WooHoo! Day 3 of the Sneak Peaks!

So how have you been liking the sneak peaks so far? This months stamps have fit perfectly for several personal occasions, birthdays, Father's Day and even scrapbooking!

This is a 8x8 scrapbook page I made of Olivia when she was about 2 (if I remember right!). We've always loved this picture, ahhh the lazy days of summer. This pic was taken at my Mom's just after getting out of the pool, and enjoying an ice cream! I knew Ice cream Riley would be perfect for this!

Riley was stamped onto white, and coloured with prisma colour pencils & oms.

All the words & letters were printed on the computer.

Don't forget to check out the creations of the fabulous Designers, Vicki, Adela, Cindy, Frances, Ilina, Jeanne, Joycelyn, Kerry, Sandra, Silki and Keri she's also a Guest Designer for July!

Please come and join the fun at the release party, Monday July 6, 9-11pm est.

Be back later with more!

Laurie

You Are My Sunshine!

Hello, this is an 8x8 scrapbook page I made using a photo of my Daughter when she was 5. I love the bright toothless smile! I used Erika's scrapbook challenge at stamptv, STVSCR8.

I'm not completely happy with this one, the area around the dp looks too busy to me, but I fiddled with it too long so settled for this.

I used textured cardstock for the bg. with pixie pink & DCWV dp blossoms & butterflies. The photo is matted on pixie pink. I used the CB Hippy Chick die to make the letter 'O" with DCWV summer glitter stack. The butterflies are also punched from this paper with the Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

Have a Great Day!

Laurie

Buddy the New Puppy!

Hello, I made this for the STVSCR7 challenge on StampTV hosted by Erika Martin (SunshineMama). It's also for my sister. Their family just got a new puppy, and this is a picture of my Niece's, Meghan & Lauren, with their new puppy Buddy. He's only 12 wks in this photo, yep I think he's going to be a big one! He's so darn cute!

I tried to make the dp look like a collar. I also have to add the date to the bottom corner, I didn't have it handy at the time.

I hope they like it.

Thanks for stopping by

Laurie

Cool & Fabulous Meghan!

Hello, I made this for Erika's scrapbbok challenge STVSCR6 over on stamptv.

This is a picture of my Niece Meghan, the photo is a bit washed out due to the light, I had trouble getting a good pic with no reflection!

Anyway, when Meghans sister Lauren turned 7, my Sister planned a dress-up party. The kids dressed up, we took photos, printed them & then they painted & decorated frames to put their photos in. This is Meghan just being a cool older sister! (Note: you couldn't see the lines on the background sheet in the pics of the younger kids! lol)

The flowers on the bottom are from 'Flowers for Daisy' and the smiley face & sunglasses are from 'Little Tee's'. The edges of the flowers are sponged.

The glasses were stamped on black with versamark, and then embossed with black EP to give them a shiny look. I also popped the glasses up with tiny pop dots.The sentiment stamp is from SU Fabulous Flowers, it fit so perfectly!

Have a great weekend

Laurie

Rachel's an Artist!

Hello, this is a scrapbook page I made for Erika's (SunshineMama) challenge STVSCR5 on stamptv.

This is a picture of my Daughter Rachel. Her schools art dept was involved in a beautification project last year. They painted garbage cans with historical people and events of the city. This is her's of the workers who helped build our local hospital. It is currently sitting in front of the hospital. I'm so proud of her!

I used so saffron and stamped it with matching ink & the canvas bg stamp.The zebra is from 'Jumping for Joy'. I stamped him with versamark & embossed with black. I also stamped his head again, embossed, cut out & popped it up. I made small cuts along his leg to thread the ribbon through. A bow just didn't seem right for this, so I made a few knots along the ribbon.

All the stars and photo corners were made with punches. The smallest star was made with a fiskars punch which fits nicely into the center of the small SU star punch.I used 3 sentiments from the 'Jumping for Joy' set, great job, you rock, super star, and that she is!

For the very first time, I risked using my own handing on the page, it didn't turn out too bad! If you're leary about handwriting on your scrapbook pages, try this. First practice by writing on a piece of vellum. Then position the vellum over the spot you would write it to see if it fits & how it looks. Do this til you're comfortable & then take the plunge! that's what I did.

Let me know what you think

Laurie

Let me know what you think

Olivia & Nanny

Well I'm on a roll with the scrapbooking...I actually did another page! I used Erika's (SunshineMama) sketch challenge on stampTV STVSCR4. Following Erika's sketches has really helped me to actually put a page together.

This is one of my favorite photos of my Mom and my Daughter Olivia.

I used riding hood red for the base & then SU designer paper. The scalloped edge was made with the new EK dotted scallop punch. I punched a hole in the matted photo to thread the ribbon through.

The flowers are from "Flowers for Daisy" from GinaK. I coloured them with copics RV42 & E51. Then I added diamond stickles to the center.

Not having confidence in writing freehand, I decided to use the justrite new roman font stamp, but wish I had handwritten it, because I goofed up & got ink where it shouldn't be down near the date. picture #1

I've decided to cover this goof up with more flowers, hoping it doesn't through off the balance. The new flowers in the picture haven't had the stickles added to them yet! picture #2

Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think.

Laurie

A couple new things!

This is a baby card I made using Melanie Muenchinger's set "Hand in Hand'. It was a quick card, with non traditional colours, but I think it turned out ok! I used this sketch challenge hosted by Donna (dbaker3).

I started with the dp DCWV text prints, and went from there. I wanted to keep it clean & simple, so I only used very vanilla & old olive. The background panel is embossed with the swiss dot EF.

Stamps: Hand in Hand (GinaK), Paper: very vanilla, old olive, DCWV text prints, Ink: noir black, Accessories: brads, swiss dot EF, SU polytwill ribbon.

This an 8x8 scrapbook page I made for challenge #2 on the GinaK forum. The challenge is hosted by Erika (SunshineMama) and we were to include 3 things 1. a sketch she provided 2. journal something important to you (well me) 3. use stamps. I chose to make a page about my Hubby because he is definitely important to me.

I'm pretty much brand new to scrapbooking so I didn't want to risk wrecking this with my handwriting, so all the words are computer generated. I used cuddles & hugs and Hand in hand stamps for this page.

Stamps: cuddle & hugs, Hand in Hand (GinaK), Paper: night of navy, real red, white, Ink: noir black, Accessories: Martha Stewart heart edge punch, SU marker.