I'm "Taken with Teal"!

I'm using up the last bits & pieces of the SCS Stampin' Flybabies Spring 2009 Craft Kit. I have thoroughly enjoyed the Making Memories Flower Patch Collection.

I decided to dive into some "old" pictures (film / developed; not digital) for this next layout.


That's my brother & me. Easter 1981. Mom is quite a seamstress. She made that dress; it was one of my favorites. Boy, my brother is shorty shorty in this picture! Haha...today, he's half a head taller than me. WOW! This was created using Sketch #1 from 52sketches52weeks.

Me & My Dad was created using Sketch #24 from 52sketches52weeks and with some remaining Making Memories Flower Patch collection pieces from the Spring 2009 SCS Stampin' Flybabies Craft Kit. This is the first time I used my SU! Circle Scissors! I LOVE THAT THING! It cuts like a knife in warm butter.

This page uses elements of the Art Deco style. The top half and the bottom half are symmetrical. Kind-a-sorta mirror image...but it's there!

Love those flowers? I created those using SU! Scallop Circle Punch and paper snips! The centers are 1 1/4" circles attached with SU! Stampin Dimensionals. I love that ribbon; had it for quite a while and am thrilled to be using it up. There's quite a bit of ribbon on a $1 roll from Michaels!

DH took those pictures of dad & me. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DAD! I LOVE YOU! We're gonna meet Dad at Grandma's and take him out to eat for Father's Day!

I might just frame this page.

Both pages feature SU! Taken with Teal textured CS and the daisy ribbon from the Michael's $1 bin. Also featured is my "go to" stamp set for titling - SU! Tidy Alphabet (retired).

Easter 1981
Stamps: Tidy Alphabet
Paper: Taken with Teal, PTI White, Making Memories Flower Patch
Ink: Taken with Teal
Accessories: Corner Rounder, SU! Spiral Punch, Making Memories Distresser, Big Shot, Top Notes Die, sticky strip, SU! Stampin Dimensionals, Michaels $1 ribbon

Me & My Dad

Stamps: Tidy Alphabet
Paper: Taken with Teal, PTI White, Making Memories Flower Patch
Ink: Taken with Teal
Accessories: SU! Circle Scissors, SU! Scallop Circle Punch, Cutter Bee paper snips, 1 1/4" circle punch, SU! Stampin' Dimensionals, Michael's $1 bin ribbon
Techniques: Punch

Pay Attention to ME, Mom!

I was trying to photograph my layouts on the Historic State Theatre. T-2 had other ideas!

I'm still mixing patterned papers...this one is botanicals and flourishes. This sketch is from 52sketches52weeks. The doodling is my own...with a gel pen. Scary stuff! But it's kind of fun!

Patch Sewing Boy Scout

One busy evening...

When you work a public job, when are your evenings NOT busy? Fixing supper, doing chores, getting ready for tomorrow...

One busy evening, DS wanted to SEW! (sigh) It was 7 PM and he wanted to sew his patches on a towel. I had other ideas for his patches...but I wasn't ready to do that just right now. (sigh) Then I thought...what could it hurt. I mean...he can sew...he wants to sew...they are his patches. I did lay them out and show him where to put them so that they all fit on nicely. But he did all the sewing. And he did an excellent job. He can wind bobbins and thread needles. He don't quite have the hang of threading the machine, but he's getting there.

I'm glad I took the time...cuz every night is a busy night. Not too many of them that you get to see your DS sewing!

All supplies are Stampin' Up!, except those Prima Flowers. The Good Morning Sunshine DP and the corduroy buttons arrived Friday! Love those buttons. That solid CS is Summer Sun; Summer Sun is supposed to be the color in the DP. That CS is an off color Summer Sun...actually, I think the DP is too light of a "Summer Sun", as the CS matches the Summer Sun in the 12 x 12 sheet of DP and not the strip on the right.

Stamped journaling lines with SU! retired Journaling Fun using SU! Chocolate Chip craft ink. Sketch is #20 from 52Sketches52Weeks. Rub-ons are Love and Happiness rub-ons in Chocolate Chip.

I love this color combo...yellow and brown...it's so "retro".

SUPPLIES:
Paper - SU! Good Morning Sunshine, SU! Summer Sun
Stamps - SU! retired Journaling Fun
Ink - SU! Chocolate Chip craft
Accessories - SU! Corduroy Buttons in Chocolate Chip; Prima Flowers, SU! Love & Happiness Rub-Ons in Chocolate Chip, Basic Grey Rub-On Tool, Corner Rounder, Sticky Strip, SU! Word Window Punch

Phillip the JD 6600 Combine

OK...it should say Phillip ON the JD 6600 Combine. I messed up on my journaling. I'm not changing it. Guess it will just be something to chuckle about. There's also the camera date stamp on my page. Oh well. LOL

This is one of my favorite photos and I'm really liking this page.

