Grace

I used Cursive Handwriting Sample for the Week 10 font, printed on white copy paper, and inked the edges. The little yellow flowers and the yellow tab are from some of mom's stuff. I used a corner punch, took off the edged and punched on a straight piece of paper to make the decorative edge at the bottom of the page.

Week 10 Grace: (Front Scripture) We believe that through the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.

- Acts 15:11

Grace (Back Definition) 1a: help given to people by God in overcoming temptation b: a state of freedom from sin enjoyed through divine grace 2a: a short prayer at a meal.

Recipe: Punches: decorative corner punch, flower, Scrap Essential Alphabet set, Ink: purple Font: Cursive Handwriting Sample

Floral Stick Pins

I like the look of the stick pin you see in various projects on the Internet. I have not bought any as the only ones I can find come in the color of pink and are shaped hearts. If you have been following my blog you can see that I don't use pink a lot. I have guys so I need guy colors. Here is what I came up with. I went to JoAnn's and looked in the floral department and bought the floral pins.

I dipped them into acrylic paint and let dry. Then applied a coat of varnish. After they were dry I cleaned them up with my fingernail to get the excess paint and varnish off.

This is what they look like with the varnish, nice and shiny,

I used the Ranger distressing ink, stamp pad ink, and alcohol ink on them. I just twirled the stick pin while adding the alcohol ink, or rubbed them across my stamp pad. A Styrofoam plate works well to hold the stick pins up while drying. Once they were dry I dipped them in varnish. The ones I rubbed in stamp pad ink were still a bit damp after leaving them over night, but I dipped them in varnish anyway. They dried very nicely.

With a few buttons, beads, or ribbon you now have a custom made stick pin. This is what mine looks like. I glued a seed bead to the bottom of the pin so no one would poked them self.

Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials

I recently watched a webinar that the National Association of Digital Scrapbookers held. The tutorial was excellent and I learned a lot. This layout is based on the tutorial I watched.

I believe that I am a pretty good multitasker, so I had my Adobe Photoshop Elements on my computer at the same time the webinar was going on. Next time I will just take notes then make my layout based on what I learned.

Flag Day

Here is a Flag Day template.

Click here for the template.

Playing Catch Up

I've been following the Scripture Challenge but have not been keeping up with posting them here. With that in mind I will be posting the "Catch Up's" as a couple of weeks at a time.

Week 7: Glad (front scripture)

" Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;

Let the sea roar, and everything in it, Shout His praise

- Psalm 96:11

Glad (back definition)

1a: experience pleasure, joy or delight: made happy

b: made pleased, satisfied, or grateful c: very willing

2a: marked by, expressive of, or caused by happiness.

Week 7 Glad: Using Adobe Photoshop Elements and Vivaldi as the font I typed the sayings on white printer paper, trimmed and inked the edges in blue. The same blue ink is used for the "g" tab on a light green paper. I used the scallop punch as the tab for my cards and punched "GLAD" out of light blue paper.

Week 8: Trust (front Scripture)

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart: and learn not

unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him,

and he shall direct thy paths.

- Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust (back definitions)

1a: firm belief in the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something.

b: a person or thing in which confidence is placed

2: a confident hope.

Week 8 Trust: I used RomandScr D as the font this time, printed out on regular paper, inked the edges. I'm using regular printer paper so that some of the background will show through but not as much as if I were using vellum. The flowers were punched out of green paper and applied randomly - it's a punch from mom so I'm not sure what kind. The scallop punch is used for the tab but on the end this time. I know that my definition side has misspelled words on it but I have fixed it the actual photoshop file.

Recipe: Punches: Scallop Oval, circle, Flower - 8 petal, Scrap Essential Alphabet set, corner rounder Paper: Scraps Stamps: Hero Arts Clear Designs "G" Ink: green, blue, black Misc: glue Fonts: Vivaldi, RomandScr D

Paper Mache Boxes

I've collected a few of the Cricut Cartridges and I've been trying to figure out how I want to store them. I love the boxes they come but, I have a few of them and want to condense the stack of boxes. I started putting them in a plastic tote but I have since grown out of that and didn't want to go to a larger size tote.

I picked up a couple sets of three Paper Mache Boxes from JoAnn's. I'll store in the small box the cartridges, the middle size is the perfect size for the Cricut Cartridges and Keypad Cover and the largest box I am going to use to sort my chipboard letters.

