Family pages

This page was so much fun! I wanted to sew fabric butterflies that I cut out with my Big Shot onto fabric and use it for a page. The butterflies are made out of some fabric by Amy Butler. When I saw this picture of me as a baby with my grandpa I thought it would be perfect for what I wanted to do for this page. It's a soft picture. The quality isn't the greatest, but it works for me.

I actually used the sewing machine for fabric! Whoohoo! I had the speed set at the lowest turtle and I slowly sewed around these butterflies.

And I was SO excited to see that rub-ons will stick to the fabric. *cheering* 'Grandpa' is some rub-ons from a Making Memories (I think) pack of rub-ons I recently purchased from our local scrapbook store. They were too cute to pass up! They have bunnies, chicks, and spring colors! I think I'll have to do an Easter page with childhood pictures soon.

This was the page I mentioned before that I had ready for pictures, but I hadn't found the perfect pictures for it yet. This was another page inspired by Elizabeth Kartchner, but again, it doesn't look anything like it. Sometimes I just have to have an idea to spark creativity. Those felt letters gave me a hard time again, but I really do like them! The 'M' is distorted a bit. Oops!

Frame

I enjoy changing the decoration in this frame each season. I'm not sure what I'll do with the recent decorations I've had in them, but maybe they'll end up in a scrapbook page. This time I decided to do butterflies since that seems to be a trend for me right now. I'm really enjoying that Stampin' Up! butterfly die for the Big Shot. The brads are from Basic Grey's Urban Prairie set.

Birthday girl!

This picture makes me laugh. It was taken today on behalf of Shadow's 5th birthday! Doesn't she look happy? She looks like she wants to sing that song that goes, "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to." Or maybe it would be, "It's my party, and I'll be mad if I want to." She does NOT like the camera. She would probably say she hates it. Poor kitty! I have purple plans for this picture. *wink*

Thank you

This was another page inspired by Elizabeth Kartchner. I think I'm drawn to the colors she uses on her pages. There is always yellow, pink, turquoise, and other yummy colors. The page that inspired me is found on page 99 of the May 2009 Creating Keepsakes magazine.

There's journaling on this page, but it was too personal to share on the web.

This page was actually a bit frustrating. I realize that I'm not the greatest sewer/seamstress (whatever they are called) in the world, but wow...you want to see a girl get frustrated? Just come over and watch me sew! Hahaha! The fabric was bunching up on me and it wasn't looking pretty. So I had to change things up a bit and use more paper to sew than fabric.

Speaking of which...I saw this idea for a wall hanging quilt that I'm tempted to make that I found in a Creating Keepsakes magazine. It wasn't the topic of the article or the picture that I saw, but I noticed it. Ha! It's one of those quilts that doesn't look perfect. It's rather sloppy looking (ok, not 'sloppy', but like the pieces aren't 'perfect'--you know what I mean?) Maybe I will talk more on that later...

Fantastic Three--Thursday Page 1

I printed these pictures with another page I had in mind. See, I have this other page I have prepared and ready to put some pictures on, but I haven't found the right pictures for it yet. These pictures were hard because of the stripes on the shirts (for some reason it was a challenge), so I decided to invite more stripes to the page and really make things complicated. Ha! I think it worked out well. I'm trying to use up some of my favorite traditional paper so I can make room for some more I just purchased.


The word 'fantastic' is a rub-on, as well as a bunch of the flowers. They are from a rub-on booklet by Basic Grey called Offbeat. I love this cheerful and colorful set! I have the buttons and some of the paper, too. In fact, the striped paper right behind the pictures is one of the Offbeat papers. I never know what to put for titles, so when I saw the 'fantastic' in the booklet I thought, "Hmmm, fantastic three!" I know that it's usually 'fantastic four', but why not? Ha! And I really liked having my own handwriting on this page. I can do that on digital pages too, but I just have to practice my handwriting a bit more. Oh, see that orange paper? I think I bought like 6 sheets of that altogether--it's still a favorite!

I love the felt letters for the 'Three', but they don't like to lay right, so I had to make them behave. Ha!

Thursday Page 2

I thought I would do some traditional scrapbooking today. I've been meaning to. I know for some people when the sun comes out they want to go outside and play in a garden or something...but when the sun comes out I like to create (plus I have no interest in gardening). Sure I spend time outside...and I have plans for that today, too! But in the meantime, this is what I did...


This page was inspired by a page Elizabeth Kartchner created. It's in an older Creating Keepsakes magazine (2008) and I'm way too lazy to go look it up right now. My page doesn't look anything like it, except for the blue and the 'makes me happy'. The orange letters are from Yellow Bicycle, and I believe they are supposed to be 'Halloween', but they don't look like Halloween letters except that they are orange.

Oops...I was going to post another page here, but the wrong pics came up and I already did all of that journaling above, so I'll just post it above.

There's a Tigger in the loft!

Every once in awhile Tigger comes to visit me in the loft when I'm working. Tonight he decided to lay on the table next to my sewing machine.


"I hear you."

"Yes? What do you want? Can't you see I'm trying to sleep?"

"I hear something!"

"Hello!"

Cards

I've been wanting to post pictures of these cards, but I kept on forgetting. Oops!


This was a card we made at the stamping workshop this last weekend. I'm still amazed that purple is coming back into my life. Ha!

This was the other card we made. I guess I was also in a butterfly mood. Both cards are using the new Great Friends set from the mini catalog. It's becoming one of my favorite sets.

Each month for my club members I give them a color challenge and technique. This was the color combination for this month. The technique was masking, which I did with the leaves behind the butterfly.