I used Sketch #21 from 52sketches52weeks. I'm also taking Jennipher's challenge - IFC30 - to mix patterned paper from different vendors. This page mixes plaid & floral. The plaid paper is from SU! Prestwick and the floral is from K & Company's Girl Scout line. No, I wasn't a Girl Scout. I just liked the paper!

I love the gel pen and button frame. Buttons are SU!; included in the bunch are buttons from Button Latte and the Chocolate Chip Corduroy buttons. Buttons are attached with glue dots. Here's a close up of the buttons.


SUPPLIES:
Paper - SU! Textured Night of Navy, SU! Prestwick, K & Company Girl Scout line, PTI white
Accessories - SU! Button Latte, SU! Chocolate Chip Corduroy Buttons, miscellaneous SU! buttons, glue dots, ruler, white gel pen, sticky strip, Comic Sans MS font

Inside the Historic State Theatre

As I mentioned yesterday, the State Theatre had undergone years of renovation and it was finally completed. The grand re-opening was Mother's Day 2009. Here's a peek inside.

When they were working in the theatre, they uncovered murals. Flanking the stage are two murals featuring a Greek goddess holding the mask of tragedy and on the other side, the mask of comedy. On each side wall of the auditorium is what looks like a giant movie reel, decorated with flourishes. The ceiling is striped in various shades of green and burgundy. The motifs from the walls are repeated in relief at intervals in two rows down the ceiling

The layout is inspired by a Sally Sketch - SBSC 191. Cardstock colors are SU! Baha Breeze, Night of Navy and Really Rust. I punched the Night of Navy with the SU! Spiral Punch. My intention was to mimic a strip of film.

My favorite part of this layout are the flourishes at the top! I traced the negative left from some Tim Holtz grungeboard flourishes with an SU! Night of Navy Stampin' Write Marker and filled it in. I accented certain areas of the flourish with a white gel pen. The flourishes mimic the flourishes on the wals inside the auditorium.

Titling is SU! Night of Navy craft ink stamped on PTI White. Lettering is attached with pop dots.

Here are yesterday's and today's pages together.

There's so much more to tell about the State. I have one more picture and there's a couple more pictures I want to take and include in additional pages on the State Theatre. It was a wonderful part of my life as I grew up and the history of the theatre is rich. I love history.

SUPPLIES:
Sketches - Movies at the State (left) 52sketches52weeks Sketch #6; Inside the Historic State Theatre (right) Sally Sketch SBSC191
Paper - Making Memories, SU! Urban Garden, SU! Not Quite Navy, SU! Baja Breeze, SU! Really Rust, PTI White
Stamps - Tidy Alphaget
Ink - Night of Navy craft
Accessories - Swarvoski Crystals, glue dots, K & Company rub-ons, Basic Grey rub-on tool, sticky strip, SU! Stampin' Dimensionals, SU! Scallop Border Punch, corner rounder, SU! Sprial Punch, pop dots

Arriving at the theatre...in style

The Historic State Theatre in Elizabethtown KY is an ART DECO style theatre that recently completed several years of renovation and re-opened on Mother's Day 2009 weekend with a showing of E.T. The last film shown at the State before its closing in the early 1980's was E.T. We - that is me, DH, DS, Mom and Joe - attended the grand re-opening. Tickets were $10, with "free popcorn & soda".

Boy! Did Mom & Joe arrive at the theatre...not only fashionably late at 5:45...ok...they weren't late (show as at 6 PM), but IN STYLE BABY! Joe has this VW he's been working on. It's YO YO YELLOW! Mom said they got lotsa looks driving through downtown Elizabethtown. I bet. I thought it was so cool!

I used Jennipher's inspiration challenge - IFC39 - in selecting my papers for this page. The challenge was mixing patterned papers from different vendors. She provided several combinations. This particular page features the paisleys and checks combo. The check paper is from SU! Urban Garden and the paisley paper from Making Memories.

I followed Sketch #6 from 52sketches52weeks. All supplies from my stash! I don't have to go shopping for supplies, just basics. (sigh) The stitching is a rub-on from K & Company; received in a Wish RAK exchange. Matted one ticket and attached with pop dots; other ticket is attached with sticky strip. Journaling was done in a Word document using Comic Sans MS font and printed on Baha Breeze.

The only candy they had at the refreshment stand was Reeses Pieces. Anyone know why?

It was a trip down the memory lane for me, DH, Mom & probably Joe. DS loved the theatre. He just wished the screen and the seats were bigger. Ummm...son, that's the way it was "back then". He had a blast; he had always wanted to see E.T. It was really cool to see Drew Barrymore as a child; it's hard to believe she & I are roughly the same age! I really did feel old that day, in the good way.

Now, please leave a comment as to WHY Reeses Pieces was the ONLY candy they had at the refreshment stand! Not my favorite candy...but it was OK.

SUPPLIES:
Paper - Making Memories, SU! Urban Garden, SU! Not Quite Navy, SU! Baja Breeze
Accessories - Swarvoski Crystals, glue dots, K & Company rub-ons, Basic Grey rub-on tool, sticky strip, SU! Stampin' Dimensionals, SU! Scallop Border Punch, corner rounder

Meet my kids...

