I Was Going to Make a Card

Posted on | July 30, 2008 | 4 Comments

But just didn’t get the chance. Hubby was suppose to be on the 3-11p shift but it got changed and so we ended up watching the Bee movie instead of him working and us girls doing arts and crafts after dinner. The movie was entertaining but none that I’d buy. M was ok with it, it’s not as fun as Shrek.

So I have here a page, a digital page, created using Edeline’s Walk Through the Meadow kit which you can find at the DigiChick. It’s a huge kit and obviously a lot of fun for digi or hybrid (my transparent images from the other day’s page was also from this kit). I had to tell myself to stop, there were a few other items that I wanted to use. BUT, I wanted to create a layout that fits the title (made that, if you want a copy, let me know), make her kind of buried by all those beautiful elements. There are SOOOO many beautiful things around me but as a mom, guess which is the most beautiful? {::SMILES}. I know, I know. I should prob. quite making “beautiful” theme pages of M. She might grow up with a huge head. Oh wait, she already has that {::SMILES}. She was born with it… we had to go to the hospital to make sure that it’s all brain in there. The doc was a bit worried. Poor baby, they had to drug her when she was just months old because she couldn’t stay still in the machine. Well dang, what did they expect?

What do you think, too busy? I got too elements happy?

This is one great thing about doing digital pages, you buy one or two complimenting kits and you can go buck wild on elements whereas on paper, unless you have the $$ or you get a lot of great freebies for being a DT, it does get a bit spendy.

I’ll be out these next few days. Conference in the city. I hope to stop at Archivers after on one of the days, it’s on the way. Got a coupon and oh, I’m so tempted to stock up on some American Craft goodies – NEW from CHA. I have to remember to pick up my dry cleaning too. I dry clean in the suburb of KC for $3.25/ea. So much cheaper even though I might not come back until three weeks later. Hee…

I Love Quickies!

Posted on | July 29, 2008 | 6 Comments

I did this page in five minutes. For reals!! I mean come on, look at it, how long can pasting what you see on that page take, right?

I took this picture a few months ago while we were messing around outside. I was actually suppose to take pictures of hubby who was up on our steep roof fixing up the little bit of siding that was blown away but I got distracted. It always ends up like this though. He’ll ask me to take his picture doing something “cool” or a picture of his ‘62 Impala project and I’d do it, take a handful of shots, but in between, I’ll probably have 20-30 pics of M. Ha ha!

Material: Bazzill, Tinkering Ink, American Craft and Making Memories.

So for those who thinks it takes too long to scrapbook, try this layout out. It’ll probably take you longer to pick out a picture than to actually put this together {::SMILES}.

What a Monday! After work we went to M’s director’s farewell party. One of the parents own a bar/restaurant with a nice outside patio and with the weather being so nice, great company, and the kids having a great time too (M’s two best friends were there) we all had a blast. Before we knew it, it was 10:30 p.m. WOW, past hubby’s and M’s bedtime!!

It was so interesting watching three, all only child, girls play. Each one are bossy and quite the individual on their own but they manage to play so well and they each somehow managed to take turns being the boss and being the follower. They’re all super cute too. Fun, fun, fun!

It’s Merv Again, 5-Min-Card!

Posted on | July 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

This is a super quick card that I did and also taught at the lss last week. I printed Merv the bird in Word (yeah, no need for fancy Photoshop). I had four on a page and printed a few pages out for the session, trimmed and colored.

The background paper is Karen Foster and the stamp is PaperTrey. Using this card sample I wanted to demonstrate how one little piece of black cardstock can change the look of this card from blah to “yeah, this is good, this is good.” Ha!!! I used dimensionals too under the black cardstock to give the card more depth. Of course I can’t do a card without at least a little piece of ribbon {::SMILES}. To give it a softer curve, I used my corner rounder for the edges of the card.

I credit the using black or I think anything dark really to SCS. I think it was from one of the challenges. I can’t remember. Just sharing what I learned to others. I can do that, right?

Happy Monday! I am posting live before I head out to lunch… a five minute post {::SMILES}.

Our Weekend

Posted on | July 27, 2008 | 4 Comments

Here’s a hybrid page that I did. The non-digi items are all from my Sweet Spuds June kit (KI and Cosmo Cricket) and the birdie I stitched myself from felt. Check out their Flickr gallery if you want to see some inspirations from Sweet Spuds. I am so slow at using my kits and I did buy three kits last June and just now getting to them. So now I have almost 7 months worth of kits to work with. Ahhh… but I just want to keep buying more… hee…

Anyhow, I wanted to do something in my craft room since I just purchased the Making Memory precision paper trimmer with my 40% off Hobby Lobby coupon. I also needed to use some of the hybrid items that I printed out a week ago. From all the above, I came to this page. The hybrid products were printed on one piece of transparency except for the rainbow. The transparent items were from Edeline’s kit at the DigiChick. You can see more details pics in my Flickr gallery. Just click the image above and you’ll see two other close-ups in there.

This weekend had been a great one. We, hubby and I, just returned from Independence, MO. It’s our anniversary tomorrow, our fifth, and we decided to celebrate this weekend. M stayed with some great friends of ours (THANKS, Guen!) and we got ourselves a place at a super nice b&b called the Hawthorn. The owners there were very sweet too and the breakfast was yummy and huge. We had no schedule, the only thing reserved was the b&b. Actually we spent most of our time at the Independence square. We went to an ice cream shop, the first place that President Trumann worked at (he’s from Independence), had dinner at Ophelia’s (out fish was really good), and went bowling. I scored better in bowling too! We played two games and the first time around I got a 54 and the second a whooping 70! We had tons of fun though!! It was really great because it’s been a while since we’ve gone to a public bowling alley and there’s no smoking! I forgot that KC has gone no smoking. It’s AWESOME!! Today we checked out Truman’s home and just walked around downtown again.

It was also nice to be offline for a little while too (WordPress’s ability to pick when to publish is so nice) and just spend the time with hubby. M had a great time too… actually the little turd was disappointed that we came and got her. I guess we came too early, she was to watch Little Einstein with our friend’s baby after nap time. Ahhh…. Anyhow, have a great one! More later!!!

Circle Card

Posted on | July 27, 2008 | 7 Comments

Tired of rectangles and squares? How about a circle one?

This is what I did in my first card class at my local scrapbook store. You can’t see it too well but I used dimensionals on the orange and the blue dotted paper. Oh, plus the peapod too. Isn’t that stamp adorable? I got it at Archivers two years ago. The sentiment is A Muse. This was before I knew who A Muse is! To color it, I used Copic and SU markers. I only have a dozen Copic and so blending and shading is out of the question. I can’t do it well anyways so I think it might just be a waste of $$ if I get some for that purpose.

The card class’s theme was not another rectangle/square card and using dimensionals to jazz up a card. We did though do one rectangle card, I figured two none traditional card is enough, teehee…

I showed the class how the card would look without dimensionals and how it would look with. Just not the same. Dimensionals is an inexpensive way to give your card some body. If you haven’t tried it, do. You can find them ranging from $1 to $3.99. I get mine from SU, Making Memories, and some brand at Hobby Lobby. They’re different height SU being the shortest. I love them all since I use different height for different needs. If you find some on sale, you better hoard it up, in my house, they’re used up quick!!

Notice no ribbon? Eeek… but it looked ok I think. Have a great Sunday!!