Petal Party Cards

I love the Petal Party scrapbook pack for making cards. I can make around 30-40 cards with each pack. Here are some I recently made. I love that I only needed to use this one pack. Nothing extra was needed (besides adhesive and whatnot). The cards are the standard size, 4"x4" and 2"x2" gift cards.

My Sister at Work

I visited my sister at her work when I was home for the holidays a couple years ago. I got some really cute photos of her "at work." I love these photos. For this page, I used Doodlebug glittery chipboard letters, which is appropriate since my dad calls my sister "doodlebug." The patterned paper is Fusion from Autumn Leaves.

Mom's 60th Birthday

This is a layout about my mom's 60th birthday (a couple years ago -- I'm finally getting caught up on scrapbooking my photos!). I used Basic Grey's Blush patterned paper (except for the polka dot paper, which is from Chatterbox). I love the partridge. I normally don't use hearts for anything but I punched some for embellishments to match the hearts in the Basic Grey paper.

This was an experiment (I've been experimenting with different styles a bit lately). I normally don't place my photos cockeyed like this. But I was inspired by a layout I saw recently. It's also busier than I normally do. But I think it's fun and festive. I used a lot of Stickles to add some bling.

Father's Day Mini Album

My husband got a good laugh when he saw this mini album that I made for my dad for Father's Day. The photos are all quite unflattering of me. I guess we can classify them as being from "the awkward years." LOL

Making this was a real challenge for me. I didn't know what colors or embellishments to use, because I naturally gravitate to very feminine and girly stuff -- lots of flowers -- so I had to put on my thinking cap for this.

Friends Layout

I made this after seeing a layout for a design challenge on the Making Memories blog. A designer there had created a layout that was inspired by the design of a magazine advertisement.

I used Chatterbox patterned paper, Prima flowers, an A Muse stamp (friends -- can't recall who makes the other stamps -- ack!).

Book of Me: Sonja

I've been experimenting with a style of scrapbooking that is more "free form" or bohemian than a lot of what I make. This is a photo of me when I was about a year and a half old. This page is for my book of me.

The flowery paper (which I hand cut), photo mat, swirl transparency (top left), jewels, and rub on (blue swirl on bottom right) are from the Bohemia line. White flower on top of the flower paper is Prima. The background paper on the bottom half is Lil' Davis Designs. Laser cuts at top left corner and that I used as photo corners are Karen Marie's (Plaid).

Two More for NSD

Here are two more scrapbook pages that I made over the weekend for National Scrapbooking Day (gosh, I wonder how much scrapbooking stuff is sold over this weekend -- must be like "black Friday" before Christmas!). For these I pulled out my Club Scrap supplies.

For "Handy," I used the CS Workbench kit papers, a CS big & tall alphabet stamp set, and some Phillips screw-style brads. For "Cooking," I used CS Fossils paper for the background, CS Painted Desert font for the title, CS Culinary stamps, CS Farmer's Market cardstock (the green print), and some Italian veggie papers, random red and cream twill tape.