Card Inspiration Scrapping

This was a fun project. I really liked the card design and thought it would make a cool

   layout for a scrapbook page. I know . . . . me, a scrapbook page? Surprise! I have so many pictures, if I was to scrap them all, I wouldn't have enough walls for the bookshelves necessary to hold them all. Anyway, this color and stamp set just reminded me of my little flutterby, Karah. Wasn't she a pretty baby? She looks exactly

like her mama did. All materials Stampin'UP!                     

Goodbye warm weather

This is some departure from the fall inspired things I have been doing lately. I had this series of photos from my grandson's ocean adventure and decided to go outside my comfort zone and scrapbook them. I used all SU papers and the Inspired by Nature grasses. The bottom of the blue page is sponged with faux tearing technique to get the layered "water look". Then I really did tear it and slip in a torn and sponged piece of caramel. The grass is stamped in caramel and celery.

The best, forgotten

I finally spent some time cleaning up the computer and I stumbled upon these photos that didn't make it into the bragbook posts. How could I have forgotten some of the best ones?

Oh well, better late than never.

This first one is the detail shot of the angelface page. I received many compliments on this (TY), as well as questions on how it was done. It was really simple. I cut a small piece of vellum and placed it over the cut photo. I very lightly sketched wings and halo size with a pencil. I sketched it slightly larger than needed so I could cut inside the pencil lines. Then I used a Versamarker (handy tool!) and drew inside the pencil marks. I embossed using SU Iridescent EP. Cut away on the pencil lines and glued on. DONE.

The page on the left was fun! I used a picture of the fireworks by DH, then cut out the photos of the baby in her 4th outfit. It is hard to see here but babies are popped up. The bottom one looks like she is sitting on the ribbon.

The photo on the right is my favorite one. These two just adore each other . . . right now. She is beginning to crawl. We'll see how long it takes for big brother to protest his pesky little sister.

Recipe: SU ink, markers, papers: Navy, real red,

WW. Burgundy paper retired Christmas collection, Ribbon: from the dollar store

Stamp: Stars from PTI, Mailbox Greetings

These pages are very simple. I used Versa on the purple with the SU One of a Kind set. I used the Punch that matches the set to make the little accent flowers. The Pink page was the back of one of the other pages in the book. It is from KC& Company, in a tablet called Smitten.

Hopefully tomorrow I will get to post all the fun things I have been doing the last few days.

My best friend and I pulled one of our marathon stamp sessions. We had to quickly get this in as we will be spending our time getting our classrooms ready for the rest of August. Evenings that end at 2A.M. and mornings that begin with breakfast and coffee out are the norm. As we wind down on the last day we usually stamp with our Margaritas. :-p Anybody know of a cute stamp with a margarita glass?

Have a great evening.

Scrapbook installation 2

Well, it is taking at least one day to do each child. I'm a SLOW scrapper with lots of other chores to do in between.

Grand child 2. He is some kind of a character and that makes it so much fun to scrap him! He has the most expressive face, as you can see on the angel page. That was fun to do. I'm not sure it shows but I used vellum to make the wings and halo then embossed them using iridescent EP (SU!).  

All of the papers used for his pages are SU! papers with the exception  of the dots and the little stripes on the next page. These are little pieces I had in my stash (mountain) of scraps. 

I love the shot of him sitting in his shorts. He is SO fair. This was on his third birthday. It was very hot and we had gelled the poor kid's hair! What a sport. It was supposed to be more of a mohawk, but became a mass of curls!

 Notice the leap picture? He's playing Buzz Lightyear. Fine. . . as long as the coffee table is the only thing he is leaping off!

The book is done and delivered to the great-grandparents. I'll post the last pages of the new baby tomorrow. 

Have a wonderful evening.

Great grandma's brag book

Well, here are a  few of the pages I did of the first grandchild. She's quite the girl. She loves to play with her dad,  no matter what it is. They came home yesterday so covered in mud the only things on their faces I could see from a distance were their smiles! I didn't have much room on the 6x6 page for some kind of an accent. What do you use for this kind of sport? I really had nothing. When all else fails . . . draw it!! I figured the flags must be used somewhere, right?

 
This is Emily's work. We took her to her first balloon festival. She was using her grandfather's new camera to take these shots. It really takes some great pictures. He's a trusting soul letting an 8 year old walk around with an expensive piece of equipment.  She has always had a great eye. We may have a budding photographer!

Here she is! Looking very girly. I love the picture of her reading to the baby. It's NEVER too early to read to children!

Tomorrow I have to do the pages for the other 2 kiddos.

Have a great night.

Happy Fourth

I know it isn't here yet, but with a house full of grandkids I have to take advantage of nap time to post. This first photo is of a set of cards made without layers. They were inspired by a stamper on SCS called waterdhild12. I needed a gift fast so it had to be simple. Did a quick reverse mask, stamped the flowers and sponged the background. A little free hand doodle frame with an ultra thin black pen and it was done. Funny . . . the recipient liked them better than the fancy ones I had mad for her previously.

Here is my little firecracker. She is 8 now and going on 18. 

Why do they have to grow up so fast. This is one of my favorite memories of her. The page is a 6x6 size. I struggle with this size. I guess because I always want to put too much on it. 

 I'll try to post from my daughter's house. We will be  having a mini stamp camp with my youngest sister, daughter and self. I guess I should include the little ones in there too!

Have a safe and happy Fourth.

Just had to share this! Yes, his eyes are really that color! And don't you know that he has his grandma wrapped around his little finger? I can't take the credit for this. My daughter did all the work. I just like to show him off.  He's such a ham for the camera and all little devil!!

Scrapbook Beauty

How time flies! I was looking at my limited scrap booking and couldn't believe how my little Emily has grown. She's 7 now and not fond of having her picture taken. But I manage. Now that there are 3 beautiful "grands" I think I'll spend some time, once school is out, getting a few more pages done. I really should do a few BOOKS with the number of pictures I have accumulated! Ah, the joys and pitfalls of having a digital camera.