MFTeasers | Day 2

Here are the details about the upcoming release:

• You can attend the New Release Party on February 4 from 8-10 PM EST HERE in the MFT forum, where you can WIN PRIZES!
• The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, is on February 4 at 10 PM EST.  You'll find all the newest products HERE at release time.
• The guest designer contest is going on now!  Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics.
• If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW.  Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily.  The winners will be posted on February 4 just before the release party, on the MFT blog.

Welcome to day TWO of MFT Teasers!  Today, we're showing a little sneak of Laina Lamb Design Journal It - Library Card and Document It - Right This Way.

I made a scrapbook page!  I KNOW!  What?  I had this sweet little picture of my 2 youngest kiddos from a summer trip to the library and I just had to use it with these new sets.

I started with an 8" x 8" base of Kraft Card Stock and chose patterned paper from the Remarkable 6x6 pack by My Mind's Eye.  I printed the picture in a 3.5" size and then popped it up over the green paper, which I cut out with the new Insert It - 3 x 4 Notebook Paper Die-namics.  The library pocket is made using Whip Cream Card Stock and I stamped the image from Journal It - Library Card in Kraft Ink.  The pocket itself is the new Insert It - 3 x 4 Pocket Die-namics and I love the little angled front of it.  So cute!   

I needed a little extra something in the bottom right corner of my page, so I used this small sentiment stamp from Journal It - Library Card in Kraft Ink.  I really like the Kraft Ink on Kraft card stock - so soft and subtle. 

In the top corner I layered 3 different fishtail flags - the blue is a Mix & Match Banners Die-namics, the red and the yellow are both from Accent It - Labels & Tabs Die-namics. And I cannot seem to leave any banner naked, so I added some straight stitches along the top. 

I added a couple accent pieces using Document It - Right This Way with Wild Cherry Ink and...

Kraft Ink.  I stamped STORY in Wild Cherry ink and added By The Letters Die-namics underneath.  The date is from Document It - Days & Dates, and added a few Wild Cherry Buttons.

Along the bottom left I added some arrow accents from Document It - Right This Way and some clear rhinestones.  There is another arrow image in Sno Cone Ink, but the photo makes it look so faded, so it's difficult to see.  You might have to get really close to your screen. *wink*

Be sure to stop by the MFT Blog for a complete list of designers playing along in tonight's Teaser.

Here's a peek at the new Die-namics I used on my page:

And you can find these fabulous items waiting for you in the MFT Boutique:


Thanks so much for stopping by!








recipe - 
stamps: document it - right this way (mft), journal it - library card (mft)
paper: kraft (mft), whip cream (mft), collectable remarkable 6x6 (my mind's eye)
ink: kraft (mft), sno cone (mft), wild cherry (mft)
accessories: clear rhinestones (su!), wild cherry buttons (mft), insert it - 3 x 4 pocket die-namics (mft), insert it - 3 x 4 notebook paper die-namics (mft), mix & match banners die-namics (mft), insert it - 3 x 4 insert die-namics (mft), accent it - labels & tabs die-namics (mft), by the letters die-namics (mft), sewing machine, thread, foam tape  

Going the Distance

It has been a loooong time since I've posted a scrapbook page {OK, it's been a long time since I've actually made one, let's get real here} and I was going through photos and found these little cuties.  My son, he's such a character.  The kids were out front playing and Andrew decided to race all his little plastic cars and trucks down the driveway, but he didn't just set them up and go - each car had it's assigned place.  He was cracking me up!  Asking me to help him and then redoing everything when I finished {kind of like me reloading the dishwasher to make things fit better - you know what I mean...}.  Sometimes I just want to mess with him and switch a car last minute. hehe!  Bad mom.  What I love about these pictures is how he has chalk all over his legs and skinned up knees and a Buzz Lightyear bandage on his Fred Flintstone foot - he's all boy and so proud of his flip flops, haha!

