Now that the finalists have been announced for the MDS contest, I thought I would share my entries. Seeing as it was just Halloween, I will start off with my Halloween scrapbook entry.
One of the requirements was to enter a scrapbook page along with journalling. This was the page I submitted and the hardest part for me was definitely the journalling as I typically do not journal in my scrapbooks - I think it turned out okay though.
Maggie actually wore this costume for Halloween and many of the kids who came to the door were more interested in her than in getting candy!
Digital Supplies:
Papers: pumpkine pie cardstock, night and day dsp
Stamps: man's best friend
Embellishments: pumpkin pie brads and grosgrain ribbon, pick your poison borders
Punch: square punch
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Last Few Pages of Album
Here are a couple more layouts from the bridal shower album I've been sharing over the last few posts.
(I didn't have the written page yet at the time I took this photo.)


I haven't shared all the photos, just some of my favourites, hope you've enjoyed it!
Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
Ribbon: SU pumpkin pie grosgrain, black grosgrain, white organdy (retired)
Punches: SU 1/2" circle punch
Misc: SU pearls
(I didn't have the written page yet at the time I took this photo.)

I haven't shared all the photos, just some of my favourites, hope you've enjoyed it! Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
Ribbon: SU pumpkin pie grosgrain, black grosgrain, white organdy (retired)
Punches: SU 1/2" circle punch
Misc: SU pearls
Friday, September 3, 2010
Prima Flower Bridal Shower Pages
Here's a few more of the pages from the bridal shower album you can read about in the past couple posts. These are some using the Prima flowers.

My cousin will be getting this album tonight at her rehearsal dinner and I hope she enjoys it! I'll share a few more pages tomorrow!
Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie
Ribbon: SU black satin, black grosgrain
Punch: SU scallop edge punch
Misc: SU pearls, Prima flowers

My cousin will be getting this album tonight at her rehearsal dinner and I hope she enjoys it! I'll share a few more pages tomorrow! Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie
Ribbon: SU black satin, black grosgrain
Punch: SU scallop edge punch
Misc: SU pearls, Prima flowers
Thursday, September 2, 2010
More Bridal Shower Pages
Here are a few of my favourite pages from the scrapbook album that have the button embellishments (you can read more about this album here).

Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
Ribbon: SU black satin, pumpkin pie grosgrain, white organdy (retired)
Buttons: SU pumpkin pie, whisper white
Misc: SU pearls, embroidery thread


Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dpRibbon: SU black satin, pumpkin pie grosgrain, white organdy (retired)
Buttons: SU pumpkin pie, whisper white
Misc: SU pearls, embroidery thread
Monday, August 30, 2010
Bridal Shower Album
Part of the reason that I have not had much time for making cards is because I have been working on a bridal shower album for a shower that my Mom hosted. Each of the guests wrote down advice or wishes for the bride and had their picture taken with her. From there, I created the album with each two-page layout dedicated to one of the guests. The feature colour is orange as that is her wedding colour and then I used black to really make the orange pop (using white made everything too bright and you didn't really notice the pictures).
There were 17 guests in all so this was quite a lot of work. I had to make sure they all tied together but weren't too similar. My solution was to use 4 different embellishments (flowers that I made, Prima flowers, 1/2" circles with pearls and buttons) and try to evenly space them throughout the book. I also tried to balance out vertical and horizontal dp so as to try to alternate them throughout the book. Finally, I also tried to even out the type of ribbon used (black satin, black grosgrain, white organdy and orange grosgrain). Took a lot of thought and well over 24 hours total to make but I think it turned out quite well.
These are some of the layouts that used the flowers I made from the SU retired set Embrace Life (faces and names are blurred for privacy.

