Saturday, January 31, 2009

Recent scrap sessions

Just a few silly faces to remind us of how sweet Halleigh is and that she is growing up WAY too quickly!! My journaling is inside the scallop envelope that keeps popping open!
Using what I consider the quintessential TobyMac colors, I created a simple layout that shows us having a great time at one of his concerts last year. As Halleigh says each time we hear him, "Dat TobyMac?"

Thank you cards

Here are a few thank you cards that I made for some of our members of a music teachers group I am in, Kentucky Orff Schulwerk Association. They did such a great job, I just wanted to let them know how much I appreciated them!And here is the second card - I made the butterfly using a technique I saw in CK Magazine - I tied thread around the body of the butterfly. But then, I added a layer of butterfly made out of acetate to really make the butterfly look like it was flying. This was the best picture I could get of it! I think trying to catch a picture of that was almost as bad as trying to get a picture of a real live butterfly!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Stuck Sketch

I found this blog called Stuck!
http://stucksketches.blogspot.com/
It's a great blog with a weekly sketch to inspire you in your scrapbook pages. So I took the sketch and added a second page since I always like to do double page layouts. Here's what I came up with:
I used my Big Shot to create the swirls and the flowers on this side of the page. The rest of it was mostly just scraps!
Another view and the second page down below. The journaling block on the second page was actually from a notebook that had green and blue, so I just doodled over the blue with Chocolate Chip ink and added a few brown rub-ons to fit the page. The green is acually Kiwi Kiss, although it looks a little neon here!

Friday, January 23, 2009

A little blog candy anyone?

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http://rubberstampinzone.wordpress.com/
I love the black and white card just a little bit below the blog candy post. Check it out! And, hey you just might win.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Zoo go round

I saw this sketch a little more than a week ago and had a few ideas spinning around in my head. I just kept letting them whirl around and finally went with just that idea. The pictures below were taken at the Louisville Zoo while we were on the train and the carousel, so I decided to let the pictures look like they were riding on the carousel. Going with that idea, I decided to use some coordinating buttons to create the top lines of the carousel and the animal die cuts as the "horses." Halleigh thought we needed a gorilla, but, oh well...





Monday, January 19, 2009

Lookin' for a good time? Join my Stampin' Up club!

Hannah shows off her innovative idea - she used the scallop sqare and alternated the squares on her finished product. Neat idea, Hannah!
Sisters, Bree and Britani, have a great time together at all of the club meetings and classes they take!
Johnna also used the innovative scallop square punch idea and put her stamped image across both squares! Too cool!
Kittra and Hannah are making their tealight candle covers. They are using the new embosslit, "Sweetest Stem."
Carla is playing with the new Big Shot while Britani and Vicky are working on their scrapbook pages.
Angel is making a Valentine for her sweetest!
Have you been looking for a fun time to get together and make projects? Our monthly Stampin' Up club is a terrific time every month! We have 12 members in our current club and 10 members have shown up at each of the last club meetings.
I am currently looking for new members of a second club. If there are 10 or more people interested in participating in the club, each member will only have to purchase $15 of product each month to participate. Then, on your month, you get to enjoy all the benefits of being a hostess! In addition, you get 2 free #1 ranked idea books and catalogues each year as a fringe benefit! What better way to meet new people, get great ideas each month, and spend time having fun doing your favorite hobbies?
I must say that just like all the other ladies in our current club, I look forward to each and every club meeting! Why not join now? If I can get 10 members interested in starting a new club, I will give away a brand new stamp set to one of those ten brand new members! Email me or sign up on my Stampin' Up website today!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Sweet Stems Votive Holder


Here is a votive holder that I CASED from http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/822529?cat=fav
to make for our club meeting. I was trying to work in just a little bit more purple for Britani! I thought she could use the same kind of design, but use other stamps for her wedding and use that as a very inexpensive centerpiece idea for her guest tables.

Well, what do you think?