CASEing Patter (FS231)

This week's Featured Stamper is IdenticalTriplets. Patter has a very interesting gallery with cards, lots of scrap booking and photos of craft room organization. I decided not to make a card, but instead, I did a scrap book page. I was inspired by her "Your Thoughts" page. I was inspired by her layout and colors. This is an 8-1/2" X 8-1/2" page. For this scrap book, I chose to keep all titles four letters or less and have a scalloped border on the outside edge of every page. I used Crumb Cake for the base with Certainly Celery and a dp from "Friends & Flowers" which is a retired Simply Scrappin' Kit. I used scraps for all the flowers, title and journaling block. The title was made with Garden Delight Alpha Set, and I used various Stampin' Up! punches for everything else except the butterfly which is a sticker from the Dollar Tree store. I did this yesterday, but didn't have time to post until this morning. The photo is one of my square foot gardens that we recently planted. We're having a very short growing season this year since we had freezing temperatures in early June. Thanks for stopping by!!

Friends

The sketch for this page was found at the PageMaps Blog. It's actually some sort of contest, but I think I'm too late to enter. I still liked the sketch though, especially with all those butterflies!! This is the first page about our trip to California in December to meet Pat Smethers and go to the Living Nativity at her brother's church in Nevada City. What a wonderful time we had!! I feel like Pat and I have known each other for years!! Pat and I met online, and it was great to meet her in person along with Jenny, owner of Creative Cards, Etc., and Judy Kell, another Twisted Sistah!

• Stamps: Friends 24-7
• Papers: Sweet Pea DSP, Basic Grey Oh Baby (Marigold) DP, Apricot Appeal Prints DSP, Taken With Teal, Barely Banana and Apricot Appeal Card Stock
• Ink: Taken With Teal
• Accessories: Big Shot, Nesties, Beautiful Butterflies Die, MS Butterfly Punches, SU! Butterfly Punch, Felt Butterflies (from Pat Smethers), Apricot Appeal GG Ribbon, Corner Rounder Punch, Sponge, Gel Pen

Scrap Book Night

This is the floral/feminine layout for tonight's Scrap Book Night. The white pieces indicate photos without additional matting. The title would be in the top blank section.

This is the generic layout. The two top white pieces indicate photos. The white piece on the patterned paper with the punched strip would be for journaling.

This is my two-page layout with actual photos. Mine is definitely masculine. It's all about my son's 14th birthday last January up at Eagle Lake, CA. Thanks for stopping by again!!

• Papers: Kiwi Kiss TCS, Scrap Booking Kit (retired), Baja Breeze, Pumpkin Pie
• Accessories: Big Shot, Sizzix Day & Night Alpha Set, Baja Breeze Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch, Small Star Punch, Spiral Punch

Eagle Lake Trip

I finished editing the articles for the magazine, so I decided to celebrate and scrap a couple of pages. This is page one of a double page spread (DPS).

This is the second page of the DPS.

Here are both of the pages together. I used DP from DCWV as well as the Rose TCS. The photos are matted on Whisper White. The Circle Scissors was used to make the rings, and Circle Punches were used for the stamped circles at the lower left of the 1st page and lower right of the 2nd page. The pics are of some of my church family who drove three hours to get to Eagle Lake to help pack and load the stuff from my cabin. Thanks for looking!!

• Stamps: Seeing Spots
• Papers: DCWV DP, DCWV TCS, Whisper White, Baja Breeze
• Ink: Whisper White Craft
• Accessories: Big Shot, Sizzix Night and Day Alpha Set, Circle Scissors, Circle Punches

Almost Done!

These are the last two pages that I did with my Christmas photos. I'm ahead of the game this year; it's only May and my 2008 Christmas scrapping is done! LOL!

This is page 1 of my two page spread. The top photo of my daughter and me is 4" X 6". The other three are 3" X 3". All photos are matted on Green Galore. I used Sizzix "Curlz" alphabet set and made journaling strips from Bravo Burgundy. The die cut is called, "Girl with Presents". It's a Sizzix Single Sizzlet. You have to run it through the Big Shot machine several times to get all the different colors.

This is the last page! My grand daughter was helping her mommy open the last present. The last photo shows all of us at my daughter's In-laws' for a turkey dinner. The alphabet set and card stock are the same as the other page. The patterned paper came from DCWV's Christmas Stack. They have the same colors but two different designs. Thanks for stopping by! I may post a card later!!

Cleaning? (SBSC184)

This is Sally's layout for Scrap Booking Sketch Challenge #184. For my first page, I followed it almost exactly.

I came home from Bible Study the other day (in the middle of Spring Break) and found my son washing all the collection of green and clear glass items that sit atop my kitchen cabinets. They really do get dusty up there! He did this on his own without my even asking! I thought it was so sweet that I grabbed my camera to "Capture the moment!"

