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Ice cream Memories from DQ

2012-01-19T13:38:00.000-05:00

We love icecream and have been going to our local DQ for for years now, but I never really took pictures of these special trips to for sweet treats. I did however find 1 photo from 2004 and last night when my DH said "wanna go to DQ for icecream?" I was there with my camera, took a bunch of photos and and today made a page with a pic from 2004 and 2012. And the cool thing is I never would have thought of doing that kind of page without the 12 class at bigpictureclasse.com! Thank you Stacy!

Project Life

2012-01-17T22:03:00.000-05:00

Here's a little peak of the title page for my Project Life 2012 Album. It's still laying on my work table all in pieces just waiting for the page protectors that I ordered to arrive. I decide to use paper from my stash to create all date and journalling cards, instead of purchasing a kit because I've got lots to work with and I wanted to see if I like this approach enough to do it for a whole year.

I have all the photos for week 1 printed and ready to go, all the journal cards too, Week 2 is ready all I have to do is print my photos and I have notes for the journalling.

We are now in week three and I have a few comments to share about my process. I have decided to have my photos printed every couple of weeks or maybe just once a month since I don't want print them at home and I don't want to run to the Target every week. On Sundays, I plan out which pictures from the previous week to use and where they will go. I use a sketch on the worksheet I created to keep me organized. I also use the worksheet to jot down notes and observations throughout the week.
So far so good, I just have to remember to take pictures everyday and upload them from my camera and phone at the end of every week.

I also spent a little time this week creating journalling card to print and use throughout the year.

Hello 2012!

2012-01-12T18:19:00.000-05:00

I've got a lovely new mini to share....

A flower shape chipboard mini with a pretty painted wood butterfly on the cover and stamped butterflies inside.

See more photos here

I'm also working on some personal projects this year including Twelve with Stacy Julian and Project Life. My approach to Project Life is simply to take more photos every week, take note of everyday little things and with a focus on favorite moment of the week and points of gratitude. I decided to embark on this particular project because my kids are already teens, they are growing towards adulthood so fast and I feel like my little ones are slipping away, I want to savor every moment for as long as I can in a vain effort to slow the relentless passage of time. I will be posting my progress of Project Life as well as some comments on my planning and process. Stay tuned!

Current Offerings

2011-12-12T09:12:00.001-05:00

Joy of Christmas

Very Merry Santa

December 25

Holiday Traditions Nutcracker Christmas

Finish it Friday

2011-12-09T12:12:00.001-05:00

Finished two more Christmas Mini Albums

Very Merry Santa

December 25 Mini Album

Joy Christmas Mini

2011-12-03T18:10:00.001-05:00

See more photos Here

Nutcracker Christams

2011-11-28T11:30:00.001-05:00

When I was little my favorite thing about this time of year was going to see the Nutcracker Ballet with my Mom. Loved the music, the costumes.... such fun memories. That was the inspiration for this new mini album

See more photos here

2 New Minis

2011-11-09T16:38:00.000-05:00

I have 2 new listings going on eBay this week they are both 6x6 envelope minis

A Fall themed album made from 6x9 envelopes with hand stamped tags, embossed and inked photo mats, and die cut and inked leaves.

see more photos of this one here

Home for the Holidays Christmas mini album with flocked paper binding sprayed with glimmer mist, fold out page, pockets, stamped tags, pull out pages, and gold painted flourishes with a bit of down home vintage feel.

See more photos this one here

Christmas Tresury

2011-11-05T06:00:00.000-04:00

Ready for Christmas shopping yet?
Check out all the great items featured in this Treasury on Etsy

including my Wonderful Christmas Mini album

Jingle All the Way November Challenge

2011-11-02T17:44:00.002-04:00

PFOP November Challenge

Here's my first listing with PFOP

more photos of this mini here

More PFOP on eBay here

PFOP

2011-11-02T08:09:00.000-04:00

I'm very excited to announce that I have joined the Pocket full of Papers Sellers Group. We will be posting lots of great projects on eBay and etsy, including albums, cards and layouts. Just search for PFOP on eBay to see our current offerings.
Coming this week, we are getting ready for a busy holiday season with our November challenge, Jingle All the Way....
stay tuned!

Zoology a la PaperPhenomenon

2011-10-27T21:26:00.000-04:00

If you haven't seen Kathy from Paper Phenomenon's Ustream classes you are missing out. She creates fantastic scrapbook albums with lots of interactive elements an room for tons of photos. When I saw her Zoo Book, I just had to make one for myself. I added a couple of my own little elements, but the main design and construction of the book is all Kathy. I just want say thanks Kathy, you ROCK!
Paper collection is Zoology from BoBunny

Love those corners with eyelets!

Glossy Accents on the Lizard

Charm is Tim Hotlz fragment with chipboard circle from the Zoology collection

Leaves are cricut from Life's a Beach cut from dark green cardstock and painted with Twinkle H20s

bead and hemp detail on the edge of flap

Celebrate Life Mini

2011-10-15T06:45:00.003-04:00

Just finished this one this week
Love the Prima paper stack I used for this mini, yummy warm red, blues and browns.

