I am also loving the ruffel paper (see it there on the bottom of the strip across the paper). You're going to see more of that for sure!! Anyway, I hope you have a very happy Friday!! Thanks for stopping by!
Deb
Friday, April 27, 2012
a toast or two
Happy Friday!! I am excited for it to be Friday!! I have another layout to share today that I put together for Shimelle's Scrapbooking Weekend...this one is for Challenge #9 which was to consider an outdated challenge open again. I chose the last sketch of the week to consider reopen again. This layout is of the toasts given at our wedding by my maid of honor and my husband's best man. Those are written out on tags and tucked into the glassine bag. I used my Daydream Believer kit from Studio Calico...loved this kit...just getting into it now since I am behind on using my kits. That polaroid paper is one of my favorites!! Love cutting those images apart and using them as extra embellishment.
I am also loving the ruffel paper (see it there on the bottom of the strip across the paper). You're going to see more of that for sure!! Anyway, I hope you have a very happy Friday!! Thanks for stopping by!
Deb
I am also loving the ruffel paper (see it there on the bottom of the strip across the paper). You're going to see more of that for sure!! Anyway, I hope you have a very happy Friday!! Thanks for stopping by!
Deb
Thursday, April 26, 2012
so i missed yesterday...
Ok...so my crazy schedule cause me to miss posting yesterday. Never fear, I'll just share two layouts today to catch things up...and I might get tomorrow's post all scheduled so the day doesn't get away from me without posting!!
These two layouts were put together for Shimelle's Scrapbook Weekend challenges, just as the past two were. The first layout I am sharing was put together for Challenge #4 which was to use grey, yellow, and another color...I chose green. I was thinking of using turquoise as my third color, but then it hit me that my college alma mater colors are green and yellow...so naturally grey could totally get added to that mix. The photo that I used is from gradution day. I became friends with these two girls freshman year and still call them friends today.
I had stamped that camera on that tag a LONG time ago and just never used it on anything...it just kept getting shuffled around my desk, so I finally found something it fit with. It came with the Glee Club Studio Calico kit I believe...love that stamp!!
For the second layout I wanted to share today, I took on Challenge #5 which was to take inspiration from a layout by Wilna Furstenburg. At first I had just planned to draw from the tone on tone butterflies, but then I loved the layout so much I ended up CASEing it. Changed up the supplies and put my silhouette to work (really wanting the Cameo, but my SD works just fine so I am resisting...for now).
Happy Thursday!! Can't wait for it to be Friday!! Thanks for stopping by!!
Deb
These two layouts were put together for Shimelle's Scrapbook Weekend challenges, just as the past two were. The first layout I am sharing was put together for Challenge #4 which was to use grey, yellow, and another color...I chose green. I was thinking of using turquoise as my third color, but then it hit me that my college alma mater colors are green and yellow...so naturally grey could totally get added to that mix. The photo that I used is from gradution day. I became friends with these two girls freshman year and still call them friends today.
I had stamped that camera on that tag a LONG time ago and just never used it on anything...it just kept getting shuffled around my desk, so I finally found something it fit with. It came with the Glee Club Studio Calico kit I believe...love that stamp!!
For the second layout I wanted to share today, I took on Challenge #5 which was to take inspiration from a layout by Wilna Furstenburg. At first I had just planned to draw from the tone on tone butterflies, but then I loved the layout so much I ended up CASEing it. Changed up the supplies and put my silhouette to work (really wanting the Cameo, but my SD works just fine so I am resisting...for now).
Happy Thursday!! Can't wait for it to be Friday!! Thanks for stopping by!!
Deb
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
best man
Happy Tuesday!! Hope your day has been great!! I am back with another layout to share...Woo Hoo...two days in a row of blogging!! Today I wanted to share with you another layout I did for Shimelle's Scrapbook Weekend...this one was for Challenge #2 - mixing paper collections. On this layout you'll find papers from Pebbles, American Crafts, Basic Grey, and Studio Calico...not to mention the buttons from My Mind's Eye, the doily punch from Martha Stewart, Basic Grey letter stickers, American Crafts washi tape, and a shipping tag from the office supply store. Oh and I almost forgot the embroidery floss. So there's quite a bit of varity on this page and I am quite happy with how it turned out. BTW...this layout was totally inspired by this Kelly Purkey layout. And the photo is from my wedding almost 11 years ago now (taken by our photographer...Baker Studio of Photography).
