17 March 2013
Creating Keepsakes Convention 2011 St. Louis
These pages are all from a Scrapbook Generation kit (I love them!!). This was the first year Heidi and I went to St. Louis for convention. As expected we had a GREAT time. And I'm excited to think that as I type this we are getting ready to go again in just a couple weeks.
Project Life: Weeks 1 through 11
I started Project Life 2013 with the idea that I was going to use what I had on hand. I have a remarkable stash of scrapbooking gear: papers, buttons, ribbon, ink, stamps, embellishments, stickels, glitter, glue, pens, markers, stickers, brads, die cuts...I could go on and one. Anyone who's been in my craft room (i.e. the basement) knows this is a fact. However after a few weeks I realized how hard I was working trying to fit my photos into the spots I had. While I love the Lickety Split 9x12 page protectors (with their flips and what not) I realize they weren't practical for this application. I needed a more uniformed layout. One I could count on every week. So I caved and bought Becky Higgins true Project Life pages and it's been smooth sailing every since. Not to mention my logical, square, clean line eye much prefers the consistent layout.
25 November 2012
Scrapbook Generation: My new favorite site!!!
I came across Scrapbook Generation on Pinterest and quickly fell in love with their style. They have a ton of good ideas and information out there. (Don't click on their link until you can spare a few hours to really dig through their web sites and online store, I'm just saying.) It didn't take me long to place an order with them and sign up for a couple of their monthly kit clubs. I have since completed two of the four kits I initially ordered, you can see those below. That speaks volumes to me. I was a member of Studio Calico for a couple years and I probably have 20 brown paper bags down stairs piled up. Kits I've never used yet. Now I have every intention of using them, I just felt like I had no direction with their kits. SC is a GREAT company and they put together amazing products but I need direction. I'm so happy to have found Scrapbook Generation!
Super Sketch Club
Allison Davis Hall of Fame Page
Super Sketch Club
Random Pages
Just a few random pages I've finished the past few months.
Social Hour Cosmo Cricket. Perfect for Magic Mike night!
Fancy Pants: This was originally a page kit but I threw caution to the wind and used a layout from CTMH instead! Crazy I know! This was me recycling years and years of Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Rubber Stamper, Simple Scrpabooks magazines among other crafty publications. Dan was pissed because we had just moved all these boxes only months earlier, only to now be throwing them out. I tried to explain that i had to get rid of them in my own time, lol!
This was a kit but I'll be darned if I can remember where it came from.
Fancy Pants kit from Embellish It!
Fancy Pants from Embellish It!
Basic Grey kit from Embellish It!
Random supplies I collected at CKC 2012
29 July 2012
scrapbook pages
Here are just a few random pages that I've finished this year.
This one is from a CKC class I took in 2011: Material Girl from CK. I normally would not do this much stitching on a page but I am glad i took the time to finish this layout.
This is one of my favorite layouts. I love the white space and the mixed font stickers. I have every intention of using this layout again.
Embellish It! 2011 Latest & Greatest with Basic Grey
These are from Basic Grey page kits. (purchased from Embellish It! of course)
The black mat on the right page is awaiting a photo that I have to get printed yet.
No explanation needed here....
Echo Park. I know this is from a 2011 class but I can't for the life of me remember which one.
These are pages I created from photos of our very first Creating Keepsakes Convention in Des Moines in 2010. The 2nd layout shows Heidi and Kelly Purkey. It was the first time we got to meet her. I took her Life's Lyrics class in 2010 (i don't quite have that mini album done, but soon i will and you'll be the first to see it!)
We had so much fun while we were in Des Moines that year. Fong's was packed so we sat at the counter by the window. Of course being with Heidi I can always look forward to making new friends. We enjoyed visiting with the guys sitting at the counter with us.
This one is from a CKC class I took in 2011: Material Girl from CK. I normally would not do this much stitching on a page but I am glad i took the time to finish this layout.
This is one of my favorite layouts. I love the white space and the mixed font stickers. I have every intention of using this layout again.
Embellish It! 2011 Latest & Greatest with Basic Grey
These are from Basic Grey page kits. (purchased from Embellish It! of course)
No explanation needed here....
Echo Park. I know this is from a 2011 class but I can't for the life of me remember which one.
These are pages I created from photos of our very first Creating Keepsakes Convention in Des Moines in 2010. The 2nd layout shows Heidi and Kelly Purkey. It was the first time we got to meet her. I took her Life's Lyrics class in 2010 (i don't quite have that mini album done, but soon i will and you'll be the first to see it!)
