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Get Your Scrap On!

Monday, February 2, 2009

...with VSBN, well actually it's over but you can participate in challenges and upload until this Sunday, February 8th! I had so much fun and finished 4 layouts, plus part of two others!
I won 2 prizes too! Plus there will be more prizes given to participants for various challenges!
So come on what are you waiting for? Find out all the information HERE.

Here is one of the layouts I completed this weekend. Sorry for the bad photo my camera was having issues! This was for Lynn's (yes the Unity Designer) challenge. It's Elementary!

This was a super fun challenge! This was the challenge - use as many "letters" as possible:
Use the following as your guide when creating your layout and try to include as many “letters” as you can.
S … is for STAMPING! Show me how you incorporate stamps onto your scrapbook pages.
C … is for CHIPBOARD! .
R … is for RIBBON, floss, thread, whatever!
A … is for ALPHAS (stickers, rub-ons, etc).
P … is for PATTERNED PAPER! Use at least two or three different
patterned papers on your layout to add lots of visual interest. (My friend Natalie about had a heart attack about this one - she has issues with patterned papers!)
B … is for BUTTONS!
O … is for ONE, Two, Three … as in numbers!
O … is for … well … O! As in CIRCLES …
K … is for “KUDOS” to you for taking part in this challenge
and getting another page done in the process!

Well I used several of the letters - see my problem is I read the challenge get it in my head - print off the sketch if there is one - this one there WAS - and it was fab!
And go to work! I don't always remember the challenge EXACTLY and sometimes I forget things especially when there's lots to remember like this one!!
Oh well I am still happy with the page and thrilled I did a page from our Honeymoon to Maui!
This page is of us arriving at our hotel and the goodies at the hotel! It was so amazing!
And I DID manage to use 3 different patterned papers from 3 different manufacturers!!!
I don't have an issue with patterns but I thought that was pretty impressive!
This was the first time I used the strips for my journaling - I LOVE IT!
and don't those Pink Paislee alphas match Pacific Point wonderfully?!?!?!

Tools:
CS: Pacific Point, Lime Green American Crafts
PP: Rhonda Farrer, WRMK Summer Collection for Archivers, Scenic Route
Ink: Versamark
Stamps: $1 Flip Flop stamp from Michaels
Accessories: Flowers and Glitter brads WRMK Summer Collection for Archivers, Pink Paislee alphas, Computer generated journaling cut into strips

*Live*Laugh*Love*Create*
Tessa

Labels:Maui,Scrapbooking,VSBN | 7 Loves

Maui Title Page

Saturday, July 5, 2008

This is the title page for our Honeymoon to Maui page. It has been almost 2 years! About time I got to work on it! This was created using a Page Maps sketch. Circles are HOT right now but I know several people struggle with them (Jodes *wink*). I love the way this LO turned out! The base is pp from HL, then the other two pp are from SU's afternoon tea. The vertical strip is torn and inked along the edge. The horizontal piece also has soft sky stitched ribbon along it. Instead of a picture cause I was having trouble picking one I used a map I tore out of one of the books we got there. I matted it on choc chip cardstock. After adhering it I faux stitched in a circle using a CM circle template to guide me. The flowers are along the stitching and nestled in with the two little pictures. They are inked using Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky and Close to Cocoa - in the centers are clear dew drops, skittles, baubles whatever they are called where you are from! The circle is groovy guava CS and on it I stamped the word MAUI in choc chip ink stamps are from an OLD company called Leaving Prints (out of business). I then hand wrote/doodled the rest of the title. TFL!!!

Tools:
PP - Base from HL, SU's Afternoon tea
CS - Choc Chip and Groovy Guava
Ribbon - Soft Sky double stitched
Ink - Choc Chip, Close to cocoa, wild wasabi, groovy guava, soft sky
Other- Clear Baubles, Paper Piercer, White Gel Pen, CM circle cutting system, LP Stamps, Choc Chip Stamp and Write Marker

*Live*Laugh*Love*Create*

Labels:layout,Maui,Scrapbooking,Stamping on LO,title page | 6 Loves

Life after the Storm

Thursday, May 29, 2008

As some of you know we were hit EXTREMELY hard with an ice storm this past December. We were without power for about 5 days, some friends and co-workers were without even longer. I had to take the boys and go to my parents where there was power and HEAT while Andrew said at the house cause he had to work. The temperature INSIDE out house got down in the 30's!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many people suffered even greater hardships than just no electricity and cold temperatures. Falling limbs from the weight of the ice damaged homes and cars. Fires sparked from transformers blowing and people using candles or other means to try and keep warm. People lost all the food in their freezers and refridgerators and had horrendous heat bills from heating their houses back up!!!!!!! It was very costly to many.

Andrew and I went to Maui on our honeymoon. It was the trip of a lifetime. When we got back we bought a Hibiscus tree

from Lowes to remind us of Maui. It is a real hibiscus - not a hearty one - it must be brought inside when the temperature gets too cold usually from October to April or May and it goes dormant. During the time of the storm it was not really on my mind but this spring when it was time for it to start blooming it wasn't! I was afraid we had lost it from the temperatures being soooooooo low in the house. But then - some GREEN! It was finally starting to leaf again and then eventually a bud!!!!!!!!! Which then bloomed! They are not the HUGE blooms like before but to think we almost lost it but it pulled through it survived! Just like us and our friends and family - we all survived we all made it through that storm and together we can make it through any storm - real or otherwise! Today my Hibiscus tree has FIVE blooms on it! So I wanted to share some pictures of it! I just love it! So does Andrew! I love how the second picture has the American flag in the background! I am pretty patriotic and it just goes along with everything I have said about making it through storms. Thanks for looking today and hope you don't mind my sappyness!!!!!!!