Scrap Girl

Hi scrappers.  I did quite a bit of Christmas shopping this past weekend and got some great deals for myself as well.  Michael’s and Joann both had fab Cricut cartridge deals, so I picked two of those up.  I also drew my sister-in-law’s name this year for Christmas and she does some scrapping so I got her a 12×12 storage bin and a scrapbook album kit with papers and embellishments pretty cheap.  She also has a Cricut so I got her some mats for that on sale.  Now is the time to score big on scrapbook supplies and storage so buy yourself a present when you get a chance.  If you are like me, the scrapbooking presents are best!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Be sure to count your blessings this year!  Of course, the official start of Christmas shopping season is upon us starting on Black Friday!  The deals are going to be amazing from what I have seen so far.  If you are wanting the Cricut Electronic Cutter be sure to go online to Joann.com right away on Friday.  They are going for $75.  That is a great deal and as much as I use mine, it is well worth it.  I usually get worked up about tracking down some bargains, but I think this year I may stick to online Black Friday deals.  Those long lines and not having enough product in stock usually put a big damper on my good shopping mood.  Hope you have a great Thanksgiving Holiday! 

A couple of friends and I went on a spur of the moment scrapbooking retreat last August.  I decided to go through some of my digital scrapbooking kits to see what kit would go with the colors in these pictures.  The free kit I used was designed by Melany Violette called “Delightful Girl.”  I downloaded this kit from her website, simplycleandigiscraps.com about a year ago.  I also used a photo template I bought from scrapgirls.com as a starting point on this page.  The templates are nice because you can just place your pictures in the openings for quick and easy scrapbooking.  After you do that, you pick your digital paper and then use the clipping mask command(Ctrl-G) to cut the paper in the shape of the template.

I received some cute pictures of my cousin’s kids about a week ago and knew I better look through my digital supplies to see what I could play with.  Scrapbooking is just such a nice distraction.  I found one of my free digital kits from shabbyprincess.com called “All-in-One.”  It has an autumn theme that went with these pictures well, especially the one from the pumpkin patch.  I also used some wordart that I had gotten free with a newsletter from scrapgirls.com.  Amanda Sok happened to be the designer that day and her “Family Ties” wordart put the finishing touch on this page.

Hi scrappers!  I finally took some pictures of some of my favorite pages from my Grandma’s 90th Birthday album I made for her a few years back.  She recently passed away last month and my extended family gave it back to me.  She really loved the album and took it out to show quite a few people when she was alive.  It was also brought to the services for everyone to look at.  If you get the chance to scrapbook an album like this, I would do it, because it will turn into a treasure for all to share.  I took photos of the title page and the first couple of pages following that.  I typed up the guest list and made a pocket on one of the pages to put it in, in case she wanted to remember everyone that was there.  I figured that not all guests may have been included in the pictures although quite a few were which was nice.  It was hard to pick another favorite page, but the picture of my Grandma with her best friend, Violet, was really endearing to me.   

Hello scrappers!  I was supposed to post some pages from my Grandma’s 90th Birthday album, but I haven’t been able to do it yet.  She just passed away and I’m still feeling blue.  I did pick out the pages I want to show you, but won’t be posting those until next week.  I’ve also had other bad news–my friend’s mother passed away this week and another friend was supposed to have minor surgery that turned into major surgery.  Ugh!  Tonight, luckily, I’m going out for dinner with a girlfriend and then we are going scrapbooking.  I always feel better when I scrapbook, so this is my “Scrap Therapy.”