Chevron Grad

 

I found this cute graduation card on Pinterest from the ButtonSandBling blog website. Such a cute design that I wanted to copy a bit of it, but make a few changes to make it my own!

I designed the card within my digital software... My Memories Suite.

I chose a Pumpkin Pie background color. Then added the chevron Overlay in black. The '2022' is just a text in Boulder font that I rotated 90 degrees.

Thanks for taking a closer look!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (SU), Sprinkled Expressions (words - You Did It!- SU)

Font - Boulder (2022) and Champion (Graduate)

Accessories - Black Twine

Paper - Pumpkin Pie, Basic White, Basic Black

Schwab Christmas 2019

 

Finally made it to December 2019 in our photobook. We celebrated Christmas Eve with my side of the family (the Schwab's) over my brother's house. My sister flew in from Colorado with her family. Although, Andrew had to work, so he stayed home. It was great to be with family enjoying the Lord's birthday.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - blue

Embellishments - Snowy Day Mini (snow-aimeeh); Snowy Day Sampler (pinetree-QueenBr); Holly Jolly Mini (swirl tree - Stina); Woodland Christmas (gifts- sgrmoon)

Punch - Star (filled w/blue and white)

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (white-SU)

Font - Candlescript and Arial (white)

2019 Painting with A Twist

My best friend, Dawn, had a painting party at 'Painting with a Twist' for her birthday. She is a pro at these paintings.... me not so much. We always have a blast when we get together though. With her family and friends... it was an extra special evening out.

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - Alouette Feathers Gold (MyMem)

Punches - Square (filled w/beige)

Embellishments - Grosgrain Ribbon (Bravo Burgundy-SU); Rustic Memories (LLLCrtn), Blog Train Gift (paintswatch - Kathryn); Color My World (paint drip & paint - LinsCre); Little Artist (Paint Brush & Palette - ddnd)

Stamp Brush Sets - Decorative Overlays (SU)

Font - Curlz MT (beige) Calisto MT (brown)

 

2019 Emily and Tyler Wedding

 

Wow! It's been a while since I worked on my photobook, so I'm a bit behind in them. Still working on 2019!!!! My GodSon and his lovely wife were married May 4, 2019. Their wedding colors were white, gray and turquoise. It was an honor to be asked to create the wedding invitations and response cards for them.

This two-page spread came together pretty quickly, as I coordinated the colors of the wedding into my photobook page. I even used the fonts on my page that I used for their wedding invitations. Good way to tie things together!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - white

Embellishments - Wedding Day Confetti (jewels - MyMem); Blue and White Flowers (MyMem)

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (SU- gray)

Font - Bernhart (gray) Shelley Volante (turquoise)

Gender Reveal 2018

 

In November, my brother, Dan, and his wife, Tracy, had a "gender reveal" party to announce the sex of their baby. When they cut the cake, the frosting was PINK inside -- thus letting everyone know that a little girl was on here way! Congratulations! Looking forward to welcoming her into our family in March/April 2019.

Thanks for taking a closer look!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - GP Baby Girl (Valerie)

Shapes - Square (filled w/white)

Embellishments - ConGRADulations (ribbon w/ring - SU), Sweetie Bear Mini (bear and flowers - SyrenaE)

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (swirl stripe - SU)

Font - Ravie and Clayton (dark gray)

PurpleStride 2016

 

Continuing work on my 2016 scrapbook with our participation in the PurpleStride Cleveland 2016 walk. The walk raises awareness and funds to help those that are fighting the terrible disease of pancreatic cancer through the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Those who follow my blog (or know me personally), know that my Mother died of this disease in February 2014. There is still no cure for this deadly disease. So I walk to bring HOPE to all those who are still fighting and HONOR those who have lost their life.

I miss you Mom! I love you so very much! HUGS!

Thanks for taking a closer look at my pages!

Supplies Used:

Background - purple

Stamp Brush Set - Ribbon of Hope (SU) - purple ribbon; Decorative Overlays (SU) - purple collage flourish

Punch - Square (filled w/white)

Font - Bodoni MT (Purple and white); Lucida Calligraphy (white)

Graduation

 

While we were in Cleveland in June 2016, our nephew graduated from high school. His party was held at the Hinckley Lake Pavilion. We enjoyed great food and fun games with family and friends. Also, 2016 was the year of the cicadas -- they emerge every 17 years to breed and then die after leaving the eggs in the ground. Their song (or noise) can be heard constantly throughout the day/night. Hearing them wasn't so bad...it was actually kinda nice. It was the dead carcasses everywhere that was kinda gross. 

Thanks for taking a look!

