December Calendar Pages for Graphic 45 Place in Time

These are the pages we made for the Graphic 45 Place in Time calendar class at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

For the December title page, cut out the picture of Santa with the children. Center it on the "December" page.  Cut a small portion of the "Happy Holidays" border and adhere across upper left hand corner of the Santa picture, as shown.  Using the felt snowflake included in your kit, apply some adhesive to the back of the snowflake and adhere it  to the lower right corner of the Santa picture. I did a little fussy cutting around the "A happy Christmas to you" chipboard because it was not centered correctly on my chipboard.  I inked the edges to conceal the cut side. I used double-sided tape to adhere it to the felt snowflake.

For the December calendar page, cut out the December title and mat it on the green strip of paper in your kit.  Adhere it to the center of the blank calendar page. Adhere a green doily from your kit over each swirl that is printed on the calendar page.  Add the Christmas tree epoxy embellishment in the center of each doily.

Cut out the tree border and adhere it approximately .25 inch away from the top of your green card stock. Adhere the photo mats as shown.  Cut out the December "list" and adhere it about 1 inch away from the right side of the green card stock. This is so you have enough room for the snowflake embellishment in the bottom right corner of the list.  Adhere the red snowflake from your kit.  Cut out the Santa stamp with your stamp scissors and use a pop dot to raise it up for some dimension.  Cut out the "Be Merry" and "A Merry Christmas" tags.  Adhere "Be Merry" first, then adhere "A Merry Christmas" at an angle on the right side of "Be Merry". Place a red snowflake from your kit so that it covers a little bit of the left of each tag.  Adhere the "December 25" chipboard tag with double-sided tape.

From your sticker sheet, take the "Merry Christmas" (English only) border and adhere it across the top of your green card stock, about .25 inch away from the top of the page.  Cut out the "Merry Christmas" (many languages) border and adhere it about .25 inch away from the bottom of the page.  Adhere mats as shown. Cut out the "From Santa" and "Swirl" tags, punch out the holes with a hole punch, and tie a simple bow from the sheer ribbon in your kit.  There is enough ribbon for you to also tie a bow on the "Santa in his sleigh" chipboard.  From your sticker kit, adhere the "Dec. 25" sticker in the sky on the "Santa in his sleigh" chipboard.  Use double sided tape to adhere it under the left photo. (I chose to place the chipboard piece at the bottom of the page because the dark colors and thicker material of the chipboard would be too "heavy" if placed above the mat.)  Adhere the two gift tags about the photo mat on the right side of the page.

November Calendar Pages for Graphic 45 Place In Time

Here are the November Calendar Pages made for the Place in Time calendar class held at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

This is the November title page. Cut out the girl making the pie and the "A grateful heart is a joyful heart" strip.  Adhere to the November paper as shown. Using double-sided tape, attach the chipboard pumpkins directly beneath the "grateful heart" strip.  From your class kit, use the green twine to tie a bow in the chipboard Thanksgiving tag.  Use double-sided tape to adhere the tag in the upper left corner of the pie girl  picture.

Cut out the November title strip and adhere it to the center of the blank calendar page.  If you like, you could add some pumpkins or leaves amid the swirls.

Adhere the photo mats to the brown card stock as shown.  Cut out the "Harvest Time" block and the "Give Thanks" tag block. Adhere them as shown.  Apply adhesive to an orange leaf and apply to the bottom left corner of the "Give Thanks" tag block. Using double-sided adhesive tape, attach one of your metal quotes across part of the leaf and the bottom right of the tag. Adhere a yellow and brown leaf as shown at the bottom right corner of the photo mat on the left side of the page, and add a green and yellow leaf to the upper left corner of the photo mat on the right side of the page. (I know that was wordy...re-read if necessary!) Above the 4 leaves, center the "Thanksgiving Day" poem.  In the upper right portion of the brown card stock, add the "Harvest Time" block, making sure to leave enough space for the orange leaf to be placed in the upper left hand corner of the "Harvest Time" block.

Cut out the "November list", the "tree with pumpkins", "two girls with basket" and "give thanks quote" from your cut-aparts sheet. Cut out the entire stamp strip as one unit.  You may choose to cut the edges of the stamp block with your stamp scissors if you like.  I chose not to. Adhere all the cut pieces, photo mats and yellow leaves (from your kit), as shown.

October Calendar Pages Graphic 45 Place In Time

Here are the October calendar pages for the Graphic 45 Calendar class held at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois. 

