Laura Vegas

Chickaniddy October Guest Designer: Brothers And Best Buddies

October 8, 2014

I wanted to share the second layout I created as the October guest designer for Chickaniddy, using their new Scrumptious collection. When I was digging around for photos, I came across these ones I took way back when, of one of my first little daycare boy and his brother. I'm still close with their family, so it's fun to look back on these photos, knowing that little Sam is now a full eight years older than in these photos!

I love when themed collections have lots of basic patterns, like the polka dots, stars, and stripes, as they are super versatile to use. I cut a piece off of three of the patterned papers, distressed the edges, and machine stitched each piece.

For the forth patterned paper, which was more of a solid burnt orange, I die cut a piece using my Cameo, and spritzed it with white misting spray. I like how the die cut piece, mixed in with the other pieces of patterned paper, add a fun little touch. Once I had lined up my photos across the center of the page, I adhered the four patterned paper pieces, tucking them under the tops of the photos.

I trimmed one of the 3×4" journaling cards off one of the patterned papers, and added it along with the photos. My photos must have printed out a little shy of 3" wide, since when I lined them all up, I had a small gap. I solved that problem by adding a thin strip of the mustard paper to the side of the journaling card and machine stitching it in place.

I die cut my title using my Cameo, using the more solid pieces of paper. I really liked the denim patterned paper, but had used so much of it on my third layout (coming later this month). I didn't have a 12" long piece to trim for borders, so I just cut lots of smaller pieces and pieced them together to create my borders.

Check back later this month to see my third layout, using this same collection.
Scrapbook & Cards Today: World Card Making Day 2014

October 4, 2014

Hey everyone! If you haven't heard yet, today is World Card Making Day. I had a card go up over on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog early this morning, and wanted to share it here too. I picked out a sketch from the new Card Maps 4 issue, and created my card based off that. You can check out the sketch over on their blog.

Maybe it's because I've been working with Bella Blvd's Snapshots fabic collection all week, but my mind immediately went to our Snapshots paper collection for this card.

You should definately take some time to visit the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog today. There has been posts going up every hour, on the hour all day long. There are 17 posts in all, with amazing giveaways every single hour. You have until Friday, October 17th to leave comments and get in on a chance to win some fun goodies.
Bella Blvd: Ruffled Pillow Cover

October 3, 2014

Riley Blake Designs recently released a new fabric line by Bella Blvd, based off our Snapshots collection. We asked a few extra designers to play around with this new collection, and I volunteered to try my hand at a fabric project as well.

I should start out by letting you all know that I am NOT a sewer. I made one of these pillows a few months ago, and I’m pretty sure that was first time I had ever used my sewing machine for something other than paper. That being said, this ruffled pillow is something very do-able, as long as you know how to do a straight stitch on a sewing machine.

I had seen a lot of “envelope” pillow covers on Pinterest, and decided to try that method. It’s so easy to do, and I love that you can switch out the covers for a new look, instead of buying and storing new pillows all the time. To start, you need to know what size pillow you’ll be covering, whether you purchase a new pillow insert from the craft store or chose to cover a pre-existing pillow. I’m using a 16” pillow insert for this project.

You’ll start by measuring your pillow insert and adding 1 inch to the height and the width. My pillow is 16” square, so I cut a 17” x 17” piece. Cut that from your material, which will now be your front panel. I choose to use plain white fabric for the main part of the cover. The ruffled fabric will get sewn onto that white fabric.

Next, we want to cut the panels for the backside of the pillow. You’ll want to take the width of the front panel and divide it in half, and then add 3 inches to the total to get your needed width. The height remains the same as the front panel, but the width will be different. And you’ll cut two of these panels for the back. My front panel was 17” wide; divided by two gave me 8.5”, to which I added 3”, and my total width was 11.5”.

For each of the back panels, you will want to take the length that will be overlapping (should be the longer edge, which is the same height as the front panel), fold the edge over about ½” and sew the seam down. Once that’s done, you can put all three panels to the side.