We had so much fun while we were in Des Moines that year. Fong's was packed so we sat at the counter by the window. Of course being with Heidi I can always look forward to making new friends. We enjoyed visiting with the guys sitting at the counter with us.
Halloween scrapbook pages
I use to love Halloween. I mean, I still love Halloween it's just different now that I'm not planning elaborate costumes every year for the kids.
All the credit for these costumes goes to my friend Steph who put them together for Dan and his 2nd cousin Lily. They got quite a lot of attention as they trick or treated through College Square Mall in 2000.
My friend Bev made Waverly's monarch costume in 2002. She was a beautiful butterfly. Those wings and the tulle skirt were amazing. To say Dan loved his Spiderman costume would be an understatement. I specifically recall a morning a few weeks after Halloween. Dan came downstairs dressed for preschool in pants and a long sleeved shirt and I noticed something sticking out from his collar. He had put on his Spiderman suit underneath his clothes. That memory still makes me laugh.
2003 and 2004 were kind of slow years for us. Nothing too fancy. Waverly was a butterfly again in 2004 but a little more low key. Dan was Harry Potter, scar and all!
It was fun to see them interact as their characters in 2005. They really played it up for me. I made Waverly's costume this year. I believe I finished it about an hour before we headed out to take pictures and leave for trick or treating. (I am the queen of procrastination, especially when it comes to sewing projects.)
I told them I wanted to go traditional with costumes in 2006. Scary was the theme. Of course Wav still had to have a little glam with the feathers and the make up. Dan was the perfect grim reaper. You can see it but his head is shaved bald under his hood!
2007 was the year of the red devil! We went all out with the wig and the eyelashes and the dress. This was probably my all time favorite costume. Dan required a little less prep however I did sew his alien hands which he LOVED! It's hard to see in the pictures but they were made with iridescent, shinny material. He scared many a little kid that year!
Jason Voorhies and a Witch went trick or treating with their friends for the first time in 2008. I was left at home, alone, passing out candy. It was a sad year for me, they were growing up.
2009 was the final year for costumes. We went all out with Dan's ghost costume. I think he would have been happier just wearing a sheet over his head but that wasn't what I had in mind! I loved his makeup and the hair and the spiderweb in his hair. He hated it but he was a trooper and played along. Waverly was a bad fairy. He wings were made of black feathers (honestly they were a little creepy) and the black wig with pig tails were perfect!
All the credit for these costumes goes to my friend Steph who put them together for Dan and his 2nd cousin Lily. They got quite a lot of attention as they trick or treated through College Square Mall in 2000.
My friend Bev made Waverly's monarch costume in 2002. She was a beautiful butterfly. Those wings and the tulle skirt were amazing. To say Dan loved his Spiderman costume would be an understatement. I specifically recall a morning a few weeks after Halloween. Dan came downstairs dressed for preschool in pants and a long sleeved shirt and I noticed something sticking out from his collar. He had put on his Spiderman suit underneath his clothes. That memory still makes me laugh.
2003 and 2004 were kind of slow years for us. Nothing too fancy. Waverly was a butterfly again in 2004 but a little more low key. Dan was Harry Potter, scar and all!
It was fun to see them interact as their characters in 2005. They really played it up for me. I made Waverly's costume this year. I believe I finished it about an hour before we headed out to take pictures and leave for trick or treating. (I am the queen of procrastination, especially when it comes to sewing projects.)
I told them I wanted to go traditional with costumes in 2006. Scary was the theme. Of course Wav still had to have a little glam with the feathers and the make up. Dan was the perfect grim reaper. You can see it but his head is shaved bald under his hood!
2007 was the year of the red devil! We went all out with the wig and the eyelashes and the dress. This was probably my all time favorite costume. Dan required a little less prep however I did sew his alien hands which he LOVED! It's hard to see in the pictures but they were made with iridescent, shinny material. He scared many a little kid that year!
Jason Voorhies and a Witch went trick or treating with their friends for the first time in 2008. I was left at home, alone, passing out candy. It was a sad year for me, they were growing up.
2009 was the final year for costumes. We went all out with Dan's ghost costume. I think he would have been happier just wearing a sheet over his head but that wasn't what I had in mind! I loved his makeup and the hair and the spiderweb in his hair. He hated it but he was a trooper and played along. Waverly was a bad fairy. He wings were made of black feathers (honestly they were a little creepy) and the black wig with pig tails were perfect!
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