Scrappin' Jenn's Creative Round Up

Hi All

I have not fallen off the face of the planet.  I have been just so busy I totally forgot to post last week.  Sorry.

This week over at Inspired Stamps we were asked to do a easel card with a scripture focus.  I took this as a challenge and decided to find a variation of the easel card that would WOW everyone, (sort of an atonement for forgetting to post last week.)  In my search I came across the Card Making Magic site that had several variations of easel cards.  I used this site as inspiration for my card this week. to create a triple easel card with a twist, Card Making Magic site directions can be found here.  I tweaked my design to use a 8-1/2 x 6 sheet of cardstock, folded to create a 3"x8-1/2" card. 


Here is my card with the easel's set up.  I used Inspired Stampers Favorites Collection #2, and More Perfect Sentiments.  The center easel is a 3x3 with the 2 outside twisted easel's being 2-3/4x3.



Here is the card folded down so it can fit into an envelope.

Materials Used: Inspired Stamper's Favorites Collection #2, More Perfect Sentiments
CTMH materials used: Magnifique B&T, White Daisy, Ocean cardstock, Ocean, Pacifica, Black ink, Art Philosophy cricut Cart, Rhinestones, Prisma Glitter
Silver cardstock from Pizzaz.

Now as an added bonus I will show you the projects I had for last week's designer's choice artwork.  These were completed in plenty of time, they just never made it from the camera to the Internet until today. 

First I have a companion page for the Army scrapbook page I created a couple of week's ago.


This page features the adorable HLO-Soldier with Flag.  The page shows my son and 3 of his classmates who had joined the Army before they graduated.  Their recruiter had got each of the boys an Army tassel to wear during graduation and I had orders from him that I was to get a picture of the 4 of them wearing the tassels after the graduation ceremony. 

Materials Used: HLO-Soldier with Flag
CTMH Used: Black Ink, White Daisy, black and Olive, Vanilla Cream, Chocolate, Bamboo, Desert Sand Cardstock, Chocolate & Dark Green Markers, Red & Blue Colored Pencils
Army Paper From Reminisce,
Doodletype cricut cartridge

The other story behind this page is that our high school was honoring all the students who had earned "scholarships", when the boys went up during practice to let the school officials know about their scholarships, they were told that the school would not recognize the military boys just those going on to College.  Needless to say the boys were disappointed.  Well 2 mom's complained to the school.  That night during the ceremony after they had recognized the college kids, (who got a decent applause for their achievement's), they announced the 5 boys who had committed to the Military.  I was proud when the called my son's name, but I lost it when the boys got a standing ovation not only from the crowd but from their classmates also.   

Here are the two pages together



Then my other project for last week was the table favors/balloon anchors for Jimmy's graduation party.


These boxes were stamped using the Military Stamp set, along with the star from New Blessed Little Christmas.  The boxes have a baby picture on one side and a Sr. Picture on the other.

Materials Used: Military & New Blessed Little Christmas Stamp Sets
CTMH Black Ink, Natural Hemp
Gold & Black Paper the Paper Company
Doodletype Cricut Cartridge

Now Please go check out the rest of the teams easel cards their links are in the left side bar.

Thanks for looking

Until next time
Happy Scrappin'

Jenn

As the Mom of four boys I don't often get to use glitter, flowers, bling  or pink in my scrapbooks.  Though all the boys have been informed that they will have at least 1 double page layout done in pink in their books. So when Jimmy decided he was going to go to Prom this year, I was in heaven. 

This year Jimmy kept telling us he wasn't going to go to Prom because it was a "waste of Money".  So imagine my surprise when he comes home and tells me a week before the Prom that he is going to the Career Center he attends Prom the next weekend, with his friend Kaleigh.  Of course as soon as I am told this I start picking out items to scrap the pictures with. 


When I saw Kaleigh's dress I, immediately knew I was using the Lucy paper pack for the pictures, along with the CTMH Sparkle Flourishes. (not to mention that this would be his one pink page in his scrapbook). I used (retired) Bubblegum cardstock and Ink instead of Cotton Candy because it was closer to the color of Kaleigh's dress. All Materials used where CTMH with the exception of the silver cardstock. The title was created using Jasmine Cricut Font Cartridge with CTMH Black Cardstock and Silver cardstock from Pizzaz.