Anyone else struggle with journaling?  I'm not known for my brilliantly written blog posts, so why should my scrapbook pages be any different?  My vocabulary consists of "cute, adorable, gorgeous, brilliant, and beautiful".  Call it the curse of a math major.  hahaha!  So instead of writing my own journaling, I thought I'd use the lyrics from Going the Distance by Cake - pure genius, right?  Ok, maybe not, but my husband got a chuckle out of it.  Anyway, until I can think of something "brilliant" to write in that huge journaling space, I'll keep this :)  That's the great thing about digi scrapping!  Until you print it, you can change it up.

The layout is a clip-able 2-page layout from Jessica Sprague - I grab these up when she puts them on sale for $1 on One Buck Wednesdays!  Seriously, these are such a time saver!  The paper kit is Rambunctious by Julie Billingsley which is so completely "adorable" for boys!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

sunday scrapbook - 5

I've finally done a page for Katie! Yes, I'm a huge slacker mom, but as long as I'm caught up before she leaves the house, she'll never know. ha! Katie turns 1 on Tuesday (sigh) and this is one of the first pictures I took of her the first week we had her home. I love all her dark hair - it's seems lighter now. The backdrop in the photo is a blanket my mom bought her that is so soft and thick and perfect for the winter in her carseat. Katie still snuggles it in the car.
This page layout comes from Got Sketch by Valerie Salmon - this is #65. I love this blog - Valerie has so many fantastic layouts there, so all you scrapbookers go on over and check it out. I used my 1-3/8" circle punch and cut the circles in 1/2 to create the big scallop border on the left side of the page. The jounaling tag is Boho Frames 1, a doodle bats font from Lettering Delights,

Have a fantastic Sunday!
Karen

recipe -
stamps: eastern blooms
ink: pretty in pink, rose red
paper: whisper white, wild wasabi cardstock, banbury, rose red prints dsp
accessories: on board simon lower (retired), ek success flower punch, fresh favorites 2 buttons, soft subtles buttons, 1-3/8" circle punch, scallop punch, boho frames 1 font, stampin dimensionals, tombo multi adhesive

sunday scrapbook - 4

Well, I'm on my 4th scrapbook page in 6 weeks - that is STELLAR pace, ha! Okay, it is much better than the 'collecting dust' pace I was on before, so maybe I should be more kind to myself. This week's page comes from photos I took of Andrew at our 4th of July picnic in 2007. Look at those little pudgy hands! I can't believe how little he looks, but he was just about 17 months old and I was big and pregnant with Katie crazy with worry over how close in age these two monkeys were going to be. Talk about worry over nothing! They already have a blast together and she can't even talk yet. {maybe that's why???} So are you wondering if you need to adjust the color on your monitor to make the watermelons red? Yes, you're looking at yellow watermelons. Is that the strangest thing you've ever seen? {hopefully not} I don't know if that is normal or these were just albino or something, but everyone seemed to love them, especially the kids. I, myself am not a melon fan, so I really passed up this opportunity, lol! Anyway... I used American Crafts Thickers (cream soda) for the watermelon and barely got that sucker on the page! Hey, and look! More In Colors from 2008 - gotta use up my stash. I'm sad the journaling gets a bit lost in the patterned paper, but I can't really fix it now. ugh. Should have used vellum... Need to get me a better journaling pen. I hear American Crafts has a great one, anyone have favorites? Ok, that's it for now -

*edited - So guess what today is? Can you even imagine?! Yes, it's the Rocky Mountain Showdown, the great rivalry college football game between the Colorado State Rams and the Colorado Buffs (I hope Michael doesn't see that I just wrote the word Buffs on this page - he might kick me out, lol!) This is a MAJOR event in the Giron home and we are very serious about our dear Rams. So we are just about to head on over to Gramma's house (a former Buffalo, *gasp*!) and watch the game. Michael is already downstairs teaching Andrew to say 'Boooo Buffs!' when he sees the mascot - it's going to be a fun day...

