Desktop Calendar – May/June

Jan 26, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages | 0 comments

Here are the next two pages from my Desktop Calendar – May and June.

My May calendar doesn’t have a picture on it yet – when I decide it will be a small one – mostly because I love this paper! If you haven’t noticed (although I’m sure you have) each month has the same layout.  The 6×6 page with the 3″ strip of Sweet Pea Designer Series paper.  The 3-1/2″ strip of card stock punched with one of the border punches.  Then on the bottom are the three die cuts or punches for that month – with a fourth one over on the title strip.

May Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Pumpkin Pie card stock
  • Rose Red card stock and ink
  • So Saffron card stock and ink
  • Old Olive card stock
  • Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
  • Eyelet Border punch
  • Big Shot die-cut machine
  • Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die
  • Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
  • Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
  • Chocolate Chip ink
  • Stampin’ Sponge
  • Linen Thread

June calendar page

The June calendar supply list:

  • Old Olive card stock
  • Taken with Teal card stock
  • So Saffron card stock
  • Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
  • Scallop Border punch
  • Big Shot die-cut machine
  • Birds & Blooms Embosslit Dies
  • Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
  • Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
  • Chocolate Chip ink
  • Silver brads
  • 1/16″ handheld punch

I made a break through this weekend and got all the wallpaper off the walls in the half-bath.  Yeah for me!  Monday I took Ryan to the orthodontist and guess what – it is time for braces – yep – we scheduled it for Feb. during the school break – won’t that be a fun vacation for Ryan.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you come back again.

Happy Stampin’!

My Digital Studio – Custom Background

Jan 25, 2010 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages | 1 comment

I made another My Digital Studio page.  This one uses the Custom Background feature.  You can select a photo to be your page background.  This is a great option if you are making calendars and since you can also adjust the opacity you can add a background behind the grid on a calendar.  This is not a calendar but just a scrapbook page.

I also used the Photo Shape option – you can adjust the crop and adjust into a circle if you need to.  On my photo shapes I added a black mat – size 2, and a drop shadow ( I used the default setting).

I added several text boxes – one for the title, one for the journaling and one for the photo.  The photo on the right is my family – my parents and my brother with his wife and then my cousin who was visiting from Germany.  We are the Lenkeit’s.

The left photo is my brother and my dad – my brother was the Commodore of the sailing club for 2009 and my dad was the Commodore several years ago.  The center photo is a the commissioning ceremony where Michael was presented with his Commodore Portrait.

I had to marry someone with an easy name since nobody could pronounce or spell Lenkeit.  So I ended up as a Davis – you can’t get any easier than that!

This page was quick to create once I decided on my pictures – it took only a few minutes.

Thanks for stopping by today – I hope you have a great week and will come back to see me again.

Kyle Scrapbook Page

Jan 22, 2010 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, family, Scrapbook Pages | 0 comments

On Thursday morning I finished my next scrapbook page for the 52 weeks of stress-free scrapbooking.  So that means there are 50 more to go….I hope I can keep up.  I meant to get this one done earlier this week but the week got away from me.  The third one should be out on the blog today – so I’ll have to go check for it.

Kyle is my oldest son and he turned 18 this past November.  I can’t believe the time has passed so quickly.  He is camera shy or at least he tries to hide every time I have my camera out.  Maybe it is the age because Tyler has started to do the same thing.  Ryan on the other hand still likes to have his picture taken.

So the point is I don’t often get pictures of Kyle and even fewer of him looking at the camera.  These were some I took on his birthday. If you can read the words on his t-shirt  it says “I’d like to change the world – but I can’t find the source code…”

I figure one day Kyle will change the world – we’ll just have to wait and see what it will be that he does.

Here are the Stampin’ Up! Suppplies that I used:

  • Kraft card stock
  • Write Stuff Specialty Designer Series Paper
  • Chocolate Chip card stock
  • Whisper White card stock
  • Extreme Elements stamp set
  • Sense of Time stamp set
  • Chocolate Chip craft and classic ink
  • 1-3/8″ circle punch
  • 1-3/4″ circle punch
  • Big Shot Die Cut machine
  • Go Go Boots Sizzlit Alphabet dies
  • Matchbox XL Die (for the label)
  • 1-1/4″ square punch

I think the page is pretty straight forward.  I used the square punch to cut the notch out of one strip of the designer paper – but you could do that with scissors too.   The Matchbox die has three labels on it and I used one to go behind my circle that has the quote on it.  I also inked the edges of that circle by pulling it through my Chocolate Chip ink pad.

A nice masculine looking page.  2 down and 50 more to go…..

Thanks for visiting!  Have a great weekend.

Desktop Calendar – Mar/Apr

Jan 20, 2010 | Big Shot, class, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Scrapbook Pages | 0 comments

Here are some more pages from my Desk Top calendar class.  Here is the original post.

This  is the March page and the list of Stampin’ Up Supplies:

  • So Saffron card stock
  • Pretty in Pink card stock and ink
  • Old Olive card stock
  • Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack
  • Eyelet Border punch
  • Big Shot die-cut machine
  • Simple Flower Embosslit Die
  • Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
  • Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
  • Chocolate Chip ink
  • Stampin’ Sponge
  • Eyelets – So Saffron
  • Crop-a-Dile

After the flowers are die cut I used the sponge and Pretty in Pink to highlight the embossing – you probably can’t see it in this photo.And the April page and list of Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Pretty in Pink card stock
  • Sahara Sand card stock
  • So Saffron card stock
  • Taken with Teal card stock
  • Old Olive card stock
  • Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack
  • Scallop Trim Border punch
  • Big Shot die-cut machine
  • Billboard Alphabet Sizzlits Strip die
  • Little Leaves Sizzlits die
  • Birds & Blooms Sizzlits die
  • Calendar Alphabet & Numbers stamp set
  • Chocolate Chip ink and marker

I used the marker to put eyes on the birds.  And I realized once I added the photo to this post the wing on the one bird got bent in the wrong direction – it should be back like the others – I guess he was just flapping his wings….

