Snapshots of Life

OK so my photos are me and my husband each with our daughter... but the story is about us being ridiculous a couple weeks ago walking straight into each other in our house, having a full on collision! It was so funny!

I tackled my first challenge for the Art and Science of Scrapbooking class I'm taking over at BigPictureClasses.com! I had this story in my head that I wanted to tell, but didn't have any matching photos, so I found just some recent photos of me and Chris and went with it! I used Jennifer Wilson's layout as inspiration, but ended up using a couple of 4x6 journal cards which worked perfectly here!

I actually dug into the Roundabout kit from Studio Calico last year - a kit I hardly used because I was preggo and tired! I haven't really gone back to it either because it didn't really inspire me, especially with all the travel-themed stuff and I haven't traveled in a LONG time... but it worked great and I kept it very simple!

Best Wishes Card

I made this card for a friend who is moving away... so I wanted it to emanate a nice going away feeling instead of sad or like a "see ya!" type of card. I almost went the route of Bon Voyage, but I feel like that is too "see ya"-like if that makes sense. Luckily I found a small "Best Wishes" sentiment stamp from the Dear Lizzy stamp set by American Crafts to convey the perfect sentiment.

I started with that Adventure Stamp from Studio Calico and stamped it on different sections of the same piece of BasicGrey paper that had different types of tickets in different colors on it. I embossed in black embossing powder and cut them out by hand. I wasn't sure how I wanted to arrange them, but finally settled on this arrangement to leave some space for a sentiment.

I added some washi tape and airmail twine to the side, then after a few botched attempts at stamping my friend Monica's name, and wasn't thrilled with the results, I used the diecut label, also from Studio Calico and added letter stickers by BasicGrey. I cut two little metallic dots from a string of them by Hero Arts and that was it! I was going to add a bunch of other embellishments on top of the squares, but decided it was already busy enough looking and didn't want to bog down the card too much! Have a nice weekend, bon voyage!!

Baby Baptism Card

Let me start by saying I accidentally misspelled our cousin's name who was getting baptized - after I photographed the card, I went back and pulled up the banner with "Avery" and re-did it with "Averie" after I saw the correct spelling on the invitation again.

This card took me a few hours! Oh well, I just started by stamping with Martha Stewart doily stamps on watercolor paper and embossing them in white. Then I added some watercolors over/around them, knowing they would resist the water!

Finally I found the Jesus loves you stamp and embossed in gold, and added the gold triangle sequins around it that came in the Roundabout kit from Studio Calico. I wasn't sure how to add her name, so just stamped it and embossed in the same gold and added it as a banner! Quick idea, but the stamping/embossing and water-coloring took a bit!