See you back next Sunday with a new page - have a great day!
Karen

recipe -

paper: purely pomegranate textured cardstock, jersey shore dsp, east coast prep dsp {got a jersey theme goin' on here}

accessories: american crafts cream soda thickers, star brads, zig millennium journaling pen - black (05)

sunday scrapbook - 3

Hello everyone - I hope you have had a nice weekend. This week's scrapbook page was emotional for me and it caught me off guard. This picture is from my son's first birthday and it just brings back a flood of memories from the sitting that day. He was such a ham - smiling and flirting with the photographers and we got so many great pictures that show his very fun personality. Now my daughter is turning one in a few weeks and it just makes me sad how fast the time has gone. Makes me want to go give all my kiddos a big squeeze...

All right... Again, this layout comes from Pagemaps, June Maps, and it really fits my style right now. I'm not a big picture taker, so I love the pages that only have a few picture maps on them. Makes me feel less guilty for not taking more pictures of the little ones. I sponged on real red craft ink on the chipboard letters instead of covering them with cardstock

Have a wonderful Sunday and I'll see you back soon. Thanks for stopping by again (you all make my day!)

Karen

recipe -
paper: sahara sand, whisper white textured cardstock
ink: real red craft
accessories: chipboard letters (li'l davis designs), all the trimmings simply scrappin kit, red star eyelets, not quite navy stitched grosgrain ribbon, font is futura lt

sunday scrapbook - 2

Ok, so it's a day late (almost 2 days at that), but I did it! So sorry everyone, I hope you weren't checking in, anxiously waiting for me to post it. Were you? Ha! So today's scrapbook page is inspired once again by the June Pagemaps and is a very simple layout. Of course I say that and it still took me a long time to complete - but that was mostly because of the journaling. The big reason I usually type out my journaling can be seen on this page. Do you see my big goof? Yes, that is supposed to be the word through, but I went a little crazy and tried to add another 'r' for some reason. Now it's all messed up. Ugh. I did another little mess-up in the YOU, but it's not as bad. Sheesh. I guess I added a little too much 'personal' touch. ha!

That's it for today kids. I'm off to peruse my new SU catalog, which finally came in the mail today, yea! I might have some retired stamp sets to sell, so check back soon for those. I need to finance my new purchases....

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Recipe -
paper: vanilla textured cardstock (12x12), cutie pie dsp, rose red prints dsp
accessories: on board - lots of letters (chipboard), love & happiness and a perfect day rubons, tombo multi adhesive

sunday scrapbook - 1

Hello and happy Sunday! I'm going to try and motivate myself to scrapbook by posting pages here on my blog for you every week. Sometimes that is the kick in the tush I need to get motivated. A good friend and I went to a crop Saturday night and this is the page I did there. Yes, THE page - 6 hours at a crop and 1 page completed. I told you I was a slow cropper! I just like to chat and it takes me about 1/2 the time to figure out what I even want to do. Anyway, this page is from a sketch at pagemaps (January maps) and worked so great with the pictures I had of Andrew. And the Jersey designer series paper from Stampin' Up! works perfectly. I love that packet of paper! I even used my own handwriting this time - yikes! I have to throw it in there once in a while to 'document my growth' too. I need to add a subtitle to the bottom of the photo accent box, but I need to figure out what I want to put there. Maybe I'll just leave it and take the lazy way out... ha!

Have a great evening and thanks for stopping by.

Details -
paper: kraft cardstock, jersey shore dsp, vellum cardstock
accessories: champagne thickers (american crafts), arrow die cut from the scrapbook store...

my 27-hour scrapbook page

Ok, well that is a big exaggeration, but I started this page yesterday and just finished it tonight. So it goes with 3 little ones and a busy summer. Alright, that's not fair to blame the kiddos because I don't scrapbook fast at all. We used to get together for crops and I think I would finish one page in the evening and even then I had more touch-ups to do later. I hope I can get faster at this because I am SO far behind it's intimidating me. I found this contest over at Pagemaps and thought it would be fun to enter and even if I don't win I'm at least one scrapbook page closer to catching up! ha! Also, Beckie Carlson {ladystamper} is doing a little challenge at her blog to use chipboard this week so I thought I'd just kill two challenges with one page. She's a challenge junkie like me! These pictures of Avery bring back so many memories - we had just moved to Fort Collins and she seemed so big then. Now I look at her and see her as a baby. It makes me miss that time when it was just me and her during the day while Daddy was at work. Now I'm busy juggling 3 little ones and wishing/hoping to get more alone time with each of them, especially Andrew.

