August Scrapbook Layout Class

Yes, I used Carta Bella Paper's Paris Girl Collection to create these layouts! It is such a pretty collection with it's pinks, blacks, grays and whites! Add to that great texture and it's a winner!  I had a great time designing these!  Hope you enjoy them! The class is scheduled for Friday, August 24th at 6:00 pm.

Here are what they look like as double layouts!

I am looking forward to teaching this class, though as usual, I got carried away and there are a lot of pieces to cut to make the class kits! Hope you like the layouts and thanks for stopping by!  Remember to leave me a comment.  Everyone who leaves a comment gets one entry into the Christmas Super Giveaway. One comment per blog post is allowed.

M-C

June 2012 Layout Class

Hello my friends! Well it's that time again! Although I haven't held my May class yet (I'm glad to say that it's sold out), I have finished designing the 6 layouts for my June class.  Five of the eight kits I currently have available are already reserved. I might be able to get more and hold a second class if there is a demand for it. The layouts were created using Echo Park's Hello Summer.

So here they are, I really hope you like them, they are bright and were a lot of fun to put together!

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Layouts for my June Class

The layouts for the June class use the Echo Park for the Record kit. We all seem to love what Echo Park has been doing lately and you'll notice that many of my classes have used their collection kits. This is a glimmer/shimmer misting class.  There are three doilies as well as a flower that are misted and we will also be making the flower on the first page.  For the Record, LOL, there is also lace to be applied and bling.I'm looking forward to it! You may be wondering why my layouts never have pictures!  They do, eventually, but for the class they are actually "naked" and for the picture taking I add some standard size photo mats just so people can get an idea of the pictures that can be added.  The white mats are just a suggestion though!

And here they are in their pairing:

I hope that you enjoy the layouts!  I may have a couple of extra kits for sale, all pre-cut and premisted, ready for you to put together.  The cost is $35 and you can reserve one by emailing me.  I'll let you know and send you a paypal invoice as soon as it is clear how many will be in the class.  I believe that I have 8 of the paper kits on hand!  Thanks ahd have a great day!

March Layout Class and a Sneak Peek at May's!

Next are the 6 pages for the April Layout class. There will be a part two of this class in June, with a "For The Record" Class in May, just to break things up a little! Anyone attending the April class is required to also purchase the June class. Total cost of $40 for both, is payable the night of the first class, since the base kit will have been opened and compromised.  If you would like to order the complete 12 page travel kit and have it mailed to you, please contact me.  The kits will ship out once all 12 pages are ready and kitted, likely in early June. The Travel page kit is from Best Creations and it is just adorable! 

Sometimes the paper tells most of the story and
you don't need a ton of embelishments.



We are going to learn to make the letters match perfectly.



A little of this and that!

Sneak peek at the May class... layout in progress:

The May, For the Record class, will be a little higher at $35 for the 6 pages, as I intend to use trim, flowers, metal embelishments and so forth on most of the 6 pages! For the record is intended for the ladies to use for themselves or someone special to document their lives and I intend for the layouts to reflect this.

Just a reminder, this is my work and is automatically copywrited. Please do not reproduce the pictures without my permission! I would really, really hate to have to sic Hubby on you, haha!

Project Share - 12 x 12 Layout

I was in our local scrapbook store the other day looking at the new papers, and touching them, LOL!  Yes, it is just one of those things, I have to see things in real life to get excited about it!  Pictures are wonderful, but they really aren't a substitute, if you know what I mean!  I'd seen the two new Graphic 45 paper lines, Le Cirque and Curtain Call on line but wasn't sure what I'd do with it. When I saw it in the store, I immediately knew I needed to make a heritage layout for my album.  So here it is:

In addition to the Graphic 45 Le Cirque paper, I used a crocheted doily, some Prima lace, Prima bling. a hand made rosette flower, 3 Recollection flowers and a big black Petaloo flower. I used a skeleton leaf under the rosette, and two black medallions (one has a pearl center) that I got at Michael's.

I am going to re-scan the original picture with my new Epson Artisan 810 printer in the hopes that I can get a scanned copy that is as detailed as the original.  I must say that this scan of my mom and dad's picture is not nearly as good as the original and that is likely due to the very old scanner I used the first time.

