A Peek Into My Stamping Room

A Banner December!

Hello!  Hope your weekend got off to a great start!  I stayed up late last night working on a scrapbook page and here is the result.

For the base of my scrapbook page, I used Cardinal Red Hopsack Treasure Cardstock 80#.  The patterned paper and brads are from Echo Park Season's Greetings Collection.  For the various sized pennants, I used Nested Lacey Pennants and Nested Pennants from Spellbinders Paper Arts. 

Here are a few close-ups!

This was really fun to make!  I will blog more about the techniques I used on the scrapbook page later.  Right now, I'm going to enjoy the day with the family!  Have a great weekend!

Blue Eyed Girl Layout

What a busy weekend we had here at the Seyer household.  I didn't get to work on any of the projects I wanted to work on.  So today I sat down and finally got to finish a scrapbook page I started last week!

This is a 12 x 12 page of one of my favorite pictures of my oldest daughter.  Her boyfriend took this picture and you can barely see that there is snow on the branches of the trees.  But what I love most about this picture is how blue her eyes are.  They are really that blue in real life but sometimes its hard to capture with a camera.

 

The base of this scrapbook pages is a sheet of Persian Blue Cardstock 80# from Discount Cardstock.  Then I cut a 12 x 12 piece of Kraft Smooth cardstock 80# to 11 x 11.  Using some older Donna Salazar patterned paper, I cut/embossed  the large ledger paper from the Creative Book Pages #6 (largest die in the set).  I layered the picture on some Simply Smooth White, leaving just small margin around it so that the picture will pop off the page and not disappear into all the neutrals I used.  Around the picture, I used another die template from the Creative Book Pages #3 plus I added a strip cut/embossed from Parisian Accents.  Along the bottom I used the Classic Bracket Edgeabilities to cut/emboss a strip of paper.  Along the top of this strip I applied some music tissue tape.  I have had that role of tissue tape for so long and I finally got to use it!!  The sentment was printed onto Simply Smooth White cardstock using my printer and cut/emboss using Labels 5 Nestabilities #4.  I used some more dies from the Parisian Accents set to put around the outside of the sentiment die cut.  The last added touch is the Rhinestone Flourish from Want2Scrap.

Here is a close-up of the sentiment.

I love how this turned out.  Even thought it took me over a week to finish it, I think its pretty awesome!

Keeping To The Resolution is Hard!

Already I am only 3 full weeks into 2012 and finding it hard to keep to my resolution to make 1 scrapbook layout a week!  I just haven't taken the time to sit down and work on a layout.  I have been creating but its not something I can share yet.   I did get a new book last week about making interactive scrapbook pages.  It's pretty cool and I will be trying some of the techniques in the book over the next few weeks and will share my results with you.

Before Thanksgiving, the girls had a 3 day weekend.  So on Friday, Cassie (my youngest) packed up her stuff and went with Matt (Colleen's boyfriend) to visit her sissy at college.  Matt took some fantastic pictures and the weather was fantastic.  Plus Cassie got to see just where her sissy was living and going to school.  It's funny....from the moment Cassie could talk she called her oldest sister - "Sissy", and if I wasn't available then her sissy was next in line to help.....they have a very close relationship and Colleen moving away to college has been kinda hard on Cassie.  But having a laptop with Skype seems to help.  LOL

Here is my layout of the weekend visiting Sissy at college......

I kept this layout pretty simple.  I used patterned paper from Echo Park's Life is Good Collection.  Plus I used 4 photos!!  So proud of myself!  LOL  I used Grand Nestabilities Labels 11 and Labels 11 Nestabilities for this layout.  I love that you have 12 sizes of dies if you buy both sets.  It makes things so simple when you want to journal with your computer like I did here.  I printed out my journaling and then die cut/embossed.  The bottom heart detail is from the Egdeabilities line called Classic Bracket from Spellbinders, too.

I will try to take a better picture tomorrow - hopefully the sun will be out.  I didn't realize it was such a wonky angle.  Sorry......  Talk to you tomorrow!

Third Scrapbook Page

Well its the start of the third week in January and I am keeping to my resolution to make one scrapbook page a week!  Pretty proud of myself!!  I have only shown you 2 of the 3 scrapbook pages.  I will show you the third one when I can......I made it for a pub call!

The base of this scrapbook page is 12 x 12 sheet of Kraft cardstock.  The patterned paper is from the Pink Paislee collection - Vintage Vogue.  I love the colors and bling that came in the collection.   Even the wooden alphabet was part of the collection!!  For the alphabet, I sponged the letters with purple ink and then used a Signo White gel pen to doodle on them.  I thought it made them look much cuter!  The was a really easy scrapbook page and was pretty fast.  The only thing that took time was that I had to wait for the glimmer mist to dry on the Simply Smooth white cardstock.  I just gave a few good sprays of the mist and then let it dry.  I also matted the black and white pictures of my daughter onto some New Piggy Pink cardstock.  I just love the name and the color of that cardstock!!  LOL

Did you make a New Year's Resolution?  What is it and have you stuck to it?  I would love to know!  Hope you have a great Sunday!

My First Video!

