First Day of School Scrapbook Page

Here's scrapbook page for First Day of School for my granddaughter, a new school and new year. She loves it!

 All papers, stickers and embellishments are from Simple Stories Collections Essentials Kit "School Life".   Colors worked so well with Laurens outfit!  

I used a alphabet die set Alphanumeric Bold by Tim Holtz to die cut her name from 3D Foam Craft Sheet with black cardstock on it.  

All directions with step out photos are on Scrapbook Adhesives Blog HERE.

I haven't done a scrapbook page in a long time....this one was fun to put together!

Happy Crafting!

Judy

Seuss Falls Scrapbook Page

Hello blog friends! 

I decided to take a few minutes to post something!  I've got oodles of things to do but this seemed like a good choice for my time right now!!!

This is a scrapbook page I created as a Spellbinders project back in July.  In August, I moved to the Mixed Media DT and haven't done a scrapbook layout since.  I never thought I'd say this but I do miss doing layouts just a little bit!!!  (I should qualify that!  I can still do layouts on the MM DT but it's not a requirement now.)

 

The photos are of my grandson Logan.  Last spring, we visited a Dr. Seuss exhibit in Sioux Falls, SD hence the title "Seuss Falls".  Logan had fun posing next to the bronze statues. 

 

I used several Spellbinders Die D-Lites on this page.  The corner scroll pieces: Corner Flourish; the piece that looks like a sign on the side: Mirror, Mirror; and the small frames layered over the photos and framing the small photo: ATC. 

 

The color combination is what I like best on this page! The red just pops against the blue!   Besides the photos of Logan, of course!

 

You can see this in the Spellbinders Idea Gallery HERE.

Supplies:

• S2-038 Spellbinders Mirror, Mirror
• S2-050 Spellbinders Corner Flourish
• S3-208 Spellbinders ATC
• S5-199 Spellbinders Font One - Lowercase
• S6-009 Spellbinders Font One - Uppercase
• Spellbinders® Grand Calibur® Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
• Graphic 45, Tropical Travelogue Tropical Travelogue Patterned Paper
• My Mind's Eye™, Miss Caroline Collection, Dilly Dally "Celebrate" Tickets Patterned Papers
• WorldWin Papers®, Treasures Cardinal Red Cardstock
• SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L®, ½" Black 3D Foam Squares, E-Z Runner
• Black, White Cardstock; White Craft Glue; Tape Runner
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Thanks for visiting!!! 
Stay tuned for a post on the 20th for sure.  I have a project on the Quietfire Design Blog as a guest designer.  I'll post a sneak peek here and link the their post.

Happy Creating!
Judy

Discovering Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum Scrapbook Page

It's been crunch week for me!  Time to get my February Spellbinders projects finished and submitted.  Much as I work on them all month, it seems to always come down to the last day to finish the last project.  So........no time to create anything special for my blog!  But I do have a scrapbook page to share!
In August, my daughter and I took my grandchildren to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota.  It's not far from my home.  For those who may not know, I'm the postmaster in Walnut Grove so I'm there every week day.  The museum is just a block away from the post office.  As close as it is, I hadn't actually went through the museum until last August! 
The kids loved it. There are lots of hands-on displays.  There are several buildings to explore including a church, school, farm house, dug out and museum. They especially enjoyed the general store with play food, pots, pans, cash register, etc.  There's even a post office in that building!

This is the scrapbook page I created with photos of the kids in the covered wagon. 

I chose Kraft paper for the background because I wanted the page to have an old feel.  There are numerous hexagons cut from Graphic 45 Kraft Reflections paper across the page.  Many of them blend into the page.  Around the hexagons, I stamped the same design as the black floral die cuts.  To do that, I simply cut a piece of sticky back craft foam with Fantastic Flourish One die template.  I stuck the foam die cut to an acrylic block and used it as a stamp! 
The titles under the photos are written on old ledger paper that I coated with ICE Resin. The ICE Resin seals the paper, adds a little shine and makes it somewhat translucent.  Really cool effects on paper.  And it's waterproof!
I added a lilttle texture to the corners of the page.  To do that, I placed the paper fully into the Bricks and Bark folder.  I placed the folder between the Spellbinder Base plate and Raspberry plate at an angle.  I started rolling the plates through the Grand Calibur machine.  They didn't go far before the paper(because it's too wide to go through) touched the machine. That's as far as I went!  I backed the plates out.  The corner is all the got embossed. I repeated that for each corner. I rubbed ink over the embossed area to accent it. 
I cut 4 of the Fantastic Flourish One from black card stock.  I used one complete flourish along with pieces cut apart on each side of the photos.
The title is made with sticker letters from Cosmo Cricket.  The letters for "Past" were a different color.  I colored them with a black permanent marker to work for my page.

I've listed the supplies below with links.

Thanks so much for visiting!!!! If anyone wants more information about the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, feel free to email me.  Here's a link to their website: Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum

Thanks so much for visiting!!!