My layout for page 2 is inspired by the same sketch, but I used the leftover patterned paper and just pieced it together to form a square. I also used strips on the left the whole length of the page, and I added a little note card envelope to hold the journaling. I sponged the envelope and added a die cut (Scribbles Swirls). I printed the journaling using SU!'s Harry Paul font and blue ink. I used dew drops on both pages to look like bubbles and I stamped using "Doodle This." Thanks for stopping by today!!!

• Stamps: Doodle This
• Papers: DCWV Card Stock Stack (textured), Lovely Lilac, Lavender Lace, Lavender Lace Textured CS, DCWV Photo Stack
• Ink: Lovely Lilac
• Accessories: Big Shot, SU!'s Scribbles Swirls Sizzlit, Sizzix Curlz Alphabet Set, Dew Drops

Gifts for Gammers (SBSC183)

I like Sally's sketch a lot this week. I like being able to use four photos of different sizes.

Sally's layout is shown at the right. I used DCWV Textured Card Stock Pack - Brights for the background and DCWV Christmas Stack for the horizontal and vertical strips. The matting is Real Red and the journaling circle is So Saffron. The Christmas trees are foam stickers I got at Christmas time. I knew I'd use them for something! I used two sizes of circle Nestabilities for the journaling circle and matting. I'm going to use the exact layout and colors for my next page which I'm excited to do because the photos are funny! Thanks for visiting my blog today!!

Finally! (Tamara LS88)

You have to go back to Monday to find this weekly Layout Sketch on Sketches by Tamara. I had a busy day on Monday, and then I've been busy getting ready for my stamp camp. I still have another session this morning, but I got up early and did a little scrapping. This layout worked perfectly for the three photos I had of my son opening his gift from his sister and brother-in-law. I'm almost finished with my Christmas photos! Yay! Thanks for visiting my blog today. Later on, I might be able to find time to do a card!

• Papers: DCWV Christmas Pack, Real Red, Old Olive
• Ink: White Gel Pen
• Accessories: Big Shot, Sizzix Night and Day Alphabet Set and Holly w/Berries Die

Christmas 2008 with Gammers (SBSC181, RC#40 by Tamara)

This page is a combination of two challenges. First, I used Tamara's Recipe Challenge #40 as shown on Sketches by Tamara. On Tuesdays, she has a Recipe which can be used on a layout or a card. Today's recipe called for: Stars, Staples, and three different patterned papers. There are stars on the background paper, stars on the vertical strip, and punched stars. The staples are holding down the ends of the horizontal strip with the small snowmen on it. The three papers are the main background paper with the large snowmen at the bottom, the vertical strip with rows of different colored stars, and the horizontal strip with the small snowmen.

Sally's sketch layout is shown at the right. As you can see, I moved the photos up near the top so that I wouldn't cover up all those cute snowmen! "Gammers" is what my grandchildren in California call me, either that or "Gramma Gammers." This sketch plus Tamara's recipe worked well for another Christmas page!

• Papers: DCWV Christmas Stack, Old Olive
• Accessories: Big Shot, Sizzix Night and Day Alphabet Set, Small Star Punch, 2-Way Glue Pen, Stapler

Presents! (LS75 by Tamara)

Over at Sketches by Tamara, they have "Sketches, Guest Designer" on Saturday. This means they allow the guest designer to choose a previous layout sketch and do her stuff. This week the guest designer was Jane Hunt and she chose Layout Sketch #75 to work with. The link will take you to the layout. I stayed true to the sketch except that I have one vertical small photo instead of all three being horizontal. It's a great layout; you can use several pics on this one!

• Papers: DCWV Textured CS, DCWV Christmas Pack, Confetti White, Elegant Eggplant, Pale Plum
• Ink: White Gel Pen
• Accessories: Big Shot, Sizzix Night and Day Alphabet Set, Photo Corner Punch

Christmas 2008 with Anna (Tamara LS85)

Over at Sketches by Tamara, there's a Layout Sketch every Monday. This one is a 6" X 12" that I cut down to 6" X 10-1/2" and added to my 12" X 12" page. I've actually never done a 6" X 12" layout before! I have 12 X 12, 6 X 6, and 8-1/2 X 8-1/2 albums. This layout worked perfectly for two of the photos I took of my grand daughter on Christmas Day. Thanks for visiting my blog today! I'll have a card to post later.

The layout is shown at the right. Can you see it on my page?