...my furry kid and my smooth kid. I saw this sketch from 52 sketches...52 weeks...I already knew I wanted to do this Inspiration Challenge...Add a Little Spring to your Layout. It kind of all came together over the course of three days. I just needed to find some pics! Then I found these I had taken in June 2006. I love these pictuers.

Our challenge was to create a layout using the following supplies:

S- use shaped paper. I used the shaped paper from Making Memories Flower Patch that I found in the Stampin FlyBabies Spring 2009 Craft Kit.

P- use patterned paper strips. A perfect way to use up scrap paper strips.

I- ink up those edges. A little bit of thinking here. I decided rather than try to match...coordinate. So I inked the edges of the Blush Blossom panel with Taken with Teal Classic Ink.

N- add some nature to your page; butterflies, flowers, bugs, trees, etc. Butterflies and flowers.

G- glitz up your page with glitter or gems. The Making Memories Flower Patch paper I cut the circle from has glitter accents. I also added Making Memories Rhinestone brads to the primas.

Jennipher must have forgotten the R...

Here's a close up of the top of the page. I used the Tim Holtz Grungeboard flourishes again. They didn't look right naked...so I dressed them up by smooshing in Blush Blossom Craft Ink and dumping on clear EP.

It's lotsa fun trying to heat emboss grungeboard. YA...right. It was quite an adventure trying to figure out how to hold it with the tweezers so it gets heated. Grungeboard is quite floppy. After it cooled off, I popped that big flourish on pop dots.

Here's the middle portion of the layout. Here you can see the inking of the edges and a bit more of the pictures. I distressed the edges of the circle and the patterned paper strips with a distresser tool. You can also get a detailed look at the many patterns of the paper in this layout. They all coordinate nicely.

Here's the embellishments at the bottom of the page. That one...I ran through my Xyron.

How much I enjoy those lazy June & July summer days with my kids...the furry kid and the smooth kid. They are coming up soon!

Supplies:
Paper: Making Memories Flower Patch, SU! Blush Blossom, PTI White
Ink: SU! Blush Blossom Craft, SU! Taken with Teal Classic
Accessories: Tim Holtz Grungeboard, SU! Clear Embossing Powder, SU! Heat Gun, Tweezers, Powder Pals tray, Pop Dots, Primas, Making Memories Rhinestone Brads, glue dots, Making Memories distresser tool, sticky strip, Exacto knife, dinner plate, paper cutter, Xyron

Elementary School Graduation

In May of 2006, DS graduated from Elementary School. Here he is in his black suit and new tennis shoes. We made a special shopping trip to the mall to get him his first suit. The tie was one his principal gave him.

There were several sources of inspiration for this layout. The first was the National Scrapbooking Day Inspiration Extravaganza on SCS this past Friday & Saturday. Jennipher challenged us to scraplift from 1HapEMomE . I do not think I scraplifted anything, but I was inspired by all the distressing on her scrapbook pages.

This is new to me. I'd never thought I'd have so much fun tearing designer paper and wadding it up! That was fun! You ought to try it! Sketch was from 52 Sketches...52 Weeks ...check out Veronica Goh's page! I was shoved outside my comfort zone and am finding I like it here!

I added the Graduation Brentwood Owl from JessicaLynnOriginal. Here he is...peeking over the top of the distressed DP. He was colored with SU! Stampin Write Markers.

Here's a close up of the Flourishes. These are Tim Holtz's grungeboard pieces. I scattered some Primas and SU! Filligree Brads on the flourish.

Here's the right hand page of this two page spread. The big "sign" was actually the opening slide of the slide show they showed at the graduation. I printed that on HP inkjet printer paper.

Most all of the supplies were from my stash, which means I've had them a while. I did have to make a special trip to Michaels for the red primas. I didn't have ANY red primas! Other colors, but no red that was the shade I was looking for. The black paper on the left page is actually "pinstriped". The picture of DS is under a black frame. The "06" are stickers from Top Line Creations Outerwear Monograms Salt and Pepper. The big flourish is popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals; the other flourishes were run through Xyron. After crumpling my paper, I ran the brayer over it to smooth it out a bit. I only used one strip of sticky strip to attach to the distressed DP to the base.

This was definitely a stroll down the memory lane. DS graduates from Middle School on May 30. My baby is gonna be a High School Freshman next year! Wow.

SUPPLIES:
Paper: Michaels - Congrats was single sheet; other DP was from a Provo Craft stack; SU! Going GrayInk: SU! Basic Black Craft, HP inkjet printer paper
Stamps: JessicaLynnOriginal Graduation Brentwood Owl
Accessories: Tim Holtz grungeboard, Stampin Dimensionals, Xyron, Stampin' Write Markers, Primas, SU! Filligree Brads, Black Frame, sticky strip, tearing edge, brayer, TLC Outerwear Monograms Salt and Pepper