SCARY!
Is she scary? That’s her scary “I vant to bite your neck” vampire face.
Yes, if you’ve been reading my blog at all in the last week you’ll see I’m on a Halloween kick. I don’t know why!
This is a design team project that I did for Practical Scrappers. This week our thing to do was use lace cardstock. I don’t buy lace cardstock because I think it’s ridiculously expensive, but I can make my own with the Pazzles machine so that’s what I did! I made this spiderweb paper and cut it down to 8.5×11 because that’s what size pages I make. I love how this turned out!
See the adorable straight pins from Making Memories that are stuck into the ribbon knot? They are a bat and a ghost. Love them!
If you’re a scrapbooker, you can go to Practical Scrappers here and enter in your own page using lace cardstock for the chance to win a prize pack. You have all week to enter.
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (1)She’s the cat’s meow…
Here’s a page I made the other day for Practical Scrappers. They ask that the design team use at least one of our sketches during the month. I used the August 13 sketch done by one of our sketch designers, Sasya. She’s cute as a button and very talented. Her blog is in Russian but she also tries to write it in English for us (part of what makes her so cute).
Here’s the sketch:
And here’s what I did based on that sketch:
This was another one of the old photos in the stack on my counter to be made into pages that I talked about yesterday. If you missed the page I showed yesterday, you can go here to see it. I got on a roll that day and actually made 3 pages so will share the last one with you another day.
P.S. Isn’t she a pretty kitty?
Here Kitty, Kitty….
I’ve been working hard lately on getting a stack of old photos made into scrapbook pages. One of them I worked into a page for this week’s challenge at Practical Scrappers where we had to use stitching. Um, yeah….I couldn’t sew something if you held a gun to my head, okay? So I totally faked it! I used my Signo white gel pen and DREW stitching around the background paper under my photo.
Here it is:
Don’t look too close, now!
Signs of Summer.
Our design team assignment and challenge over at Practical Scrappers this week is to use summer themed products.
Once again (because of Stacy Julian) I was able to go directly to my 2005 photo albums and flip through June, July, and August to see what “summery” photos I had filed in there. This took me 5 minutes, tops. Thank goodness for Stacy and her Library of Memories philosophy. I’m not saying you must take her Library of Memories class (although it is wonderful). I learned so much from her book Photo Freedom, and that book (along with her book The Big Picture) is what originally got me started organizing my photos in a better way. Here it is:
Anyway, so here is my page for this week’s challenge.
Here’s a bit closer look:
One of the big things we promote at Practical Scrappers is using up your scrapbook supplies that you already have, not necessarily running out to buy new stuff to meet our challenges. And boy, did I ever do that with this page. That vellum rainbow is probably close to 10 years old. I can’t even remember where I bought it!
I mixed it with new stuff too and it’s great. The sun and flowers are Fancy Pants kraft cuts and the ivory colored letters in my title are from The Girls Paperie (love these!) so you can definitely combine old and new and it’s okay!
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Our sponsor for this month at Practical Scrappers is Sassy Studio Designs. As part of the design team, I was asked to make some projects using their digital stamps. The nice thing about digital stamps is you can resize them and make them big for a scrapbook page or smaller for a card.
I chose the “Magazine” stamp because I knew that I had this specific photo of my daughter that could go with the stamp. She is 5 years old and is reading a bedtime story to the cat! It was the cat’s first night at our house. She was supposed to just be “borrowing” the cat from grandma and grandpa for the weekend. Um, so the cat never left. Five years later she’s still here. (That grandma is a pretty sneaky lady.) Anyway, here’s what I made using the stamp:
I tied it in with our First Anniversary Week at Practical Scrappers (we’ve got a different challenge going on every day this week), and I used my #1 favorite product, which is sparkly stuff! ha ha You’ll see a circle of gems (from Heidi Swapp) around the kitty cat and I used Stickles on the girl’s hair and shorts.
You can check out Sassy Studio Designs here. They really are kinda sassy too! I was just checking out their website myself and oh, they have the most awesome Alice In “Sassyland” digital stamps. Absolutely darling! You can go directly to those by clicking here. The white rabbit and Cheshire cat ones are adorable!
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The beginning of August marks the 1-year anniversary of Practical Scrappers where I’m a part of the design team (and loving it!). We were asked to contribute a scrapbook page incorporating the number ONE or a FIRST something….first birthday, first tooth, etc. I chose to use the number one because I already had a page planned out in my head of my daughter’s birthday in May when she turned 10. I have literally been thinking about this page in my head for months and already knew what the title would be.
Then the sketch for the week of July 2 came out on Practical Scrappers and I decided to use it for my page because it has two big numbers in the middle of the page! Perfect for what I had planned in my head.
