Posts Tagged "Scrapbook"

Kissing Through the Years

Posted by on Nov 4, 2010 in Scrapbooks | 0 comments

Kissing Through the Years

NaBloPoMo Thursdays will be digital scrapbook pages. Last week I was purging my back room and found a treasure trove of old photos of my mom. I’m planning on doing pages for most of them, but I was really inspired by the two photos I found of my mom and dad kissing. Again, I struggled with making it look shabby/vintage. One of the things I discovered, which I really love, is the vellum “look” on the right. To do that, I inserted a Whisper White page layer (not background) and then adjusted the opacity to 20% (you’ll find that in the box on the right of the MDS...

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NaBloPoMo & Halloween Pup Page

Posted by on Nov 1, 2010 in Scrapbooks | 0 comments

So I’ve decided to give NaBloPoMo a try with OnyxStamps. A number of years ago I’d participated on a personal blog that I wrote for a while. It is quite a challenge to write a post a day for 30 days. Doing this for OnyxStamps will be even tougher, because it means I have to post a craft item a day too! I’ve got a good plan in place though, and have already started tackling a number of projects, as well as identifying items that I haven’t blogged about yet. Each week will have a theme – one of the 4 styles that Card Style magazine outlines: Shabby & Vintage,...

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Color Coach inspired scrapbook page

Posted by on Aug 16, 2010 in Scrapbooks | 0 comments

The So Shelli Creative Challenge for August is to use a color combination from Stampin’ Up!’s new Color Coach. I knew I wanted to give this challenge a try, but had originally intended to pick a combo using Bravo Burgundy, a color that I have a really hard time working with. However, on Friday night I decided to sort through all my scraps and file them away. (I store them by color in clear page protectors in a binder.) As I was working through months of scraps, I discovered that somewhere along the line the scrap pile had a run in with some Tombow Multipurpose Adhesive (ooops)....

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