Layouts for a Class

I love teaching scrapbooking and I generally like to do 4 layouts, a few cards and a paper crafting item in each class. Here are the layouts for a class I taught.

Enjoy

Pocket Invitation Tag

Need a baby shower invitation in brown and pink, with dragonflies and lady bugs; that was a request from one of my friends. The lady bugs through me for a loop because I couldn't see a red and black lady bug on a pink and brown invitation. As you can see, I stuck with the dragon fly.

Christmas is Coming

I had to prepare a couple of Christmas layouts to teach for Sunday Night Live at the store, where I'm on the design team. I had a great time making this layout and it was fun to look back at some old Christmas pictures; where did the time go.

My Strong Handsome Little Man

Here he is, "My Strong Handsome Little Man". This layout will be featured as the Layout of The Week next week at By Design Scrapbook Boutique, where I'm a design team member. The papers are wonderful and the embellishments were so much fun to work with.

Enjoy.

Newport Buddies

Josh and I vacationed this summer in Newport Beach with friends. The boys had a wonderful time, the adults did too; we were just exhausted when we got back. One of these days we'll take a relaxing vacation, but for now, there is too much to see and do and Josh is always determined to see and do it all.

Fall Cards

I picked up some beautiful fall papers at the store and went home to play. I used the paper for cards and layouts. The cards weren't for any special occasion; just wanted to play with my new paper. Take a look. I hope you enjoy.

Love this paper

Have you ever come across patterned paper and just feel in love with it? Well I did it with a new line from, Graphic 45. I saw the paper and thought, I have to create some layouts using the whole line, so I did. My son is the handsome gentlemen in these photographs.

Enjoy

Birthday #43

I made this card for my girlfriend's 43rd birthday. The card doesn't have a sentiment on the outside because it was too pretty for that. I told my girlfriend, you know what we're celebrating, so remember that when you look at your card. You can't tell from the pictures, but the brown designs on the paper are felt. When I saw the paper in the store, I immediately thought of the card I had to make for my scrappin partner in crime. It's not about the sentiment, it's all about the card design.

I was having such a good time with the card, that I decided to make a matching envelope and gift card box. Ooooh pretty.

October birthday

Wonderful October, the beginning of Fall and my favorite season of the year. Certain seasons bring about certain feelings. For me Fall is a cozy time, a time for turtleneck sweaters and good gumbo. It's also a time for beautiful shades of brown and pink. When I sat down to make an October birthday card, the weather was perfect, starting to cool down from the summer heat, and I was in a cozy mood. I had the perfect sheet of brown, pink and white patterned paper and I wanted to play up the colors. This was my creation.

Enjoy

Scrapbooking after Ike - Scrap Pink

Hi:

It's been a while since I've posted to my blog. My son and I were in a mandatory evacuation zip code for Hurricane Ike, so we packed up and went to my sister's house. We were there for a week because we had no electricity at our house. When we returned home, I immediately began preparing for Scrap Pink weekend at my LSS, By Design Scrapbook Boutique. I was very honored to be asked to participate in the weekend by designing a card and teaching during the Friday night session.

This is the card I designed.

Men of God

The pictures in these two layouts are very special to me because these pictures remind me that my 12 year old son is becoming a man. Josh wanted to participate in the Men's Day Celebration this year and offered to spend his own money to purchase the tie and handkerchief set that all of the men wear with a black suit for this celebration. I was so proud when he told me that, that I told him I would purchase them. When I mentioned this to my dad, he was just as proud and said he would purchase Josh's tie combination. You know I couldn't let this special moment pass by without taking pictures. He and my dad are in both pictures and they are joined by our associate pastor in one of the pictures.

Annual Women's Day

This past June, we celebrated Annual Women's Day at our church. It was a weekend long celebration and this picture was taken on Friday night, just before we went into the Women's Praise and Worship service.

The Great Outdoors

I snapped these pictures of my son while we were waiting to tour the Caverns in San Antonio. I love to capture pictures of Joshua in his element and being out in the great outdoors is certainly his element.

Girly girl cards

I saw this georgous paper at By Design and couldn't wait to create some girly-girl cards with it. I had so much fun with this paper, that I made 2 styles.

Baby on the Move

I picked up some baby patterned paper at By Design and wanted to do a baby layout. I haven't done one of those in a long time, but I had some baby pictures of my son that I wanted to scrap. Scrapping these pictures took me back to twelve years ago and brought lots of smile to my face. Where did the time go?

Joseph turns 1

I have two nephews that turned one this year. Joseph turned one last week and he had a party this weekend. I wanted to make him a special card. I like to see little boys play with trains, so I thought I'd include a train on his card.

100% Original

Is it real or wax. I took these pictures of my sister while visiting a wax museum. I wanted to do a real girlie layout, but need a real "girlie" girl; I think I found the perfect one.

The Handsome Man in my Life

Isn't he just the most handsome "pre-teen" you've ever seen; well I certainly think so. We worked really hard on his Social Studies project in the spring. So, like any good scrapbooker, I had to commemorate the final project with pictures.

More Encouragement

What can I say, I really like black with yellow and grey with yellow. I wanted to make a card for a church member battling cancer, and when I saw this paper in my LSS, knew it would be perfect for the card I had in mind.

Encouraging Words

I wanted to send a note of encouragement to a church member, following a serious car accident. Yellow usually cheers me up, so I thought I would give it a try and add it to this card. What do you think?