Supplies Used:

Background - Black

Punch - Square (filled w/blue)

Embellishments - Glimmer Kit (SU) - gold line; Graduation Day - word congrats

Stamp Brush Sets - Decorative Overlays (SU) white starburst; Go Graduate Plus (SU) - hat and owl; Extreme Elements (SU) - white stars

Font - Wide Latin (white)

May Calendar Page

In trying to design our May Calendar page, I wanted to incorporate the rose bush that I planted in memory of my Mom... on Mother's Day last year 2015. So, I took this photo in 2016 when the roses were in bloom. Since the Mother's Day is in May, showcasing the rose bush was a must! I always want to add a photo of Mike and myself on each calendar month page too.... so this is when we went to dinner at Round Table Pizza. LOL...love that place!

The digital flowers that I chose were a different color originally, so I recolored them pink to match my page.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - green

Embellishments - White Grosgrain Ribbon (SU); White Flower Brads (SU); Spring Memories (Kasta) - recolored pink

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays - white (SU)

Punch - Scallop - pink

Font - Brannball Script -white

Memorial Park

 

Feels so good to get another double-page spread complete for our 2015 photobook.  As you can see I'm working on May 2015... where we took a picnic in a park.

Never forget those who sacrificed their lives for ours! And THANKS for all those who are serving now and for those that have served! You ARE appreciated!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Background - Real Red

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (white)

Punch - Square (filled w/Night of Navy and White); Star (filled w/ White)

Embellishments - Staples and Stitches (white)

Font - Modern Number 20 (white); LD Glorious (Red); Jolt 44 (Red); LD Shelly Print (White) 

Pop Birthday

 

I must be on a creative role, as this is my third double-page spread that I have completed today! I hope the trend continues tomorrow. Ha!

Here are pages created in January 2015 of Mike's parents first visit to our new home in Oregon.  We took them to see Mt Hood and we also celebrated Mike's Dad's 80th birthday.

I found this scrapbook sketch on the Splitcoaststampers website, and felt that the layout really was created for my photos! You may view the sketch challenge here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/sketch-challenge-bi-weekly-f124/sketch15jul3-week-3-a-t601576.html

Here is the layout:

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

Background - Soft Sky

Stamp Brush Sets - Decorative Overlays (White); Torn Edges (leaves border - Black)

Embellishments - June Bride (purple flowers); Sycamore Street (button - Pool Party); Mis-stitched (White)

Punch - Square (filled w/Basic Black DSP, Black and Rich Razzleberry DSP); Banner Flag (filled w/Basic Black DSP and Rich Razzleberry

Font - Boulder and Andalus (Black)

Memorial Park - MDSM115

This week will be the last week to play along with the MDS Monday Blog Challenges. So sad to not have this wonderful blog to go to anymore, as it has inspired me to create so many beautiful pages. Thanks ladies for everything you have done for me!

This last challenge can be found here: 

http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2015/05/mdsm-115-our-favorite-things.html

This challenge wanted us to use our favorite MDS downloads, and to explain why they are our favorite.  Well, I have many favorites... as I have many, many downloads! lol! BUT, I did narrow it down to just one favorite here!  Through the years of creating scrapbooks, I've found that I love the look of my pages when I add overlays.  It's just a simple stamp, but it enhances the page with so much character.  With this page, I chose to use an overlay from the "Decorative Overlays' set.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Stamp Set - Decorative Overlays

Embellishments - Stitching (Whisper White)

Punch - Square (filled w/Night of Navy Textured Cardstock, Whisper White); Star (Whisper White)

Font - Steamer (Whisper White); Pageant (Real Red)

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Caesars Head State Park

Trying to work on our 2014 photobook to get my last few pages complete (at least the ones that I forgot to add.... oops!).  Here is Mike's trip to South Carolina. He and his co-worker hiked within the Caesars Head State Park.  It was very overcast, but they still enjoyed their outing.... especially rescuing a turtle who decided to walk across the road (slowly). =)

Thanks for looking!

Supplies Used:

Embellishments - Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack (Summer Starfruit thread and bow)

Stamp Brush Sets - Inspired by Nature (flower - Summer Sun, Soft Suede and Old Olive; grass - Always Artichoke); Decorative Overlays (Pool Party and Always Artichoke)

Punches - Square (filled w/Soft Suede DSP; Summer Sun and Whisper White)

Font - Teen Scene (Summer Sun and Soft Suede)

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Raven Falls

Playing with another sketch challenge on MDS Monday Blog (MDSM110).  You may view the challenge here:

http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2015/04/mdsm-110-tie-it-up-with-bow.html

With this challenge, Yapha wanted us to use papers at angles and to anchor those papers with a tie or bow. Thanks Yapha!

I wasn't too sure of what photo I would use for this, but I found one of my husband when he was in South Carolina hiking in Caesar's Head State Park with Raven Cliff Falls in the background. I knew I wanted to use green on my page, so I chose to scroll through the color combo choices within MDS. The combo I used is: Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Summer Sun, Pool Party and Soft Suede.

