Tuesday Trigger - Poppin' Off The Page

I'm dusting off my creative blog and trying to get my mojo going again! Starting off with the Tuesday Trigger from Moxie Fab World.

Here is the trigger image:


and my interpretation of it:


I knew I had this black and white paper from Love, Elsie and the fine lined florals reminded me of Friends 'til the end from Papertrey Ink. After I had it all together, it felt like it was missing something.... BLING of course! I used coordinating stickles to add some shimmer to my flowers and sentiment.

I still feel like it needs some ribbon, but since I had already sewn my background paper onto the card, and I couldn't find another place that satisfied me, I left it off.

Thanks for the inspiration MFW!

Hmm... now to redesign this blog that has been collecting dust for almost a year!

August Cards

Lots of baby boys due soon, so I thought I'd make Welcome, Baby and Thank You cards. I made 6 so far, but I do need to do a few pink ones as well, but I have a few weeks before I need those! :)

July Cards for Challenge

Two scrap pages

Actually scrapped two days in a row. Just CASEs from the most recent Creating Keepsakes Mag, but at least I got something done!! Hoping to get at least one more done tonight!

From Taylor's 1st Birthday.

Around in the yard.

Cards for Monthly Card Challenge

These are actually for June, a little late, but the ladies in the group so kindly granted me an extension through the weekend due to being out of state and doing a room swap with all of my craft stuff!!


Stamps: Essence of Love, Michaels $1 stamp
Ink: Night of Navy, Regal Rose
CS: Night of Navy, Ivory
PP: Basic Grey
Accessories: Flower, Ribbon, Sponging, Sakura Stardust, Pearl Stickers
Stamps: SU Always , Papertrey Heartfelt Basics
Ink: Certainly CElery, Bashful Blue, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: SU Whisper White , Bashful Blue , Certainly Celery , Pretty in Pink
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Iridescent Ice EP, Rhinestone stickers


Stamps: Whipper Snapper Designs Sundae , SU So Very, Papertrey Mixed Messages
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Real Red, Green Galore, Pretty in Pink
PP: Basic Grey
Accessories: SU Ribbon, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug , Copics



Also a pic of my new craft room (Taylor's old room). It's not complete yet, but it's getting there. Just need to organize the drawers and the closet! Oh, and get some pictures/shelves up on the wall!


All for now!

January 5 - Birthday Cake Portrait

Another steal from the baby blog... expect more tomorrow!

January 4 - It's My Birthday!

Today was my daughter's 1st Birthday, so there were TONS of pics taken today. This was one of my favorites for those sparkly blues of hers. So I snagged it from my baby blog to share for today.

January 3 - Eww Spider!

And this was the SMALL guy I saw hanging out in our door jam.

January 2 - Ooh, Water!

Taylor loves water, Dada was rinsing her off at the end of a bath and he let her play in the running faucet for a few minutes so I came in to snap a shot. Of course she made her typical "ooooh" sound and face. Always amazed she is!

January 1 - Water Drops

Trying this again... I need to try it from an angle more level with the water to catch it a little bit better, but this works for now!

Project 365

I'm wiping the dust off this blog and getting started on one of my New Years Resolutions.... MORE photos!!!

The goal is to take a photo every day of the year. At first I considered doing photos of myself to document how I change over the course of a year, but then I decided that taking a photo of anything will document my life equally as well and help me gain experience in a variety of ways. So here it starts! I may not get an opportunity to upload every single day, but I will try my best to do it as often as possible, and label each day as I take it.

So follow me on this challenge, you know I always love your input!

-Jen

Been a while

So we've moved from the UK to the US, bought a house, and had a baby all since my last post! My stamp stuff finally made it to our new home, I placed my first order in months, and I actually made a card the other day! So here I am sharing! I've been blogging regularly at my baby blog (http://jensbabyblog.blogspot.com) and posting baby pictures there!

My favorite Digi LO yet!

I found a freebie kit called Autumn Leaves.. you can download it here if you are interested! So I started a LO, then had to find a picture to go with the colors. I went through some of our photos from Scotland that I haven't scrapped yet and found one with similar colors. I really like the way this turned out and the kit is too cute!

