Chamberlins 2019

 

In August 2019, we were a part of the celebration for my neighbor's and friend's 70th wedding anniversary. What an achievement! What was so wonderful was all the family members who came to help celebrate their day! In the bouquet of flowers, each flower represented a family member -- wow! Such a large family they have!

I was honored to create the invitations for the event... and Mike and I loved being their to celebrate and to take photos.

Thanks for taking a closer look!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - Feb 2016 Blog Train - (flowers paper - marieh)

Embellishments - Family Spotlight (ribbon - SU), MM8 (stitched hearts - MyMem), Taffeta Trimmings (gray bow- SU)

Punch - Square (filled w/gray)

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (white -SU)

Font - Chalisa Oktavia and Crystal (white)

Sam Grad 2019

 

Still plugging away on our 2019 photobook! This two-page spread is dedicated for our niece's (Samantha) high school graduation party. I had the privilege of designing the graduation invitations for my brother to send out. Her school colors are orange and black, so I stuck to that theme for her invitations and for this two-page spread. My husband and I helped to print and glue all the photos we had of Sam on her '2019' sign too! We had a fun time!

Thanks for taking a closer look!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - white

Embellishments - Autumn Reverence (flower - ddnd)

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (SU)

Punch - Square (filled w/white)

Font - At Last Greeting (Black); Chelsey (orange)

Samantha Graduation

My brother asked me to create graduation invites for his daughter, our niece. He didn't want her photo on the invite, so this is what I created.

I used my digital software, My Memories Suite to create the invites. Then, I printed 2 on an 8.5x11 piece of white cardstock. The invite measures 5x7. I printed 70 invitations.

The fonts used on the card are Chelsey (year), At Last Greeting (class of and name), GeoSlab703 (everything else).

The background is an overlay from Natural Compositions Overlays(SU) and the graduation cap is from Grad Party (SU).

Thanks for dropping by for a closer look!

Supplies Used:
My Memories Suite digital software
fonts: Chelsey, At Last Greeting
Stamp Brush Set - Grad Party (cap - SU); Natural Compositions Overlays (background - SU)
Shape - Square (filled with white)
Paper - Whisper White

Mike's Surgery

With this scrapbook page, I have successfully completed our 2016 scrapbook!!!!! Yay! Now on to our 2017 scrapbook - right?

I only took one photo of my husband when he was rushed to the ER for emergency surgery for his appendectomy. Well, I didn't even take this picture.... my brother did (you can see part of me in the background of this photo. On Dec 10, 2016, Mike was concerned about a sharp pain in his right-hand side of his waist. At first, we just thought it was a pulled muscle.... even the doctors felt that that was the case. Well, after the CT Scan was complete.... it was determined he had an inflamed appendix. The laparoscopic surgery was done that day, and he was able to come home that same night! He recuperated at home and was off work for 1 week. After about a month he was fully recovered.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

Background - White with a Natural Compositions Overlay in grey

Shapes - Rounded Square (green, blue and white) -- to create the Cleveland Clinic symbol border at the top of page.

Stamp Brush Set - Patterned Occasions (SU) - bandaid

Font - Bradley Hand ITC and Wide Latin (blue) and Parade (green)

Hand Surgery

 

Who says you only scrapbook the fun and exciting things? No... you scrapbook your daily life... the things that happen, so that you appreciate all that you've done - good and bad.  I've had a ganglion cyst (fluid filled) on my right wrist for several years.  As it was on my right hand, my dominate hand, I was reluctant to have surgery to remove the cyst. It wasn't causing a lot of problems for me... just some pressure while moving my wrist... and I couldn't do a push-up without pain (but who wants to do those anyway, LOL!).  So, I elected to have hand surgery in June 2016. Now since I've been procrastinating with my scrapbooking.... I've got some cool time-lapse photos of my scar and how it had healed 6 months after my surgery. (Sorry if the photos look gross... I thought they did too, kinda like a worm underneath my skin. Ewww!). I know my scar will continue to fade with time.

