Flowerbug's Inkspot

Beautiful Prom SB Layout

This is the 12 X 12" scrapbook layout we did at this month's Scrappin' Clubs.  I used the beautiful specialty designer paper called Mocha Morning along with Black and Crumb cake card stock.

My son Isaac and his friends had a wonderful time.  He is a junior in high school this year.  Just one more year left for my youngest!

Here's a close-up of the flowers.  I used a combination of the Blossom Party and Fun flowers Sizzix dies along with the 5 petal and Boho blossoms punches. I used my bone folder to curl the edges of some of the petals before adhering them together.   

Here is the title made with the Serif Essentials Alphabet. I LOVE these big letters for my scrapbooking.  So quick & easy to make any title I want.  The rhinestones on these pages really sparkle and set off the elegant event.

Supplies Used:

• Card stock - Crumb Cake, Black, Pacific Point, Mocha Morning dsp
• Accessories - Rhinestone jewels, Tasteful Trim die, Serif Essentials alphabet, Blossom Party die, Fun Flowers die, 2 1/2" circle punch, 5 petal flower punch, Boho Blossoms punch, bone folder
  

 

Color Blocking Scrapbook Page

Here's the layout for this month's Scrapbook Club. 

The colors seem a bit dull in the photo but are so much prettier in real life. The background is Baja Breeze and I also used some of our prints patterned papers - Calypso Coral & Island Indigo (In Colors) and Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi - Brights & Soft Subtles too. I love these stacks of papers!

When you do a color blocked page like the left one I suggest you start in the center.  Find your tallest photo and line it up with a piece of patterned paper making sure both are the same width. Adhere these top to bottom in a row.  This is now the height of the entire block.  My photos and papers are all 3" wide.

Next add another photo along with one or two pieces of colored patterned paper above or below it on one side making sure the height of all is the same.  Then do the last side. 

Supplies Used - Lace Ribbon border punch, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Timeless Type Junior alphabet, Floral Fusion sizzlit, pearls

 

Scrapbook Layout with Everyday Enchantment

I saw a similar layout on our Demonstrator sharing site called Stampin' Connection and knew my gals would love this layout. 

It features the new and FREE Everyday Enchantment designer series paper.  Well you can get it free with a $50 order.  The colors in the patterned paper were my inspiration and are so pretty that the layout comes together wonderfully. 

It's Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Pool Party and Poppy Parade. 

Some of the fun extras I used are the Beautiful Butterflies die, Top Note, Tasteful Trim die and Beautiful Wings embosslit. 

Stamps - Word Play and the Sale a Bration set called Fresh Vintage. 

January Scrapbook Layout

My Scrapbook Clubs always do a Christmas layout in January which is perfect for our favorite holiday photos.  And I think this page is so cute!

It's a 12 X 12 layout using photos from my own Christmas at my daughter's new home.  She hosted her first Christmas this year!  We had a wonderful time together.  

The colors are Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green with White accents.  I used 4 of the Lattice die-cuts in Whisper White and added a few dots of our new Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details glue in the center areas.  The Frostwood Lodge designer series paper is a strip at the bottom of the left page.  

The 'MERRY' letters were stamped using the Lovely Letters alphabet with Versamark ink onto Garden Green card stock and embossed with White embossing powder.  I punched them out using the ornament punch and hung them using our Cherry Cobbler bakers twine.

 

Harvest Scrapbook Club layout

I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your family and friends. We took the day to visit our families in Bismarck.  We had a great time.

This is what we made for my November Scrapbook Clubs. 

Isn't it fun?  The idea was cased from Alanna Wharf.  She used My Digital Studio to create the tall ovals for her pumpkins.  As you can see the small one is almost 6" tall. They are adorable made from our Spice Cake designer series paper.  

The leaves are die-cut from our Leaves die using Pear Pizzazz and Crumb Cake card stock.  After cutting them out, we ran them through an embossing folder and then sponged More Mustard and Pear Pizzazz ink over the embossed areas.  

The flower on the large pumpkin is made by punching three smaller (1 3/4") scallop circles and one large 2 2/3" scallop circles.  Crumple them up tightly and then open them.  Rub your sponges over the raised areas and adhere them on top of each other with a button on top.  

Spooky (& punchy) Halloween pages

We are making this layout tomorrow for this month's Scrapbook Clubs, just in time for our Halloween pics!

I got the basic idea for this page from my friend Kay Kaltoff.  She creates fabulous scrapbook pages! 

I am using the Frightful Sight patterned paper from the Idea Book & Catalog along with Black and Cajun Craze card stock.  Because there were such cute ghosts, spider webs and bats in the design it was easy to get punch art ideas for this layout.

The long black strip of card stock on the top right page was run through the Spider Web embossing folder twice - once on each end.  Then I used my Frost Shimmer paint and a sponge dauber to add the high-lights.

Two more dies were used on this page; can you spot them?  The Tasteful Trim for the Black rick-rack.  And the PeekaBoo Frames Bigz L die for the eyes.

