Digital DONE!

Today marks the end of National Scrapbooking Month. I managed to get the whole book done for my son late last night and sent it off to print this morning!
*as a side note, I should mention, since I don't think the flyer makes it clear: when you print a photo book with Stampin' Up! the listed price is the base price and only covers the first 24 pages. Where it says "each additional page costs x" that means every page between 25-100. Just thought I'd spread the word.

With the goal to get this book done, I managed to get a TON of scrapbook pages complete this month. Scroll all the way down the side bar here and check me out! How did you fare?
Here are some of the latest pages I've created...

Stinkin' Cute!

Here are two more digital pages that to me are so dang cute!!
The first one is funny... When my son was this age I would let him play his computer games while his sister napped, and I would get some stamping or scrapbooking done. Win-Win for everyone! Well for whatever reason I walked away this day (probably to do something like change laundry) and when I came back, he was sound asleep kneeling under the desk with his head on the chair! haahaa! I had to snap a picture but also because when my younger brother was about the same age, he fell asleep at the kitchen table...in the pictures my mom took of my brother, you can see he was eating a cup of yogurt and just laid his head on the chair next to him. Too funny!

 This second page is just of my kids hanging out and laughing together. That's my favorite. :)

Random Fun

This digital page has un-related photos of my son enjoying life throughout one month. So its just some random fun. :) I love these fun froggies for a playful touch. That's whats so great about My Digital Studio- these frogs came from a simply scrappin kit a few years ago but on the software they never retire and you never run out!

Then, it occurred to me I never shared these new cards I made the other day to put in the men's teacher gifts. I was going for some kind of puzzle block look but couldn't make these images do exactly that. The two cards are laid out a little different, but the objects are stamped in the same inks and other wise exactly the same.

Supplies:

Stamps: Under the Stars

Ink: Basic Black, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake, More Mustard

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake, Whisper White

Wedding Pages

After a week of hardly scrapping a thing, I got nine digi pages done last night!!! I am excited! This month doubled my scrapping for the whole year! WHOO HOO!!!

These digi pages are all of my brother's wedding, and for my son's book, hence the ...lack of focus? on the bride & groom. hee hee... Also, remember these photos are old...
I used photo layouts from the MDS system but then modified them for my pictures. And I used the bride's colors as the color blocking accents. Kinda simple but pretty!

More Teacher Appreciation

Well...it was a good goal to have a scrapbook themed project every day this month. :) But then there's the rest of my life which demands my time in a louder voice. And for the most part, that's okay.
Today I'm showing what I did for my son's teacher, who is a man, and for our awesome principal who is moving to another school and is also a man. Men are so difficult! Do they send cards? It happens that none of the men I know send cards...Soooo this is what they got:

Two boxes of candy, two packs of microwave popcorn, three masculine-y cards and a personal thank you card, all stuffed in this cute nautical themed bag!

Supplies:
Stamps: The Open Sea
Ink: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Whisper White & Baja Breeze card stocks
Accessories: Tag Punch, Cherry Cobbler/White Bakers Twine

Coordination

does not mean matching. :) Here's a page for yesterday and a page for today that coordinate. They'll face each other in the book but the photos are of different days and look totally different, which mean I need different "feels" for each page.

Creating within the creation...

Last night I got 6 digi pages done and surpassed my May goal! yeay! I still have plenty of work to do on this book if I am ever going to get it done this month, lol!
Here's one of the more time-consuming pages I made and had to create some of the elements to do so:

A good project, a great idea.

So, apparently, back in 2006 is when Stampin' Up! offered this whole office style set. I bought the spiral punch, the Notations DP and this 8x5ish art journal (which is still available- as is the punch!) and I have saved the DP to use in this book. I put the cover together shortly after getting it all..... and that is exactly as far as it went. It has been moved from spot to spot in my office for what is that? five years??? holy cow...

Last week when I took my kids to the library I was on the hunt (as I always am) for a book we haven't read a trillion times...something new...something different.... this book caught my eye because of the vintage illustrations, which I am a sucker for.

But the thing is, its exactly the format I am looking for on that book I started! The story starts out with a little girl asking her "Granny, what was it like when Mummy was me?"* and the grandmother goes thru a long-ago year, month by month, only talking about the celebrations and the good times that were had. Presumably this is a typical year and it was put together in such a fun way... THAT is my next big project! Next time I print photos? it will feature our little family's traditions and share how we spend a year celebrating! Fun huh?? I am super excited!

*Book titled A Time to Keep, The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays, copyright 1977, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Mojo Mojo!

It's the end of the school year so I have been busily working on teacher appreciation gifts. I was looking for card sketches to make the process faster and when I 'gather' sketches I tend to draw them up with a list of where they came from. I stamped the Crumb Cake card stock and while wondering what to do next realized I could use half for one sketch and half for another...both sketches come from the Mojo Monday blog! So! First we have the card created with Mojo #190 and the second is from Mojo #191!

Supplies:

Stamps: The Open Sea, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Basic Gray

Accessories: Cherry/White Bakers Twine, Neutral Buttons, Regal Brads, Bitty Buttons, Mat Pack  

How is National Scrapbook Month going for you? I am cruising with my scrapbook goal this month! I still have plenty of work to do if I'm going to finish up this digital book but its coming along! So here's another quick page that goes along with the trip to California.

pretty things...

This page uses digital stamps and then digital brads in the center of the flowers! It is super simple but I like it a lot.

I have also been working on cards for Teacher Appreciation gifts. This simple and lovely card is a complete copy of a card on Splitcoaststampers, by "Shadow's Mom". The only difference is she used an antique brad and I had neutral buttons and pearls instead. I thought it was so pretty and very easy to do...

The square background is also her tip: just ink your clear blocks for your clear-mount stamps and voila! you have a unique background quick as that!

Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Crumb Cake, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White
Accessories: Pearls, Neutral Buttons, Mini Glue Dots

Summer Fun

This card uses the Stamping 411 sketch #201 and my sah-weet new nautical set and the Nautical Expedition paper this time too!

Then, I did five pages last night with My Digital Studio! Yeay! This one is fun and bright. Its smack in the middle of our California trip...

a little fun

I love this digital page! I have color filled punch shapes as the color for the "stamped" images, and the stamp images come from the Sale-A-Bration disk. I think it has a fun look to it!