The Left Side


The Right Side


Close up of the Flowers and Flourishes, I want to thank the CTMH consultant that demonstrated these flowers on the CTMH Bulletin Boards, but I forgot her name. The flowers were created using the Flower #8 from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, I cut these at  1-1/2" and 1" and inked the edges and assembled.

Materials Used: All CTMH unless otherwise noted: Lucy Paperpack, Sparkle Flourishes, Bubblegum, White Daisy and Black Cardstock, Bubblegum ink, Silver Cardstock from Pizzaz

One Prom was good, but on the Saturday of the Career Center Prom Jimmy informs me that he is going to another Prom with another girl, Holly, the next weekend!!!  What we don't even have a Tux and I'm sure they won't appreciate us ordering a tux this late!  Luckily we were able to find him a tux on the next Tuesday, with a vest and tie that matched Holly's dress.  This page was a little more of a challenge as Holly's dress was very uniquely colored and beautiful.  The dress was a different color blue in just about every picture I took, so I had a real hard time trying to figure out what paper to use.

This is what I came up with:

 Once again I used the handmade flowers as embellishments, these are inked in Pacifica and Ocean (retired) to match the dress.  This time I had found the turquoise rhinestone flourishes at Jo-Ann's and they matched Holly's dress perfectly (they were actually the only item I didn't have a hard time picking out).  I gave up trying to find paper to match her dress, so instead I decided to find something with similar shades and go with it. The B&T paper is Magnifique, paired with the (retired) Ocean Cardstock.  You can't tell from the picture but the colors of the tickets matched my paper exactly and tied in great with her dress.  The right side has their Professional picture and one of my favorite pictures I took of them together.  This side is based on the Wings WOTG layout left side.
 I had a hard time deciding how to layout the right side and finally decided on this pinwheel design. 

Here is a close up of the letters, I cut them out using the Doodletype cricut cartridge using the silver cardstock from Pizzaz, and Ocean Cartsock. Once I had the letters put on their shadow, I ran them through my Xyron with the front side against the glue, and then sprinkled them with Prisma Glitter to give it that sparkle, and make the letters jump off the page.


Materials Used: all CTMH unless otherwise noted
Magnifique B&T, Ocean, White Daisy Cardstock, Ocean, & Pacifica Ink, Prisma Glitter, Silver Cardstock from Pizzaz, Turquoise Flourishes and rhinestones from K & Co at JoAnn's, Art Philosophy and Doodletype cricut cartridges.

Hope you enjoyed the two Prom layouts, come back tomorrow to see a card inspired by the Jimmy & Holly layout using Inspired Stamps.

Thanks

Jenn

This week at Inspired Stamps we were challenged to create Anything But a Card using Inspired Stamps.  So since I have been frantically working on my son Jimmy's Sr. Scrapbook, I decided to create a scrapbook page.    This One page layout showcases the picture his recruiter took at Jimmy's swearing in.  I used my favorite scripture stamp His Plans For You and Military to create this layout.



Here is a close up of the Journal side of the layout, so you can see where I used my Inspired Stamps.. 



Materials Used:
Inspired Stamps: His Plans For You & Military
CTMH Used: Black Ink, Black Chalk Distressing Ink, White Daisy, black and Honey Cardstock
Army Paper From Reminisce
Army Foil Sticker K&Co.

Please make sure you check out the wonderful projects that the rest of the Team has created this week by following the links in the left side of my blog.


Until Next Week
Happy Scrappin'
Jenn

Whew, what a month.  When Springtime arrives around here it seems like the boys have way to much energy and are constantly getting into trouble.  Which explains why I spent alot of time at the hospital and Dr's office this last month (5 visits in a one week period)..  We only have one badly sprained pinky finger, one broken thumb, (on the same kid, 2 different ER trips and hands), and one hip injury.  After a month like that I have been quite happy to escape to my craft room for some MOM TIME and Sanity Check. 


