Jenn's Scrappin' and Stampin' Corner

Using pre-made pages...

A lot of people have a hard time using pre-made pages...and I am not talking about the ones you buy at craft stores or shows...ones you prepare ahead of time.  I have held classes where you create 8 pages to add your pictures to.  I can see where it may be hard.  But with these pages, your possiblitlies are endless...So when I did my past scrapbook page class...here is one of the pages I started with

After I brought the finished page home...I searched my pictures to see what I would like to add to this beautiful page...here is what I came up wih...

My "snow baby" is now 9...

Ok, there is nothing wrong with going back....years, when scrapbooking.  I needed to do some of these old photos....the one thing I do know is that all my scrapbooks are going to be very "eclectic" because as the years go on, my scrapbook style has changed, and keeps changing...so when people look through my pages, they will see many different styles on each page.  Guess it will make for a very interesting view... and I am ok with that.  Scrapbook what you want and in the time frame you want...you DON'T NEED TO SCRAPBOOK CHRONOLOGICALLY...unless you really want to :)

Dance with me Daddy "using song lyrics to make a page"

The song "Cinderella" has been a favorite of mine for the last couple months...it tells a story of a little girl and a daddy...so I actually posed my husband with each of our girls, just so I can do a scrapbook page, and use the lyrics.  Have you ever heard of people coordinating what people wear to match paper, well I do that, but I also pose people to take pictures, so it fulfills my needs of getting a specific page done...LOL.  Here is "Cinderella".

Another page to share...

Nothing like a little bling on the "Pinkalicious" bikes that the girls got for their birthdays.  Love the cricut cartridge "Boys will be boys".  I made the girls bikes with a boys cratridge added some stickles (yes, my favorite product)....and even made my own tassles from embroidery floss (thanks Dana, for having it with you)!

 

In just 15 days...

The new Stampin' Up Catty will be out and you can place your first order....so come to the Open House New Catalog workshop on May 30th to get a first peek at the catalog....and be one of the first people to have your order placed on June 1st!!!

my little soccer monster helped me to create this awesome layout! Wanted to share!

A Scrappin' Good Time gift!

Hey everyone,

Check out our weekend gift to all participants...Joanie and I created these for our guests!

Back from an incredible weekend!!

Our Scrappin' Good Time Weekend Retreat was a HUGE success.  I think, this was the first weekend that a ran, in a long time, that was not the least bit stressful, that I came home refreshed and wanting to do more, that I was drop dead tired from, and that I can honestly say I enjoyed every minute of.  So here is a post of something I competed during the weekend! This layout is using pictures that I posted a couple weeks ago, from teaching a craft at Kaileigh's spring party!  I cut out the paint palette and brush on the cricut, along with the title.  I used Crystal Effects on all of the paint images...and on the lettering...it is really hard to see the look I went for (from the photo), but it looks like wet paint.  It came out just like I had wanted it to.  BUT, I hope that cricut comes up with a cartridge that looks like letters with something "dripping" off of it!

Layout with some H2O

I spent a lot of time taking these little "dew"drops and putting them into an arch to make them look as if they were spraying up and over the layout.  That was not easy to get them in the perfect arch.  I must have pulled them off and put them on a dozen times.  I think I am finally happy woth the way it turned out! 

 

Last purse sample for now!

This is the last purse for a little while, I have my first crop weekend retreat...A Scrappin' Good Time...coming up this weekend.  So this one, is for the bride, communion, little girl...you name it.  It is innocent, girly, and petite...and so adorable!  I will try to figure out a way to lay the ribbon a little flatter against the paper, but it isn't easy with the way the CS is on an angle.  I tried lighting it with a lighter, but I was afraid to set the whole purse on fire.