Scrapbook Page Challenge - Stampin' Up!

I often hear customers and fellow paper crafters say they need to start using their stamps and dies more often in their scrapbooking!

So, I recently held a card class at our local scrapping event using the Best Birds and Petal Palette bundles.  As part of the class I issued a challenge (optional) for the attendees to create a scrapbook page using these sets.  I also offered a couple of others die sets to the mix.

Fellow card maker, scrapbooker, artist, friend, customer, Brenda.....took on this challenge and created all four of these amazing pages in no time at all.  I love how she turned the bird in the upper right corner into a chickadee!  

My photographs do not do these pages justice.  These pages with the mainly white with a touch of black are very striking in real life. A black and white photograph will look awesome on these pages. 

This all white page would also look gorgeous with a black and white photo.  But I think the perfect colour photo would really pop too!

So, Brenda; well done!  It is a good lesson in trying to remember to use your stamps and dies regularly when you scrap.

Most of Brenda's products were Stampin' Up!

Here are a few of the products she used..

Best Birds stamp set and Birds & Blooms Thinlit Dies

Petal Palette stamp set and Petals & More Dies

Flourish Thinlits

Daisy Punch

Pearlized Doilies

Blossom Punch - retired

Pansy Punch - retired

Visit my on-line store at

www.cindymcgurk.stampinup.net

to order these products and view all Stampin' Up! has to offer.  Remember the new holiday catalogue goes live on Sept. 5.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy

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Reason to Smile - Scrapbook Layout

8" X 8" scrapbook layout CASEd from my Demonstrator Business Web Site; featuring July's promotion for a $5 stamp set with a $60 order.  Have you used your Reason to Smile stamp set yet?

Need a quick page?  Here are the measurements for the accent strips on my page:

Island Indigo: 5 1/4" X 3/8"
Baja Breeze:  5 1/8" X 1/2"
Wild Wasabi using scalloped edge punch  (finsihed size):  4 1/2" X 1/2"

Of course, you can change the size to something that suits you.  They are just a guidline.

Also used:  Neturals Buttons and White Baker's Twine.

My photo was 5" X 3 1/2"

Now it's time to have some fun with the new products from the 2012 Holiday catalogue.    My computer is in for repair, so once it's back I'll start posting more samples.

The summer is flying by!!  Keep Stamping!

Cindy

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Scrapbook Layout - Quilting Technique with Cheerful Treat

Scrapbook Layouts by Stephanie Wright, Aug. 2011

This is a sample layout I used to demonstrate during my Quilt In A Day card class; page made by my daughter.  I wanted to show that the technique could also be used in scrap booking.  In the first photo I made a 6 X 6 piece using the quilt technique and Stephanie cut it down to use as her first panel.  The DSP I used was Cheerful Treat DSP and you can earn it free with your hostess dollars for hosting a qualifying workshop!!

She continued the color combo and papers onto her second layout using a leftover piece of the quilt and an additional border piece using the Tasteful Trim Big Shot die.

Her title was made using a retired Stampin' Up Alphabet set.

Other embellishments adorn the page and were made from:  Daisies #2 die; Circle Circus stamp set, Button Buddies stamp set and Designer Buttons.

Here is the layout that she used; Dec 2008 Page Maps

Here's a link to their home page:

http://www.pagemaps.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy

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Mischief

This piece was made over a year ago.  It features my grandson Sullivan.  I love this photo that his mother took.  He was two when this picture was taken; he is now four!

My first scrapbooked canvas piece.  These are all non-Stampin' Up! products (paper is Basic Grey).  I took a class from Sharon Reimer of the Scrapbook Cottage from Steinbach, Manitoba.  She comes to Red Lake once a year, brings her store and offers an array of classes and does an amazing job.  This was one of the classes that I took.  You chose your own papers, colors, embellishments from her stock and went at 'er.  All you needed to bring was a photo and any "personal" pieces you might like to add to your project.  Sharon and her staff were there to assist you in any choice dilemmas you might have.   Everyone's project was unique and it was so much fun seeing the great pieces that everyone produced.

The jean pocket was taken from a old pair of his jeans.  One of the reasons it has taken me so long to post this is because when it was hanging on his wall, the frog went missing!  Apparently, my canvas is titled quite appropriately!  It was the perfect little frog and it took me months to find a replacement (which happened to come from the bait section of Walmart)

The little clip at the bottom is suppose to hold a ticket with the year on it.  I never did get to it and now I've misplaced it.  That's what happens when you procrastinate!  Grrr.

Happy Scrapping!

Cindy

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Ribbon Class Cont'd....Scrapbook Layout Sample/Tag

This heritage page was designed to showcase the Shabby Ribbon Flower.  The page was done by my daughter Stephanie.  This is an original photo postcard taken in 1910 in Cobalt, Ontario of my grandmother.  Title will go near the top, with some more details at the very bottom.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! except the large piece of lace border.  The tag and background are spritzed with Shimmer Paint (and rubbing alcohol), which does not show in this photo.

Just a close up of the flower.  Participants made a tag with the same paper (or they could choose the reverse which had music notes on it) and a black flower.

Thanks for stopping by...

Cindy

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Simple Ribbon Flower cont'd....Scrapbook Layout and Samples

This layout shows a page using one of the flowers that appeared in my previous post.

Photo and page created by my daughter Stephanie; featuring two of my grandchildren, Andie and Sullivan.  It just awaits journalling!

She often gets her layouts from page maps (June 2009 shown here). 

http://www.pagemaps.com/

Designer Series Paper is retired Holiday Treasures

Her title is from the stamp set Welcome Christmas.  There is a little border of rub ons just below the photo.

In Andie's hair is a sweet flower I made from the 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon glued to a barrette with a real red corduroy brad for the centre.  I used 15" of ribbon for this flower; 7 1/2" for the 5/8" satin and grosgrain flowers.

A sampling of  1 1/4" striped grosgrain flowers.

This is the one used in Andie's hair!!  Just hot glue a barrette and you're done!

This brown one shows layering with another flower done in the crochet trim, embellished with a vintage brad.  I've also seen them embellished with the Designer Big Buttons - really cute.  I used corduroy buttons (some of which can still be found on the Clearance Rack) so that I could change them out once I decide what I would like to use them for.

Thanks and happy creating!!

Cindy