Hand Delivered Cards Class at A Walk Down Memory Lane

I've got another card class coming up at A Walk Down Memory Lane.

Hand Delivered Christmas Cards

Join me to make 4 beautiful, textured and layered Christmas cards that might be a little to thick to mail, but will be great for hand delivering!

Saturday, November 16, 10 am - 12 pm

or

Monday, November 18, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Cost $20

Call AWDML at (712)476-3443 to reserve your spot for class. 

 

2 More Say Cheese Layouts

After a bit of a break from birthday scrapping to get some other crafty work done, I finally finished up scrapping my oldest's birthday party with the papers and embellishments from Simple Stories Say Cheese collection.  I have the last 2 layouts to share with you today.

It seems the hardest thing for me to scrap are layouts with 2 photos. This one turned out alright in the end, but took a little more time to figure out. 

This 1 photo layout came together much more easily.

...and I finally got to use some sequins on a layout! 

I don't know how other people attach sequins, but I used a ton of Glue Dots® on this bad boy, but I know those sequins aren't ever going to fall off.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Chirstmas Card Class

For my local blog followers, I still have room in my Mailable Christmas Cards class this Saturday, November 2, at A Walk Down Memory Lane. 

During the class you'll make 4 mailable Christmas cards that incorporate some fun techniques and lots of glitter...they may be flat enough to mail, but they're still fabulous! 
Cost: $20
Call AWDML at (712)476-3443 to reserve your spot.

Printed Bag Halloween Mini Album

Every year I make a Halloween mini album.  It becomes a bit of a challenge to make it look different every year.  This year I decided to use the Printed Bags from Pebbles Thirty-one collection to build the base of my album and the papers, stickers and photo overlays from Thirty-one to embellish it.

I used baker's twine to create a book style binding for the pages. 

I have a really hard time pairing down my photos for a mini album, so the added bonus to using bags, is that you have built in pockets to slip extra photos and memorabilia. 

A few weeks before Halloween, I have my kids try on their costumes to make sure we have everything figured out from head to toe, and then we do a fun mini photo shoot. This way I can get some fun photos when they're not all hopped up on sugar and too antsy to let me take their pictures.

I used those photos to start my album, and left a few blank pages at the end to add some picture from the actual day of trick-or-treating.

I usually keep my pages a bit basic, and go back in and add a few more embellishments when I'm adding my final photos.  

 You can see here, where my photo shoot photos ended, and my trick-or-treating photos will begin (don't you just love that cool photo overlay!?!).

Every year I have my husband take a photo of me with my boys dressed up in their costumes. Since I know we'll be taking that picture, I created a page ahead of time for it. I thought the "under your spell" chalkboard sticker was a perfect compliment to that yet to be taken photo.

So that's my album for this year.  I'm pretty happy that I've got most of it done ahead of time!

Glue Dots Favorite Things Blog Hop - O Give Thanks Frame

Welcome to the Fall Favorites Glue Dots® Blog Hop.

Today I thought I'd share 5 favorite things with you (if you're looking for some crafty ispiration, skim down to # 5).

1.  These are my favorite people (in fall or any time of the year)

My husband and 2 boys fill my days with fun, love and support!

2. This is my favorite thing to drink in the fall:

I love a good cup of pepermint flavored coffee! You'll find me brewing a cup up almost every afternoon in the fall!

3.  This is my favorite way to update you on my current crafting:

You can find (and become a fan of my Facebook Page) by clicking here.

You can also find me on:

Pinterest

YouTube

Twitter

and Instagram

4. It's hard to chose just one, but right now this is my favorite Glue Dots® Product:

You can find a video I made about why I love it (and how to use it) by clicking here. 


5. And last but not least is one of my all time favorite fall crafts:

This simple fall frame utilizes Ultra Thin, Mini and Pop Up Glue Dots®. You can find the original tutorial I made for Glue Dots® for this project by clicking here. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I'm looking forward to another wonderful year creating for Glue Dots®.   Make sure to check out the other talented Designers:

Dawn Barrett 

Donna Budzynski 

Erin Bullock 

Joy Dickson 

Jessica Griffin 

Danielle Hunter 

Smitha Katti 

Grace Tolman 

 

Glue Dots Blog

Don't forget about your chance to win an awesome supply of Glue Dots! You have until midnight CST on October 31 (the night before Halloween) and a winner will be announced Halloween morning on the Glue Dots Blog. Enter here: 

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Cleaning Fish

I'm still working on scrapping the piles and piles of pictures I took this summer.   This one is from our annual July trip to the lake. 

I really love the Jillibean diecut papers.  I mixed Jillibean kraft hexagon paper with Crate Paper Pier for this layout.

Between the die cut paper and the patterns in Pier, there was a lot going on, so I kept the embellishments simple, with just a few clusters in the corners.

Thanks for stopping by!

Batman Layout

The other day my son was playing dress up, and I got a quick photo of him in a Batman mask.  Some of the papers and embellishments from Pebbles Halloween collection Thirty-One were perfect for scrapping this layout, even though it's not a Halloween photo.

To add to the Batman theme I added some blue paper from Pebbles Basics collection.

I used my Silhouette Cameo and a font called SF Comic Script to cut the title.  A little black card stock behind the cutout letters really makes them pop. 

Halloween bat stickers translate nicely over to a Batman layout.

I was pretty excited to use one of the photo overlays from Thirty-one as well.  The trickiest part of using overlays is figuring out where to hide the adhesive.  I sneaked one Ultra Thin Glue Dot® under the blue star in the bottom corner.  I decided it needed a little more adhesive, so I also put a Micro Glue Dot® in the top left corner. Since the Micro Dots are so small, you can only see it if you look really, really hard.

Thanks for stopping by!