After choosing the colors -- my page came together quickly...except for the tie/bow/anchor choice. It took me awhile, but I did find the Summer Starfruit twine (I know it's not Summer Sun, but it's close! lol).

I used the coloring tool to color the 'Inspired by Nature' stamp. I used the 'Decorative Overlay' stamp (flowers) twice on this page.  One for the background -- kinda looks like clouds to me (rotated 90 to the right) ; and one for the paper behind the photo.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Embellishments - Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack (Summer Starfruit thread and bow)

Stamp Brush Sets - Inspired by Nature (flower - Summer Sun, Soft Suede and Old Olive; grass - Always Artichoke); Decorative Overlays (Pool Party and Always Artichoke)

Punches - Square (filled w/Soft Suede DSP; Summer Sun and Whisper White)

Font - Teen Scene (Summer Sun and Soft Suede)

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Birthday 44 - MDSM106

So, my birthday was yesterday! As I am an identical twin... my sister, Debbie shares this special day with me.  I miss those special years of celebrating that day together.

And YES! The title is correct - I am 44! I am forever reminded of that Ickey Woods TV commercial -- where he's in the deli and they call number 44.... and he shouts "whoo number 44, that's me!"  <---Well, that's me! lol!

My husband brought me tulips and we tried a new bakery (Nothing Bundt Cakes). Wow! They were delicious.  We had the Carrot Cake and the White Chocolate Raspberry -- both had cream cheese frosting. YUM!

I used the sketch found on the MDS Monday Blog.  Thanks Beth! You may view the sketch challenge here:
 MDS Monday - MDSM106

Oh Wait, here's the sketch:

I realize after I created it that I chose spring-like colors.  For those that remember... the previous MDS Monday Challenge and sketch called for a spring page...and I didn't follow that.  Well... I must have felt guilty...so here's my spring page Anita! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Background - Pear Pizzazz
Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (Whisper White); Enjoy Every Moment (dotted circle - Whisper White); Beautiful Birthday (words - Pear Pizzazz); Handpicked for Mom (tulip - Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White)
Punch - Square (filled w/Pink Pirouette DSP)
Embellishments - Poly Stitched Ribbon (bow cropped); Soft Blooms and Festive Blooms(flowers); Twitterpated (buttons - Pear Pizzazz)
Font - CK Jot (Pear Pizzazz)

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Forever Love - MDSM104

 

I was a little bit intimidated by the sketch challenge found on the MDS Monday blog this week. Not sure why... maybe it was all those boxes with paper rather than photo boxes.  Well, getting out of my comfort zone it good - right!  YES! The more I worked with this sketch...the more I felt comfortable with it.  Thanks Jeanna!

What worked perfectly with this sketch were the Project Life cards... each box (excluding the photo) is a Project Life card! The digital download kit that I used for this is the 'Love Story Project Life' kit, and most all the stamps are from that kit too (excluding the background overlay stamp).

A few details I'd like to point out. I layered a punched heart on top of the black heart in the upper-left Project Life card.  With the bottom-middle Project Life card... I added a stamp heart (the card had the same heart, but in black), I used an 2 arrow stamps and cropped them to make them look like it was going through the heart, and I added the word stamps 'Love' and 'Always'.

The photo is a picture of Mike's parents.  Back in December 2014, his Mom got the whole Malcor family together to take family photos.  I absolutely love this photo of them.  I changed the photo to black & white to keep the colors on my page Red/Black/White combination.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Background - Raspberry Ripple

Embellishments - Love Story Project Life kit (3 3x4 cards and 1 4x6 card); Staples

Punch - Heart (Raspberry Ripple); Flag (Basic Black); Square (Raspberry Ripple)

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (Basic Black at 30% opacity); Love Story (arrow - Basic Black; hearts and heart string - Basic Black and Raspberry Ripple; words 'love' and 'always' -Raspberry Ripple)

Font - Adorable (Whisper White)

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Schwab Wedding

 

 

With these pages.....our 2013 scrapbook is complete!!!!! Yay! I finished it before the end of the year! It feels so wonderful to be "almost" up-to-date!!!!  To think that I could start designing our 2014 scrapbook -- IN 2014 -- is just awesome!!!! LOL!

In December 2013, my little brother got married the Saturday after Christmas.  It was great for us, since we came out for Christmas....we could just extend our trip to be there for the wedding.

