Another Day in Paradise

Supplies: Paper (Bo Bunny), Glitter Cut (Fancy Pants), Trims (Websters Pages, Maya Roads), Letters (October Afternoon, Pink Paislee), Sparklers (Websters Pages), Bling (Prima)

Photo Credit:  Jenny Bosien (THANKS)

 

It really doesn't get any better than this rose trim by Websters. No matter what I do to it, it pops right back up and looks perfect everytime.

Today's Tip: 

Jazz up a scallop border with liquid pearls.  Notice how I added a grouping of dots every so often around the entire permieter of the scallop paper.  For another example, check out THIS POST.  This stuff is inexpensive and will stick to most any surface.

On that note, I'll sign off for today.  Hope you enjoy a wonderful holiday weekend.  My girls are pumped about the festivities here tomorrow. I even bought all three of them identical outfits.  I can hardly believe it myself.  I always wondered why my mother would do such a thing.  LOL  Guess now I know.

Cheers,

Tracey

Baby Love

Supplies: Paper (We R Memory Keepers, Pink Paislee, My Little Yellow Bicycle), Chipboard (Pink Paislee), Die Cuts (My Little Yellow Bicycle), Sequins (Prima), Safety Pin (Making Memories), Bingo Card (Jenni Bowlin), Letters (Prima), Ribbon (Making Memories), Pearls (Kaisercrafts)

Journaling:  After many months of planning and waiting, your baby sister is finally here for you to mother and love.

I can't get enough of banners lately so I added another one on this page.

For more banner pages, check out these links:

-Priceless

-My girls have taught me...

I'm a Cover Girl!!!

I am in utter disbelief! I was just doing a little surfing and came across the advertisement for the June issue of CARDS magaine. 

And guess what??

 That's my card!!

OH MY WORD, THAT is MY CARD!!!

I bet you can see my mile wide grin and hear me squeal with delight from your house!  LOL

I am also happy to say that the stamps used to create the leaves on the tree are by none other than Bettina @ myStamp BOX.  Hooray all around!!!

Anyone want to join me while I do the happy dance??

you make my heart SMILE

Supplies:  Paper (Creative Imaginations, Bo Bunny, Crate), Chipboard (Magistical Memories), Letters (Basic Grey, American Crafts), Crystals (Prima), Button (Making Memories)

I used two of my new favourite fonts on this page.  The mini ones are by Basic Great and are FABULOUS.  The other is the fabric covered, cursive style, chipboard font by American Crafts.  How can you not LOVE this one?  I will definitely be on the lookout for more of both of these.

Both pieces of chipboard on the page are by Magistical Memories.  Aren't they gorgeous pieces??

Today's Tip:

When adhering mutiple layers of paper and cardstock onto a layout, I like to use my sewing machine to ensure that everything stays in place.  On this page, I glued my paper down and then added a couple of quick lines of stitching in opposite corners following the pattern in the paper.  Look closely at the detail shots for the stitching.  There will be no corners curling on this page now.

Have a wonderful Friday and thanks, as always, for stopping by.

EDITED TO ADD:

Look for this page in the January, 2011 issue of Scrapbook Trends.

Scrap Within Reach Mini Album

I have yet another mini album for you this month, this one with a Father's Day theme.  I used the Paper Boy line by Scrap Within Reach and one of their new chipboard albums. Instead of binding it with a binder ring, I dug out my trusty Bind it All and gave it some coils.

Supplies: All Supplies Scrap Within Reach except butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), Crystals (Prima), Felties (Sassafras Lass, Basic Grey, K&Co.), Misc. Letters (Making Memories, Rose Moka)

Notice the texture on the front cover.  I took advantage of the double sided paper and rolled one edge of my papers over towards the bicycle.  I also punched butterflies and layered them up for more dimension.

I love making projects that my girls can be a part of.  They like anything that has to do with paint, so this one was a real treat.

Journaling Reads: 

My Dad is FUN.  He lets me cover myself in muddy handprints.  And then he reminds Mommy that I am just a doing what little kids do. :)

My Dad is PATIENT.  And then he said..."Come with me and I will help you get cleaned up."

