Sand & Sun

Here is the latest layout for my Scrap Club. We had a lot of fun with this. The ladies got really creative again. They came up with buckets, shovels, little red crabs, it was great. We used a variety of punches. The sand dollar shell is made from the 5-petal punch. I scored from the beginning of the petal to almost the middle on all 5 petals with the bone folder and then on the raised side I traced it with a Close to Cocoa marker, traced that with the VersaMark marker and embossed with Clear embossing powder.

The cute little flip-flops and sun were an idea I CASED from Buffy with her permission of course! I wasn't going to add them to my page until after the club meeting since the punch is retired but my daughter saw them and went and made some for herself so the cat was out of the bag and the other ladies wanted them too. What can you do?

The other shell was also CASED (and changed a little). It came from Valita. She has some great ideas on her blog. On this shell I also scored some lines to give it a little diminsion and then added the Dazzling Diamonds glitter to give a little pop. Actually I CASED just about all of the embellishments from somewhere except for the beach towel and the star fish but I can't remember where I found everything. The beach towel is just a rectangle of cardstock, fringed on the ends with scissors and run through the crimper and then smoothed out a little. Some of the ladies in the club added a little stamping to theirs with tiny flowers. Looked real cute.

The only thing non SU! on the page is the title. I cut that from the Cricut and added it later. I only have one set of letter stamps so far and they were a little big for this layout.

Supplies: Sahara Sand, Real Red, Only Orange, Brilliant Blue, Very Vanilla, whisper white, and Yoyo Yellow cardstock
Accessories: Punches: key tag, scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, small oval, 5 petal punch, and heart to heart; also the paper crimper, Close to Cocoa ink pad and marker, VersaMark marker, clear embossing powder and Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Title cut with Cricut

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Sneak Peek

Here is a sneak peek from my Scrapbooking club this Friday. Can you tell how much I love my punches for scrapbooking?!?!

Fireworks punch card

I promised myself that every time I use my punches to create punch art I would make myself one of these 6x6 cards to put in my binder. This way I can browse through my book for ideas. Even though I've already explained how I did this in my previous post I'll post it again just in case...

The bigger fireworks are made from the keytag punch. Just squared off each of the ends. Also made little stars on them with the gel pen. The wick is white embroidery floss. The small firecrackers are made from the word window punch. Also with the ends squared off and cut in half. Some of them I cut in fourths to make the really small ones. Then I grouped them together to make a bigger embelishment.
Supplies: Kraft, Riding Hood Red, whisper white, and Night of Navy cardstock
Accessories: white embroidery floss, word window punch, key tag punch, white Uni-ball Signo Gel Pen

July 4th 12x12 layout

Here is the layout for the June meeting of my scrapbook club. I gave all of the ladies the same supplies and went over what I did for my layout and then told them to do whatever they wanted. I was quite amazed and impressed with the different layouts that they came up with. Wish I had snapped a few pics of what they did too.
So here are the details: I used the Top Note die for the title background and the journaling space. For the title I tore a piece of white paper and sponged the edges with the red. Stamped the letters with red, and made the #4 from the word window punch with a little detail added using the white Uni-ball Signo Gel Pen(just love that thing!). All of the mats for the pics are red on blue or vice versa and have faux stitching again with the white gel pen . The bigger fireworks are made from the keytag punch. Just squared off each of the ends. Also made little stars on them with the gel pen. The wick is white embroidery floss. The small firecrackers are made from the word window punch. Also with the ends squared off and cut in half. Some of them I cut in fourths to make the really small ones. Then I grouped them together to make a bigger embelishment. The word window punch was used again for the 'God Bless America' labeling. I stole this idea from my daughter after the meeting. She used a different saying but the idea was great. Thanks to my upline I had the star punches also. Can you believe she had just ordered them and got them in the day before my meeting and she let me borrow them? She is awesome that way. Thanks Suzanne!

Supplies: Kraft, Riding Hood Red, whisper white, and Night of Navy cardstock;Riding Hood Red, and Night of Navy ink
Accessories: white embroidery floss, small and large star punch, word window punch, key tag punch, white Uni-ball Signo Gel Pen, sponge, adhesive, Top Note die
Stamps: Schoolbook Serif Alphabet

I'm back...

Well, I haven't really been gone this whole time but since my last posting I went on vacation to Massachusetts for a week to see our daughter, son-in-law, and 2 beautiful grandchildren. We went to my grandson's end of the year gymnastic program and my granddaughter's dance recital. Too cute. We also stopped by Niagra Falls on our way home. Did I mention that we drove? Never again. It was 18+ hours of driving in two days. Stayed for 3 days and then came back. Vacation was nice but the driving, or riding since that is what I do, was way too long. Anyway, we brought our grandson home with us for 3 weeks. He is going home today. Went to the zoo while he was here, movies, 4th of July celebrations. Lots of going and doing. So now that he is going home again I am going to try to be a better poster of my projects. Made the cutest Owl graduation project for a family member's graduation and forgot to take a picture before I gave it away! Stay tuned for another scrapbook posting...