With Jimmy's graduation fast approching I have been concentrating on getting his scrapbook done, I am slowly reducing the piles of pictures I have that need scrapped.  Right now I am concenrtrating on his sports pictures, and I am kinda cheating I am taking Robbie's sports layouts that I did last year, you can see them here and creating the same layout for Jimmy sometimes mixing up the papers.  With this method I am whipping through them quite quickly.  I am also working on just putting the pictures on the pages and will do the titles, journaling and embellishments later.  If they don't get done before his party on June 16, I can still display the pages with the pictures on them.  Since these layouts aren't quite finished I figured I could show you some of the layouts I have managed to get done this winter.  Along with several of the layouts I created for the Warren Township Community Center Scrapbooking classes.  Just about all these layouts have come from our How To Books, but I can't remember which ones and I don't have my books with me right now to tell you which layout designs I used.


These first 3 are using my favorite paper pack Victory, I have bought to packs so far and will definately be buying more. With 4 redneck boys I definately need all the outdoorsy paper I can get, and the camo sheets are being hoarded.  Not to mention that my oldest son is the one in the layout on the back of the Victory My Stickease, and on the Victory Layout on Jeanette's blog here.


This first is the Warren Township Community Center (WTCC)  Scrapbook layout for the month of April.


Materials Used: Victory Bulk Paper Pack, Colonial White, Desert Sand, Bamboo, Olive, Barn Red, Chocolate and Outdoor Denim Cardstock, Desert Sand, Chocolate, Outdoor Denim, New England Ivy, Barn Red Inks, Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. A Journey and the Stamp Set that comes with the Victory WOTG.


When I first saw this layout in the catalog I immediately had these pictures in Mind.  Yes My son's name is James Dean after his two Gandfathers My Dad Dean and his bio Paternal Gpa James.  These pictures just totally show his casual ornery side.  I did change it up a little and used the A Hope Stamp Set cause the wings matched his shirt. 



Materials Used: Victory WOTG,  Varsity Alphabet, A Hope (had to use the wings since they looked so much like the ones on his shirt) Grey Wool, Outdoor Denim and Barn Red inks, Durables and the April SOTM You Are...

This was the WTCC layout for March.  I ended up doing 2 layouts with the same paper pack cause I ran out of Pemberely and didn't have enough time to order it for the April Class.

Materials Used: Victory Bulk, Colonial White, Barn Red and Olive Cardstock, Olive & Barn Red Inks, Rustic Alphabet. and Pure Adventure Stamp Sets.  Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge



Materials Used: Pemberely Bulk, Colonial White, Outdoor Demin, Desert Sand, Honey and Indian Corn Blue cardstock. Indian Corn Blue and Outdoor Denim Ink.  Stamp Sets: Trinity Alphabet, Take A Picture, and Love Life Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge



Materials Used: Roxie Bulk, Desert Sand, Colonial White and Black Cardstock, Tulip and Black ink. Stamp Sets: Love Life, Giggle Upper and Lower Case Alphabets.

Above Layout with Flaps Open

Materials Used: Typeset Bulk, Notebook Level 1, Cocoa, Creme brulee, Sunflower, black, white daisy, colonial white, juniper, tulip, chocolate and grey flannel cardstock. Juniper Ink,  Red Glitz Glitter Gel, Stardust Stickles, Black, Red & Blue Markers White Gel Pen and Cricut Cartridge Locker Talk

Materials used: Wonderland paper pack, White Daisy and Crystal Blue Cardstock, Trinity Alphabet, Crystal Blue ink, Prisma Glitter, and the AP cricut cartridge.

The Flap Opened

Materials Used: Mischief Paper Pack, Cranberry, White Daisy, and Black Cardstock, Mad About You Stamp Set, Black and Cranberry Inks, AP Cricut Cartridge.

This was the Warren Township Community Center Scrapbooking class layout for November

Left Side - Roughly based on Title Topper-Heading from the Reflections How to Program the circles and Christmas Trees were cut using the CTMH exclusive Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge



Right Side - My own design Materials used: all CTMH unless otherwise noted Believe Paper Pack, White Daisy, Sweet Leaf, Holiday Red cardstock Holiday Red & Sweet Leaf Inks Token Alpha & Holiday Wishes Stamp Sets CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge



Left Side



Right Side Materials used all CTMH unless otherwise specified Colonial White, White Daisy, Desert Sand, Cocoa & Bamboo Cardstock Desert Sand & Pacifica Ink CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

This layout is one of my favorites because it is totally Jimmy. We were out taking his Sr. Pictures, he had climbed a tree so I could get several pictures of him in the tree. He is taking Natural Resources at the local Career Center and part of his class work deals with trees. Not to mention he has always been a climber and a clown. After our photo shoot, Jimmy was goofing off and decided to stage a "I'm falling" look to scare his mom. He didn't scare me but I did manage to capture the whole scene on film and thought a story layout was perfect.  This layout isn't quite finished as I plan on adding one of the Art Philosophy Trees to the Below page and of course I plan on eventually adding some journaling. 

