Hydrangea and Bee Scrapbook Page

The sketch was found at pagemaps.com

SUPPLIES/HOW TO:

Decorative background paper, an old Die Cuts With A View stack.

White lightweight "cardstock" that was in the scrapbook I bought.

I made a double score line along the top and bottom edges

(isn't visible in the photos).

Pale Plum card stock (Stampin' Up!) under the photograph.

Vellum die cut flowers were part of an assemble it yourself kit I found

at a yard sale a few years ago. 

Thin strips of Gable Green (Stampin' Up!) card stock for the stems.

I had some polka dotted light green ribbon that would have been really 

cute to use, but it was too wide for my liking :(

Paper punched bumble bee with googlie eyes I made myself.

Thanks for looking :)

Hummingbird Scrapbook Page

Scrapbook page layout inspired by the 

pagemaps.com sketch below.

I still need to add journaling on the long tag

and attach the bakers twine behind the page base.

Most supplies from Stampin' Up! :

Brushstroke Hummingbird stamp

Gumball Green textured card stock

Kraft card stock

Very Vanilla card stock

Basic Black card stock

Tasteful Trims die (scalloped edge)

Tag topper punch

green and white bakers twine, found at Target

Cannas Scrapbook Page

This is the one photo, out of the 42 I submitted,

that was chosen as the Photo Of The Week

for our local newspaper !!!!!!

I have the newspaper clipping to be mounted

on another scrapbook page, a simple one. 

Inspired by a sketch found at pagemaps.com

All supplies from Stampin' Up! , though some are retired:

Sahara Sand, Early Espresso Coredinations, Real Red, Basic Black

and Naturals Ivory card stocks.

Versamark ink.

Two retired stamp sets, Just Believe and Garden Silhouettes.

Texturz plate used on the Real Red piece.

Distressed the edges of the black under the photo.

Scallop edge border punch and corner punch.

Rhinestones . Probably overkill for this basic page,

but they reminded me of the water drops

on the cannas that I captured in the photo.

Twill tape.

Thanks for looking :)

Saturn Rocket Scrapbook Page

Diagram of the Saturn V Rocket was found at http://www.usa-printables.com/

Decorative paper is from an old Die Cuts With A View paper stack.

Light gray card stock, unknown.

Basic Black and Whisper White card stock, Stampin' Up!

Apothecary Accents die from Stampin' Up! for the white tag; I hand cut the black layer.

Scrap Snaps

Taking A Break

For anyone that may follow my blog, I wanted to let you know that I will be having surgery today so until I am recuperated enough to make it down to my craft dungeon, I won't be able to make anything new to share. I thought about dragging some supplies upstairs to work on projects, but I know that I couldn't possibly bring everything I'd want up, there would always be something else I needed ;)

That is going to be the most difficult part about this for me, not being able to walk down the 15 steep stairs to stand and work at my table (or lift things, etc) for a while :(  I'll take this time to redo a photo album or two. I have several pocket albums I want to reorganize before I start putting all of the other photos that have been in boxes for years into albums. Plus there are hundreds more digital photos to sort through to decide which to print not to mention the hundreds and hundreds of photos I've had printed this year that need to be put into the albums I purchased recently............ I also have a large stack of documents that I could scan and a photo disc to start working on that I plan on giving the relatives this Christmas.  I have more than enough things I could do while being banished from my basement craft dungeon these next couple of weeks !

I have scheduled several scrapbook page posts to be published over the next three weeks, one every three days. 

 

Dry Embossed Scrapbook Pages

Super simple double page layout to showcase four different photos

that were submitted for the Photo Of The Week in our local newspaper.

I used 12x12 Certainly Celery card stock from Stampin' Up!

A brass embossing template, stylus and light box were used to create the leaves;

all supplies were from Stampin' Up! 

The lines around the edge of the card stock were created with a stylus and

a scoring board. I scored the lines after I dry embossed the leaves.

The four photos aren't anything special, but they were sent in

to the newspaper to be considered for publication. 

I'm making a scrapbook of the photos I submitted.

One photo is of a HUGE spiderweb that went from at least 6 feet in the air

down to the ground. I did not want to see the size of the spider that made it!

Just below that photo is one of a grand daddy long legs spider 

on a hollyhock plant. There is also a tiny green bug of some sort that looks

like a leaf .

On the right half of the layout, the top photo is of our dry creek bed.

In 2012 our area was suffering from extreme heat and a drought.

The small creek that runs through our property was dry, 

in the 13 years we lived here we have never seen that happen.

The bottom photo is of the last cherry tomatoes of the season.

I thought it was kind of neat that there were three different tomatoes

all in a different stage (color) of ripening. 

I haven't done any journaling yet, I made do it on tags or

cut out a piece of card stock that is leaf shaped for fun. 

Then again, that would be a better idea for the fall photo

I have yet to scrap...... 

Fresh From The Garden Lunch

It may not look appetizing to many, but I thought it was quite yummy ! The rest of the family refused to even try any of it, saying the tomatoes didn't look right and they didn't like the idea of a "zucchini patty". More for me !

I have two friends that put in gardens this year so the delicious heirloom tomatoes came from one and the monstrous zucchini was from another. I made two loaves of zucchini bread and these patties from it.





