Never, never, never :) I was thinking about making my Christmas cards and felt overwhelmed at the thought of so many to make. I decided to try a couple of renditions before going to my workshop and working. Here are a couple I came up with to make. Now which one will it be...maybe neither :) But hey, maybe I'll let you guys decide for me.
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I hope you guys don't get tired of seeing my scrap pages of the grandchildren. There will be many more to come because I am in the process of creating each one of them a scrapbook of themselves. This is a page for Emily...
She's 15 so you can believe the title of this one :) Love you Emi!!!
Kennedy started out her cheer season with a bang! First stunt, trip to the emergency room, pulled tendon, out for 6 weeks. I should have taken pictures when the doctor told her she couldn't do any stunting for 6 weeks. Her team is preparing for competition and she is a base (she lifts one of the other girls). What did the doc say about lifting? Oh well, hopefully there will be more cheering pics to come.
I love creating my own backgrounds using My Digital Studio. I also created the background for the baseball page I did of my grandson, Drew, below. It is so easy to customize your backgrounds using this program. I used a photo I had taken while at the Louisville Zoo of a couple of giraffes. After I uploaded the pic to my MDS, I reduced the opacity to 50%. It really is that simple. Here is the finished product.
I loved doing this page because I absolutely love the photo of my daughter and granddaughter. This was taken at my Dad's 93rd birthday/reunion. Has to be one of my favorites...perhaps because of its simplicity.
But, being the anal retentive person that I am...I had to redo it to my satisfaction. I guess I will leave it alone now with my realignments :)
Oops, no, still don't like it. I'm so glad that I can make these changes so simply and so quickly. Once I am satisfied (will I ever be) I will have it printed and then add 3-D embellishments (hybrid scrapbooking). Here is my last, I promise, version.
Let me know which one you like best.
This is our 4th year and hopefully we will have many more celebrations. Our family gets bigger every year and this year was no exception. If we ever invite the extended family to one of these I'll have to get a professional photographer to get us all in to one shot. Just herding everyone into this picture was some feat. Still, we had a great time and it is so wonderful to have everyone together again.
For some reason, this was really a challenge for me. I dunno why, just was.
I thought I posted this along with the page with my grandson's baseball page. Not sure so here it is again. My little glamour girl, now 8 1/2, Madie.
I was cleaning out my old digital photos to lessen the load on my computer and came across some older photos that I didn't scrap. Why? Too busy I guess. Anyway, the next two posts are the two I've done so far.
This is my grandson when he was in high school (he's now getting ready to graduate college :( ) I made the background paper using another photo.
Yeah, I can't scrap my cats without scrapping my favorite pet, my dog Bailey. Bailey has come through a very hard year and at 10 years of age we thought we were going to lose him. He went from 110 lbs. to 87.5 in a year. I'm not sure why he is suddenly doing better but I pray it continues for a lot more years :)
Here's my big guy with my other big guy...
Here we go with another challenge. This time the challenge was to use 1 picture, 3 brads, 3 punches, 3 Designer Papers, 2 colors of cardstock, 2 stamp sets, and a title using one of the 2 stamp sets. Whew! Didn't spend too much time on this one or I think I could have done a better job with the colors. Anyway, here it is...
After looking at it I decided to change it up and add pics of my other 2 kitties. I like this better even if I'm not crazy about the colors.
Thanks for stopping by :) Katherine
I felt sort of sad as I started scrapping these pics from the past couple of years of Drew's baseball at the University of Transylvania. He is now a senior and this will be his last year of baseball. I have followed his play from t-ball at 4 years of age through b-ball at the age of 21. Where has the time gone :( I can still remember my mom having t-shirts made with Drew's t-ball #10 on the back with his name. She had them made for me, his mom, and herself and we wore them to all of his games. She followed him too as he played through little league. She only stopped when she was called home to be with our Lord in January of 1999. I like to think she continues to follow us all.
Catching up with my scrapbooking is so much fun. I was working on my "It's All About Me" pages but it's so much more fun to scrap my grandbabies. Well, they are not much babies in the physical sense but they will always be my "babies."
I was so proud of my sweet Emi during her high school freshmen team tournament. She played well, scoring lots of points and helping make points on most plays. In this tournament they won the gold and it was Emi's final spike that won it. I love watching my #10 play...
I wanted to keep posting as I add pages to my, "It's All About Me" scrapbook. It's a slow work in progress but I am determined to keep at it. This was the last of the pages, bad I know, but will get back to work on it soon, I hope.
...and, of course, pink and black are my favorite colors for a season :)
An Update: It's a winner! That's right, I won the challenge and a prize of digital add-ons for my MDS. Wow, was I shocked. It's very motivating and I've been scrappin' daily since...
As a working demonstrator, I never found enough time to participate in creative challenges. In this case it was a design challenge, a black and white placement layout. You get to choose papers, inks, embellishments, and of course, your photos. I'm pretty sure this won't win anything because there are so many talented ladies involved, but I had fun doing it and it has inspired me to start scrapping again. Here is the challenge and my entry.
Constructive criticism welcome :)
March will bring a continuation of the Glitter Girls, It's All About Me..., scrapbook pages.
This month we'll be doing our family tree...Growing Up...We spend so much time scrapping our kids, grandkids, and other family members we forget that we are important to our family history too.
Won't it be nice for our great-grandchildren to know something more about us than just what we looked like?
