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Gobble

Katy — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:02:22 +0000

Wishing you lots of good gobbling today! I plan on taking photos of everything I cook today and inserting them in the bottom of this layout. In MDS I’ve got the photo placeholders all set up: 3 squares with Soft Suede Mats.

Update: I totally forgot to take photos of what I cooked, so I’ll have to take some photos of leftovers. I’ve updated the image to show the Soft Suede mats.

The home stretch: Fun and Cute week

Katy — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:46:03 +0000

So I slacked off on Classy and Elegant last week, didn’t I. I’ll try to make up for it the last 2 days of november since I don’t have a theme for those two days.

But here we are in this week, the 4th week of November. The final style I’m going to explore is Fun and Cute. The Moxie Fab blog describes Fun and Cute this way:

What makes a fun and cute card? To begin with–a happy color scheme, a sweet sentiment, and an uncomplicated design. Throw in some whimsy (like cartoons and doodles), a few simple shapes (like hearts and stars), some friendly patterns (like polka dots and gingham), and voila! There’s a smile on your face and a song in your heart that’s unmistakably fun and cute.

This sounds pretty close to Clean and Graphic, huh? Here is what I came up with for my traditional scrapbook page:

Not exactly a traditional size though…4×4. Nothing fancy about this card at all. Just me, some scissors and retired paper.

Rock-a-bye-baby

Katy — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:20:17 +0000

My project for today celebrates my new favorite person. Congrats M & J!

Artisan Award – Scrapbook Page #2: Road Trip

Katy — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:27:53 +0000

This is my favorite of the three scrapbook pages I submitted for Stampin’ Up!s Artisan Awards. It falls somewhere between shabby and classy…there is a lot of distressing but the lines are pretty clean.

Blizzard

Katy — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:52:20 +0000

For today’s Hybrid scrapbook page, I decided to use an image as my background. The photos on this page were taking during the three (THREE!) blizzards we had in Delaware last year. The snow turned the park next to my house into a Winter Wonderland.

One way to do this in MDS is to save your photo in the program folder where the background papers are stored. When you save photos in this file, then you can also use them to fill in punches…neat trick I learned on the My Digital Studio website that I also used on the Kissing Through the Years page last week.

Once I printed I punched out scallop circles and mounted it on Baja Breeze cardstock using Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I glued small photos of Lucy and Albie playing in the snow. I could have put more care into writing the subtitle, and I may try to cover it up with another, more professional looking layer later.

Almost Artisan – Scrapbook Page #2: Exploring Savannah

Katy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:00:53 +0000

Here is another scrapbook page that I submitted for the Artisan Award. I’m excited because I saw a it in one of the photos folks have been posting of the display boards at Convention!

Other than the solid card stock, gold brads, ribbon pretty much everything on this page is now retired product. The letters were cut using the Timeless Type and Billboard Dies. I jazzed up the paper pieced ornaments at the top using Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint (which is hard to see in this photo). I ruffled the ribbon by sewing a running stitch through it and then pushing the ribbon into ruffles. You can also do this by putting sticky strip down and ruffling it as you glue it down.

Recipe:

Paper: Merry Moments DSP (retired), Brushed Gold, Old Olive, Real Red
Embellishments: Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, Playground Buttons (retired), Gold Brads, Masterpiece Ribbon Originals (retired), 5/8″ Old Olive Satin Ribbon
Tools: Craft and Ribbon Sissors, Billboard Die, Timeless Type Die, Sponge Dauber, Paper Piercer

Almost Artisan – Scrapbook Page #1: Gazpacho

Katy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:21:39 +0000

For the past few years I’ve been a member of a CSA (community supported agriculture) farm share. Throughout the summer and fall I pick up a box of fruit and veggies at my local produce stand. I never know what will be in the box and it has made me a more adventurous cook.

One of my favorite things to make during the summer is Gazpacho, so I thought that a recipe scrapbook page would be a great way to capture my CSA experience.

This page is made mostly from paper and embellishments from the soon to be retired Write Stuff Specialty paper. The letters on the left are cut using the Billboard die, and the letters for the title are cut using the Timeless Type dies. The “g” in gazpacho is from On Board Lots of Letters and was covered in Really Rust textured cardstock.

The ribbon is Crushed Curry 5/8″ Polka Dot Grosgrain, shaped into ripples. I played around with a couple different ways of shaping the ribbon – I sewed it into pleats, put a running stitch through and squished it, and finally settled on using Sticky Strip to glue it into small ripples.