From your sheet of cut-outs, you will need the postcard and the cat tag. Use brown and black ink to antique the edges of the postcard.  Distress the edges of all papers with your scissors, then ink edges with black ink. Cut apart the Trick or Treat strip as shown.  Ink all edges. From your class kit,  ink edges of orange photo corner, and adhere to top left corner of postcard.  Add black button with orange floss from your class kit.  Layer eyelet border under left side of postcard and place hounds tooth paper under right side of postcard. Layer your cut apart Trick or Treat poem on top of hounds tooth paper, as shown. Add the orange brad from your kit to the chipboard tag of the girl and pumpkin.  Adhere using double-sided tape. Distress and ink edges of cat tag.  Punch out hole on cat tag. Thread orange and black ribbon through hole.

Nothing fancy here, just cut out the title from your cut-out sheets and adhere.  You could add some small leaves in the swirls or scatter them across spaces on your calendar that are blank.

This is the right hand page of a two-page spread.  Cut out your October tag and place it in the top left corner of your paper.  Cut out one of the purple stamps with your stamp scissors to cover up the word "October".  (Be sure to cut wide or your stamp will be too narrow to cover it up.)  Ink the edges of your orange mats with black ink.  This helps them to blend in to the black paper. (Be sure to place the mats with the brighter orange side up.  The reverse side has a peach tone and is not the Halloween orange we are looking for on this page.) Apply adhesive to the backs of your mats and position them in a stair step fashion as shown.  Cut out all of the elements shown from the cut out sheet.  Cut out the post card and flip it over.  Use the reverse side as mats for the boy and girl Halloween squares.  Cut out the stamps with your stamp scissors.  The border in the corner is made by cutting out the blue Halloween strip and adhering it to the back side of another title strip that we did not use.

For this page, you need to ink the edges of the orange photo mats (in your class kit) with black ink and adhere them in opposite corners of your black paper.  (Be sure to have the brighter side of the orange mat facing up.  The other side has a peach tone and is not the Halloween orange we want on this page.)  Cut out the purple and black border from your cut out sheet and adhere across the middle of your paper.  Adhere the collage elements from the cut out sheet as shown above.  The patterned papers are leftover tags from the cut out sheet that we do not use.  Just flip them over to add a little bit more texture and pattern to your page. Use your stamp scissors to cut out the stamps.  I apologize, I did not get the orange button for the tag into your class kit.  If you have an orange button or brad, you can add it.  Or if you don't have orange, black would be great, too.

For the cover page, I selected the Fleur de Lys paper from Graphic 45's French Country Collection.  Attach the black fleur de lys 6 inch x 6 inch paper in the center of the large diamond print paper. Use the red photo corners from your sticker sheet in opposite corners. Adhere the chipboard lady in the center of the black paper, using double-sided tape. Place a black goosebump from your kit in the center of each photo corner and in the hole of the chipboard piece. I place the Place in Time sticker (2 pieces!) on a piece of chipboard to add dimension to the page.  Adhere it as shown  near the top of the page.

Graphic 45 Place In Time Calendar Pages September

Here are the Graphic 45 Place In Time Calendar Pages for the September 2013 class at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

The cream and black little girl on the left side of "Autumn Time" is cut in a square shape from the postcard on the September cut-outs page..  Flip the postcard over and mat the little girl with the black alphabet print paper.  Use another piece of the black alphabet paper underneath the right side of "Autumn Time".  The boy and teacher at the bottom of the collage completes the "visual triangle" of black elements on the page.

Kept this one really simple.  You could add a flower or button in each one of the swirls if you want to jazz it up. 

I freehand cut the "school days" tag because I liked the shape of the tag.  The boy and dog piece in the center is from your fall chipboard sheet.  I left the little pieces in the holes, but you could take them out if you want to add brads.

The plaid piece of paper under the letter stamps is the back side of the "one, two, buckle my shoe" border from the September cut-outs page.  Use your stamp scissors to trim the letters into that stamp shape.

Graphic 45 Place In Time August Calendar Pages

Here are the Graphic 45 Place In Time Calendar Pages for the August 2013 class at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

I used "autumn mix" Flower Soft dyed with brown ink to make the center of the sunflowers. 

Graphic 45 Place In Time July Calendar Pages

Here are the Graphic 45 Place In Time Calendar Pages for the July 2013 class taught at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

Graphic 45 Place In Time June Calendar Pages

These are the pages for the June Graphic 45 Place in Time Calendar Class held at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

Graphic 45 Place In Time May Calendar Pages

Here are the Graphic 45 Place In Time Calendar Pages for the May 2013 class taught at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

Graphic 45 Place In Time April Calendar Pages

Here are the Graphic 45 Place In Time Calendar Scrapbook Pages for the April 2013 class at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

Graphic 45 Design Team 2013 Audition

Here are the scrapbook layouts using Graphic 45 products that I am entering in the audition for Graphic 45's Design Team for 2013:

Fashionista

Sugar and Spice

Glitter Time

A Ladies' Diary

Lavender and Lace

Peaches and Cream

Day 348: College Photo

Today I worked on my college photo. I selected papers from one of Stampin' Up!'s series of designer papers. I chose three papers that were all red tones to layer. I began adding some images from Graphic 45's "Ladies' Diary" along with some buttons and other goodies from my stash. It still needs more, so I will work on it again tomorrow.