• Papers: Real Red, GP White, Garden Green, Light Gray, DCWV Christmas Stack
• Ink: White Gel Pen
• Accessories: SU! Snowflake Punch, Sizzix Dies, Big Shot, Sizzix Day & Night Alphabet Set, Green Satin Ribbon, SU! Scallop Edge Border Punch, 2-Way Glue Pen
  

Friday Inspiration

On Friday, over at Sketches by Tamara there is an Inspiration Challenge. This weeks challenge is based on last week's sketch and a certain recipe. The recipe was to use something you've been hoarding which is my pre-cut wavy card stock and large bling, to use a flower (call mine a mum or Christmas flower!), and to use bling, which I did on the little die cut stocking. My inspiration came from the scrap book page by Joanie. There were so many different elements on her page. I changed it from a Valentine or "Love" theme to Christmas but kept the basic layout. Thanks Joanie!! The papers are all DCWV (Textured Card Stock, Photo Stack, and Christmas Pack). The die cuts are from one Originalz Die, the snowflakes and branches are MS punches, the flower came from a gift set of scrap booking supplies I got a year and a half ago. I've had the wavy lines for at least 10 years! The bling came from WalMart I think. Thanks for visiting!!

Kodak Moments (SBSC178)

I really need to finish scrap booking the rest of our summer vacation. After church today, I ate lunch, took meds, and got right to it. I finished two pages of our San Diego Zoo pics. I think I have two or three more pages to go. Then, I'll be finished with another album! As you can see, page one says, "Kodak" and page two says, "Moments". It all makes sense when you see the two pages side by side.

I had to do a little stamping somewhere on these pages, so I used the Sweet Stems in two corners on each page. The stickers on page one are about 15 years old! I'm surprised they still stick to anything! LOL! I also embossed the little Flower Trio punched flowers and added them to one corner on each page and to the last square on page one. The title was done with Sizzix Round-a-bout alphabet set.

I just loved the sketch provided by Sally on SCS. The layout is shown at the right. The sketch works great for all the pics of animals we took. My son will enjoy looking back at this album and remembering all we saw on our trip to southern California. I'm glad I included all these photos in that album. Thanks for visiting my blog today!!!

DGC's (SBSC171)

This week's Scrap Book Sketch Challenge worked out well for the two photos of my grand children that I got at Christmas. The photo at the right shows the layout. I reduced it to fit my 8-1/2" X 8-1/2" chipboard scrap book.

All the pages in this particular scrap book have a scalloped outside edge and titles that are four letters or less. DGCs is the online abbreviation for Darling Grand Children, so that worked for this book. That's not designer paper in the background. I used a 3/4" punch and punched out all those squares and adhered them to the page before adding the matted photos! It was fun though. Thanks for visiting! By the way, I lost a subscriber who put the reason: "Content no longer relevant." I think it might be because I've had a lot of scrap booking pages lately. If you are a subscriber to this blog and prefer seeing more cards than scrap book pages, please leave me a comment, and I'll try to do better! My blog subtitle says, "Card Making & Scrapbooking", so you must expect at least SOME scrapping here! Thanks again!!!

• Papers: GP White, Orchid Opulence, Pink Passion, Bashful Blue
• Ink: White Gel Pen
• Accessories: Cricket, Stamped Cartridge, Snips, Adhesive, 3/4" Square Punch

SBSC170 Page 2

This is the opposing page for the last sketch I did. I didn't use the sketch again, but I used the same straw DP and the tabs and brads at the bottom right. I did some stamping on this one. I used Pun Fun for the hippo, Zoofari for the zebra, Under the Stars for the polar bear, and a $1 Store stamp for the elephant and baby. I colored where necessary, cut them out, and adhered them to the strip on the right. I used my Cricket and the ZooBalloo cartridge for the title. The title and journaling says: H is for hippo... under the sun, Z is for zebras, but there's only one! P is for polar bear catching some z's, E is for elephants with wrinkled knees! Yeah, I got a bit whimsical with that! LOL! Thanks for visiting today!!! Now I'm really off to make some cards!!!

G is for Goats & Giraffes (SBSC170)

The photo at right shows the layout for the sketch challenge from last Friday. It worked out well with some of my San Diego Zoo photos from our summer vacation.

• Papers: 12 X 12 Chocolate Chip Textured card stock, Basic Black, So Saffron, Unknown reddish brown DP, DCWV Photo Stack DP (Hay)
• Accessories: Colluzzle Cutting System, Cricket, ZooBalloo Cartridge, Double Stitched Felt Ribbon, Silver Brads, Dimensionals, 2-Way Glue Pen

Thanks for visiting my blog today! I'm going to try to do the card challenge now!

San Diego Zoo Pg. 1 (SBSC161)

I got one more page done from our summer vacation photos this morning. I went back to October to find the sketch (shown at right) that would work with the three pics I wanted to put on my first page of the zoo photos.