The Ghosts were made with two punches - the Extra Large Oval punch and a 3/4" circle punch to punch out the curved bottom. These are placed over 2" black circles die-cut with the Circles die & the Big Shot.

This Bat is a perfect place to insert a photo of your own spooky Trick or Treater.  He is made with the Perfect Pennants die (the small pennant) and three punches - 3/4" circle (head), a 1" punch to make the curved wings and the Petite Pennants Builder punch for the ears.

I cut out two black circle frames (Peekaboo die) and finished cutting off the attached flip/flap off of the circle.  Then I scooted that flap over to reveal a 1 3/8" white circle punch behind the circle frame.  Moving it over to reveal the whites gives a great creepy look to the dies.  I then added a 1/2" Olive circle and a small black circle punched with my Crop-o-dile for the pupil.  A dash with the White gel pen finished it off.

I hope you got some great Halloween ideas from this Scrapbook layout. 

Scrapbook Club Fun

We've started my Scrapbook Clubs again last month.  It's good to be back at it. 

Thank goodness for my Scrapbookers or I would never get any pages done! And I still do not get photos on them sometimes!  I can be a great procrastinater.

It's an eye catching page without photos, but you should see it with the photos!  I wish I had taken pics of my gals finished pages.  They were gorgeous.

I had lots of 1" patterned paper strips left over from September's Club card.  They were my inspiration and starting point. I just started playing with them on my White 12 X 12" card stock.  

We rounded the corners of some of the strips and photo blocks and added assorted buttons and a die-cut title.  Super easy yet WOW. 

 

May's Scrapbook Club layout

This is last month's Scrapbook Club layout.  We never did get to meet due to my Mom's funeral.  But they'll get their kit to make on their own. 

Then we'll start our Scrapbook Clubs again in September.  If you're a local customers and want to join one, please let me know to get you on that list.  We meet monthly and the minimum order amount is just $25 with no extra supply fees.  And you get hostess benefits once during the 8 month. 

I cased part of this page from someone's layout but as usual I cannot remember who it was!  My brain is still on overload - that's my excuse today anyway!

I used the Spiral punch for the photo borders here.  This punch is retiring - get it while you can!

Other than that I used the Stars # 2 die and the Jumble alphabet.  The Jumble Alphabet is also retiring this month. 

The colors here are Bashful Blue, Cherry Cobbler and Black and White. 

Color Blocking Scrapbook Layout

I forgot to share April's Scrapbook Club layout with you!

This gorgeous color combination includes Rose Red, Marina Mist, Black and Vanilla.  The Newsprint patterned paper adds a great touch to it doesn't it? 

This color blocking technique is one of my favorites to use for scrapbooking.  Add a few great colors and set them off with black or white borders and designs. 

We have such fond memories of our first Stampin' Up! cruise to Bermuda. 

And right now we are enjoying our 4th cruise to Alaska! 

 

Our Mom

It was a sad day for our family today.  My Mom passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this morning. 

She was 89 years old and lately she said she was feeling tired and ready to be done on this earth.  It is actually a huge blessing because she lived in her own home until now and we did not have to make any of those tough decisions regarding her failing health.  I am happy for her but quite sad for us as she was the cornerstone of our family and we'll miss her terribly.
She lived a few hours from me so we saw her fairly often and I just spent a long weekend with her over Mother's Day - how great is that!!?

Here's a SB page I made many years ago using my very favorite pictures of her in her beautiful garden.  I love that happy picture and will cherish it even more now. 

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Scrapping a Birthday

This is the scrapbook layout we made at this month's Scrapbook Clubs.

This page was cased from one demo'd at the Minneapolis Regional seminar in February.  I was thrilled with the cake idea on the right page. 

These colored layers are about 3 1/2" high and are overlapping each other slightly.  Just fill the colored strips with photos. The trim was cut with the Tasteful Trim die that has been carried over from the Holiday mini catalog.  It's item #120893.

The photo mats on the left page are 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" in size. 

The Happy Birthday titel was cut using the Decorative strip Sizzlit die called 'Basic Birthday'.  The candles are just very thin strips of paper and there are candle flames on there made with the Bird punch - leaves area. 

I chose colors that are in the Sale a Bration Ice Cream Parlour ribbon and buttons and the Designer paper pack.  These are only available until Thursday, March 31st and they are FREE with a $50 order!  Get them while you can.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Bring on the Cake
• Card stock - Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Whisper White, Ice Cream Parlour dsp pack, So Saffron for the base pages
• Ink - Black Stazon
• Accessories - Sale a Bration Ice Cream Parlour ribbon and buttons, Scallop circle punch, Scallop border punch, mini glue dots, Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die, Basic Birthday sizzlit decorative strip die, Big Shot, Two-step bird punch, Curly Label punch for the cake stand

Scrapbook Sparkle

In February we made this layout for my Scrapbook Clubs:

It's a very eye-catching page with a Black background & colorful matted photos.  These photos are from our Stampin' Up! Hawaiian Luau in 2009. 