Anyway, my wrist works great now...and I can do those push ups without pain now if I want to.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Background - Elegant Eggplant

Embellishments - Simple Stitches (SU) recolored purple

Stamp Brush Sets - Natural Composition Overlay (SU)-white; All Time Fave (SU) - purple arrow

Punch - Square (filled w/Watercolor Winter - SU)

Font - CK Teen (Purple)

Tualatin Crawfish Festival

 

Continuing my work on our 2015 photobook with our visit to the Tualatin Crawfish Festival. It was a great community get-together with food booths, live music, a marathon, business vendors... and of course.... Crawfish!  It was our first time for trying crawfish, so it was a bit unsettling for me to see the heads and feet still on.  BUT... once you get the feet and heads off -- the meat tasted good. I do have to say that it was a lot of work for the little bit of meat that you do get.  Not sure if we will go back next year. At least we can say 'Yes we tried it!' =)

Supplies used:

background - Crumb Cake

Stamp Brush Sets - Natural Composition Overlays

Embellishments - Country Sunflowers (twine and tag); Life's a Beach (crab)

Punch - Square (filled w/July Blog Train DSP); Tasteful Trim (filled w/blue)

Font - Beach and Beetle (brown)

Sea

 

Continuing my work on our 2015 photobook with our trip to Seaside, Oregon with Mike's parents.

I used the October Progressive Digi-Scrap Challenge to complete these two pages, you may view the 4 steps here:

Task#1 - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/october-2015-progressive-scrap-challenge-task-1-10-06-15-a-t603782.html

Task#2 - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/october-2015-progressive-scrap-challenge-task-2-10-13-15-a-t603971.html

Task#3 - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/october-2015-progressive-scrap-challenge-task-3-10-20-15-a-t604144.html

Task#4 - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/october-2015-progressive-scrap-challenge-task-4-10-27-15-a-t604993.html

Supplies Used:

Background - soft blue
Stamp Brush Sets - Vintage Overlays (#7 - gray, #8 - dark blue twice); Texture (light brown); Natural Composition Overlays (#9 -light brown); French Foliage (dark blue)
Embellishments - Dreams4EverDesigns (leaf); Seam Binding Ribbon (Crumb Cake);Like Sunshine (twine recolored blue);Sycamore Street (button recolored light blue); Basic Rhinestones; Monogram; Vacation (starfish)
Punch - Flag (tan)
Font - Beach (blue)

Crawfish

Here is the page I created for the August Progressive Digi-Scrap Challenge on the Splitcoaststampers website.  You may view the 4 week challenge here:

Week #1 http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/august-2015-progressive-challenge-task-1-08-04-15-a-t601876.html

Week #2 http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/august-2015-progressive-challenge-task-2-08-11-15-a-t602101.html

Week #3 http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/august-2015-progressive-challenge-task-3-08-18-15-a-t602251.html

Week #4 http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-tuesdays-f253/august-2015-progressive-challenge-task-4-08-25-15-a-t602452.html

I'm sure I will use this page as one of my calendar pages for 2016. yay! Another page complete!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Background - Crumb Cake
Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (beige); Anchors Away (border - Cherry Cobbler and White)
Embellishments - Life's a Beach (crab); Hodgepodge Hardware (brad); Country Sunflowers (tags)
Punch - Circle White); Square (filled w/Nautical Expedition DSP); Triangle (filled w/Nautical Expedition DSP)
Font - Aharoni (Dark Brown)

Lincoln City and Newport

 

While my brother was here in March 2015, we decided to drive to the coast to see the Ocean. It was a lovely day for a drive.  Here is another 2-page spread for our 2015 photo book.

I used a sketch (loosely), that I found on Pinterest.  It's a sketch from Lyssa Griffin Zwolanek. Here is the sketch:

Thanks Lyssa for a wonderful sketch!

