Monday, August 11, 2008

Anniversary - 2 Years


2 Years ago we got married. It's gone by quick, and slow and everything in between. I wouldn't have done a thing different and I've got a great husband. This anniversary we headed up to the Napa Valley for a couple of days to celebrate. I've been swamped with a whole slew of things going on I have barely had time to step into my scrapbook room let alone scrap, so this was nice to finally put an actual page together. It's basically a recreation of an earlier post about our weekend.
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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Flower Power

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Like a Sister






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Tulips Another Way


While working on the sympathy card I need to send out I was playing with the tulip stamp and created this one a little more cheerful.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Thinking of You - Sympathy


A little over a week ago I needed to send out a sympathy card. These are always my least favorite cards to make. I find them emotionally draining and a creative challenge. The need to be subdued, understated, and supportive. This is what I came up with.
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Anniversary Card


This last weekend was our anniversary and we've been super busy. So I had almost no time to put together a card. So I had to think about this one a head of time and quickly pull it together.

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Monday, July 7, 2008

2 for Tea


After trying out the hero arts coffee stamps, I had a bit of time this evening to try out the tea stamp set I ordered at the same time. I wanted to make something kinda girly (being tea and all, isn't that a bit girly?) So I started by trying different colors of embossing on the tea cup, and settled in on the gold, then used purple and pink to color it in. I also really wanted to use some lace to add to the girly feel. I opted to not include any sentiments on these. I liked them just the way they were. The stamp is from the Hero Arts Tea Stamp set.
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Thursday, July 3, 2008

photo shoot {take 2}


I had scrapbooked these photos nearly a year ago after they were taken. Last summer while my brother and sis-in-law were out visiting my mom arranged a family photo at the beach with our favorite photographer. While we were at the beach I took a few too. I scrapbooked them and just wasn't quite happy with it. I'd left it out planning to redo it. Here's the new version that I am much happier with. I love the way this one came out.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

A Double Latte!


I've had my eye on the coffee set of hero arts stamps for a little while. In my last scrapbook order I picked them up (along with the tea set!!). They came with fun puns to go along with the stamps. Like "I like you a latte!" Here are the first cards I made with the set. Still loving the The All Dressed Up matstack by Die Cuts with a View paper pack and this color combo. Thanks a latte for having a look ;)
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Monday, June 23, 2008

VT PhD for my Brother


Back in April we flew back to Blacksburg to see my brother receive his doctorate in geology. Don't ask me to explain the details of his area of interest, it has to do with silicon and studying the molecular reactions and forces that cause them to break .... or something along those lines. [He studies rocks.] Last year the events at VT hit very close to home with family attending college there. It was an emotional event even as a relative outsider, and visiting campus a year later was emotional as well. I still want to do a layout in remembrance of April 16th, but that will wait for another day. This weekend I wanted to capture and celebrate my brothers graduation. Ever since my brother made the decision to attend graduate school in Virginia and moved away we have really wanted to visit. This last April we finally had a chance. We decide to surprise him, and with the help of his deceptive wife he was. We had a great visit and got to see him deliver an awesome commencement speech. I am so proud of my little brother.
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Craft Room


I've been wanting a real scrapbook room for awhile. It all started with a few supplies and a clear container. That quickly grew to a shelf, then the I quickly decided I no longer needed a desktop computer so my computer armoire was converted to a scrapbook station. Even with this wonderful piece of furniture I was soon lusting over full blown studios. This last weekend hubby agreed to wrestle the futon that had been taking up half the room and see if we could store it in our attic so I could use all of "the cat's" room for my obsession. Later after a trip to IKEA and <$100 I settled (for now) on a computer desk with shelves. We rearranged the room and I love all the space and access to all my stuff. (BTW the boxes under the new desk are unfortunately not boxes of scrapbook supplies, they are part of our downs stairs that is still lacks flooring. I forgot to move them before taking the picture.)

