Postcard Pefect Cruising

May is National Scrapbooking month and CTMH has a paper set just for May!
Postcard Perfect papers are good for Hawaii, Florida and beach trips.  This is a cruise layout I did, with Postcard Perfect and You are Here.

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Dino-mite birthday!

I love cute stamps!  How about this hostess exclusive in the new seasonal catalog?

I tried the water colors and it made the dino look colored by a kid - which is kind of cool.  But I did like the marker coloring better.  I used masking to get all the balloons and the back ground behind the dancing dinos.  I used two different markers for shading on each dino - a green set, a yellow set and a blue set, pictured here.

2018 Week 19

When I saw the CTMH May stamp of the month, this layout came into my head.  I've got some old supplies and some new ones in here, but you can use any stamp set you have that works for you - for your captured in a jar things.

I used regular black ink on the photos.  Don't smash too hard or the stamp slides and you get a smeared jar.  I let the ink dry overnight.  I tested the ink on the edges of some of the photos (stamped on the scraps) so I could test when it was dry and not take a chance on smudging my main pictures.

The blank jar could be used for journaling, but in my case, these are just a bunch of random leftover photos after I had scrapped the events.  I am going to stamp the sentiment "More precious than rubies" from the Inspired Words stamp set - I just haven't gotten it in yet.

June Bells & Whistles

It's graduation season and vacation season and beach season and what am I inspired to create?
A pumpkin patch page!
Go figure.

I had fun creating this one, but it took me several days and several different trys!  I played with my new Cricut Air and the welding technique.
The title has a shadow and it's welded together.  You glue the letter down, then have just two pieces to put on your page.
The pumpkins are several layers: a fern background (welded as your base), a tangerine pumpkin, edged in sunset ink, then stamped with a design in sunset ink, then another detail layer in goldrush.
The pumpkins are from You are Here.  I grabbed the vine behind it off Cricut space, because I was travelling when I built the bottom border and don't have all my cartridges loaded yet.
The wagon is from Flower Market, cut at 4 1/2 ".  It has a little shading and stamping on it as well. The base layer is actually silver foil paper, so the center of the wheels are silver, even though they just look brown here.

If you order a kit from me, but are unable to attend the workshop, many times I will do the stamping for you.  This will not be one of those kits, because the stamps are not specific to the layout.  Just use any swirly, word, or detail stamp in your collection!

The middle section was designed to hold 8 horizontal pictures.  I figured most pumpkin patch pictures are horizontal, but when I went back through mine I found some of both.  Being open, the design allows for almost anything you want to do with your photos. The wagon does cut off some of the picture behind it, so your kit will include a B&T 4"x"6 to go there.
Here are a few samples of  how you can lay your pictures out.  The kit does not include white mats - I printed these pictures at home and that's just how they print out.

 

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2018 Week 18

While I do have a few recent photos that I need to get developed, I'm digging into my old album, and scrapping the photos I took before I started scrapping back in 2003.  Here's Hurricane trying to fly off the couch with kite wings - so cute!

This is a CTMH layout that only had spaces for a few photos.  Most of my personally designed pages hold many more photos - but I just had these three and this pre-done page worked just perfectly.

2018 Week 17

 

The last of April was a FETCH weekend. Even with all the activity of hosting the event, I still get to scrap some.  This is my final layout for the 2017 Convention - which is good, because the next one is in 46 days!

For this layout I used some retired paper named Urban.  Not only was this the last of my convention photos, it was the last of this paper pack as well.

 

I used the You are Here cartridge for this layout.  The bottom border is neat, in that it automatically offsets the layers, so you have this cityscape with some depth - just choose two different papers when you go to cut it.  I used fit to length 6" for this, and used two sets on the bottom of each page. 

 

 

 

I also cut some smaller pieces as matching embellishments (the compass and map). 2" (maybe?).

Frame It! Summer 2018

Frame It workshop is this Saturday at Piper & Leaf Strong Station (Hwy 72). Thanks Sherry - for reminding me to post this!  You can pay for the Frame It! workshop here. Frame It - Summer 2018

Layout only $10.00 USD Layout and Frame $25.00 USD Layout only and I'm bringing a friend $20.00 USD Layout & Frame and I'm bringing a friend $50.00 USD

Picture to be added!