Updates Coming Soon!

Updates are coming soon!  I had to take a break when I became ill (I'm on much better heart medication now and doing so much better) and then when I began to mend my children's activities took a change of direction, we moved, and all of my crafting supplies and inventory went into storage then many were available for purchase inside my parents' store.

But my parents are getting ready to retire, so now I'm working on going through it all, finding crafting space in my new home and storage shelving for the items for sale!  Soon I will have a list of the goodies I have for sale and keep it in a permanent page on this blog but also will begin to offer them for sale on Ebay or Etsy, I believe.  I'm up on the Northshore in Massachusetts now and still have some kits in large enough quantities for workshops in your home as well as plenty of page-kits in different themes but using the same cutting diagrams/layouts as well as the ability to create book projects in different themes but the same dimensions/instructions!

Club Scrap: Sonoma 3/10 - Metallic Grape; Apothecary 8/09 - Dark Grey, Light Grey, Wine; Musical Interlude 12/05 - Borders & Backgrounds UM Stamps, Club Stamp UM Stamps; Retreat 2008 All The World's a Stage - Digital Kit Stamps; India Ink Pad;
Ranger: Adirondack Alcohol Inks - Caramel, Copper Mixative, Cranberry, Latte, Mushroom, Raisin, Wild Plum; Polished Stone Technique;
Krylon: Metallic Leafing Pen - Red, Silver;
Offray: Ribbon;
Cropadile;
Glossy Cardstock;

It's hard to see in the scan but the alcohol inked front panels are stamped with the Musical Interlude sheet music as is the gray insert... the interior panel with all of the info was inked up, then printed with both the text and a background digistamp showing a theatre seating chart.

The big thing that's been occupying our time is that my twins have become actresses! They've each performed roles in 4-5 professional theatre productions (North Shore Music Theatre's Gypsy and The King & I, American Repertory Theater's Wild Swans, Salem Theatre Company & Marblehead Little Theatre's Ragtime, Huntington Theatre Company's A Future Perfect, and Underground Railway Theatre & Central Square Theatre's Brundibar & But the Giraffe!) and have been venturing into film and commercial work! They played supporting roles as best friends of the main character children in Infinitely Polar Bear which was one of the highest, if not highest, selling films at this year's Sundance Film Festival! And Uatchet is currently appearing on television in Connecticut in an advertisement for Greenwich Hospital! You can follow their acting careers at their official acting pages http://facebook.com/UatchetJ & http://facebook.com/NekhebetJ!

8 Layouts using 10 of Spades ALSB Idea Deck Volume 2

Here is another multiple layout set, this time using the 10 of Spades card from the ALSB Idea Deck Volume 2! Each pair of layouts uses only 4 sheets of 12x12 paper plus 1 sheet of 8.5x11 paper (or three photo mattes)!



Vermont Cows - 10 of Spades Left by Neith Juch
Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 10 of Spades (left); Mirror Mirror 11/08 - Robin's Egg, Light Celery, Dark Celery; Hybrid Ink Pad - Earth;
Dollar Tree - Foam Alphabet Stickers;

When we visited the Ben & Jerry's factory, in Vermont, the kids couldn't get enough of the cows that were grazing past the flavor graveyard! Luckily we managed to remind them that the fence might be electric before they got too close!



Smart Car - 10 of Spades Right by Neith Juch
Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 10 of Spades (right); Mirror Mirror 11/08 - Robin's Egg, Light Celery, Dark Celery, Dark Celery Print; Hybrid Ink Pad - Earth;
Scrapbook Takeout: Parisian Vintage Chic 5/08 - Thickers Velvet in Cream;

My son loves spotting cool cars everywhere that we go... yet somehow it took a trip to Montreal to see our first Smart Car on the road! Of course, it was in his favorite color, lime green!



Recycled Creations - 10 of Spades Left by Neith Juch
Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 10 of Spades (left); Bistro - Tangerine; Science - Topaz Foil Print; Stratosphere - Green; Wheel & Sprocket - Green; Palette Hybrid Ink - Noir Black;
Scrapbook Takeout - Alphabet Stickers;

No, sadly we didn't make these wallets, but we took phoos since we loved them and want to create some! But first we have to start getting paper cartons of milk and juice! These very cool wallets are available to buy in the gift shop at the Montreal Botanical Gardens.