I think I still want a fun carpet. I really like this one in the 5'6" round. And I most definately need a new chair. I'm not sure how the chair will mesh with the carpet... will I be able to roll between to two work spaces... or a stationary chair that I need to move if necessary. Things to think about. But without question I do need a new chair: mine is old (~14 yrs to be exact), not comfortable and totally not cute!!

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Card is in the Mail- Happy Birthday Meems


Today is "Meems" birthday and here's the card we sent her way. So really the card is in the mail, if not already there (maybe... if the mail went really fast) Happy Birthday Girl!!
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Friday, June 13, 2008

Thank You Card


I recently wanted to send out a thank you for a wonderful birthday gift I received and didn't have any thank you cards that I loved ready to go. So pulling out my studio G stamps and Papertrey Ink - Borders & Corners {Square} stamps along with some scraps from The All Dressed Up matstack by Die Cuts with a View I got to work. I love the way it turned out and I think I might make a bunch more to have on hand.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Perfect Combination

A couple weeks ago I picked up a mat stack at a local store. The All Dressed Up matstack by Die Cuts with a View. It's glittery and wonderful. I loved the combination of these two papers with the addition of a scalloped trim I had to make 2 cards. One with the new doggy stamps I picked up and another very simple card that simply says always. I can tell this is going to be a go-to card stack for quite a while to come.


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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Girly Birthday Card

I made this card quite a while ago and have been saving it for our nieces birthday. It's in a little less than a week and I'm taking a leap of faith that she's not reading this. It was during a phase when I thought quilling might be fun. It turns out I'm not sure I have the patience to roll and glue all the required pieces of paper... but maybe I'll give it another go at some point. But for now here's my one and only quilling masterpiece.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Guess who has the featured layout of the day?

Yup you guessed it ME!! I was notified on my birthday (Monday!!!) what an awesome b-day present wouldn't you say. So exciting!! I've never been "featured" before.
It was the layout I did for the iscrap challenge #13.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Raining Cats & Dogs

Last weekend we went up to Oregon to visit family and I got to visit 2 scrapbook stores on the way. We checked out Scrapbook King 'N' Stampstruck and Sugar & Spice Paper Company. They were amazing stores well worth the stops. Hopefully I'll get a chance to go back during future visits to family. At the first stop I picked up 2 stamp sets, one cat and one dog set. I'm loving them. I've still got a pile of in progress stuff on my desk but here are the first cards I came up with using my new stamp sets.




I'll probably end up putting these on my etsy site once I finish up logos for the backs of them and get around to listing them.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Spotlight Wednesday! - iScrap Scrapbooking Discussion

In the "spotlight" hehe. Almost a month ago I got a PM congratulating me for being in the spotlight. I looked around a bit on the site and couldn't quite figure it out. Today I had some time and I found it. Here I am the 3rd one down is mine. whoo hooo. Sometimes I'm a little slow.
Spotlight Wednesday! - iScrap Scrapbooking Discussion

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Year in Review - Challenge #13

This challenge was to capture what you are looking forward to most about spring. This one is maybe a bit more about my husband, but that's OK. I'm pretty sure he counts down the days until spring training and the start of baseball season. It's a long day to head up to the city for a SF Giants game, but last year we discovered the fun of going to minor league games. They are totally low key, have fun little games between innings, but old school style, no fancy cable car races here.... it's wooden horse heads on sticks that race behind the fence... oh ya that's what I'm talking about ;), beer batters, double double batter, bingo, the list goes on. It's fun I tell ya!! Plus it doesn't cost all that much so if we only feel like staying for half a game that's alright too. So here's my layout to capture spring which can only mean one thing!.... Batter Up!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Puppy - Play Hard


I've got a pile of iScrap challenges I "should" be working on AND we just got back from visiting family and I really want to capture some of those memories too, AND to top it off we've spent this week sick not to mention our house is still not back together. So I was in the mood for something really light and and I've had these puppy pics on my desk for a couple of weeks so I figured I might be able to muster enough energy for a quick puppy layout. Here's what I pulled together.

Papers:
Webster's Pages - Raspberry Truffle
Webster's Pages -Delish
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