Thank you!
This was a quickie card I whipped up for my daughter’s Girl Scouts leader. All the moms chipped in and got them a Visa gift card at the end of the year. I don’t know why when it’s my own cards I wait until 5 minutes before leaving the house to make them! This one uses vintage buttons from my mother-in-law’s supply. Do you like it?
Filed under Projects | Comment (0)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!
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (0)Read Me A Story.
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!
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (1)Double Digits.
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!
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (0)On Your Wedding Day…
I was asked to make a wedding card for my granddaughter to take to a wedding at the last minute (cause that’s how we roll….) and I went with black and white thinking it would look elegant. I used a gorgeous rose stamp from Papertrey Ink. It’s from their A Year Of Flowers line where every so often they make a different flower stamp. They’re all beautiful but not in my budget. The words stamp is from them also.
This was only the second time I ever heat embossed something and I was still figuring it out. I used this “white” embossing powder, thinking it would look white when it was melted (or whatever the official term is) but instead it just made it black and a bit sparkly. Is that because my paper was black? I will have to experiment some more and see what happens. Or google it and learn from someone else’s mistakes!
What do you think? Do you think the black and white is depression for a wedding card? ha! I hope not!
Filed under Projects | Comments (2)Another Sunday.
Another photo challenge with my friend Edie. We couldn’t post last week because Edie was having trouble so this week we are doing 2 photos, 1 for O and 1 for P.
Our O word this week (last week) is OPEN and coicidentally Edie and I both took a photo of a flower! We don’t discuss what we’ll be photographing ahead of time.
Our P word this week is PARK. I love Edie’s photo for this challenge.
Head over to the Sunday Shutterbugs blog here for the O’s and here for the P’s and share your photo with us this week!
Filed under Photography | Comment (1)Like father, Like son.
Here’s something I did just recently for a design team assignment at Practical Scrappers. Our challenge was to use animation or cartoons somehow and I had saved these little drawings Summer did of her dad and her brother playing basketball. Years ago when she drew them I scanned them and printed them out onto white cardstock because I knew I wanted to use them someday on a basketball layout. The time finally came and here it is. Her drawings have been decreased in size (they were originally a full 8×10 page) and they’re a bit smaller than a playing card.
and closer views:
Here’s a closer look at Summer’s drawings (she was 6 years old):
On a side note……This is also a good way to incorporate your child’s artwork into your scrapbook pages. I have another page where I did that and just realized I never showed it here on the blog before. I will post that one for you to see tomorrow.
Filed under Scrapbook Layouts, Scrapbooking | Comment (1)Ouch.
This is what happens when you’re the catcher on your softball team…..and the pitching machine pitches at 30+ miles per hour (yes I know that’s not very fast but she’s 10 years old)…..and the batter misses the ball…..and you get hit with the ball!
See that line of little red dots? Those are actually the indentation from the stitches on the softball! Her momma (ME) probably would have cried, as I am a big baby when it comes to being in pain…….but this kid is like her daddy in this kind of situation. She’s a tough cookie. Didn’t even complain about it! You’ll be seeing this photo again in the future on a page for her softball scrapbook.
Filed under Life, Scrapbooking | Comment (1)Heartfelt Wishes.
I had an order for a wedding card in black and green recently. Aren’t those interesting wedding colors? I thought so! Anyway, I decided to go with a simple and elegant look with this and used a huge Heidi Swapp clear sticker. Love that. The “heartfelt wishes” part is a Hero Arts stamp.
What do you think?
Filed under Projects | Comment (0)She’s A Hoot
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!
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