Christmas in July – Week 3

Something about the unbearable heat and humidity of South Alabama in combination with a record drought are really motivating me to get out the Christmas photos and use paper with snowmen and snowflakes!

Even though its tough to tell from the photos, this layout is of Ozzy and his Christmas present this last year.  For once, he actually liked it, and it was destroyed within the week.

 

Christmas Kitty

Inspiration: Becky Williams layout here

Supplies

Scenic Route patterned paper; American Crafts patterned paper, cardstock; Creative Imaginations patterned paper, journaling card; Bo Bunny patterned paper; Cosmo Cricket chipboard; K & Company sticker; Mary Engelbriet rhinestone sticker; Echo Park letter stickers.

Christmas in July – Week 1

Welcome to Christmas in July.  It’s a celebration of Jody finally scrapbooking those Christmas pictures!  This week, we’re going all the way back to 2005!
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Sketch: Ella Publishing Stretch Your Sketch Challenge sketch #4
Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill, TPC Studio shimmer cardstock
Patterned Paper: K & Company, Scenic Route
Bling Title: Me and My Big Ideas
Die Cuts:  Creative Imaginations
Felt Stickers: Martha Stewart
Snowflake stickers: Jolee’s Boutique
Stickers: Echo Park
Rubons: Making Memories
Chipboard Stickers: Cosmo Cricket
Brads: We R Memory Keepers

New Layouts, Old Photos

Like most scrapbookers, I have a backlog of pictures to scrap.  Taking classes at Big Picture has helped get my butt in gear and scrap some of these older photos.  That's a good thing, because I got all of my childhood albums from my mom, and I want to scan and scrap them.  (Let this be a lesson to you -- take your photos out of those old magnetic albums, if you can, and burn those horrible magnetic pages!!  Photos grow to them over time!)

This one is from 2006:

To the Top!

Nic Howard taught us how to do these neat faux pleats in the Color?  Or is it Colour? class.

Products Used:

DCWV - cardstock; Core'dinations - cardstock; unknown swiss dot paper; Jillibean Soup - patterned paper; Adorn It/Carolee's Creations - patterned paper; Creative Imaginations - transparency, sticker; Ranger - stickles; Queen and Company - flowers

Tools Used:

Tim Holtz tiny attacher; Martha Stewart punch; Silhouette - title and flourish; American Crafts slick writer

I Knew I Shoulda Stayed in Bed

By the time I got to work this morning, it was raining so hard I thought I saw Noah passed me in the Ark.  So I got soaked, I mean soaked, from the waist down getting in the office.  If it weren't for my space heater, an industrial size roll of paper towels, and a cup of warm tea, I might have just crawled under my desk and cried.  Those things, and the three Halloween size Twix I ate to comfort myself.

Mark and I decided this weekend that we want a Keurig.  Neither of us drink coffee.  We just think they are so darn cool.

Before the Great Flood of November 2010 rolled in, we had some beautiful weather this weekend, allowing me to take some photos of layouts I've completed the last week or so. 'Bout time, huh?  I can finally share them, like this one:

100% Guard Kitty

I based this layout on this PageMaps Sketch:

Products Used:
My Minds Eye - patterned paper; American Crafts - vinyl letters, chipboard; Target $ Spot - foam letters; Making Memories - stamp, metal tab; Creative Imaginations - stickers; Button from stash; Silhouette - print and cut diecuts; Sakura - souffle pen; Memento - ink; Tim Holtz - distress ink.

Tools Used:
Martha Stewart - punch; EK Success - punch

Today's Post is Brought to You by: the Color Red

The Color!  Or is it Colour?  class over at Big Picture Classes is off to a great start!  Our first color assignment was red, and it was suggested we use it as an accent on a more neutral page.  I love red, so this one wasn't a great challenge for me, but it was a challenge to find only red and neutral embellishments in my stash!

Ozzy Magnus

Products Used:  DCWV - Cardstock; Jenni Bowlin - patterned paper, chipboard buttons; Autumn Leaves - patterned paper; Creative Imaginations - stickers; Heidi Swapp - rub on letters; My Minds Eye - transparency; K&Company - transparency; Tim Holtz - grungeboard; Prima - flowers; buttons, tag, crepe paper, flowers and clear embossing powder from stash; Stampabilities ink pad.

Tools used: Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

Use the Force to Use Your Stash

Ever wonder how to use those themed papers and embellies?  Its a tough one for me too.  So I gathered the Force, with a little inspiration from May Flaum and the Use Your Stash class, I put some of these themed things to use.  Please forgive my cookie decorating skills.  They need a little work.  But they sure did taste good!

The Force is Strong with This Cookie

Products used:

Creative Imaginations - rubons and patterned paper; American Crafts - sticker letters, chipboard stickers, cardstock, patterned paper;  Technique Tuesday - chipboard; Making Memories - expoxy buttons; Bazzill - cardstock; My Creative Chaos - journaling card; button and chipboard from my stash; Rubber Stampede and Colobox inks.

Tools used:
Silhouette