Now it’s time to make our ruffles. I chose a handful of the new Snapshots fabrics from Riley Blake Designs to use on this pillow. You’ll want to be sure your strips are at least double the size of the pillow in length. So for my 16” pillow, I made sure my strips were at least 32” in length. Ruffling them will make them a lot smaller (I speak from experience!). There’s two different ways you can create your fabric strips.

I love to simply tear my fabric strips. It’s quick and easy to do, and I love the look of the frayed edges. I did do a little measuring, just to insure that my strips were about the same width. I placed my fabric on my cutting mat, and made small cuts into the fabric every inch and a half. You could always go wider or narrower (1 inch, 2 inches, etc), depending on what you like.

The small cuts give you a spot to start tearing. The first time I thought to try tearing fabric, I thought for sure it wouldn’t work. It’s so easy to do. I just held up the fabric, grab my 1 ½ inch piece where I made the cut, and pull down, tearing the fabric towards me. It’s crazy how straight it actually tears, if you just tear straight down. You’ll have lots of loose strings, so just pull those off your torn strip and toss them.

If you’re not into the torn strips, you can easily just cut straight edged strips of fabric. I highly recommend purchasing a rotary cutter and a large, clear ruler. I only recently got mine, and I’m not sure how I ever tried to cut fabric without them.

When it comes to ruffling the fabric strips, I’ve heard there’s an easier way than how I’ve been doing it (my mom informed me!). But here’s how a non-sewer, who is winging this fabric stuff, went about it. I simply ran each fabric strip thru my sewing machine, using a straight stitch, ruffling up the fabric as I fed it thru.

I went pretty slowly, so that my “ruffling” didn’t get too messy or crooked. And it’s definitely not the neatest ruffling job, as some sections are more bunched up and some aren’t. But it’s totally fine for me.

Next up, it’s time to pin the ruffled fabric strips to the front panel. I played around with the fabric strips, until I came up with a pattern that was pleasing to my eye. I arranged the strips fairly close to each other, even overlapping each other just a tad. If you end up with a gap, you’ll just need to make another strip to fill it in. I got lucky and had just enough, totally by guesswork.

I then pinned each strip in place, using about 5-6 pins per strip to make sure they stayed straight and evenly spaced.

Then it’s time to sew the strips. I did a straight stitch along each fabric strip, roughly going over the stitch that was already there to “ruffle” the fabric, and pulling out the pins as I went along. I didn’t worry about making my stitching super neat, and I didn’t even worry about changing thread colors. Although you could change thread colors, if you like your thread to match the fabric.

Now we need to pin the back panels to the front panel. You will want to have the right sides facing inward. Lay your front panel down, ruffled fabric strips facing up, and then lay one of the back panels on top, along one of the side edges, with the right side facing down.

Then lay the second back panel on top, along the opposite side edge, so that it’s overlapping the first back panel. Make sure your sewn edges are in the center of the pillow, and not on the outside edges.

Pin the entire cover, around the edges. Use enough pins to keep it all together, since there is some bulk from the ruffled fabric. Then sew around the entire pillow cover, about ¼” from the sides.

Next, you’ll need to turn it right side out.

And there you have it. A fun ruffled pillow cover.

All you have left to do is stuff your pillow insert inside the cover.

Here’s a look at the back of the “envelope” style pillow cover. I haven’t made many pillows in my lifetime, but I do seem to remember leaving one end open and having to hand stitch it closed once the pillow insert was inside. This is such an easier way to do things.

While a decent amount of time did go into this fabric project, it was really very simple to do. And making these envelope pillow covers, without the ruffles, would be a super fast project. And would look cute with any of these fabrics.