Happy Creating!
Judy

 

Supplies:

 

Spellbinders™ GC-001 Grand Calibur® machine

Spellbinders™ S4-368 Hexagons - #2

Spellbinders™ EL-015 Bricks and Bark

Spellbinders™ S2-010 Fantastic Flourish One

Graphic 45 – Kraft Reflections Paper: Straight to the Point, Express Yourself, Bed of Roses, Bits and Pieces

Worldwin Papers® - Treasures Oatmeal, Black; Kraft card stock

Xyron Mega Runner adhesive

Cosmo Cricket – Tiny Type alphabet stickers

Fancy Pants Designs Inc – Beach Bum Alpha (letter stickers)

ICE Resin

Distress Inks: Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo

Adhesive Craft Foam

Old journal graph paper

Black marker to color Fancy Pants letters

Craft Glue

"So Sweet" Scrapbook Page

.............is one of my very favorite scrapbook pages that I've created!  

This sweet baby is Kiresa, granddaughter of Kim who is education director for Spellbinders.  She was so kind to share the photo so I could put together a "baby" layout!  This layout was featured on the TV show Scrapbook Soup with Stacey Caron!  She did an awesome job showing the embossing!You can see the video clip here -

http://www.scrapbookmemoriestv.com/projects/SS_200/211/Scrapbook_Soup_211-4.htm

All the little embossed and inked squares remind me of soft pink flannel!  They are so easy to make with Spellbinder™ M-Bossabilities folders.  I rubbed ink lightly over the embossing to highlight the patterns.  There are 3 different embossed patterns.  You can find all the details at the above link.

The little tags that spell Kiresa's name are fastened to the end of a journaling tag. It slides out and lists all her birth details.

You'll find a list of all the supplies and directions, too, on Scrapbook Soup.  Check it out here!

Thanks for stopping! 

Have a creative day!

-judy





Mia with Glasses

I love this photo of Mia!   When I saw it I immediately wanted to use it on a scrapbook page.  She's such a little cutie!!!



I don't often do "bright" but I love how it turned out.

Scrapbooking & Beyond published it in their 2012 Spring issue.  My very first scrapbook page published!!!  What an honor!

Lots of bright colored flowers are scattered across the page.  Each one is sanded to reveal the white of the paper and the petal edges. Each center is a Craftworks Cards Candi dot!

You can find more details in the magazine which is still available online.

Happy Creating!

-judy



"Love of Orange" Scrapbook Page

Today, I have a scrapbook page to share that I created for Spellbinders.  It features photos of my DH and two of his tractors.   He has several vintage Allis-Chalmers tractors.  These are two of his favorites!

The Spellbinders shapes probably aren't very obvious on this layout.  I've kept it very linear and a bit minimalist. It fits DH's character!

The zig-zag edge mats on the small photos were cut with Square Swatches.  I sanded the edges to bring out the white paper edge.  It really makes the edges pop!  The Square Swatches die templates aren't big enough to cut a mat for the large photo.  Instead, I used the edge of the largest Square Swatches along the outside to cut the zig-zags on it.  It took 8 cuts to get all the corners.  Worth it though!  Between the bigger zig-zags at the top and bottom of the mat, I used the next smaller Square Swatches die template.  The size fit the space better without over cutting the bigger zig-zags.
Each photo has an orange mat, zig-zag mat, black mat and a cream mat. 

The border at the top and the wider border at the bottom with the word "ORANGE" has edges cut with Classic Bracket from Classic Edges Two.  I used an Edgeabilities from Classic Decorative Inserts One to cut the decorative pattern along the edges and center.  There's a strip of orange paper behind the center strip.  The edge patterns show black through the pattern. 

I cut 2 sets of letters for "ORANGE" and layered them: one orange and one cream.  They were cut with Spellbinders Presto Punch and punch templates.

I used my computer and printer for the journaling and the title.  It's printed on cream card stock.

DH loved this!!

Thanks for stopping!

Happy creating,
-judy

Supplies:

Spellbinders™ E8-008 Classic Edges Two

Spellbinders™ E8-009 Classic Decorative Inserts One
Spellbinders™ S4-342 Square Swatches
Spellbinders™ S4-126 Classic Squares LG #5,6
Spellbinders™ PT-F01 Plain Jane (Capital)
Spellbinders™ PP-001 Presto Punch
Spellbinders™ GC-001 Grand Calibur Machine
Bazzill Prismatics – Classic Orange
Worldwin Treasures – Black
Authentique Foundations – Black
Quick Quotes Paper – Cherry Truffle
SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES by 3L – E-Z Runner
Cardstock – cream
Computer and printer

A Walk in the Woods Scrapbook Page

This is one of my favorite scrapbook pages!

Until I tried out for the Spellbinders Desgin Team, I didn't do scrapbook pages!!! The first few layouts were really challenging! And it took me forever to get them done. It still takes me quite awhile but I enjoy the process a lot more now. If I had more spare time, I might even scrapbook just for scrapbooking sake!