My Dad gives the BEST snuggles.

Our Daddy always makes time to PLAY.

Our Daddy is the BEST.

Happy Monday and Some News :)

After a long weekend visit with the in-laws, we are home and slowly getting back into the swing of things.  (Translate:  tackling the mountain of laundry, groceries, shaggy lawn , withered garden, tired kids and tired Mom and Dad).  All in all, we had a great Father's Day weekend.  My husband helped his Dad and brother replace the horse fence. I got lots of visiting in with family and I even got a chance to visit with Amanda.  That is always a treat.  The kids had a ball with Nanny and Grampy, Dolly (their dog) and their cousins.  The only one who is a little worse for the wear is Steele.  Ordinarily he has a spat or two with Dolly and then is fine.  This time, he was on the losing end of more scuffles in four days than the entirety of this 6 years of life.  If you've ever met Steele, you know how out of character this is.  He is a 14 pound, long haired, steel grey cat, affectionately nicknamed the Grey Panther. 

This photo was taken in 2005 when he was only a year old.

Anyway, the poor guy got into a tangle with a little spitfire of a kitten that left him shaking in a pile of his own poo.  I felt so bad.  I don't know what that little kitten did, but he sure threw Steele for a loop on our first day there.  The next evening, he got into a tangle with a skunk and thankfully didn't get sprayed though  I have NO idea how.  He spent the rest of that night up a tree.  It wasn't until the third day that he seemed to come around and take charge of his surroundings.  Last night, he was so glad to be home he had no interest in sleeping so he spent the night outside roaming and making sure everything here was in order after his absense. 

OK.  I"ll get on with today's post.  If you're still with me after all that, I thank you.  :) 

I got a couple of emails while I was away that made my weekend even sweeter.  The first was a note from Tricia Barrett of Epiphany Crafts. 

They are an up and coming tool manufacturer that creates custom button and epoxy shapes.  I have been invited to join their Design Team.  Hooray!  What's better is that I will be working with Julie again and Monique, fellow myStamp BOX team member.  You can read all about it HERE.

The second bit of news is a publication request from Scrapbook Trends.  I will have a Christmas card in the glittered section of their Christmas Cards Idea Book due out this fall.  Christmas is one of my most favourite times of the year so this is one call I find difficult to let pass even if it means making Christmas cards in June. 

On that happy note, I'll sign off for today.  Have a wonderful Monday!

Jump into Summer Blog Hop

Welcome to the Jump into Summer Blog Hop with myStamp BOX and our preferred product partners (Helmar, PK Glitz and Kiki Art).


If you have just happened upon my blog today, you may want to head to the start of the blog hop, the myStamp BOX blog.

Here is our Summer Blog Hop schedule just in case you missed anyone:
myStamp BOX Blog www.mystampbox.com/blog
Virginie http://www.lescrapdenovalen.canalblog.com/
Tracey http://www.tailoredpages.blogspot.com/  <---- You are here.
Cherie http://www.cherie-inked.blogspot.com/
Helmar Adhesives http://helmarusa.typepad.com/blog/
Jing-Jing http://thislittleartofmine.blogspot.com/
Jolene http://www.jolenejohnston.blogspot.com/
Monique http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com/
Eva http://www.evascrap.blogspot.com/
PK Glitz http://www.pkglitz.com/blog/
Ellen http://www.closeyourears.blogspot.com/
Maryfrances http://maryfrancesfabbri.blogspot.com/
Gudrun http://www.papirbloggen.blogspot.com/
Lynda http://positive-force.blogspot.com/
Jill http://www.fromthefarm-jill.blogspot.com/
Kiki Art http://www.kiki-art.com/blog_en/
Agata http://underconstruction-agata.blogspot.com/
Ally http://www.yourmemoriescanada.blogspot.com/
back to the myStamp BOX blog

The challenge for this Blog Hop was to take anything that makes you think of Summer and create a project that fits the theme.
You participate in the blog hop by leaving a comment on each and every participating myStamp BOX designer's blog and all out partner companies' blogs as well. You have a chance to win a set of stamps sets! Our partner companies will offer up a prize as well. So leave a comment on all the blog posts and then return to the mSB blog and tell us what you favourite project was along the way for a chance to win! Have fun!

