Tastefully Scrappy

One day in last saturday land, Fitty and Ninny had a Shin type of Dig.  We tasted and we scrapped... and we shared it with our FRENS!

So thanks to the friends and family who participated, it was a messy and delicious!

Here are some of my latest pages. 

This little cutie above Lukey is so photogenic!  So making scrapbooks revolving around him is way too easy.

this page uses some  DISTRESSING TOOLS,  STAMPS, Dimensional Elements and some Filigree charms.  Also brads, conchos, ribbon, and of course neutral papers and cardstock.

The dimensional elements (LUKE) I covered in paper, sanded with the micro files to make a nice and clean edge, and then stamped the top using VERSA MARK INK.  Then I brushed over the ink with chalk, and the pattern of the stamp sticks to the chalk so you can make it as subtle or strong as you like. Versa Mark ink is an invisible ink that lets you use a stamped image as a sorta glue.  You can chalk it or glitter it...  creates a really nice effect. I actually chalked Luke's name with two different colors, to bring a little contrast to the outer edge.

The EYELET TOOL makes it very easy to add eyelets and conchos to your page.  (shown above Luke's picture) The conchos are wide enough to fit a ribbon through. It's fun to use and makes for a very easy way to add interesting little touches.

And now Luke's all growed up! ha.. ok, not really but we jumped around 15 months in time...

 So when you've picked up your pics, and you're goin' through and you notice a series like this...  It's pretty much a no-brainer for a page.

I had em all kinda spread out at first and then said...  Hey, why not just shover em' right up against one another. Yes, I meant shover.  And actually... I lied.  I never spread em out. I kinda knew they wanted to be together.

So, needless to say, he's enjoying some cake... and the cake is what makes these pics so charming. So I decided to focus on that.  And I thought the flowers appropriate because he was in my mom's flower filled yard whilst he enjoyed this cake.

So...  nothing crazy again...

Just some paper, ribbon, stamps, and these things.  The stamps were little flowers, and I cut them out and pasted em' on to make em' pop a little. That's one of my new favorite things to do with stamps.  Cut em' out and they make a 3D focus to your page, or card. Color em' with pencils, chalk, or Markers if you like. 

The bottom of the page was actually done by just taking the whole ink pad in hand and dragging it over the paper. Kinda in a way so the edge would make a grassy type line here and there...

So that's it for the Luke update.

I am now going to practice my can crushing and hit the hay!

Check out Ninny's Tastefully Simple PHOODS! Our party was a double play featuring tastefully simple food. I recommend the beer bread, nana's apple cake... any of the spices...    etc..  It's really all good.  And quick and easy.  

Neat Ideas from CTMH

So Close to my Heart makes a lot of neat little things like this besides just your run of the mill scrapbooks.

I ended up with a lot of nice photos from Easter, and I didn't want to just put em' in a book, so I decided to feature some of them in this Acordian style scraptastic thingie.  ha...

You can see the various items here: 3D Creations  The one I used here is called "Memory Showcase", it comes in two sizes at the bottom of that page I linked.

I didn't really get too fancy with this, I wanted it to be pretty clean. I did some stamping, included some dimensional elements on the first and last pages... and brads and ribbon.. etc.

Anyway, it makes a great gift as well as something different to display around the house.
Perfect if you want to isolate an event, or a tribute to someone, or even a group of family photos to throw on the mantel.

Anyhoo, night night folks :)

Yes, I had two bowls for dinner: One filled with cheerios, and one filled with peas.
 There's no rules when it comes to PHOOD!

On the porch

This page is just kinda something that came about because I love this picture of my baby.
She was just hanging out on the porch in her high chair and I was trying to powerwash....

So anyway...  there's a bit of filing again going on here...  and stamping, a few cross stitches...

I took some pages out of one of those books I found on the side of the road and incorporated some lines and background points.

If you glue old pages to your paper, and then peel em' off before the glue dries... you get the affect shown on the bottom up there. The words kinda have more staying power than the paper...  and then I filed it a little if too much paper stayed.

I'm not quite sure if I'm done with these pages...

but then again, quite often I go too far...  so I'm leaving them alone for now.

Card: I love you

this was made with CTMH stuff.  And... a nail file...

ha...  but they sell nail file substitutes at CTMH, I just didn't have one handy...  And I'm trying my hardest not to just purchase everything they make...  but it's hard.

So anyway...
The stamps I used are all actually from one set.... It's called "A Flitter" A1108.
Ok, I lied...  the one stamp that looks like a keyhole is actually an old school ctmh stamp on a wood block.  They don't make em anymore... *sigh*  but that's good... coz the clear blocks make it much easier for your stamp to end up where it's supposed to...

