Portfolio E

Hi everyone! My stuff to show you is piling up again...I need to get more posted! Today I am sharing a mini book that I made for CHA. It uses the new "Simple Life" line of papers from My Little Shoebox. The book is from Maya Road. And I used Helmar Adhesives for everything....I used Premium Craft Glue and Liquid Scrap Dots (popped up some of my stickers and papers). I call it Portfolio E because it is full of pictures of Eryn (and some of them kinda look model-y). Here's the whole book:

I have a bunch more MLS projects to share with you too...I'll be posting them soon. :)

Hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

New MLS line in a Mini!

So I mailed off all my CHA projects yesterday!  Yeah!!!  Here's my last one to show you. It uses the NEW Robots Un-plugged line from My Little Shoebox.  But we also got some other fun stuff to use this month.  The album is from Clear Scraps, and the goodies (chipboard, trim, flowers, sheers) are from Maya Road.  

Have a fabulous Tuesday everyone!!!  

English Garden

Here are a bunch of fun projects using the new English Garden kit from Marks Paper Company.  For the most part, I used their digital version of the kit, but just printed it and used it traditionally.  

For this first project, I was feeling a little bit flirty.  :)  I made this to hang by our bed in the bedroom.  My hubby got a kick out of it.  

For the above project I used a wooden piece from Say it with Letters and altered it.  :)  

Here, I took a house from Maya Road and altered it to make a butterfly house.  

Just another view of the same thing...

Here's just a quick digi page...

And here are some quick and easy cards...

I really LOVE the new English Garden collection from Marks Paper Company!  It's just beautiful.  

And they are having a contest right now, check it out here on their blog.  Deadline is the 27th.  

And finally....

The Amazing Race begins at noon (MT) today!!!  That's not far away.  Our first clue will be posted on the RP blog.  I really hope you follow along, but it is also beneficial for you to do so...because they will have lots of giveaways just for those people following along, so stay tuned to their blog for that!  :)  

Have an awesome Wednesday everyone!!!!

I {heart} trim...oh and Lily Bee too! :)

So it seems like just yesterday I couldn't believe my baby was in Kindergarten.  Now I can't believe he is out of Kindergarten!  I've already started my list of things to do this summer.  But guess what is one of the things Austin wants to do.  :)  He wants to take an art class!  He's already said that he wants to spend a lot of time crafting with mama too.  He's so sweet.  But don't worry...I'll make sure he plays outside too.  :)

I've got a mini album to share with you today.  I made it for this contest.  Nothing like waiting til the last minute.  The contest's last day is today and I sat down and made the album last night.  Those Lily Bee papers are ADORABLE and right up my alley!  Love those colors!  Love the birds and the trees!  These papers were made for me.  :)  And you know how much I love trim so I played around a lot with that too.  Here it is:

And I learned a new trick (for me) with making this album.  I usually do back-stitching for all my projects.  But I wanted my stitching to look good on both sides.  So I sewed through once so it looked like this:  --  --  --  --  and then came right back through doing the same thing to make it go like --------.  Then I tied a little knot (which just adds to the design) and ta da...looks great on both sides.  I don't think I explained that very well.  Maybe I will type up a tutorial on that.  :)  Anyways, here are the pages of the album:

I made this album while I was watching "New In Town."  Such a cute movie.  I was worried that I wasn't going to really like it because I thought it was going to give scrapbookers a bad name.  There's scrapbooking in it...did you know that?  Well it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be and didn't really bother me at all.  No the scrapbooking wasn't like the modern scrapbooking...but it wasn't that bad!  So I recommend the movie to any and all.   :)  

Have a fabulous friday and an awesome weekend everyone!!!  

Supplies for "My Secrets" album:

Chipboard album--Maya Road, Papers--Lily Bee Designs, Gems--Rusty Pickle (clear) and Kaisercraft (pink), Button--Rusty Pickle, Trims--Websters Pages, Rusty Pickle, and Prima Marketing, Glitter--Stampin' Up!, Thread--DMC, Computer Font--Daily Birdie (from Audacious Designs).  

More Wall Art

Just a little something for Eryn's room. It's super simple. I got these frames (came in a set of 3) at Target in the dollar spot section (they were $2.50). Pretty good deal. I painted them white and then slipped a piece of patterned paper in the frames (background papers from Making Memories and Creative Imaginations). Then I took apart a Butterfly Coaster Album from Maya Road and just used the chipboard butterflies. I covered them with patterned paper (new stuff from My Little Shoebox) and sanded the edges. Then I just put the butterfly on the front of the whole thing. :) Like I said...simple.

Funny story: when I was hanging them, Austin was watching. I asked him if he liked them, and he hesitated then told me that he didn't understand why there were houses and trees and hearts on them. He said the striped one looked ok, but it was the only one. :) Butterflies don't have trees on them! I thought it was funny. :)

By the way, I used this same Butterfly Coaster Album for the card I previously posted here (the first one).

A Fun Mini

And I do mean mini!  :)  Have you seen those keychain books from Maya Road?  They are so fun!  Here's what I just made:

What I did:

1.  Covered the pieces with paint.

2.  Added rub-on's to each piece.

3.  Stamped with a Versamark pad and covered with UTEE and embossed.  This gives it that clear glaze.

4.  Added ribbon.

5.  Added Photos.

6.  Added writing (with a Sharpie on top of the enamel).

7.  Added gems.  :)

Man, I'm getting pretty good at typing with one hand while I hold Eryn.  :)  

Supplies:

Chipboard Keychain Book--Maya Road, Paint--Making Memories, UTEE--Ranger, Rub-On's--Hambly Studios, Gems--The Paper Studio, Ribbon--Maya Road, Black Sharpie.  

2009 Calendar

Ok...so I think there must have been some Blogger tracking system that registers when people complain about them, and then some Blogger dude that quickly fixes the problem, because right after I complained that it wouldn't work...wouldn't upload pictures...it started working!  :) 

This is one of those projects that I have been working on for a little while and it was just taking forever.  Not necessarily because the project should take forever, but because I was moving VERY slow with it!  I don't know if it was because I haven't been feeling too well, or because I just lacked motivation...but I had the hardest time getting this done!  But it is!  Done.  

This is one of my projects for this month's ScrapLovers reveals.  The "Calendar Album" comes from Maya Road as well as the chipboard I used.  The papers, brads, and chipboard numbers are all part of the Savannah collection from 7 Gypsies.  You can view that collection here.  I also got to incorporate these fun "Frosty Treat Stars" from Prima.  

Anyways...so here is the whole thing...

My approach to this project changed many times!  I wasn't sure that I wanted to make a calendar that I put a lot of effort into if I could only use it for a year.  So I designed the calendar myself in Photoshop.  That way I could easily make the same size, same look calendar for any year.  Then I took special measures to make my pages so I could easily replace the old calendar with a new one for 2010 (and any year after that).    And totally as a side note...did you know how easy it is to make brushes in Photoshop?  I had no clue it was so easy.  So I made brushes for each of these monthly calendars.  IF I can figure out how to put them on my blog so anyone who wants to can download them, then I will do it (let me know if you know how to do this!).  

But back to my approach...after doing all of that to make sure I could replace the calendars...I changed my mind.  I now plan on taking the album off the stand and then making it into my "year in review" album...incorporating additional pages with photos, etc, for each month of 2009.  :)  So look for that in 2010.  

Anyways...there you have it.  

Thanks random blogger dude (?) for fixing my problem.  :)