August 16th, 2010 -- Posted in family, pain / disability, scrappy / stampy |
Well I haven’t shared a scrapbook layout in a while but it’s mostly because I haven’t been scrapbooking as much these days! I’ve mostly been sticking with the smaller crafts like card-making because they are shorter to complete and therefore less painful. But I wanted to keep catching up with my kids’ albums, so I finally got to the layout with the photos from Harmony’s first day of grade 6 (so just about 1 year ago!).
First Day of Grade 6
Materials: Riding Hood Red card stock & ink, Chocolate Chip card stock & ink, Only Orange card stock, chocolate brown ribbon, white jumbo brads, Chocolate Chip felt flower, orange flower brad, yellow mini brads, red mini brad, fall multi-colour brad, red metal frame, white Creative Memories letter stickers, various-sizes circle punches, scallop circle punch, stamps from various Stampin’ Up sets, and several different patterned paper sheets in oranges and reds.
This is actually a good time of year to do these Back-to-School and School Album layouts because we are very much getting into the Back-to-School mood these days! With about 3 weeks left of summer, we’ve done some shopping for school supplies and I have done a lot of online shopping for the kids’ clothes. I’m glad my son doesn’t mind – too bad little miss preteen is a little fussier about that! She is far more used to getting to go shopping at the mall. It was a yearly tradition that I have really had to give up the past couple years. She says she doesn’t *mind* pushing me in a wheelchair at the mall but it’s just not the same and I just can’t go as far and as long as I used to, so we can’t get it all done in one shot like every other year. Thank goodness I have some fond memories still tucked away in my foggy brain of previous trips and also some pics in her album to show her!
Side Note:I’ve re-organized the albums in my Scrapbook Layouts Gallery to show the more current albums on Page 1 of the gallery. It also made me realize I have not yet uploaded the pictures of layouts from Avery’s First Year scrapbook (one of my fave albums!) so I’ll be sure to do that soon.
Back to this layout… I tried out a new technique for paper-piercing the “6″ on the layout and my trick worked pretty well so I wanted to share it…
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June 9th, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
I created this card on the occasion of the birth of a new baby boy to a friend of mine from university. Her little son George arrived this spring and I definitely wanted to send along our good wishes. I had the perfect set of patterned papers to use as a jump-off point for the design. The papers included some with patterns (pastel plaid in blues, greens, and yellows) and some with puppy dogs and that little saying “Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails…”.
Materials: Stampin’ Up cardstock (So Saffron, Bordering Blue, and Sage Shadow), white brads (Making Memories), white ribbon (unknown), Whisper White ink, “Sweetness Unlimited” stamp (SU).
Techniques: I used my fave technique of paper piercing on the front strip. I also used a 1/8″ hole punch in each of the little scallops in my Scallop Circle punch (SU) to create an interesting border for the puppy dog punched circle (1 & 3/8″ punch, SU)
On the inside, I used more of the white ribbon and used a white gel pen to write out a message of congratulations. Probably my favourite finishing touch was the tiny safety pin. I got a small set of them years ago in a few different colours and they have been a great little “extra” to add to mostly complete projects. And I even have a pink one buried in a jar of rice (a project I made for a friend’s shower that I’ve kept around in case it’s needed at any future showers). I don’t think I’ve posted about it so hopefully someday soon I can find a picture (or take a new one) and include the “directions” on how to make one!
That’s all for today, but I’ve been working on lots of new cards lately so stay tuned for more ideas! 
May 12th, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
I’ve been really enjoying playing with my Floral Fusion die cut set (almost as much as the scallop edge punch). So of course I incorporated some punched flowers into the cards I made for Mother’s Day!
I did not have any tissue paper handy in order to try out the tissue paper flowers technique I’d seen, but I did have vellum handy so that’s what I used…
To make the flowers, I sent the die cut and vellum through my Cuttlebug to get one of each size flower per card. Then I inked onto the velum (with cotton – you could also use whatever ink dabber you have) in different colours. I used Green Galore, Lovely Lilac, and Pixie Pink because they coordinated well with the card colours (Pirouette Pink, Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace, and white).
Other materials & techniques used: 1/2″ brad (made by me using the Build-a-Brad kit and the small flowers and centers of the Beautiful Thing stamp set!), purple ribbon, green rhinestones, scallop edge punch, two-step-stamped butterfly in Whisper White and Lovely Lilac, Flight of the Butterfly stamp set
BTW, have you heard about the upcoming colour changes for Stampin’ Up?? They will soon be adding some new colours AND a bunch of favourite “In Colours” to their permanent products (very excited about this!). At the same time, they will also be retiring other colours (less excited about this, but it’s understandable they have to clear some out to make space for new ones). This blog post (by my Demonstrator’s upline) has a copy of the charts available to see which colours are being added or taken away…
I’m sad to see some of the pinks, purples, and greens go (many of the inks and papers used in the cards above are on the chopping block!) but am keen to see the new colours Early Espresso and Cherry Cobbler. And I’m thrilled that they are adding Pirouette Pink and Riding Hood Red to the collection because I’m almost out of those two papers that I’d bought a full pack each of!
Who knew that colour changes could bring on such a mixed bag of emotions?
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