"Sprinkler Fun"

Supplies:  Paper (Crate Paper), Die Cut (We Are Memory Keepers), Stamps (myStamp BOX), Flowers (Prima), Glitter (PK Glitz), Letters (American Crafts), Pearls (Prima, Kaisercrafts), Trim (Webster's Pages), Border Punches (EK Success), Adhesive (Helmar)

Nothing says summer like sprinklers and bold, bright colours.  I chose to highlight two stamp sets on this page:  Colorful Companions and Floating Leaves since butterflies and beautiful green leaves make summer (and scrapbook pages) so visually pleasing.

I love using stamps to enhance clusters of embellishments on my pages.  Making stamped images 3D really gives them that extra pop.  Helmar's Zapdots work great for popping my leaves off the page. 

Today's Tip:  Create your own custom glittered water droplets

To carry the sprinkler theme throughout my entire page, I decided to give the page the illusion of a giant sprinkler.  This was easily accomplished with a few simple steps and a little time.

Materials:

-Double sided tape

-Water Droplet Punch (EK Success)

-PK Glitz Glitter (Desert Sand)

-Scrap Paper

-Helmar's Zapdots (foam mounting squares)

Steps:

-Place a strip of double sided tape onto the scrap paper.

-Punch out water droplets along tape line.  Turn punch over to be sure punch is lined up correctly.

-Remove adhesive backing and dip droplet into glitter.  Shake off excess.

-Adhere to page using Helmar's Zapdots.

This same technqiue could be used for any punch you have in your collection.  I'm thinking glittered flowers and butterflies.  How fun.

Now hop on over to Cherie's Blog for more summery inspiration. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Priceless

Supplies: All Supplies Scrap Within Reach except Glitter Cut (Fancy Pants), Mini Letters (Jenni Bowlin), Border Punch (EK Success), Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels)

Some photos just beg to be scrapbooked and these are a prime example.  Scrap Within Reach makes some really fantastic masculine lines of paper that I am just thrilled to have used here.  I combined the new Cambridge line of paper with the die cut from the Industrial Park line.  Rub-ons and stickers from the Industrial Park and Urban Garden lines round out the page. 

Design Details:

To adhere the glitter cut, I decided to use staples in a criss cross pattern to mimic the x's seen on the background paper.

The letter stickers in the title were actually square.  To change the shape, I stuck them to scrap paper and used a circle punch to punch them out again. All I had to do was add some adhesive and a little ink to the edges.

Today's Tip:  DIY Banner

Cut out a series of triangles all in the same size.  Line them up and adhere to page.  Add a stitch between each triangle along the top to give the illusion of string holding the banner together.  Add bow details to each end.  Top the banner with letters or other embellishments.

Border Details:

Next to my trimmer, border punches are among my most used tools.  Though it isn't immeditately evident, I layered rows of punched paper in the same tone to give my page some texture.  Check out the detail shot below:

So there you have it.  An all girl page made with masculine themed paper.  It doesn't hurt that my girls can go from the princess dresses to the mud pile without even a second thought!

Designing with Acrylic

Supplies:  Album (Clear Scraps), Paper (American Crafts), Transparency (Hambly), Stamps (myStamp BOX), Letters (Websters Pages), Trim (Prima), Flower (Petaloo), V2 Vellum Adhesive (Helmar)

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Dear Lizzy Adhesive Fabric Papers and Acrylic are a match made in heaven!!! 

Seriously.  It could not be any easier or quicker than that to decorate acrylic!

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This album is 4 inches wide by over 9 inches long.  Because of the length, I decided to put a baby photo of my girls on each of the first three interior pages. I also arranged the photos so that they show through the previous page making it easy to compare just how much the girls looked alike as infants.

(click on photo to enlarge)

When I build mini albums using acrylic, I like to allow elements from previous pages to show through to the next.  If you look across the top, you will see how I've built the journaling using several pages.  Looking across the bottom, you can see how the baby pictures all line up on the first page. 