A Perfect Day - 10 of Spades by Neith Juch
Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 10 of Spades; Artifacts 2/09 - Paprika Print, Paprika Plain, Dark Aqua Print, Dark Aqua Plain, Light Aqua Plain, Stickers; Palette Hybrid Ink Pad - Noir Black;

My cousins had a blast showing one of their local playgrounds off to my children! We laughed, we swam, we climbed, and we even hunted in the marsh for cattails!







Bridging to Juniors ALSB Vol2 10 of Spades by Neith Juch
Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 10 of Spades; Mirror Mirror 11/09 - Robin's Egg Blue, Light Celery, UM Stamps;
Ranger: Adirondack Pigment Ink Pad - Espresso;
K & Co: Brownie Scrap Pad; Marcella by K - File Folder;

We had such a beautiful bridging ceremony for our troop as the girls progressed to Juniors! They each drew pictures of a favorite Brownie memory and these images, plus photos of the artist during brownie events, were in a slide show right before we called them up to cross them all over! For this layout, I paired up Club Scrap's Mirror Mirror kit with one reversible official Girl Scout print and made just a few extra cuts to help frame the artwork... And added in the printed folder that wasn't part of the Girl Scout line, but matched beautifully! (I've got tiny reprints of the girls' bridging certificates to tuck into the file folder on this layout!)



Easter 2009 Digital Layout by Neith Juch
Club Scrap Digital: Memoirs 7/09 - Plain2, Tag01, Tag03, BBFStamp7; Perfect Ten 6/09 - DBG4; Inked Edges Volume 1 - 4x5, 4x6c, 8x10a, 12x2, 12x12a, 12x12c;
PSE: Altered Hues/Saturation, Layer Blending Modes, Opacity;

This layout is indeed digital, but, by using transparent papers you can create a similar layout! I loved the quiet colors in the main photo and wanted to really set it off, so I took it a step further by creating three layers of the same photograph and desaturated a top layer of the photo, then used the Screen layer blending mode on that layer... then I used the Multiply layer blending mode on the middle layer and adjusted the top two layers' opacity and color until I was satisfied. Then I applied the same effects to the smaller images that share one matte.

10 Layouts Polynesian Crafter Classics

There are so many wonderful Crafter Classics from Club Scrap! The designers take the original artwork from an amazing older kit and rearrange everything, adding new artwork and text, then pair it up with a mix of solid cardstock from different Club Scrap kits to create a brand new twist on old favorites! The Polynesian Kit was way before my time and I only have odds and ends from the original, but thanks to the Crafter Classics, I have the full new kit plus the coordinating Remix Unmounted Stamp Sheet with all new coordinating images!

Here are the 10 ALSB pages that you can make with the free instructions for this kit! I've just added inked edges, rotated a layout or two, and added one stamped sentiment to the butterfly page... everything other than the ink and stamp are part of the kit!

Museum Visits, 1 Paper and 3 Digital Layouts

We usually keep very busy during the Summer with museum, zoo, and park visits . . . But this year we're been busy tending to sick children each week! Here's hoping that this new trend is over! Who would expect the flu and bronchitis during the Summer! Right now everyone seems on the mend and I even managed to find a little time to scrap during Club Scrap's PSL Summer Camp (Pro Scrapping League, where teams compete to score points by creating paper layouts, cards, or digital creations and earn prizes and discounts each week)!



Club Scrap: Perfect Ten - ALSB #8 (I used the same base cardstock, but with prints from the original kits instead of the Perfect Ten prints); Private Eye 10/08 - Green Print, Stencil; Gimme a Ring 1/09 - Bisque Print, Dark Maize;
Ranger: Distress Ink Pad - Brushed Corduroy; Ink Applicator Tool;

Uatchet really enjoyed scoping out the artifacts at the Boston Museum of Science with the magnifying glasses! I loved the look of this layout in the Perfect Ten Special Edition Kit, but couldn't bear to give up the prints, quite yet! Instead, I created the layout using the same ALSB instructions and the same colors of cardstock, but with their original kits' prints instead of the new Perfect Ten designs. I have a few more layouts coming that were approached in a similar manner!



Club Scrap: Concrete Jungle Digital Kit 6/09 - Template6, CSJRStencil1, EMBFiber8, EMBTag31, EMBTag32, EMBTag38, EMBTag40, EMBTag42, Sticker16; Perfect Ten Special Edition Digital Kit 6/09 - DigitalBackground1;

We took a few friends with us to the Boston Children's Museum on a Friday night and had a blast! I still can't believe that Nekhebet did a slam dunk!