Digi Scrapping While I Wait

Still waiting ever so impatiently for orders so I've been practicing my Digi Layouts. They aren't great and I don't find them quite as fun as paper SBing, but I'm enjoying trying anyway! These are the three I've done in the past couple of weeks. It's one way to use some of the pictures I have hanging around, and best of all.. it doesn't cost anything!

Lots O' Cards..and a cat.

Ok, I didn't take photos of EVERY card that I made, I made a lot of duplicates, so I grouped some together. I did succeed in using ALL of last years Holiday Designer Series Paper (Holiday Thyme). I told myself I would not buy anymore until I used up what I had, and I did it! Of course now my Christmas cards are done so I wont need any until next year! We'll see what cool stuff they come out with then!

This first card is going to be our We've moved card! Once we have a new address, I'll mail them out to our family so they can know where we're at!

Stamps: Boatloads of Love, Loads of Love Accessories, Flannel Plaid BG
Paper: Bayou Blue, Soft Sky, Sage Shadow, Whisper White
Ink: Same, plus Ruby Red, River Rock, Really Rust and Creamy Caramel, Black Stazon
Accessories: Brads, Eyelets, Soft Sky Double Stitched Ribbon, Oval Punch, Designer Tag Punch, Eyelets

A lot of babies being born in my pregnancy group this month! This is one of the congrats on the baby girl cards I made! For the mane of the giraffe I cut the edge off one side of pink grosgrain ribbon and frayed it, then adhered it to the card.

Stamps: Bundle of Joy, Hugs and Wishes,
Paper: Basic Grey PP, Barely Banana, Pretty In Pink, Watercolor Paper, Very Vanilla
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Barely Banana, Black Stazon, Versamark
Accessories: Pink Gingham, MM Brads, Signo White Gel Pen



The following 4 photos are of Christmas cards, many of the ideas or layouts were cased or inspired from SCS. I made a lot of duplicates, and a few more that I didn't photograph but ended up with almost 50 Christmas Cards just in the last week! I'll send them with our express shipment so we'll have them in time to send for Christmas (I hope!)
These are made from recycled tags that were on Christmas Gifts last year. They were too cute to throw away so I knew I had to reuse them!
And something funny (obviously before I packed up my stamp room). I noticed the cat hadn't been running around like usual and wasn't crying for her breakfast one morning and thought I better go check on her. Since she shares my stamp room as her place where the dog isn't allowed, I do worry that she might get in trouble since she's known for eating plastic, ribbon and anything else that isn't tied down.

So I popped upstairs, and open the door to find this:



Now, I've always known to cut your plastic soda can rings before throwing them away because you never know what animal might get stuck in it, but it never occurred to me to make sure I didn't leave any complete circles cut in paper lying around! I'm not exactly sure HOW she managed this, but she did, and luckily I was able to get it off without any issues (though she's now on a strict diet!) So be warned!! Leave no whole holes lying around your house, your pet might get trapped!

Also, for those of you who have never had the opportunity to meet Eibach (the cat), and are wondering about her strange appearance (aside from the piece of paper around her middle). That is indeed the full length of her legs. She's a breed called a Munchkin. They carry a gene similar to that of a dachshund, only in cats, so her body is standard size, but her legs are extremely short. That's as tall as she gets!

That's my update for now! It will be a while before I post more cards as my stamp room is just about fully packed. All the essentials are in boxes ready for shipment. I maybe working on more digital layouts in the meantime though, so keep an eye out for those!

Quick update..

Just wanted to pop in and post a quick update since I haven't posted much lately! We're preparing to move back to the US sometime this month so it's been busy around here! Since my stamp stuff will take 2-3 months to arrive at our next base I've been trying to make the next 3 months worth of Birthday, Christmas and We've moved cards! I've successfully made them, but BOY was that a lot of stamping!

After that I started packing my stamp room and it's almost complete. I've never realized exactly how much stuff I have! I have inventoried each box to put in an excel document, printed one out to tape on the outside of the box, and photographed EVERYTHING going into each box just to make sure it all makes it to the other side of the pond. So once I finish, I'll unload the photos off my camera and post the ones of my cards I have made!

