Jul 6, 2010 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Every year on the weekend closest to the 4th of July we head to the southern part of Georgia for a family reunion for Greg’s family. We go to his uncle’s house to the pasture and pond that are behind it and we spend the day with family. I remember the first time I went (a really long time ago) before we were married and everyone was teasing us that “it must be serious” because you don’t bring a girl friend (or boy friend) to the family reunion unless it is “serious”. Well it was and we are still going. I know we missed one year – when I was pregnant with Ryan and due on July 5th (he didn’t actually come until the 14th). Anyway we went this past weekend to the family reunion and while I’m not going to share pictures about this year’s family reunion today I am going to share some My Digital Studio scrapbook pages that have pictures from past family reunions.
These pages were created by my sister-in-law, Stephanie. She is working on a book – the “Cousins” book. Featuring all the cousins of our generation and her mom’s and some pictures going back of their grandparents and great grandparents. When we were together in North Carolina in June we worked on editing the pages in the book and filling in with pictures and journaling. So I wanted to share some of those pages on my blog.
We have basically the same menu each year – featuring fried catfish with hushpuppies, french fries, cole slaw and pickles. There are lots of yummy desserts and farm fresh corn and watermelon.
The kids like to go for boat rides on the pond and go fishing. The cows come by for a visit and get to eat the corn husks and watermelon rinds. Occasionally they take a lick of our cars! One year one of the cows gave birth and I have some pictures of the new baby (but they aren’t included here).
There is always a game of kickball and a trip to the local dollar store. Lots of fun for everyone as we visit with family we might only see this one time each year.
Everyone is growing older – the duties are shifting from one generation to another. Many of our children are driving or learning to drive and there aren’t any babies or toddlers right now.
As for a little bit of information about the My Digital Studio pages – you might notice all the pictures are round. Did you wonder how you would do that? In My Digital Studio add a Photo Box and then click on Photo Shape – if your box is square it creates a circle and if it is rectangular you get an oval. Then drag and drop your photo into the photo shape. Use the Crop button to adjust the photo within the shape.
I hope you had a great 4th of July! Thanks for stopping by today.
Jun 30, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, family, Scrapbook Pages, Sporting, Summer Mini 2010 |
Today is Wednesday and usually I have a scrapbook class on the last Wednesday of the month. With the lack of internet last week I didn’t get out a class reminder and once I got home and looked at my calendar I decided it would be best not to have the class today. So instead I am posting a scrapbook layout today with supplies and measurements so you can create a similar version for yourself at home.
These are pictures that I took in March when it was Spring break for the colleges. Kyle was on spring break and so was my nephew Nicholas. The boys hung out for a few days and one afternoon decided to throw the football in the backyard. Tyler joined them.
I was glad to see them outside playing instead of inside on the computer. But the fun time didn’t last long. Nicholas threw the football and Tyler and Kyle were trying to catch it. Tyler got in front and went for the ball which hit the end of his little finger at just the wrong angle. See the last picture where Tyler is grabbing his hand. That was it for the football that day. Since his finger didn’t improve I ended up taking him to the doctor the next day and then they sent us to xrays. Yep the result was a broken finger!
Now for some information about this layout. I used a football from an old retired stamp set but you could use another ball or another image for whatever you need.
The base of the layout is Night of Navy 12″ x 12″. Both backgrounds are stamped with the football in Night of Navy ink. I used strips of the Travel Journal Designer Series paper from the Summer Mini catalog – 1″ and 1/2″ strips of different patterns and then I trimmed them to different lengths so they could be staggered.
The journaling was typed on the computer and printed on Whisper White card stock. I stamped a football in Sahara Sand ink where the word “football” was in the journaling. The title is cut from Sahara Sand card stock using the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet dies.
I also cut arrows and brackets using the Big Shot – the brackets are from the Hearts & Brackets die and the curvy arrows are from the Curves Ahead Sizzlit die. The large straight arrow if from the My Way punch. The footballs are stamped on Whisper White card stock with Night of Navy ink and cut out.
