Guest Designer for My Creative Scrapbook - October

I'm a little late getting this posted, but here's my work as guest designer for My Creative Scrapbook using October's Main Kit. Beautiful Webster's Pages. Our work from the main kit is featured on the Webster's Pages blog too.

I distressed the light blue made and added a small scalloped border with my scallop scissors. I cut the designs in the paper so that I could slide my photo and mats behind the designs. Added a little faux stitching. The photo is behind an oval I cut with my scalloped scissors and then I added the three dimensional dots around the oval. Needless to say, this is a very old photo and was encased in a black and very stiff cardboard oval frame, so I had to scan it and then use the photo in it's oval shape. I cut out a couple of butterflies from the patterned paper and the larger butterfly is a MS punch that I coated with stickles. Journaling is tucked behind the mat and reads:

This is a photo of my (Great) Uncle Sidney McDowell. Sidney was born on May 5, 1892. I’m not sure how old he was in this photo, but I believe it was made in the late 1898 or 1899. He was my Grandmother Pace’s younger brother (Grandma Perdue’s Uncle). I think he was a very handsome young man, and I just fell in love with this photo the first time I saw it.

Some photos I took last year of my handsome little grandson, Adam. I used the Fiskars scalloped punch for the edges of the border. The butterflies were cut from another piece of paper and layered over butterflies on this paper for a 3-D look. I added a little sparkle to the butterflies with some stickles. Also used the apron punch for the border on the large blue mat. The bird was also cut from a piece of the paper and added to the layout with pop dots. Added some doodling, and the journaling around the frame reads: May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back, may the sun shine down upon your face, and the rain fall softly on your fields, and until we meed again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hands. ~Irish Blessing

This is a photo of my older brother when he was just a month or two old. I used a MS lacy scallop punch for the border, and my scallop scissors around the photo. I added lots of distressing and inking. Then I added some small flower buds and some punched flowers to the swirl bling. Journaling is tucked behind the big mat and reads:

This is my brother, Randy, when he was about 2 months old (probably in January 1950). He didn’t get to be the baby of the family for very long, because I was born just a year and three days after him. Although we don’t see each other very often now, when we were children, I was often his shadow.

My DGD, Helen Grace - picking flowers in my flowerbed! I used my scalloped scissors on the burgandy strip and around the oval cameo. I threaded cardstock through the ribbon that was included in the kit. Faux stitching was added to the scalloped edge of the large mat. The well was cut from another piece of the paper included in the kit. I made this card from scraps I had left over from the kit this month. Super simple card and it works up really quickly!

NOW....here's a little tutorial for making this cute card. Cut card stock 5 1/2 inches by 12 inches.

Using a bone folder or a scoring tool, score the card (on the dotted lines) at 2", 4", 8", and 10". Then cut the card on the solid lines (lengthwise) from the 2" scored line to the 10" scored line. Cut both solid lines this way. Then fold the card on the scored lines in a fan fold (first one way then the other).

Then...fold the middle section opposite the top and bottom sections. Like the finished card above. Decorate as desired. I used an oval shape on the front that I stamped a simple little flower on. Then backed the oval with some of the base card stock and trimmed it with my scalloped scissors. To dress it up a bit, I added dots on each of the scallops with some gold 3D paint. The butterfly was cut from the patterned paper and highlighted with a little glitter, then adhered with foam tape for dimension.

The sentiment inside is also on an oval circle...Happy Birthday is stamped and then I inked the edges to give it some definition. Adding doodling is always a nice touch. I also used my paper piercer to punch holes around the patterned paper that would be the "front" of the card when folded...give a really cool look!

Thanks so much for stopping by. If you make a card, be sure to let me know, so I can check it out! As always...love to hear from you.

Hugs!!

Guest Designing for My Creative Scrapbook

I had to step down from my DT spot with My Creative Scrapbook in January. Sometimes life gets in the way of fun things! I've really missed playing with all the wonderful kits that Pam sends out each month. Pam invited me to be a guest designer for My Creative Scrapbook for the Month of October. The reveal will be on Monday, October 5, but here's a little sneak peek of what I did this month. I'll be back next week to post the layouts. I really enjoyed playing with all the pretty papers and embellies included in the Main Kit. Here's your little peek: Lots of pretties this month! Be sure to check back next week!

Until next week...signing off....

January Kit Work

Thanks for stopping by my blog. As usual, I'm a hit and miss kind of blogger. I really do intend to keep it up, but somehow I just keep shifting my blog to the back of the burner. So...hopefully, I can begin 2009 with a better record of blogging that in the past! Here's my layouts using the main kit from My Creative Scrapbook

This is my beautiful granddaughter Katie. She had just lost her front teeth and we tried everything to get her to give us a BIG smile....but she was wise to us! LOL! My daughter and her son with such happy smiles! I used a lot of sparklies on this layout. I roughed up the edges of the papers a bit too.

I really had fun with this card. I used my quickutz for the branch. The flowers are a paper shapers punch and the butterfly is stamped. I cut the butterfly out and added LOTS of glitter!