I made this cute twist box too... this was a little tricky but now that I have the hang of it making more should be easy.
I couldn't stop at cards and gifts this Halloween. Where would I put all of those cute pictures of my little grandgoblins? This was so much fun to make.
Front Cover When you first open Fully Open Inside front/back of album
Now, I just have to catch my goblins on the 31st long enough to snap some pictures for my album and it's ready to go. I may have to make some more of these for Christmas, maybe one for each of my lovelies.
Aren't these so much fun? One of my favorite Halloween stamp sets is Batty for You. These are just too easy to make and, as you can see, I made a bunch for swaps and gifts.
I love Halloween. I've been having a blast making card, albums, and gifts. Here are the cards.
I hadn't made a card for a while so I thought I'd start simply with this one. I made this card using Stampin' Up's Pumpkin Patch stamp set and Cast-a-Spell Designer Series Papers. It's so much cuter in person.
I couldn't resist using the Sweet Treat Cups. I used the Cast-a-Spell Designer Series Papers and Spooky Treats Rub-ons.
Here I used the Halloween Hoot stamp set (I love this cute little frog) and Cast-a-Spell Designer Series Papers. And, I wanted to make a halloween card for the older guys in my life. I came up with this...
I'm still going. I have lots of family that think Halloween is a Hoot...
We continue to scrap It's all about me pages in October. Here I show my "first" family tree (before kids).
We'll continue with It's all about me with "it's what I'm made of" as our next pages. I love my Cricut :)
It's never hard to find a good subject to scrap. I love my family and my grandchildren are never overlooked when it comes to my scrapbook pages. With all these great scrapbooks about their lives, they will have plenty of memories to share with their children and grandchildren some day. But, what will they say about me...
that's why I decided it was finally time to do a scrapbook about myself. In fact, my scrapbooking clubs are joining me on this venture and we are going to tell the story about us, or "me."
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*all designs are by me, except where noted and all images are Stampin' Up! except where noted*
This page was June's scrapbook page. I love this stamp set and wheel. I rolled the background with the Symphony jumbo wheel in Creamy Caramel on Creamy Caramel cardstock. I used Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery and Creamy Caramel cardstock for this page.
I want to give credit to my paperfriend, Norma, for adding the paper under the buttons. I had originally left that off of my page but it looked so good on hers that I had to add it to mine :) Thanks Norma!
*All designs are by me, except when noted and all images are Stampin' Up!, except when noted*
You may be wondering where the heck I've been lately. Well, lots of different things have been happening in the life of this PaperFriend. My Dad was ill for a long time but seems to be doing much better these days. Praise the Lord! Of course, I've also been watching grandchildren and helping my husband with ESP (Engineering Summer Program), a camp for students going into their senior year of high school. Anyway, I'm spending what little extra time making fun stuff and holding classes when I can. The end of this month should bring an end to all the running and I will be back in my workshop more often.
One of the juicy fun things about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is that we get first dibs at the new product being introduced in the upcoming catalogs. I'm just absolutely loving the new In Colors and stamp sets I pre-ordered. I thought I'd share them with you today.
The first one is all new. The yummy color on this card is Rich Razzleberry and the designer paper is from the Razzleberry Lemonade collection. Ooh, and isn't that cute new matching polka dot ribbon. Cute!
The second card also uses paper from the Razzleberry Lemonade collection. The In Colors are Melon Mango and Crushed Curry (papers and inks). I used one of my favorite current stamps sets (Cheap Talk) for my image. I love it, I love it, I love it! And, oooh, there's that new matching polka dot ribbon again. Wheeee!
Oh bummer, Bella Rose is gone. I missed my chance to order some more of my favorite Designer Series Paper :( but here is a sample of a card I made with what I had on hand. (This was my swap for the month of June).
As promised, here are the March club projects. The ladies often leave the embellishment of their scrapbook page until later. The consensus is that it would be helpful to see pics of the finished project here so that they can complete the project from home. So, here, along with the 2 other projects for March clubs, is the finished scrapbook page.
I loved using my Sizzix Big Shot to make the daisies, polka dots, and vines. Yes, I have the Cricut Impressions and earlier version of the Cricut, but I have to say that I am enjoying this even more. You'll be seeing a lot of projects where I will be utilizing my Big Shot.
The colors don't look right here. I used Glorious Green and Green Galore but it looks like I used blues. And, yes, I did use the Stampin' Up! Top Note Sizzix Die to make the topper. The funny thing about this project is that, just before last Saturday's class, my dog, Bailey, helped himself to 6 bags of the chocolate coins. (Relax animal lovers, the Vet tells me that all milk chocolate will do is make a 110 lb. Yellow Lab have the "messy business," it's the dark chocolates or baking chocolates that kill). Anyway, he had an accomplice in the theft, my cat, Noodles, likes to knock things off tables and counters so Bailey can reach it. Who knows, maybe Noodles heard that chocolate kills dogs. Talk about a cat with attitude. Here's a pic of him...doesn't he look like he would be trying to knock the big boy off?
And here, is the last of the March club projects, just in time for Easter. I actually copied the card straight from the SU! catalog. But, after last Saturday, I just couldn't take the booblahs of the first rendition so I added some bling. I stamped the background, added some stickles to the egg, white polka dots to the green circle and scalloped edge of the card, and then added 3 Dew Drops to the blue strip. Oh how I wish SU! would sell Dew Drops!
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