In designing the first two pages, I used a sketch I found on the Sweet Shoppe website.  Here is the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used (on the first 4 pages):

Background paper - Very Vanilla

Embellishments - Taffeta Ribbon (Real Red); Glimmer Kit (word 'Love' and hearts); Basic Pearls; Designer Rosettes (Real Red)

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (More Mustard)

Punch - Square (Very Vanilla); Flag (Glimmer DSP)

Font - Chancellor (More Mustard)

Supplies Used (on the last page):

Background paper - Whisper White

Stamp Brush Sets - Presto Patterns Overlays (Basic Black); Love Story (heart - Basic Black; Basic Gray; words 'You & Me' - Basic Black)

Punch - Square (Basic Gray, Love Impressions recolored Basic Gray); Perfect Pennants (Basic Black)

Mom Birthday

 

Another two-page spread complete in our 2013 photobook! YES!

I do have to admit that in creating these two pages.... it was very emotional for me (as my Mom passed away Feb 2014).  I miss her so very much!

I saw this sketch on the Splitcoaststampers website, and it intrigued me with all it's layers.  Now, I'm sure I didn't add as many layers as the sketch shows, but I didn't want my page elements to diminish the photos I wanted to showcase.

Here is the sketch I used:

The name on .jpeg file is: "InstaMeWeekly1 - template3".

I did create my own Designer Series Paper to fill in the square punches.  It's relatively easy to do with My Digital Studio, and so very helpful when trying to match colors.  The DSP papers that I created are the Modern Medley white arrows on Lost Lagoon paper and the Wild Wasabi Happy Birthday text on Whisper White paper. To create your own DSP papers: 1) open a new 12x12 page; 2) add your background color; 3) add the stamp [ie:Modern Medley arrows in white]; 4) save file as a .jpeg on your desktop; 5) add this .jpeg file to the My Digital Studio software as a background [my computer/ program files/ My Digital Studio/ components/ backgrounds/ Designer Series Paper].

Thanks for taking a look!

Supplies Used:

Background - Lost Lagoon

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (Whisper White); Modern Medley (arrows - Whisper White)

Embellishments - Festive Blooms (Whisper White and Old Olive recolored Wild Wasabi)

Punch - Square (filled w/Wild Wasabi DSP, Lagoon Arrows DSP, Wasabi Birthday DSP)

Font - Franciscan (Whisper White); Engaged (on the DSP -Wild Wasabi)

Lady Liberty - DGSC119

 

Completed another page in our 2013 photobook! Yay!  Still working in July 2013, but I'm getting up-to-date!  While Mike was working in Connecticut, we decided to drive to see the Statue of Liberty. WOW! I believe everyone should take a trip to see her..... it was amazing!  We took a ferry (from the New Jersey side) <---- much less traffic.  We had such a beautiful day too.

My page fits so nicely with the Splitcoaststampers Digi-Scrap Challenge from July 2014 -- Patriotism (DGSC119).  You may view the challenge here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/dgsc119-patriotism-t589565.html

Thanks for taking a look!

Supplies Used:

Background - Cherry Cobbler

Stamp Brush Set - Decorative Overlays (starburst - Whisper White)

Punch - Star (Whisper White); Timeless Type Junior Alphabet (words - Land of the Free - Whisper White)

Font - Arial Black (Night of Navy)

Tulip Festival

I decided to work on a calendar page for our 2015 "Places We've Been in 2014!".  We took a drive up north to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Tulips are my favorite flower.... wow! were there many flowers on display too!  We even purchased some tulips to take home.  Beautiful!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:
Background - Pool Party
Stamp Brush Sets - Handpicked for Mom (tulips - Gumball Green, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie, Concord Crush, Real Red); Decorative Overlays (swirl - Whisper White)
Punch - Flag (Daffodil Delight)
Font - Adorable (Basic Black)

Wallace Falls - SC85

I decided to work on a sketch challenge from the Stampin' Celebration blog (SC85).  You may view the challenge and all the entries related to this challenge here: http://stampincelebrationblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/sc85-sketch-by-anita.html

I had a lot of fun with this sketch, and I will definitely use this page for our 2015 calendar (places we've been to in 2014)! Thanks Anita at Stampin' Celebration for your inspirational sketch!

I did NOT have Island Indigo Dotted paper, so I created my own within MDS -- using Soft Sky for my Dots on top of Island Indigo background.  I saved that image (.jpg file) to my computer as a DSP paper within the MDS software.  I was then able to choose this Dotted Island Indigo paper for my Flag Punch on my page. How cool is that -- creating your own DSP!

Supplies Used:
Stamp Brush Sets - Dots, Dots, Dots (Soft Sky); Decorative Overlays (woodgrain - Early Espresso)
Background - Textured Cardstock (Early Espresso)
Punch - Flag (filled w/Playful Patterns DSP - Pear Pizzazz and Island Indigo; Pear Pizzazz Small Dots DSP; Island Indigo Small Dots DSP -- created by me); Square (filled w/ Crumb Cake)
Embellishments - Twitterpated (button - Island Indigo); Staples and Stitching (zigzag - Chocolate Chip)
Font - Banner (Early Espresso)