Hope the rest of your Tuesday is fabulous and I will catch you back here tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!! Deb
Hope the rest of your Tuesday is fabulous and I will catch you back here tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!! Deb
Monday, April 23, 2012
Details
Hello bloggers!! How have you been?? I am so sorry that I haven't been around lately!! But I am here and alive, and all is well in this part of the world, so 'hopefully' regular blogging will start up again starting now!! I have posts planned for the rest of this week into the beginning of next week anyway, and I will find at least 15 minutes of my day to share some projects with you. This week, I am sharing the 8 projects I put together for Shimelle's Scrapbooking weekend last weekend. I would have liked to have gotten to more of the challenges, but with work and life, I was happy to have knocked out 8. And some of them were quite a challenge for me...so that's always a good thing!! All of these projects are already up over at 2peas as well, so feel free to check them out over there and let me know what you think. You can find my projects here.
Anyway, on to the project!! I put this layout together for Shimelle's first challenge which was to scraplift Jamie Warren. I am not going to lie...this was way outside of my usual box. Normally, I scrap horizontally, but this had me scrapping vertically...certainly a challenge for me and one I enjoyed. It's good to break out of the box every now and again!!
I am pretty happy with how this turned out!! The photo is from my wedding almost 11 years ago now and was taken by our wedding photographer (Baker Studio of Photography in Baldwinsville, NY). I used a bunch of stuff from my stash for this layout and added in some new stuff as well. There's Crate, Dear Lizzy for American Crafts, The Girls' Paperie, Love My Tapes washi, Sweet Bella washi, Basic Grey, Hero Arts pearls, a Pebbles flag, Doodlebug twine, Studio Calico mist that I splattered, and some doilies. Loving how it all came together and I may try this style of scrapping again very soon!!
Thanks for stopping by and I will catch you back here tomorrow (I promise)!!
Deb
Anyway, on to the project!! I put this layout together for Shimelle's first challenge which was to scraplift Jamie Warren. I am not going to lie...this was way outside of my usual box. Normally, I scrap horizontally, but this had me scrapping vertically...certainly a challenge for me and one I enjoyed. It's good to break out of the box every now and again!!
I am pretty happy with how this turned out!! The photo is from my wedding almost 11 years ago now and was taken by our wedding photographer (Baker Studio of Photography in Baldwinsville, NY). I used a bunch of stuff from my stash for this layout and added in some new stuff as well. There's Crate, Dear Lizzy for American Crafts, The Girls' Paperie, Love My Tapes washi, Sweet Bella washi, Basic Grey, Hero Arts pearls, a Pebbles flag, Doodlebug twine, Studio Calico mist that I splattered, and some doilies. Loving how it all came together and I may try this style of scrapping again very soon!!
Thanks for stopping by and I will catch you back here tomorrow (I promise)!!
Deb
Monday, March 19, 2012
you make me smile
Well, I guess I decided to take another blog break...after a really long blog break. But I can honestly say that I have a BUNCH of projects to share now!! Now that things work related have calmed down and life seems to be getting back to normal, I should have more time to blog regularly!! Things were just so crazy through December and January, and I really needed some time to readjust to my normal again.
Anyway, I have been working through some of the Studio Calico kits that had been starting to stack up...with bigs plans to kill a few of them this week (I am on vacation...and it's just a rest, relax, and do what I want to do type of vacation...no big plans). I have a cart of 12x12 drawers that I got at target a few years back and I have converted it to house my kits...but it only has 7 12x12 boxes...and right now they are all full. With April's kit coming to my house in the next few weeks, I need to get at least one emptied out...but I am hoping to get two emptied out this week!! That means that there will be lots of crafting and a big mess in my office this week!! I love it when it's messy while I am working in it, but once I am done, I really need it straightened up...if not it totally messes with my crative mojo!!
But on to the project I wanted to share today. I actually just put this one together today...it's not one that's been sitting around waiting to be shared. I decided to play along with Shimelle's latest starting point (which you can check out here). With the exception of the Jenni Bowlin White Doily Flowers and the clear gemstones, everything on this layout is from Studio Calico's Glee Club kit and add-on's. I picked up all four add-on's that month so, even after 9 layouts done, I still have lots of stuff left to work with...and plans for at least 4 more layouts. But here's the layout I put together with the latest starting point...
