Nicknames

I had put this layout together a while ago and just realized that I had never shared it. I made this when I got my first order of Studio Calico Mister Huey's mists, just playing around. I was inspired by a layout from Maggie Holmes on this one!! And now I am quite addicted to those mists!!

In addition to being addicted to the mists, I am also addicted to iphone photos!! I love the square, vintage photos!! They are so much fun to scrap!!

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Deb

4x6 photo love

Wow...I haven't blogged in a while!! Work has kept me super busy this past week, but thankfully I have some much needed time off and I am going to be spending it visiting family. No worries, I will be sharing lots this week!! I wanted to pop on quickly and share the latest layout that I put together for the 4x6 photo love class over at 2peas. I'm not too sure that I'm loving this layout so I will take some time away from it, but I reserve the right to come back and change some things if necessary. Something just isn't right with it yet. Take a look and let me know what you think...

I used a lot of My Mind's Eye on this layout, and est. 1776 from Papertrey Ink. And of course, my Martha Stewart punches (the circle and butterflies).

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Deb

love birds, that's us

Quick post today. My husband and I celebrated our 10th anniversary just one week ago and I wanted to hop on to share the card I had made for him. I kept it super simple, but I loved that I could personalize the message inside the card just for him.

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Deb

thank you card set

A few weeks back (let's be honest...it was just over a month ago), Kay challenged us over at the Papertrey Playhouse blog to create a Thank You card set, and I was finally able to play along!! I didn't do alot of stamping on this, instead I wanted to keep it pretty simple with a few exact steps so I could mass produce a few cards. In all, I made 6 cards.

I used distressed dots patterned paper layered onto white cardstock. I stamped the thank you sentiment from Simple Sentiments onto vellum using Fresh Snow ink and scored 1/8" from both the top and bottom, attaching it to the card with scor tape. I then used coordinating felt to die cut a flower using one of the Beautiful Blooms #1 flower die (I think it's the middle size flower). I attached the flowers to the card also using scor tape. Finally I tied knots in the buttons using the cream twine and adhered them to the flower using...score tape!! I had the score tape out...normally I use glue dots to attach buttons!! But now I've got a cute and simple set of thank you cards on hand!!

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Deb

summer card camp - week 4

It is a little bitter sweet to think that this is the final week of Summer Card Camp!! I hope Jennifer and Kristina have plans to join forces again on another card class soon!! This was so much fun!!

I got to play along pretty early this week! I can not lie, my card was completely and totally inspired by this post that Jennifer did over at the CLASSroom blog!! If you have not tried the Distress Stain Watercolor Technique...you must!! I had distress stains and hadn't used them...but now I can't stop using them!! Love having inky fingers!! Anyway, here's what I cam up with using this week's color combo and the distress stain watercolor technique...

I may try to make another card before the week is over...but for now, I will just love this one!! Please make sure you hop on over and check out the student galleries...so MUCH inspiration to be found there. You can find the week 4 gallery here.

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Deb

Explore

This is my second post today. I decided that I wanted to get this up right away rather then let it wait until another day and then it never gets posted at all.

I signed up for Shimelle's latest class called Explore. We started today. The first assingment was to take a self-portrait (in front of a mirror...with the camera showing), create our playbook (or use the printable workbook) and make a few notes to self. I took the self-portrait (with my dslr after a few attempts with my iPhone failed to turn out the way I had hoped) and put my playbook together, but I have yet to get to the writing portion. I am planning to work on that tonight. I will be quite busy at work over the next few days so, while I will be keeping up with the class, I won't have another explore related post until Friday. I just wanted to be honest about that going in! I am going to do my best to keep up with this class and share as much as I can when I can (even if it means a second post in addition to what I had already planned to post here on the blog).

This is me...freckles and all (though you can't see them too well)...

And this is my playbook...

I made the playbook from Echo Park's Country Drive collection papers and stickers. I trimmed 12 sheets down to 6x12 and then scored each sheet at 6 inches, so I would be left with a 6x6 book. After scoring each paper, I measured one sheet down the center at 1", 3", and 5". I used my paper piercer and poked holes at those spots, then I used this sheet as a guide to put the holes in the other 11 pages. I then bound my book with baker's twine (which you can see on the left). I tied a double knot bow to make it a little more secure, and if the twine frays a bit, or unravels a bit at the ends, I am OK with it!! I put the cover together using some scraps, a journaling tag from the collection, and some of the letter stickers from the collection. So excited to get going and get this little baby filled!!

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Deb

you are the cat's meow!

It's Monday, so that means I am back with another layout based on Shimelle's latest Sketch Of The Week (which you can find here). If you go check out the sketch, you will notice that I changed it slightly and made it my own. First, I turned it 180 degrees so the title would be on the top right instead of bottom left. Second, instead of a square background, I made it a circle. Here's what I came up with...

Once I saw the sketch, I thought that Lawn Fawn's Say Cheese polaroid stamp would be a perfect fit for this page. Add some of my hipstimatic prints of my oldest cat, Rocky, and I've got a layout. I used some of May's Studio Calico kit (which I finally killed and put the remnants of into my stash...especially I still have the boxes with virtually untouched June and completely untouched July kits sitting in my studio begging to be used). Normally I don't distress edges unless I had planned to from the start, but those stars just didn't fit without it!! The cardstock background star was just to bright given the rest of the colors on this layout...so distressing of the edges was, in my opinion, required. Then I also had to distress the outside edge of the polaroid frames as well because the white became just too stark!! Overall, I am pleased with how it turned out!!

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Deb