Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Dora here...
Did you hear that I have earned a spot on the Signed, Sealed and Delivered Creative Woman Design Team. (We will call it CW for short). You will want to friend them on Facebook and check out their blog once and a while to see what we are creating. Our first monthly project is due the end of May so you should be seeing it in June. I don't think I am allowed to post my projects here, so make sure you check them out.

I am so excited for the challenges that lie ahead. It should help me stretch my creative box. :)

Dora

Glimmer Mist Organization

I have too many Glimmer Mists to fit in my previous organization. So today I purchased a rack to hang on my studio door.
The top shelf is my duplicate colors, Glaze and Chalkboard.
The second and third shelf is all mist, grouped by colors.
The fourth shelf is all the blue mist and the Glam.
The basket are all the brand new glimmer mist colors I have. I still need to label their lids. 

Below is a close up of how I label my bottles. I write the name on a label, mist it then stick it on top of the lid. 

Another thing I do so I know what colors I have is... I take a round coaster and place a screen on half of it. Then I mist it. I write the name on the back of the coaster and group the colors on rings. 

 

For the chalkboard, I used square coasters and a different screen to make them stand out from the rest. 

I painted lines of the Glam and Glaze on the square coasters.  I have a coaster for each color group (green, blue, brown, etc)

I purchase white ribbon, fibers and flowers now. Why buy colored when I have this many glimmer mists to color my own. 

I am addicted - but at least I use them and not collect them. :0) It takes a lot to empty a bottle and I have emptied a few.

Easter Layout

This past week I took an Easter layout class at SSD. We used Canvas Corp paper.

I used Orange Peel stickles to embellish the title, eggs and carrots. The "E" opens up to be a mini album to hold 3x3 pictures.
I pleated some orange ribbon across the bottom to add more texture. Some of the letters and the rabbit and the orange egg are on dimensionals.

This was a fun layout to do with great paper.

Layouts from the head

I actually have a couple layouts that are somewhat original designs. This one is from a Build a Bear party. The pictures from Build a Bear are always so yellow, so I had a hard time scrapping this one. I saw someone else had used this teal patterned paper and I knew that is what I wanted too. On the left page where he is stepping on the pedal, it opens up to show two more pictures. I made a loop of bakers twine and made my own paper bead as the opener. I wasn't at home when I did this layout so I needed to make due with what I had. I don't think I have even made a paper bead for a layout before. Good to stretch the brain. :0)


The patterned paper was the deciding factor on this page. The dots are glittery and I thought it was a perfect jacuzzi paper for my pictures. Then I outlined my title with a glittery pen to add a little bit more. Who says you can't have glittery on a boy page.

More purchased kits

I purchased this layout online. It uses Bo Bunny paper. This was a fun layout to do. I tore, stitched, inked, curled, and tucked away. So much going on here.
Great paper to showcase the few of millions of faces my nephew makes. These are all posed pictures too. He is so funny. When I tell him that, he says "I was born that way"


This is a layout kit I purchased from 2KatieDesigns. It was originally a FAIR layout but I thought it was great for the Cave Springs Day pictures I had. I had to make this a four page layout. Too many activities for two pages.

Sneak Peak of the Early Bird Layout for Spring Retreat

Layout with grays, black, white and shimmer. Learn to pleat and make rolled flowers.

This layout is for five 3x3 pictures and one 6x6 pictures (or four more 3x3 pictures).

Sneak Peak of the Banner Layout for Spring Retreat

This is a layout with yellows, denim blues, light teal, khaki, gray , white. There is room for two 4x6 photos and two 3.5x5 photos or more of a smaller size. Plus lots of banners.

Layout Kits

This layout is one I did at CKC Tulsa 2010. It is such a simple design but I really love it and the patterned paper used.

I purchased this layout already put together. I just needed to put pictures on it. I don't normally do that but I just loved the simple layout of this one and it worked good with these 1st birthday pictures.

2KatieDesigns and the Spring Retreat

2KatieDesigns will be teaching TWO fantastic layout classes at the Spring Retreat.

Sports Layout : great layout for ANY boy or girl team sport from soccer to basketball to the backyard sports


Sweet Girl Layout : Great layout for your precious little girl photos or even pictures of your scrapbook weekend.


The cost is $15 for each class. Sign up using the paypal buttons on the right side of this page.

There are only 24 seats available for each of these layouts. Pre-register now before they are SOLD OUT.

Layout Inspired from Store Display

This layout was inspired by a display in a closing scrapbook store. This is not my normal colors but I really like it. It is pictures of our last trip to CKC in Tulsa. What I did on this page that I don't always think of doing is where the circles are. The circles are from a patterned paper of circles. I just cut at the edge of one of the rows. Simple but easy to forget.