Tangle Lakes

I'm having so much fun scrapbooking our Alaskan vacation from last year! I'm really enjoying the pictures. Today I was thinking about how beautiful it was on our trip. We had gorgeous weather! Sure, it wasn't 80 degrees or anything like that, but it was sunny most of the time. I am SO thankful for the bright orange tents we both had. I know this might sound funny, but sometimes we pick clothes (colors)just so they will be fun for me to scrapbook. Quent bought a new rain jacket last year and he picked a bright green one with my scrapbooking in mind. What a guy! We don't always wear certain colors with scrapbooking in mind, but it's neat when it does happen that way. We just laugh about it now.

The 'tangle' letters are from a FREE digital kit by Shabby Princess. Check it out!

Rainbows

I was inspired by this page Ali Edwards created. It's a simple design. I like how the pictures get the spotlight. I liked the clear pocket Ali had on her page. When I saw it I thought, "I can make that!" So I made it digitally. How fun!

For the pocket I created a square shape using my marquee tool. I created a new layer and then filled it with white. Then I lowered the opacity. I'm not sure what percentage it went to, but maybe like at least 20%. Then I used a stitching brush and made the stitches around the 3 sides of my pocket. I put the tag and journaling behind the pocket.

Sharing

Tonight when I was searching on the internet, I found a website and book that excited me. In this blog I have talked about being 'true to your style' and BEing yourself. I see so many women who don't like themselves because they don't feel good enough. I see so many comparing themselves with others. I'm guilty of that, too. One area I see others (and myself) struggle with is with body image. We were all created with different body types and sizes, but we are constantly bombarded with images that *could* make us feel bad about ourselves or thinking we have to look a certain way.

I wanted to share what I found with you tonight. It has nothing really to do with scrapbooking or stamping, but encouragement to BE yourself and to BE thankful for who God has made you to be...no matter your size/weight/etc. Oh, and I have to add that the website design is pretty cool...so maybe that fits in with the scrapbooking/stamping. Ha!

Wonderfully Made
Heal book
Heal Journey

Friday Pages

This was a page I created digitally that was inspired by the page below, which is in the May 2009 Creating Keepsakes magazine. It was created by Elizabeth Kartchner. I really like these colors together. It was fun creating it digitally, but I think I like the page so much that I might have to purchase the supplies for it and create it again traditionally.

I had fun with this page! It's busy, but I like it!

Thursday pages

I was stuck on this page for awhile, so I just left it and came back to it later. Originally the photos were in their color version on this page, but once I changed the background paper from yellow to teal, I decided they would look better black and white. The flowers are called foxgloves, which I got for free a long time ago from a Scrap Girls newsletter. I thought it was cool because we have a lot of foxgloves in Alaska, so it was perfect for an Alaskan page! I love how all of the colors go together on this page. Oh, and the font for 'Wonder Lake' is called Oklahoma. I was watching the movie 'Oklahoma' a few days ago and I thought the font for the movie title was really cool, so I searched for it online. I think I got it from http://www.dafont.com/, which has free fonts.

This was another page I started and took a break from. I think it was during the creative drought. I had the brown wood paper and the picture, and then I stopped. I LOVE how this page came together! I turned the vibrance up to 100% for the picture. I think it looked that cool (and even better) in real life!!

Wonder

I started this page a couple of days ago. It's an all digital page. I love the colors on this page. It was inspired by a page Rhonna Farrer did that's displayed on Two Peas. I'm too lazy to go look up the link right now. One thing I love about digital is that you can basically take any idea and make your own. You can use any color and you can create your own embellishments. Like for the turquoise frames, it was an embellishment from Little Dreamer and I just made it thicker and colored it by creating a "stroke". I love the possibilities digital has to offer!

Spring has sprung!

Designer Digitals is having their 4th year birthday celebration and they have a contest to go along with it. The other day I thought of doing the contest, but I never did anything with it. With some inspiration from Carrie, I decided I would give it a try. The page has to have one or both of the 25-cent items they had for sale on Saturday/Sunday. The butterfly rub-on was one of the items.

Hello!

Check it out!!! Isn't it awesome! It will be powder-coated soon!!

My dad is doing an awesome job! He builds custom-made bikes. When I was at his house he measured me so this bike would fit me perfectly. If you are interested, check out his website...or just look for fun! He has also been updating his blog with the progress of the bike.

Dance

Somewhere in time last night the creative juices started flowing again. Of course I also had some help from an idea that I saw. It's a busy page...



This is the first draft with the photos in color.

This is the edited version, with black and white photos and no red fonts. This is the version I'll probably have printed.

Pencil Lines #130

Today was not a good day for digital creativity...not good at all. I started and deleted so many times. It was crazy! It was like I was in a creative mood without creative juices. (Maybe that's like wanting to drive a car but it's on 'empty'??) Today I downloaded the latest Pencil Lines template and played around with it (there was a lot of deleting going on there, too). I finally had enough of not being creative and turned to some digital background paper I knew would perk things up. I really like Rhonna Farrer's Camping digital kit from Two Peas. It's bright, colorful, and fun!



Yes, this a page about ice skating...but it's probably hard to tell with the wood border, the bird, and the flowers, huh? Sometimes I just do away with "tradition" and skip the whole 'it has to be ice-skates and snowflakes embellishing the page'. Haha! Actually, I'm SOOOOOOOO tired of snow/winter pictures and embellishments that I'm rebelling against it all and just using flowers, butterflies, and everything non-winter. *smile*

Beaded Flowers

Aren't these so cool! It was a SWEET surprise in the mail today from my friend Carrie. She made 'em!