Thank you so much for stoping by and visiting with me!
M-C

I haven't Disappeared, Honest!

I know, I can't seem to keep up with anything or anyone the way I'd like to these days! Have the days gotten shorter? Either they did or my interests have just gotten broader, but at any rate I always feel that there is so much I want to do, look at and read about that often, at the end of the day, I have nothing tangible to show for the day other than the house being clean and the beds and laundry being done!

A couple of weeks ago hubby dragged me along for a nice, if very short, trip to Canada. We went to London Ontario for three days, soI really didn't get to see anyone I knew!  We flew from the Cincinnati airport (CVG), which is actually in Hebron, Kentucky to London (Ontario) via Toronto. As you can see from the very enhanced and brightened picture of Toronto I took from the airplane, we were not flying in on a bright sunny day! Now there was something that I found a little weird!

We flew Air Canada, and believe it or not, all but one leg of the trip was in a prop plane? Yes you heard me right, a plane with propellers, not jet engines! I can't remember the last time I did that, in fact I can't remember doing that at all, but given that I've been flying for over 45 years, yes I am that old though I was pretty young when I first flew to Paris, the odds are pretty good that I must have hopped on a prop plane at some point!

I was fortunate enough to meet and travel with two of Hubby's students and they were seriously the nicest young women. Imagine little me, and I mean that literally as I am just under 5 ft 4 walking with three people who range in height from 5 ft 11 to 6 ft 2!  Yup, I travelled with giants, LOL!

Someone who is not a giant and that we spotted while waiting for our plane in Toronto was Don Cherry and Ron MacLean of Hockey Night in Canada fame! We were reminded of his flamboyant jackets when in the airport in London where he had a jacket he had donated for a charitable cause. I took pictures of Andrea and Brandis with the jacket so they could show their friends and family.

 I did visit a Michaels and two local scrapbook stores while in London and I truly feel sorry for my Canadian scrapbook friends! At this time the Canadian dollar is at par or worth even a touch more than the US dollar, yet an item that costs $1.99 here, was  $4.49 there!  Seriously?  I guess that despite the fact that the item in question was made in China, it must have travelled to the US and then to Canada. 

My biggest disappointment was not finding anything at all in any of the stores that was made in Canada for the Canadian market.  There was one line of stamps in one of the local scrapbook stores, but that was it!  I hope that when I travel in the next year to Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec city, that I will be lucky enough to find something different than the big names we are all familiar with, Prima, My Minds Eye, K & Co etc. It is always finding the things I haven't seen first hand that enchants me when I visit a local scrapbook store!

Next I hope to post my "pages" for the March layout class I'm teaching, so please come back soon!

Thanks for dropping by,

M-C

Catching Up... Again

If you haven't heard, I've been busy trying to keep up with a challenge on You Tube launched by Marion Smith of Prima fame! Her challenge lasts 31 Days, requires 31 videos and 31 goals! You can get to my You Tube channel here. Updating my blog today was so important to me that I made it my Day 8 challenge!

Other than that I actually hosted a crop last night!  I don't know if you heard but we had a little bit of snow that then froze into black ice yesterday just before rush hour.  Apparently, the roads in Northern Kentucky were not salted ahead of time and there were 86 accidents in our county alone! I want to thank the three brave souls, Charlene, Juliet and Lynne who joined me last night for the crop!  Luckily, I had sanded the driveway, and the path all the way down to the craft room so none of my frieneds were included in the statistics!!

This morning I taught a scrapbooking class right here in my craftroom! Six wonderful ladies, all of them teachers, came over and we did three, 2 page layouts that I had designed using the Echo Park Wintertime collection!I had a great time! A special thanks to Sharon for getting the group together!

I am also working on a mini album, nothing terribly fancy, but for my friends in Florida, Hubby said that since we were going to Destin, for my DMIL's birthday festivities, he thought it would be a great idea to go down and see my friends in Tampa!  WooHoo!  I am really looking forward to it and I'll be calling someone with the initials MLF(M) Monday to ask if she'll put me up for a couple of nights!!!  So if you know me, you know that I'm prepping the mini album to put in my pictures and journal my trip! I can't wait!

Well that's it for now!  Don't forget to check out this month's blog candy giveaway and comment!  I'd love to hear what all of you are doing crafting wise these days!