Magazine Monday #132

After 47 Valentine Days together, he still sweeps me off my feet!  I took a break, came to the kitchen and found these roses on the table.  I decided that was the perfect backdrop for the card I made him.     

 

    For the PaperCrafter's Corner challenge this week, I used all the same colors and polka dots, too.  I made my background by inking up the Cuttlebug Dotted Swiss embossing folder, putting my cardstock inside and running it through the Fiskars Fuse.  The netting is an upcycled flesh-colored produce bag.  I had a little trouble cutting my sentiment, but hubby would never notice.  He wouldn't dare!  :o)  I'd keep him around even if he did.  He's the best Valentine ever! 

Papercrafter's Corner, Magazine Monday #131

     My January pictures of Granddaughter are mostly of her trip to the snow, which made PCC's magazine cover the perfect inspiration for another monthly page.  I put together a snowy scene using both die cuts and stamps for trees.  The tall tree is a Sequoia, as is our girl!  I labeled them in small print.  I also did some tiny journaling around the edge of one picture.
     I'm not very good with white space, even if it's supposed to be snow, so I scattered tiny snowflakes that were the fiddly bits from the Fiskars border punch I used on the photo mats.  I couldn't just toss them out!  :o)  Thanks for stopping by.

PaperCrafter's Corner, Magazine Monday #130

    

     Here's my little girl!  Zooming through kindergarten now.  Not staying little for long.  I asked her to stop growing, but she said, "Sorry, Gramma, I can't.  My body has a mind of its own." 
     So we hit another first:  a lost tooth. Thanks to PaperCrafter's Corner, I'm motivated to get
more done on DGD's page-a-month scrapbook. I've gotten way behind.
     The cut files I used are all from Miss Kate Cuttables.  She has great stuff and free files everyday!  The paper is some I've had for a long while from Piggy Tales.  When I was cutting the dotted paper, I realized the back is kind of chalkboard-y.  That gave me the idea to follow the PCC challenge to use my own handwriting, so I made the banner.  I also needed to explain why Gramma had the tooth the fairy had taken away.  I wrote that out, too.  I like writing on my pages.  My writing isn't up to some of the great stuff you see these days, but it's part of me that I want to leave for Sequoia.   The background of the inspiration piece has lots of straight little lines.  Mine does, too.  My crowns are the same shape as the eyebrows on the cover.  My model is cuter, and I'm not at all prejudice.
     Thanks to PCC for enticing me to be creative in the midst of turmoil.  I needed that!

PaperCrafters Corner, Magazine Monday #129

     When I started my project for the PaperCrafters Corner challenge, I was pretty sure it wasn't going anywhere.  I don't do water coloring, or any coloring, but. . . the background on the inspiration piece DID inspire.  I had to give it a try, maybe not the ol' college try, more like a kindergarten try, and I had my kindergartener cheering me on.  She liked it, so I decided to use it.  I also used vellum to get a semi-opaque block title cut with the Cricut.  (I don't know how I managed before Steph introduced me to the Cricut!)
     I had recent pictures out to scrap, but the bright colors and flowers said "Spring," so I went back a bit to find a month I had missed. 
     I really got stretched out of my comfort zone, but, strangely, I like it, except for the tag.  I plan to redo that with a finer tipped pen.  And it does show some resemblance to the magazine cover, don't ya think?  Ha ha! 

PCC Inspiration

PaperCrafter's Corner: Magazine Monday #128

I always look forward to what Stephanie at PCC has for the challenge us each week.  I had a hard time settling on an idea from this one.  We never do anything special for the New Year.  Too old?  New Year's eve is busy, though.  We party hardy. . .with our little birthday girl!  She arrived in time to be a tax deduction in 2009.  I can't believe she's six already!  And I have a birthday to scrap! 

 

    I took several ideas from the inspiration piece:  The bold heading, the sectioned off date and a confetti background (I had to restrain myself there).  The magazine cover celebrates the New Year.  We celebrated New Year's Eve, with a Princess Leia cake and a costumed birthday girl!  

     I sprayed navy cardstock with a mix of Perfect Pearls and alcohol to make the "far-off galaxy."  We did that on her invitations, too.  It shows up really well on dark paper.  All the heading was cut with the Cricut.  I love being able to cut larger letters. 

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PaperCrafter's Corner: Magazine Monday #127

     Right here you are supposed to see PaperCrafter's Corner inspiration photo for week #127.  Try as I might I can't copy it and paste here.  I rebooted, upgraded Mozilla, upgraded Yahoo and still can't get it to work.  The hot link works, though, so please check out this great site if you haven't before. 

     The magazine cover shows an assortment of pretty, vintage Christmas ornaments.  That's the part I jumped on.  I have an assortment of classic Christmas characters.  Almost at the last minute, I needed something to put gift cards in.  I made these cute boxes with the Winter Paver Favor Boxes svg files from My Scrap Chick.  I hid the gift cards under an assortment of Hershey kisses.  I used a lot of glittery, blingy stuff, but I rarely get photos that show that fun stuff. 
     Thanks for looking! 

PaperCrafter's Corner: Magazine Monday #126

     I am finally finishing up a few Christmas projects!  I packed up my supplies and took them with me to Stanford last week where Hubby had a TAVR procedure, a Transarterial Aortic Valve Replacement.  He had the choice of having open heart surgery locally or going to Stanford and participating in a trial in which the aortic valve is replaced via a femoral artery.  Chest cracked or arteries poked?  He chose the latter.  The procedure was done last Tuesday.  He was released Thursday and went to church this morning! 
     So in that whirlwind, I didn't have time to sit long enough to do any crafting!  :o)  But having our calendar cleared gave me time to play along with PCC's Magazine Monday this weekend. 

     I'm making cards for the sweet ladies who clean our home every other week.  I had cut the greeting out with the Cricut before we left, but took inspiration from the magazine cover to put it together.
My printed paper is similar to the gift wrapping the man is carrying, I have a bold title and a red border, Christmas colors.  Inside I used Wink of Stella on the "gracias," but that's hard to see.
     So glad to be back in the mix.  I hope I can start playing along more.  Babysitting DGD Tuesday through Friday, only leaves me Saturday to play.  Sunday is busy and Monday, too late.  DIL's schedule should change after the first of the year, and I'll have Friday and Saturday again.  Yay!  Merry Christmas to all!