Left Side - Very loosely based on Front & Center-Basic from the Reflections How To Program

Right Side - Very loosely based on Front & Center-Basic from the Reflections How To Program Materials used all CTMH Colonial White, and Desert Sand Cardstock Back Country B&T Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

Left side - Front & Center - Accent Band From Reflections all these pictures are the originals, as Jimmy's hospital pictures were the only ones not in the house when it burnt down so I didn't have to scan them in.

Right Side - Based on Sidebar-Main Frame from the Reflections Materials Used all CTMH unless otherwise stated Caboodle B&T, White Daisy, Heavenly Blue, Crystal Blue, Key Lime, Buttercup and Sunkiss Yellow cardstock ( the 2 yellows are because I accidently grabbed the wrong one for a couple of the mats.) Glitz Glitter Gel Stardust Art Philosophy & Doodletype Cricut Cartridges

This layout was a hard one to come up with as the underwater pictures are very blue, and I had a hard time finding paper to go with it.  I had to call in my upline for her opinion as I couldn't find anything I liked.  We ended up going with the "You Rock" papers as the Orange & green added to the playfulness of the layout.  I also used the Ducks from the "Makin Waves" Stamp Set.  It might have been the hardest layout to come up with but it was the funnest to complete.  I have fallen in love with the fun little ducks and have added this stamp set to my ever growing wish list.  This layout also happened to be my only one of the day that didn't have any cuts from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.

Well Both of Robbie's Graduation ceremonies are done.  His tassel has been turned and he is getting ready to start his first job as an adult.  We still have his graduation party to go, and in the mean time I will be frantically be working on his scrapbook and decorations which I will be displaying on here as I get them done.


I have gotten all Robbie's Baseball team pictures done, and am getting ready to work on the hardest sport pages to work on, His wrestling pages.  These are hard cause I am so sad that I will never see him wrrestled again, even though I hated the sport when him and Jimmy first went out for the team, I love it now.  It is the one sport where you have to rely on your own strength and endurance to get you through and Robbie had several memorable matches.  I have so many pictures from him wrestling that I am having a hard time deciding which ones to use.  I am thinking of using the Close To My Heart Flip-Flap's to get as many pictures as I can on the pages   While I am workingon those here are the latest batch of layouts I have completed for his scrapbook.

The picture used here was one that had been damaged in the fire, which I had scanned in and reprinted Materials Used Black, Dutch Blue, Sunkiss Yellow, Cranberry,White Daisy Cardstock All Star stamp Set and White Daisy Ink Baseball ribbon from my stash Doodletype & Sports mania cricut cartridge



Materials Used White Daisy, Pacifica, Cranberry & Sunny Yellos Cardstock Fanfare Paper Pack Doodletype Cricut Cartridge




Materials Used: Cocoa, Sunset, Bamboo, Pacifica, Colonial White Cardstock B&T DCVW George and Locker Talk Cricut Cartridges




Materials Used Topstitch Paper pack Colonial White, Outdoor Denim Cardstock Wings WTOG Stamp Set The Works Alpha, Atomic Caps, Lower Case & Numbrs Just for Boys stamp set



Materials Used Orange, Black and White Daisy Cardstock Baseball paper from my stash Baseball Cricut lite cartridge

I have gotten one set of this years Prom Pictures scrapped.  I have used the Bliss paper  and created a layout using Sunflower, Barn Red, Colonial White and a hint of Sunset.  Here is the final version of the Layout, I love it and the colors work well with Dani's flowers.



Materials Used: Bliss Paper Pack, Sunflower, Barn Red, Colonial White Cardstock Barn Red, Sunflower, Sunset and new England ivy Ink Friendship Alpha's Large & Small Tickled Pink Stamp Set, Find Your Style Stamp Set Ribbon from stash