Thanks so very much for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Background: Crumb Cake

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (sand - gray); Happiness is PL(diagonal stripe-black)

Embellishments - Summer Vacation (rope - recolored red); June Sampler (shell - recolored brown); Everyday (shell recolored brown)

Punch - Square (filled w/white)

Font - LongIsland (Red); Mutlu (Black); Bradley Hand ITC (Black)

Maui 2014

I've been working on our 2014 photobook these past couple of days, with our trip to Maui in October 2014. We try to go to one Hawaiian Island each year around our anniversary (this was our 11th anniversary).

I decided to use one kit throughout my pages -- Paradise Found! <--- Lovely name, isn't it! 

Well, I did use other stamps too - Natural Composition Overlays - to get the 'sand' effect in the background piece.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies Used:

Background - Crumb Cake

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (Sahara Sand); Paradise Found (palm tree - Close to Cocoa and Old Olive)

Embellishments - Paradise Found (words, flowers, leaf, hula girls)

Punch - Starburst (Summer Sun); Square (filled w/Whisper White and Paradise Found DSP)

Font - Brisk (Close to Cocoa)

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Beachcomber Hotel

 

Sorry to say it's been a long time since I made scrapbook pages...and it seems I'm getting behind again. Ack!  I'd like to get to a point where I can scrapbook things within a month of the event -- I'm hoping that CAN happen soon! Ha!

I'm working on our 2014 photobook with our trip to northern California with Mike's parents.  This happened in April 2014.  We had such a pleasant trip traveling up the coast and staying at the Beachcomber Hotel before going up the coast to see the Redwood trees (that will be my next several pages of our photobook, so stay tuned!).

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Background - Nautical Expedition DSP #10
Embellishments - Sunshine & Sprinkles (sun);
Stamp Brush Sets - Natural Composition Overlays #9 (Very Vanilla); Anchors Away (anchor - Early Espresso)
Punch - Square (filled w/Nautical Expedition DSP #4 and Crumb Cake)
Font - Chalkdust, Latina and Freehand 951 (Early Espresso)

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Sunshine and Sand - MDSM89

Playing with the challenge found on the MDS Monday Blog.  You may view the challenge and all the pages created with it here: http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2014/11/mdsm89-lets-use-stripes.html

In creating the strips of paper behind the photos, I used photo boxes and chose the 'option' to 'Rip Edges' to make them look like washi tape.  Also, I created my own DSP with the Baja Breeze Dots on Whisper White paper. 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

Background Paper - Whisper White

Punches - Square (filled w/Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze DSP)

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (Sahara Sand); Splatter Tool (Whisper White and Baja Breeze); Spring Break II (word 'sunshine' - Whisper White); Free Label This (word 'sand' - Whisper White)

Font - Chalkdust (Whisper White)

Maui - MDSM87

 

Just got back from our Hawaii vacation, and wanted to use one of our photos from our trip for the MDS Monday Blog Sketch this week.  You may view the challenge and all the lovely pages from this sketch here: http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2014/10/mdsm87-yaphas-first-sketch.html

This one was a huge challenge for me, as I chose to make all the boxes photo boxes, and when you add DSP to photo boxes....the DSP is really tiny, so you need to zoom out in all of them.  The reason I chose to do all photo boxes instead of a mix of photo boxes and rounded punches -- was the roundedness of the photo boxes were not in uniform with the rounded punch shape.  I mean.... I guess you couldn't really tell that huge of a difference between the two, but I wasn't happy with it.  So, making them all photo boxes worked well for my purposes! =)

In placing the photo within several photo boxes, I grouped those photo boxes together before placing my photo within those boxes.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies Used:

Background Paper - Crumb Cake

Embellishments - Timeless Taffeta Trimmings (bow - Not Quite Navy); Dahlias (Crumb Cake)

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (Sahara Sand)

Punch - Rounded Corner (Whisper White)

Photo Boxes - Watercolor Wonder DSP #11 recolored Midnight Muse and #12 

Font - Formal (Whisper White); CK Cutie (Not Quite Navy)

Christmas 2013

 

 

Wow! I have to say that I am so very pleased to be completing last years Christmas photos BEFORE this Christmas! Such a wonderful feeling!  When my family (my side) gets together, we always have a great time.....and there are so many photos.... it's hard to just choose a few.  Especially since we do so much -- Family photo, opening presents and games!

