My Craft Room

Here's a picture of my craft room.


One day I hope to be able to move everything out, spend 100's of dollars on storage and actually get it organized.


My main problem is I don't want to have to get up to get something once I sit so everything needs to be within reach (makes for a very crowded desk!!.

I keep all of my stamp pads in an old wooden cassette tape holder. My husband fixed it to the wall so I wouldn't have to worry about it falling over.


Here's a picture of a cabinet that my dad made for me. Originally is was designed to hold loose stamps so the smaller drawers on top hold one row of wood mounted stamps or 81/2 X x paper. It's about 5 feet tall! I love it!!

My Squash Book

Here's a blast from the past.... a squash book!! I made this for my aunt a couple of years ago. Just looking at this makes me want to go and make another one. I love making these because they are really very easy and fun!

The hardest part is deciding where the pictures will go and getting pictures that actually look good when it's only a triangle.

Directions for this can be found at Splitcoaststampers.

Page Maps

If you're like me you sometimes get stuck for a really great idea for a scrapbook layout.

Here's a website by Becky Fleck I found that has hundreds of layout "maps". Unlike a real map, you don't have to follow it exactly to get where you want to go.

I printed out a bunch of the maps and plan on taking them to my church's scrapbook overnighter tonight.

Just click on the link below to access all the wonderful layouts she has in her archive.

Page Maps

Family Tree

Here's a page from my heritage album. It shows my family tree (or most of it anyway) on my dad's side.

We use a program called Family Tree Maker to store all of our data as we come across it. It's not the best program out there but it's all we have!!

I printed this out on a regular sheet of paper. I digitally blacked out the names of the living.

I then mounted that sheet onto two other color-coordinated sheets and then mounted that on to the page.

I used my Sizzix to cut branches and leaves, to go with the whole "family tree" theme.

The more I look at this page though the more I think it needs something else. Maybe some felt flowers to brighten it up or something in that big blank white space!!

Our Alaska Trip - Page 1

Three years ago our family took a vacation to Alaska. We went with some friends of ours. I would highly recommend a trip up there for anybody as it is beautiful in the summer.

Here are the first and last pages of the scrapbook I did of our trip. I'll be posting the rest of the pages during the next couple of weeks.

I love the way these two pages "sort-of" go together.

Blueberry Scrapbook

I just received by Storybook cartridge for my Cricut. I had to play!!

This layout was made with Storybook and Christmas Cheer. I used the Christmas cartridge to get the doo-dads on the blueberries.

After I took the picture I had to touch it up a bit on the computer, I cut and pasted some blueberries over the white mark left behind by the flash.

I also erased my journaling and typed in what I had written.

Before cutting, I layed everything out on Design Studio so I would only have to cut once. It worked out great!

Mother's Day Gift

Here's a booklet I made for my mom for Mother's Day. I started out with a picture she gave me (I scanned it so I wouldn't lose the original) of her and I the day I was born, then I added some pictures of me growing up and ended with a picture of my daughter and me the day my daughter was born.

It's short but sweet. I still don't like the way it closes but I haven't been able to come up with any better ideas....how about you?

First Year Milestones

After I started scrapbooking I needed to come up with some way of scrapping my sons first year without a ton of pages (this was for his scrapbook).

I came up with this idea. Only the trees and mountains are stamped. Everything else (except the road) are stickers.

I cut a winding road out of black cardstock and drew a white dividing line down the middle. Next I figured out which milestones I wanted to place on the page and figured out the placement for them.

I placed a car next to each milestone and then placed construction stickers around to show a work in progress.

This remains one of my favorite pages to this day! You can click on the image to get a larger view.

Stollen

Here is one of my newest past-times. Sometimes I cook or bake something that turns out so great I even amaze myself!! I decided I needed to keep a record of those items and what better way than to scrapbook them!!

This is a loaf of Stollen that I made as a test a couple of days ago. I found the recipe on the internet and then changed it to suit me. The original called for candied fruit which I don't like so I changed that to dried fruit. It also called for a glaze, I like the powdered sugar better.

I like this bread. It's dense but not too much so and it doesn't crumb all over the place.

Another Mini Scrapbook

This was a quick little scrapbook I made to highlight our trip up to mount hood.

It was so easy!! The hardest part was getting the pictures the right size to fit. You can make this any size depending on your pictures.

Figure out the size of the pictures you want to place in it, double that (because you will have a picture on the top and bottom). Add 1/4" to 1/2" to measurements and this will be your inside pages to mount the pictures on.

The add another 1/2" to 1" to those measurements and that will be your cover.

You can embellish the cover anyway you want. Punch a couple of holes to run your ribbon through. The ribbon goes behind the pictures so make sure the pictures are put in last.

After you make your "pages", they are simply stapled to the cover

This would be a fun gift for grandparents.