partners in crime

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I'm the oldest of five kids. My next youngest sibling is my brother John, who is just about ten months younger than I am (practically twins!) When we were young we were a couple of terrors, always getting into lots of trouble. Usually it was messy trouble (early signs of creativity?) My poor mom!

This page was for the February challenge at the Graphic 45 blog. The challenge rules were to do a page about someone you love using an old photo and cutting out a motif from one of the G45 paper lines. I used the Playtimes Past line - it was perfect for my page. Not only does it have a lovely vintage nursery theme, one of the accent colors in the line was nearly a perfect match to my dress in this photo. The motif I cut was the teapot and girl that you see at the bottom right and edge of my page.

Love that Graphic 45!

kaisercraft, pt. 2

Just a few more pics from the Kaisercraft booth, CHA Winter 2009. I might have a few more yet...

These papers are so cute:


Can't get enough rhinestones and PEARLS. These dark pearls are gorgeous!


I like these colored snap rings, too:

kaisercraft

More pics from CHA, this time from the Kaisercraft booth. They had the cutest oversized projects around the booth that I couldn't resist taking photos of. Some would make fabulous home decor projects --esp for those supersized "great rooms" or those airy rooms with cathedral ceilings. Unfortunately, my humble abode boasts neither of those, but I still think I could go for one of these large scale projects for the mantle or on top of the bookcase wall unit.

I liked this first "mini album" a lot because not only was there the eye-catching supersize version (abt 12" or 15" square, I'm guessing)...


...but there was also a baby brother version on the shelf (about 6"?). Cool, huh?...


Here's more oversized samples...



And the regular versions...


And just a couple more (biggies):

This last one is the one I'd like to adapt for my mantle or as a gift perhaps. The photo is at least an 8"x10" (maybe larger) just to give you a sense of the scale. Isn't this too cute?! Even as just a double fold out this would be adorable.

Oh yeah and there was lots of cool product in the booth too, but I'll have to save that for another post since I'm all out of time.

still have some cha pics to post, but...

I've been busy scrapping, so I'm going to take a break from the CHA pics and post a couple of recent layouts.

I think I mentioned a few posts back that 2009 is the Year of the Layout for me. For the past couple of years I wasn't doing a whole lot of personal scrapping in favor of some more important family/household/personal stuff that needed attention. The only scrapping I was doing was meeting deadlines --finishing store and class samples.

So, for 2009 every time I sit down at my work table, I'm trying to put at least one SB page or layout ahead of the other "required" stuff. I was surprised to find that I've gotten a bit rusty at working with my own with-photos-pages. To try and describe that a bit more specifically - last week when I sat down to scrap, it felt completely alien. As if it was something I'd never done before. I think that is a phenomenon known as losing your "mojo". In any case, I've joined a bunch of online challenges to help me get my SBing groove back.

One of the challenges was a "Use a Kit" challenge at Willow Traders, the idea being to dig in to one of your kits and actually USE it! I chose to work with the December Studio Calico kit that I had won at WT. I really loved working with this kit! It had yummy Crate Paper, Pink Paislee and Making Memories, with other fun stuff from CI's Creative Cafe, Maya Road and of course exclusive Studio Calico products. I added some Thickers and MM alpha stickers for my titles.

Here are a few of my layouts (featuring some pics by the fabulous Shawn from our family session last summer). This first one is based on a layout sketch by a DIFFERENT Shawn, and was featured at The Scrapping Spot (the week 42 sketch).




The second layout was my own design, but those last two are basically from the same sketch - a scraplift of a layout by Sandi Minchuk (at Scrapperie). I didn't realize until after I'd finished that last one that I'd even lifted her title (sorry, Sandi --must have been subliminal, oops!)

This week, I have to switch gears to get my class kits finished for the coming weekend, but I'm also working on a couple of altered projects that I hope I'll be able to finish soon. More on those later. And, btw, if you're local there are just a few open spots in my back-to-back layout classes this Saturday. Call SGT to reserve your spot.

anna griffin

How could I do anything BUT fall in love with the rich yummy goodness of Anna Griffin products. I especially love her embellishments, but the Peyton and Georgette lines have really got me excited.

Take a look-see...

Some super cute embellies:




Here's Georgette:





And here's Peyton:




Some sample projects:

my, oh maya road!

The Maya Road booth is always a favorite stop for me. They have the coolest samples and TONS of mini books. Their designers are always top notch. I did a make-n-take using their cool spray (paint?) I love the rich colors of the Maya Road sprays.

Here is some Maya eye candy













Some fun felt shapes..


12x12 masks...

And the masks as framed art - don't they look cool?

Chipboard shaped "key chain" albums

The new sprays (the samples on the let show you how nice and evenly these sprays go on)

I like these stick pins...

Cool little velvet flowers...