I've been starting to scrapbook a little more regularly again and it feels great! I've also been doing a little cardmaking as there have been a few birthdays to celebrate in the extended family. So here's what I've been up to the last couple of months:
This page commemorates a recent trip to Goderich, and was inspired by a Karan Garber sketch which can be found in the Exile Island Week 3 section of the forum at Two Friends Scrapbooking. I love the icecream paper and brads!
A birthday card for my brother in law. He turned 30 yesterday. Happy b-day Colin! This uses the classic SU set Lovely as a Tree and a background stamp, Weathered.
Another birthday card - this one for my brother who celebrated earlier in July. The cardstock is SU, the patterned paper is unknown. Cardstock was run through the cuttlebug. The hardware is Tim Holtz. 3 colours of fine glitter dabbed on the wings.
I'm getting dd's competitive dance photos scrapbooked. Here's the photo of just her. This page started with another Karan Garber sketch. I LOVED this line of papers and embellies by Little Yellow Bicycle called Zinnia and find the colours work really well with the costume.
This is the photo of her dance ensemble, minus one dancer who was away on photo day. This sketch comes from PageMaps. Same papers and embellishment line since these pages will be across from each other in my album.
This is another birthday card. Karan had posted a sketch challenge on a recent Friday night online crop. I used the sketch for the 12 x 12 page and scaled it down to make this 5.25 x 5.25 card. The bird is from a SU set, Christmas cardinal, but I watercoloured it in blue, hoping to make it resemble a blue jay. How did I do?
This page will become a double layout - I'm fooling around with the other page now. This page was done in with the Two Scrapbook Friends product challenge. These are fun and if your lss doesn't do something like this, you should suggest it. Each month, the store offers a package of goodies for a nominal price - this one was $3.50 I think. You take it home and make up a page. You may add things if you need to . Then post it to the gallery at TSF. It's amazing to see all the different pages that come out of using the same ingredients. I added the flecked background paper and the buttons - everything else came out of the kit and features Cosmo Cricket's Snorkel line. I guess August's kit will be available on Saturday. I love the challenge of using items I might not have purchased myself and I get a page done at a pretty reasonable price.
This layout was done in response to the Exile Island week 1 challenge, a sketch challenge by Karan.
I used some glitter mist on the chipboard bird and the background paper under the stamping. The title was done by inking the chipboard and then sprinkling on irridescent ice embossing powder and heat setting it.Other than the chipboard and glimmer mist, this page is entirely SU products.
This is a layout for my wedding album. It's almost done - my goal is to have it done before the end of August. It's been my 10 year anniversary project. We got married in 1998 and the photos were put into an album. When I started scrapbooking in 2003-4, I knew I wanted to scrapbook our wedding, but not until I knew more. Scrapbooking sort of went on the back burner when I started selling Stampin' Up! because the cardmaking became the focus of my business. You'll see this page doesn't have a title, and that is because it's part of a theme album. There are white rub-ons beside the photos on the left that talk about friends, so in person there's a little bit of description although you don't see it onscreen.
I think that's it for now - I'll try to post here more often, as I finish pages or cards. If you have any questions or encouragements about what you see, leave me a comment!