We've been featuring fabric projects, all using the new Snapshots fabric collection, all this week. So head over to the Bella Blvd blog to see a variety of fun projects from earlier this week.
Chickaniddy October Guest Designer: Scrumptious Fall Baby

October 2, 2014

I finally have something to share with you all. Yay! I was excited to get an email from Heidi Sonboul a few months ago, inviting me to be the October guest designer for Chickaniddy. I've met Heidi a few times over the years at past CHA's, and it's been fun to see her start up her own company over the last year or so. She sent me her new Scrumptious collection to work with, which is a fun fall collection.

I'm sure I've said it before, but I'm a sucker for fall colors and fall products. Which is strange, since I very rarely have fall photos, as we don't have a typical "fall" season where we live. After digging around in my photos, I came across these photos I took way back when, of one of my little daycare babies. It's fun to look back on these photos, knowing that little Adyson is now a full eight years older than in these photos!

I started out by printing out my photos in a photo collage, allowing me to easily fit six photos on the page in a clean and organized way. I usually tend to figure out my title towards the end of my pages. Since I knew I wanted to include the "Scrumptious" sticker in my title, I decided to work on my title first.

I die cut "Fall", using my Cameo, from the burnt orange patterned paper and spritzed it with some white misting spray. One of the patterned papers had four 6×6" blocks of solid colors to match the collection. These were perfect to use for die cutting, and I used the brown block to die cut the outline for the word "Fall" and "baby". Once again, my favorite chunky block and cursive word combo for a title.

I went with pink, green, and brown patterned papers to tie in with my photos. And then threw in the burnt orange and yellow to make it more fallish. I die cut a thin little circle border from the green star patterned paper, to add a bit of interest next to the photo collage.

I love all the little frames in the die cut package that coordinates with the collection, and combined two of them to hold my journaling. I thought about printing my journaling out in a little block to go behind the frames, but decided to do my normal journaling strips so that some of the pink misting would still show on the background of my page.

You can check me out over on the Chickaniddy blog, where I'm being featured today. I have two layouts up there today, but I'll also be sharing the second one here next week. And then I'll be visiting their blog again later this month, to join in on their sketch feature.
Kerri Bradford Studio: Brown Paper Packages

September 16, 2014

This week, over at Kerri Bradford Studio, we are focusing on "brown paper packages tied up with string", in honor of a very special birthday girl. That's right, TODAY is Kerri's birthday!! How fun that I get to share my projects on her actual birthday 🙂

When I was brainstorming what I would make for this week, I kept coming back to kraft gift bags. I always have a stash of kraft gift bags on hand, for easy and quick gift giving. It doesn't matter if I'm giving a birthday gift, a baby gift, a Mother's Day or Father's Day gift, or even a Christmas gift. A kraft gift bag is neutral enough to use for any occasion.

I always have intentions of decorating the bag, but 10 times out of 10 (not even kidding), I end up handing over a plain kraft bag. When Kerri brought up the idea of "brown paper packaging", I knew it was the perfect push to decorate a few of these kraft gift bags.

I played around with quite a few of Kerri's designs, and even die cut quite a few of her designs, before finally settling on these feathers from the Feathers kit. I have a large supply of feathers from Bella Blvd, and I knew I could work them in right along her cut files.

I cut a few feathers from white cardstock, and then ran them thru a chevron embossing folder to add some texture. The chevron embossing folder probably wouldn't have been my first choice, but it was the only large embossing folder I had, and these feathers were big.

I adhered the die cut feathers to the front of the bag, right along with a few Bella Blvd feathers. From day one, I have always said that the easiest and best way to adhere the real feathers is with a stapler. So I just inserted one of my foam pads into the bag (while it was still folded and flat), placed the feathers where I wanted them, and stapled them down with the stapler open. I then flipped it over, reached inside and pushed down the ends of the staples.

To add my sentiment across the feathers, I cut a few banners, from the Banners kit, out of kraft cardstock. I adhered these the same way I adhered the feathers, but using brads instead of staples. I pulled the "happy birthday" from the Happy Birthday kit, and cut it from black cardstock and blue cardstock to layer together.