So here’s the sketch. It was done for Practical Scrappers by Pia, one of our design team members. Her blog is here.
And here’s my page based on the sketch:
(Papers are BoBunny. Red cardstock, letters, and ribbon are American Crafts. Mini Bingo card is Jenni Bowlin. Bling circles are Heidi Swapp)
Come on over to the blog and check out what others have done for the anniversary here.
There really wasn’t enough room for my journaling, which tends to be quite lengthy if you know me, so I plan to make an accompanying second page and turn this into a double page spread. I don’t know about Summer, but this birthday of hers really sort of hit me hard. She’s double digits now. TEN. It’s a lot for this mother to handle. Maybe it’s because I’m about to hit 40 and I’m feeling a wee bit old? ha ha I don’t know!
If you want to participate in the anniversary party, come over to Practical Scrappers. I think there are some prizes!
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Part of my job as a design team member over at Practical Scrappers is using products from our monthly sponsors to show others how they can be used in projects. This month the sponsor is Digi Doodle Stamps (digital stamps), and I chose this owl on a branch (it’s called Hoot Owl) because when I saw it the title I used immediately popped into my head. I knew I wanted to pair it with a goofy photo of my daughter, and it wasn’t too hard to find one. ha ha!
When she saw me working on this, she came over and said “What am I doing in that picture?” (She was only 3 years old so she doesn’t remember) and I said, “just being silly.” And she was like, “But I don’t have any clothes on!” and I said, “Well, you’re wearing rain boots!” I forgot to mention I would be showing this on the blog. Maybe I’ll just keep that tidbit of information between you and me…..
See how I used Stickles to make his pretty eyes sparkly?
(I learned today that Stickles might make your ink run just a bit…perhaps it wasn’t dry enough…but I’m just gonna pretend I don’t see it)
For the word HOOT, I had glued 2 little googly eyes onto the O’s to make them look like eyeballs, but Summer came up with what I thought was a great idea so I did it her way. I took the googly eyes off and then colored the inside of the O’s with yellow marker and drew a little nose under them so that it looks like the owl’s face from the stamp.
I honestly can’t decide if I like it or not (and it’s just TOO BAD now, right? ha ha). What do you guys think? Is it weird looking? Or is it cute? Opinions please!
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comments (2)On The Road Again…
This week at Practical Scrappers our design team challenge was to use 7 products in our stash. HA. Not a problem for me! My double page spread is shown on their blog today, but I will show you here. It’s the first page I’ve made from last year’s Canada trip. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year and a half already since I got to meet Anita in person. I am so very glad I made that trip! (Thea, thanks again for going with me!)
a closer look:
a few details:
I added little dots of Stickles to the trees.
I glued jewels onto the car for headlights.
Go over to Practical Scrappers right here to see the other entries and enter your own page for a possible prize. You have until Saturday evening!
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Over at Practical Scrappers we have a sketch posted every Friday and you can make a scrapbook page or other project using that sketch and enter it for that month’s prize. I made a page based on the sketch from this past Friday. (you have all month to enter a page for any of the sketches) I’m not a big sketch user, but I really liked this one.
Here’s the sketch I worked with:
The sketch was done by one of our design team members, Lisa H.
and here’s my page:
If you liked it too and you want to make a page and enter it for the July prize, go to the Practical Scrappers blog right here. Right now there are only 4 entries!
But first tell me, what do you think of my page?
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This week over at Practical Scrappers our challenge is to use something in your supplies that is at least a year old. HA. Not a problem! I could do a page using supplies that are a year old every day for a year and probably still have some old stuff lying around. For my page I used some American Crafts Thickers letter stickers that are about a year and a half old. Here’s what I did this week:
I love these little letter stickers from Making Memories.
These are my favorite letters to use and I wish I could buy them in every color!
This is a special layout for me, and one that would probably never have gotten made if it weren’t for Stacy Julian. Reading her blog and her books and her magazines changed the way I scrapbook. ( I wrote about that a long time ago here. ) This layout is about a connection that I have with my dad and with my daughter also, and it showcases photos taken 3 years ago and 39 years ago. One of them is me with my dad on his motorcycle and the other is of my daughter with my dad on his motorcycle 36 years later (different motorcycle! ha ha). This is what I wrote around the edges of my page:
Thirty six years. The amount of time passed between these two photographs. My dad with “his girl” and my dad with “my girl”. It’s a cool connection, a common bond. I love this shared experience between us.
If you want to join in (there are prizes!), there is still time to do so until Saturday afternoon I think. You can link up your own page over on the Practical Scrappers blog right here.
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