The Programs...

For those of you that saw the invitations about a month ago, here are the programs for the spa party on the 4th of July. Ronnie asked me if I could do them, so I did! They were fairly simply to pull together and I am really happy with how they came out.

I stopped in at Right at Home Scrapbooking in Attleboro on my way up to work last Tuesday. She carries a really nice supply of Bazzill cardstock and papers. I picked out a variety of different aqua and teal papers to use. I cut the 12 x 12 paper in half and folded it so that the programs are a 6x6 size. Inside I used some vellum I had left over from a project that I did a few years ago. I printed the agenda and menu on that and then tied it on with some gold wraphia.

On the front I embossed the shell that I used on the invites. Inside I embossed some smaller shells and then the flower I had used on the front of the invite. I think they came out great! It was also nice to be able to go to my usual scrap night and just be able to crank out the shells! I did smaller ones for name tags that she is going to use on the tables. She's going to write in the names for that.

Overall I think they came out refreshing and very nice looking!

A baby shower...

It was with so much pleasure and excitement that I prepped this stuff for Jessica's shower. She is due with a baby girl in early October and I just can't wait! I have had so much fun buying up little items for her... a little Lilly dress for next summer!

I am making a baby album for her that will covers the first year. These are so much fun to do - esp when it's a girl b/c I can add so much glitz and glamour, i.e. glitter and sparkle! The pages shown here are for the month of January using the new line from Making Memories - Ella, which is just too cute for words!

This is the tag that I made to go on the gift... I wrapped everything up in different color tissue to match these colors and put it in a white basket. This stamp is from a line called Outlines - I have really come to love these stamps. They are just so much fun to work with. I layered many of the different blocks, added stickles or glitter and colored with watercolor pencils.

The shower was a wonderful, fairly simple affair. Jessica looked beautiful. It was so much fun to be there with Jenny and help as she opened up her gifts for her new little girl... and the most exciting part for Jenny and I was that Jessica asked us to be her GodMommy... I am beyond touched and thrilled and will make sure that she is spoiled!

An Acrylic Album...

Another project off my 'to-do' list! I bought this acrylic album a few months ago to try... everything acrylic is all the rage right now so of course I have to do it too!
One of my weekly 'musts' is my Wednesday night at Absolutely Everything - a fitting name - where you can go to work on any project. I have grown very fond of the ladies that join me every week (and the ladies that work there too!). Let alone how much I have learned in the 8 months or so that I have been going. For the month of May, Kate ran a contest to do an acrylic album to win the Bind-It-All machine from Zutter... well it was the perfect excuse to take on the challenge!
I chose my album to do about some of my best friends. It took some time getting used to... acrylic is see through so you really have to position everything right for what you see through to. I opened with a picture of Keith & I at Jessica's wedding last summer... with that I needed to do some more suble colors - some darker greens and blues. I followed up with a picture taken of Jess, Kris & I at the Grog a few years ago so those colors were a little darker too, but started to get bright so I could sort of start moving it along to get to the pink from our bridesmaids dresses at Jess's wedding! I then ended it with pictures of Heather & I along with some of the boys on the back! It really was a very fun activity... I had lots of glitter, the best use of double sided paper (you can see one here with dark pink hearts on one side and big light pink ones on the other side (lower photo), transparencies, fibers (my new favorite), rub-ons are great on these albums and so much more.
The best part of the whole experience??? I WON A BIND-IT-ALL!!!!!! (well... only Melanie and I had the b#$%ls to enter so we both won!) It's going to be a fabulous addition to my new scrap space.