It already seems kind of boring around our house since most of my stamp room is packed, when evening comes my normal routine of listening to music or an audio book while I stamp has been disrupted. Hopefully we will see orders this week so we can get things moving quickly and get back home.. once the ball starts rolling, it will roll fast and I can't wait! In the meantime... back to organizing and cleaning!

I'll post more later!

P.S. In case some of you that regularly follow my blog are unaware, I am 26 weeks pregnant with a baby girl! I do have a second blog following my pregnancy that I try and update at least once a week, it can be found here! If it gets really quiet on this one, you can always pop in and see if there's something going on on that side. :)

First Digital Scrapbook Page!

I attempted my first Digital SB page today, I wont even tell you how long it took. I used BG "paper" from a free digikit called Phat Splat, and elements from another kit called Twinkle Toes along with some Photoshop brushes and fonts. I had a lot of fun, but I sure hope it gets quicker to do these! I might try and do more and more of them and see about making a whole 8.5 x 11 album to print up (someday). So here's my first go at it!

Paparazzi Day 2

Well, today was less than exciting. I didn't get any faces today either! I did catch a glimpse of Scarlett Johansson, and Natalie Portman again, but even the extras only came out twice! It was still fun, and I got another lesson from Jason the photographer about what metering mode to use for this kind of stuff, and a bit of a fill flash lesson (not for this stuff). Too cool!

Here's Natalie Portman, out of costume and headed back to her trailer.

Scarlett Johansson. She passed by one more time while I was there, but she was too quick and I missed it, doh!!
Here's some extras, but I liked the photo anyway... The dress is beautiful, and check out the guys shoes!!

I took some more, I'll post them when I get around to processing them.

Jen Goes Paparazzi!

So they are filming at Ely Cathedral for a movie called The Other Boleyn Girl. It stars Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, and Kristen Scott Thomas. They are here for 3 days doing some last minute scenes for the film, so after work Jennifer (my neighbor) and I went over to the Cathedral to see if we could catch a glimpse of some stars!

While I was there, there was a couple of freelance photographers (read: paparazzi) that were hanging out trying to do the same. I was admiring their camera equipment and started chatting with them. One of them was very nice and even gave me a bit of a lesson in this kind of photography! We also were chatting with security who told us tomorrow will be the best day to be there, yeah! I plan on going back at least tomorrow to check it out and see if I can't get some good shots. Scarlett Johansson wasn't actually there today, but I hear she will be tomorrow!

So, I here's some of the shots I DID get. I took about 50, but most of them were of extras and nothing very exciting.

Natalie Portman hiding behind an umbrella (or brolly as they are called here).

Kristen Scott Thomas leaving the area.

I call these the 3 amigos, wrong country, wrong era, I know. But they looked cool in costume anyway.
More extras.
The Scene from where I was standing.
This is Jason, the photographer that was giving me some pointers. Look at that lens!! : )

Upcoming Workshop

Well, I have one last workshop scheduled for the rest of my time in the UK (1 month? 2?) It's a 3 project workshop and I'm doing a Halloween Treat Box, a Christmas/Winter card, and a 6x6 SB page!

Here's the page and the supplies. The Vanilla square is where the photo will go.

Stamps: Bronc Buster, Define Your Life
Paper: Sage Shadow, Really Rust, Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla, Outlaw DSP
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Sponges

This card was inspired by the wrapping paper in the Holiday Mini, as a well as a card found on JanTink's Blog.

Stamps: The Snowflake Spot
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Whisper White
Ink: Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, Versamark
Accessories: Satin Ribbon, Versamark, Iridescent Ice EP, Ticket Corner Punch

Here's the Halloween Fry Box. It's got a cello bag filled with Reese's Pieces, my favorite Halloween colored candy! I also used some basic black scraps and cut them to 1/4" strips, and ran them through my crimper to make box stuffing!

Stamps: Autumn Apparaitions
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Black Stazon
Accessories: Crimper, Cello Bag