The beautiful red flower is from the Fun Flowers die currently in the Occasions mini catalog.  We sponged the edge of the smaller flower with White Craft ink.

The photo mats on the right page are 3 1/2" square.  

You may not see it well in the photo but the bottom stamped strip is very sparkly.  After we stamped the florish image from the Wedding Sweet stamp set we pressed the Versamark ink pad all over the entire stamped piece.  Then we sprinkled Iridescent Ice embossing powder & heat embossed it.  You get gorgeous sparkle that does not rub off onto your photos.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Wedding Sweet, Favorite Things, Jumble alphabet
• Card stock - Real Red, White, Bashful Blue, Basic Gray
• Ink - Basic Gray, Whisper White craft, Versamark
• Accessories - Iridescent Ice embossing powder, heat gun, Red & black brads, Boho Blossoms punch, Mat pack, paper piercing tool, sponge

See all of my Scrapbook Club layouts here.

 

January Club Layout

I almost always do a Christmas layout in January for my Scrapbook Clubs.  I tell my gals to be sure to take lots of family photos so they'll be ready to scrap them all at Club in January.

I was inspired to create the tree on our layout from a very cute Christmas card I received from my friend Becky.  She is an amazing & creative stamper!

I did not ask her the details on what products she used to make her card, so I cannot share those with you.  But you can see why I was inspired by this adorable 'Grinch-style' tree! 

I drew 5 different shaped pieces for the tree on scrap paper and then traced it onto various colors of green card stock & cut them out.  Then I ran them through a few Sizzix embossing folders for texture.  Next I adhered them all together and added a ton of Red brads for ornaments and a star on top. 

Can you see the large photo on the left side?  That was my family eating Christmas dinner in my new stamping studio!  It's right off the kitchen so it was very convenient & we all fit on the tables!  My Mom, who is 89 this year, was at the head of the table & is also pictured below the main photo.

The right page has my husband, children and myself holding our stockings on Christmas morning. It's still a tradition for each of us to get a stocking full of fun that morning.  If my husband Andy has his way, this tradition will never stop.  He loves giving gifts! He even delivers surprises from Santa, even though we are all old enough to know .......ummm.....   Well you know!    

• Card stock - Real Red, Whisper White, Garden Green, Gable Green, Wild Wasabi
  
• Punches - small star, Scallop edge border punch, Snowflake punch
• Sizzix - Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die, Join in the Cheer Decorative Strip die, Petals a Plenty, Perfect Polka dot and Square Lattice embossing folders
• Accessories - Red brads, rhinestones, 1/8" Red taffeta ribbon, Celery ribbon
  

Scrappin' Halloween

Here's what we did at Scrapbook Club in November.

My helpful husband/artist Andy drew the tree for me.  We traced it onto Chocolate Chip card stock & cut it out. Then we ran it through the Big Shot using the woodgrain Texture Plates kit #4.   To get even more texture, rub the textured surface with a Chocolate Chip ink pad.

We used lots of Sizzix dies for this one.

• Little Leaves sizzlits for the tree
• Leaves  #2 for the colorful leaves on the left page
• Spider web embossing folder to add texture to the leaves - such a cool look!
• Pumpkin #4 & Pumpkin Faces sizzlits

And for the title we used the baby wipe technique with Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive & Cajun Craze ink refills.  The alphabet set is an old favorite retired set of mine.

Colors are Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, with More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke. 

The ghosts are made with the 2-step Owl punch; just cut off the feet & turn it upside down.  We added googlie eyes on each of them.

The punched circles on the tree are meant for photos or journaling, but I didn't take time to finish mine. The patterned paper trim is from the Holiday Mini DSP set called Autumn Spice.

 

Scrapbook Clubs are starting!

Each September I look forward to seeing my gals back for Scrapbook Clubs.  We take the summers off & start again once the kids are back in school & vacations & trips are pretty much over. 

I have two new clubs starting this year with a few open spots left.  The third Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pm & Thursday afternoon at 1 pm both have spots left.  If you'd like to be a part of these let me know before we start in 2 weeks.  Members get free hostess benefits when it's their month to hostess! 

Here's a look at what we've done in the past few years.  

Here's the first layout we'll do for September:

Our family spent an afternoon playing Bocce Ball in July & we got some great action shots that I used here.

The new Tasteful Trim Sizzix die is shown all over this page as borders, trim & accents.  I especially love how I used it as a border for the page on the right.  Strips of So Saffron border the Turquoise 11" card stock here.  I got this idea from my so smart & creative down-line Sarah. 

The colors here are Real Red, Night of Navy & So Saffron.

This month's dates are thrown off a bit due to a few trips I'm taking this month.   The nice thing about having multiple clubs is if you cannot make it to yours, you can come to another day or time to get your pages done.

Here are the dates & times for September 2010:

• Wednesday's club - 6:30 pm on September 29th
• Thursday 1 pm - September 30th
• Thursday 6:30 pm - September 30th. 
  

Hopefully after this we'll keep to the third week of each month. 

Can't wait to start gals!