Christmas in September?

 

 

Well I hate to say it, but I guess it's time to start getting ready for Christmas.  As crafters we take it upon ourselves to try to get crafty the closer it gets to Christmas.  This stands to reason as we all start to get into the Christmas spirit.  With the carols playing and parties going on it's kind of hard not to. 

 

This year I was asked to make up some Christmas signs for a friend of mine.  She was going into the "Christmas in September" Farmer's Market.  I tell you, I understand why people hold off until Christmas gets a little closer.  I had a really hard time thinking of Christmas at the end of August.  We have had such a beautiful summer/fall, I found it really hard to make "wintery" trees. 

 

Nonetheless, the signs were made and I'm really happy with how they turned out.  I hope she is too.  Please watch the video to get a really good detail of how the signs were made. 

 

If you have any questions, please email me and I will be glad to help.

 

Make Your Own Page Kits

I am posting today to show you the page layouts that I made using my own Page kit.  I made 5 single page layouts with the kit.  I know I could have made more, but I just received my Studio Calico June Kit in the mail.  I know that I would like to make pages with it so I set aside the kit for now.  In the background of this video you can see that I have another kit that I made up and it's ready to go.  I hope you enjoy the video and if you took the "Make your Own Paper Kit Challenge."  I hope you post a link to your video or your website, so I can see what you made.  I hope you enjoy the video.  I will also post the video showing you the page kit that I made.

Video Tutorial - Desk organizer

I keep forgetting to add my videos to my blog post.  I have an easy link button on my video software that automatically adds my videos to Youtube.  But I keep forgetting to put them here on my blog.

I know the first few videos are rather short, but my computer and I were fighting that day.  There are 10 videos so the tutorial is quite long, but I wanted to do it in real time so that you could see the process on how to put it together.  I hope you enjoy.

Updated layouts.

I have been busy working on some new layouts. I have more works on progress but because I have no computer. I have been relying on my iPhone.

I have used several different papers for each layout. The only one I used the same paper collection was for the "no smile" and the "coolsville" layouts. The "no smile" layout was the mr. Campy collection from American crafts and the "coolsville" is all close to my heart. I'm not sure of the name but it's the new travel papers from the spring and summer catalogue.

Let me know what you think.

Paris layout

I just finished another layout. So far I've finished 6 layout. I'm so proud of myself. I made a new year resolution to get caught up on my scrapbooking and it seems to be working.

For the layout I used the world traveller collection from Teresa Collins. I also used a sheet of text writing from 7 gypsies. I used a Some red roses from I am roses. That was pretty much it for supplies. I wanted to keep it pretty simple.

Don't forget to leave a comment.

Japanese temple layout

Here is a quick layout I made using 2 pieces of cocoa card stock from close to my heart. I used the couch potato paper from Bella blvd. (brown check pattern), root beer barrels from October afternoon (light brown spot pattern as well as the embellishment circles), 2 patterns from sassafras lass girl's best friend (diamond pattern) the other pattern i can't locate the name on but it's old an they don't make it anymore. I also used some cocoa ribbon and juniper buttons from close to my heart. The alphas are from thickers. (I'm not sure of the names)

As you can see the layout is fairly simple. I used all 4x6 photos and then just trimmed some of them down to give a better feel to the page. The sketch wanted to use all 2.5x2.5 pictures for the collage piece on the right. My pictures didn't suit this very well, so I instead took one of my bigger images and cut it into 4 blocks to add more Interest.

I had quite a bit of scrap paper left over. And I didn't want it to just sit in my scrap pile for another year, so I decided to make a couple of cards. I just used some ivory card bases from American crafts Christmas cards stack. I used my close to my heart art phillophosy cartridge. I cut out the image square 3 at 2" in colonial white cards stock and then again at 2-1/4" in the black. I put that on one of the "b" sides of the patterned paper cut at 2-1/4". After I assembles all of the paper to the sizes I liked, I hot glued some I am roses pink roses. I also used some prima swirls to accent the swirl stamps. The stamps are from hero arts "thinking of you" and Hampton arts "family". These are really old stamp sets that I had in my stash.

I hope you enjoyed and don't forget to leave a comment.

Oh Canada 2 page layout

Hello everyone!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday.  Our Christmas was full of family and fun.  In a matter of a week, it went from only our family of 4 to 11 people.  It might sound a little bit of a hassle with short notice, but actually I was quite happy.  I find the more people you have around to help celebrate the Christmas season, the more memorable it becomes. 

The unfortunate part of holidays, is that at some point they have to come to an end.  My husband had to go back to work today.  I fortunately have the rest of the week off.  I wasn't sure I was going to do with my time off, but I soon came to the conclusion that I should first of all, clean my scrapbooking room.  And secondly, that I should catch up on my albums.  Today was the first day of that. 

I will be recording videos of all of the layouts that I will be doing.  I'm hoping by doing this it will not only help me get caught up on my albums, but also inspire you to create your own pages.


I'm not sure why, but the first part of the video won't come up on my blog.  You can go over to my You Tube Channel and watch it here.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NtQ1o1iudU&context=C3c31548ADOEgsToPDskINLoNqSxMPH_NgCEG-zz9d

Below is the second part of the video, showing the embellishments that I used.  Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. 

I hope everyone has a Happy and Safe New Year!