Connecticut Scrapbook Page

A sweet photo of my youngest daughter during our trip to Connecticut in summer 2009.  Background paper is by K & Company called Polka Dots on Text Flat Paper, other papers on layouts are coordinating pieces from that line: I layered 5 pieces on the left side in various lengths and widths and even took the brown piece and gave it an accordian fold for a ruffle look, the same way I did with it under the photo.  The flower I made using Tim Holtz' method with his wonderful tissue tape, inked the edges and added a greem gem brad by Recollectdions. I also used a piece of the tissue tape over the top of the photo to "anchor" the "plastic" sticker word: beautiful.  The words "in" and "Connecticut" are sticker letters with text on them - sorry do not remember the brand.

Scrapbook Page with colors I would not have figured go together...

Unfortunately the lighting in the picture did not help to show the strong color of the greens here.  If these two papers had not been in a kit together, I never would have paired them - I guess I am a bit color coordinating challenged..sigh....

I knew the background paper was perfect for the one photo my daughter had of her weekend trip to Chicago, but I wanted a couple more pictures, since she did post the larger photo to Wardrobe-Remix on Flickr, then I was ok with adding a couple others pics that had been loaded there.  So the layout conveys her trip to Chicago but also a few of her wardrobe-remix outfits.  I used my Cricut to create "the windy city" and the CHICAGO border, added some Recollections flowers and pearliscent brads along with Making Memories metal photo turn and brad as well as a metal tag from Tim Holtz line as well as using his wonderful tissue tape to create to create the ruffled edge under the photo, also added a little butterfly that was received in a swap.  Several items are "popped up: using Zots and foam pop dots.

What have you made lately? 

Some Journal-Collage Pages

I am inspired by the assortment of images and texts I see in every single magazine I look at.  I love to combine them for an entirely new perspective and message.  These pages are from a journal I did in a recent swap through SwapBot.com

More tomorrow...

Friday: A PAINTING

Yes - its Friday and it is raining - so glad it is - I've wilted from all the 90 + temps for the past week and this rain is very welcome - I don't need to water now - yippeee! 

VERY HAPPY AND PROUD to share an acrylic painting my oldest daughter, Morgan did for her sister, Kerri .



















Hope everyone's Friday is a good one!

More card creations to share and a SUMMER GOALS LIST...



Yes, more cards to show that Kerri an I made together, three of these are all ideas we saw on You Tube and a Craft magazine. The cupcakes card idea is compliments of butterflykisses12 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orRAK1Zi-Ikhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orRAK1Zi-Ik . Our card is bigger and our cupcakes are were made using the Cricut and instead of a round punch - which I was unable to locate mine - we used a square punch. The little "grunge/rock" boy is from the norsugirl at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLi2oI_84zs (she has some really wonderful ideas and these Greeting Farm stamps are adorable!!!) The word bubble says It's Time and inside the card we put TO ROCK YOUR BIRTHDAY and added a "guitar" that started out as a Tim Holtz grunge board hinge that was inked. He also has cardstock "wings" with gems and is on an embossed and inked card stock that I felt kinda looked like "records" hanging - all that on top of scrapbooking paper. The Grad card was in an idea book, simply "graduation" scrapbook paper w/ the silver mortar boards on it, added letters spelling grad, then the felt butterflies with gems and finally typed out "spread your wings and fly..." The last one was very fast, an embossed and inked piece of card stock with "thank you" in various lanuquages, with gems, on a piece of scrapbooking paper and a few felt flowers added. 

    

      As to my SUMMER GOALS LIST, as inspired by Elsie over at http://www.abeautifulmess.typepad.com/, well here they are:

SUMMER GOALS:

#1  get back to the gym every morning because I definitely NEED it!!

#2 Keep up with my blog!

#3 Work on making journals and more layouts to post onto Etsy.com

#4 Go on more mini 2 day trips - canoeing, hiking, visiting museums, just site seeing in general

#5 Clean out the basement completely!

#6 JOURNAL EVERYTHING EVERYDAY!!

Looking forward to the weekend, The Italian Festival (yes - hubby's side is!) and anothe baseball game as well as a tennis match and grilling out some steaks, yummy! Hope everyone else has nice plans too!

Crafted cards with youngest for school project

My youngest, Kerri had a school MINI SOCIETY project to do in May, just befor school ended.  She had to choose a product to make, keep a taly of what she spent, her time and price it to "sell" at school with "money" the kids all earned the previous month.  Of course she chose CARDS because of all the "goodies" I already have on hand.  These are a few we made: the pink one is just a collection of floral embellishments and stick on gems, with a border added, very easy to make. The purple one is card stock with a piece of scrapbook paper added and flowers cut from the Cricut machine, gems added, a typed message and adorable little memo "tickets" that we inked. The yellow one is cardstock with a sticker flourish added as well as a saying sticker at the bottom, Prima flower added with a brad center and some felt butterflies with gems, the last one we "scrap-lifted" from thestampgoddess on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv1thrMi6H8  she used stamps alot, we did not use any, unstead a Cricut cut cupcake, and mini alphabet stickers and lots of gemstones - had to move it again as the center kept shifting on it.
It was an enjoyable afternoon with my very creative and crafty 10 year old, more to share tomorrow.

My youngest sings the National Anthem for the Reds!

Yes, my youngest, Kerri got to sing the National Anthem with her school's performance group: Oakdale Elementary OVATION, for the Cincinnati Reds on April 29th at 6:50 pm and they did a great job!!  It actually did NOT rain all day after an endless week of it - seems the "rain gods" smiled on the group for their performance - unfortunately the Reds lost to the Marlins 6 -5 but it was a really good game!

Stormy Night, time for journal page

Yes - a LOUD stormy night, felt like the roof was going to cave in there around 3:30 am.  The basement smells "damp" - not good - have fans down there now - but it is still raining at 7:45 am...ugh!

Good news - Kyle won his high school tennis match yesterday as did the entire team! : )

Sharing a RED collage I did for a journal I sent out - it was hard to let go, wanted to keep it in my own journal - but deadlines for swaps being what they are, had to part with it. 



on a background of red tissue paper, then a variety of cut out magazine images

Hope your day is drier and brighter than mine looks to be!



another wet day, with a little sunshine thrown in

Yes, more rain, but not quite as much as the past week has delivered and I've seen a few peeks from the sun.  Hopefully Kyle will get to have his tennis match after school and Kerri will finally get to have her first baseball game of the season - 5 rain outs in a row!! sheesshh!!

I've been playing with ZENTANGLES lately, it can be very addicting.  I find myself doing it while running through sites online or while I'm not so engrossed in a tv show.  Have sent out a few envies that I completely zentangled and have added quite a few zentangle pages to various journals I've done.  Here's a look at a recent envelope I sent out:

If you've never heard of or seen Zentangles before, just Google it, there are some really incredible ones out there!!  Have a good Tuesday.

I'M BACK...2 years and 3 months later that is...

Hard to believe I have been away from this blog for that long.  Things have changed around here, kids growing up so fast.  My oldest son Michael is now married and he is also in the army and deployed to Iraq for a year.  He has a 21 day leave coming up, so can't wait to see him on May 9th!

I am hoping to post a page a day from either my scrapbooking or journaling.  I am starting off with the newest page I did of my oldest daughter, Morgan.  I layered the clock paper over the butterfly paper then heavily embellished with more butterflies (LOVE them!), lots of flowers I put together as well as som "paper rosettes" I created, then thrwe in some pretty pearls and a little bling and threaded some lovely shimmery ribbon bows through it all.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter yesterday and looking forward to a good - drier - week ahead!

Good night!