I made this layout using a pattern from Imagine, one of Close to My Heart's books, and pictures I took of my daughter last year at around this time. It takes me back to when it was just the two of us at home together, short-lived as it was. Once I started working, we didn't have much Mommy-Daughter time. Oh well, that's why I scrapbook these memories. One day she'll know that we had some fun times, just the two of us at home...
The Finally Friday challenge at SPCC is to use flowers, and so here ya have it, a layout with flowered paper and flower stickers. Gotta say, I love this girly Bella paper pack!
Supplies (all CTMH): patterned paper from Bella Level 2 paper packet, Olive and Vanilla Cream cardstock, Exclusive Inks stamp pads in Smokey Plum and Hollyhock, My Stickease from Bella Level 1 paper packet
Other: date stamp, purple pen from Creative Memories, embroidery floss, green and pink ribbon from My Little Shoebox, purple ribbon
Wow, look at all of these beautiful Christmas cards! I'm on a total creative high just looking at the mass of them, and they were very simple to make. If you are interested in getting a whole schwack of cards done in one sitting, then this workshop is for you. The $15 fee includes 25 card bases and envelopes, 3 sheets of B&T Duo paper, 4 sheets of cardstock, and the use of my stamps and inks. Optional upgrades are stamp sets and inks, twinkle brads, and clear sparkles. (I used the twinkle brads and clear sparkles on my cards, and I think they add just the right amount of pizzazz!)
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009
Time: 1 p.m. until whenever we're done!
Place: TBA
You can contact me here or by email if you're interested in coming.
Supplies (all CTMH): White Daisy card bases, Jingle B&T Duos, White Daisy, Tulip, and Juniper cardstock, Exclusive Inks stamp pads in Creme Brulee, Tulip, Juniper, and Olive, Holiday Jingle My Acrylix stamp set, Twinkle Brads, and Clear Sparkles
This workshop was adapted from one by fellow CTMH consultant Amber Hanson, which was further adapted from one by Antoinette Herrin. Thanks, ladies, for your wonderful inspiration!
I made this card using a scrap piece of Kraft cardstock and with the help of Originals, a fantastic card-making resource book from Close to My Heart. It is a 3x3 card, and will probably go to one of my newest customers, but I'm thinking it's looking a little plain... Maybe some buttons or prisma glitter would help liven it up!
This color challenge was to use the colors:
I didn't have anything exactly the same, but I did find this picture that I've been meaning to scrapbook or frame for a really long time. It's a photo from 3 years ago, when we had just moved to Dawson City. The whole family had to travel down to Whitehorse to sign some papers for the purchase of our first house! (I miss that little house so much!) Anyway, we stopped for a snack and short hike at Five Finger Rapids, where the leaves were just vibrant! They perfectly match the Honey cardstock die cut frame and heart I used. My sweater was a harder colour to match, and I had to make my own colour using red and white paint. I would never have thought of using a pale purple with this photo as an accent colour, but I think it gives just the right contrast, so thanks to Scrapmaster's Paradise for coming up with this combo.
I do need to add some more journaling to this layout, because right now there are no details at all. I'm thinking of hiding it somewhere. Anyone else have any suggestions?
Supplies (all CTMH): Colonial White cardstock, Honey die cut frame and heart, chipboard heart, patterned paper from Life Delights level 2 paper packet, Picture Perfect My Acrylix stamp set, liquid glass, prisma glitter
Other: Metallic Bronze embossing powder by Judikins, Versamark ink, red and white acrylic paint by Deco Art
So I used the colors, or as close as I could get to them, from SPCC #17, and I do love how the colors go with these pictures, but that's about the only thing that I do like. Just about everything went wrong with it, too, from cutting the bottom pic too small, to running out of the red patterned paper for my journaling block, then cutting the red strips the wrong size, and writing under the bottom pic in white and deciding I didn't like it and going over it in green... AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH! Is this layout even salvageable? Anybody out there reading this, feel free to offer suggestions, because I am just so frustrated!