Valentines Day Card

Simple and sweet valentine's day card for my husband.

Birthday Card

Birthday card for a friend.   It's for a friend that I've been pen pals with for since high school, we met in band camp, yeah yeah...   I've been really bad lately about writing so I wanted to make sure I didn't forget her birthday this year.   So here's the card I sent off.    I've been in a HUGE pink mood lately and am loving all the pink/brown and pink/black color combos that are out for valentines day.    I'm happy to use them for every occasion.     

Thinking of You

I've been in a huge pink mood lately. So while working on some cards and going through some scraps this came together. I actually really like it. I'll probably end up putting it on etsy if I don't end up using it myself first.

We Scrap Layout of the Day

YAY my layout of Kyle playing in the snow was picked to be todays layout of the day. Whoo hoo. :)

baby card

Finally we had a free weekend so after we did errands and stuff we needed to catch up on I had some craft time. Using some scraps I had and new stamps for the flourishes I put this together while trying to work on a birthday card. Eventually I got there, but this came first.

A Favorite Photo from AZ trip last fall

Last fall we took a long weekend trip to AZ. It's one of our favorite vacation spots. Just far enough to get get away, but not so far away that you are totally worn out by the travel required to get there. This picture was taken on during our trip and it's one of my favorites!! I made a mini album of the trip when we got back, but this is the first full page layout using any of the pictures.

Holiday Layouts

These will probably wind up in my year in review album as one or two of the challenges, but for now I'm just posting them here. We've boxed up the holiday stuff, so the holidays feel over, and I'm ready to move on to scrapbooking other things. So here are the holiday layouts for this year capturing some of my favorite photos from this year.

Favorite Christmas Photos



Photo of Brother w/ Bessie during Visit

Holiday Ornament... (2008)

It's been tradition for probably well over a decade that I make some sort of an ornament for close friends and family. Well for the first year in over a decade I just wasn't ready. I mean Christmas is "my" holiday. I don't really like Halloween, I've been known to completely forget it was Easter, but Christmas?! When we were little it used to mean sharing a bedroom with my brother waiting for Santa, now it means getting to see him and my sister in law for one of their twice a year voyages to this side of the country. This year time just got away from me. There are lots of reasons and I won't bore anyone reading this with them, but needless to say this that didn't get done in time included holiday cards that went out late and ornaments that didn't get made until AFTER Christmas. So officially only one made it out this year. And so it doesn't happen next year I've started on next years ornaments so that disaster doesn't strike 2x in a row.

Directions to the lone ornament that got sent out can be found on the Bead & Button web site design by Diane Schroer.

Holiday Necklace

I finally had time to finish up some half-way complete projects. I picked up these beads awhile back, nothing expensive but they called to me so here's what I came up with. I still love the black and white necklace I did a while ago better but, I'll give this one some time to grow on me before I tear it apart and start over.

Gift Album

This year I realized I've never made my brother a scrapbook since I've become obsessed and I decided this year would be a good year to make a family album of pictures of us growing up, etc. Here are the thumbnails of the album. Later I might show larger versions of some of my favorites, since there are a few pages in here that I almost had second thoughts about giving the album away. But I think I've resolved this dilemma since I've scanned all the pages I'll make a photo book later of gift albums I've given out so I'll have a "copy" too. The best of both worlds.

Father-in-Law's Birthday

Using bits and pieces that I had worked on previously I pulled this card together for my Father-In-Law's birthday. I love how all the elements came together. Fun, bright and happy.

Christmas Tree Cards (Set of 4)

Snowflake Card Set

I've been working on holiday cards lately and wanted to do some cut out cards and when I pulled out a sheet of BasicGrey Figgy Pudding-Glacier and a set of snowflake embellishments I'd picked up from target last year I thought they were a perfect match. Here are the 4 designs I came up with. I ended up with a total of 7 cards total in the set (didn't plan quite well enough to have enough for a full 8 and the local store didn't have any more sheets of the paper). I'll hopefully be putting these on etsy.com later this week.

Look who is turning 100

Actually look who turned 100... I'm a little behind on scrapbooking (as usual). So this photo is from a little over a month ago when my mom had our favorite photographer take some pictures of her dad in honor of him turning 100. This one was with my parents new dog Bessie. Supplies: Pink Paislee Papers, and miscellaneous letters etc.

Button Snowman Cards

Snowman cards inspired by Button Snowman Cards and more creative crafts projects, templates, tips, clip-art, patterns, and ideas on marthastewart.com. I loved the idea of the button snowmen. I thought I'd take the idea and run with it. Shown above are my version. I really like this combination of papers and I'm a total snowman freak. Still not sure about the best eyes for the snowman, one is beads and one is crystals, still torn, but love the papers together. The scan does not quite show off the details very well unless you look at the blown up version. There is a sheet of vellum over the tinkering ink paper and a border strip from the decorative paper pack.

Supplies:
Tinkering Ink - Yuletide: Neige
EKSuccess Vellum - Victorian
The Paper Company - Decorative Paper Pack
Autum Leaves - Stamp A Rhonna Christmas Card
Buttons
Ribbon
Scrapper's Floss Black (Karen Foster Design)

Mini Album - Arizona 2008

I tried to create a movie of all the pages... but google isn't cooperating tonight, so this picture will have to do. We had a nice getaway recently to Arizona and I decided on a mini album to capture our time there. I absolutely love it.

Update: hopefully google is working now and here's the video!

Tis the season to start thinking about the holidays

I got these stamp stamp sets just before last season, but didn't find a way to use the ornament ones. So as I've been thinking about holiday cards for this year I really wanted to try to use them. So tonight I pulled them out and this is the first card I made. I like pieces of it, but I still have more "playing" to do before I'm ready to settle on a final version for the year. Tis the season for holiday crafting.

WeScrap Layout of the Day 10/29/08

For the second time this year a layout was chosen for the layout of the day over at WeScrap. Whoo hoo!! This was for YIR#26 challenge -Summer recap. It was a hard layout for me to pull together. Not because of the subject matter, but some layouts just fly together and some (like this one) take a while. I wasn't sure I was fully happy with the results. I was aiming for something more along the lines of Ali Edwards style, but after stepping back, I'm reasonably happy with the end result.
http://www.wescrap.com/forum/showthread.php?p=25063#post25063

We'll Always Have Paris

1. Eiffel Tower Paris Cavallini Papers Decorative Wrap
2. Penny Black - Christmas in Paris Rubber stamp.
   
3. Eiffel Tower Clock Ballard Designs

I have no idea why I love the Eiffel Tower and Paris motifs that are really popular in scrapbooking right now, but I do. I've never been to Europe but really hope to see Paris at some point, but for now Paris papers and home decor will just have to do. Here are a few items that have caught my eye. Not sure what I'd do with them, but I'm always looking.

Live, Laugh, Love... Candle Wrap

I bought this candle for breast cancer awareness month. I love the scent but didn't love the label. Instead of trying to just take the label off I decided to use my scrapbook supplies and make a new "label" that better fitted my personality. I'm not much into home decor type items since usually they only add to the clutter in the house and we collect enough of that as it is. But since I am a candle junkie... I have really been working on it the last few years and have severly cut back on my candle buying, only to be replaced by scrapbook goodies, but that's an entirely different post. Back to the candle. Here's the new wrap I came up with. Quick and easy with a coordinating paper stack, a butterfly embellishment I've had sitting around waiting to find a use and some ribbon. I love the way it turned out.