Yes, you read that correctly.  I have had a flip video camera for at least the past 6 months, just sitting here in front of me everyday I work at my crafting table.  I have used excuse after excuse to try to get out of making a video and today I decided that I am no longer making excuses.  So I filmed a short video on how I made the musical background paper for this scrapbook page.  Hopefully its okay and you can see it fine.....let me know what you think!  Please be kind.....I haven't really figured out how to edit yet!  LOL

 

 

 

Hopefully this will work great AND I can learn to edit the video better, I will be making more tutorial videos.  So be sure to comment and let me know what you would like to see!!  Hope you have a great day!

Sparkle & Shine!

Happy New Year!!  Hope you all had a great New Year's Eve...we had a great time with good friends and family.  I don't know about you but I was ready to see 2011 go and can't wait to see what is in store for us in 2012.  I think its going to be a great year!

Before the big party started, I took some time in my craft room and created a layout using a great picture of my oldest daughter.  She is posing in front of a covered bridge that is close to our house.  I love this picture!

This is a 12 x 12 layout.  Remember, you can click on the picture for a bigger, better look!

I had actually been playing around with some old music pages from an old hymnal I found at the thrift store.  I tore the pages and started putting them onto some heavy cardstock using Matte Medium.  After I had the whole page covered, I applied another light coating of the Matte Medium and allowed it to dry.  It didn't take too long....After it was dry, I used the Labels One Grand Nestabilities #5 (#1 being the smallest) to cut out the music layer.  I then matted that onto a piece of Kraft cardstock cut/embossed from Labels One Grand Nestabilities #6 (which is the largest in the set).  The "Sparkle & Shine" was printed onto Simply Smooth Vanilla cardstock using my computer printer. I matted it onto some Donna Salazar's Antiquities paper and put it into a cute copper metal frame.  I die cut some Zutter corrugated board using the Spellbinders Creative Book Pages die #2.  I attached a large brad at the top of this die cut and tied the copper frame to the corrugated board using tulle ribbon.  I added the Bling Flourish after it was glued to the layout.  For these bigger, heavier embellishments, I have found that Beacon's 3 In 1 Advanced Craft Glue works great for keeping things right where you want them.  Plus this liquid glue is Acid Free!

I had alot of fun just creating something for my daughter's scrapbook.  I have really been getting back into the swing of scrapbooking.  Maybe one of my New Year's resolutions could be creating at least one layout every week....remember, I said maybe!!  LOL 

Have a great first week of the new year!!

Smarty Pants!

Here is a quick and easy scrapbook page I made of my oldest daughter in her new college dorm room.  I don't know about you but I have stacks of 6x6 patterned paper pads that aren't getting used.  So I decided there has to be a way to use these smaller papers in other project besides cards.  So I used some Echo Park Victoria 6x6 papers, Spellbinders dies and cardstock from Discount Cardstock.  I am liking quick and easy lately and really must get back to scrapbooking more!  Hopefully this page will give you some ideas on how to use 6x6 papers on your scrapbook pages!

The base of my page is a piece of 12 x 12 Kraft cardstock.  I cut some of the musical patterned paper into strips and die cut it into a scalloped edge.  The stamps are from Unity Stamp Co. called Smarty Pants.  The black is a piece of 8 1/2 x 11" Black Linen and I die cut along a strip of Posh Red Linen using the Big Scalloped Border Grand die (Spellbinders). 

This was a fun and quick scrapbook page to make.  Hopefully this will get me back to scrapbooking again!  Have a great day!

Heartfelt Creations Alumni DT Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to this month's Heartfelt Creations Alumni Design Team blog hop.  If you are following the hop, you came from Clare's blog.  If not, please go back and start with Clare's blog and follow the hop til the end.  Be sure to comment as you go thru the hop because this month, you could win HCPC 3306 Posy Patch Garden Delights PreCut set.  You have until Thursday, September 29 to comment and the winner will be announced on October 1 on Linda Payne's blog.  Good luck and enjoy this month's hop!

The project I would like to share with you today is a scrapbook page I created using some Iron Orchid Designs patterned paper, cardstock from Discount Cardstock , Want2Scrap Nestabling and stamps/dies from Heartfelt Creations.

 
To start my page, I stamped Leafy Swirls PreCut set using Antique Linen distress ink in the corners of a 12 x 12" piece of Kraft cardstock.  On a piece of Posh Black Linen 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock, I adhered a piece of Posh Red Linen cut/embossed using Grand Labels 4 (die #6 in the set - remember #1 is the smallest).  I cut a piece of my patterned paper to mat onto the black cardstock and added the strip of black/white diamond paper.  I used a scalloped edge punch for that detail.  I matted my photo onto the black cardstock and adhere it into place.  I cut/embossed a Lacey Oval die template out of black cardstock and adhered the matching Want2Scrap Nestabling Rhinestones. I added my computer generated journaling that says:  Caitlyn Your bright smiling face is so beautiful!  Never stop believing in yourself and always keep smiling!  To make the flower, I used the Posy Patch Flowers PreCut Set and matching Posy Patch dies out of Posh Red Linen cardstock.  The leaves were cut from some Spring Willow Medium Prismatic cardstock and Foilage Shapeabilities Dies.

