Happy World Card Making Day!

Come celebrate with us at Scrapbook Express! We will have 5 card challenges for you this weekend with great prizes. SE has the most friendly forum and great prices in the store, too! Here is the card for my challenge.

Supplies: cardstock (Core'dinations), texture plates and stylus (Fiskars), diecut machine and dies (QuicKutz), stamp (Fiskars), ribbon (unknown)

One sheet box

Not a lot of crafting is going on in my house in these days. But I managed to make this cute little box using the template from the 3D Design challenge blog . It is a new blog with some cool 3D templates - it will be very useful for the upcoming gift season :)

The box is done from one sheet of 8.5x11 cardstock. I added some embossing using the Fiskars texture plate and used the Fiskars USX to cut the tag. The cat is done with the new Halloween Fiskars squeeze punch. I just had to use it! LOL The little dots are done with CTMH liquid glass.

But what should I put inside??

The good, the bad and the ugly

Lots of good things to share!

My downloadable lesson for Fiskars is up!

http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/projects/t_lessons0608.aspx

I am totally excited about it. It was a lot of work to decide what's is the best way to showcase the technique I was using and keep in mind that I need to give instructions. It definitely changed the way I usually approach the layout. Great experience for me!

Here are some more pictures that were not included in the lesson. They show the use of USX template on top of the texture plate.

This layout was made for the Oh Scrap e-magazine founded by talented Debbie Buckland. The theme was Vision of Fabric. Before saying goodbye to my bathing robe I took the lace off and used it on a layout. The cream and red flowers are pieces of the same lace painted with acrylic paint.

And finally, I finished the huge project I was busy with - two heritage albums for my friend. Here is a sneak peak from album 1:

and album 2:

I will put a slideshow of all pages in few days.

The school is over in 3 days, we will have friends visiting from Maryland and I am far to be ready! That's bad!

Wet basements (we had only minimal damage), sewage in people homes, closed roads and that

That's just plain ugly! This year the weather is full of surprises....

Cards, layout and misc stuff

Itty Bitty Scrap Shack Shack had some cool card inspiration projects and I decided to play along and make some cards. The first 4 are square cards. I felt good to use some scraps :)




This is my favorite! Someone will get it in mail next month :)

After the Fiskars training I was left with few scraps that I used to demo the texture plates. I couldn't just put them in the garbage, they reminded me the ice cream cones. I pull out my CTMH ice cream stamps and started to play. The pictures are from out visit to Israel. The girls were enjoying the ice cream on a hot summer day at our friends backyard. Good memories!

This is for mom. Miss E loves to build things from the magnet blocks. She built this huge E, brought it carefully to my desk and took a picture of it. :) I am so proud of her!

On the other note, I am in the middle of organizing the basement. In one of the boxes I found the project that I started 6 (yes, six) years ago. 2008 will be a year of finished projects!

Catch up

We had a great visit to CA! My dear friends did whatever they could to entertain us - it was so good to spend some time with them, to see the kids, to talk about the old stories! I wish we could meet more! Just few more pictures from the trip. I still need to organize them.

Farmers market - a lot of oranges!

The next two are from Standford University

The girls had a blast playing dress up with the friends. Isn't she adorable?

We came back to a snowy WI and the next weekend I went to a crop with Outlaws. It was great to spend almost 2 days just scrapbooking. I am a slow scrapper but I did a several layouts and worked on my upcoming Fiskars demonstrators training, so I was happy :)

Here is some of what I made:

At the crop we did a charm swap. I made 2 charms. They are cute, but beading is not my field LOL I got some very cute charms from other outlaws including a charm with the outlaws logo!

Last Saturday was my first Fiskateers training. I had 8 ladies. I think it went well. I have few things I want to change for the next training but I am happy that my first training is done. 12 people more to go! Those are the cards I made as a samples for the training.

I am trying to make something everyday, here is my lo from yesterday. Becky Fleck sketch, HG pp and chipboard, HS snowflakes and letters, Jenni Bowlin stamp, Maya Road journaling card

I was freezing all day today for some reason. Maybe I should scrap summer pictures! LOL