These pages are some of my favourites of all because I love that flower and did you notice the pearls in it - those are SU pearls that come in all diffferent sizes. One of my new favourite things in the new catalogue!
The only thing I am not too fond of about this album is it used up all of this pattern of dp from the island oasis pack!
Stamp: SU Embrace Life (retired)
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, pumpkin pie
Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
Ribbon: SU basic black grosgrain, basic black satin, white organdy (retired)
Punches: SU scallop edge
Misc: SU pearls
There were 17 guests in all so this was quite a lot of work. I had to make sure they all tied together but weren't too similar. My solution was to use 4 different embellishments (flowers that I made, Prima flowers, 1/2" circles with pearls and buttons) and try to evenly space them throughout the book. I also tried to balance out vertical and horizontal dp so as to try to alternate them throughout the book. Finally, I also tried to even out the type of ribbon used (black satin, black grosgrain, white organdy and orange grosgrain). Took a lot of thought and well over 24 hours total to make but I think it turned out quite well.
These are some of the layouts that used the flowers I made from the SU retired set Embrace Life (faces and names are blurred for privacy.


These pages are some of my favourites of all because I love that flower and did you notice the pearls in it - those are SU pearls that come in all diffferent sizes. One of my new favourite things in the new catalogue!The only thing I am not too fond of about this album is it used up all of this pattern of dp from the island oasis pack!
Stamp: SU Embrace Life (retired)
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, pumpkin pie
Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
Ribbon: SU basic black grosgrain, basic black satin, white organdy (retired)
Punches: SU scallop edge
Misc: SU pearls
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Birthday Scrapbook
I mentioned in this post, where I showed you the card that I made for my Mom's 50th birthday, that I would try to get some picures of the scrapbook that I made for her. Well, I finally did. I took some pictures of my favourite pages from it (and ones she hopefully won't be too embarrassed to have posted)! The whole album is 8x8 so majority of the pages I'll show you are the combined two page layout.
I have a funny/interesting story about this album (scroll down if you don't want to read), but I only made it the night before giving it to her without even seing the photos! My sister called the night before Mom's birthday and said that she had gone through old photo albums and got pictures of important/memorable events and reprinted in black and white and she was going to scrapbook them. Now, no offense to my sister, but she's used to decorating for little kids as a grade 2/3 teacher - so I offered to do it (which I think is what she was trying to get me to do all along). So, I had her tell me what pictures were of and whether they were portrait or landscape style so I knew how to set up the layouts. With only that information, I stayed up all night (literally, from 12 pm to 7 am) creating the album. Once I arrived home (about an hour before my Mom was to come home and open presents, I saw the photos and added them in where I had planned. I have to admit, I absolutely love the way it turned out. The only thing that I don't love is that, without the photos, I could not assume anything about cropping so they are all matted with a 4.25" x 6.25" white cardstock, because of that some photos have lots of junk in the background and some are actually way smaller because they are old photos. All in all though, I love it and I think Mom did too!
Anyway, now for the photos:
The above photos are obviously from my parents wedding and a picture of them from a few years ago. I just love that sentiment paired with these photos - I wish we had a picture of them from their 25th wedding anniversary to put on the right-hand side.
This layout shows my sisters (left) and my (right) grade 12 graduation. These pictures make me wish we had both gone to our University graduation ceremonies to have pictures with our parents there. Oh well, I was celebrating in Mexico instead!
This layout is a couple of photos of my Mom from a few of her trips (I can't recall which ones). I love these because it's great to see my Mom so happy travelling - she had to put it off a long time because she (and my father) had two kids to raise and then put through University. We were very spoiled!
Finally, this layout does not yet include a picture because I left it blank so we could add a picture of her from the exact day of her 50th birthday. It's on my sister's camera though so who knows when we will actually get to put it in there.
