Biograph Theater [LCOM #31].

Here's our sketch for this week: 

I changed the sketch to 8.5x11 size for my 2012 album. These photos are from our trip to Chicago, visiting the place where John Dillinger was shot.

Most everything on this page came from my June Studio Calico kit, Roundabout. I added the Jillibean Soup diecut cardstock placement & the MME label stickers (Lost & Found3). The stamp is from the kit & I used Staz On ink in jet black. I also inked the wood veneer arrow with Prima chalk ink in shabby tote.

You can visit the LCOM sketch & see the other projects from the DT members HERE.

Let's Capture our Memories design team call!

Our next DT call is open! 

We are seeking individuals who are passionate about creating and inspiring others. If you are not afraid to think outside the box, let loose and have fun getting creative with your projects, then you are perfect for our Let's Capture Our Memories Design Team! 

Requirements: Let's Capture Our Memories is seeking designers who are interested in working with a team to create a variety of projects such as layouts, cards and/or altered art. You must have an active blog and you are willing to promote Let's Capture Our Memories on any online galleries/forums you participate as well as all aspects of social media and you are able to commit to a 4 month term from September 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013. 

Responsibilities: 1) Create 2-3 projects per month. 2) Post your projects on the Let's Capture Our Memories blog, your own blog, your Facebook page and/or Twitter account on a weekly basis. 3) Promote Let's Capture Our Memories through your own personal blog, Facebook, Twitter and any online forums you are able to. 4) You will create projects on a rotational basis as scheduled. Send your "assignments" in a timely manner. 5) Upload your Design Team projects into the LCOM gallery monthly. 6) Some Forum participation will be required. 

We are also looking for creative individuals to create sketches for our Design Team and individuals to create projects that involve a make/take, technique or tutorial including step out photos or video and instructions for our readers. 

What’s in it for you? *Opportunity to design for a growing and talented scrapbooking blog! *Recognition for you and your blog! *Opportunity to work with sponsor product when it is available! *Experience, inspiration and the chance to be on a seriously amazing team!! 

 If you are interested in being part of the Let's Capture Our Memories Design Team, please send us the following no later then 12 midnight (AST) on August 9, 2013 to isabelledoucette@hotmail.com. Please include: - A copy of your "scrapbook" resume or brief bio about yourself, your full name, address and phone number. - A link/address to your blog and any online galleries you may have. - A link to any social media that you participate in (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.) - Please share 2 layouts and 1 other project which you feel expresses your style. - Please tell us why you would be a great addition to the Let's Capture Our Memories Design Team. This Call is open to Canada and USA.

Packers training camp.

I'm linking up with Erin today to share about our trip last weekend to GB Packers training camp.We drove up Thursday, practices were scheduled Friday, Saturday, & Sunday mornings. Somehow I didn't set the alarm right Saturday so we overslept & missed practice. Sunday was the first practice with pads & was also an hour longer.

Their tradition is to ride little kid's bikes to and from practice every day:

Clay Matthews

Jordy Nelson

Mason Crosby

 We did the stadium tour while we were there, which after doing the Dallas Cowboys stadium tour, did not compare at all. We felt ripped off! We didn't get to see the player's locker rooms, the media room, the visiting locker rooms, or the cheerleader's locker rooms. We also didn't get to go on the field. It wasn't a self-guided tour like the Dallas tour was, & our group felt a little large & rushed. We were toward the back of the group so we couldn't hear most of what the guide was saying, plus if we wanted to stop & peek at things, they rushed us along since we were the last ones in the group. Overall, it was still neat to see & I would recommend it.

the tunnel

There's an optional Hall of Fame tour you can purchase with the stadium tour so we did that too since we were there. A lot of history!

Practices started at 8:20 a.m. & our hotel was pretty convenient but we still had to get up early to get there & find a parking spot. We watched the players ride the bikes down to the practice field & then we headed down there ourselves. From our seats, we mostly saw the quarterbacks & the receivers. Not that I am complaining!