This photo is from my wedding to my dear hubby about 10.5 years ago. I had started putting layouts together for our wedding album years ago, but I never finished it...I work on scrapping photos from all across the years. I can't scrap every photo from one year, event, or vacation all at once...that's not how I work. I need variety and change. I can work on scrapping photos from the same event or trip pretty close together, but somewhere in there at some time, I will break it up with other photos (most recently I did that with layouts from our trip to Hawaii back in 2004...but I still have some layouts to put together and share to finally finish that up). In this instance, beacuase I didn't finish the wedding scrapbook, my style has changed over the years. And while some scrappers can look at those older layouts right up next to new one's...I am not that scrapper. Thankfully, I don't have too much done...call it fear, if you will, to scrap those precious photos. Even though I have two HUGE albums of professional photos from our photographer (Baker Studio in Baldwinsville, NY, in case you're wondering, and yep...the one on the layout above is by them)...I have a hard time scrapping all of the photos taken with people's camera's and sent to us after the wedding. I just want them to be perfect...this album to be a perfect reflection of that day for us...but as that day moves further and further away from me, I am really feeling the need to get those photos onto pretty paper in an album everyone can enjoy looking at! So, that being said, I am being BRAVE and scrapping those photos...re-doing layouts here and there if I think I need to...and I am OK with that!
Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble on tonight. I hope you have had a fabulous weekend and here's to a great week ahead. Thanks for stopping by!!
Deb
Anyway, I have been working through some of the Studio Calico kits that had been starting to stack up...with bigs plans to kill a few of them this week (I am on vacation...and it's just a rest, relax, and do what I want to do type of vacation...no big plans). I have a cart of 12x12 drawers that I got at target a few years back and I have converted it to house my kits...but it only has 7 12x12 boxes...and right now they are all full. With April's kit coming to my house in the next few weeks, I need to get at least one emptied out...but I am hoping to get two emptied out this week!! That means that there will be lots of crafting and a big mess in my office this week!! I love it when it's messy while I am working in it, but once I am done, I really need it straightened up...if not it totally messes with my crative mojo!!
But on to the project I wanted to share today. I actually just put this one together today...it's not one that's been sitting around waiting to be shared. I decided to play along with Shimelle's latest starting point (which you can check out here). With the exception of the Jenni Bowlin White Doily Flowers and the clear gemstones, everything on this layout is from Studio Calico's Glee Club kit and add-on's. I picked up all four add-on's that month so, even after 9 layouts done, I still have lots of stuff left to work with...and plans for at least 4 more layouts. But here's the layout I put together with the latest starting point...
This photo is from my wedding to my dear hubby about 10.5 years ago. I had started putting layouts together for our wedding album years ago, but I never finished it...I work on scrapping photos from all across the years. I can't scrap every photo from one year, event, or vacation all at once...that's not how I work. I need variety and change. I can work on scrapping photos from the same event or trip pretty close together, but somewhere in there at some time, I will break it up with other photos (most recently I did that with layouts from our trip to Hawaii back in 2004...but I still have some layouts to put together and share to finally finish that up). In this instance, beacuase I didn't finish the wedding scrapbook, my style has changed over the years. And while some scrappers can look at those older layouts right up next to new one's...I am not that scrapper. Thankfully, I don't have too much done...call it fear, if you will, to scrap those precious photos. Even though I have two HUGE albums of professional photos from our photographer (Baker Studio in Baldwinsville, NY, in case you're wondering, and yep...the one on the layout above is by them)...I have a hard time scrapping all of the photos taken with people's camera's and sent to us after the wedding. I just want them to be perfect...this album to be a perfect reflection of that day for us...but as that day moves further and further away from me, I am really feeling the need to get those photos onto pretty paper in an album everyone can enjoy looking at! So, that being said, I am being BRAVE and scrapping those photos...re-doing layouts here and there if I think I need to...and I am OK with that!
Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble on tonight. I hope you have had a fabulous weekend and here's to a great week ahead. Thanks for stopping by!!
Deb
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Blog Break
Holy Bananas!! Has it really been over 2 months since I last blogged?? Talk about a long blog break...and longer than I had planned that's for sure...but life around here in December and January was QUITE busy...and really that's an understatement!!
But I am back now and hopefully I can keep somewhat of a regular schedule of sharing crafty projects and sharing life. And let me just say, it's good to be back to crafting too...seemed to be in a bit of a craft rut after finishing up my December Daily 2011 (planning to share 2010 and 2011 sometime in November as the holidays approach again).