Supplies
Stamps: SU Kind & Caring Thoughts (hostess), PTI Father Knows Best
Ink: SU black, versamark
Paper: SU kraft, ww, basic black, baja breeze (retired), urban oasis dp (retired)
Ribbon: SU 1/4" black grosgrain
Punches: SU 1/2" circle, scallop edge
Misc: SU white ep, SU baja breeze flower fusion (retired)
I have a funny/interesting story about this album (scroll down if you don't want to read), but I only made it the night before giving it to her without even seing the photos! My sister called the night before Mom's birthday and said that she had gone through old photo albums and got pictures of important/memorable events and reprinted in black and white and she was going to scrapbook them. Now, no offense to my sister, but she's used to decorating for little kids as a grade 2/3 teacher - so I offered to do it (which I think is what she was trying to get me to do all along). So, I had her tell me what pictures were of and whether they were portrait or landscape style so I knew how to set up the layouts. With only that information, I stayed up all night (literally, from 12 pm to 7 am) creating the album. Once I arrived home (about an hour before my Mom was to come home and open presents, I saw the photos and added them in where I had planned. I have to admit, I absolutely love the way it turned out. The only thing that I don't love is that, without the photos, I could not assume anything about cropping so they are all matted with a 4.25" x 6.25" white cardstock, because of that some photos have lots of junk in the background and some are actually way smaller because they are old photos. All in all though, I love it and I think Mom did too!
Anyway, now for the photos:
The above photos are obviously from my parents wedding and a picture of them from a few years ago. I just love that sentiment paired with these photos - I wish we had a picture of them from their 25th wedding anniversary to put on the right-hand side.
This layout shows my sisters (left) and my (right) grade 12 graduation. These pictures make me wish we had both gone to our University graduation ceremonies to have pictures with our parents there. Oh well, I was celebrating in Mexico instead!
This layout is a couple of photos of my Mom from a few of her trips (I can't recall which ones). I love these because it's great to see my Mom so happy travelling - she had to put it off a long time because she (and my father) had two kids to raise and then put through University. We were very spoiled!
Finally, this layout does not yet include a picture because I left it blank so we could add a picture of her from the exact day of her 50th birthday. It's on my sister's camera though so who knows when we will actually get to put it in there.Supplies
Stamps: SU Kind & Caring Thoughts (hostess), PTI Father Knows Best
Ink: SU black, versamark
Paper: SU kraft, ww, basic black, baja breeze (retired), urban oasis dp (retired)
Ribbon: SU 1/4" black grosgrain
Punches: SU 1/2" circle, scallop edge
Misc: SU white ep, SU baja breeze flower fusion (retired)
Monday, September 21, 2009
Long Post of Wedding Scrapbook Album
This was one of the very few projects I had been working on since my last post over 2 months ago! I had seen my upline Andrea Walford's create fabulous scrapbooks from SU Simply Scrappin' kits Hoppy Memories and Tailor Made and got the idea to use her template along with the Love Sparkles Simply Scrappin' kit to create a mini wedding album. You can see great pictures of the albums fully opened up if you click on the links! I was not able to get any pictures of the whole thing opened up due to space!
I love the way this album turned out and the tutorial on how to create it was so clear! Once fully made, the album features 14 scrapbook pages that all fold up into a beautiful compact album. The colours (chocolate chip, so saffron, and regal rose) of this "Love Sparkles" simply scrappin' kit look perfect with the sepia toned photographs from the wedding. Note that I did add pretty in pink paper into the mix for more colour 'cause it matched the dp in the kit really well.
There's going to be lots of pictures but it lets you see each page of my album! So I hope you'll bear wtih me to see the pages! (I'll title the pages the same way as Andrea does so for those of you who own the directions you can see how they translated).
Here is the closed up album so you can see how it looks all folded up.
This is pages 1(top) and page 14(bottom) of the album, the picture beside this shows the inserts that pull out by the circle tabs from these pages.
Page 2 of the album:
Page 3 of the album:
Pages 4, 5, and 6 of the album all opened up (these open up from pages 2 and 3; also note that you can see page 1 above and page 13 below in the picture)
Here are closer looks at pages 4, 5, and 6 respectively.

