Nov 17, 2009 | Big Shot, class, Designer Series Paper, Holiday Mini Catalog 2009, Scrapbook Pages |
Sorry I’m so late getting a project posted. It’s about 10:30 pm now and the whole afternoon/evening disappeared on me. Somewhere in the definition of a mom needs to be the word “chauffeur” – because that is what I felt like today or maybe “taxi service”. I left the house at about 2:30 – stopped at the jeweler to get a new battery in Greg’s watch, went to Walmart to get ink for the printer (I got the wrong one) and make a bank deposit (nice to have my bank in Walmart), went to the high school to pick up Tyler, took Tyler to get a haircut, went back to the high school (Tyler drove), dropped Tyler off so he could go home with Haley, I drove home. Got home phone rings – Tyler needs me to come back and take them to Haley’s. So back to the high school, stop at Kroger (not sure what he wanted but I stopped), then went to Haley’s, went back home. Ryan’s ready to go to tennis, drive to the tennis courts – it’s now raining – tennis is canceled, take Ryan to Taylor’s house to get a text book, then go home. Then dinner, laundry, homework, etc. and back to get Tyler, get everyone off toward bed. And now I’m on the computer….
So here is my peek at one of the layouts we will be making in my scrapbook class. I am moving it from Wed the 18th to Wed. Dec 1st – we are going to celebrate Kyle’s birthday Wed. night because he is leaving Thursday afternoon to go to Va Tech to visit his cousin for a few days before meeting up with the rest of us for Thanksgiving. Kyle will be 18 on Saturday! Oh my – I can’t believe I have an 18 year old! Sorry back to the scrapbook page.
I was so happy with how this turned out – I just need to add my pictures to it.
I have really fallen in love with this Autumn Meadows Designer Series paper. Stampin’ Up! really comes up with some great patterned paper. This one is actually very versatile. It is designed to be a fall paper, but on each sheet that has the leaves the other side does not so it could be a generic theme as well. And later this week I’ll show you a winter card that uses this paper too. The browns and blues work great for the winter too.
We will make this 2-page layout at my class on Dec. 1st so while you are with your family over Thanksgiving think about what you are thankful and take some pictures to use on this layout. I’ll be adding pictures of my family to mine – although I won’t get to see everyone at Thanksgiving. If you’d like to attend this class visit my website and check my events schedule for the details and please RSVP.
The other layout that I am working on (I’m almost done) is an advent calendar layout for Christmas – it is going to be cute too. I need to create a template to make it easy to figure out the cuts and scores for all the windows. It will be fun!
Ok – I’m off to change my events calendar on my website to reflect the change of my class date. I hope to see you there!
Happy Stampin’!
Nov 9, 2009 | Scrapbook Pages |
Here is a SNEAK PEEK at the pages for the November Wow Scrapbook Kit:
November 2009 Wow Scrapbook Kit
This month’s Wow Scrapbook kit includes three layouts. The first one is a Halloween layout featuring the Cast-a-Spell Designer Series Paper and the Halloween Hoot stamp set. The second one features the Always stamp set and two of our new In-Colors – Soft Suede and Dusty Durango. The third layout was designed to be used in a baby scrapbook but would also work for zoo pictures – this layout uses the Baby-Wipe Technique (when you have a baby you have lots of baby wipes around – you may as well use them to stamp with!).
CLICK HERE to go to the Wow Scrapbook Kits Blog for more details and ordering information.
Happy Scrappin’!
Oct 31, 2009 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages |
Halloween is here and it is certainly a dreary day around here. Right now the rain has stopped and this little break is supposed to last until trick-or-treating is done and then rain again late tonight.
Today I’m going to share the Halloween Scrapbook page we made in my class last week.
I used the Eat, Drink & Be Scary stamp set and the little saying on the spider “happy fright night to you” was what inspired the title. The title was cut with the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet dies.
The Designer Series Paper is the Cast-a-Spell paper. The scallop circle accents are the dies for the Big Shot.
The witch is Punch Art! My table was covered in punches for this project. The witch design came from the Holiday Punches online class that Heather Summers had a couple of months ago. She makes some very creative creations and you’ll see some more showing up in my projects from time to time. In her class she did Halloween, Fall, and Christmas punch art.
This little witch is done with Old Olive, Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery, Basic Black, and Going Gray.
I also used the Little Boo stamp from the Under $10 section of the catalog – it is such a cute little stamp and fits perfectly in our circle punches.
Have a Happy Halloween! Be safe!
Oct 29, 2009 | Designer Series Paper, Scrapbook Pages |
For my October scrapbook class – which was early this month – we made this Pumpkin Carving layout.
This two page layout was from one of Wendy’s WOW scrapbook class a year or two ago. This is a very quick and easy page to put together.
We also used this layout for an Apply Picking page – changed the colors and using the Tart& Tangy set as accents. Instead of a large pumpkin shape we cut out an apple shape from Designer Series Paper that was a shade of red.
Here the little pumpkin stamp is from one of the Family Accessory stamp sets. The alphabet stamp set is the Just Perfect Alphabet – and it was just perfect for this title – anything bigger I would have run out of room. The background is Sahara Sand and the other colors are Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. The Modern Label punch was used to cut the stem of the pumpkin and the Small Oval punch was used for the leaf.