Day 326: Graphic 45 Scrapbook Page

Today I finished my scrapbook page using papers and stickers from Graphic 45.  I used some dress embellishments from Buttons Galore, pearls from Jolee's, pearl hat pins from Maya Road, part of a flower (I used the lace) from Prima, and a scrap of ribbon from my stash to complete the page.

Day 325: Graphic 45 Scrapbook Page

Today I selected three sheets of Gallery 45 papers to use on a page for a photo of me when I was first dating my husband.

Day 281: Glamour Shots: Sugar and Spice Part 1

Tonight I decided what the title for this page should be: Sugar and Spice.  Again, I was trying to highlight the dichotomy between the studded leather jacket I am wearing with the feminine Graphic 45 papers I used for the background of this page. I used some lace (offray) at the top of the page for a soft effect, then used black rick rack (American Crafts) on top of that, again, those opposites.  I dug through my stash of "scrabble" letters to make the words "sugar, spice" and stamped a large ampersand (Stampabilities) on cream card stock and matted it with black to make my title. I put some of the torn pearl paper I used on my  "Pearls and Leather" page (see yesterday's post) underneath my photo and punched out two photo corners to frame the photo. However, this page needs something more.  I will work on it more tomorrow.  Corner punch by EK Success.

Day 279: Glamour Shots: Pearls and Leather Part 2

Now that we have returned from our weekend trip, I can get back to work on this scrapbook page.

I really like the look of all the "banners" that have become so popular. I had some tags in my stash that I thought worked with this page, and decided to make a banner with them.  Using my Crop-A-Dile, I added copper and pewter eyelets to the tags, and then laid them across a strand of the torn pearl paper (Graphic 45) to make a banner.  I found some typewriter key letter stickers in my stash and spelled out my name on the center three tags. While going through my stash, I found some coordinating stickers (and for the "love" sticker, a coordinating overlay, which I stapled on), I made a border for the bottom of the page. I am not happy with this page yet.  It needs something more.  I will leave it tonight and work on it again tomorrow.

Day 275: Glamour Shots: Pearls and Leather Part 1

For this page of Glamour Shots, I chose a pink distressed background paper (Basic Grey).  I knew I wanted to use the pearl paper by Graphic 45 as a contrast to the studded black leather jacket I was wearing in the photos. I tore it to kind of roughen it up and make it work with the distressed background. I decided where to place my photos on the page, and that is all for tonight.  I have to go get ready for our trip.

Day 274: Glamour Shots: Glitter Time: Completed!

Today I finished my Glitter Time page. I used a clock paper by Teresa Collins as the background page.  I used two black brackets by Laserline underneath my matted photos.  Glitter paper by American Crafts. I cut out the fashion cards from a page of Graphic 45 paper. Flowers by Prima, Ribbon in Razzleberry from Stampin' Up! Filmstrip stamp by Just for Fun, stamped on cream paper in my stash with Memento Black ink. Modeling sticker by 7Gypsies.

Day 270: Glamour Shots: Fashionista X 3

Today I worked on this layout of 3 smaller proofs.  I had fun using this Graphic 45 "Fashionista" paper.
I also used some 7Gypsies stickers, a Heidi Swapp clock, some hat pins, a film strip ribbon, and a stapler to add some flair to these fashion photos.

Day 268: Glamour Shots Pages

When my husband and I were dating, I had some "Glamour Shots" taken and decided I wanted to put them in a scrapbook.  Tonight I selected the papers I will use. I think most of the papers will be from Graphic 45. They have a nice line of elegant, upscale papers.

Day 62: Fairies

I found this great paper by Graphic 45 that has these beautiful fairies all over it. Titled "Once Upon a Springtime", it made the perfect background page for this photo of my daughter.  In order to save the fairies that would otherwise be hidden, I cut out the center part of the paper behind the 8 x 10 photo and rose mat (American Crafts).  I fussy-cut the fairies out and will use them to make greeting cards.  From the text portion of the paper I saved, I punched out four photo corners using a corner punch by EK Success.  In each of the photo's four corners, I placed the photo corner, added two leaves from Jolee's, and a rose from Stampin' Up! I chose to use two blue roses and two dark pink roses because I wanted to pull in the colors from the fairies on the paper.  I wanted the photo to be the focal point of the page, therefore I did not title the page. I simply wrote my daughter's name and the date beneath the photo using a journaling pen from Creative Memories.