Open House

My Open House was fun. Thanks to everyone who came to see me that day, many of you drove from Colorado & Wyoming! Here's a pictures of my sample table showing the scrapbook layouts and also the candy dish with some of the fun salt water taffy I bought at convention. Info about fall classes will be coming soon. School starts for teachers tomorrow here at Potter-Dix H.S......I'm not sure where my summer went :-).

I know it is June but here's a cute Fall page!

Yes, the calendar does say June but I wanted to share this cute Fall scrapbook layout. This was for a recent contest entry and I can share that with you now. I used my sewing machine to sew the bark lines on the tree and I really like the way that it turned out. Just used brown thread on the Chocolate Chip cardstock and sewed randomly up and down the trunk and into each branch. Once again I used my Big Shot for the scallop circle shapes for the clumps of leaves and the alphabet titles too.

The nice thing about scrapbooking is that you can work on any page for any season any time of the year....especially when you have as much cardstock and DSP on hand like I do! LOL!

Kaleidoscope DSP: Butterfly

The Kaleidoscope DSP paper (from Stampin' Up!) has this adorable butterfly on 2 of the sheets of paper. I turned it into a 3-d embellishment by cutting and layering it and applying a layer of crystal effects. The bright colors in the DSP makes for a fun "girly" page!

Wedding page

I made this fun wedding page with a photo I took at my nephew's wedding last year. I love to dabble in photography and was excited to have my nephew and his new wife ask me to do their wedding photos a year ago (Happy Anniversary Dan & Sam). This was definitely one of my favorite shots and I love b/w photos so did a little simple editing on this photo.
I used the Big Shot (of course) to make several of the embellishments on this page. I tried to keep the color scheme really simple to let the photograph stand out. The
Bridesmaid paper used on this layout is one of the retiring products from SU! so if you like the look of that vanilla colored shiny & patterned papers you can click the "shop now" button on this blog to go to my SU! website to order some for your own scrapbooking projects.

SO Sweet scrapbook page

Here is a fun sample using the Circle Circus (new Stampin' Up! stamp set)and the Big Flower Sizzix die for a scrapbook page layout. The word "so" is a "s" from the Serif Die in the Big Shot machine. The "o" is the large circle design from "Circle Circus" embossed with VersaMark and Clear embossing powder and punched out with the 1 3/4 circle punch from Stampin' Up!. The center of the flowers are also embossed images from the "Circle Circus" set and punched out with the 1 3/8 inch circle punch. This layout shows the new in-line colors for 2009-10 in the Stampin' Up! Catalog & Idea Book. Designer paper is: Razzleberry Lemonade.
Enjoy!
Jennifer
artwork copyright Stampin' Up!

12x12 page from a 6x6 page

Here's a 12x12 sized page layout from the 6x6 design you've seen in a previous post. I like the "quilt" look this design has. The designer paper is: Sweet Slumber Speciality from Stampin' Up!.

Scrapbooking: rustic and distressed

I love the rustic and distressed look on my scrapbook pages. Here's a simple layout with several black and white photos and one colored photo framed to grab your attention. This color scheme plays off of the rustic old car in the background of the larger photo.
Happy scrappin,
Jennifer

Splish Splash I was taking .....

a BATH. Yep, same cute baby as past posts. Here is a scrapbook page focusing on one adorable photo and using alot of my Big Shot products and other fun embellishments from Stampin' Up!

Remember to check out the retired list of Stampin' Up! products as many of my favorite designer papers are on that list. I know we will have fabulous new designer series paper designs but now is your chance to get the current items before they retire. Many retiring items are 50% or 25% off. Click the link on the left side of my blog to see the complete list. Items available while supplies last so don't delay. Remember you can order online anytime.

12x12 "Family" themed scrapbook page

Here's a fun 12x12 layout. I used Very Vanilla cardstock and I really like the vanilla letters: "family" at the top of the layout....subtle but still there for a title. For the vanilla title of "family" I first glued the vanilla cardstock onto coasters then cut the letters out on my Big Shot machine. This way the letters are thicker and can be easily glued to the page with glue dots. The rest of the page uses various rub-ons, chipboard shapes,ribbon and cardstock embellishments also cut from the Big Shot machine.
Enjoy,
Jennifer
artwork copyright Stampin' Up! 2009

6x6 page of Baby Reese

Here's a quick and easy 6x6 sized scrapbook page made with "Sweet Slumber Speciality" designer paper from Stampin' Up! and some of the Yellow ribbon from SAB '09 (have a ton of that to use up LOL!) The blue square in the top left corner was made by using two 6x6 pieces of of that designer paper with right sides (blue sides) together.....I folded down the top piece to create the 45 degree angle and the print on the blue paper creates the white square behind my chipboard "a".