Day 132: Garden Cousins

For this "Garden Cousins" page, I chose to use this "Floral Linen"paper from The Paper Studio as the background paper.  I liked how it coordinated with the turquoise color in the kids' clothes. I cut three flowers out of the center of the paper to use as accents on the corners of the photos, then hid the holes in the paper with the turquoise photo mat (card stock from Stampin' Up!). The flower centers and the oval journaling sticker from Doodlebug Designs added a little extra pop to the page. I used two different color Gelly Roll pens from Sakura to highlight the important words in the quote.

Day 67: Soccer Layout

I completed a two-page soccer layout for my son's scrapbook very quickly.  It just seemed to come together! I used soccer ball paper from The Paper Studio for my backgrounds.

My left-hand page just looks like one big soccer ball.  Then I have a horizontal 5" x 7" photo centered 0.75" from the top of the page.  I have two 3.5" x 4.5" photos that I placed on the bottom corners of the larger photo, angling them inward.  I used a soccer ball and a "swoosh" sticker in the space created by the three photos.  I cut a 2" x 12" border from a photo paper of grass and adhered it 0.50" from the  bottom of the page.   I thought the grass title strip tied the page all together, since all you see when you take photos of soccer games is lots and lots of grass! I used a 1.5" x 4.5" "Soccer" border by Laserline in the center of my "grass" strip.  On the left side of the "Soccer" title, I used stickers to spell out the month and on the right side of the title, I used numbers to create the date (these stickers from Creative Memories).

My right hand page is a black background with multiple photo images of soccer balls repeated over and over. I had 5 photos that I wanted to use, but a couple of them were shots from far away, and I wanted to be sure years from now we would be able to see our son, so I cropped out a lot of the background and made really narrow pictures. I angled them off from my longer photos.  I used some epoxy soccer embellishments from Creative Imaginations to add some visual interest, and this layout was complete!

Day 35: Getting Faster

The more I make these notepad and pen sets, the faster I get.  I have sort of been using an "assembly line" type process where I put all the double-sided tape on first, then the white card stock, then the covers; then I make the pens, and add the ribbons, and secure the covers. I made 8 more sets tonight.

Day 29: The Cross of Many Colors

Worked on 6 more notepads tonight, using this cross of many colors paper by The Paper Studio.

Day 27: Trust in the Lord

Still working on Walk to Emmaus notepads and pens. Here's a new pattern.

Day 25: Agape Love

One of the things you learn about at Walk to Emmaus is Agape Love. People show agape love through kindnesses such as scripture cards, Christian bookmarks, etc. My agape love is expressed through my love of paper-crafting by the pen and notepad sets I have been making. I made another 6 notepads tonight, with paper that has words about Jesus on it. It was hard finding religious paper other than for a baptism or wedding at my local scrapbook stores. I finally found some at Hobby Lobby, by The Paper Studio. I guess I will have to spend some time searching the internet to find more paper to show my agape love for the pilgrims of future walks.

Day 19: It's A Pirate Card For Me!

I needed some boy birthday cards, so I made half a dozen cute pirate cards today. I used Nearly Navy cardstock from Stampin' Up! as my card base, and a striped print from The Paper Studio as a layer on top of the navy. Using a pirate stamp from Great Impressions, I stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock (Stampin' Up!) and then colored in the stamped image. I used Koh-I-Noor Hardmuth Colour Pencils (woodless) and Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits to color the pirate and his treasure chest. This was based on a technique I learned while at a stamp show from Inky Antics Rubber Stamps. The sentiment on the inside of the card reads: "Cheers to ye birthday boy! Now, draw ye sword and cut ye cake." I found the sentiment on the e-how.com website. I now have some cute cards for the boy birthdays coming up.

Day 14: Spring Recital Scrapbook Page

Tonight (while running into the other room to watch parts of the Miss America Pageant), I made the companion page to my daughter's dance page. In this photo, she and my son are pictured. He had a tumbling routine to perform and this photo was one taken of the two of them together. Since they both had yellow in their costumes, I chose three papers in So Saffron from the Tea Party Designer Paper Series by Stampin' Up! The base page had a large airy white floral print. On top of that I layered a paper with pale purple and saffron flowers. This helped to tie in the purple tones on my daughter's page completed yesterday. The mat for the photo had white polka dots, which echoed the polka dots on my daughter's outfit. I placed the photo on top, adhering it with clear photo corners by Pioneer. In the upper left and lower right corners, I placed purple metal photo corners from The Paper Studio. Since this photo is horizontal, I left a space at the bottom of the page for a title. I used a hodge podge of pale letters to create my title. I added a flower I made from green, purple, and pink silk flowers and secured with a pink glitter brad to the center of the title. The flower tied in to the one my daughter was wearing in her hair and also carried over the colors from the facing page.

Day 13: Beautiful Dancer Scrapbook Page

My daughter was in a dance recital and her costume was a pale green sheer material. To match it, I chose papers from Tea Party Designer Paper Collection by Stampin' Up! I used patterns of varying sizes so the eye would not be overwhelmed by all the variety of papers. I selected a paper with a green background with a small pink and yellow flower design for the base of the page. Using a die-cut paper I had, I traced around it and cut out a die-cut shape from a pink paper with white flowers. I layered the pink die-cut on top of the green base. Then I cut a rectangle from a pale purple paper with purple, yellow, and pink flowers as the mat for my daughter's photo, and layered that atop the pink die-cut. I attached the photo with clear photo corners by Pioneer. I used two pink metal photo corners by The Paper Studio in the bottom left and upper right corners of the photo. I cut two pink flowers from another of the coordinating papers, then layered a silk green and a silk pink flower on top of each, and secured the layers with a pink glimmer brad. I liked how the silk flowers carried on the light and airy feeling of my daughter's dress. I attached one flower in the upper left corner of the photo and the other flower in the bottom right corner of the photo. And that is how I created a scrapbook page for my beautiful dancer.