On the road again….
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I’m headed to Louisville, Kentucky today to attend the Creating Keepsakes Convention. I’ll be working in the Pazzles booth with my friend Klo, the Pazzles guru, so it’s actually all work and no play for me but I can’t wait to see Klo again and spend some time with her. She lives in Nebraska and I live in Illinois, so we don’t get to hang out on a regular basis. ha ha
Before I go, I’ll show you a recent card I made for my step-granddaughter’s birthday.
I love those felt butterflies from Heidi Swapp. I want more in other colors!
Filed under Projects | Comment (0)All Star.
These photos are from a few years back, my daughter’s first year of playing softball. It drives me crazy sometimes how all the sportsy sort of scrapbooking supplies are in green, black, yellow, brown colors. Yuck. I wanted my page to be GIRLY. ha ha So I pulled out this paper from The Paper Studio (from Hobby Lobby–one of my faves) and the title instantly popped into my head.
Closer up views:
I don’t know if you can see that well, but some of the stars I cut from extra paper and popped them up with foam squares so they are 3-D.
ONE.
I had a custom order request a few weeks ago for a birthday card for a friend’s 1-year-old granddaughter. This is what I came up with:
That darling pink pom-pom trim I got at Creek Bank Creations and is my new favorite thing. Unfortunately I only bought that one piece but I intend to go back and buy it in every color the first chance I get! I love it!
I added another little butterfly to the inside. For some reason, my photo looks weird and the inside is a different color than the paper shown on the outside photo above. I assure you, I didn’t make this woman a card with this weird color paper inside. It’s really all the same color. I don’t know what happened.
You must know by now if you’ve been following my blog for any length of time that I of course added Stickles to the butterfly to make her sparkly….
It’s Monday….
Which means Edie and I posted our photos on the Sunday Shutterbugs blog yesterday. This one was HARD for me and it was my idea! Go here to see my photos along with Edie’s and maybe show us one of yours!
Filed under Photography | Comment (0)Our Wedding Day.
I did this layout with a PageMap sketch from Becky Fleck when she was having a call for an upcoming book or something, and since it didn’t get picked I can show it to all of you now! I decided to use some wedding photos that I took of my step-granddaughter’s wedding in November of last year. The whole thing started because I got that nice circle title diecut from Pebbles, Inc. and wanted to do a wedding page but I had done my own wedding album years ago, so I used Zach and Danielle’s photos instead! This is usually what happens to me. There’s one element that becomes the basis of my scrapbook page, the starting point for me that makes me WANT to make the page. It’s always different. Sometimes it’s the photo, sometimes it’s something else, like in this case a title circle.
This is what I came up with using Becky’s sketch:
You can see below where I took some Stickles and traced the outlines of the flowers just to add to sparkle (cause you know I’m all about the sparkle!)
She had 2 little birds on her sketch and I figured since I was using photos that were all about L-O-V-E that I would put a heart between the little lovebirds. I used more Stickles to outline the heart because it’s a “ghost” heart and is clear acrylic so not real noticeable.
The flowers were cut out of My Minds Eye paper (I think) and I added just a bit of Stickles to the middle of them, and here you can see where I used gorgeous fabric covered brads from K&Co. These brads are really nice quality.
I’m going to put this in a frame (somebody sells 12×12 frames somewhere, right?) and give it to the bride and groom to hang in their new home. Does anyone know where I can buy a frame for a 12×12 page? It seems like I’ve seen them somewhere but can’t remember where. Steer me in the right direction if you know!
Filed under Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (0)Angel Baby.
Once again, I used a rub on for the little onesie and rubbed it onto white cardstock, cut it out, and used a foam square to pop it off of the card. The bow is a strip of tulle and it just might be my new favorite kind of “ribbon.” I’ve got to figure out where to get more of this stuff.
and here’s the inside:
Baby Boy card.
I’ve been busy with lots of custom card requests lately so you’ll be seeing a lot of cards here this week instead of the usual scrapbook layouts or amusing (traumatizing) stories that my friends Connie and Sandie like to read here.
Here’s a card for a new baby boy:
The baby buggy is actually a rub on from the Dollar Tree (I think) or maybe Target? Anyway, I rubbed it onto white cardstock, cut it out, and then used a foam square to pop it up off the card.
and here’s the inside:
Practical Scrappers.
My new project is up over at Practical Scrappers. This week’s theme is FLOWERS. Go on over and check out all the awesome design team projects (mine!) and link up one of your own creations!
Here’s sneak peak of mine, but please go see the rest of my layout at Practical Scrappers here:
I believe I can FLY….
This is the second project I came up with as a design team member over at Practical Scrappers. Our mission was to use brads this week, which is something I rarely do anymore for some reason. I based this layout on a sketch by Heidi over at CropStar. She’s got a sketch contest going on. Sketches are also something I don’t use a lot, so it was nice to get out of my “comfort zone” this week and this is what I came up with.
I used my Martha Stewart butterfly punch to make a butterfly from an old music book page (painted with watered down acrylic paint and Stickles) to tie in with my FLY theme.
I used a Fancy Pants straight pin to coordinate with my butterfly and the whole FLY theme of my page.
You can’t tell it here, but those little Imaginisce mini brads are sparkly!
Title is done with my all time favorite American Crafts thickers (LAX). I LOVE these!
Ballerina Card.
I got a custom order to create a birthday card for a little girl who is “girly girl” and loves to dance tap and ballet and sing. So I got busy and came up with this one. I cut the little ballerina out of cardstock on the Pazzles and made her little tutu from some fringed tulle trim I got from Frog Feathers shop on etsy. Love this stuff!
See the little musical note I attached to the ribbon knot? Just a little something extra for effect.
And here’s a closeup of the little lady…
Here’s the inside:
I hope she likes it!
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