These cards were submitted to the 2012 Gallery Idol competition. Results came out today, and the winners were impressive. I was not one, which is no surprise, but I figured I might as well try!To mak...
Fall 2008 was amazing. Perhaps its because grad school was over. Perhaps it was the newness of moving to a new city. Or being closer to Mr. Handsome. Or having friends visit.This layout w...
I made this card this weekend for a friend in who could really use a hug. I thought it would work well with the CAS-usual Friday theme this week (CFC54): clean and simple masculine card using d...
Im so happy to have a long weekend! Ive been wanting to scrapbook more pages without templates or color restrictions, so now that I have the time, Ive done it!Materials: Paper by Bazzill Basics and S...
I pulled up an old family 3.5x5 of my parents for this one. They were sooo young! Other than knowing they were young, no one could figure out when the picture was taken. So I guessed based on the wal...
Oh baby baby! The Silhouette has been handy for creating simple cards with a big statement. In this case: welcome Baby! The elephant designed by Pebbles in my Pocket is adorable, and my fri...
An extra-large stash of paper and supplies has motivated me to make lots of cards these days. My goal is to use what I have. And I have a lot to use!The big deal with these cards: I stamped. The stam...
The Avengers movie is out! My husband, being the fun-loving Marvel fan that he is, purchased tickets online, and I, being the crafty-loving Marvel fan that I am, made peanut-butter ice cream bro...
The May challenge for Simple Scrapper is to make a page with lyrics on it. Heres the deal, I always have at least one song stuck in my head, and because of that, lyrics usually dont make i...
Its floral time! And my first CAS-ual Friday challenge. CAS means "clean and simple" and is very much my style. Materials: S.E.I paper, Recollections FlowerThe card above is for a wedding. Th...
National Scrapbooking Day is almost here! As part of the celebration leading up to Saturday, I guest posted at Simple Scrapper where I announced my 5 tips for better photos.Though the tips are at Sim...
Ive had a great time playing with my goodies. On Sunday, I made 8 cards. It was a wee bit excessive.One of my fancy new cards was made to go with the Tape Color Trends Challenge. We are t...
With a weekend to play with the goodies from CKC, Ive been busy creating. My first project upon return was layout #1 that I started in the class. My first quick-fire creation wasnt cutting it. That, ...
Its CKC Machester time, and I went!The Shopping: description and goodiesIt was my first Scrapbooking conference, and it was loads of fun. Mainly for the shopping, but the people were wonderful too. &...
Back in February, my friend commissioned me to make her a set of my ray cards with "Coucou" on them. "Coucou" means, "hello" in French. She is a bold, dynamic, sharply i...
Im starting to gear up for summer. Perhaps its a bit to early, but Im starting to plan my summer trips back home to good ol South Carolina. Gosh, I miss the heat. And Hillbilly days got heat. St...
Yesterday, Deb from My Craft Room Creations, honored me with the Liebster Blog Award. I absolutely admire her work and am honored that she chose me as one of her 5. Thank you Deb!Liebster is German f...
A shared favorite movie inspired me to create this page of an intense Scrabble game between me, Tom, and my equally competitive, dancing, theatrical friend. Tom was kind enough to record our giggling...
I hope youre having a wonderful day! We certainly have! Mr. Handsome (i.e. Tom) and I made some appetizers, and my sister-in-law put together the rest of the the meal to allow her mother the day off....
With warmer weather, visitors are starting to arrive again, yet for some reason, I am taking them North. Go figure. My dad visited us the other weekend, and we ventured into the colder weather. This ...
It must be the spring-like weather thats causing me to still think of the Play Date Cafe Challenge (PDCC122) of black, gray, and yellow and how my little bee paper from the nineties would be so perfe...
I will be here soon:with my dutch friend who is celebrating her birthday today. Yay!!But right now, my dad is visiting so I must run and spend some quality time with him. Until next time, enjoy a lit...
I woke up this morning to a slew of emails, one of which navigated me to my twopeas gallery where I had posted my "10 things" layout. Apparently it has been spotlighted on gallery pretties. W...
In a challenge to use a journaling card, I made this layout. I dont think I have ever used a journalling card {ever} in my scrapbooks, and this did not come naturally at all. I mean, at all. But, Im ...
A friend of mine has officially announce the birth of her adorable son through a VERY cute announcement card. Being a flight and a drive away, I wasnt down south for any of her showers and other fun ...
I finished my birthday project/One-litte word page! Its bright and happy and looks way better in person. (Layouts always do, dont they?) Most importantly, its meant to be a reminder to myself to prac...
Self-kindness is my one little word for this year. I have many words to describe myself, and not many of them are positive. Im a perfectionist, which leads to a lot of thoughts of failure and inadequ...
I made 2 pages this month with the March Simple Scrapper Layouts. For the Switzerland page, I replaced all the 2x2 boxes from the template with one long strip of paper. I had cut up lots of 2x2 squar...
Following up on my post from yesterday, here are the details:The first picture is a 2-layer Congratulations card. I misted the bottom layer and made a cut out of the top using my Silhouette Cameo. Th...
Why hello, 29.So pleasant to see you.How will you turn out, I wonder.What was that you said?Today will be filled with Scrapbooking and Target and Downton Abby?And pistachio ice cream that my husband ...
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