Here's a look at page 7:
Page 8:
Pages 9, 10, 11 (pages 7 and 8 open up to reveal these pages in the same way as pages 2 and 3 open up to reveal 4, 5, and 6) In this picture you can see page 2 on the top and page 12 on the bottom).
Here are closer looks at pages 9, 10, and 11 respectively: 

Here's a look at page 12 along with the insert that pulls out in the same way as above for pages 1 and 14.
Finally, here is a look at page 13 (you've already seen page 14 above) with it's insert pulled partly out for you to see.
See, I wasn't kidding when I said there were a lot of pictures! Hope you've enjoyed looking at them. Plus, even better, you can make two full albums like this out of one Simply Scrappin' kit!! How AWESOME is that when they are only $26.95. The only additional materials are photos, glue and depending on how you want it to look you can use punches (as I used the circle punch to create the little half circle on the pages where inserts go) or add ribbons, brads, etc. You are only limited by your imagination! What a cheap alternative to creating a full album. You could even do a baby's full year of growth and more (one page per month)!
Sorry the picture quality isn't too great but it's hard to get good photos when this album ends up so large! Definitely check out the link to Andrea's tutorial pages to see how it all opens up!
Let me know if you have any questions about anything that I have shown or questions about Andrea's tutorials!
I love the way this album turned out and the tutorial on how to create it was so clear! Once fully made, the album features 14 scrapbook pages that all fold up into a beautiful compact album. The colours (chocolate chip, so saffron, and regal rose) of this "Love Sparkles" simply scrappin' kit look perfect with the sepia toned photographs from the wedding. Note that I did add pretty in pink paper into the mix for more colour 'cause it matched the dp in the kit really well.
There's going to be lots of pictures but it lets you see each page of my album! So I hope you'll bear wtih me to see the pages! (I'll title the pages the same way as Andrea does so for those of you who own the directions you can see how they translated).
Here is the closed up album so you can see how it looks all folded up.
This is pages 1(top) and page 14(bottom) of the album, the picture beside this shows the inserts that pull out by the circle tabs from these pages.
Page 2 of the album:
Page 3 of the album:
Pages 4, 5, and 6 of the album all opened up (these open up from pages 2 and 3; also note that you can see page 1 above and page 13 below in the picture)
Here are closer looks at pages 4, 5, and 6 respectively.

Here's a look at page 7:
Page 8:
Pages 9, 10, 11 (pages 7 and 8 open up to reveal these pages in the same way as pages 2 and 3 open up to reveal 4, 5, and 6) In this picture you can see page 2 on the top and page 12 on the bottom).
Here are closer looks at pages 9, 10, and 11 respectively: 

Here's a look at page 12 along with the insert that pulls out in the same way as above for pages 1 and 14.
Finally, here is a look at page 13 (you've already seen page 14 above) with it's insert pulled partly out for you to see.
See, I wasn't kidding when I said there were a lot of pictures! Hope you've enjoyed looking at them. Plus, even better, you can make two full albums like this out of one Simply Scrappin' kit!! How AWESOME is that when they are only $26.95. The only additional materials are photos, glue and depending on how you want it to look you can use punches (as I used the circle punch to create the little half circle on the pages where inserts go) or add ribbons, brads, etc. You are only limited by your imagination! What a cheap alternative to creating a full album. You could even do a baby's full year of growth and more (one page per month)!Sorry the picture quality isn't too great but it's hard to get good photos when this album ends up so large! Definitely check out the link to Andrea's tutorial pages to see how it all opens up!
Let me know if you have any questions about anything that I have shown or questions about Andrea's tutorials!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
And Now for Something Completely Different...
Ok, well this is something I created because I'd made one of these albums a long time ago and wanted to see how much easier it would be now that I've been paper crafting for a much longer time.
The pictures do not do this album justice at all. I couldn't get it to photograph well because it is long and not bright outside. This album is made out of the leftover spool from a roll of ribbon!

This is the top of the album.

