Elegance

I'm back.... did you miss me?  Sorry I haven't posted in a while.  The holiday season is always busy, but this 2013 was really busy for us.  Ours was a happy and sad holiday.... we flew to Christmas to celebrate it with my side of the family, and to celebrate the wedding of my little brother.  The sad part.... was that my Grandma (my Dad's Mom) passed away during that time.  It was good that the whole family was there, so that we could all be together.

This page was created using the Santa Sack Digi-Scrap Challenge for the month of December 2013. You may view the challenge here:http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-bi-weekly-f253/santas-sack-progrogressive-challenge-19-task-1-12-03-13-a-t581676.html

Supplies Used: My Digital Studio

Background - Elegant Soiree #4
Stamp Brush Sets - Presto Patterns Overlays (frame - Soft Suede), Autumn Days (leaf - Soft Suede at 50% opacity; Baja Breeze and Very Vanilla), Spring Fever (words - Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla), My Sweet Pea (leaf -Crumb Cake)
Punch - Square (filled w/Elegant Soiree #5, #6, #7; Baja Breeze)
Embellishment - Stitching (Very Vanilla), Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon (Soft Suede), Basic Pearls, Brass Brads, Hodgepodge Hardware (vanilla frame)
Font - Bernard MT (Very Vanilla)

2012 Cover Page - MDSM42

 

I decided to start working on my 2012 Photobook...... I know, I know..... I'm way behind. 2013 is almost over and we're ready to ring in the New Year 2014! But.... I'm determined to get caught up...... EVENTUALLY! =)

I was intrigued by the sketch and technique challenge on the MDS Monday Blog.  Along with the sketch.... they asked us to convert one of our stamps to a punch.  Clever -right?  Well, you may view the challenge here on their blog -- As well as -- the link to the video tutorial on how to change your stamp brush sets to punches: http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2013/11/mdsm42-stamp-to-punch-with-card-sketch.html

I used the papers in the Elegant Soiree Designer Series Papers for my page.  I decided to convert my "moments" stamp brush to a punch.  This way it seems like the the year and words were just punched out of the 'soft suede' cardstock by seeing the background paper underneath! Cool!

You can see some wording going down the left side of my page (sort of off the paper).... well, don't worry.  It's meant to be there.  It's part of my cover page -- it'll show on the spine of my photobook when I'm complete!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

My Digital Studio

Background Paper - Elegant Soiree #7

Punch - Square (Soft Suede); Flag (Very Vanilla); Timeless Type Junior Numbers (Elegant Soiree #7); Moments Ago - words (Elegant Soiree #7)

Stamp Brush Sets - Decorative Overlays (woodgrain - Crumb Cake); Moments Ago (words - Baja Breeze)

Embellishments - Feast of Thanks (leaves - recolored Soft Suede and Baja Breeze)

Chess Board Birthday

 

Moving along on my 2009 scrapbook. While visiting my family in Ohio in June, we got to celebrate my nephew's 10th birthday. My sister created a chess board cake complete with chess pieces on top!

I struggled a bit with the placement of the squares (for the chessboard background). I finally realized that once I have the square in place, that I should 'lock' that object, so that it didn't move while creating the rest of the squares.
Thanks for looking!

Paper: Early Espresso - textured, Crumb Cake - textured, Elegant Soiree #8
Photo & Punch Mats: Early Espresso
Text: Beetle (Baja Breeze)
Embellishments: Grosgrain Ribbon & Knot (Baja Breeze)
Punches: Square (filled w/Baja Breeze or Whisper White), Square & Circles (filled with Crumb Cake placed behind Party Hearty Stamps)
Stamp Brush Sets: Party Hearty (Early Espresso), Delightful Dozen (Early Espresso w/Crumb Cake slightly offset behind)
-- The pictures of the chess pieces were taken from images that I found online --