Christmas with Mallory

Ohmygosh, I haven't made a layout since August. I can't believe I have allowed so much time to pass before making another one. After Mallory left this week, I was feeling blue so I made a layout about our Christmas time together. This one was made for the Sketch Relay over at Club Scrap. I used papers from the Michael Strong Joyful kit along with some Thickers purchased at Big Lots in Atascadero. Thanks for looking.

Holiday Card Workshop - Day Two continues

 On Day Two of the Holiday Card Workshop class, Jennifer McGuire taught us a technique of continuous stamping on a background which includes three separate layers of images. You can see the repetition in the light blue, red and dark blue layers. All shapes cut on the Silhouette. Images are from the Club Scrap Joyful digi kit. I'm always drawn to window and engineered cards. This one made me happy once completed but it did tend to frustrate me. I have cut pieces for three more of these cards. Don't know if I will ever get them assembled.

Day Two - Floating Window Card

On Day Two, Jennifer McGuire encouraged us to make a complicated floating window card. For this hybrid card, I used the Joyful digi kit by Michael Strong from Club Scrap for the snowflake images. The sentiment is from the unmounted Happy Holidays 2010 rubber set from Club Scrap. All shapes were cut on my Silhouette. This is a complex card to assemble but I am very very happy with the results. Thanks for looking.

Holiday Card Workshop - Day Two

On Day Two of the Holiday Card Workshop, Lisa Spangler gave us a great tip (similar to a One Sheet Wonder idea) for making a "blizzard" of holiday cards with minimal effort. My blizzard only contained two cards but I like them very much. Card bases are from the Club Scrap Haberdashery kit. Snowflake images are digital images from the Club Scrap/Michael Strong Joyful kit. Sentiment stamped from the Happy Holidays 2010 unmounted rubber from Club Scrap also. The snowflakes were cut with Spellbinders dies and covered with Rock Candy glitter combined with a little iridescent glitter in my stash. The photo doesn't really display the glittery glory of it. I am really enjoying this class and learning something new every day. Also, sharing the fun with quite a few of the Squirrely Girls. It's great to compare our results each day. If you would like to see more, you can cruise on over to blogs of the other Squirrels. Thanks for visiting.

Whakarewarewa

 
This layout was created for the Monthly Sketch Relay at Club Scrap. I used the required sketch from Come Sail Away on a base of brown print and solid from a Michael Strong/Club Scrap collaboration called Whirligig. I also used the coordinating Michael Strong stamps. Love his stuff. The photo mats, etc. are from the Mirror, Mirror kit.
This layout is about our visit with the Durkins in 1989 to the thermal pools in Rotorua, New Zealand as part of our three week journey. That was such a great trip and I am finally getting around to making a scrapbook about it. I have overcome my perfectionistic fear that each page absolutely had to be the best scrapbook layout ever. More important to get ‘er done so we can enjoy our memories. Thank goodness I kept a detailed daily journal on the trip so all the details are carefully preserved. As I make each layout, I type out the entry for the appropriate day. For once in my life, I was organized. Thanks for looking.