Here is a close up of my flower.

You can see in this up close shot that I stamped the Posy Patch flowers using Versamark and embossed them using Clear Embossing powder.  I added a clear rhinestone in the middle to go with the Nestabling around the Lacey Oval. 

I think my page turned out great and I can't wait to give it to my daughter.  I am a proud and lucky mom to have such a girl who is beautiful inside and out!  She hates it when I show her off but I think she will forgive me this time since the page came out so good!   Now it's time to hop on to the next blog - Selma's Stamping Corner - to see the next great project!  Be sure to comment for your chance to win some Heartfelt Creations Stamps!  Good luck and enjoy!

National Scrapbooking Day with Our Craft Lounge!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!  This year, I am celebrating by participating in a blog hop with all the fantastic designers from Our Craft Lounge.  If you came to my blog first, please hop on over to the Our Craft Lounge Blog to get started.  If you are following along then you have hopped from Lori Tecler's blog.  I am the last stop on this fantastic hop today!  Don't forget there are a couple of ways to win Our Craft Lounge stamps -

•  Create a project using OCL stamps, upload it to your blog or a gallery and leave a link using inlinkz.com at the bottom of the OCL blog post.  The Design Team girls will vote on which creation will win!
• everyone who leaves a comment on the OCL blog post will be entered to win a stamp set and winners will be posted on Monday, May 9th

Here is my 8x8 scrap page of my oldest daughter, Colleen.  She is graduating from high school in a couple of weeks and this page is going in her album that I have been making for her over the last year. 

 

I used the OCL stamp set called Sunflower Seeds.  I thought the sunflowers went perfect with this picture of Colleen.  The picture was taken at a local historic covered bridge.  I stamped the sunflower image using daffodil ink onto Chamois Cascata Felt cardstock from Discount Cardstock.   Using distress ink and distressing tool, I distressed the edges of the strip.  I stamped the sunflower image onto the Chamois Cascata Felt cardstock using Rich Cocoa Memento ink.  I added some brown chalk in the middle of the flowers and after cutting them out, I sponged around the outside of the flowers.  I stamped the sentiment onto the Ribbon Banner and that completes my page.  Pretty simple and cute, don't you think? 

Enjoy your National Scrapbooking Day!  I will be visiting my local scrapbooking store and getting things ready for Mother's Day!  Here is the list of blog hop participants in case you got lost:

Heather McNally
Kendra Wietstock
Amber Hillman
Latrice Murphy
Mandy Sarver
Deb Felts
Pam Hooten
Lori Tecler
Debbie Seyer

 

 

 

A Farewell to Heartfelt Creations!

This is my last post as a design team member for Heartfelt Creations.  I have loved working with this wonderful company and the last 6 months have flown by!  I love Heartfelt Creations stamp sets and dies alot and will continue to use them so don't worry about that!  For my final DT project, I created a 12 x 12 layout of my middle daughter, Caitlyn.

 
For this layout, I used a piece of 12 x 12 Kraft cardstock as my base.  The rest of the patterned paper is from The Girls' Paperie - Paper Girl collection.  I cut the ledger paper to 11 x 11" and mounted it onto the kraft piece.  Using Labels 4 Grand Nestabilities, I cut/embossed the patterned paper using the #5 die (with #1 being the smallest) and layered that onto my project.  The picture is matted onto some yellow cardstock.  Then I covered a heart chipboard piece with patterned paper and attached it into place using Craft glue dots.  I used the new Grande Flora 2 stamp set and Posy Patch dies to make the flower at the bottom of the layout.  After stacking everything together, I added a Webster's Pages Sparkler button in the middle.  The other flower was made using Posy Patch dies and a quilling tool to curl the petals.  Both flowers where matted onto a 4" Doily from Wilton (you know the kind they sell in the cake decorating isle).  My journaling is a verse from Taylor Swift's song "15" that I typed and printed using my computer, then cut/embossed using Labels One Grand Nestabilites.

Here are a few close-ups of my flowers:

 
 

This was a fun page to create!  I have really been trying to scrapbook at least 2 pages a week.  Last week was only this one but that's pretty good for me!  LOL

Supplies Used on this layout:

PC 3374 Flora Grande 2 PreCut Set
HCPC 3376 Distressed Leaves PreCut Set
HCD 701 Posy Patch Die
Labels Four Grand Nestabilities #4
Labels One Grand Nestabilities #1 & 2

• Patterned Paper - Paper Girl Collection (The Girls' Paperie)
• Cardstock - 12 x 12 Kraft, Chamois Cascata Felt, Spring Willow Medium Prismatic, Daffodil Yellow, Simply Smooth Ivory, Iced Pink Prismatics - Discount Cardstock
• Accessories - 4" Doilies (Wilton Enterprises); Rhinestone Flourish (Zva Creative); heart chipboard piece, Sparkler Buttons (Webster's Pages); Rich Cocoa Memento Ink Pad, Daffodil Delight ink pad

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my Heartfelt Creations projects.  Check back tomorrow to see a great project I made using some cool stamps from Our Craft Lounge.  See ya then!