Well, now I'm off to do some "real" work...gotta keep that paycheck coming in so I can afford all my scrappy goodies!

Thanks a bunch for stopping by!

XOXO

Susan

December Kit work for My Creative Scrapbook

I'm such a bad blogger! I have every intention of stopping by and posting a new blog entry at least weekly, but life just gets so busy, I just can't seem to find the time. I did want to stop off and post my most recent work for My Creative Scrapbook. The kits this month are just beautiful! I love the main kit with the Little Yellow Bicycle papers!

This is Allen and Helen Grace...as you can see, Allen is very excited to talk with Santa...Helen Grace just wanted to get away from him! I did a little hand stitching on this layout...very time consuming, but definitely worth it!

More cute photos of Helen Grace. These were made right after she started walking. The ornaments are chipboard covered with paper and then I covered them with glitter...gotta have sparkle at Christmas!

These photos are of my three grandsons on Christmas Eve 2006. They were so excited...can you just imagine the excitement of three...yes, three.....3 year olds!! Definitely brought back some sweet memories!

This is my daughter, Traci when she was almost 4 years old. I turned the photo to a sepia tone to give it a vintage look...although it was made in 1979! This was made with the Cosmo Cricket Christmas papers...very vintage type papers!

I have to admit when I first saw this kit, I wasn't too crazy about the paper...but I love the way this layout turned out! Sweet photos of three of my grandchildren on Christmas 2007. This was one of the add on kits from My Creative Scrapbook. The papers are My Mind's Eye Christmas paper.

This layout was with the same kit...I just love these photos of Allen and Jacob trimming the tree. They "helped" again this year for about 3 minutes, then they were off to play...chasing each other through the house. Helen Grace, who is 3, was helping decorate the tree and was taking the job seriously....on one race through the living room, the boys bumped her and she ran after them into the bedroom and told them...."Jacob and Allen, you need to stop running, I'm twying (trying) to decawate (decorate) the twee!" We all got a big laugh from that...mostly because she was so serious! This is a sample of cards that I made using the three kits...I really like the card with the Santa stamp on it.

As always, thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you'll visit again soon. I'd love to hear what you think about the kits/layouts.

Merry Christmas to ALL!

Susan

TIME FLIES.............

Yep! It really does! Seems like yesterday, I was posting the layouts from our October kits at My Creative Scrapbook! This month was a little difficult for me since I was away from home working all month! What that means is...these layouts were a bit of a challenge for me. I knew I'd be working on these layouts while I was staying in a hotel somewhere in Mississippi....(and it definitely wasn't Somewhere Over the Rainbow!!!) No kidding, I saw at least 3-4 deer EVERY day while driving back and forth to the Bank! Okay, enough of my chatter, let me tell you about these layouts. This is a layout of my beautiful niece, Sarah. Sarah and her mom (my sister) were visiting my Daughter in Alabama...another very small town. These photos were actually taken at an old, old cemetery there. Lots of beautiful wrought iron and columns! The papers in this kit are Crate Paper - Prudence. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the "lacy" borders. The black swirls are Quickutz swirls. I added touches of bling to the flower and to the swirls. The journaling is printed on some of the patterned paper and then cut in less than perfect strips...inked heavily and doodled on. The journaling is an old Irish blessing. If you click on the pic, you can get a close up and read the journaling.

Ah.....my beautiful (yes, boys can be beautiful!) grandson, Adam. This is his serious look. He get very focused on something when he's really interested in it. I tell him his serious look means that he's "in the zone"! These papers are also part of the Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. I added touches of bling....flowers, and a butterfly on this "masculine" page! The butterfly is a QK Monarch butterfly that I inked and added bling to...love the look of that!

This little cutie is my daughter's niece, Erin! She has such a cute little grin...and I just LOVE those dimples! Very mischievious...this one! These papers are from the Creative Kit for November at My Creative Scrapbook. Lots of fun working with these papers!

This layout is more photos of another one of my beautiful grandsons - Jacob. My son's children, Allen and Helen Grace were having a birthday party in October and they rented this bouncy thing for the kids. We really had a bunch of pooped out kids after an afternoon of bouncing ...bouncing...bouncing!!! This layout is also made with the Creative Kit for November from My Creative Scrapbook.

If you haven't checked out the kits....come on over and check us out. We'd love to have you join us!

Thanks so much for dropping by....I'd love to hear from you too....so leave a note!

Hugs! Susan

October Kit Work for My Creative Scrapbook

The October kit from My Creative Scrapbook is AWESOME!!! I love the Bo Bunny papers and all the flowers, bling, and ribbons! The chipboard alphas are "sparkly". Head on over and check out the kits for October....there are several to chose from! This is my adorable granddaughter, Helen Grace. She can be such a girly girl...and in the next second, she's just as rough and tumble as her brother and her cousins! I edited this photo in Picnik - which is an online photo editing program I use sometime. The bling is by a fabulous new company called Zva Creations. I used lots of rubons, too! I shaped the curved edge of the flowered paper with my Bo Bonny flex ruler....that thing is really cool! I've probably had it for a year and just forget about using it!

