Cottage Wall Friends

I made this page quite a while ago and did so without adding pictures. When I went to add the pictures, I couldn't remember how the original layout was supposed to look and I think my right page ended up upside down. It may not have been the original plan but I still really like how the page turned out once the pictures were added.



Supplies
Paper: Cottage Wall DSP (r), Orchid Oppulence (r), Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Whispher White
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Accessories: snail adhesive, stampin dimensionals, scallop punch, 2 3/8 scallop circle punch

Halloween 2010

I love the specialty DSPs that Stampin' UP! comes out with -- they are so easy to use for scrapbooking. I didn't have to worry about adding a bunch of embellishments to my page since it already had the bats, making this page a breeze to make :)

Supplies
Paper: Wicked Cool DSP (r), Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: snail adhesive, 5/8" satin ribbon - rich razzleberry; black lace trim, scallop punch

Practice Makes Perfect Take 2

Like my rehearsal dinner pages, I had so many pictures from the actual rehearsal that I decided to use one layout for all the pictures.

Since I didn't have a title for this page, I decided to use some punches and extra ribbons to embellish the page.











**This page was CASED from Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush, Cheerful Treat DSP (h), Pink Pirouette, Bashful Blue
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, scallop punch, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die, itty bitty buttons, Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die, Whisper White 5/8" Satin Ribbon, fancy flower punch, heart to heart punch

Practice Makes Perfect

One of the things that I love about scrapbooking is how you can take a layout and make it completely different to fit your needs. Rachel made this page for her scrapbook club but as I mentioned in a post a while ago, I don't have that many portrait pictures. I still really liked the page though so I rotated everything so I could use all my landscape pictures. The best thing too, is that if I ever do need a layout for portrait pictures, I can still CASE the original page the way it was meant to be :)

**This page was CASED from Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush, Cheerful Treat DSP (h), Pink Pirouette, Bashful Blue
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, scallop punch, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die, itty bitty buttons, Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die, Whisper White 5/8" Satin Ribbon

Rehearsal Dinner Part 3

This is the third and final page that I made for our rehearsal dinner pictures. Again, I used the same layout as the first two pages and just tweaked it to suite my picture needs.

**This page was CASED from Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Ballet Blue (r), Green Galore (r), Lovely Lilac (r), Bride Specialty DSP (r)
Ink: Almost Amethyst (r)
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, brayer

Rehearsal Dinner Part 2

Sometimes you have so many pictures for a particular even that it's a smart idea to use the same layout several times. I did this for my rehearsal dinner pictures. I had a ton of pictures and loved the original layout that I had made so much that I decided just to continue on with that layout. I tweaked the page a little to remove the title which gave me more room to add some additional pictures.

**This page was CASED from Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Ballet Blue (r), Green Galore (r), Lovely Lilac (r), Bride Specialty DSP (r)
Ink: Almost Amethyst (r)
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, brayer

Rehearsal Dinner Part 1

Shortly before we made this page, Rachel posted this card and showed us the technique to take the white (or vanilla) specialty bridal designer series paper and color it to customize it for any project. As an avid follower of her blog, I had seen the post and really wanted to do the same thing on a scrapbook page. She was kind enough to let me use her super special DSP to make this page.

To create the effect, you take the DSP and brayer your choice of ink over the paper until it reaches your preferred coverage. Then you just use a tissue to wipe the excess ink off the paper. This paper is specially made so that the embossed design will resist the color you put on, leaving the design white against your colored background.

**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Ballet Blue (r), Green Galore (r), Lovely Lilac (r), Bride Specialty DSP (r)
Ink: Almost Amethyst (r)
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2 way glue, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlits die, brayer

Pumpkin Herbie

As I mentioned in my last post, Jeremy and I like to dress up the cats. It's really hard to find Halloween costumes for them though because they don't make them for cats like they do for dogs. Their Christmas outfits are doggy outfits but these hats were actually made for cats. The pictures of Herbie turned out so good and Jeremy and I submitted his picture to our local paper and they added it to their Halloween picture gallery, making it the front page. We like to think that Herbie is our little star!





**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Stamps: Batty for You (r)
Paper: Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust (r), More Mustard, Creepy Crawly DSP (r)
Ink: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: stampin dimensionals, snail adhesive, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" square punch

Meowy Christmas

Jeremy and I are a little nutty and we LOVE to dress our cats up in cute little outfits. For the kittens' 1st Christmas we got Mittens a Santa dress and a dapper sweater for Herbie. They hate being dressed up and Mittens is smart enough to actually take the dress off -- she also tries to help Herbie get out of the sweater but they haven't quite figured out how to get that done.