The hardest part of this layout is tearing the Designer Series Paper to create the layered pumpkin shape. Normally I trace my patterns on the back of the piece to cut it out. But for this one it worked better to trace on the front and then carefully tear away the traced line to give you the pumpkin layers.
I bought a nice big round pumpkin yesterday – now to have someone carve it for Saturday. I know I have old pictures of the kids when they were little and they each carved a pumpkin – if I don’t take new pictures this week I’ll have to go find those and put them on this cute layout.
Have a great day!
Oct 27, 2009 | Big Shot, Just Soccer, Just Tennis, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Sporting |
Well I had planned to post this yesterday but the rest of the day got away from me. Sorry about that…
I actually made these scrapbook pages last month – in September for my scrapbook class. The two-page 12×12 layout was easy to adapt to any sport. I made the Soccer layout for my class sample and then created the Tennis layout during the class. At the class the ladies did a variety including baseball/softball layouts and football/cheer layout. If you didn’t want sports at all you could have used Circle Circus or other circles or flowers. The layout itself was an old one from a magazine that has been in my stack of layouts to work with. I also created the same layout using My Digital Studio – I was able to play around with the photos in the layout before printing them. My Digital Studio has the Sporting stamp set with all the words but not the individual Just sports sets. But you could do a hybrid version and print the My Digital Studio version and then add the stamped sports images. One cool thing about the My Digital Studio that didn’t really work with the traditional scrapbook page was putting the words directly on top of the picture. In my traditional layout I cut my picture shorter and put the GO TEAM underneath it. The tennis layout doesn’t have pictures on it yet – I’ll be adding those as soon as I get them printed.
Soccer - left page
Soccer - right page
Supplies used include:
– Sporting stamp set
– Just Soccer stamp set
– My Way Punch
– Circle Punches – several sizes
– Spiral Punch
– Big Shot & GoGo Boots Alphabet die
– Night of Navy, Real Red, Summer Sun card stock and ink
The one thing I couldn’t do in My Digital Studio was the Spiral Punch – I’ll have to look at that more and see if I can find that – if may have been there and I missed it. So you see that here in my traditional layout.
The Tennis version uses the same supplies except the Just Tennis stamp set for all the accent pieces – here it is without pictures on it.
Tennis - left page
Tennis - right page
For the Tennis layout I may add some White Gel Pen lines by the tennis balls at the bottom of the page – I wanted them to look like they were bouncing and right now they look kind of out of place so I think I’ll add that when I put my pictures on.
So then the My Digital Studio version is done with the Soccer pictures – I’ll show you the Left page – it just has white circles where the soccer balls should have been. I didn’t actually print the My Digital Studio version as a 12 x 12 but I was able to export it to a jpg file so I could share it here and I printed it just on paper to take to my craft room as my sample. So the My Digital Studio software can be used for a design tool – where you can play around with elements and photos without cutting card stock or printing photos until you know what size and where you want everything.
Soccer - My Digital Studio
I didn’t finish adding all the stamped words in there but wanted to have an idea for comparison. The font is different since the Big Shot dies aren’t actually in My Digital Studio – you can add text by using the fonts that you have loaded on your computer and you can change them to any of the Stampin’ Up! colors.
So what do you think? How do they compare?
I have this month’s scrapbook pages ready to share later this week so come back again.
It’s a rainy day (again) and a good day to stay inside and stamp (no one really wants to clean house so go stamp instead).
Oct 22, 2009 | Big Shot, Scrapbook Pages |
Stephanie wanted to work on scrapbook pages while I was visiting. Some of the pictures that she had printed were from our family reunion this summer. Every summer at 4th of July Greg’s family gathers at his uncle’s farm i
n south Georgia for a Saturday of playing, eating and talking. Stephanie wanted to use a retired stamp set that she had called Independence Day.
She stuck with traditional Red (Real Red), White, and Blue (Night of Navy) and used the star punches to create her accents.
The swirls are stamped in Whisper White Craft ink. The title is cut using the Big Shot and the GoGo Boots Alphabet Dies.
The pictures are in a collage toward the center of the 2-page layout with the same pattern on each side – just flipped. She had them printed as both wallet sized and 4×6 size.
I thought the layout turned out great!
Tomorrow I am off to the Stampin’ Up! Half-Day Chattanooga Regional Seminar. Sue and Danette (two of my downline) are coming with me. We are looking forward to a fun day. We will hear business tips, see stamping demonstrations from both the corporate team and local demonstrators and get to do our own Make-N-Takes while we are there. And we will do some swapping too – I need to get up stairs and see what I have already and maybe make a few more tonight.
Thanks for stopping by today!
I have really fallen in love with this Autumn Meadows Designer Series paper. Stampin’ Up! really comes up with some great patterned paper. This one is actually very versatile. It is designed to be a fall paper, but on each sheet that has the leaves the other side does not so it could be a generic theme as well. And later this week I’ll show you a winter card that uses this paper too. The browns and blues work great for the winter too.
