Shirts and a Tiara, of course

Playing dress up means layers of adult clothes.  But what princess would be complete without a tiara?

The story here is mostly about the layers of shirts so I layered up my title using the Silhoutette.  The video covers the offset feature.  I'm using a font from 1001freefonts.com.  It works well when the letters are welded together - one of my favorite things to do on the Silhouette.

Apparently our little princess wanted to wear the shirts to bed but her aunt wouldn't let her since the shirts were way too big for her.  So our little one got up during the night to get a shirt to put back on and only found a bra instead.  This made her screaming mad. I hate to tell her but wardrobe issues will not get better with age.

Since we have a long title on the page, I made it host most of the embellishment for the page as well.

Watch at YouTube:


Remember the TrueScrap II classes will soon be off the market. Get all of them for only $29 $47 (ETA corrected price) through the end of May.

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Summer 2015 Challenge

I have a crafting challenge for you this summer.  Don't worry.  It is an easy and very rewarding one.

Shop your stash and pick 5 things you want to use this summer.

That's it.  Just pick out 5 items - embellishments, paper, stamp sets, tools, ribbon, whatever.  It can be things that you haven't used in ages or things you want to move on out of your stash to make more space for new stuff or just make more space.

I'm sharing lots of things I want to use this summer and at the end of the video I picked my 5 things.  So stay tuned for more videos where I put these items to use.  I've already found photos to use with some of them.

Here's the video at YouTube:


And if you want to learn something new this summer, TrueScrap 2 classes are on sale this weekend at a housecleaning price of just $29 for all the classes.

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These are gone, gone, gone after May 31.  They won't be on sale after that time but you can still access the video if you purchase them now.

Thanks and have a safe holiday weekend!

Loves music, Loves to dance

She wiggles back and forth and shakes her hips a little.  She LOVES to dance according to her aunt who took this photo.

I wanted some movement on the page so I have staggered paper strips from the J'Adore collection by BasicGrey.  The flowers are made from sheet music.  In the description for my video, there is a link to the video on making these flowers by thestampdoc.  I made mine a little differently but I still love the method of using a large scallop punch for the flowers.

In my video is a section on using the Silhouette for creating a title that is extra easy to glue down. You don't have to handle all those individual letters. I used the technique on the word "loves" in green below.  I'm also trying out some new video editing software so let me know what you think.

Watch at YouTube:


Sketch:

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Making One Photo Stand Out

On my page with 4 photos, I really want one to be the focal point.  Some ways to make one photo stand out...

• Matting
• Larger size than the others
• Placement on the page
• Dimensional adhesive to pop it up
• Using a close up photo

I used almost all these.  In the end, I opted for the less closeup shot of the two of us. The other tricks give the focal photo more weight.

The papers and flair are from BasicGrey's J'Adore collection.

You can see the video here at YouTube:

And here is the sketch.

Thanks for watching and for all your lovely comments.  I really appreciate hearing what you like about the videos, your questions and suggestions.  

Mother's Day card

Hope all Mothers had a wonderful day yesterday.  I was downloading photos this morning and realized - oops! - I forgot to post my Mother's Day card.  I didn't finish it until 8:00 p.m. Saturday night so I guess I didn't give myself too much time. :-)

Anyway, I did this with a stencil from Hobby Lobby and light modeling paste over a gelli print.  After the modeling paste dried, I painted the design with watercolors.

Since I was late getting this posted, you get to see my mom holding the card. They came over for lunch and she is posing after our meal before we went out to inspect the tomato plants my husband swears I planted in a crooked row.  But that is another story...

Run Dillon Run

Sports pages are a particular challenge to me.  My husband and I are probably the least sports oriented people on the planet.  We watch no sporting events on TV or in person. We used to 'play' tennis.  More play AT tennis. We had fun though no one would accuse us of having any skill.  Bad knees, hips, etc have sidelined our comical tennis days.

If we lived closer than 1000 miles I'm sure we would get to some of Dillon's games and meets.  But we don't so we get regular updates from my stepdaughter and usually one or two sets of photos per sport per season.  So this is the track photos.

I don't collect sports embellishments or stamps since I use them so infrequently.  There wasn't anything running related for boys on the Silhouette site that I liked so I went with arrows. The chevron paper in the background gives the page some movement as well.

Here's the video at YouTube:


And here is the sketch:

And here is a link to the 2013 and 2014 sketchbooks. Each sketch has a link to the previously published video. They are organized by the number of photo per page with extra indexes and lots of ideas for substitutions.

Now I'd better get busy making a Mother's Day card. I nearly forgot!  Thanks for visiting today!

Happy Scrapbooking Day! - 2 Pager, Video and Sale

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

I started the celebration a little early making this 2 pager with video below.   Also you'll find a deal for this weekend on one of my classes.

For the page, I used my gelli plate and the Silhouette.  We get one good snow a year here so we always take photos.  But with so little winter to document, I rarely buy winter themed product.  For the papers, I used the Gelli plate and some snowflake stencils.

The embellishments are courtesy of the Silhouette and some lovely new medium from Faber Castell.

Watch at YouTube:


Here's the sketch:

And to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day, I have a deal for you on the Two Page Terrific class.  Through Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern, the class is only $15.  Lots of great content.

Check it out on the class page, here.

Thanks for spending part of the day devoted to our hobby with me.