I also thought the daisy, from the This & That: Spring [Shapes Only] kit, would be fun to use. I had a few smaller gift bags that I wanted to decorate as well, one of them being a polka dotted bag, which is kind of fun.

For the die cut daisies, I cut 3 of the flowers, in varying sizes, from white cardstock. I layered them together, adding adhesive only to the center of the flowers, so that the petals could curl up a bit, and added a threaded button the center.

I also added some quick pen lines around the edges of the daisies, just to break up all of the white and bring in a little more touch of black. I picked the "celebrate" from the Something To Say kit.

I wasn't actually planning on adding a real feather to these smaller bags, as my plan was to place the daisy in the center of the bag. But since the feathers were out already, I decided to add one to each bag, tucked behind the layered flower.

Kerri is also doing some giveaways on her blog this week, so you should be checking in every day this week. I contributed some Bella Blvd goodies for today's giveaway. If you head over to Kerri's blog and leave a comment, you'll be entered for a chance to win. US residents only. You can get in on all of the giveaway thru Saturday, and all winners will be announced on Monday.
Bella Blvd: Step-by-Step Monthly Project Sheet – Tiny Tots

September 11, 2014

Earlier this week, our step-by-step monthly project sheet for September went up on the Bella Blvd blog. I was asked to use the new Tiny Tots collection to create a back-to-school layout. Tiny Tots is geared towards toddlers, but so many of it's pieces work perfectly for school themed layouts as well.

I have quite a few years of "first day of school" photos that I have never gotten around to scrapbooking. I dug one up that I thought would work well with the collection, and it happened to be Alyssa's fourth grade school year. If I'm being honest, I took this photo of her and her teacher on the LAST day of school, and not the first day. But it still documents the year just fine.

I was also asked to focus on the new Amorie chipboard alphas. The Amorie alphas have such a fun font, and come in six different colors. I used four of the colors to create my title (I did not use the brown or the white).

I picked my patterned papers based off the colors in my photo. And honestly, the pink diamond patterned paper is a great shade of pink. I couldn't get it to photograph well for the life of me. Lol. There are quite a few tone-on-tone tiny alpha patterned papers in the Tiny Tots collection, but I chose the white with colored alphas to pull in lots of different colors.

I layered a few of the Paper Pieces die cuts in the upper right corner. The large heart is always a favorite, and one of the first die cuts I use out of my Paper Pieces packages. I sprinkled a few more stickers and chipboard pieces to finish embellishing the page.

To download the September step-by-step project sheet, complete with supply list and detailed instructions, CLICK HERE.
Kerri Bradford Studio: Family Love

September 5, 2014

I have a new layout up over at Kerri Bradford Studio today. It's not often these days that I have new photos to scrap with. But every few months, I take photos for this adorable little family. This is my cousin Brad, and his wife Issa, and their kiddos, Zachary and Madison. I'm behind on editing photos for them, from the last two times we've gotten together, but I just had to edit a few of them to use on a new layout.

I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm going to mention it again. I remember talking to a scrapper friend (who does not own a die cut machine) a few years ago, and she commented on how if she had a die cut machine, she could probably get by with only cardstock, patterned paper, and die cuts. I thought she was crazy. But I'm finding that as Kerri's store grows and grows, with new kits popping up almost weekly, it's becoming even easier to create layouts using only my Cameo and paper, and just a small sprinkling of basic embellishments to finish off the pages!

One of the things that I love to do when I sit down to create using Kerri's cut files (or even from the Silhouette store), is to pull my photos directly into my Silhouette software to help with the planning of my layouts. Did you know you can pull your photos into your software? You just click on "open", and then make sure to select "all files", so that it will show your photos, instead of only wanting to show you Silhouette files.

I simply open up each photo and size it to the exact same size that I've printed that photo. This allows me to move the photos around on my cutting mat (within the software), and figure out where I want my photos to be on the page. I start playing around with different shapes, backgrounds, words, and phrases, until I come up with exactly what I want. I always save what I'm doing as I'm working, since I usually don't do my planning and cutting at the same time, or even on the same day or week. And if there's any shapes that I think I might want to use, but I'm not positive, I just move them to the side of the cutting area. This way, I can swap pieces out if needed, and those shapes are all still there when I pull up my saved file to work on it again.