I put all the footballs and the brackets on Stampin’ Dimensionals to lift them off the page. “Game On” is from the Sporting stamp set and punched out with the 1-1/4″ square punch. A piece of Pumpkin Pie card stock was punched with the 1-3/8″ square punch to create a layer. This is also on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
My pictures are 3″ wide and 4-1/2″ tall on the left page and 3″ wide and 5″ tall on the right page. I put a Pumpkin Pie mat on the one where Tyler is holding his finger after the ball hit him. I just never got a picture of his finger in the custom made splint that he had.
I hope you like the page – have fun making your own. Thanks for stopping by today!
Jun 17, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Chipboard, Scrapbook Pages |
Hi girls (and maybe guys – I figure its mostly girls but who knows there are a some guys that are Stampin’ Up! demonstrators)!
Now that I’m done sharing all my cards from the Artisan Award contest it is time to share my last scrapbook page. If you follow my blog you know that in the spring I spend time bird watching, taking pictures and blogging about the visitors to my yard, the nests and the babies. So for one of my scrapbook pages I decided to focus on my birds from this spring.
The title is “backyard birds”. The letters are die cut with the Big Shot and then I stamped on them and some are tied with linen thread – in bows. I love linen thread – I don’t love to tie bows – but it needed it on here – knots just weren’t enough.
Here is a close up of part of the title. Again I have minimal journaling – I should have written more for my scrapbook pages.
In the upper left corner is a chipboard flower covered with DSP – the paper is the Kaleidoscope Designer Series Paper. I wish this paper had been a little bit brighter – all the colors were very muted.
I used the white gel pen and did doodling on the flower, under the title, and around the photo frames. I added the punched corner with the card stock layered behind it – I still can’t decide if I really liked it or not. I originally didn’t have it but I thought it needed something else in that corner and once I did it I couldn’t undo it.
Each of the bird pictures are layered on a piece of Whisper White as a mat and then on a piece of the Designer Series paper. Then I used the word window and added labels on the bottom with the name of each bird.
That is my final scrapbook page and what I have left is my last 3D project. So come back again if you want to see it.
Have a beautiful day!
Jun 6, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Scrapbook Pages |
I took a few days break from posting my Artisan Award entries but now I’m back to showing you a few more. Today is my second of three scrapbook pages. All of my pages were 12×12. This is a really fun and bright page. I don’t often use the Bold Bright colors but I did on this page and guess what now most of them are retiring so perhaps that wasn’t a good decision.
I guess I may never know what they didn’t like about my projects.
This one I thought had a lot of creative elements to it. The base is Real Red. Then I added a large panel of Tempting Turquoise along with some strips of Summer Sun for the title and the bottom edging.
The title has a bubble gum border made with just punched out circles. I added a white gel pen highlight on each one. The letters are cut using the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet Die. In every closed area of the letters I added a colored piece behind it also with the white gel pen. I did realize one thing after it was finished – I put the gel pen highlights on opposite sides and should have had them all on the same side to show the imaginary light source coming from one direction.
The photos were added with this fun flip book concept. There are three flaps with photos on both sides. They are attached to the page with some of the Bold Bright Brads.
Each flip page also has a tab with some short journaling – “BLOW”, “POP”, or “YUCK”!
The pictures are just some random photos I took one day when Ryan was in my craft room and trying to see just how big he could blow a bubble. I was able to get a series of photos so it worked well with the flip pages.
I even got the big bubble popping and them where he was trying to clean it off of his face! Yuck!
I also added a Bubble Gum machine that was made into a shaker box – the front has a window sheet on it with a bunch of punched out bubble gum pieces on the inside. And then at the bottom I had a bunch of pieces looking like they just fell out of the bubble gum machine.
It reminded me of the little chant (or rhyme or game or whatever you call it) – Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum in a dish. How many pieces do you wish?
Does anybody else remember that? Ryan stuffed his mouth full trying to get a big bubble.
Well that is my fun colorful scrapbook page! Have a fun colorful rest of your weekend.
Thanks for visiting me today.
Jun 3, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages |
So far you got to see some of the cards I entered in the Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award contest. Well I thought I would switch gears and show you a scrapbook page today. I think this one is my favorite out of the three I made.
