Scrapaganza Kits!

I'm helping design kits for Scrapaganza, both Fast Kits and Get Your Scrap On wednesday kits. I thought I'd show a few off here. If you are in the QC, stop by Scrapaganza and pick up any of the kits you like!

Fast Kit - Doggone Funny

Get Your Scrap On Wednesdays (make and takes)

Thanks for looking!

June Club stuff

This month's Scrapanista Scrapbook Club is JilliBean Soup! Fun papers to work with! At first I had my doubts... what was I going to do with farm theme papers? But I ended up having lots of fun with them.

This layout is simpler because my focus is on the spinner on the right. Below the green circle are photos, and then the green circle is attached with a brad and has a Tim Holtz hitch post attached to use as a handle for turning the spinner so that you can see the photos below it through the window I had cut out.

This is my artsy page. I got the idea for the distressed interior frame from a wonderful scrapper online... I am pretty sure who it is, but the info is on my flash drive so I'll have to get it later. :)  I think it was one of the SOUS ladies though.

I'm starting early to come up with gift ideas now, and this was an idea I had. I really like making clocks so it's just a matter of deciding who gets one this year. :)

ack, a storm! I'd better run for now.. Thanks for looking!

New stuff!

I need to catch up posting my projects! :)  So here's a few things I've done in the time since I last posted some projects.

These were projects from the club kit for May at Scrapaganza. This is the in-store club, however in the very near future, the Scrapanista Club kits will be available over the internet! woot!

May's club kit featured Fancy Pants Road Show collection. For me, that lead me to scrap the photos of my mom's wedding to my father. Since they'd divorced long ago, she'd given me the photos and her wedding album with it's memorabilia. It was almost a shotgun wedding as my mom was pregnant with me. They were willing, but it didn't last long, lol. 

This second layout is of the wedding shower and has the little ring that was a favor in the Shower invitation, as well as two pages from my mom's album that listed the shower gifts, which I used as ephemera in the background. Since I used the original photos, they are not adhered down, just in clear photo corners. I used flower techniques that are in my flowers tutorial list (see the link in the side bar).

Thanks for looking! I'll be posting some more tomorrow hopefully. Only 2.5 days left at my day job, then I'm on to full-time mommyhood and scrapper!

Still Here!!! and The Story Matters!

Hey all! I truly am still around! with the nice weather came busy busy times! mostly with my son... Between the full time job and spending most of my free time out and about with the kid, I have been doing minimum scrapping lately. But that's all about to change!

I will be going full time mom after June 11th, as I am quitting the full time job! I will also be working part time at the local scrapbook store, Scrapaganza! I'm super excited about this, even though it's a scary huge change (I've been working for 21 years for the municipal government).

Blog Hop!
Scrapaganza's online kit club "The Story Matters" is having a blog hop! The June kits went on sale today and I have to say, they are awesome! Check them out at The Story Matters Blog and get started on the hop to win!

More TSM

Two more pages with The Story Matters kits from March and April combined. :)  May Day 2007 uses some G45 papers from the kit, plus some other scraps I had that I made into flowers. I used Sandy's tutorial on SOUS to make my own flower stem, plus layered a bunch of other flowers on as well.

Here's a closer look at the stem and the added flowers. The stem has the peachy colored mini roses that I made on it. The added flowers are red and turquoise.

This one is also from the TSM kits. I used flowers from the Pagoda cartridge, a cut from A Child's Year. I have forgotten where I found the heart shaped lock though. 

Kevin in Wonderland

Hello all! So glad that hump day is over, just two more days till the weekend!

Here's a new layout. I did this with The Story Matters March kit. I used a Martha border punch for the accordian flower and another border on the pear paper. the background shape is from an accu-cut die at the LSS. Martha branch punch as well. The rabbit is from a cricut cartridge but darned if I can't remember which one! sorry! And Storybook for the title! I love the handmade buttons by Charlene.

Kevin was feeling poorly that day, we were at a family safety fair and we'd taken him since there's always kids stuff there, but he was coming down with something (which has been the case for the last 6 months) but he insisted on getting a picture with the Alice in Wonderland characters.

Thanks for looking! I have more TSM kit layouts to post soon!

Scrappinista Club!

 Last month I started designing for my local store Scrapaganza's in-house kit club. Scrapaganza recently held a contest for customers to name their kit club, and "Scrapinista Scrapbook Club" was the winning name. :) 

I just loved this month's kit! The product is My Mind's Eye, a new line, and I just loved the papers and the product we got in the kit for embellishments. If you are a local (Quad Cities, IA & IL) you should stop in and check out the new Club and sign up. In addition to my stuff, there are at least 3 other designers. The store creates a booklet of instructions, photos and how-tos so you can either re-create the pages the designers made or come up with your own pages inspired by designer's work. For now, I will just share what I created for Club. :)

The layout above used a die-cut page from the line, some cardstock, two die-cuts for the title and the tree embellishment, and a metal tag rim from Making Memories that is glittered. I also use a circle template to punch holes and sew brown ribbon in a circle.

Dandelion Boy uses another die-cut sheet but I wanted something a little different than I've done before. I like how it turned out, the way it focuses on the photos. There are a couple other sheets of printed paper, cardstock, a journaling block, an owl sticker, the coordinating letter stickers and some more of the MM tag rims, which I clustered together with ribbons to tie them as embellishments.

I made this mini-book with the remainder of the kit plus I used the cricut to cut out some of the pages in chipboard. I used Storybook because that's the only cartridge that Scrapaganza owns with an owl on it, so Club members can cut their own mini book. There are two pages I did not use the cricut to cut, the tree and the cloud pages, but those were easy for me to hand-draw, which I did. The tree looks just like the tree die-cut that came with the line. I used a Espresso paint dauber to cover the edges of the book. Here are the rest of the pages!

Stay tuned, tomorrow I'm planning to post pics of what I've done for The Story Matters Kit club, Scrapaganza's internet kit club!

Thanks for looking!