Another advantage of planning out the page design this way, is that you can size all of your cut files according to how they fit on the page with the photos, so you have a much better chance of cutting them the right size, instead of guessing how small/big they need to be. It's always a good thing when I don't have to cut things several times, because my "guessing" was off.

Once I have the design set up the way I want it, I separate the shapes and start the cutting process. After everything is cut, I use my planning "layout" as a guide to simply place everything where it belongs on the page.

For this layout, I had a pretty good idea where I wanted my photos to fall on the page. I wanted to create a grid-like design for the page, so the first few shapes I picked where these smaller background pieces from the Life Centrals: Circles kit and the Life Additions: Backgrounds kit. I sized them both to 3×4" and cut them from pink tone-on-tone patterned papers.

I cut the word "perfect", from the Something To Say kit, from green cardstock, to add a bit of green to the page to compliment the green in my photos. And the fun little "date" cut is from the Say What 3 kit, which I cut from the brown tone-on-tone patterned paper that I used for my title. I cut both of those from white cardstock as well, and layered them together.

I knew I wanted to use one of Kerri's handbrushed script words for my title, so I chose "family" from the All In The Family kit. I added the "love" from the February Fourteen kit to complete my title. I cut both words from patterned paper and white cardstock, and layered them together.

While I love to dig through my patterned paper collection and mix and match from different manufacturers, sometimes I don't want to put that much thought into things. I made my choices very simple for this layout, as all of my patterned papers came from Pebbles. With the pinks, blues, and greens in the photos, my mind immediately went to Pebbles. I also am a huge fan of their tone-on-tone patterns and knew they'd be perfect for this layout.

A lot of the patterned papers are on the older side, but they're still favorites of mine. The tan text pattern is a newer one, and I always love a good text paper for backgrounds. I pulled the cute little clouds from Kerri's newer Happy Camper kit. They were perfect for adding in a little blue to the page, to go with the boy's shirts.

Like I mentioned earlier, with all the fun die-cutting pieces, I find that I don't need a ton of embellishments on my page. I did add a few basic ones here, and they're all from Pebbles as well. A few buttons, a few enamel dots, and a chipboard flower.

I didn't end up with very much green on the page, even though I had lots of green in the photos. So I cut two hearts, from the XOXO kit, and and ran them both thru a dotted embossing folder. I layered them together and machine stitched down the center, so the sides of the top heart have some lift to them.

I find that if I take a bit of time to plan out my pages like this ahead of time, everything comes together so much quicker once I sit down to actually work on it. I start with all of the cutting, and then piece it all together just like I had planned out, and then finish it with the journaling, machine stitching, and embellishing. Always a good thing when pages can magic themselves together so easily.
Scrappy Blog Tour

September 1, 2014

Hey everyone! I was very honored last week when the extremely talented Kim Jeffress tagged me to be part of a scrappy blog tour that's been going around. I've been a long time fan of Kim's work, and was lucky enough to have her on our Bella Blvd design team last year. She's as sweet as can be and she works wonders on any and all projects she designs!

As part of the scrappy blog tour, I will do a little Q&A and then tag three scrappers who inspire me. I just wish I could list more than three, as there are definately tons of scrappers that I follow for inspiration.



What am I working on right now?

I haven't been doing a ton of scrapping lately. I had a little break in assignments the last few weeks, but am getting ready to start back up with some new assignments. These photos give you a little peek at what's on my desk right now. A peek of the planning stage of this layout, and a peek at all the cuts I made with my Cameo yesterday. And soon, this will all magic itself into a layout for Kerri Bradford Studio. I am also about to start a layout for Scrapbook & Cards Today, and will be working on the October project sheet layout for Bella Blvd as well.



