Super Secret Project #2

Well here it is super secret project number two.  A close "family" member went to prom yesterday and I made her a special 8x8 album for her photos.  She had asked for us to be there on her special day so I decided the an album would be a wonderful thank you.  I took special care to make sure the papers would match her dress as best as I could with some help from a local blogger Danielle Flanders.  She suggested this beautiful paper line from pinkpaislee called Spring jubilee.  She even set me some that she had already and as soon as I saw it in person I had to have more.  So I ordered a paper pack and some embellishments from twopeasinabucket.com.  My first purchase with them it was awesome!! So I played with my cricut and the paper, seam binding a cardstock and this album came together.  I'm pretty proud.  

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Super secret project number 1

Well my super secret project I have been working on this past week was a special gift a custom scrapbook for my future sister in law. I wasn't sure what she was doing for a wedding album because she has a friend of the family doing the photos and I figured she at the very least she can just put in her favorite photos from her special day.

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Sneak peek

I'm currently working on a project and can't share all of it. But here is a quick peek when it's finished I'll share it as a whole.

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Wow its been WAY too long!

Well this summer I was just creatively drained I guess.  Not much crafting for myself happened.  I took on a new role at my summer job that I thought was going to be easy, but proved to be a challenge.  I was the Arts and Crafts director for 3-5th graders which with my background should have been easy as pie.  I found and had great ideas but on a smaller scale.  Like I said it was a real challenge, but now with fall coming in fast.  I have the hopes of being able to craft and have some me time again in between my sub jobs and on the weekends.  I finally decided to wander into my craft room the other day and dust off my cricut and gyspy and some pictures and here is what I came up with.  Not too bad for not scrapbooking for probably about 3-6 months.  Nothing too fancy but I think it does the picture justice.  So the next adventure I have planned is a Close to my Heart Club with my bestie and some friends.  The first meeting is a couple weeks and there is a lot to do.  We are going to do one of my favorite themes Halloween (I can't believe its just around the corner).  I'm impatiently waiting for my order to get here with all my new goodies.  I'm hoping my cricut cartridge will be here.  Art Philosophy is such an amazing cartridge with 700 images which includes 3-D rosettes, two fonts, plenty of giftboxes and shapes to pair with your stamps.  I can't wait to play I will have new projects to post soon.  Probably Monday night or Tuesday.  I hope that you all enjoyed your summer and got through Irene okay.  See you soon!

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What are your plans?

So saturday is National scrapbooking day!! What are your plans this year?? My plans include spending the day with my best friend at a crop at our favorite local store Captured Moments!! I'm really looking forward to celebrating this year as I haven't really celebrated in the last few years.  It should be an awesome day of crafting with friends.  I also signed up with Big Picture Classes because the scrap store has wifi!!

So I will be following also with them and hopefully all sorts of fun stuff!! I hope you all have a wonderful National scrapbooking day and that you get to do something fun with friends even if you just do some shopping.  Have a great day!

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The Crop-ical Getaway

Ladies Night Out using Rusty Pickle paper, title and journaling spot cut on Cricut 

"Artist" Sandylion paper colored with markers and water color pencil, also prima paper, journal spot from pinecone press  

"untitled" it needs one just haven't figured it out yet, paper is Rusty pickle and prima flowers, ribbon from Close to my heart

"The Vintage Room's first Craft show" Paper K&Company and Daisy D, Stamps Tim Holtz, Letters Heidi Swap, Lace purchased from Joann's 

Cousins paper from Bo Bunny Press

Patches' Page paper Mme, ribbon is vintage seam binding, Flower is Close to my Heart and Brad is from K&Company

"Cousins2" Paper is Colorbox, I don't like what I did with the title so I'm going to fix that

Sassy's page paper from Rusty Pickle paw is from Cricut's Four Legged Friend Cart.

Sorry for the shadows in this one "Smokey's Page" paper from Adornit 

Wet Nose Warm Heart aka Archer's page.  Page is from Colorbox 

"Things in life that matter most are the Little things" 

Here we go as I promised.  Although packing was a challenge for me I feel like I did a great job packing projects and supplies to make my first crop in ages a productive day.  The food was amazingly good and boy was there food!!! I'm telling you if you are in the and love to scrapbook sign up for one of Captured Moments' Crops you will not be disappointed.  The ladies were friendly and their daughter were sooooo helpful when bringing our stuff in.  Although I didn't really need the help, but I took it gladly.  Everyone seemed very friendly and it was a fun day had by all.  I completed 14 layouts and I'm including just a few I completed.  I had a lot of fun making myself use what I had on hand and on top of it actually use paper that I have had in my stash for-EVER!!  I even did journaling (which I have never been a big journaler, which I find interesting considering I dabble in writing and poetry).  I feel like I didn't go crazy on embellishing but these were kind of meant to be simple pages.  The pictures I chose to bring with me were one's that I knew I wanted to scrapbook and I don't want to take away from them because they are such special people/pets and memories.  So sometimes simple is okay in my book. Pin It Now!