Wild about Legos

Lots of fun stuff in this layout.  I used Studio J to get my smaller pictures for the details of the Lego displays at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens.  I wanted a reminder of the event, but not necessarily a 4X6 of every one.

 

 

Zoe papers and assortment
Love Life stamp set
Spray pen

"Today" is from the stamp sets that come with the Artistry cartridge.

Studio J

Studio J was my new revelation at convention this year.  Close to My Heart kit pages include mats for pictures of unusual sizes - 6X6, 2X3, 1X1.  In most of my pictures, my subject takes up the whole 4X6 - it's hard to cut it down to fit these smaller sizes.  And I have to remember to get the larger photos printed, once I decide what I want to go on in the mat.

With Studio J, I can open a double layout, add pictures of whatever size I want, keep adding them in any way and have exactly what I need.  I just cut them apart when the pages come in.

This particular double layout has photos I need for 6 different double layouts.  The cost is $7 for a double layout (plus tax). 
Two catches -
1) you have to order a minimum of 4 DLO's. The layouts will be deleted after 90 days of no attention.  As long as you keep working on and adding your photos to the pages, all is well.  Prints are not available in an hour, and it might take you a while to collect all the photos you need for a minimum order.
2) shipping is $5.95 - from 4 DLO's to 50.  So freight is somewhere between $1.50 and $.12 a DLO.

Instead of just printing everything I think I might want to scrap, I can print only what I need. I have boxes (3 full ones, working on box 4) full of photos I've printed and not scrapped.  4X6's that I went back and paid $3 for a 5X7.  Extra wallet photos because I only needed a 2X3 but had to pay $2 and get 2 copies to get the size I wanted.  I can't say I won't still have a little of this, but the rate at which I fill up my extra boxes should take me a lot longer now.

4X6 can still be printed at your local drug store for cheaper if  you are purchasing them in bulk.  Another thing to note - Studio J prints are processed - not ink printed on photo paper (like the drugstores).

And that is my favorite thing I learned at convention this year, from my roomie Teresa.

August Card Class

The August card class is Thursday, August 27th, 5:30pm until 7:30pm.  For $5, you'll make these three cards.  Card class is free if you decide to purchase the featured stamp set, Someone Special, for $13.95 plus tax and shipping.
Class has 10 spaces, please RSVP!

On white rectangle, stamp base layer of flowers in canary, then top layer in honey or goldrush.  Using a mask, stamp leaves in sweet leaf.  Then cut white paper into squares 1 1/2" by 1 1/2",  green rectangle into squares 1 5/8"X 1 5/8".  Mat the white on the sweet leaf squares, then position and tape the matted squares to the hounds tooth paper, popping up one of the squares with foam tape. Dovetail and attach strip on the inside. Adhere to card base, then apply Stickles.

Use scallop punch on the border. Line the bottom of the border up with the long side of the base.  Place a row of tape at the top of the border and close the base.  This will adhere the border to the front of the card, making both sides the same.  Stamp words in Slate, then base blossom in pixie, top layer in sorbet.  Using sponges, distress edges with pixie and sorbet.  Adhere white layer to sorbet paper, then to base.  Apply stickles.

Place butterfly cutout over white rectangle, dot side up.  Use a little tape on the edges to keep the mask from shifting.  Stamp the little blossom (detail layer) over the mask with glacier ink - covering all the white spaces.  Overlapping is fine.  Remove mask, and cut out the largest butterfly, rounding edges to give you a full butterfly.  Stamp the words in the white spaces. Tape stamped layer to glacier paper to card stock. Adhere butterfly with foam tape.  Using liquid glass, put the twine on for antenna.  Dovetail and attach strip on the inside.