Team Jacob

Jacob, you're asking? What happened to our number one Team Edward fan?

Oh, she's still here!

I made this layout as a gift for my daughter to give one of her friends at school! Her friend is Team Jacob now after converting over since the New Moon movie came out! Traitor, I say!

Another easy layout using black card stock, stitching and swirls done by hand. I made this into a wall hanging by adding eyelets and ribbon to the top.

My daughter's friend really loved her gift, and though I am, and always will be, a true Edward fan,...doing this layout was very easy on my eyes!

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Some Like It Hot

LOk,...what can I say?! Rob Thomas from the band Matchbox 20 is just hot! My daughter Brittany and I were watching some of their videos and decided to capture a few of Rob's shining moments for prosperity! Then, after staring at these pictures, the phrase Some like it hot kept popping into my head! And this layout was born!

This was an easy layout using only black card stock with black and white photos.
The flames were cut on my Cricut with the Sure Cuts A Lot system. By using SCAL with your Cricut, you can cut almost anything! SCAL uses SVG files to create beautiful designs in minutes using the Cricut.

If you haven't checked out the Sure Cuts A Lot software, you really should! I couldn't live without it1

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Two new layouts

This first layout was a very interesting one for me to do. A lot of great things happened all at once,...I was a featured artist on Scrapbook.com and my blog hit number one in page views for the very first time. Another scrapper quickly corrected me though and pointed out that I had featured once before , nearly a year ago, however I missed that one! So, I will hold this time dear to my heart since I actually saw this one!

The basis of the layout talks about pride and the difficulties I have in being proud of myself. I have had many accomplishments in my life, but have always had a hard time being proud of them. I'm glad to say...I'm getting better about that!
This layout's title is a spin off from the Wrangler Jeans commercial for Real. Comfortable. Jeans.

I thought about scrapping and how I scrap real life things. It all just seemed to fit!

I've been getting a lot of questions as to what the frame around the picture is made of. The answer might surprise you! It is a piece of white card stock punched on the edges with the threading waters punch from Fiskars! If you look really close at the edges, you can see it. I just used a gold pen to draw a curved line to form a coil look. I colored the inside black to finish the "frame".

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Babys Got Blue Eyes

I just love this picture I took of Brittany at my sister's farm. Their old barn is a perfect back drop for photos in a very rustic setting. On this particular day, there just happened to be a large round bale of hay, broke open a bit, with this one piece sticking out..just begging to be chewed on!

Printed paper is by Melissa Frances.
All other embellishments are done by me.

I did some quilling on this and I think, for not doing it in some time, that it turned out better than expected.
The hinges were cut on my Cricut Cutting Machine with a little help from Sure Cuts A lot and Inkscape. I couldn't live without them!

The roses are paper and are demonstrated in an earlier post shown here : http://bootscraps.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-flowers-one-technique.html

I used the Picnik program to enhance the eye color a bit. She has some very blue eyes to begin with, but I wanted to saturate the color so they would really stand out!

If you are ever interested in checking out the Picnik editing program, here is the link:

http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome


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Has Anyone Told You?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5PLdIns4aw

Please take a moment to watch this inspiring video! Copy and paste it and add it any form of media you use to connect with people.

We could all use a little validation now and then!

Thanks,
Carol

Mood Swings

This rather odd looking layout came from a moment of total chaos! The holidays, and sometimes life in general, can take you from smiling ear to ear to pulling out your hair in a matter of seconds!

I used four different photographs and spliced them together to make my face. Each quadrant depicts a different emotion.

I did a lot of crazy stitching on this one to emphasize stress levels!

The bottom sheet is a foil piece from Sandylion.
The letters are from Heidi Grace.

I did a lot of little detail work on this one with pens in white and pink.

I hope you can keep it together this holiday season and every season!

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