Winter Wonderland using Spellbinders

I have news to share - I did not make the cut on round two of tryouts for the Spellbinders team.  I was disappointed, but I know that their team is highly competitive.  The good news is that I may now show my projects with you!

My entry for round one was this 12 x 12 inch layout.  I used two colored  sheets of cardstock topped with snowflake printed paper.  The snowflake print made a lovely, low-key background on which to build the layout elements.  The first element I added was a Stampin' Up stamp which reads "Winter Wonderland" stamped on my snowflake print.




I used my Grand Calibur with grand label one to cut the two layer matting and the main photo.  I used nesties label one to cut the mats and the smaller photo.  I also used snowflakes number one and cut red and blue embellishment snowflakes.  The snowflakes were topped with red buttons tied with white embroidery floss.




My page border was created using a Spellbinders lacey border cut four times.  I mitered the corners and topped the corners with snowflakes or tags.  The WINTER tag at the bottom left was created using label 14 and a stamp.  I penned in the date at the bottom of the label. 




I will admit that I was a disappointed at not making the cut, but really it was fun to try out.  And I was able to get this great photo scrapped!!

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Weekend at the Lake Scrap Peek #2

Today's peek at my weekend crop projects will feature my daughter and her activities.  Do you detect a pattern here?  Yesterday was the older son, followed by my daughter - the middle child - today.  Hmmmm.  Who do you think will be featured tomorrow?


This two page layout features Bethany and her friend Bailey who attended the Charleston Green Fair.  I was especially excited to be able to use the letter G from Tie the Knot cartridge for my capital letters in the page title.  I welded lower case Plantin to the Tie the knot caps.


 


Bethany and Bailey were photographed with the event "mascots" and the picture appeared in the local Charleston paper.  For those who may not be familiar with our State, Charleston is three hours away and we do not get the Charleston paper in Aiken.  Silly us, we get the Aiken Paper.  Bethany did not get a copy of the actual newspaper for me, but she did send me a link to the on-line pdf of the article.  I was able to the save the pdf article and print it onto cardstock.  I also was able to right click the photo, save it and print it and create this double page layout.





You may recall the first page of the two page layout below - the left page was created for a BBTB2 challenge using the phase cut In Style from Graphically Speaking.  I also designed a second page for the layout.  I have found that 99% of my layouts are double page spreads.   When I used the left page for BBTB2, I printed the photos out quickly with dying toner.  For the final scrapbook version, I printed the photos at Shutterfly and cropped them to fit the layout.





I really like how this layout came out. I was especially pleased with the dress stands and the spools of thread.  The dress stands were made using a key cut on JOTS and Belle's dress from DCT.  There is a spool of the thread with a needle on the other Disney princess cartridge, but of course I do not have that cartridge.  So I used George and created my own spools.  The spool was made by welding two round corner triangles together with a barrel cut in the middle.  I then cut the barrel in the color I wanted the thread to be.  I had cut a snip of silver paper for the needle and used my markers to draw in the thread.





In my ususal style, I finished both layouts with doodles and dots.  I will add that I do use a ruler to draw the lines on my layout... My hand is not steady enough to trust lines to free hand style.
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Happy New Year - And New Design Team (Sort-of)

Happy New Year!! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season and are ready to get back to some serious crafting!!!




I enjoyed my time off, but found that I felt guilty about not scrapping. Santa brought me some new scrapping toys and I so enjoyed getting my room reorganized and ready for the new year. I will share more on the new additions later. Now I will tell you about the design team.




Bitten by the Bug has experienced some changes during the holidays. Regina decided she need to refocus her energy on her business and family but the team wanted to go on. So the wonderful Heather stepped up and is taking charge of the design team. We will now be Bitten by the Bug 2. Click the name and you will find most of the usual designer and their amazing projects at the new BBTB2 blog.




The featured cut this week is from the Graphically Speaking cartridge, In Style. The timing was perfect as I spent part of the weekend teaching my daughter how to sew. She chose a project that was a bit advanced so at times I feared my wonderful Bernina would end up being tossed out into the cold... but Bethany made it though with minimal misadventure. I suspect she will not be sewing again too soon though!!



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Lake Weekend Brought Christmas in July

I had a wonderful time at Lake Murray last weekend with my scrapping girl fiends: "My friend Kathy", Beth, Sally, Peggy, Suzanne, and Pat. We were one busy bunch of scrappers! I actually only completed four scrap pages, but that was because I was focused on Christmas in July! I made 24 Christmas Cards (eight each of three styles), and 18 sets of gift tags to give as gifts at work. Somehow I feel like I am ahead of schedule now.

The one of the two double page spreads I created was of my daughter and her friends as they were preparing for the annual Steeplechase event this spring. I found this dress paper at Scrap Your Trip and just loved it. I thought it was perfect for these photographs.



As I stated above, I made three different Christmas card designs. I actually cannot decide which design I like best. The first design consists of a circular Merry Christmas stamp, stamped on smooth white card stock and cut with a nestie. It is mounted on a larger nestie and has a pop package in the middle. I used Basic Grey paper and off white cards.



The second design utilizes one of last year's purchases, this beautiful Christmas tree stamp from Stampin' Up. It too was stamped on smooth white card stock and mounted on a nestie cut. The background paper was purchased at Michael's, and I cannot recall the company.



The final of my three cards grew out of a mistake. I had planned to make bag toppers and accidentally cut them too small. So I decided to use the light blue cuts as backgrounds for stamping. I used the same Christmas tree and mounted the tag on navy card stock stamped with white snow flakes.



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A "Guilt Post"

I have had such a productive weekend - almost a scrapper's paradise! I designed and completed the next two Bitten by the Bug challenges. Sadly I can only share one of those with you tomorrow. I also created four additional projects, but again I cannot post those yet either... More on this at a later date.

I can share some of my layouts from last weekend. Yes, that would be called "guilt posting". I feel guilty that I have been such a busy scrapper, but have nothing to post on my blog! You are such wonderful readers, you rarely make me feel like I must have new material. But, I still have high levels of guilt.

I must share one other piece of news - My Michigan State Spartans beat UCONN in the final four on Saturday!!! I will admit to dancing around the living room singing the fight song!!! Of course we now must face North Carolina on Monday.... OUCH!

Okay, back to scrapping - I have three layouts to share. The first is another from my older son's visit to Atlanta. He and Chrissy have on their "News is Serious Business" faces... the goofs!


This layout is from my daughter's 21st birthday party. The colors may not have matched her outfit... but the words match her life!!



And finally, my daughter from last fall at the County Fair, with the little boy she has sat for since he was three or four.


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Home Safe and Sound

Wow, what a weekend! A group of friends and I (my friends Kathy, Toby, Suzanne, Pat, Beth, and Sally) joined a larger group of extended friends at a scrapbooking retreat in GA. this weekend. Our adventures began on Thursday afternoon and we arrived home safely tonight (Sunday). I managed to scrap 38 pages (beating last year's total by 2 pages), as well as make a card for a future BBtB challenge.

I am not going to post all 38 pages, but I will give a you a little peek into my weekend. First, Bethany's room in Charleston, where she is in college:



Ian and some friends celebrating his 18th birthday:




For Ian's senior year album - History being made:




For the Family Book, Thanksgiving time:





Bethany with Grandma Edwards, at Granny's after Christmas, and on Christmas morning:




Same Thanksgiving photos scrapped for Bethany's book:




And finally, page one of Ian's two page layout from the Flashback concert:




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