More Core Curriculum projects...

Hi! Hope you had a terrific and safe Labor Day. Can you believe I didn't take one single photo? It was nice to just relax at the picnic and not worry about my camera for a day. :) We had a nice time with friends, and the girls had fun playing with all the kids. Kati ended up with a black eye though after someone bumped her eye (Taylor) on the trampoline. (I may have to get a picture of that...poor thing! I felt bad for her, but it didn't seem to bother her too long.)

I'm so excited to share with you some more guest design projects made with the Core Curriculum kit by Noel Mignon. The first is a teacher card made with one of the pages from the Melissa Frances tag book. I used two i's to make the plus sign and stitched a circle in the background to add a little bit of movement to the card with all of its rigid lines.

3 + 1/2 = (inside says "1 great teacher!")

(Oops, I forgot to erase my pencil lines. Excuse the lines!)

I covered the inside tag with the notebook paper, added a Scenic Route rub on from the kit, a one (love these Thickers) and wrote "great teacher" myself. I left some room underneath to write a special note to the teacher.
The second teacher card was made with a piece of the notebook-looking paper from the kit. I stitched over some of the lines in the paper to bring out the design before attaching it to the card base.

I'll be all set when I need a teacher thank you this year.

And last, but not least, a page about Taylor and her scooter. She loves that thing and uses it almost daily! (Can you tell how much I love this star paper by American Crafts? It's so bright and colorful in real life.) These pics were taken last July a couple days after she got her braces on.
Let me know if you have any questions about how I created these. I'd be happy to answer them. Thanks for looking!

Silent auction..can you help?

Hey, all! Well the days are getting shorter and the nights cooler. Fall is just around the corner! It's supposed to be raining on Taylor's first day of school next week. Oh crud! I hope the forcast changes before then.

I wanted to pop in and tell you about one of my good scrapping friends, Anam. She is having an on-line auction on her blog to raise money for her family to get permanent residency in Canada and are just a few dollars short. Lots of talented scrappers from around the globe are helping out by donating custom layouts, jewelry, etc. I've donated a set of 6 cards for the auction (#00046). Would you be so kind as to check out her auction? You can read her story here, and you can find more info about the auction here. There are so many beautiful things to see, and the minimum bid is only $5. Please hurry as she only has 2 weeks left to raise money. Thank you for reading and for your help!

What's your style?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, as it pertains to scrapbooking. Yesterday, I was playing around with my supplies and wanted to create a page just for me. Just because. So I came up with this.

Journaling says, "This is a question I have been asking myself lately about my scrapbooking work. What style do I most enjoy? Shabby, messy and artsy, or clean? The truth is that I enjoy them all, and even though my style seems to come through as clean with a little bit of shabbiness to it, inside of me is definitely the artsy, creative type waiting to spill out! I would love to create more just for me. Create what my heart speaks to me that day. Just throw paint on paper, stitch and go. Not thinking about what others might think or if it's my "style" per se, or if my photos are stellar enough. I would like to not be so critical of my work, and create faster. Not think about it so much. The process is what I enjoy! I want to get messy!"

(By messy, I just mean more artsy-looking. I hope I didn't offend anyone by that.) I used a couple of Glimmer Mists here, Graphite and Deep Purple, and misted over the chipboard letters and then attached them off to the side. The photo is of my VERY messy paint palette. Me thinks I need a new one! The paint doesn't come off of it anymore. Kati was painting yesterday with it and after I rinsed it off, I thought, gosh that is pretty with all of the colors on it. So I took a picture of it and went from there.

I don't have a 12 x 12" printer, so I cut a strip of white cardstock off the side, printed on it and then put it back together on my layout. The way I do this is: I print my journaling on a regular piece of paper. Use a tape roller to attach my white cardstock over the top and run it through my printer again.

How about you? What's your style? What styles are you drawn to?

Supplies: Background paper: Cupid by Pink Paislee, orange and black scallop paper, brad: Twilight by Pink Paislee, red chipboard: Expressions by Pink Paislee, chipboard letters: Sweets by Basic Grey, green letters: American Crafts Thickers.