Today's Design Tip:

Run your acrylic shapes through an embossing machine to give them some texture.  Notice the frame around my photo on the cover. I used the Swiss Dot embossing plate to get the raised dots.  For more interest, try sanding the raised areas.

The Dangle:  Because no album seems complete without a dangle of some sort, I added another Clear Scraps shape to the binding ring complete with a matching flower and some journaling around the perimeter.

For a more thorough discussion on working with acrylic and using stamps to journal, join me on the myStamp BOX blog today.

Don't forget to check back here on the 15th for a fun summer time blog hop.

See you then.

EDITED to ADD:

Look for this album in the 2011 Create Mini Albums books by Scrapbook Trends.

Castles, Tiaras & Sparkle...OH MY!

You might remember me mentioning Best Creations Inc. and their beautiful "Once Upon a Dream" collection.  Well, here it is:  the mini book that has more pink, purple and sparkles than ever before seen at one time on this blog.  My only concern is I don't think you really get a feel for just how sparkly and textured  this project is with these photos.

"Our 3 Princesses"

Supplies:  Album (Clear Scraps), Paper (Best Creations Inc.), Bling (Prima, Websters Pages, Zva Creative), Rub-On Letters (Jenni Bowlin), Thickers (American Crafts), Chipboard (Pink Paislee), Flowers (Prima), Epoxy shapes (Around the Block, JoAnn Fabrics), Lace Frame (K&Company), Bingo Card (Jenni Bowlin), Stickles & Liquid Pearls (Ranger), V2 Vellum Adhesive (Helmar)

When building mini albums using acrylic, I really like to use the acrylic as a major design feature. To accomplish this, I use several pages that build upon the previous to make the whole.  If you look at the photo above, you can see the cover page that has the title, butterfly and gemstone bracket.  Behind that the second page with the castle shows through as part of the cover. 

 

It isn't until the third page that I introduce a full sheet of patterned paper covering the entire acrylic crown shape.  This green background on page 3 shows right through to the cover and creates a nice visual backdrop for the castle.

(Click on any photo to enlarge)

Helmar's V2 Vellum adhesive allowed me to take full advantage of my double sided paper.  What I adhered on one side of my acrylic shape was visible on the reverse without any glue marks.  LOVE that!

Because the paper is totally covered with embossed and glittered accents, I carried that through onto my embellishments (flowers and chipboard) using Stickles.

I used the same idea for the back cover as I did with the front. I used two pages to build the whole allowing the acrylic to be the star of the show, next to to the adorable photo of my girls of course.  :)

Design Tip:  Use Liquid Pearls to add an inexpensive bling frame to an acrylic shape. 

Stay tuned for another Clear Scraps mini album on the 15th.

Thanks for stopping by.

THIS makes me happy

This is one of my pages in the summer issue of Scrapbooking & Beyond. Didn't they do a FABULOUS job showcasing my page??

  Strawberry season also makes me very happy and in a few short weeks we will be picking strawberries from the field again.  Mmm, Good!!!

Welcome Home

The girls are just so proud to hold and "help" with their baby sister. :) Since Daphne has started smiling, it makes it that much more rewarding to for them to spend time with her.  This page has three of my favourite photos of the girls welcoming Daphne to her new home.

Supplies:  Paper (Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker), Letters (Jenni Bowlin, American Crafts), Feltie (Sassafras Lass)

Isn't that little felt worm adorable??

Design Notes:

To create the sun, I cut out a circle and tucked it under the photos.  I used my paper trimmer to cut strips of paper for the rays, giving them a slight angle on each end.  The stitching ties the whole design together.  Funny thing is, I'd run a mile to avoid sewing clothes but sewing something like this is actually enjoyable.  :) 

Sewing Tip:

Use embroidery floss in a similar tone as your paper to highlight shapes. It really gives a nice, subtle finishing touch.  For other examples, please refer to these pages:

-Sowing Seeds of Love

-Sugar & Spice

-Today She's 2

 

it's your B-day

Supplies:  Paper (Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker), Feltie (Sassafras Lass), Stamp (myStamp BOX), Border Punch (Martha Stewart)

Today I'd like to pass along a very special birthday wish to a friend I've had since childhood. 

Have a wonderful birthday, Nancy!!!