That's it for now - Thanks for taking a peek today!

Details -

paper: kraft, very vanilla, wild wasabi, cool caribbean cardstock; so saffron, rose red prints dsp paper

accessories: chipboard 'crillion' alphabet {li'l davis designs}, vintage brads, so saffron buttons, 5-point petal punch, flower punches {ek success}, mini glue dots, tombo multi adhesive

american crafts contest

It's a very *exciting* day for me - I actually entered a scrapbook page contest at my local scrapbook store. The premise was you could do a baby page or an American Crafts page, so I chose the latter. Granted, I have a ton of baby pages to do, but I remembered this sweet picture of Avery and her cousin AJ and really wanted to use it. Plus, I was floored when I saw this paper that matched both of their sweaters! It's meant to be. Avery and AJ are only 4 months apart in age and he and his family moved in next door about a year ago. It's been so much fun having them so close and the 2 kids have really bonded. They'll be in the same grade at the same school, so it is kind of like they are twins! I'm sure they'll be asked that quite a bit. They might play up that angle too - ha! I'm not sure if this page will win me any prizes, but I love how it turned out and will be proud to at least display it at the store during April. I might have to vote for it more than once, bwahahahaha! I haven't peeked at the other entries yet, so I have no idea how mine stands up, but we shall see. I have a friend that entered as well, so we're going to peek at all the entries soon. I may have to enter in each catagory each month just so I get myself motivated to crop! I'm only, let's see.... yeah - 4 years behind. I did Avery's first year and then stopped (something about a stamping habbit).

Thanks for stopping by!



Details - all items American Crafts unless otherwise noted paper: a la mode-strudel, a la mode-irish cream, play-ringtoss, vellum cardstock (stampin' up!); accessories: thickers (foam letters)-cream soda & rootbeer float, mini marks-ned jr rub-on letters, fun house ribbon, antique brass brads (stampin' up!). font is CK Marissa

scrapbook page for march

I'm waiting for my stamping mojo to return. Seems I have lost it over the last week - don't get me wrong, I have a million ideas in my head, but when I try and put them to paper, it looks well, weird. Maybe the problem is too many ideas, too little time? I'll go with that...
Today's little number is from my 6x6 desktop calendar for March and that cutie patootie is Avery - although it's from March a year ago. That's how I do my calendars - last year's pictures for this year's calendar. Seems to be a good fit for me; then I just put them in a album for the previous year. Voila, instant scrapbook! Avery is my little stamping helper. She loves to stamp and make cards for her friends and cousins. I had a huge pile of scrap paper that needed to be sorted and put away, but instead I just bought one of those plastic shoe box containers and gave Avery all my scraps for her cards. Add cheap adhesive from Wal-Mart and she's set. So sorry the picture is a little dark - this was before I found the ideal place to take photos in my house, so the lighting here is terrible.
Thanks for stopping by!
~Karen

Details: stamps: warm words, watercolor vine (jumbo wheel), rough texture (jumbo wheel), paper: certainly celery, bashful blue, whisper white, fall flowers designer series, accessories: silver brads, corner rounder

my valentine

I felt bad for not having something Valentine's-y to post yesterday and with all the parties yesterday and our little family night out for pizza, I didn't have time to stamp. Soooo... here is a scrapbook page I did for my 6x6 desktop calendar this year. This handsome little guy is Andrew and this is his 1-year-old picture (his birthday is in February), but now he's 2! The page base is chocolate chip and I layered ruby red and a strip of designer paper from last year's winter mini catalog, and I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. The heart is from Priceless.

On another note... My husband and I are huge Lost fans and I'm so happy this show is finally back on the air! Did anyone see last night's episode? I won't spoil anything, but all I can say is WHAT?!! That show....

ETA: The font on the heart tag is called Marissa from Creative Keepsakes. I think it was from a CD, but it's been so long I can't remember.

Have a great weekend everyone.

~Karen