Tag Archives: Scrapbooking

Aug12

Amore’

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Amore’

Happy Friday the 13th Stampers!! Nothing creepy about this posting….it’s all about love or should I say Amore’!

Kristina Werner is now having every Thursday a Basic Inspiration Scrapbooking Class.  I simply love Kristina’s style of cardmaking and scrapbooking.  She’s such an inspiration to me!  So if you haven’t seen her video tutorials come over and visit her at KWernerDesign.

So for this class, I followed her layout.  I used some Basic Grey paper as well, but lost the main page of the title…..lol!  So I used her basic techniques she used in her video but added some changes to it.

Those 2 love birds are my parents. We went to this Mexican Restuarant called Casa Sanchez and they had awesome food and entertainment. Being together for so many years and still in love!

{Amore’} Supplies:

Cream CS, Basic grey paper, American Crafts Stamps and buttons, Cloud 9 Stamp sentiment. Circle punch and heart punch.

Have a great Friday!

Jul1

Good-Bye My Friend

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Good-Bye My Friend

Hello Crafty Friends!

Sad news today, my dear little buddy Rudy passed away today.  I know dwarf hamsters have a short life span 1 to 2 years.  But, I didn’t really expect my little Rudykins to pass so suddenly.

Last night around 11:30p before I went to bed, I saw him and he was his normal self.  He was running around and playing in his little exercise wheel. But then this morning around 9am, I found him laying outside his little tikki house. I called his name and he didn’t move. I knew instantly something was wrong. He couldn’t walk, the only movement he made was wiggle around.  I held him and wrapped him in his little blanket.  Through out the time I knew he wasn’t going to make it.  I cried and told him it was ok to go God and with all the little angels.  After 20 minutes, he was gone.

I’ll always remember the special moments of my little Rudykins.  Usually before I go to bed I take him out to pet him and give him little good night kisses and give him a small treat.  He was the sweetest little thing ever. He loved playing, and climbing up my arm and hang out on my shoulder.  Even my 2 dogs and cat got used to him while I put him in his purple ball and he be rolling around in the living room.

Yeah, I’m going to miss the little fellow so much. Never did he once bite me. He was such a sweet, sweet little hamster.  I made a special scrapbook page layout in dedication to him.  Rest In Peace my little friend, I’m sure going to miss you so much!

Jun2

Summer Is Here!

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Summer Is Here!

Hey Friends! Happy Thursday to ya!

It’s finally June now! Yeyyyy! Woo-hoo! Which means summer is just around the corner! No more gloomy days & rain here in sunny California! Hot weather and breezy air is all we get in my area! So excited for this season!!

So, for today’s post I got several challenges I submitted my scrapbook page layout! Since most of all stamping & scrapbooking blogs is all about SUMMER I decided to submit my layout.  Since June is all about summer, we are also having a special challenge over at The Treehouse Blog.  Today’s theme is “Beachy Vacations”.  This scrapbook layout is all about my Carnival Cruise vacation in the sea to Mexico.

For this scrapbook layout I used a lot of Treehouse Digital Stamps that you can find here! I used Photoshop Elements to color & transfer my images to my page layout.  So, come on over to The Treehouse Blog and join us in this Thursday Challenge and link your creation.  Love to see what you create!

Here are the blogs & challenges I played along:

Happy Stamping!

Apr12

Celebrate Today With Sketchy Thursdays!

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Celebrate Today With Sketchy Thursdays!

Hey Happy Stampers! Happy Tuesday to ya!

I’m so excited because I’m getting so much accomplished with my scrapbook pages. For today’s layout, I did a challenge for Sketchy Thursday’s & also celebrating Heidi’s Birthday {co-founder of ST}…..“Happy Sweet Birthday” to ya Heidi!

I’m so loving these challenges so much!  It’s not just about layouts every Thursday, they have fun challenge layouts just about everyday! For this challenge, it’s for sure up my alley because the theme is using this sketch above and using a “celebration” theme and the color green. And I have to say that green is my fave, fave color too! This is what I created!

{Celebrate Today} layout supplies:

Kraft CS, Design Paper from Me & My Big Ideas and Basic Grey. Ribbon from Basic Grey, Flowers -Prima, Buttons – Forever In Time, Celebrate Today cut out from Quikutz Silhouette.  Stamp image – Hero Arts

Thanks for stopping by!

Apr12

Paper Flowers Page Layout

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Paper Flowers Page Layout

Happy Monday Stampers!

For this scrapbook page layout I wanted to try out a new way to create flowers. I’ve seen so many tutorials on YouTube showing so many ways to create paper flowers.

To create the red flowers, what I did was I used my scallop nesties and cut out 3 layers and glue them together and decorated it with a Basic Grey Button……easy huh!  For the next one, don’t know how this one turned out. I basically cut my design paper by hand and layered it with another button.  Didn’t turn out too bad I guess…..lol! :)

For the rest of the page,  I used 12×12 Kraft Cardstock which I absolutely love, love to use! Used Frost Glimmer Mist and just misted it all over the cardstock.  Cut out my blue paper and did some zig-zag stitching on the corners.  For the Green Polka dot paper, I punched it with my large scallop puncher from EK Success and did some ziz-zag stitching and stitched both pieces of paper together.

For the journaling I used Heroarts Journaling stamp tags. Applied some lace and Heroarts Gemstons.

In the picture, well that’s me and my hubby at Catalina Island, Ca.

Have a scrappy-lious good day! :)

Apr8

Lucky To Have Each Other Scrapbook Layout

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Lucky To Have Each Other Scrapbook Layout

Happy Friday Stampers!

I came by this blog called Sketchy Thursday’s and simply LOVE, LOVE the idea of they’re Thursday fun Scrapbook Layout Challenge’s. This is my 1st time playing along with Sketchy Thursday’s and hope to do more of they’re challenges every Thursday. I have so many pics to scrapbook! :)

For my Sketchy Thursday layout, I used cream cardstock that I bought in a bundle from CHA in Anaheim, California. Next I tore and distress the edges of the design paper from DCWV. I used Tim Holtz distress Inks and then Glimmer Misted the page. I really like how my edges came out.

For the “Lucky” frame, I downloaded it from the Quikutz Silhouette Library.  Used Glimmer Mist to give it a little bit of sparkle instead of having the cardstock look so dull. For the right side of the page I cut pieces of design paper I had for while, some are from Basic Grey, Me & My Big Ideas and stitched it together.  Used Basic Grey Ribbon and little flowers for details on each end.  Used some blue Victorian lace and added Heroarts Pearls for a nice detail. For the small “Beautiful Label”  journal frame I cut that out as well from my Silhouette Library. I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink and Glimmer Mist it.  The only thing it was kinda of hard for me to do some journaling because of the inks and Glimmer Mist……but oh well! Not too bad for a 1st time try for a Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a scrappy good day!