I've also been working with lots of fabric lately. I even ran some fabric thru my sewing machine, which is something I've never done before. Lol. I'm not a sewer at all. But Riley Blake Designs recently released a new fabric collection, Snapshots, for Bella Blvd (left photo), and I'm going to be doing something fun with it to share at the end of the month. The fabric on the right is for a little something I've been putting together, with Alyssa's dorm room in mind. If it doesn't work out there, I'll be using in her bedroom here at home.

How long does it take me to create a project?

That's a tough one to answer. It varies, project to project. Sometimes, I can sit down and create a layout, start to finish, in an hour or so. That's usually when I've planned out what I want to do (just like the layout above that I'm working on), and have products all pulled out and ready. Sometimes, I push paper and photos around for hours, or even days, at a time. I will keep walking away and coming back, over and over, until finally something clicks and I get it done. And then there are the times when I know what I want to do, and have products pulled out and ready. But I just keep getting pulled away from the project, or there's too many distractions that keep me from doing what I want to do.

What are my favorite things to create with at the moment?
Definitely my Silhouette Cameo. I never thought I would grow to love it as much as I do. But I think I could honestly be happy creating with my Cameo, cardstock and patterned paper, and a small assortment of basic embellishments. As much as I love the wide variety of embellishments out on the market these days, I don't find myself "needing" them to scrap. Don't get me wrong. I love to use all those things too. But give me some buttons, brads, flowers, enamal dots, etc, and I'll be perfectly content.

How does my writing/creating process work?

I usually start my layouts with either the photos or the product. I might have some new photos that I can't wait to scrap with, or I come across some older photos that I really want to use. Or I might get a hold of some new product that I want to dig into, or pull out some older products that I really loved, but never had a chance to use. I usually start with any die-cutting I want to add, especially my titles. I assembled the base of the page: cardstock, patterned paper, and photos. As soon as the base of the page is done, I'll add my machine stitching. Then I'll add in my title and any embellishments. And my journaling is always the very last thing I do.







What is my signature style?

I've never really thought about what my "signature style" would be. But I think there are definitely re-occuring things you'll see on my layouts, over and over. Lots of photos. Quite often arranged in photo collages put together in Photoshop. Lots of colorful patterned paper. White cardstock backgrounds. Die cutting, especially backgrounds and titles. Buttons and brads. Small amounts of misting. And I'm not scared of two page layouts, and do them quite often.

And now, I'd like to tag a few of my Bella Blvd designers: Jennifer Chapin, Katie Rose, and Kay Rogers. Each of these designers is super talented and I just love when I find projects from them in my inbox. And more often than not, you'll hear a "why didn't I think to do that?" come out of my mouth when checking out what they've created. Make sure and visit each one of their blogs to be inspired. They'll all be continuing this fun scrappy blog tour next week!
Making Of A Band Mini Album: The Photos

August 27, 2014

Back to bloggin, back to blogging. So, what should I blog about first? How about the second part of the band mini album project that I believe I said I would share a full month ago? Geez. I specifically typed: "I thought I would do a few posts, spread out over the next week or two (or three, depending on how life goes), on the process of creating this project and getting it all assembled". I guess we know how life went for me the last month!

I talked about my supplies for this project in THIS POST, and today I thought I would share a bit about the photo process of the project. Which was kind of a huge process, and one that I'm still working on getting finished. I would guess that 98% of the photos I am including in this album came from Alyssa's iPod, older cell phone, and/or her iPhone. So the first step was waiting for her to have the time to get all of the photos together for me. I had her put everything on a flashdrive, so that I could easily transfer it all to my laptop.

Alyssa did have the majority of the photos seperated into folders for each year. She had very little for freshman year, a small amount for sophomore year, and tons of photos for junior and senior year. Then there were lots of random photos that we had to figure out which year they fell into. It's nice when you can hold your curser over a photo and it will give you the date the photo was taken. But that doesn't always happen when they're from cell phones, screenshotted from other friend's phones, etc. We did the best we could to figure out where everything went.