This is a weird angle but it is what the spool looks like open so you can see how the lid attaches on and how the album sits right inside the center. This image makes it look messy - but I promise it is not.

This picture shows one side of the album as it is pulled out of the container.

This shows the other side of the album where pictures can be added.
I don't even know anyone having a girl - but I guess I'll have this for when someone does. The last one I made was a LOVE one for Valentine's Day for Grant. This works better with short words and few dimensional embellishments so that the ribbon spool still closes.
I have not seen anyone make one of these so if there is enough interest, I could create a tutorial.
Now for the products used:
I used my Cricut to cut all the circles because it goes really quick but you could also use circle punches
An empty ribbon spool
SU cardstock in certainly celery, pretty in pink and barely banana
SU designer paper "Spring Fling" (I know the cardstock should have been so saffron to match but I found the barely banada matched really well anyway and I liked that shade a bit better).
SU stamps from "Curvy Verses" and "So many scallops"
Ink: SU certainly celery and Versamagic pixie dust
Ribbon from Michaels $0.59 in yellow and pink
Prima flower
Making Memories flower brads
Jewel - I don't know where it came from
The pictures do not do this album justice at all. I couldn't get it to photograph well because it is long and not bright outside. This album is made out of the leftover spool from a roll of ribbon!

This is the top of the album.

This is a weird angle but it is what the spool looks like open so you can see how the lid attaches on and how the album sits right inside the center. This image makes it look messy - but I promise it is not.

This picture shows one side of the album as it is pulled out of the container.

This shows the other side of the album where pictures can be added.
I don't even know anyone having a girl - but I guess I'll have this for when someone does. The last one I made was a LOVE one for Valentine's Day for Grant. This works better with short words and few dimensional embellishments so that the ribbon spool still closes.
I have not seen anyone make one of these so if there is enough interest, I could create a tutorial.
Now for the products used:
I used my Cricut to cut all the circles because it goes really quick but you could also use circle punches
An empty ribbon spool
SU cardstock in certainly celery, pretty in pink and barely banana
SU designer paper "Spring Fling" (I know the cardstock should have been so saffron to match but I found the barely banada matched really well anyway and I liked that shade a bit better).
SU stamps from "Curvy Verses" and "So many scallops"
Ink: SU certainly celery and Versamagic pixie dust
Ribbon from Michaels $0.59 in yellow and pink
Prima flower
Making Memories flower brads
Jewel - I don't know where it came from
Friday, March 28, 2008
Back Home and Pet Scrapbooks
I am back home in Lethbridge and thought since I was just visiting with the family pets (and the family), I would share some pages from the scrapbooks I made of the pets. I made both scrapbooks for my parents for Christmas 2006. Both albums have pics of my parents in them but I eliminated most of them for the blog since I wasn't sure if they would be ok with their pics on here. These scrapbooks were only the second/third scrapbooks I made so I see so many things I could do differently now, but I (and my parents) still love them.
This scrapbook of Dawson was for my Dad since Dawson was a gift to my Dad for his 40th birthday. I am just showing some of my favorite pages from it as it would be too long otherwise.





This scrapbook of Zero was for my Mom since we consider Zero her cat (although I like to think he is mine). This too, is just a few pages. 





Both of these scrapbooks were made using materials primarily from the Making Memories scrapbook kits for a dog and cat respectively. I just added a couple of extra embellishments such as eyelets and jewels. I also used Bazzill Basics textured cardstock for both.
This scrapbook of Dawson was for my Dad since Dawson was a gift to my Dad for his 40th birthday. I am just showing some of my favorite pages from it as it would be too long otherwise.






This scrapbook of Zero was for my Mom since we consider Zero her cat (although I like to think he is mine). This too, is just a few pages. 





Both of these scrapbooks were made using materials primarily from the Making Memories scrapbook kits for a dog and cat respectively. I just added a couple of extra embellishments such as eyelets and jewels. I also used Bazzill Basics textured cardstock for both.
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