Playing with Place cards

 

This is just my playing around with this new die I purchased on clearance.  Sizzix place card with decorative accent.  The fact I used dark purple shimmer paper and gold vellum from Creative Memories makes is beautiful.  I am experimenting for my up coming wedding.  I won't be using place cards for seating but I thought I might could use them in a different way.  We will be making the food, so I can make place cards to identify the food?

 

I also added some goldtone bling.

 

A matching set of die cuts, Sizzlits Decorative Accent Set.

More Organizational challenge

 

look at all the empty containers!  lesson learned do not container-ize!

 

I am still using my paper stand for cardstock (not paper) and theme paper whose embellishments are in my scraprack style rack and are too small for an iris container.

Ribbons!

Creative Memories Cheerful Lego layouts

 

I was already playing with these digital layouts and I finished up with illustrating a digital overlay.  I added the brushed corners and sampled the darker blue already in the layout.  I used a Creative Memories Predesigned Page.

 

This is page two from the same Creative Memories Predesigned Page.  Here I was illustrating stamping with digital.  I designed the Lego blocks at the bottom with the Digital Scrapbooking Experts Block Party Kit and the CM stamping tool.  I stamped the blue blocks with one stamping technique and the green ones with another but both started with the same block.

Cards from Scraps

 

I purchased a pack of card blanks, scraps and the remainder of a paper pad at a used stamp sale.  Look at the great little cards I made by just adding some buttons, fibers and chalk!  The paper pack was from Fancy Pants:  "it's the little things" designs by Lilli.  Great paper pad for card making.

On this one I used a Close to my Heart stamp.

The Paper Loft April Sketch Challenge

 

I absolutely love this dragonfly paper!  Dragonflies are a favorite of mine.  I used the Creative Memories border maker system to create the decorative strip.  I layered Paper Loft paper with card stock for the ribbons and titles.

 

This is one of the best pictures of the boys just foolin around on top of Lookout Mountain.

I painted these small wooden dragonflies then misted them with walnut ink.  Finally, I used a pen to create some details and added pearl bling for eyes.

The Scraprack Organizational Challenge

Tiffany Spaulding's 2013 Organizational Challenge has entirely changed my paper crafting!  With her system, I have began to overhaul my "have-a-lot" paper and stamp collection.  She has a very well thought out system that accommodates the have-a-little's and the have-a-lots.  First is to sort the papers, themes and calendar year are other sections but my favorite and most revolutionary part is the Rainbow section.  Instead of having scraps, borders, and various size papers organized by size or "collection", I have put them all in a selection of iris containers sorted by colors.  I ended up with way more than the 7 colors of the rainbow.  Plus, you need browns, tans, white, black and I have a black & white/grey.  I have also split up the blues into blues, indigos, and teal/turquoises.  The greens are brights and dark/olives then there is pink and metallics.  Below are some pictures of my sorting.  After paper organization comes embellishments which some of my photos include.

You can find the videos on thescraprack.com

Beginning to sort 12x12 sizes...

I did still keep the "mat" sizes in there own containers.  They don't store as well in the iris containers.

Reds

Oranges

Yellows

Bright greens

Blues

Purples

Tans

White/clears

 

Tan/Ivorys

black & white/greys

Blacks

Metallics

Creative Memories Candy Shop Summer Layouts

 

I could not wait to use the new Creative Memories Candy Shop Power Palette.  I was a little worried about using all the pink since I have boys, but the pink float in the pictures was really set off by the pink and the blues were great with the water in the pool.

 

I used the Candy Shop sticker letters for the title just layering on punched squares and chalking the edges with pink.

Camping in Kentucky: The Paper Loft Layout

 

These are the last two layouts I created with The Paper Loft Hooked on Fishing and Huckleberry Pond collections.  I cut one piece of paper using the Creative Memories Doodling Template:  Playful and Festive and used the reverse side on each page.

 

 

I created a pocket out of a half circle to hold the park map.

 

 

close up

 

 

 

On page two I used the Creative Memories border maker evergreen cartridge on the Paper Loft wood grain paper, too cute.

 

 

 

close up of the border and the "cluster" of Paper Loft camping embellishments.

Dog Days of Summer Hooked on Fishing & Huckleberry Pond

 

I love these photos of K with his shoes thrown over his shoulder and his fishing pole.  I used the Creative Memories border maker system to create the edges.

 

Dog Days of Summer!

 

 

Close up

Camping Layout using The Paper Loft Hooked on Fishing

 

More Hooked on Fishing and Huckleberry Pond papers from The Paper Loft.  I was starting to run out of paper so I added a tan card stock to mat the titles, photos, and date box.  I used Creative Memories sticker letters in Classic Brown.