Zucchini Patties (my notes in red)
Original recipe makes 12 patties

• 2 cups grated zucchini (I squeezed as much moisture as possible from mine)
• 2 eggs, beaten (I used one egg since that is all I had on hand, it worked fine)
• 1/4 cup chopped onion (I did not have any onions on hand.....)
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour ( I used seasoned bread crumbs instead)
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese (I used prepackaged shredded cheese in a plastic bag, not the powdery type in a canister)
• 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• salt to taste (omitted since I used the seasoned bread crumbs)
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (I cooked mine in real butter)

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, combine the zucchini, eggs, onion, flour, Parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese, and salt. Stir well enough to distribute ingredients evenly.
2. Heat a small amount of oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Drop zucchini mixture by heaping tablespoonfuls, and cook for a few minutes on each side until golden.

Zucchini Bread-

Paula Deen Recipe

Total Time:

1 hr 10 min

Prep:

10 min

Cook:

1 hr

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Yield:

2 loaves

Level:

Easy

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Total Time:

1 hr 10 min

Prep:

10 min

Cook:

1 hr

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Yield:

2 loaves

Level:

Easy

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Ingredients

• 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1/3 cup water
• 2 cups grated zucchini (squeeze out excess moisture)
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar. In a separate bowl, combine oil, eggs, water, zucchini and lemon juice. Mix wet ingredients into dry, add nuts and fold in. Bake in 2 standard loaf pans, sprayed with nonstick spray, for 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Alternately, bake in 5 mini loaf pans for about 45 minutes.

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Hope Faith Believe Trust - card

I received some bad news yesterday: an uncle of mine was diagnosed with lung cancer. This is the card I made for him last night, a tough one to come up with, to send him our love and support as he begins his fight next week.


The stamp set is an old retired hostess set from Stampin' Up!, Nature's Secret. I believe the card stock is Marigold Morning, Dusty Durango and Soft Suede. The image is stamped on Vanilla card stock with two colors of ink: first the stamp was inked up with Dusty Durango then I rolled the edges in Really Rust.

I stamped it again onto drafting type vellum, trimmed out the butterfly (extending the one wing that was not a complete image, tracing the edge of where I cut with a marker) and adhered it on top along the body section. The wings were gently pulled upwards. I made antennae with really thin craft wire.

The swing portion was hand made. I simply laid the wood mounted rubber stamp down on top of the card stock over the score mark to the left (2 1/4" from the left edge) and lightly traced with pencil around the top, bottom and right edge of the stamp. The wood mount was much larger than the image so it made enough room when traced to allow for extra layers of the stamped image like I wanted. I then used an Xacto knife and straight edge to cut the areas that were to swing (the right half of the square). The second score mark was 4" from the left edge.

Thanks for looking.

Zebra Butterfly Scrapbook Page

Am I crazy for staying indoors working on my scrapbook pages ??????

Weather like this is unheard of in July here !!!!!

 I need get out in the flower beds to do some weeding today....

and wash/vacuum my car, etc, etc, etc. 

That being said, I'll probably not have any new projects to share

the next few days. 

Probably too busy of a page to show off this lovely photo I took of a zebra butterfly in my flower garden.
This was the second photo I submitted to our local newspaper as consideration for photo of the week -
and it was my first of several to be printed in black and white as an "Honorable Mention" photo ! The photo print for the newspaper will be on it's own page that I will include a bit of journaling on. It will be a plain white piece of card stock, nothing fancy - well, maybe a couple of stamped or die cut butterflies ;)


I used a sketch from pagemaps.com.  I actually already scrapped this photo digitally in My Digital Studio using a black card stock base and minimal embellishments , but realized when going through my large print order from May, I never had it printed !

Nearly every item used on this page came from Stampin' Up!, some are now retired though. Once again, in looking at the photo on the computer I see a couple of things I'd like to change.

I hand drew then hand cut the butterfly stencil (should have been larger, not much shows with my larger photo and all the "stuff" on the page!) from some old drafting vellum. I sponged ink through it then pierced around the edges.

Various dies, punches, embossing folders, rubber stamps,shades of purple and orange card stocks.

Ruffled ribbon was created by wrinkling it as I adhered it to a scrap strip of card stock with super sticky double stick tape. You could also use a sewing machine to gather the ribbon first before sticking it down on your project.

Thin craft wire and seed beads for the butterfly bodies/antennae.

Here is the pagemaps.com sketch. I had a "duh" moment while writing this post: why hadn't I copied and pasted the sketches I've used on previous projects in case any of you that may read my post would like to use it yourself ?

Thanks for looking =)

Lighthouse Scrapbook Page

WHOA! The colors are really bright in this photo ! I didn't think it looked so gaudy bright in real life....... 

Still working on pages for my Photo Of The Week submissions scrapbook (there were 42 photos I submitted, so I have many more to do still!). This page features a photo that was published in our local paper as an "honorable mention".

It's difficult to tell in the photo, but the Real Red background paper is textured. I stamped the Old World Map background stamp with Versamark ink on the Brilliant Blue card stock. I am going to doodle a line around the edge of it and the tag when I add my journaling

Photos are mounted on Basic Black card stock.

There is real stitching (look closely and you can see mis stitches!) down the left side.

Black 5/8" grosgrain ribbon below the flecked off white card stock journaling box.

Real Red eyelet on top of a small circle punch of Brilliant blue card stock at the top of the hand cut tag. 1/4" black grosgrain ribbon run through the eyelet.

The layout is based on a sketch I found at pagemaps.com

Thanks for looking =)