I have no secret for painting the boxes, just that it takes awhile for all the layers of paint to dry. I dug out my acrylic paints and painted the boxes, stamped, added a layer of crackle paint, painted again and stamped a simple design on the outside and lid of each box, then a light coat of varnish. I sponged the inside of the boxes and sealed with a light coat of varnish. I'm undecided if I want to add feet to the boxes.

Using Design Studio I made the dividers on the inside and cut out of Cardstock.. Pulled out my P-touch and labeled all of the dividers for the boxes. I have two medium size boxes for Cricut Cartridges which gives me a little bit of room to grow.

Memorial Day Template

Posting the Father's Day template I realized I had not posted the Memorial Day Template.

Click here for the template.

Mini Notebooks

I'm trying to downsize what I carry and these Mini Notebooks will fit perfectly in my purse. I covered the outside with scrapbooking paper that was left over from a pregnancy journal and stamped on the inside of some of the pages inside.

Wild Onions

I used a kit by Athena from Plain Digital Wrapper. The Wild Onions were taken in the Wildcat Hills in Nebraska. They were blooming everywhere. The Wildcat Hills are just outside of Scottsbluff and Gering Nebraska.

Recipe: Digital Kit by Athena Word Art by Souther Creek Design.

Free Photo Editing Class . . .

Jessica Sprague is offering another class for fee in you sign up between June 22 - June 28. I like the fact the the information will still be there after the class is over, as life sometimes gets in the way. Click here to go to her site.

Father's Day template

Here is the Father's Day template. The picture was taken while we were in Nebraska. All of the guys are father's. Looking back I realize how few pictures I have all four of them together.









As I'm posting this I realize I haven't posted the Mother's Day template so I am linking up both of them here.




I changed it up a little for these templates I used Franklin Gothic as the font




Click here for the Father's Day template.
Click here for the Mother's Day template.

Happy Father's Day

I took this picture last year of dad walking along the potato plants. I used a kit by Jennifer Schmitt called Daybreak. For the quote I used Tara Type font. You can pick it up here.

Junce CD Calendar

The butterfly is from a thank you card. I stamped several of them on to a transparency, cut them apart. When I stamp onto a transparency I stamp several of them and use the heat gun to dry them. I used scraps for the background four squares and flowers left over from other projects.

Watching

I used a digital kit by Glenda Ketcham for this page. Izzy is watching the birds in the yard. I used the font Valley Forge.

The name of the kit is Digital Scrapbook Experience Mini-Kit. I just love the colors in this kit.

Just Add Dirt

Over at Plain Digital Wrapper the Monthly Color Challenge is some really bright colors. I was having a hard time scrapping with these colors. After many, many tries I came up with this layout.

We were putting in a new sprinkler line and Izzy decided she needed to help out. She was one dirty little dog by the time she wore out.





I toned down the background papers by using a couple of texture filters and made a couple of ribbons following the tutorial from Everyday Digital Scrapbooking here.

7 Paper
5 Star Wands
3 Labels
3 Arrows
2 Ribbons
1 Rainbow
Click here to get the Summer Time Kit






Click here to get the Summer Time Word's

Happy Birthday

I used the edge of scissors to score vertical line on the Hollyhock card stock the sanded the cardstock. I stamped a mini flower with Hollyhock ink and pierced the center of the flowers. I wrapped the top of the card stock with a grosgrain ribbon. On the piece of Sunflower card stock I stamped the same flower in Sunflower ink. With Hollyhock ink stamp Happy Birthday and a mini flower on Colonial white and cut out, insert a brad in the center of the mini flower. Cut out another piece of grosgrain ribbon, fold in half and glue behind the Sunflower card stock to create a tab. Glue the mini flower on top.

This is another from the Me to You set from Close to My Heart.

Recipe: Stamp Set: Close to My Heart - From Me to You

Paper: Colonial White, Sunflower, Hollyhock

Stamps: Close to My Heart - From Me to You

Ink: Sunflower, Garden Green, Hollyhock

Misc: glue, grosgrain ribbon, brads, scissors,

Ref Moves

Day 2 we were to create a layout using cropped photos and use only a partial image of the subject. These photos of DH referring a Wrestling Tournament were perfect for this assignment.




I used a kit by Vicki at A Work in Progress called Boys Will Be Boys.

5 Summer Favorites

Are you taking the challenge that Jessica Spraque is doing? Day one was to make a layout of 5 Summer Favorites.

My favorites are: Birthday (we celebrate a lot of birthday's in the summer time), Gardening (just love the fresh herbs and veggies), Parades, Flowers, and Fireworks.

