New (Old) Cabinet

While out antiquing last weekend we found a nautical cabinet that I thought would be perfect scrap storage. It's sheet metal with pasteboard drawers. Someone had tried to paint the drawer fronts on two drawers and didn't do a very good job, so I decided to alter it. I painted the edges white, mod podged paper to the drawers and cut words with my Cricut to decorate those. I'll post detail pics in the next post.

I plan to use it to store stickers, rubons and chipboard.

Challenges 3, 5, and 6

First, yes, I can count. I'm saving Challege 4, which is to scraplift this awesome LO by Luvscrappin http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/image/layout/539078.html. I'm saving it till I get Kathleen's senior pictures in. There's one in there that is beyond awesome.

Now the ones I've finished. First you see challenge 3. It was to use pretty, bold pp that you are scared to use, large flowers, black accents, double matting. I had these wonderful shots of rainbows we took around Sweetwater in April, coming back from Lubbock. The stained glass PP is one I've had for several years and have just never gotten around to figuring out how to use. The green is a scrap of one I love. The pics are double matted on light purple and black.

Challege 5 was to use green, 5 sentences of journaling (at least) 3 patterened papers, and ribbon. I love these pictures Kathleen took of Amelia in her laundry basket and have had them waiting to scrap for a while. I used pp from a pet stack, a set of pet pp my Jazzy sister gave me and the blue and green came from an Amy Butler set. The journaling reads, "It's a fact. No open box, drawer and especially laundry basket is safe. Amelia believes they belong to her. Heaven forbid someone try to put clothes in one. As soon as she sees it, she'll jump in for a ride."

Challenge 6: orange, bling, minimum of 4 pictures, and a flower. So of course, I choose my son's robotics pics! I used several ribbon scraps, scraps of 3 different pp, a Deja View journaling block, and a paper flower with a glitter brad (it is a guy layout) for the flower and bling. The journaling reads, "Archie has enjoyed Robotics competition the last few years. This year, he and AC did pretty well with their robot. After 3 rounds, they placed 10th-the best of any team from our school." Oh and the name of their robot was Indybot 2.0--so named for the little Indiana Jones Lego figure on the front and the fact they had to rebuild it, because the first one didn't work well.

Challenges 1 and 2

My next several posts will be about scrap challenges I'm working on. I have several projects going on and this weekend I've been working on some challenges that Mon and Marylouwho have posted on the General Scrapbooking board at Scrapjazz. They have us working on New Year's challenges and I've completed several.

The first challenge was to "use stamping or rubons, buttons, a heart or a star and pink or blue." On this one I used some flocked pp and some embossed pp from Me and My Big Ideas, a stamped journaling star, some vintage buttons and blue letters from The Paper Studio along with some stickers from my stash I'm trying to use up. The theme is this past year's One Act Play, "The Diviner's" The journaling reads, "Kat was 'Goldie' and Arch was an Alternate. Kat was named to All Star Cast at Zone." Challenge 2 was to do a Christmas LO or one with red, do some type of stitching, brads or eyelets, and a circle. This layout uses some green cardstock from my stash, some Basic Grey "cupcakes" pp, a journaling block from Anna Griffin, two green brads, a wooden word from Plaid and some machine stiching in the circle. The kids were playing on my Sister-in-law's trampoline and we just managed to get some fun shots. More LO's in other posts.

Christmas Gifts 2 con't.

Here are two examples of the dessert sections. I found these great puffy metallic stickers and some wonderful gems and they all looked so good together.

All the papers used in this project come from Bazzil, Hobby Lobby, My Mind's Eye, Me and My Big Ideas, and Die Cuts with a View. The embellishements I had in my stash for the most part.

Christmas Gifts 2

This gift is for my sister-in-law, Sandy. She has wanted a family recipe album of her own since she saw the first wedding recipe album I scrapped a few years ago. This time I decided instead of several 6x6 albums, I'd try a 4x6 2-up photo album. It worked well to get all 200 or so recipes in. It won't close, but neither would the 6x6 albums. It's a top of shelf type book. The cover had a photo slot, so I used it to put in the title. Each section has a section label and themes. Main Dishes I used flowers and brads to decorate. Side dishes uses chipboard and buttons and Desserts (divided into mini-sections: Cakes and Breads, Pies and Cobblers, Cookies and Candy, Drinks and Treats and Fun Stuff) all use flourishes and bling. I'll add a couple of scans of a dessert catagory in the next post, they wouldn't fit in this one.

Christmas Gifts Number 1

I'm working on some gifts for Christmas. The first is a set of handmade cards. The bird cards use stamps from Stampin' Up and say "Hello There" The flower uses a Cuttlebug embossing folder and Stampin' Up stamp "You've got a friend in me" and the bouquet uses another Cuttlebug folder and a Stampin' Up stamp that says, "A special note of thanks" I added ribbon to these after running them through my Xyron X. It's hard to tell in the scans, but the flower is on two shades of blue. The rest use various scraps I had. All the ink is Versa Magic multi-surface chalk ink. I have at least one more project to finish. I'll post samples of it when I complete it.

Update!

Life in our house has been busy the last few weeks (hence, no new posts.) Band has pretty much kept us hopping. Kat is a drum major and Archie is a section leader. Between Band Boosters, getting things ready for trips and going to games and contests, I haven't had much time to update. But today, our band competed in the Regional Contest in Brady and received Division 1 ratings. Now they'll advance to Area. It's in Grosbeck (near Waco) next Saturday. We're so proud of them! Here's a couple of pics from the trip. Now I need to scrap them for my turn at the Scrap Whispers challenge.





Drum majors and band directors with trophy.

Kat playing gong. Archie is the trombone above and to the left.

Kat has a flute solo.

Archie is the tallest and last trombone on the left line.

Band takes the field. Kat as drum major on left.