Sneak Peaks

2011-10-14T12:16:00.000-04:00

Just wanted to share a few peaks at some of the minis I've been working on for my etsy shop

Can't imagine life without...Apple

2011-10-07T07:57:00.000-04:00

MacBook, iPhone (& coffee)

iSad

2011-10-05T22:20:00.000-04:00

Gothic Halloween Mini the video

2011-10-03T20:11:00.001-04:00

This Mini is available here

Gothic Halloween

2011-10-01T17:20:00.001-04:00

It's October! Can't wait for a cool front to come down to South Florida and give us a taste of Fall!
I've got a Halloween Project to share today. This mini album was inspired by a skeleton Cameo ornament I found at Michael's. I kept the color scheme to black, purple and silver which gave this mini a dark gloomy look. A little elegant, a bit creepy, very gothic....

This mini is made from 6x9 envelopes each page is progressively longer giving the edge a stepped effect. Each envelope has a pull out photo mat with the edge embellished with flowers, lace, or tulle.

Each page is decorated with hand dyed cheese cloth, die cuts, flowers, silver glitter flourishes, dry embossed photo mats, tags, and ribbon. The Spine of the book is embellished with ribbon, lace, beads, a tiny "potion" bottle and a key.

More LOAD Layouts

2011-09-08T21:20:00.000-04:00

Day 3 Layout

Day 4 Layout

Day 7 Layout

Day 8 Layout

LOAD Day 2

2011-09-02T13:45:00.000-04:00

Here's Day 2

Layers and Layers

2011-09-01T20:57:00.000-04:00

I've been very inspired lately by Jules Wink and her amazing layers. So here are a couple of pages I did in that Vintage Layered Style.
This first page is the beginning of a 12x12 album of photos from a trip to Sedona we took back in 2000. (I know, way over due!) The page is not quite complete, I still need to add some lettering but it's coming along.

This next page is for the LOAD class. Today is the first day of the big marathon, 26 pages in 26 days. I did some layering and hand written journalling and it came together pretty quickly.

Today I

2011-07-08T06:36:00.002-04:00

Haven't done this in a long while (since June 2009!)
Here it goes....

Outside my window... it's raining again!

I am thinking.... I have to pack for my trip to NYC woot woot!

I am thankful for... Summer Break and being able to travel this year

From the kitchen... Chicken marinating in lemon and garlic, to go on the BBQ for dinner

I am wearing... comfy black cotton pants and a black t shirt

I am creating...12x12 scrapbook Layouts for a class at www.bigpictureclasses.com

I am going... to Justin's ceramics class exhibit at the museum

I am reading... Storm of Swords, book 3 of Game of Thrones

I am hoping... to have nice weather in NYC next week

I am hearing... Bryan chatting with his friends on Skype while, Justin laughing at some funny videos

Around the house... laundry, dinner, dishes, and scrapbooking of course

One of my favorite things... my new Sony cybershot super small and super cute, I can take it everywhere!

A few plans for the rest of the week: getting everyone ready for our vacation next week

Here is picture thought I am sharing... Boys heart fire!

Happiness is...

2011-07-07T17:25:00.000-04:00

...having all my photos and all my scrapping supplies organized which makes it super easy to put together a quick page like this one. It is made entirely with older scraps of paper left over from other projects. I like to keep all those scraps of paper in 12x12 plastic drawers organized by color, and every once in a while I like to challenge myself to make a LO with only scraps. This particular page was made from the green drawer. The photos are from 1997, that adorable 3 year old boy in the photo is now almost 17! The design of the page was inspired by a page in Designing with Recipes Book.

made for Mother LOAD class at www.bigpictureclasses.com

Why do you Scrap?

2011-07-01T13:48:00.002-04:00

the photo says it all for me, it was taken almost 4 years ago on my son's 10th birthday. He loves to look back on the pages i have made of him and his baby book especially on his birthday. you don't know where you're going until you know where you've been...

All the embellishments are symbolic here, clocks and butterflies because time flies, these moments are so fleeting, I remember this moment like it was yesterday...

loosely based on sketch 92 from Got Sketch

made for Mother LOAD class at www.bigpictureclasses.com

Bite Sized Scrapbooking

2011-06-22T17:06:00.001-04:00

For the past year or so I have been obsessed with mini scrapbook albums, making them for my self and for my etsy shop, for swaps and for ebay. I've been so busy with them that I haven't made any 12x12 LO in a very long time and I really miss that. Recently, as a 2006 Alum of Stacy Julian's Library of Memories class, I was invited to take it again in its new revised version called Finding Photo Freedom. And that's when it dawned on me that I have been neglecting my 12x12 albums. The class is wonderful for anyone who has and takes tons of photos, and really who doesn't? If you scrapbook and have piles of photos this class is must take! One of the things we talk about in the class is doing things in small chunks of time, or one bite at a time. And the I discovered Bite Sized Scrapbooking. It's a sketch, a recipe, a starter for you page, in three easy bites.
I tried out one recipe for a 2 photo story.

Bite 1 : two horizontal 4x6 photos

I went to my Library of Memories storage binders and pulled three random sets of 2 photos stories,

Bite 2 : Supplies

You get a list of paper sizes and embellishments you need. (great way to use up those scraps!)

Bite 3 : Sketch

and in one afternoon, I got three great pages done (and that was after washing floors and two loads of laundry!!) I love this system because it limits what you need to create the pages so you get the pages done really fast without getting distracted by all the supplies in your stash and without a huge mess to clean up after (because if you're like me you usually pull out way more stuff than you need to complete your project)

Here are my three pages