I used four different digital kits for this layout and the font is Creampuff.

Recipe: Digital Set: Digital Art by Steph: Oriental Kit, Oriental Mini Kit, Rose Kit and Leather Alpha Kit.

Font: Creampuff

June Desktop

This is for the monthly challenge at Digital Scrapbook Pages using the kit provided by Amanda Thordenson

I added in the Red Butterfly's as that was not part of the kit. I wanted the paper under the lyric to be a different than the one provided in the kit so I used my color grabber took and picked up the tan from the rick rack ribbon then used a couple of different overlays to get the finish I wanted.

When I make my desk tops I always add in a poem, quote or lyric. This time I used the lyric from Rascal Flatts "My Wish", and the Font creampuff. The green is picked up from the green diamonds on the middle paper.

Click here for the word art.

Recipe: Digital Set: Thora Garden_Calendar09 from Digital Scrapbook Pages, Valjs Red Reflective Elements Digital Overlays: Cracked Finish, Rainforest.

Font: Creampuff

For You

I sanded the Sunflower paper and then stamped randomly in Sunflower Ink the vine stamp and a mini flower. I sanded the Hollyhock paper and stamped on of the smaller flowers in Hollyhock randomly, and tied a green ribbon around it lengthwise. Using Colonial White I stamped another mini flower in Sunflower, Garden Green, and Hollyhock, cut out, pierced the centers and put a brad though and glued onto the ribbon. I stamped the "For You" in Hollyhock on Colonial White, cut around it and glued to the front of the card so that it is on both the Sunflower and the Colonial White.

This is another from the Me to You set from Close to My Heart.

Recipe: Stamp Set: Close to My Heart - From Me to You

Paper: Colonial White, Sunflower, Hollyhock

Stamps: Close to My Heart - From Me to You

Ink: Sunflower, Garden Green, Hollyhock

Misc: glue, grosgrain ribbon, brads, small hole punch.

Friendship

Here's another card from the Close to My Heart Set. I haven't finished the envelope or the inside of the cards yet.


This time I sanded the Sunflower cardstock, stamped with one of the mini flowers in this set in Sunflower ink and used a small hole punch to punch out the center of some of the mini flowers. I tied the ribbon around the sunflower then glued down. The daisy is stamped in Garden Green with a Hollyhock center, cut out and popped up. Friendship is stamped on the reverse of the sunflower card stock, distressed the edges and sanded. I added two brads to this before gluing down.

Recipe: Close to My Heart Stamp Set:
Paper: Close to My Heart Sunflower, Colonial White
Ink: Sunflower, Garden Green and Hollyhock
Stamps: Close to My Heart - From Me to You
Misc: Grosgrain ribbon, brads, glue, pop up dots, small hole punch

Film Strip Baby Pages

I made this film strip with the George cartridge only. I'm so glad that I finally got Design Studio back up and running so that I can use it on this baby page. Thank you DH!!! I made two sizes of the film strip - 4 and 5 pictures.

I cut out a 8 1/4" circle for the backgroung of everything, mounted the film strips on a pice of Sunblock paper and added the accessories which were cut from Graphically Speaking using the Girl and Boy accents.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe: Paper: Nana's Nursery boy and girl, Sunblock tan and white paper, Card stock - green, pink, light pink, blue, light blue, and tan
Cricut Cartridges: George, Graphically Speaking
Misc: brads, glue

June 2009 Template

Here is June template. The picture of the Iris was taken while we were at Lake Minatare in Nebraska. As we were driving to the old school house that I went to grade school at we passed Lake Minatare and drove up to the light house. The Irises are planted outside the Light house.

For the template click here.

Celebrate

This is from a set from Close to my Heart From Me to You. I had purchased this about a year ago and took the set with me to stamp while I was traveling. The set comes with the cardstock, stamps, mini ink, sanding paper, brads, grosgrain ribbon, and envelopes.

The card base is a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" folded in half. I stamped the scallop border in Hollyhock. Sanded the sunflower card stock, added the ribbon and glued between the hollyhock borders. The daisy is stamped in Garden Green and cut out and a hollyhock center is added. I used pop up dots behind the flower. I stamped Celebrate in Garden Green.


Recipe: Stamps: Close to My Heart - From Me to You stamp set
Ink: Hollyhock, Garden Green
Paper: Close to My Heart - Colonial White, Sunflower Card Stock
Misc: sand paper, green brads, pop up dots, glue, Garden Green grosgrain ribbon