Instead of the circles, I used one large flower cut in half. The background paper is DCWV Photo Stack. That has been working so well with the vacation pics. I'm not doing much stamping on my pages lately though. I will correct that on the next page I do. I used Yoyo Yellow (12" X 12") for the matting, trim, and titles. Some people came up to us and asked if we'd take their picture in front of the sign before we went into the zoo. We did and they did the same for us! That was nice. The flamingos are the first animals we saw, both walking and on the tour bus. Those camels are double humpers. I can't remember what they're supposed to be called (technically). Thanks for visiting today, and I hope you had a very merry Christmas!!

• Papers: DCWV Photo Stack, Yoyo Yellow 12" X 12"
• Accessories: Big Shot, Sizzix Bloom Alpha Set, Cricket, ZooBalloo cartridge, 2-Way Glue Pen, Large Flower

We'll be in California until Sunday. Then, I'll start doing cards again!

The Guys (SBSC169)

The layout at left is the sketch (#169) that I followed for this page. We had been at Disneyland all day and couldn't find a nice restaurant to have dinner. They were booked two weeks in advance! I didn't know you could do that! We were tired anyway, so we decided to leave Disneyland and find a restaurant near our hotel in Buena Park.

We went to the Claim Jumper Restaurant which was right across the street from our hotel. It was kind of late, so we were concerned that we might not be able to be served. We were so wrong! They really made it a nice evening for us! It was the best service we'd had anywhere! We enjoyed it so much, I thought I'd take some photos to add to the vacation scrap booking. They looked so serious in the first photo. Maybe they were both tired, but I told them to cheer up and look like they were enjoying the vacation. I reminded them of the wonderful treatment we were getting in this restaurant. Well, they cheered up, and this is what I got...silliness! LOL! My next page will be the beginning of the San Diego Zoo photos and the last leg of our summer vacation. I will use this same sketch, but I think I might eliminate the sewing machine stitching. Thanks for stopping by today!!

• Stamps: Cheers to You
• Papers: DCWV Photo Stack DP, Yoyo Yellow, Basic Black, Riding Hood Red, Pumpkin Pie
• Ink: Basic Black and Black Journaling Marker
• Accessories: Big Shot, Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Cricket, ZooBalloo cartridge, Sewing Machine, Orange Thread

Disneyland

Well, I've been as busy as anyone during the past few days, so I haven't had time to post. I did do some cards, but they're for a swap, and we aren't supposed to post photos of those cards until after they've been swapped out. I had to make eight cards for that swap! I also did some scrapping this weekend. If you look down at a previous post for the "Jungle Cruise" page, you will see that this "Tom Sawyer's Island" page is the opposing page for that one. They both have the forest in the background. I used the Cricket and the Zooballoo cartridge for the title and the grass at the bottom. The top pic is of Captain Jack, the main character from Pirates of the Caribbean. I just had to get a photo of him! LOL! The one below, of course, is the river boat passing by the island. No stamping on this; DCWV Photo Stack DP, Green Galore and Gable Green card stock, and I used the Green Galore marker for the subtitles.

The next two pages are several photos of floats in the Disney parade. The background is DCWV Nana's Kids Premium Stack (embossed), and the purple striped DP is from a WalMart paper stack I got as a gift. I used the Scallop Edge Border Punch on all the DP. The photos are all matted on Gable Green and Orchid Opulence. The title was done on the Cricket with the Zooballoo cartridge (it was already in the machine). The Mickey in the upper left (sorry for the glare) was cut out of some sort of package about 10 years ago, and I found it in my stash!

The top two photos on the right side page are actually pockets with tags for journaling. One is for the left page and the other is for the right. The tags were made on the Big Shot with Sizzix Tags die. I reinforced them by punching a 1/4" hole out of a scrap of Orchid Opulence and then punching with the 1/2" Circle Punch around the smaller hole and then adhering these pieces to the top of the tags around the hole that was already there. I added 1/8" lavender satin ribbon. I've also had the Disney stickers on the border strips for over 10 years! Thanks for visiting my blog today!!

Knotts (SBSC168)

I've used up the last of our Knott's Berry Farm photos. Next, will be Disneyland pics. The sketch shown at right is what I used, but I only used three photos instead of four, my square pic is 4 X 4 instead of 3 X 3, I flipped the sketch to accommodate my 4 X 6 landscape oriented photo, and I think my circles are different.

Tilt your head all the way to the right and you'll see that this page is actually done with the sketch shown, LOL! I used the "faux wood" technique to make the wanted sign. Since I only used three pics, it left me room on the black circle for some journaling. Thanks for stopping by!!!

• Stamps: Wanted
• Papers: DCWV Photo Stack, Basic Black, True Thyme, unknown yellow, Creamy Caramel (for faux wood sign)
• Ink: Basic Black, Basic Brown, Whisper White Craft, White Gel Pen, Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Chip Marker (for sign)
• Accessories: Big Shot, Sizzix Skooshy Alpha Set, Small Circle Nesties, Fiskars Circle Template, Snips, Sponge