
Oh. My. Lord. Now I FINALLY know what all the hype is about. I couldn’t put it down. I was up until 1:00 this morning reading the stupid thing because I couldn’t go to sleep until I finished it. And now I’m like person #30 in a waiting list to check out the next book (New Moon) at my local library!!!! I can’t stand the suspense, people!!!! I think I may lose my mind before the book gets here. Ack.
A friend told me the movie totally sucks compared to the book and not to bother renting it because I’ll be disappointed. But I can’t stand that either and I want to go rent it to see for myself.
Have you seen the movie?
Have you read it? Did you love it?
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Practical Scrappers.
Yay! I was chosen for the new design team at Practical Scrappers. There’s a new theme every week with each day showcasing a different design team member’s projects. Mine will be on Tuesdays and I’m the 8.5×11 layout girl! Woo hoo!
There’s also a forum where you can chat and post your own projects, so all you scrapbookers and cardmakers go on over and join, why doncha? My new term starts next week and I can’t wait to get started!
Cards For Kids!
I follow along with the amazingly talented Jennifer McGuire on her blog (and in Creating Keepsakes magazine). Recently she has been holding a card drive for some sick children (strangers to her), and after seeing a photo of this little boy named Braden I was inspired to get busy and finally crank out a few cards to send in for her. She’s even offering prizes, and who doesn’t love that? Here are some that I sent her today in the mail for Braden (and his big brother and parents) and two other chilren also whose names I can’t recall right now! Sheesh, my brain is tired!
This one’s for the parents:
See the dots of Stickles? (have I mentioned my L-O-V-E for Stickles?)
Something that really bugged me about these cards was that I used an adhesive I’d never tried before from Oriental Trading Company and wasn’t really please with how the paper kind of “buckled” for lack of a better word. Once I saw these photos I couldn’t stand it, and I went back and fixed them with more adhesive.
All the chipboard pieces (sailboat, robot, rocket, and flower) are beautiful and are from an old Creating Keepsakes Kit Of The Month that I got for a STEAL at last year’s convention in St. Louis.
All the froggy rub-ons are from Creative Imaginations, one of my favorite companies. They come in a swatch book. Love these.
I don’t usually make kids’ cards, but I had so much fun making these because there’s no pressure! They’re just gonna be so happy to receive a card in the mail! I am planning on making some more for Jennifer’s card drive. If you’re interested in helping out with that by sending in some cards of your own or a couple bucks for postage, go to her post here that tells all about it.
What do you think? If you were a little boy, would YOU like these?
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New Shutterbugs.
Edie and I have the theme of BIRD going on over at the photo blog. Come check out our photos and share your bird photos with us until Sunday! My photo is actually of a very rare bird………Go here.
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Remember Anita? Back around this time last year there was a LOT of talk on this here blog about her as I prepared and fund raised to drive to Canada and deliver her scrapbook. (There were so many helpful people who donated to my cause, and I want to say thank you once again for that.) After my trip in March of last year, I felt a little bad that the younger daughter had gotten a scrapbook and the older daughter (and son) had not, and it bothered Jillian just a little bit too. I asked Anita to send me some photos of Jillian and her brother, and I would whip up a mini book just for her and Connor. It took me a while due to just plain old not being motivated (and I kept forgetting about it to tell you the truth), but I FINALLY got it finished and it’s on the way to Anita’s house right now! I tried to make it sort of a “family” mini book with all the kids in it and there are a few photos of Anita too. Unfortunately, dad is nowhere to be found but that’s only because he wasn’t in any of the photos!
This mini book started out as a book I put together during the big 2-day crop last February at Creek Bank Creations. I attended the class taught by Julie Creek, who I love, and we put this book together. I had chosen the papers and colors but didn’t really know what to do with it afterward, but figured I’d use it for a birthday scrapbook or something like that and as I was searching for a way to put this new mini book together I remembered it and decided to use it. It started out back in February 2009 just kind of plain with patterned paper covers and just the blue and pink cardstock inside making the pages and pockets, and I decorated it up a bit more as I went along and arranged Anita’s photos inside.
So here’s a look at the cover:
Can you tell I colored in the word “remember” with my gold glitter pen. I also colored in lots of the small dots and circles on the cover paper.
a closer look: (the butterfly is an old book page that I painted with watered down acrylic paint and then aplied crystal Stickles to it)
Can you tell in the above photo that I applied Hambly rubon moustaches to the kids? tee hee
some little details:
some little details:
What do you think? Think they’ll like it?
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Here’s a new birthday card I made. Does anybody know who makes this paper? (the other side is dark brown) I think it’s My Minds Eye maybe? I Stickled the hell out of it. Love this product! Here’s the outside of the card:
I’m not sure what happened inside my scanner, but it made my ribbon look all funky and corduroy-ish, didn’t it? It’s really not! It’s nice and smooth. I love this ribbon and I got it from Creek Bank Creations. I will have to go get more soon, as this was my last little bit.
And here’s the inside:
See the Stickles from this angle?
Shutterbugs.
Edie and I posted our photos on Monday and this week our theme was BLUE. Man, I’ve gotta tell you I am so in love with Edie’s photo. I want to frame it and hang it up in Summer’s art room! Go over here to check out both of our photos and share yours with us!
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Here’s another scrapbook page I did using Imaginisce products. AND another way I incorporated my daughter’s schoolwork into a scrapbook page. This photo is her first day of first grade, and you can see that I cut off the top of one of her school worksheets where she wrote her name and included it in my design. So now I can look back and see what her “signature” looked like when she was 6 years old. I love doing this kind of thing in my scrapbooks.
The yellow patterned paper and the chipboard pieces are from Imaginisce’s Teacher’s Pet line.
One of the things I just love about this Imaginisce line is the cute little smiley faces on the chipboard apples and the little notebooks in the patterned paper. Here we have a trio of smiling faces. So cute!
Mama’s Makeup
I made this scrapbook page a few months ago when I was trying out for the Imaginisce design team. It had to be made with I think 75% Imaginisce products (which I LOVE already). I love their sort of girly girl papers (called Perfectly Posh) that I used here with flowers and cute little glittered (and raised up) purses. You can’t tell here but the floral paper is all glittery and raised up too. So cute! I’ve really been trying hard to get my photos from 2003 all finished scrapped and this was one of them. Man, it’s hard to believe my kid is almost 7 years OLDER now. What?
How cute is that face?
See the glitter on the purses?
I used a rub-on flower here and the little phrase is a rub-on too. Love these! They’re from the Fairest Of Them All line.
This chipboard circle is also from their Fairest Of Them All line, which I LOVE.
I’ll show you another layout I made with Imaginisce products tomorrow!
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