Bunco

Now that school has started, I finally finished my page layout with the Bunco mesh that I made with the cricut software.

I hated to cover up too much of the mesh so I opted to smush all the photos on the second page. It is pretty simple, but it does the job.

The colors were hard to choose.  I was going to use just brown, red, and white papers...but it looked too cowboy.  I ended up choosing a turquoise textured background paper.  As always I sanded the edges of the big pictures...it really just finishes the edges without extra paper to mat them.  The dice are hexagons I punched out and drew on the details.

I love this girl's style!

I just found this girl's blog (she is a design team member at Feeling Scrappy)  Here is her slideshow of scrapbook pages:

clicky

Inspiration can come from anywhere!

On our trip to Las Vegas, Kyle and I tried sushi for the first time.   Mark found out we had never tried it and insisted on treating us to the best sushi place in Las Vegas.  We started out very simple, and then moved on to the more complicated sushi.  This one was called New York girl in Las Vegas.
So why is this on my scrap blog, you may ask?  My sister, true to form, made the observation that those orange fish eggs were just the right size and color for microbeads!  (She's vegetarian so she had to find some way to enjoy the food we were eating in front of her...) 

April Fool!

Our friend has his birthday on April 1st and we made him a dinner fit for a fool.  Love ya, Gordon!

(By the way, with any of the photos on my blogs, if you click on the photo, it will let you see the pic larger.)

These pages use a monthly kit from the Scrap Room .  I cased the way they used the paper cutting the scalloped edge and framing the journaling with the squares.  The buttons on the scalloped edge really are a nice touch.  The pic in the lower left hand corner is on pop dots and helps emphasize that he is the fool in question.  I also used a CTMH paper distresser on the journaling box and inked with cat's eye chalk ink--one of my must have tools!

Eggs a la goldenrod

Last Easter, Kyle took these pictures at Mom's house of the process of making my favorite Easter breakfast.  As I say in the journaling, Easter and this recipe go hand in hand.  This food is best at Easter (because of the colors that seep through the egg shells) and my day isn't complete until I eat this food.

I used my Stamped cricut cartridge for the title.  The paper and arrow and blue swirl are My Minds Eye from another Scrap Room kit. The flowers are primas, a love of mine. I used a Glaze pen to get a slightly embossed look to my hand drawn arrows from the ingredient names to their photo. The egg carton picture is popped off the page for emphasis.  I do this a lot lately--times sure have changed from my days as a Creative Memories consulatant.  My style has done a 180!

Cricut fun

I finally got a chance to play with my new Cricut software Design Studio.  It lets me weld letters together and combine images from all of my different cartridges to make a new image.  I had a lot of fun playing and made this Bunco mesh.  Now I have to figure out how to use this in a scrapbook page...but it was a lot of fun making it!

These are the cartridges I used to make it:

I'm famous!

OK, not really, but I did get a free stamp set for an idea I submitted to Inque Boutique.  They filmed a webisode featuring my idea and my card.  Here's the link (it's the one called "Pink is Better"):

my video

(Unfortunately, I can't get the video to work on my mac, but I watched it on my PC.)  

And in case you are interested, here is link for the stamp set I chose:

petals