I was a little disappointed in Aaron. He didn't participate in the bike riding tradition & we also didn't see him interact with any fans at all. In fact, what we saw him do Sunday was sneak out of practice & get into a truck to be escorted back to the locker room. Lame!

kisses card.

Today I'm sharing a card I made with TWO Gelatins stamp sets! I used the SWAK stamp set + the leopard background. I love animal prints!

The background stamp is inked with American Crafts pigment ink. I added some washi & a strip of paper.  The speech bubbles are cut from a piece of patterned paper (Pebbles Seen & Noted|Take Note). I also used a vellum stitched heart from Amy Tangerine + the "kisses" sentiment is from the Studio Calico Wildberry Court kit.

The lips from the SWAK stamp set are inked with poppy parade by Stampin' Up. Such a pretty red color & it looks like real lips! This card measures about 4.25 inches tall x 4.375 inches wide.

safe.

Fox 28: South Bend, Elkhart IN News, Weather, Sports

My friend recently returned from a deployment in Guantanamo Bay & was on the news. She's the one hugging her mom saying, "don't cry." She was deployed for a year & the crazy girl just signed on for three more years. Glad she made it back home safe!

favorite things|Juy edition [link up].

1) This milestone reached:

 2) This silly boy:

3) These pretty Sally Hanson nails:

 4) Finding this lovely wrought iron lighting fixture at a art sale/rummage sale in Oshkosh, WI (actually there are two of them & he sold them both to me for $5!):

5) Getting to go to Packers training camp for my bday weekend:

exciting news|Whimsical Twist design team!

I'm excited to share that I was asked to be a part of the first design team for Whimsical Twist! Kimmie has a cute little site with lots of great products & new items from summer CHA will be arriving soon. There's a great group of gals lined up & we're planning challenges & blog hops (with prizes!) so stay tuned! 

28th year recapped.

1 visit a pumpkin patch & bring home a pumpkin

2 go on a hot air balloon ride

3 take a vacation to the east coast

4 get another tattoo (Sept 2012)

5 pay off my car

6 run in another race (possibly while in Green Bay July 27!)

7 take a wine tasting class (we did a wine tasting winter 2012)

8 take Bentley on an overnight stay somewhere

9 cut back on cussing

10 finish the Catcher in the Rye

11 paint the living room

12 paint the entryway/hallway (halfway done 3/12)

13 visit a new zoo (John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, MI 5/13)

14 go to a ballet

15 see Chicago at Christmas time (did go 12/12 but didn’t see Michigan Ave)

16 stay in a cabin in Tennessee in the fall

17 donate blood again

18 set up the basement for emergency preparedness

19 get my teeth bleached

20 buy something at a farmer’s market

21 go to the tulip festival in Michigan (May 3-5, 2013!)

22 learn to use my pressure cooker

23 learn how to use Photo Shop

24 ride my bicycle more

25 be published in a magazine again (Scrap ‘n Art online magazine July/August 2013!)

26 attend church regularly (regularly as of May 2013!)

27 be a nicer person

28 fix the patio doors

29 buy a house (looking...)

30 continue to foster/rescue work for Love of Labs (yes!)

 

Revisiting this list & checking the progress I've made. This list is actually saved on my laptop as 30 before 30 so I think I'm doing good. :)

welcome baby.

Two of my friends are currently pregnant with baby girls. 

I used the Little Buddies Gelatins Stamp set for this card but I only used the sentiments.

Here's the entire stamp set:

The sentiment was stamped with walnut stain Tim Holtz distress ink. I really like this rich brown. I also used Timeless Twine & a border punch along the bottom of the front of the card.

I also used my July Studio Calico kits for this. I loved all of the July kits. If you're interested in subscribing, please use my referral link.

sweetheart.