The little circles are "Dimensional Elements". I glued red paper to the top and then filed the edges and dipped em' in brown ink.  Well, to be specific, I swiped them over the ink pad... no real dipping happened...

And the inside leaves room for that love poem you wrote for that someone whom you never shared your love for...  before....   Until now, coz you're probably gonna make a card like this and GO FOR IT!

Anyway, I guess I'm a little late for Valentine's day...

But I declare here and now that we should start a new movement.  A throw back to the old days when people actually used ink and paper and wrote with their hands and folded it up like a football and threw it onto someone else's desk...

I mean...  mailed it. :)

My point is... anytime is a good time for a hand made card.  And anyone would be shocked as all &*^^ to get one in the mail.

Goodnight Sunday...

Good Tunes: The Librarian

I just have have have HAVE to express my love for this song.
One of my favorite of My Morning Jacket’s creations.
One of my favorite songs ever in the LIFE! Even in the secret LIFE… of bees…

It’s one of those songs that makes you feel like you’re in a movie when you’re listening to it. The little trickly guitar accompaniment starts… and your eyes become the singer’s eyes and you just watch through his head where he’s going and what he’s seeing… and … it’s just really amazing.
And more strings kinda show up eerily and get progressively more telling along with the percussion…

Ok, enough with my twaddle… but bottom line: Just an amazing arrangement of sounds. Do yourself a favor and look er’ up. You’ll be Happy you did.
Hey look, here’s the lyrics! And a staggering set of words they are! Perfectly strung together…

Walk across the courtyard,
Towards the library.
I can hear the insects buzz on the leaves, 'neath my feet.

Ramble up the stairwell,
To the hall of books.


Since we got the interweb these hardly get used.

Duck into the men's room,
Combing through my hair.
When God gave us mirrors he had no idea.



Looking for a lesson
In the periodicals,
There I spy you listening to the AM radio.

Karen of the Carpenters,
Singing in the rain.
Another lovely victim of the mirror's evil way.

It's not like you're not trying,
With a pencil in your hair,
To defy the beauty the good Lord put in there


Simple little bookworm,
Buried underneath
Is the sexiest librarian.
Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me.


So I watch you through the bookcase,
Imagining a scene.
You and I had dinner,
Spending time when you sleep.
And what can I say to you,
Lying there in bed.
These words were the kiss I would play in your head.


What is it inside our heads
That makes us do the opposite,
Makes us do the opposite
Of what's right for us.


'Cause everything be great,
And everything be good,
And everybody gave,
Like everybody could.


Sweetest little bookworm,
Hidden underneath
Is the sexiest librarian.


Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me.


Take off those glasses, and let down your hair for me.


Simple little beauty,
Heaven in your breath.
Simplest of pleasures


The world at its best.





 

Welcome Roo

This page is pretty much one of those, "Hey, you're new here, so ... Welcome."

And yes, that's my little sweetheart...  and her Elephant frens...   though now she's kinda attached to this green frog....  I guess we could call her Ellaribbit for awhile instead of Ellaroo...

Gosh, ya know... sometimes scrapbooking can be corny... but man it TUGS at my wittle heart strings... haha...  coz looking at this just floods my brain with all the fuzzy feelings I felt when I was at the hospital meeting this little lady for the first time...

*Sigh*


So anyway, there's nothing terribly complicated going on in this page... Kinda od's on pink brads...  The hearts are actually tags made with one of those presses. And I just tied em around the ribbons with hemp.
And I don't know what is about those little flowers, but I love them... and use them often.  I think every one of my christmas cards last year had a couple of em...

Karen: "GO TO BED"
Fitty: "Yes mam!"

First CTMH card

So... my first box of CTMH stuff came yesterday, so I threw together this card using the new stuff.

The stuff is so cute...

It's going to be hard not to give away everything I make...  coz I really just feel like sending this card to someone... ha...  Someone who could use a Happy Day! And what's not happy about Cherries! I ask you THAT?!

VISIT ME!
CLOSE TO MY HEART FITTY STYLE
   Well, I guess it'll be more fun to visit me when I've made a nice repetiore of creations... workin' on it!  Waiting for either INK for my printer so I can print out photos to scrap with, or looking to have them printed somewhere else.  Coz lemme tell you, I printed a bunch of pics of my daughter at Walgreens...  the 9cent prints.  DON'T DO IT.  They came out terrible....  not only that... it seemed like they were printed on paper... really really disappointing.  I have to say my old printer makes better prints.
Ok, one more thing about Walgreens photo center, I have gotten prints from there in the past, and I don't remember them being this awful ... so either something's changed, or I just got a bad batch.  Ya know.. a bad batch of... 274...  crik!


 Have a  HAPPY DAY!


FITTY