Album: Tropical Wedding

I was honored when some friends asked me to shoot their wedding.   I'm not a professional photographer, but sure do love to shoot and am lucky enough to get a few decent shots now and then.   This is my second wedding where I'm the official photographer, but I've paparazzi shot others of close friends and made them some albums.   My friends, Tim and Theresa, were kind enough to let me share their scans of the small gift album I made them on my blog.   Thank you Tim and Theresa.  I wish you all the best.  You're great for each other and it makes me happy to see you together.

The album size is 7x7 so 5x7 prints were perfect for quick pages that pop.  See the supply list at the end of this post for more product info.

Click on the image for a larger view.

Supplies & Tools: 
Printed Paper: Graphics 45 (Tropical Travelogue collection, and stripes from Communique collection)
Cardstock: Creative Memories
Stickers: Creative Memories ABC/123 stickers, Mrs. Grossman Design Lines
Tools: Border Punches (EK Success, Martha Stewart, Fiskars), KNK Zing electronic cutter, Make the Cut software.
Font: Saginaw (in cut files)
Accessories: Square Rhinestones, Pearls, Vellum Quotes (Creative Memories)
Album: Creative Memories 7x7 with black pages.

Bag Tags

Today is the first day of school for my little ones.  Each year I make a luggage tag/bag tag for their backpacks.  I try to coordinate with the pack.  On one side is their name and on the other side is their contact info.  I use these great plastic Bag Tag laminating sleeves by Scotch.

And here's a picture of my 3rd and 5th grader.   Time is flying by.

Here they are with their new backpacks loaded down with school supplies. It's crazy how much we have to send in.   We couldn't even fit it all in those large backpacks.  They each had to carry in another bag of supplies.  

Supplies: 
Angeline's Bag Tag: Basic Grey (Green at Heart)
Spencer's Bag Tag: 7 Gypsies printed paper (Venice 6x6)
Both Tags:  Stampin' Up ink (for distressing), Stampin' Up Cardstock (middle layer), Recollections silver sparkly paper, Make the Cut (to design the cutting file - their names) and KNK Zing to cut, EK Success corner rounder

Mickey Quad Card, rs23

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted.  The summer has been busy to say the least.   Kids start back to school today so maybe our schedules will normalize (or not).  Last night I had a little bit of energy left and didn't have to do school prep or soccer team manager stuff.   So I was browsing online and decided to do the Retro Sketch Challenge for this week. 

 

Here's this week's retro sketch challenge, #23

 

 Here's the inside of the card.

 

 

Stamps: none - how shocking
Papers: Stampin' Up (Speckled white for the base, real red, black and Summer Sun), Printed papers - Lily Bee Design (This & That 6x6 Tiny Tablet)
Tools: EK Success (Mikey punch and border punch), Creative Memories square punch.
Accessories: Misc Ribbon from the craft store, Stampin Up dimensionals.

Organizing Bits and Bobbles and Brads

Organizing my supplies for my hobby has to be as much of a passion of mine as my hobby itself given how much time I end up giving to organization. It's insane.  I think I have a sickness but I'm really not interested in a cure.  

I may have found my most favorite way to organize brads and other small accent items.  I love these little round containers that I found in jewelry making section of Michael's and JoAnn's.  They come in two sizes: the one shown and one twice as tall.  They have little lids that screw on and a larger plastic container in which multiple little round containers can nestler together.  

I much prefer these to the tackle box style compartment containers as the little items are trapped in their container and can't migrate into the next bin.  Plus, when I want to get a certain item out, I can just take that container and tip it. If I did that with a tackle box style container, I'd get a big mess.

Below are four large flats off these continers in one of my Steralite drawers with a smidgen of room to spare at the side.

I have some of these Steralite containers under my desk and are so easy to access when I'm working on a project.

Scooter Note

This was probably my second card that I ever made using copic markers.  

Stamps: Stampin' Up (On the Grow)
Ink/Coloring: Memento, Copic Markers, Stampin' Up Markers
Papers:  Stampin' Up Cardstock (Bermuda Bay, Basic Gray, Whisper White), Stampin' Up DSP
Tools: EK Success Border Punch, Corner rounder, Circle punches
Accessories: Stamin' Up Ribbon, Stampin' Up Dimensionals
Techniques: Copic Coloring, Faux Stitching.

Thank You Blossoms

I made this card about a year ago when I first jumped into Copic Markers.  This was actually my first card that I colored using my Copics.  I was limited in my color selection so I was thrilled when Stampin' Up's Cameo Coral cardstock seemed to match perfectly. 

Stamps: Stampin' Up (Growing Green and unknown set for greeting)
Coloring: Memento Ink, Copic markers
Papers: Stamin' Up Cardstock, Creative Memories printed paper
Tools: Stampin' Up Punches, We R Memory Keppers corner chomper
Accessories: Misc Ribbon, Stampin' Up Dimensionals.

Simply Flippies

We often call these summer friendly shoes "flippies" at our house.  Given that the heat index hasn't been under 100 in about two weeks now, this card seems seasonally appropriate.  

It's a CAS (Clean and Simple) card.   I use Hammermill 100 lb weight cardstock for my white card bases.   The stamp is from Stampin' Up (Sunny Fun) and colored with Stampin' Up markers.   I then scored some white lines at both the top and bottom of the card using a score board.   Lastly, I grabbed a scrap of Stampin' Up Pool Party cardstock and punch a border using a Martha Stewart punch.  I then cut that border in half and applied it to the card. 

Simply flippy fun!