Sorry this post was so late today – apparently I was busy all day – I went to jazzercise this morning after taking the boys to school.  Then came home for a short while – spent a long time trying to get Aspen outside to do his thing.  He hurt his back again last night while I was gone.  So he doesn’t want to be picked up, he doesn’t want to do the stairs, he doesn’t want anyone near him but he still needs to go out… I finally got him out the door – convinced him with some chicken!

After that got a haircut, came home and finished my project tutorial and blog post for Create with Connie & Julie – it will post to the class site on Friday.  If you haven’t joined the class it’s not too late.  Just click the logo on my side bar and it will take you to the site to sign up.  All the projects that have been posted will still be available to anyone that joins.

Then later I picked up Tyler from school, then we picked up his glasses, went by Haley’s house, stopped at the grocery store, went home, took Ryan to tennis, cooked a quick dinner and went to a band parent meeting.  Aspen does seem better tonight – I gave him his pain meds and muscle relaxer and they seem to be helping.  Not that you wanted to hear all of that but sometimes it helps me to see that I really did do something today when I write it all out.

Thanks for stopping by today!

My Digital Studio – Band page

Jan 19, 2010 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages | 1 comment

Last night and this morning I worked on another scrapbook page using the My Digital Studio.  I am taking the online class that Heather Summers is offering.  For the moment I skipped ahead to lesson 6 and did a page for that one – I’ll go back to the others later.

Since the last page was about Ryan – this time I decided to create a page about Tyler.  These are photos of Tyler and the Etowah Marching Band at one of the band competitions they went to this fall.  I picked a variety of pictures of the performance.  Two of the photos have circles that highlight where Tyler is.  The lower left photo is an octet that played at the end of the performance.  I need to add a little more journaling so that others will know that it is Tyler in the band.

Stampin’ Up! supplies:

– My Digital Studio software

– Background – color matched to the blue in the band logo at 90% Opacity with text at 100% to create the background

– Stamps –Thought’s & Prayers for the tree, School Days for the circle

– Embellishments – Modern label punch, white grosgrain ribbon, black brads

The bands show this year was titled “A Day in the Park”.  I’ll need to create another page showing all of the things going on at the beginning before they started playing – the kids split up into groups like they were at a park and did all different things – played ball, frisbee, had a picnic, walked the dog, etc.  It was a very fun show.  The closer was the octet playing while it “rained” the rest of the band went and got in a huddle under umbrellas.  The drum major and one of the color guard girls did a little “dance” where he bring her the umbrellas and twirls her around – they end with the “kiss” behind the umbrella and she kicks up her leg.  It was really cute.

Thanks for visiting today.

I’m going to meet a new demonstrator friend, Jenn, tonight and join her at the Ronald McDonald House to do some stamping with the guests that are there.

Challenge CCJC2 – Cute as a Button

Jan 16, 2010 | Big Shot, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Scrapbook Pages | 4 comments

It’s Challenge Day at the Create with Connie & Julie – Occasions Edition class.  Our challenge this week is a color challenge – Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip.  This week in class we are featuring the following products from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog: With All My Heart stamp set, Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, and the Sending Love Epoxy brads.   If you aren’t part of the class yet you can still join – all the projects and tutorials that have already been featured are still available and there are 7 more weeks of new projects and everything will continue to be available to all members for a long time.  Class members are encouraged to participate in the challenges so you can win prizes each week!  So get busy with this color challenge and then go to the class site and link your entry to the challenge post.  Good Luck – I hope you win!

Last weeks winners were Lisa Martz and Jessica Taylor.  Congratulations ladies!

Here is my entry for this weeks color challenge:

This is a 12″ x 12″ scrapbook page and I used the Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper  and the Epoxy brads to create elements on this page. I saw this idea at least a year ago where they showcased both sides of double-sided paper by folding over the ends.  Some people hate not being able to see both sides of the paper so here is one solution to that.  I cut strips of different widths.  One end was scalloped with the Scallop Edge punch and then folded over and secured with one of the Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Epoxy brads.

I added doodling with the Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker.  The title was cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet dies – I used a mixture of upper and lowercase letters in the title.  And then added one little button from the Playground Designer Buttons.  The photo is my niece – I took a bunch of pictures of her playing with this hat and this was one of the cutest ones – most of the time she had it completely covering her face and I was trying to play peek-a-boo with her – so this was right after she lifted the hat – cute!

Stampin’ Up! Supplies used:

  • Kraft card stock 12″ x 12″
  • Pretty in Pink card stock
  • Chocolate Chip card stock
  • Very Vanilla card stock
  • Sending Love Specialty Designer Series paper (Occasions Mini Catalog)
  • Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker
  • Modern Label punch
  • Scallop Trim Border punch (Sale-A-Bration)
  • Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Sending Love Epoxy Brads (Occasions Mini Catalog)
  • Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
  • Playground Designer Buttons
  • Linen Thread
  • Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
  • Go Go Boots Alphabet Medium Sizzlits Dies

To see what the rest of the Create team did with this challenge visit them here:

Connie

Julie

Mary

Kerin

Thanks for stopping by today.