Club Scrap: Private Eye 10/08 Digital - Stencil Xtras12, CS_Paper5, CS_Paper6, Paper1, Paper3, Paper5, Stamp08; PSL Summer Camp Prize - Week4_1a_1a;

Sebek and Nekhebet teamed up to examine the insects embedded in amber at the Harvard Museum of Natural History!



Club Scrap: Memoirs Digital Kit 7/09 - EMBFiber03, DigitalBackground3, Print2, Print5; Concrete Jungle Digital Kit 6/09 - Font; Artifacts Digital Kit 2/09 - Template4;

After taking a free watercolor and chalk workshop at the Peabody Essex Museum, Sebek immediately needed new supplies for the week away from home! White the girls played, met new friends, and learned new things, Sebek kept sneaking off to create!

9 More Layouts, 1 Formula, 3 of Clubs

What else can you get when you combine 4 sheets of paper, 2 mattes/another sheet of paper, and one ALSB Idea Deck Card? Plenty more great layouts, of course! Here are 9 layouts that I created using the 3 of Clubs card from the ALSB Idea Deck Vol. 2! (Check out the ALSB, Assembly Line ScrapBooking, definition to the right!)







Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades; Matrix - Red Print; Cruisin' - Black; Science - Topaz Foil Print; Artifacts - Sky Blue;
Scrapbook Takeout - Red Felt Thickers;

We're still not quite sure what these people-cutouts, 80s themed workout photos, and cell phones have to do with one another, but the girls had a blast playing in the cutouts at the Montreal mall! The original ALSB design sandwiches 3 small mattes and thin strips together, but I like the thin strips to spread out a bit and to leave the three adjacent mattes uncut, for now!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Clubs (right); Common Threads 3/09 - Teal; Avant Garde 3/08 - Green; Fizzin' Blue 2008 - Green Print; Stratosphere 4/07 - Dark Blue Print, Stickers;
Scrapbook Takeout: Wonderland 3/09 - Fancy Pants Felt Shapes, KI Memories Chipboard Shapes, Punchinella Ribbon;

I have fallen head over heels for this Crochet Grocery Bag Pattern By Haley Waxberg! It's a simple combination of single crochet, chain, and slip stitches to create a wonderfully stretchy netted produce/shopping bag. I altered the pattern, just a little, in between the increasing rows, I did one less row than called for and did 12-14 of the ch5 rows as the main body.. also, I thickened my straps a little and used 100% cotton by Lily and by Bernat.

I combined the photo with some coordinating papers, earthy embellishments, and the fun punchinella ribbon, that reminds me of the bag's open pattern. I love drawing my color scheme from my photographs and really enjoy mixing and matching papers from different kits to do so! Having a handmade swatch ring of my Club Scrap cardstock is invaluable for this style of scrapping!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Clubs Left; A Study in Red Digital Kit 1/08; Milestones 12/09 Digital Kit; Digital Inked Edges Vol 1;

One of the great things about digital scrapbooking is that you can easily create 12" wide panoramic photographs without any extra expenses! Another great thing is that when you adore the rich texture of a Club Scrap paper you can go ahead and zoom in on it to really emphasize the pattern in your digital layouts!







Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Clubs; Great Outdoors 10/07 - Mushroom, Green Text Weight Print, Light Green, Dark Green, Dark Green Print, Light Green Tags; Hybrid Ink Pad - Earth;

Adding a lightly inked edge really helps distinguish one piece of paper from another and helps maintain the illusion of 12" long strips hiding under an overlapping matte. Just remember not to ink the edge that is hidden under or alongside the matte!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Clubs Right; Bridges Digital Kit 2/08 - CS03; Great Outdoors 10/07 - CS01, CS02, CS08; Refresh Digital Kit 2/07 - PLtBlue1; Farmer's Market Digital Kit 10/06 - CSBrown;

When working with digital scrapbooking, never be afraid to alter the hue of your elements to make them coordinate with your layout! For this layout, I loved the printed wooden bridge from the Refresh kit, but the color would have completely clashed with my layout... so I used Ctrl-U to alter the hue, saturation, and brightness of the print until it blended perfectly with my layout!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Clubs; Let Me Count the Ways Digital - Paper; Mirror Mirror Digital - Paper, Transparencies, Digital Font;

I took full advantage of digital scrapbooking in order to copy random stripes from the transparency overlay image to create borders for my photographs and "paper" strips. With the outline nature of the Mirror Mirror font images, it was easy to cut and paste some of the digital cardstock into the text to help continue the style. I also just loved how the patterns on these two prints combined in both pattern and color scheme.