I wanted to highlight our family photo (and the photo with almost all our eyes closed too!). As you can tell we are a funny bunch! lol! I decided to use a template/layout I saw on the Sweet Shoppe Blog.  Here's the photo:

Hmmm... ok, well....that's a puny photo, but you can definitely see that's what I used to create the first page - right?

It did take me quite a while to figure out what colors/papers to use. But I believe the ones I chose work great for the photos.  One thing I want to share is how I created my background paper.  The background, itself, is Real Red.... I added the Natural Composition Overlay in White, but brought the opacity down to 10%.  <---See, creating your own DSP (Designer Series Paper) is a breeze! 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

Background - Real Red

Embellishments(on page 2) - Hodgepodge Hardware (Jumbo Brad); Narrow Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon (Soft Suede)

Stamp Brush Sets - Natural Composition Overlays (Whisper White at 10% opacity); Watercolor Winter (snowflake and snowflake border - Whisper White)

Punch - Square (Soft Suede, Christmas Cocoa II DSP #1, Whisper White); Circle (Soft Suede)

Punch(on page 2) - Circle (Christmas Cocoa II DSP #1); Tag (Whisper White)

Font - Lovers' Quarrel (Whisper White and Soft Suede)

Christmas 2013

 

Working again on our 2013 photobook with our Christmas photos.  We celebrated early at home since we knew we would be traveling to Ohio to celebrate Christmas with my family, as well as to celebrate the wedding of my little brother.  Family is so important....and life is way too short not to get together.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies Used:

Background - Always Artichoke

Embellishments - Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon (Cherry Cobbler)

Stamp Brush Sets - Natural Composition Overlays (cloth background - Mellow Moss); Modern Medley (stripes - Whisper White); Earth Laughs (flower - Whisper White)

Punch - Square (Cherry Cobbler behind stripes); Flower (Cherry Cobbler)

Font - Matura (Whisper White)

Sand - DGSCPR0025Task4

Working on a scrapbook page from our recent trip to the coast (of California).  I played along with the June Progressive Digi-Scrap Challenge on the Splitcoaststampers website.  The challenge gives you a few tasks to do each week (within the month) so, at the end of that month, you have a completed page.

If you'd like to view the challenge for June, start here: June Progressive Challenge - Task 1 . From that one you can find tasks 2-4.

Thanks for looking!
 Supplies Used: My Digital Studio

Background - Nautical Expedition DSP #10

Punch - Square (filled w/Nautical Expedition DSP #4 , #12 and Crumb Cake); Circle (underneath life preserver - Whisper White)

Stamp Brush Sets - Natural Composition Overlays (Very Vanilla); Anchors Away (anchor - Early Espresso)

Embellishments - Ruffle Trim (Baked Brown Sugar); Anchors Away (life preserver); Baker's Twine (cropped - Whisper White); Sunshine and Sprinkles (sunburst)

Font - Freehand951, Chalkdust and Lativa(Early Espresso)

Supporting Mom - MDSM61

 

Hmmm... not sure why the background colors aren't the same on each page in these photos.  The colors are supposed to look like the second page (the right one). weird!  I may need to re-download them to see if that makes a difference.  Okay, that is the weirdest thing.... it still is that same funky color.    (If you go on the My Digital Studio site.... you'll see the correct color on the first page.  Click here to see it: http://www.mydigitalstudio.net/photo/supporting-mom-1?context=latest )

I used a sketch I saw on MDS Monday blog (MDSM61).  I missed the challenge deadline, but still wanted to share with all of you where I got my inspiration from.  You may view the challenge here:
http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2014/04/mdsm61-taras-created-fun-scrap-sketch.html

Anyway.... I'm still plugging along with work on our 2012 photobook. These two pages were a bit hard for me to finish since my Mom passed away (February 2014). These pages reflect our support of my Mom.

