Mother’s Day Brunch

So you might be looking at this picture and thinking that I’m slightly behind the times seeing as how it was Father’s Day yesterday and Mother’s Day was about a month ago; or you might be thinking that I like to plan really far ahead!  Either way read on because, although this is what I did to celebrate Mother’s Day this year, my Ideas, Tutorials, and Recipes can be used for any party, and any time of the year. 


So I knew I wanted a theme that was really bright and happy.  Something a little bit modern and definitely fun.  Off to Pinterest I went in search of inspiration.  I came across the picture above.  It’s from Amanda's Parties To Go.  She has a great site and freebies to print.  Her freebies also inspired me to make my own from scratch.  I made them using Photoshop.   

I made these signs to stick in with my flowers in vases and to pin to crepe streamers which I tied around the chairs. 




I also made little circle tags to attach to my napkin rings and narrow tags to wrap around the stems of glasses.
















I really like how my napkin rings turned out.  They were so very easy to do.  Here’s How I made them… (click 'read more' to keep reading)

My Beach Baby

It’s been a long time since I’ve had any new posts.  My hubby, son and I just moved from the US to Canada this last week and my scrapping and paper crafting life was put on hold and as a result my blog was neglected.  My scrapping things are still packed up (quite sad) but I did have a little bit of time to get a ‘digi’ page done.
I put together this page of pictures of my little guy enjoying the beach for the last time before we moved.  He was having a fabulous time exploring the shore and my hubby got some pretty good pics of him. 

I took these page elements from all over the place.  Just as with paper scrapping, I take bits and pieces from different sources and mix them all together.  I’ll list them here and try to be as accurate as possible so you can make some pages too.

• Papers: J Baechtold from “Essence” found at scrapbook.com
  
• Brad: J Baechtold from “Essence” found at scrapbook.com
  
• Lace Ribbon: Coreen Silke from “Sweet Success” found at scrapbook.com
  
• Frame: Brutcher Vintage Frame Freebie 3
  
• Flowers: Carrie Stephens from “Spontaneous Delight” found at Fish Scraps Jeanelle Paige from “September Element Pack Flowers” found at Jeanell Paige Designs
  
• Button: Shabby Princess from “Plentiful” found  at Shabby Princess
  
• Twine Bow: Shabby Princess from “Plentiful” found at Shabby Princess
  
• Tag: Rebekah Jennings from “What I Really Learned In School” at Scrapbook.com
  
• Flourish: Carrie Stephens from “Glitter Swirls” found at  Fish Scraps
  
• Glass Dots: Carrie Stephens from “Spontaneous Delight” found at Fish Scraps
  
• Staple: Shabby Princess from “Plentiful” found at Shabby Princess
  
• Words: R. Dickson from “Soleil” found at Scrapbook.com

Happy Scrapping!

Penta-Fold Card

So I don’t think that “Penta-Fold” is the proper name of this card, but it sounded good to me so I’m sticking to it.  What do I mean by a Penta-Fold Card?  Let me show you…

So you see this card is folded like an accordion in five.  Each section is it’s own separate vignette completing a larger picture. I’m a huge fan of Precious Moments characters.  They’re so cute!
   
I made this card for my hubby for Father’s Day.  It was supposed to my how my son sees his daddy and how he wants to be just like him.  I know cute right?  So now that Father’s Day is over, my hubby wants to frame it and put it up in his study (which is what I had planned for this card to begin with but it’s nice that he suggested it too).

So Father’s Day is over, but these little images would work for Birthday Cards, Bon Voyage Cards, Sport’s, Recitals, Grad so many options, so instead of sending you to a internet search I’m sharing these images with you.  They are all free coloring pages, that I’ve searched for and you can download them and color them in with fancy markers (like me) or Photoshop them or use Paint.  Whatever, go crazy!  Just click the image and you’ll be taken to Picasa where you can download and save the image to your computer.

Enjoy and I would love to see the projects you’ve made!!

2 Page Layout

I love taking pictures, so I'm always left with a challenge of how to fit my many, many beloved photos onto a 12*12 space! Here are two new pages from my Europe Scrapbook.  Enjoy. 

The page borders I had cut from the sides of a patterned cardstock and then I hand ripped to soften them.

I then cut two 6*6 squares from patterned cardstock and arranged them on top.

After that I grouped my pictures and added my details.

On the left side...

 I used chipboard letters for my title and glued them to the page with 'pop dots' so they would pop-up from the page.

I cut out a quote written on vellum and glued it to white cardstock.  I then took light blue cardstock and cut about a 1-inch wide strip.  I used that to make my home made paper-ribbon border. 

I then made a ribbon rose and glued it to the center of a bright green flower which I shaded with blue paper chalk.

On the right side...

I layered paper flowers and glued a jewel to the center.  In the left corner I colored in and embossed a cardstock flower border. 

I stamped this flower onto white cardstock and then cut it out and glued some sparkles on top. 

Wall Art

This is a scrap page that I made as wall art for my mother.

This page has multiple layers.  There is brown cardstock as a base, a flowery cardstock on the left as a second layer, and then a large circle cut out of burgundy cardstock.  The flowers on top are cut out of a patterned page from "Me & My Big Ideas" paper pad "Fashion District" collection.  I had shaded the flowers in and glued jewels to their centers.  The four butterflies are cut out of cardstock and then folded in two (so they pop-up from the page) and then they have jewels glued down their center.