The next step was sorting out the photos within each year's folder. I knew I could pretty much group the majority of the photos into "events", which would make them easy to organize into the album. Like having all the photos from one concert together, all the photos from the football games together, etc. I created folders for each concert and/or event, and just started plopping photos into those folders.

The next step was going into each event folder, and getting the photos ready to print. I ended up doing a little bit of editing on most of the photos. Not too much though. There were definately photos that I wish I could have worked more magic on (remember, a lot weren't the best quality), but they were what they were and I was ok with that. Once I had edited the photos, I moved the original photos into a new folder, just to get them out of the way.

Then it came time to figure out what sizes I wanted to print each photo. I knew that my photos would be either 4×6", 2×2", 3×3", 4×4", or 2×3" in size. For each event, I picked at least two photos that would make great 4×6's, and would look good on the opening and closing page of that event's section in the album. For events that had a large quantity of photos, I often choose even more 4×6" photos, but I knew from the start I wanted at least two of that size.

I tried to get a good look at how many photos I had for each event, how they could be cropped (would squares work, or would they have to be kept in full), and then determine what divided page protectors would hold them the best. From there, I would start cropping and getting them ready to print.

For each photo I was going to have printed, I named them with the year and the event name. So the photos in the screenshot above are labeled "SeniorYear_FallConcert_1", "SeniorYear_FallConcert_2", etc. This made it easy to sort them out after I picked up my photo order.

For the smaller sized photos, I cropped them and placed them onto 4×6" canvases, so that I could fit multiple photos together. I could put two 3×3's on a 4×6 photo, four 2×2's on a 4×6 photo (you can technically put six on there, but I found they were cutting a little bit off one side of my print, so I stuck with four), four 2×3's on a 4×6 photo, etc.

I even put my 4×4's on a 4×6 photo. I could have just printed them as 4×6", but by cropping them myself and sticking them onto the 4×6 canvas, I knew exactly where to trim them to get that 4×4" square. If that makes sense.

I had a folder within each event folder to plop my "to print" photos into. Once I had gotten all of the photos from an event ready to go, I simply signed into my Costco account and uploaded those photos into my "Band Album Project" album. Since I live about two miles from Costco, I would usually do an order each day, since it was easy enough to run and pick them up.

I really got into a good workflow while working on these photos, and I got pretty quick at deciding what size to print, cropping them, sticking them on canvases, etc. I could whip out events left and right. It's been a while since I've worked on this project (I blame summer!), so when I go back to finish these, I know it will take me a while to get in my groove again.

I'll share the next part of this project in the next week or so (don't sit around waiting for it, but it WILL be coming!), and I'll show you what I did with all of those photos once I picked them up and brought them home.
Scrapbook & Cards Today: You Are The Best

August 24, 2014

Hey everyone! I know I sort of, kind of, disappeared on you all. It's been a busy few weeks around these parts. In the last two weeks, I've send my fifteen year old back to high school, had two seven year olds go back to school, had a two and a half year old kiddo leave my daycare, started watching a new eight month old baby girl, and moved my almost eighteen year old into the college dorms. That last item deserves a post of it's own, but I'm not quite ready to type that up just yet.

I do have some things that I want to share, and I'm pretty sure I had mentioned sharing a certain project a month ago that I just let slip through the cracks. I'll be getting back to some more normal blogging later this week, but in the meantime I thought I would do a simple card share just to get something new up on this blog!

I created this card for the Summer issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today. I was asked to pick a card from the Spring issue, and then "lift" the design to create a new card. I found a card that fit my style perfectly, as this is a straightforward design (paper placement wise) that I use often.

I used some patterned paper from Bella Blvd, along with some Bo Bunny tone-on-tone dotted patterned paper. I actually started the card with the flower, as it was left over from THIS layout. It was on the desk, and fit the card design I was lifting, so I just went with it. I love when projects just fall together on their own.

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