Happy Halloween

Cannot believe it has been 3 weeks since I last posted to my blog. I guess a lot has been happening. Here is a layout I made using those terrific engagement photos of my daughter and her beau Josh. Love how this one came out.

I've also been real busy making cards for my LSS Creating Lasting Memories. This week I did a demo on the Cuttlebug. These cards are some samples I made for it.

The machine is really quite amazing and using the new color core paper, as in the green scallop circle with bird, adds another fun dimension.

The turquoise card is made with a Dreamweaver stencil and Black Magic paper. Tried some gel pens designed for writing on black paper to add some pop to the outline of the stencil.

The treat bag is what everyone got to make. Filled with candy, it looks even better!

APU

I struggled all afternoon with this layout trying to find pictures to match the pink and green paper and finally...ta-da. These photos from 2004 were just perfect. How was Allison to know that she would wear the perfect color shirt I needed her to be wearing 4 years later.
As can be seen, it's another grid layout. I'm really enjoying these.


And do I love these engagement photos that Allison just posted today. Yes, I do.

Time to Celebrate

It's another Color Challenge from super talented (and busy) Kristina Werner, author of one of my favorite blogs.

The colors for this week's challenge were Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie, and Very Vanilla.
Very autumn, which is my favorite season of the year. And for me (it's personal!) autumn is all about birthdays. So instead of leaves and pumpkins and the like, I decided to create a birthday card. Plus I was just dying to use these cute Bazzill Chips arrows. Love them. And anything with a bird is good with me.

First Grid

I completed my first "grid" layout this weekend. I started it at the Scrap Pink crop on Friday evening and finished it up yesterday. The photos are from Christmas, 2001 and I've been wanting to scrap them for a long time. It was kind of a mini photo shoot of my daughter and seemed perfect for attempting Allie Edwards' weekend creative. I had so much fun with this. Definitely will have to try it again.

Rogue River

Layout for a little outing we went on the first day of summer. And here it is: the first day of fall. Summer sure seemed to fly by. This is some really great paper by Graphic 45. And I was real pleased with the chipboard circles. I was playing around with the zoom on my digital camera all day (myhusband goes to fish; I go to take pictures!). The mother duck and her babies were actually all the way across the river from me. My SLR camera would have taken a better shot, but this was not too bad.

I actually got three more wedding layouts done last week and will post them tomorrow. I am hoping to finish up that album this week.....and get the Christmas cards done for World Card Making Day. My LSS has a great day planned and I can't wait. Plus it is Scrap Pink this Friday and that should be fun too. Looks like a great time coming up. One season ends, but the next is always good too.

Kind

Its another color challenge from Kristina Werner. I needed a thank you card and this seemed just the ticket. I love fall and I love these fall colors. Decided to go with a really fun technique: dye inks dabbed on glossy paper.

Stand By Me

I promised more layouts from the wedding scrapbook I'm currently working on. As I said, the color I'm working with is red. But I love how this one came out, and my favorite part is the title. But I was not happy when the girls were looking off the page (bottom layout). So I reversed image in Photoshop (top photo). Way better. I don't know how the program does it, but I think it's amazing.

I've started adding some journaling blocks to the layouts for the bride to record her memories. Her mom says she loves to write. Yeah!