This sweet photo of Hunter is from my Instagram feed. I printed it using the Walgreens app - it's 4x4 size. They were ready in an hour & while I do like the size, the quality is a little lacking. I printed this same photo from my home printer (Canon Pixma MX882) & found the colors to be much brighter & more sharp. 

Anyway, we had a cook out for my mom's birthday back in April. Hunter is such a sweet, calm 11 year old boy. This is a stark contrast to my Bentley who at roughly 3.5 years old, is still a completely maniac, even tied out on the cable, away from everyone.

I used my July SC kits for this one & a lot of stamping. I used the stamps from the main kit + the two add on kits + the July stamp add on. I was inspired by the Paper Secrets sketch challenge HERE. The twist was to use a Project Life card. I don't do Project Life but I have a few cards left from the Echo Park everyday eclectic collection. I cut one in half here & included it in the layers above & below the photo.

little moments make life big [LCOM #29].

I strayed quite a bit from the sketch on this challenge but the sketches are just meant to be inspiration. A starting point. So here's the sketch we used: 

I was flipping through an old album & found a page with photos of my little cousins (when they were much littler!) that I wanted to re-do. I don't often re-work pages when they're done but I really wanted to give this page an update. Here's what I came up with:

First, I turned this into an 8.5 x 11 page. I used the strips to a lesser extent. I did use my typewriter for journaling on the strips, which I just took word for word from the previous page I had made. The papers are all Echo Park love story & I also used the sticker embellishment sheet from that collection as well.

The stamps are Technique Tuesday (Simple Joy) & Studio Calico (from the Wildberry Court add on kit for the circle & the ampersand, not sure which kit is the sentiment quote stamp). Inks are Prima chalk ink in ladybug & Versafine in onyx. I also grabbed some of the chipboard embellishments from MME Lost & Found3.

Check out the LCOM blog today to see what the other DT members did. Here are the rules so you can play along...

Our July prize is a 10$ gift certificate to the LCOM store and a copy of new Summer issue of Scrapbook and Card Today magazine!

How to Play Along: 

1. Make a newly created project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery.

2. Then leave a link to your project using the Inlinkz widget. Please use a direct link to your LCOM Sketch post and not just your blog address.
3. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword LCOM29. LCOM products are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. If you don't have a particular shape indicated in the sketch, feel free to substitute.
4. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but the linking form will close on the last day of the month at 8:00pm (Atlantic Standard Time) to allow us to find a prize winner.

first perm.

When I found this photo of my first perm, it reminded me of my last perm. I wanted to try something different my senior year in high school. It did not go well & I think it's safe to say I'm not going to try a perm ever again. 

This is mostly the Sweet Valley High main SC July kit. The red sequins & the stamps are from the Molly add on & the buttons are from the Jennifer add on. I also used the July stamp add on as well. 

I didn't want to lose my mom's handwriting documenting my first perm from the back of the photo, but I knew I wanted to crop the photo because of a busy background. So I scanned the back of the photo & printed it on kraft cardstock. Then I included it as journaling on the layout.

this was amazing.

I finally had some time to scrapbook so I dug into my July SC kits & I busted out two layouts today. Here is one I did about an eagle release we stumbled upon back in February. 

I used mostly Jennifer + the label stickers from Molly. Last month I only got the main kit & I wasn't a fan of it. It was the first kit since I've been subscribing that I hardly used any of & I started subscribing in March. This month I purchased two add ons + the stamp add on, which I used here. I don't usually get the stamp add on because you get a stamp set with each kit but this July stamp add on was so amazing & I know I'll get a ton of use out of it. If you're thinking about subscribing to the SC kits, please use my referral link.

I was inspired by the Scrap Much? week 2 sketch HERE. I changed the size from the sketch to 8.5 x 11.

top 100 books|how many have you read?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible  

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman  

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare  

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier   

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

 40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel[This was a no go for me. I didn't like it.]

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante 

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt (Own It but haven’t read it yet)

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle     

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo