Two posts in the SAME day? WOW!

Well, I am sunburned, so I am taking a break from the beach today....
so while the family is out in the sun,  I am sitting in the A/C working on a couple scrapbook pages. :)

Yesterday, we went on this awesome Dolphin Excursion out of Marco Island Rose Marina. It was a 3 hour tour (sing along now...a three hour tour...). We saw over 20 dolphins! It was AMAZING.
The kids (and adults) had a great time! It was gorgeous being out on the boat. I could have spent all day out there. :)

Part of the excursion was stopping at one of the 10,000 islands surrounding Marco. It was called Barrier Island. It is secluded...and gorgeous! No buildings, just gorgeous SOFT sand, and TONS of shells and the water was incredible. It was stunning.

Emily and I collected a tons of shells...amazing shells. WOW! They are soaking in a bath right now to get the sand and smell out of them...and yes, we checked to make sure there is nothing living in them. :)

So, I wanted to make a page to show this beautiful place. It's simple...but I like my pages that way to keep the focus on the pictures.

On this page I used the Bella Bleu Designer Series Paper, along with some new ruffled polka dot ribbon. The elements (the postcard) is from the Beau Chateau Digital Embellishments Download...it's new with this catalog, and it's awesome. It has a great vintage feel/look to it. I find myself reaching for it a lot! 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek! I love vacation, but I am ready to get home and hit the stamps! :))

Have a great day and weekend!

Scrapbooking on Vacation

I love MDS! 
I love that I can just grab my laptop and scrapbook my vacation while I am still ON vacation! 


How cool is that?


Here is a page I made today of the gorgeous beach we are staying on this week! 

I am one of those people who easily gets behind on my pages. I just never seem to have the time to get it done. But I do have 15 minutes a day to crank out a page. And that is all this took! I have my laptop, and that is all I need to scrapbook wherever I am! Love that! 

I will of course resume stamping projects next week when we return home. We are having a GREAT vacation and I am excited to share more pages with you! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

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Scrapbook Classes Begin in September

I am happy to announce that I will be adding a monthly scrapbook class to my schedule!

One Saturday a month I will have a class where you will create two 12x12 layouts (double pages). So you will complete 4 pages in each class.

I provide all materials to complete the 4 pages. Photos are not necessary for you

to bring to class. You can add them later. You should bring adhesive and scissors.

Cost is $25.00 which includes a $5 coupon towards product purchase.

Here is one of the layouts will will make in September.

Close up of the individual pages:

This page has a vintage feel to it. We are using a lot of new product! New colors and new stamps! The top of the second page has a slit cut into it to tuck in the journaling tag.

The gathering of the ribbon and the vintage flower lends itself to an antique feel.

This page would be great for a little girl, your Grandparents Wedding picture, or a special picture of your grandmother.

If you are interested in attending this class, please see below.

DATE: Saturday Sept 25th

TIME: 10 AM - 12 Noon

Class is limited to 6 participants. Please email me at Stamp4joy@comcast.net to reserve your space.

Have a great weekend!

Elements of Style Scrapbook Page

So are you sick of me showing samples of this set yet? LOL.

I can't help it. It's just so beautiful!

Here is a 12x12 Page I made with some of my favorite products. Crumb Cake Cardstock, Vintage Wall Embossing Folder, Beautiful Butterfly Die Cut, Big Shot Machine, Xtra Large Flower Punch and of course, Elements of Style.

The CEO Shelli Gardner had made a scrapbook page at Leadership that had a very vintage feel to it. I fell in love with it. There were many layers of cardstock, ribbons, embellishments that added such a wonderful texture to the whole project. I have seen many demonstrators take on her page and I decided I needed to try my hand at it.

I really love the texture of the flowers and the embossing folder. Here is a closer look:

I used the Xtra Large FLower stamp and punched out a bunch of flowers. I stamped them with the Elements of Style Stamp, then crumbled them up to add more texture. A little sponging around the edges and a few circle punches and buttons in the middle finish it off.

I followed the same steps for the butterflies.

I ran the strip of Vanilla Cardstock through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wall Embossing folder. Than I ran some Chocolate Chip ink over it with a stamping sponge.

I decided to get a Shadow Box and frame it so I can hang it in our dining room. I just love the picture of my family at the beach this summer.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to see many of you Saturday at our new catalog stamp camp!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Last Few Calendar Pages

Well, I am packing today and headed for the warm weather! Stampin' Up!'s Leadership Conference is in Phoenix, and I am really looking forward to some sun! I will be gone for the better part of a week - but I will return with lots to share!

Here are the last few calendar pages that I made with My Digital Studio. I can't wait to get it! It will probably arrive when I am in Phoenix. :)

This is my November page...all the things that I am thankful for....

And my very favorite of them all, December....I just love the colors and the picture is one of my favorites of my kids. :*)

Thanks for stopping by today! I will schedule a post or two while I am away.

Have a great week!

A few more Calendar Pages

Here are a few more of the Digital Pages I made for my 2010 Calendar.

I wanted a page for Bella...she has truly grown by leaps and bounds. She is huge (not overweight, just a big bundle of love)! It's so fun to look back at the pictures when we first got her. Sooo cute!

This is the July page. These are pictures from one of our many trips to Sanibel Island. We adore it there. We haven't been in a few years. I was so ready to escape the snow and look at the fun times we had in the sun there. :)




And here is the October layout. I love that we have the Cast A Spell Designer Paper available digitally. There are pictures from the past few years of the kids on Halloween.

Thanks for stopping by today....I am busy getting ready for my upcoming trip to Phoenix! Can't wait to be in the warmth!

Have a great week!

More Digital Calendar Pages

Here are a few more pages that I created with My Digital Studio for my 2010 Calendar...

Doesn't it look like they actually LIKE eachother in these pictures? LOL. These moments are few and far between these days (unless there is money involved).

It's so cool that you can modify your photo as well. This first one was a color photograph - but I was able to change it to B&W (there is also sepia, and other color options). You can sharpen, soften, remove red eye, crop...etc. I wanted to keep this page simple and not add too much. I wanted the picture to be the main focus of the page, and too many elements can distract from that.

On this page, I added flowers from our stamp set Petal Pizzaz. It's so much fun adding buttons, brads and ribbons to the flowers digitally. I then added a "drop shadow" on the flowers to create the illusion of depth. Doesn't it look like the flowers are popped up on dimensionals? Very cool!

Thanks for stopping by...I hope you are having a safe and happy New Year!

My Digital Studio 2010 Calendar

I have been having so much fun playing with My Digital Studio this week. In addition to Scrapbook pages and cards, it also makes amazing calendars. I used many of my favorite pictures of my family to create amazing scrap pages for my 12x12 calendar. It's so easy and FUN. The possibilities are endless!

Here is the cover, and the January and February pages. I will share a few months each day.

COVER

(look how BIG Bella is now! She weighs over 80 lbs!)

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

I love looking at these pictures when my kids were so small. Time goes by so fast! I also love that in MDS, we have access to last years In Colors....Baja Breeze (which I used on the January layout), Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette...some of my favorites!

On the February layout, I used the Night and Day Designer Paper. It's awesome that our Designer Papers are part of the program and we can use it digitally. Very cool!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great day and stop by again soon!

Christmas Lounge Scrapbook Layout

As promised, here is the 2nd layout that we did at Scrapbook Club last week.
























My club members LOVED these pages! There is a lot of cool stuff going on here. The new Stampin' Up! Decor Stencils take center stage. I must admit, I was quite reluctant in purchasing the stencils. The idea of using stencils didn't appeal to me. But let me tell you, these are not the stencils from the 80's...no little houses, hearts or grapes and ivy here. These stencils are COOL!

The pages are done in Sahara Sand Cardstock and Holiday Lounge Designer Series Paper. On the first page on the left, we used the largest of the Vintage Ornaments I stencil set, and sponged it with Sahara Sand Classic Ink. We then laid the swirl ornament over it, and used our Sponge Daubers with the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint. It's so gorgeous I can't even stand it! :0)

The large snowflake is the Snowflake #2 Die for the Big Shot. We cut it out of Chipboard, and used the White Frost Shimmer Paint to cover it and put a Clear Rhinestone Brad in the center. I love that the Big Shot cuts so many different types of material, not just cardstock. It can handle chipboard, fabric, metal, leather...over 50 different materials! It's the BEST die cut machine ever.

On the 2nd page, we again used an ornament stencil - this time with Ruby Red Classic Ink (to coordinate with the Designer Series paper). The swirl is another stencil and we used the Frost White Shimmer Paint. Beautiful!

The ornaments on the bottom are from the Delightful Decorations Set and the Coordinating Punch (found in the Holiday Mini Catalog). The tag is a die cut...Two Tags...which I ADORE...I will be whipping out holiday gift tags in record time this year!

This round of scrapbook club is wrapping up in December. A new club will start in January and I am taking names now. I still need 2 more participants. So if you want to make beautiful layouts each month and have a fun night out, please let me know!

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!

November Scrapbook Pages

Hello Stampers!

Last night was our Monthly Scrapbook Club Meeting. The gals seemed to LOVE the pages this month so I wanted to share them with you.

The first one features the Night and Day Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog.

I am not sure if you can tell, but we inked up the Medallion Stamp (my fave!) in Basic Black Craft ink and stamped it in the top right corner and lower left corner of page 1. We then added clear embossing powder and embossed it with the heat tool. It give a very rich tone on tone that lends wonderfully to the mood of the page.

The large scallop circle was made using the Scallop Circle BigZ die. The initial was cut out using the Serif Alphabet set for the Big Shot. Next to the initial is a punched out piece that reads "You are One of A Kind" - which was made using the Modern Label Punch. The tag at the bottom was stamped with the Original Definition stamp from the Define Your Life Set. That set is very popular for scrapbooking because it has so many wonderful defintions. Everyone was able to customize and use what they wanted to for the definition.

Page 2 is simply a 10x10 Whisper White layer on top of the 12x12 Basic Black. Then we used the Night and Day paper and Basic Black cardstock to create 3x3 squares. These will hold 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" pictures perfectly. I envision a "many faces of Jacob" type of page with each sqaure representing all the things that make my little man the awesome kid he is. :)

The next post tomorrow will feature the 2nd set of pages we did last night. You won't want to miss it as we used some COOL new products and made gorgeous pages!

Thanks for stopping by!

November Scrapbook Page

This 12x12 page is from our Days to Remember Calendar that I made last Christmas. It's a 12x12 calendar that you personalize, and make a coordinating page. When the month is over, the page tears out and you can put it in your Album.



I think I love this page so much because of the picture. This is my little man who was just a year old when we went to the Pickin' Patch to get pumkins. I plopped him down right in the field and took a jillion and two photos until I got the perfect one. :0) Now my little man is 8, and certainly not so small, but just as sweet and caring as always...and the best hugger in the whole world. :)

The quote on this page says "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things."

Have a great day and start thinking about scrapping the things in your life that you are grateful for. :0)

Terri

October Scrapbook Pages

Here is one of the layouts from my Monthly Scrapbook Club. We have a great time getting together every month working on our pages. This club is full, but I am currently taking names for another club...there are 3 seats left. Join me and scrap one night a month!

You deserve it!! :-)

This page uses Not Quite Navy and Very Vanilla together with the Bella Bleu Designer Paper. . The tag on page 1 reads "Tie your heart with an unslipping knot". The flowers were made using the Big Shot and flower die cuts, and the center is a Very Vanilla jumbo brad. Vanilla tafetta ribbon and a touch of gold cord ties this page together.

On page 2 we used the Always stamp set for the heart. We stamped it in Not Quite Navy Ink and sponged it and of course added glitter! :-) The top piece is a pocket that holds 2 tags (making tags is a snap with the Stampin' Up! tag corner punch).

And this page is from Courtney's workshop. She wanted to get the gals together for a Scrapbook Workshop and here is the SNOW page they made. It uses the Serene Snowflake Stamp Set (MY FAVE!) in the Holiday Mini, along with the Christmas Cocoa Designer Series Paper. That paper ROCKS. It's has a metallic subtle shine to it that is so RICH. There is also some of the patterns that are FLOCKED. Gorgeous!

The finishing touch on this page (and I am not sure you can tell by looking at this photo) was a fine mist spray of Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint to give it a subtle all over sparkle. We mixed 1 oz. of 91% rubbing alcohol to 15 drops of Shimmer Mist in a spray bottle (shake well!) After we stamped the page, we misted it with the spray (open a window...very strong fumes...but worth it!). It dries very quickly (because of the 91%) and it just adds that extra special touch to the page. This also works wonderfully on cards. :-)

Thanks for stopping by ~

take some time for yourself today and stamp a card or scrapbook page. :-)

SCRAPBOOKERS WANTED!

Do you find you NEVER have time in your busy schedule to scrap?
Are you so far behind on your pages, that it truly isn't even funny?
I have the solution....

JOIN THE SCRAPBOOK CLUB!

As a member of the club, you get to come to exclusive club workshops once a month to make 12x12 layouts! It is a lot of fun and it's guaranteed time each month to scrap and get those pages done! The club projects are free to make, your commitment is a minimal purchase ($30) each month.

Why would you want to join?

1. This is a great way to build up your supplies. With a minimal investment each month, you will have lots of great stamps and accessories!

2. Everyone gets their turn to be the “hostess.” This means you collect HOSTESS BENEFITS! You’ll get at least one hostess stamp set plus $15 in free product on your hostess month. (You could get a lot more!)

3. When it’s your month to be hostess, you can turn your month into a workshop and invite more friends. This will increase your hostess benefits and you could earn even MORE free product! (This is completely optional!)

3. If you ever can’t make it to the club workshop, just call in your order to me by the date of our club workshop. It’s no problem! I will set aside the material for you to make your pages at another date.

4. It’s a guaranteed night out with friends, and it’s a lot of FUN! So, what are you waiting for? Contact me for more information!

Click on the Scrapbooking Link under the Labels section on the right hand side of my blog and you will see several different samples of scrapbook pages that we have made in our monthly clubs. You will use different products, and learn new techniques each month to use on your pages!

Contact me at Stamp4joy@comcast.net with questions or to sign up!

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great Monday!

My Digital Studio MOVIE

OK, I know I've just posted a few adorable pages...but I decided I had to try the Movie Feature on My Digital Studio. There are different resolutions that you can select for the finished product. Since the blog has a limit on size for video uploads, I chose the lower resolution. The higher resolution is what you would use for viewing on your tv. It's so much FUN to create and you will LOVE it (although your significant other may complain that you do nothing but sit in front of the computer now...LOL).

Enjoy!!

My Digital Studio NOW AVAILABLE!

I am so excited that customers can now purchase My Digital Studio! To call this a digital scrapbooking program would be unjust! It does so much more. It's a complete paper crafting software that makes cards, calendars, scrapbooks, movies and DVD's and even interactive albums. WOW. And all featuring Stampin' Up! exclusive art work images, colors and accessories.


Here are a few pages I whipped out in no time at all.

To learn more about My Digital Studio, click here or contact me today for your own private demonstration!

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapbook Club Sneak Peek

Monday evening is my monthly Scrapbook Club meeting where we get to make two 12x12 layouts. It's a lot of fun and it's great to actually have scheduled time to get some pages completed! We are all so busy that it seems like we never have time to get it done (myself included!).

Here is one of the Halloween Pages we are making tomorrow.... It's using our new Cast A Spell Desginer Series Paper and the House of Haunts Stamp Set.

The title "BOO" was made using the Big Shot. We are going to cut the letters out of chipboard (love that the BIG SHOT cuts over 50 different types of material!) and use some heat and stick powder along with our SuperFine Glitter in purple to make the title. It's very sparkly in person!

The tag on the left is heat embossed in Basic Black on Glossy White Cardstock, and then we used some sponges to apply the color. Such fun techniques!

I still have to get pictures on the 2nd page, but I will share the completed layout when it's all finished! :-)

Happy Sunday everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

My Digital Studio

Oh, my! I don't know where to start!

I received my copy of Stampin' Up!'s paper crafting software, My Digital Studio, today. To call is a digital scrapbooking program would be a grave injustice.
It not only does pages, it does albums, and greeting cards, and calendars...and you can make movies and burn DVD Videos...

Now, I just got it this afternoon...I was all giddy with excitement as my favorite man in brown delivered it. After dinner, after walking the dog, after making sure homework is done, and backpacks are ready, and kids are showered...then I sat down to play. And you may never hear from me again. LOL. It's THAT good. And I have only scratched the surface.

Here is a page I made tonight...a Halloween page. I love all the digital elements, like the torn edges, the ribbon, the punches, the stamped images...all in SU's Exclusive 48 Colors. WOW!




Be kind, as this is only my first try and I have lots more playing ahead of me! LOL. I will be stuck to this computer all weekend I think!

Look for more projects to come. I am sure I will have lots to share with you very soon! :)

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day,

Christmas Joy Layout

This is the 2nd layout from my Monthly Scrapbook Club this past week. I know, it's 110 degrees, really humid, and we can't even fathom the thought of Christams. But, hey...it'll be here before we know it.

This layout uses the new Merry Moments Designer Series Paper. I love the combo of Real Red, Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip. We also used Merry Moment Stamp Set, and cut out some ornaments and popped them up on dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today. If you ever want to join us at Scrapbook Club, please let me know. We love welcoming new guests!

Stamp Happy,