Just a little "happy" card! I used scraps from my layouts to create this card. I inked each of the squares and glued them to the front of a prefolded card. The "hello" is some of the felt alphas that came with the October Main kit. I used my zig pen for the dotted edges of each block. The flower I cut from the patterned paper and pop dotted it on top of the flower on that square.

This is our home. We moved to this house in March 2005 after living at the "old" house for 24 years! Do you have any idea how much "STUFF" you can accumulate in 24 years? Geesh! It took forever to sort all the junk! Got rid of tons of stuff expecting our new home to be very neat and orderly. The new house looked bare for a while (considering it was a good bit bigger than our old house)...but, wouldn't you know it...I've managed to fill it up and it only took me 3 years! The title "blessings" was a chipboard title that I painted and then I outlined the letters. The quote and the red scalloped border are sticker borders that came with the kit. The word "home" is actually stickers! I backed them with black cardstock. The way they are designed, they look like they are 3-D, but they really are stickers and they also came with the kit! I loved the flowers, rubons and bling that are in the kit this month!

Thanks for taking the time to stop by! As always...I love your comments...so post away!!!

Hugs! Susan

My Creative Scrapbook - September Kit

No...there's definitely NOTHING ordinary about my grandchildren! And...there's lots of them! LOL! I drew the frame I wanted and hand cut it, then put a yellow border around the inside and outside of the frame. The big white flower is stamped with a "vine" stamp and then I layered a yellow flower and a black flower on top. The button was perfect for the center. The swirls are Quickutz. The title lettering is Quickutz - Nutmeg. This layout was designed using the September - Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. The word "grandchildren" was made with sticker letters included in the kit. I LOVE this line from October Afternoon!!

My darling grandchildren, Katie and Adam. This layout was designed with the September Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. I drew my swirls on the navy cardstock, then pierced it with a piercing tool so that I could stitch with the yellow embroidery floss. The kit has tons of lace in it....and the pretty yellow ribbon too! The butterfly is a stamp from a previous kit that I stamped on the yellow floral cardstock and cut out. Did I mention all the cool rubons and flowers? SOOO much to play with in this kit!

My grandson, Adam, at Pensacola Beach this summer. I journaled on the photo before printing it. The font is a Quickutz - Nutmeg. The shells are stamps that I highlighted with chalk and back with black cardstock. The fancy edges on the Pink Paislee paper was just perfect for this layout....and this too was completed from September's main kit at My Creative Scrapbook. The Main kit is just FULL of great scapping goodies!!!

My maternal grandparents sometime around 1920 which was about 5 years before my mama was born. Another layout using the Pink Paislee papers from the main kit at My Creative Scrapbook.

This is my parents when they had only been married about 18 months. They had been married for 54 1/2 years when my Daddy died....definitely the forever kind of love! This layout was designed using the Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook...FAB kit this month!

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my new layouts....and if you'd like to check out My Creative Scrapbook to see what everyone else is doing....here's the link: http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/

As always...I love to hear your comments! Hugs!

Susan

Gee, it's hard to believe that another month has already gone by! It's time for the reveal of the August kit from My Creative Scrapbook. If you haven't checked out our site...take a minute and come on over. We have a FANTASTIC contest going on right now....and it lasts until the end of August. The prizes are great and we have a very special prize that is HUGE! Check out the thread where we've posted the photos of all the FAB products!

The top layout is our great-grandson, Nolan. It's hard to believe he'll soon be 2 years old! He's changed so much since this photo was taken! The middle layout is our beautiful grandson, Jacob. This paper from October Afternoon with all the cute deer on it was just perfect for the photo. Jacob definitely has that "deer in the headlights" look on his face! The last photo is just a card I made from scraps I had left over from the kit. I used a little stamp and some rubons...super easy!

Take a minute and drop by to see us!

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Just wanted to share the layouts I designed with the fantastic kits from My Creative Scrapbook. I love the bright colors in the Leap layout....it just screams "SUMMER"!!! And I know it looks like Katie is walking on water...but trust me...she's NOT! LOL!!! I just somehow managed to capture Jacob, Adam and Katie in mid jump.....gotta be quick to catch a shot like that! Then in the Strike a Pose layout...my darling granddaughter, Helen Grace is just the cutest thing! (of course, I might be slightly biased! LOL!) I LOVE the photos of the three boys in Oh Say Can You See. This layout just kind of took on a life of it's own....and fell together in a snap...and these photos were soooo perfect with the title! In the All American Boy layout...that would be my handsome grandson, Adam...and yes...he most definitely is our All American Boy! Rough and tumble are words that definitely describe all three boys. Katie is at that in-between stage (age 9)...when she doesn't know if she wants to be a 9 year old or a 20 yr old and flucuates between the two...LOL!!! ....and then there's Helen Grace....why, she is just a girly-girl!!!

Thanks for stopping by....and I'd love to hear your comments!

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