This is my niece Ally – isn’t she just Cute as a Button?
I have actually used these pictures before on another page. They were fun and I had a whole bunch of her playing with this old hat. I used one large picture for the focal point and then added the two smaller photos on the side.
The base is 12×12 Old Olive Textured card stock. I used a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock and stamped it with the Manhattan Flower using Versa Mark ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. An easy way to create a tone on tone background. The photos are framed with So Saffron card stock.
I used the Flower Daisies #2 die and the Big Shot to create the flowers. There are multiple layers of the Sweet Pea Designer Series paper that was in the Occasions Mini catalog. The centers are the little Chocolate Chip Epoxy brads – I love those!
The title was also cut with the Big Shot and the Go Go Boots Alphabet Sizzlits die set. I use that one a lot in my scrapbooking because the letters are fun and different sizes. I added the little designer button inside the ‘O’ – I thought it was a perfect little touch.
There are a couple of pieces of Pretty in Pink on the edges punched with the Scallop Trim Border Punch that we had in the Sale-A-Bration brochure – but it will be back in the catalog on July 1st! I added doodling on this page too like I did on the card I showed earlier. 
I used the Top Note die for my journaling. I think that is probably where I lack on my scrapbooking is the journaling part. I’m not a good writer so I only had a very small amount of writing on each page and that probably wasn’t enough for the judges – I needed to tell a better story on my pages. I’ll have to work on that part this year.
I really liked this page and it was fun to create. Maybe I will have to make a duplicate since I sent my only one to Stampin’ Up!.
Remember to visit this post to see some of the other talented demonstrators that submitted entries to the Artisan Award Contest but didn’t win.
Thanks for stopping by today. I forgot to download my turtle pictures sorry about that.
May 27, 2010 | Flower for All Seasons, Inspired by Nature, Scrapbook Pages |
I am here. Only one more day of school for Ryan and Tyler – well not even a whole day just part of a day. And Kyle has been done. He had graduation practice this morning and tomorrow night is graduation. I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by. I’ll need to do some more scrapbooking for him to finish his books. But for now I’ll be sharing some other things.
I had a fun scrapbook class on Wednesday and this is one of the 2-page layouts that we made.
I used the stamp sets Flower for All Seasons and Inspired by Nature – don’t you just love the grass you can use it for so many things. The original layout is from an earlier month of Wow Scrapbook Kits. It was originally made as a birthday page in pinks and blues. The Wow Scrapbook layouts are easy to adapt to other themes using different colors and stamp sets. Right now we have tutorials for sale and some completed pages. This is a joint venture between Wendy and I. Wendy is currently planning to move so we are doing some spring cleaning and selling completed Wow Scrapbook pages. Visit our blog – wowscrapbookkits.wordpress.com – to see what we have out there right now. And come back later as more gets added.
Have a wonderful day – I need to decide what pictures I want to add to this layout. I love the little frog and the butterflies. The colors are Ruby Red, Crushed Curry, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. The images were watercolored with an Aquapainter – I have a couple of close up pictures to show you.
I hope you like it – I thought it turned out to be a happy page and could be used for many different things.
I’m a Guest Designer at Create with Connie & Mary: Summer Edition going on now – come join us for daily projects featuring items in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog.
These pages were created by my sister-in-law, Stephanie. She is working on a book – the “Cousins” book. Featuring all the cousins of our generation and her mom’s and some pictures going back of their grandparents and great grandparents. When we were together in North Carolina in June we worked on editing the pages in the book and filling in with pictures and journaling. So I wanted to share some of those pages on my blog.
We have basically the same menu each year – featuring fried catfish with hushpuppies, french fries, cole slaw and pickles. There are lots of yummy desserts and farm fresh corn and watermelon.
The kids like to go for boat rides on the pond and go fishing. The cows come by for a visit and get to eat the corn husks and watermelon rinds. Occasionally they take a lick of our cars! One year one of the cows gave birth and I have some pictures of the new baby (but they aren’t included here).
There is always a game of kickball and a trip to the local dollar store. Lots of fun for everyone as we visit with family we might only see this one time each year.
