Play Time!

I may have been bad in spending time in my planet, but not this weekend.  My friend, Danica, needed help in making a travel scrapbook to give as a gift.  I can never pass that up.  I get to play! For today, I'd like to share with you some of the pages we made together.  Yep. This play time involved a lot of brain storming and team work.  

This is one of my favorites.  The picture is not giving it much justice, but we used pages and elements from one of the DCWV 12x12 stacks (I think).  Sorry I don't have the exact name of the pack, as it's Danica's.  But I sure remember loving every page of it.

The next page is more of a collage of pictures.  This is a very easy layout.

I love the swirls in this two page layout.  It came with the designer paper, and we utilized it.

This is one of the easy layouts you can make.  I call this the mirror layout.

And last but not the least is one of my favorites.  The letters are scrabble-themed alpha cardboard stickers.  I told you this required brain storming.  This page will look great once the small pictures are attached to the pink sections.

I had a great time making these pages with Danica.  We weren't able to finish the entire album, but we sure had fun, with a nice bonding time as a bonus!

'Til next blog!

Pink Baptism Invites

If I can make invites for my friends babies, I should make them for my very own niece.  This year, we were blessed with a new addition to our family.  Her name is Johanna Hertz, and I call her Yoyoball.  I regret that I won't be able to hold her while she's a baby because of our geographical distance, but I love her dearly and I can't wait to see her.

It was decided that Yoyoball's theme is pink and white.  Now that is easy.

I got to play with Anna Griffin embossing folders in this project.  The designs are just very intricate, as you can see below.

I also embossed the flap of the matching envelope.  I love it!

For the inside, I printed the details on vellum, then cut with Spellbinders die.  I used micro Glue Dots to attach.  Sorry no pic as there is a list of names of godparents.

I was lucky to have a box handy to fit the invites.  They are ready to fly to the Philippines.  I attached a piece of acrylic cut to size to keep the invites in place during transit.  

I wish I can fit in the box so I can go too.

'Til next blog!

Retirement Party Part 1

The General Manager at work was retiring and we have been preparing for his retirement party.  I was tasked to organize everything, which I don't mind because it's kind of my thing.  For this post, I'd like to share with you the crafty side of the retirement party.  Some are quick and easy projects while the others were pretty challenging, with the celebrant being a male.

The retirement banner was easy.  The company deals with a lot of wood, so I used wood designer tape for the letters.  Nothing fancy. But what makes this banner special is the base.  I used the actual tickets we use for our wood products.  

For a more festive look, I added ribbon in between the letters.  See the border in the bottom?  Those are remnants from a previous project.

Using the same material for the banner above, I used the printed version of the tickets to wrap the retirement gift.  And to really maximize the materials we have at work, I used banding for the wood pallets to make a ribbon/bow with.  I have to say, this gift topper was the hardest to make because the banding is really stiff.  

'Til next blog!

Baptism Invites

My high school friend from the East Coast asked me to make invitations for her daughter's baptism and 1st birthday.  I have made invites for her a few years ago, and the colors we used for those are more traditional (click here to see).  This time, they want something out of the norm.  They are die hard 49ers fans, so she wanted to have the team's colors as the theme.  

For these invites, I opted for a tri-fold base.  I worked on the contents first.  80 of them.  With Photoshop, I just had the details laid out on a 8.5 x 5.5 size, and printed them directly on card stock. It took several tries to get them to print in the right spot.  After printing, I folded each piece, followed by the tedious part of inking the edges of each fold.

After that, I started working on the front.  This involved several layers which required embossing and edge punching.  I worked on each layer, then put them all together.  I have to admit, I had a hard time figuring out how to execute the acronym.  I wanted to use die cut letters, but I got lazy, so I stamped and embossed instead.

How long did this take to make?  Definitely NOT one day.  For big projects like this, I take my time and do one portion on separate days.  That way, I concentrate on only one thing, so as to make sure all cards look really good and the same.

'Til next blog!

Congrats 2

Graduation quick card number 2 is a lot easier.  But I tried to make it look complicated by using slanted lines.  I used the graduate's school colors to match the occasion.  For quick card like this, alpha stickers are really handy.

See the punched cardstock on top?  That's a pocket to slide in the monetary gift.

'Til next blog!