I love this photo of my daughter and granddaughter walking in the woods one beautiful spring day! It was perfect to use with Spellbinders S4-328 Foliage!

I started with an 8 x 10 photo matted with pink and placed on a lime green page. I freehand cut a brown cardstock tree to fit along the edge with a branch across the top. Then I cut, embossed and inked many leaves! I chose colors from the photo. The leaves are fastened with 3D Foam Squares to make them dimensional. The "bark" on the tree is actually cut with the leaf die template from Spellbinders S5-049 Carnation Creations with a little chalk ink applied. It's great bark! I added some plants at the base of the tree, also inked. The title was created with Basic Grey chipboard letters. Beneath it I added a strip of journaling.

I hope I've inspired you today!

Smiles,

-judy

A Beach Wedding

Today, I have a scrapbook page to share!

This was my final project for the Spellbinders Design Team contest! 

I chose a photo from my son's wedding in Mexico and paper to coordinate with the color of the ocean and sky.   I love shades of aqua! That might have influenced my color choice!!!

My assignment was to use Spellbinders S5-034 Parisian Accents on a 12 x 12" scrapbook page.  There's only one other die template used and that's a circle on the medallion.  All the other pieces are from Parisian Accents! 

The long pieces on the borders are cut and embossed from white cardstock.  Then I cut and embossed the same pieces from silver foil tape adhered to card stock.  I glued each white die cut to a silver one offsetting the edge to get a narrow silver edge along the shaped edge.  To add a silver edge along the straight edge, I cut narrow strips of the foil covered cardstock and glued each along the back. 

Each corner has 2 of the same shape facing each other, overlapped and glue together. The piece towards the photo is silver (foil covered paper). The other one is white card stock with silver behind for a tiny reveal.   I've added crystal gems along the outside strips as well as the corner pieces.  Probably not visible in the photo is  sheer ribbon threaded between the long edge pieces.  If you look closely in the medallion photo, you can see it.  It adds some texture interest, sheen and a slight color change. 

Once I had all the edges created and laid out on the aqua 12 x 12" page, I decided how big to cut the photo.  It started as an 8 x 10" which I cut to 7 1/2" square.  I added white and silver mats (foil tape on cardstock).

The corner medallion with the names is again white cardstock matted onto foil pieces to create silver edges. I stamped the delicate silver border with a JustRite stamp from the set "You Inspire Me" using Versamark ink.  I heat embossed it with silver detail embossing powder.  I fussy cut along the edges and glued it to the medallion.  For the center, I stamped just "love" from a stamp in the JustRite Victorian Nested Frames set using black ink.  I printed the names on vellum using my computer and printer.  I clear heat embossed them.  The vellum is cut into a circle to fit the stamped center.  I used a vellum adhesve to adhere it over the word love.  The vellum makes the stamped "love" lighter so it recedes behind the names.  Again there are gems on the medallion. 

To add the date to the lower left corner of the photo, I used my computer and printer to print it on inkjet acetate in black and clear heat embossed it.  It's glued in place with Glossy Accents. 

Lots of pieces to cut!  But so beautiful! 

I hope I've inspired you to try some layering of die cuts!  I use the same technique with letters for a shadow effect. Just glue together offset! 

Thank you for visiting today! 

Supplies:

Spellbinders™ S5-034 Parisian Accents

Spellbinders™ S4-116 Standard Circles SM #2

JustRite® “You Inspire Me”

We R Memory Keepers Hippity Hoppity™ Textured Cardstock – Aqua

Cougar Smooth White Cardstock

Silver Foil Tape

May Arts Aqua Sheer Ribbon

Hero Arts Gemstones – Crystal

Tsukineko Ink Pads – Versamark, Memento Black Tuxedo

Ranger embossing powders – Silver, Clear

The Paper Cut Inkjet Vellum

The Paper Cut Printer Friendly Acetate

Scrap Cardstock – 2-3 sheets

Crafters’ Pick The Ultimate Craft Glue

Scrapbook Adhesives™ by 3L – EZ Runner, 3D Foam Squares

Ranger Glossy Accents

Vellum adhesive

A Scrapbook Page!

Tonight I'm posting a scrapbook page. A scrapbook page????

All my friends know I don't scrapbook!

Well, one of the requirements for the Spellbinders Design Team application was a 12 x 12 layout. So........I created a page. Once I got started, I enjoyed it!

I chose a favorite photo.......

my little princess......which made it so much easier.

I'm really happy with how it turned out. I may even try a few more pages. Maybe a page or two for each grandchild......good idea. I have a feeling that's all it will be for awhile.

Yesterday, I submitted my final card design for the Spellbinders contest. Now, I wait. Wednesday, Stacy, co-owner of Spellbinders, will call the new Design Team members. Do you think I'll be nervous that day?!!! I'll probably jump every time the phone rings at work. I know for sure I'll have a lot of nervous energy! I promise to keep you posted whatever the outcome.

Keep stamping.....or even make a scrapbook page!

-judy