May Year in Review

Year in Review is an ongoing project presented by Captured Moments.  Each month, there are three double pages layouts that are a patchwork of designs.  Using We R Memory Keepers plastic page protectors and Simple Stories Yearology papers, Tiffany creates six unique scrapbook pages. I never know what I'm going to get.

While Tara posts the sample blank pages, here is what I did with the May pages.  I have a blank spot or two where I have to print something else but it's basically together.  I'm enjoying this project.  So what happened in May?

Mara continued to make the local malls her home away from home, Brandy and Brian found out they are having twins,  we visited the Howe family, more flowers in our yard bloomed, the Captured Moments crop was an emerald theme for May.......

the Hunnicutts hit the South Carolina beach, the DeNami blog hop theme was Pretty Pastels, the NFL draft gave the Jets the annual opportunity to select a bad first round draft pick, the Department announced our new Division Director would be Lora Santelli, we traveled to Manchester by the Sea and Salem in Massachusetts.....

my son sent me a wonderful Mother's Day card, we visited Kerri and Max for dinner, we took a Wilton basic cake decorating class together.....

Gerri, Karen, April, and I walked the Workforce Challenge and took our picture with the Commissioner and Dr. Birkhead, we honored fallen soldiers for Memorial Day, both American Idol and Dancing with the Stars picked their finalist and both were not my picks..........

and most importantly, I went to Absolutely Everything to take four classes with Tim Holtz, two of which were with my local friends.  This was so special I had to use two whole pages just on Tim Time.

I realized I left off Mom and Joey's birthday and Joey's return home so I'll be shifting some pictures around to include those.


I'll be posting the other month pages as well but I decided to go backwards and put the most current activities here.  If you head over to the Captured Moments blog year in review link, you'll be able to see all the page layouts.  More to follow.

July 17th Sketched Out Scrapbook Pages

Here are the samples of the four pages planned for the July Sketched Out class on Tuesday July 17th.  Four great pages for $25, papers included.  This month features beautiful papers by Basic Grey.  Love them. Sign up at the register at Michael's in Latham Farms.  Sign up by June 23 for a 25% discount in the Beat the Heat promotion.  That's only $18.75 for four pages.  Great deal.

Welcome to the June DeNami Blog Hop!  This month's theme is 'Cards for Guys'. The particulars about the hop are listed below.

Who can join: Anyone who has a DeNami stamp and can create a "guy" card.

When does it happen: The blog hop starts on June 10th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until June 11th, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).Why do we do this: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes-what's in it for your: DeNami gives away a $20 gift certificates to their website to TWO people who comment along the hop!  Be sure to comment as you go to enter as many times as possible.

You should have arrived from the blog of Greta Hess.  If you get lost along the way, hop back to the DeNami blog to find your way back to where you want. 

Not a surprise but the new chicks were extremely popular at the W. Springfield show last weekend.  We sold out of the chair chick, the coffee chick, and the cupcake chick.  I met lots of great DeNami lovers and hope a few stop by during the hop to have a chance to win a gift certificate. 

I had a hard time picking between the sports chicks, armchair chick, Mimi's boyfriend surfing, sailing, space stamps, etc.  I looked at the cruising chick, tank chick, cars, penguins (which I think are boys), and even the farmer.  I finally decided on......the fishing chick.  I have fishermen in my family so I hope to get good use from this stamp.

So here is Mr. Fishing Chickie.  In my mind, a day fishing or sitting by the water is great way to relax. My plan all week was to match it with the Sea Friends set but, what do you know, I don't own it.  Guess I'll have to place an order on line when I was just standing in the most wonderful exhibit.  Instead I used the sailing boat from the Under the Sea set.   

The cloud paper is something I picked up at Michael's.  The blue is a shimmery glossy paper and the clouds are embossed and covered in textured fluff.  The waves are cut with a Fiskers edge punch and the grass is patterned paper torn for an uneven edge.  The boat and chick were stamped on white paper and cut (as close as I could) then mounted with foam tape.  The sentiment is from A Muse and was stamped on the cloud paper.

Thanks for stopping by.  The next stop is Jennifer Harris.

And while you are traveling through the hop, you'll find Tenia Nelson's blog.  She's the guest artist, and has the cover spot, in the current edition of Stamper's Sampler "Take Ten". Congratulations.

Scrapbook page for Michael's Demonstration-Mother's Day

Here is a picture of a scrapbook page I made for demonstration event at Michael's.  I used Brenda Walters papers, die cut flowers, and a little ribbon and bling.  Plus a Martha Stewart punch that's part of the monthly punch class. Super simple.  Super elegant. Enjoy.

Michael's Demo-Graduation page

Here is a quick and fun graduation page I demonstrated at Michael's.  The design is from the company but I added the phrase which was on the back of the paper I used.  I thought it was too good to not use it. It's wonderfully easy.  Congratulations to this year's graduates.

A great time at the W. Springfield Show

This week I worked at the DeNami booth at the Heirloom Production Stamp Show in W. Springfield, MA.  Saturday was wildly crazy while Sunday was much slower.  We didn't remember to take pictures during the day.  The top photo is my friend Heather with Nami, Bryant, and Evan.  Heather joined me on the trip and ended up working most of the day because we were so busy.  As a true scrapper, she remembered to take a pic with the family on the sales floor.

We didn't remember to take a picture of Heather, Joey and I together, nor did I remember to take a picture with the family while the booth was still up.  But I got one quick pic of us together after we broke down the booth.  The whole booth has been redesigned and makes it much easier to set up and break down.  Gary really thought it through.  I was amazed at how fast we were done.  We were the first booth done.  

I love all the new stamps.  We sold out of most of the new cling chick stamps:  arm chair chick, computer chick, cupcake chick, and coffee cup chick. I personally bought the fishing chick because my family likes to fish.  

I'm planning on joining the family in August for the Hamburg, NY show.  Can't wait.  I want more of these new stamps plus the ribbon is a great deal at the show.  See you all then.

DeNami Sketch Challenge #12

Here is a quick card based on the lastest DeNami Designs Sketch Challenge.  

 

I used a favorite stamp of mine, Elegant Floral Circle J138, which I colored with Prismacolor pencils.  I added some black glaze pen dots on the outer circle which are hard to see in the photo.  Underneath is a scrap of Paper Parachute paper.  I love their papers so much I don't throw away any scraps.  On the side is Tim Holtz file tab.  I admit I'm a little addicted to Tim's stuff after the classes I attended last weekend.  I know the vintage look doesn't really match the elegant DeNami stamp, but I wanted to use something different than ribbon, so there you go.

The circle is mounted with foam tape to an olive background with A Muse dotted swiss sheer ribbon.  Another thing I've been hanging on to because I love it and can't get it easily.  The card base has the D127 Elegant Floral Leaf Sprig stamped randomly.  I originally stamped it in Versamark ink but it didn't show on this card so I added more with Always Artichoke ink.  

Finally I made a little shrink plastic flower using D128 Elegant Floral Blossom colored with Prismacolor pencils. 

How many of us have some of that plastic stuck away among our treasures and forget to use it?  Again, I just wanted to use something different.  Enjoy looking at all the entries to the challenge.  They are excellent.  Happy Memorial Day.

I'm looking forward to seeing some DeNami addicts at the Springfield stamp expo next week.  Stop by and say hi while you pick up some of the new cling mount stamps and old favorites.