For this scrapbook page, to make the circles we used string, magnets and pencils to draw our circles and then cut them out with scissors...you may notice that my circles aren't perfectly round ;)



**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Merry Moments DSP (r)
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, timeless type junior alphabet die

Glitter Bomb

Two years ago, at our annual Spring into Stamping event, Rachel volunteered to demo decorating Easter eggs using Stampin' UP! products. She died eggs using reinkers, and used rub ons and glitter to decorate them. The eggs turned out so super cute and I, being the glitter lover that I am, asked her to create a page for scrapbook club that we could use glitter on, like she decorated the eggs. She's a great demonstrator and even though she was sick of the glitter she created this great page for us to make.

For my page, I made a generic birthday page and then used pictures from Jeremy's 25th birthday party which was a surprise party. To create the rainbow look on the glitter, we used the Serriff Essentials Bigz die to cut our letters out using Sticky Pages. You stick down your letter, then use a exacto knife (or razor) to cut the letter into sections. You peel up the first section of your backing and glitter with your first color. Brush away the excess glitter, then peel up the backing for the next section. You'll continue this process until you have covered all the letter with your different colored glitters. You can do this with any sticky strip products -- including using the sticky strip itself. On my page, I punched out a couple of stars and glittered those. Stampin' UP! is making it easier for us to use glitter too now that they are coming out with glitter pages which greatly reduces the mess involved. Right now, there are only two colors, but hopefully we'll get some more colors as time goes on:)

**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**
Supplies
Stamps: Just B (r), Party Hearty (r)
Paper: Whisper White, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Real Red
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, Serif Essentials Bigz Alphabet Die, star punch, supernova fine stampin glitter

Rae Anne's Baby Shower

For Rae Anne's shower, she had a jungle theme that tied in with the Fox and Friends stamp set. RP and I also made those diaper cakes including, my favorite, the froggy castle. I based this page on those elements, as well as the invitations that we made for the shower. For this page I used Pear Pizzazz and Marina Mist which, when paired with Chocolate Chip, make the perfect color scheme for a baby boy. It's not too babyish, which I think can happen when you're trying to use Bashful Blue, which is a standard baby boy color.

**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Stamps: Circle Circus
Paper: pear pizzazz, chocolate chip, marina mist, whisper white
Ink: pear pizzazz, chocolate chip, marina mist
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, circle punches, timeless type junior alphabet die

Back to Bridal Shower

This was the first page that I made for my bridal shower. I can't believe though that I actually had 5 portrait pictures to be able to make this page ;)

You can't really tell from my picture but on the crushed curry rectangle on the left page, there are flowers punched and glued down to give some dimension instead of just stamping.

**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**

Supplies
Paper: Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Crushed Curry (r), Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, fancy flower punch, crushed curry polka dotted ribbon (r)

Coconut Joe's

Here's another page made with pictures from our honeymoon. Attached to our hotel are actually two fantastic places to eat. One, Coconut Joe's, was were we ate at on our first night in town. They have fantastic food, and their restaurant overlooks the beach and they have a rooftop deck area where you can hang out and watch the ocean. We were there in the off season so we got a ton of good deals and I still dream about those mozzarella moons!

Luckily, after our trip, Stampin' UP! created this awesome DSP which not only has my wedding colors, but also is perfect for a beach vacation. I've tried to use this paper as much as possible and I love how this page turned out.

**This page was made at Rachel's scrapbook club and the original design is hers**


Supplies
Stamps: Tropical Party (r)
Paper: Island Oasis DSP (r), Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: 2 way glue, snail adhesive, top note die, timeless type alphabet junior sizzlets die,

Isle of Palms

Okay, now we're back to pages that were made at Rachel's scrapbook club. The next several posts were all made at Rachel's and instead of me trying to come up with clever new ways to say the same thing I will now make a note above my supply list if they were made/designed by Rachel (or anyone else for that matter).

This page is the first of many honeymoon pages that I have made, and have yet to make. Jeremy and I went to Charleston, SC but stayed in the lovely Isle of Palms which is about 15 minutes away from Charleston. I love this stamp set (although I can't remember the name of it) but it was a bit of a pain to cut out all those pieces:)




Supplies
Paper: Pink Passion (r), Yo Yo Yellow (r), Only Orange (r), Real Red
Ink: Real Red, Yo Yo Yellow (r), Only Orange (r), Pink Passion (r)
Accessories: SU dimensionals, snail adhesive, timeless type junior alphabet die

Garden Party

I'm going to take a quick break from projects designed by Rachel and move to a page that was designed by Rae Anne. When we went on the Xtreme Stamping weekend a few years ago, Rae Anne designed a great Disney World page using My Digital Studio. After she was finished, I CASED the page to create this page.


Supplies
Stamps: Seeing Spots (r), Jumble Alphabet (r)
Paper: Melon Mambo, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: snail adhesive, 2-way glue, glimmer brads - bright