Today I want to share an older layout that I hadn't shared yet. I put it together sometime in November before I focused soley on the December Daily. I put this one together using the first prompt from Shimelle's Pretty Paper Party class last fall. This prompt was all about using scraps. There are lots of bright colors and patterns reminding me of summer and I even tried stamping on white paint.
This is a much better shot of the samping on the white paint. The inks muted a little as the dried, but I love the subtle effect it has...not too overwhelming to distract from the photo or the story.
Anyway, I will be back tomorrow with more to share. Planning to make a few cards this afternoon to catch up on the 2012 challenges over at the Papertrey Playhouse blog (you can check them out too and play along if you'd like). There are a couple of great challenges over there and while I am really late on a few of them, better late than never!! Have a fabulous Sunday and thanks for stopping by!!
Deb
But I am back now and hopefully I can keep somewhat of a regular schedule of sharing crafty projects and sharing life. And let me just say, it's good to be back to crafting too...seemed to be in a bit of a craft rut after finishing up my December Daily 2011 (planning to share 2010 and 2011 sometime in November as the holidays approach again).
Today I want to share an older layout that I hadn't shared yet. I put it together sometime in November before I focused soley on the December Daily. I put this one together using the first prompt from Shimelle's Pretty Paper Party class last fall. This prompt was all about using scraps. There are lots of bright colors and patterns reminding me of summer and I even tried stamping on white paint.
This is a much better shot of the samping on the white paint. The inks muted a little as the dried, but I love the subtle effect it has...not too overwhelming to distract from the photo or the story.
Anyway, I will be back tomorrow with more to share. Planning to make a few cards this afternoon to catch up on the 2012 challenges over at the Papertrey Playhouse blog (you can check them out too and play along if you'd like). There are a couple of great challenges over there and while I am really late on a few of them, better late than never!! Have a fabulous Sunday and thanks for stopping by!!
Deb
Friday, December 9, 2011
All About RED - A Lawnscaping Blog Hop
Welcome to the Second Lawnscaping Blog Hop!! So glad you're here!! You should have come to me by way of Tami. The theme is all about RED!!! The hop runs from Friday, December 9th to Sunday, December 11th. Make sure to comment on all of the blogs because there are LOTS of prizes to be won! All the details can be found on the Lawnscaping home page. The hop is being sponsored by some amayzing companies: Lawn Fawn, Mold Muse, and Whisker Graphics.
I am not going to lie...I love crafting with RED!! It's one of my go to colors for cards and scrapbooking!! For this project, I decided to make a card and ink up a stamp set that I've had for a while...but that hasn't seen ink yet...Lawn Fawn's Ornate Ornaments!! I LOVE this stamp set so much!! Great for those holiday cards if you still need to make any. I'm just about wrapped up with my holiday cards...I like to make each one unique and different from the last instead of mass producing a whole bunch. So this card will get sent to a lucky friend or family member very soon!! Here's what I came up with...
I started with Pure Poppy cardstock from Papertrey Ink as the base of my card. Then I trimmed a piece of Rustic White cardstock (also from Papertrey Ink) trimmed to leave a quarter in border all around. I then inked up the small ornaments from the set and stamped them at random to create my own pattern paper (LOVE doing this with my stamps). I adhered this to the card base and then added faux stitching lines with my white gel pen. I trimmed a strip of vellum cardstock (by Papertrey Ink of course) and stamped the Merry Christmas! sentiment from the same stamp set (got lots of use out of this set on this card) using Versamark ink and heat embossed with American Crafts Zing White embossing powder. I then wrapped the vellum around the back and adhered it (to the back of the card front). I punched a Martha Stewart snowflake from the red cardstock. I tied a piece of twine to the cream button and added it to the snowflake with a glue dot. This looks pretty detailed, but it was a super easy card to make (and if you wanted to, would be easy to reproduce...might even be fun to recreate this with a multi colored theme...may have to try that)!!
So happy you stopped by my little corner of the hop today! Hope you're having fun soaking up all the inspiration so far!! Next head on over to Tina. If you happen to get off track, don't worry!! Just head on back to Lawnscaping to see the complete list of designers and prize info!
Have a fabulous Friday and a fantastic weekend!! Thanks for stopping by!!
Deb
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