Wow CHA is great

The last day we went to Newport Beach. We cannot be that close to the beach without a visit.

Even More CHA Tidbits

This is the back side of the Convention Center sign we saw every day on our walk. Pretty clever to make it "A" shaped.

I was so excited to have my picture taken with Cricut. It is so much fun!


Tune in next week for more excitement.

More CHA Tidbits

This was our walk every morning. Just awesome. Loved the view. It is so different then home and I really like that. It was also great weather for a morning walk.

The second day we took a class from Little Yellow Bicycle. First we did a layout out and a card.

Little accordion book on the page...
This is a 5x5 card with the same bow technique as the layout page.
This is the first page from a "Medley Album Kit" we did using my favorite "Saturdays" paper collection. The smaller blue tag is page 1. There are two white daisies layered with a blue lollie on top. Then some trendy stick pins stuck in there. This is the last page of the album. It is an envelope with an insert. We stuck a couple of tags on there, a sticker, a dark blue lollie and some more stick pins.
We will have this album on display at the Spring Retreat.

Tune in next week for more excitement.

CHA Tidbits

Our first time to attend CHA in Anahiem was amazing. The area of Anahiem was very nice.

The first night we took a class on heat embossing. The reason we took it was to use the Basically Bare album. Awesome!
This is all the product we received for the class: a heat gun, 6 embossing powders (EP), a case to put them in, 3 ink pads, 3 adhesives, glimmer mist, 2 stamp sets, plus the paper and album for the project itself... and more.

This is the 6 pack case we received in class. We will have the 12 pack case for sale at the Spring retreat.


This is page one of the album we made. The dress form is a corrugated die cut piece. We embossed the bodice and the stand. We adhered paper for the skirt then tied toile around the waist. The page itself has an opening in the middle. We used an embossing pen around the edge and heat embossed copper on it.
This is the second page. We heat embossed one of their stamp desgins. It shows through the cover. We cut the clock out of the patterned paper and edged it with the embossing pen and copper EP.


This is one of the pages inside. We inked a piece of bubble wrap with versamark and stamped it on the paper then heat embossed it.
The heart is corrugated. We versamarked the whole piece then sprinkled olive EP on it then copper EP. After heat embossing it, I added more olive EP.
We will demo heat embossing at the Spring Retreat and will have some embossing powders for sell. You will want the embossing pen!

Tune in next week for more excitement.

CHA Bound

Tonight we are flying to Anaheim, CA to attend the Winter CHA. We hope to see lots new techniques, trends, products and to learn lots to share with you. We are super excited to be attending. Stay posted to see what we have to share...

Last of the CKC Tulsa Layouts - for now

This is the last of the layouts that I actually have put together. There are just a few more that I hope to share soon. One class was all about making flowers. I will post that one sometime soon.


This is another from the Technique class. I really don't remember what the technique was. She had left a piece of patterned paper out of everyones kit and was very distracted. That may be why I do not remember. I don't really see anything on this layout either. Maybe she didn't have any technique to share. The good part about her leaving that piece out - I got the second page for free. I do love the colors in this layout.


This layout is actually from a class we took about using fabric. The flowers were hand made from some fabric paper. The paper was actually hard to work with, so Kelly and I peeled the paper part off so we could work with just the fabric. We stitched the leaves on the cardstock. It is time consuming but I sure love the look of stitching. We also hand cut (with a pattern) the cloud looking piece on the left page.
Below is the sample from the handout of what this page is designed to look like after there are pictures on it. I love the paper used on this layout.

CHA pre-work

I saw this on someone else's Facebook post and thought it was perfect for us since we are about to attend CHA:

If you could only scrapbook with ONE paper company's paper and embellishments who would you choose? You may only choose one!

More CKC Tulsa Layouts

More from the Technique class:


This layout was from Creating Keepsakes. The technique was to cut out shapes from your patterned paper to make embellishments. Nice layout



This layout is from Paper Loft. This technique is the same as the layout above - cutting shapes from your pattered paper to make embellishments and borders. A nice fall layout.


This layout is from Technique Tuesday. Their technique was to stamp your own patterned paper and borders.

Still more CKC Tulsa layouts

Thursday night of CKC we attended the Technique Class. There are many companies that come in and we complete a one page layout. We have the option to buy the second page the next day. I am not a one page kind of scrapbooker, so I always get the second page.


This layout uses my new favorite paper company, Simple Stories. The techniques she shared with us was how to make pinwheels and how to pleat paper. I just love this layout.



If I remember correctly, this layout is from Lickety Split. I changed it some from the original. It had a cute little bear on it but it was too cute for me. The technique she shared with us was how to make paper beads for your page. Super easy. I had never done this and love it. What a great way to use up scraps.

Crop Express

The Crop Express on January 21st is now SOLD OUT.