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Clubs Right; Pure & Simple 4/09 - Digital Kit; Digi Inked Edges Vol 1;

With digital kits you can always play with the transparency levels of your different layrs and use any color of paper as an overlay to retint a patterned paper that is underneath it. For this layout I took a nearly grayscale background paper and tinted the lighter areas green by layering up a green cardstock image over it with the overlay style. I also retinted some of the paper from lime green into a deep purple to coordinate with the flowers to try to maintain the color scheme of the photograph.



Of course, I couldn't leave you without a quick glance at the basic design for this layout formula! When you create your page, never fear to move your elements around and alter the cuts slightly to fit your needs!

9 Layouts, 1 Formula, 3 of Spades

What can you get when you combine 4 sheets of paper and one ALSB Idea Deck Card? Tons of great layouts, of course! Here are 9 layouts that I created using the 3 of Spades card from the ALSB Idea Deck Vol. 2! (Check out the ALSB, Assembly Line ScrapBooking, definition to the left!)



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades; Artifacts 2/09 - Paprika Print, Sky Blue; Matrix 7/08 - Red Print; Sparkle & Shine 12/06 - UM; Palette Hybrid - Noir Black;

I just loved using the sunburst print from Artifacts with photos of sparklers! Even though we didn't capture a great image of the burst of sparks, it was a fun moment and the print, plus the stamped title, give a picture of what was taking place!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades; Artifacts 2/09 - Paprika Print, Sky Blue; Matrix 7/08 - Red Print; Sparkle & Shine 12/06 - UM; Palette Hybrid - Noir Black;
Unknown Alphabet Stickers;

I have no clue was was so exciting about this kiddie ride, but the girls really adored it! All those little joys in life, eh?



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades (right); Stratosphere 4/07 - Green, Blue Print, Green Frames; Fizz 1/07 - Dark Pink; Hybrid Ink Pad - Noir Black;

When you've got brand new wheels, what better place to go than Lynch Park? Did I mention that we're so lucky to have all three kids' birthdays within a 3 week timeframe? We can give them all coordinating gifts, like scooters, in between the birthday hooplah and have everyone playing at once!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades (left); Crusin' 8/08 - Black, Ribbon, Stickers; Fizz 1/07 - Dark Pink, Light Pink; Hybrid Ink Pad - Noir Black;

When the girls were ready to get their ears pierced they picked out their most fabulous dress up outfits, put on some fancy shoes, and strutted their stuff through Walmart! We set up our appointment with the nicest lady on staff and she had lollipops for them plus certificates that she'd printed at home and it was quite the event!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades (left); Matrix 7/08 - Red, Blue, Gold; Hybrid Ink Pad - Noir Black;
Unknown Alphabet Stickers;

Not only did the kids love the ice cream and factory tour at Ben & Jerry's, but the girls were also so proud to use their own money on souvenirs!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades; Great Outdoors 10/07 - Digital Kit;
Font: Concrete Shoes;

With the size of this dinosaur, he just needed to be a big and tall photo! This time I happened to scrap the layout digitally, but there's no reason why you can't spread one photo across multiple mattes on a physical layout!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades (right); Matrix 7/08 - Red, Blue; Stratosphere 4/07 - Fuchsia Print; Hybrid Ink Pad - Noir Black;

I really do love when my kids get to "help" out with a younger child on an outing! They loved looking after their little cousin at Boston's Children's Museum this Spring!



Club Scrap: ALSB Idea Deck Vol 2 - 3 of Spades (left); Common Threads 3/09 - Teal, Green, Lilac Print; Hybrid Ink Pad - Sapphire;

Of course, they also have fun with cousins who are the same age and a little older than they are! This time, my cousins were sharing their neighborhood park to my children before they moved away! :(



Club Scrap Digital: Common Threads 3/09 - Print10, Stamp03, QDDL6; Body & Soul 5/08 - DP03, DP04, DP11, DP14, Fbr02;
ALSB Idea Deck Volume 2 - 3 of Spades Left;

On this digital layout, I layered up elements from the Body & Soul and Common Threads kits to get my own backgrounds and overlays for the layout. Just another day at the park with everyone trying to outswing one another!



Thought I'd throw in a little peek at the basic design of the 3 of Spades card so that you can see where I rearranged things and added more to it!