Christmas Cards

I have decided to make some Christmas Cards with my Scrapbooking Club at school. So, I prepared everything for about 26 of them to make this week. Let's cross our fingers that it all works out okay.

School Frames

I want to start a scrapbooking club at school so I did the first few frames so the students know what I want them to look like...I want to teach them real scrapbooking...not the sticker sneeze.

Christmas 2009

This was our last Christmas at my parents house. My mother has sold the house and bought a condo. I tried to take pictures of those certain things we always did at that house every Christmas Eve. These are just a couple of the pages and the cover.

My Bikini and Domestic Goddess Mini Book

This is my favorite page I did this week. It's me when I was a baby. My mom made me the bikini. I used Fancy Pants paper and a die cut. I used Creative Cafe felt scalloped ribbon, Basic Grey lettering and Stickles to dot the square.

I have begun a mini-book using the Basic Grey Domestic Goddess line. I have a lot of embellishing to do yet which I hope to do today . . . holiday monday.

Cards

I made twin cards for my sister and sister-in-law for their birthdays on August 26th. I used scraps from the mini album I made last week.

My Little Book

I had fun making this book. I have always loved the papers and since we are expecting a ton of new stock in the store, this line is on its way out. So, I decided to make something out of the sheets I had. I guess you could almost call it a tag book since most pages have tags tucked in them. There is still room for embellishing but, as we all know, a book like this is never done. So I posted it here for Penny and I will keep working on it this summer.

Vehicle Maintenance

I am getting ready for the new car. I have my scrapbooked Vehicle Maintenance Book to keep track of how much gas at what price, oil changes, repairs, etc. It will be much more stylish than the ones you get with the cars. I used our die and the zutter. I also made use of some of my stash of patterned paper again . . . yes!

Birthday Invites

Just thought I'd let you see the birthday invites I made for Lucas's birthday party on Wednesday. He'll be eleven and tomorrow . . . on Monday, Jade will be sweet sixteen.

Happy Birthday Mom

It's my Mom's 70th Birthday tomorrow and we are celebrating it this weekend with my entire family. I was asked to make the card and this is what I came up with. As you can tell, I began it before the Creative Cafe showed up at the store or it may have looked a lot different. I like it anyhow. She doesn't have a computer so I knew it was okay to post it before her birthday.

Kristen asked me to publish a few pages from this album that I showed her in the store. This is a Prima chipboard book that was embossed with these words. I used various media to draw over the words that I wanted to highlight. I also used a pack of Prima paper inside and various ribbons and Prima ribbon. It is a neat book that will take time to complete. It is about the person I am and how things that have happened to me in my life that have shaped me into the person that I have become.

Acrylic Baby Book

So I quickly finished an acrylic baby book for Rhea, Mike and Ty. What I like about it is that I could put pictures etc, under and on top of the plastic. You can't really tell how it looks from these pictures; but I enjoyed making it and I hope they like it. Mike's mom picked it up tonight so they could use it as a brag book of sorts until they get more photos

Sunshine Valentine Book

I used our die cut machine to make this book. Then I used whatever I could find that was black, red, white and a bit of pink. I had fun and put a lot of meaninful words into this book using Cal's favorite colors. It took me almost three weeks to make this book mainly because all of the journalling and some of the doodling I did by hand. It was fun though. Again, as you can see, I used a lot of stuff I had in my stash. Fun, fun, fun . . .

Together

This was Jade's Valentine's Day gift to Nathan. He had been asking for some pictures of her and this seemed to be the way to do it. It is a Maya Road's chipboard album covered in Basic Grey 6" x 6" paper with cute embellishments. Jade did the journalling which mades the project all that much more special.

Wine Holder

We have these wonderful wine/grape shimmer patterned papers in the store, so since Cal decided to start collecting wines, I thought it would be nice to get him a really nice wine and make him this "altered" holder. I covered the outside with the shimmer paper, used a different pattern on the top and yet a couple of different ones on the inside (as you can see below). Inside in the bottom, I lined where the wine rests with some velvet paper. I added some velvet ribbon on the top and bottom, a few ribbons to hold the knobs together and a brown bling flourish to accentuate the opening. It is beautiful. The only problem I had was the "really nice wine" I bought didn't fit in it. Christmas Eve, I had to go out and get a "shorter" bottle of nice wine. He ended up with both wines . . . Happy New Year!

Mini Family Album

Since I couldn't take my children to my 25-Year High School Reunion, I made a 3" x 3 album with pictures of them as young children and now. This particular album I bought at JSI and liked it because it had minature page protectors in it of which you could add to. It came with 10 page protectors which was all I needed for this project. I used up scraps for the entire book since it was so small. I made wallet-sized photos which fit almost perfectly. It was quick and fun and everyone loved it.

A Project and a Page

Lucas loves to play chess with his friends at school; so, I decided to make him a chess/checker board using some of the paper from the store. I painted a canvas with "Shopping Bag" paint and then distressed it with Tim Holtz ink and then sprayed it with water. After it dried, I sprayed it with webbing spray and again let it dry. I covered the board with paper as I wanted it to look and then used bottle caps for the chess/checker pieces. I sprayed webbing on the tops of the caps in two different colors for checkers and then filled the insides with the appropriate chess pieces and then filled them with Glossy Accents. Again, waiting for it all to dry. Since I enjoyed the webbing so much, I did a page of Sky with it and added some "Stickles" lines and dots around the circle. It's nice to do something different once in a while. Now, I'm off to do Lucas' 10th Birthday Album. I think it will take an entire album.

This is the project that Julie and I did together. I love the colors and think that it would be a very pretty present to give to a mother or grandmother. I painted the inside of the box with acrylic paint and covered the rest with paper, sanded the edges, inked the edges and attached embellishments.

Baby Lucas

Yet another project. A small book with older photos of Lucas that I have already scrapbooked. It could be a brag book for Grandparents. I just wanted a smaller album that was quick and easy to do. Again, I was playing with the Zutter. The shape of the book was one that we have on the DieCut machine at JSI. It is an envelope die. I just cut the flaps off and used them. What remained was a square which can be used for another album or scrapbook page.

This is one of the projects that I did with our Zutter Machine. You can do almost any kind of binding with it. This album is small and every second page or so is a different size. It is fun to do and doesn't take alot of time. It also helps you to use up quite a bit of scrap paper, stickers and embellishments.