Happiness Is...

I'm going to Ohio today to visit my younger brother and his wife and HOPEFULLY their new baby! I'm so excited! I'm only there for the weekend so I'm hoping that I will get a glimpse of the little one while I'm there.

This page was using the Dutch Girl line by Cosmo Cricket. The journaling card was from the kit and I think the alphabet stamps for the title are from Technique Tuesday. They are my friend Michelle's or I would go look. I also used some of my die cut blooms from SU! Layered with punched flowers and circles. Oh yeah I also used the scallop edge punch on one of the layers.

Friends

Another quick page for you to look at. I have some pictures of some cards I've made recently but I just need to set aside some time to find the cord so I can upload the pictures from my camera to the computer and watermark them. This last week has been hectic! Last friday I was parked in a parking lot and opened my door to get out and had a lady pull into the space next to me and smash my door in. I've had to go over the story so many times that I really am tired of it but let's just say that she's lucky I was still inside of the car when she zoomed in. Actually she was really nice but her insurance is trying to say it should be partially my fault. How?!?

So onto this cute little page... The bg paper is MME, the white layer was experimentally punched with the scallop edge punch (SU!) and the kraft piece is from a butcher block by 7gypsies (I think) and same with the matte on the picture. The kids are at the zoo here in ABQ. Mine has the dark hair, the other cuties include a friend's kid and my cousin's.

You Swing Like a Girl

These pictures are actually out of context with the quote. Genevieve said that to one of her friends while they were swinging together at the park, but I thought that it would be fun to use with these pictures. Honestly someday I will figure out a better way to photograph 12 x12 pages. It always looks like I don't know how to make straight lines.

I thought it would be fun to incorporate this cute Basic Gray ribbon I had since the chains on the swings looked so similar. The background was brayered basic gray (SU) onto whisper white cs. And I just used various stickers collage style for the title.

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Scrapbook page in under 10 minutes

Another LO I finished a while ago. The BG paper is from Scenic Route, the collage paper is 7 gypsies, the vellum flowers are Cloud 9 design, and the title and journaling cards are from MME.
I cut the large circle the old fashioned way by tracing a plate and essentially finished the project in less than 10 minutes!

Décor Elements Framed Photo

This week I experimented with our line of Décor Elements. I had the idea in mind since I saw Brent Steele make his framed project at convention. I decided to buy a Simply Scrappin' kit -- Summer Home, the small "Happiness" element in chocolate (only $4.95!) and then bought an 11" x 14" float frame at the craft store to assemble it all. The smallest Décor Element is 12.5" in legnth which helped me decide the size of the frame. I used an 8" x 10" family photo and a textured kewi kiss cs 8.5" x 10.5", and the patterend red paper from the kit 9.5" x 11.5". I simply scalloped the bottom edge of the red paper with the scallop edge punch and adhered all the layers together. I used some mini glue dots to attach this to the bottom glass part and then applied some of the card stock stickers from the scrappin kit. Lastly, I applied the Décor Element to the front of the glass. Here is a link to a helpful video that Stampin' Up made for customers who bought this line of product.

Blog thing-- test yourself

If I could type faster that would have helped my time. Please don't ask me to do Europe, I can't keep up with it!

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Flamin' Flowers

Today's scrapbook composition I finally used one of the papers I've been hoarding from G.C.D. Studios. I love their style! Since I only had one sheet of this paper and I love the flower so much I just had to make sure they didn't get covered up. So I decided to use a hobby knife and cut around the images enough to let them lie on top of the layers. Here's a close up.



The other thing that I like to do is combine color photos with black and white. I actually just printed the lower picture with extreme contrast on card stock. The jumbo tag was 7 gypsies (I think) and the rub-on is MME.

I just want to mention also that Allison from Stampin' When I Can is doing some fantastic blog candy for her two year blog-a-versary.