My Mom's favorite color is green...and she loves roses. Purple is the color of pancreatic cancer, so working within those parameters -- here are the pages I came up with.  I changed both Designer Series Paper (Watercolor Wonder DSP) to Concord Crush and I used the 'Color Picker Tool' to match the green from my Mom's bedroom wall as my background color.

Supplies Used: My Digital Studio software, Stampin' Up!
Background - 'Color Picking Tool' match the green in the photo for the background
Punch - Square (filled w/ Watercolor Wonder DSP #5 and #10 recolored Concord Crush)
Stamp Brush Set - Ribbon of Hope (Concord Crush); You're Lovely (outlined flowers - Concord Crush and Whisper White); Natural Composition Overlays (linen overlay - Pistachio Pudding)
Font - Kiev (Concord Crush and Whisper White); Majestic (Concord Crush)

Dana Point - DGSCPR0018

I designed another page to our 2014 Calendar.  I used the November Digi-Scrap Progressive Challenge to complete this page (found on the Splitcoaststampers website).  You may view the challenge (the first task) here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-bi-weekly-f253/nov-progressive-challenge-18-task1-11-5-2013-a-t580504.html

Every week (in the month of November), you are assigned a few tasks.  By the end of the month.... your page will be complete -- as mine is now!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

Background - Crumb Cake Stamp Brush Sets - Natural Composition Overlays (Baked Brown Sugar), Anchors Away (Wave - Whisper White; Starfish - Baked Brown Sugar; sentences - Early Espresso); So Happy For You (butterfly - Early Espresso) Embellishments - Basic Pearls Punch - Scallop Square (Whisper White); Square (filled w/Good Morning Sunshine DSP #4, Autumn Spice DSP #4, Textured Cardstock - Early Espresso, Early Espresso); Circle - Daffodil Delight Font - Beach (Whisper White), Kiev (Whisper White), Arial (Early Espresso)

International Rose Test Garden

 

We took so many photos at the International Rose Test Garden in Oregon that I had a very hard time choosing which ones to place in our scrapbook.  Fortunately, I came across this sketch (off of Pinterest) from the 'Let's Scrap' blog.  Such lovely inspiration and with many photos too! Bonus!

Thanks for looking!

Supplies Used:

Background Paper - Early Espresso

Embellishment - Scallop Dots Ribbon (Cherry Cobbler), My Sweet Pea (stitched leaf), Festive Blooms (Cherry Cobbler), Soft Blooms (Very Vanilla)

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (Very Vanilla at 20% opacity)

Punch - Tasteful Trim (Very Vanilla), Scallop Circle (Cherry Cobbler), Circle (Very Vanilla)

Font - AltastGreetings (Early Espresso)

Milestone

 

Decided that I need to take a break from cards, to work on my 2011 photobook.  Yes! Still working on getting myself up-to-date.  Not sure what my hang-up is.... I love playing with My Digital Studio, yet I can't seem to get myself motivated to get my pages complete.  I need to push myself and give myself a deadline.... I'd like to get this photobook complete before this year ends (hopefully sooner)! =)

I used the Splitcoaststampers Digi-Scrap Challenge (DGSCPR0012Task 1-4) to complete the first page. After that, I expanded it to create a double-page spread.  If you'd like to view the challenge, here's the link: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-f253/progressive-challenge-12-%96-task-4-05-28-13-a-t573609.html

I also incorporated the My Digital Studio.net Challenge.  To use arrows in your project.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Background Paper - Basic Gray

Embellishments - Festive Blooms (Whisper White, Basic Gray)

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays (Watermark), Family Spotlight (words - Basic Black)

Punches - Square (filled w/Night and Day DSP #4 and #5), Arrow (filled w/Night and Day DSP #3)

Font - Flat Brush Condensed (Basic Black)