JilliBean Soup and the Pumpkin Patch

Hello Creative Peeps!

Just a little project to share with you today using the
BRAND NEW! JilliBean Apple & Cheddar Soup line.

It's perfecto for fall projects.

Check out the mini book and how it came together.
I used the brand new Avocado Arts Thankful for You set
for stamped embellishments.
The Jillibean paper line and the stamps work so well together.

Check out the project live and in person at the store.
LOVE the Avocado Arts set?

Join me for this months Avocado Arts card class.
Check out what you will make.
Looking forward to seeing you! -Lisa Hetrick :)

Thanksgiving

Jillibean's Apple Cheddar Soup line was my choice for these Thanksgiving pictures--I just love the gnomes used on this line, but didn't end up using them on this project (my fav is the journaling card that says "thankful for my gnomies" how cute is that?) I mixed and matched several different decorative papers and inked the corrugated alphy from Jillibean for the title (it started out white!). Their journaling card sheet is so helpful because you can use some of the pieces for journaling, mats or embellishments. Everyone glad that Irene is over? Good riddance! Lisa H, aka: Tall Lisa

Christmas Morning!

The new lines from Jillbean are fab and uber adorable! Can you tell I like them?? I used their new Christmas line, Christmas Eve Chowder (how great is that name?) and combined all kinds of decorative papers and ideas on this page. On the far left, I used a template to cut the red paper (made out of a piece of cirle-decorative paper from another line) and then used a line of crystal bling from Kaiser to go along that edge (i stole that idea from a magazine!!). I continued the bling on the right top corner and along one of the photos. Tearing the red cardstock along the bottom edges is something a little different as well as using the inside of one of the journaling cards to mat the photo of my dog, Myrtle on the right side. I for one will never take my electricity for granted--hoorah that our power just went back on! Good riddance Irene!

See ya at the store--Lisa H., aka: tall Lisa

Pencil colors for Saturday's class

For those of you bringing your own colored pencils to class on Saturday, here are the colors we will be using. These are Prismacolor pencil names.

Cream
Dark Brown
Light Umber
Terra Cotta (an alternate color would be Burnt Ochre)
Canary Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Olive Green
Apple Green
Crimson Lake (an alternate color would be Raspberry)
Scarlet Lake

Feel free to bring a blender pencil or white pencil if you wish, though it is not required for class.

If you own Twinkling H2O's, please bring them in the following colors:
Stargazer
Snapdragon
Majestic

Other items you can bring if you own them are:
Ball stylus
Sharp scissors
Water color brushes or aqua pens
Pencil sharpener

I look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
Cindy

Gina A loves Jillibean!

Can't tell you how excited I was to learn that this month's Design Team products were the new Jillibean lines .... LOVE this stuff! I picked up my supplies last night. I selected the Homemade 6 Bean Soup line using the coordinating papers and the Kraft Accordion Album to create this mini-book about my friendships through the years.

I was so inspired by these cute products that I literally came home from the store after my shift last night and put this cute book together in just a couple hours! I started by attaching the accordion pages to create a standard flip-book, adding a ribbon for closure. Then it was just a matter of selecting a few 'friendship' themed photos from my photo-box (my Scrapbooking 101 students will remember that I file everything thematically - photos,products and finished pages... stop by and see me at the store for details!) and quickly covering the kraft pages with the coordinating papers and photos. I added journaling and embellishments - not much required for this 4 x 4 album size - inked all the edges and VOILA! A quick and cute album that commemorates my friendships through the years... "SEW" much fun!!! :-)

Happy Scrappin!

Gina A.

Happy Halloween

I used more of the new We R Memory Keepers Halloween line to do another layout--loving their papers, cardstock and chip shapes! This company always has quadrant paper that is perfect to use when you want to mix and match several different decorative papers--the spider web paper is one of those, just a 6x6 square. I used two colors of the oh-so-loved Baker's Twine on these pages and used their journal cards that were cut out of a piece of paper to do my journaling on. Using a purple pen to write with adds just a touch of fun! This was a really simple layout to do--just used lots of cardstock and threw it together! Hope to see you at the store soon! Lisa H, aka: Tall Lisa

Happy Halloween!!

I just LOVE the new line from WeRMemory Keepers! I had great Halloween pics from last Halloween that were perfect for these papers; it's one of my favority go-to lines---loving the chip shapes and cardstock pad!! The orange polka-dot papers were a great backdrop for the layout, along with the strip paper. BTW, the scallop edge on the right side is made with a Fiskars edge punch--love it! The "Boo" banner is made with Maya Road cloth pennants--I used letters as a mask and inked the cream banners to black, then used those same letters on the left side of the layout, oh so clever! Some awesome green sheer ribbon used on the banner and then repeated throughout the layout helps pull it all together! And, in case anyone is wondering, my husband really did have neck surgery--that is not a prop I promise!! Hope to see you soon at the store. Lots of holiday items are starting to arrive! Lisa H., aka: Tall Lisa

Soup's on!

Let's have Soup! Jillibean Soup that is. This month the Photo Scraps Design Team will be bringing you creations made from 3 new lines by Jillibean Soup: a Christmas line, a Fall line, and a Sewing line. The papers are cute, cute, cute! In fact, I like them so much I had a hard time narrowing down just a few patterns to bring home and make cards with.

Stay tuned to the blog for our projects and make sure to look at the creations in the store when you are shopping!

Cindy

SMASH inspired Fancy Pants Brag Book

I decided to use my new black Fancy Pants journal as a mini scrapbook of Halloween through the years. Both my SMASH book and this one are works-in-progress, but thought I'd share some pictures of the pages so far. What's fun about the Fancy Pants Brag book is the photo-sleeve pages and pocket pages already built-in! I've been decorating these pages with some Halloween themed items from my stash at home, paired with some of the cool new papers and embellishments we have in the Halloween section at the store (so cute! I love the Fancy Pants Oct. 31st line!) PLUS I found some of the SMASH embellishments work well with this journal, too! (Check out the black and white polka-dot SMASH tape on the front cover!)

New Class: Memory Box Holiday Cards

Join me Saturday 9/10 from 12 - 3 pm as we make 4 cards using colored pencil and water coloring techniques that I learned from Dave Brethauer, the owner of Memory Box rubber stamps. Dave's class was so much fun and I learned a lot! I've taken the basics of Dave's class and turned them into cards that are more "me" and now I'd like to share them with you.

In this class we will be making 3 cards using colored pencils and 1 card using Twinking H2O's for our water color medium. I will also demonstrate how to use Memory Box's dies and share a little tip for terrific texturing that Dave gave us in his class.

Having your own colored pencils for this class is a MUST, so this class is priced like so:

If you have your own colored pencils you MUST bring them and the fee for the class is $22.00

If you DO NOT have your own colored pencils, you will get a set of colors to make the cards for this class. You will use them in class and then you get to take them home (woo hoo!). The fee for the class (including the pencils) is $35.00

Bring the following tools if you own them:

a ball stylus

water color brushes or pens (2 - 3)

a pencil sharpener

Just a reminder that some of the patterned papers used here on my cards may change by class time due to the availability of the papers.

I look forward to seeing you soon!

Cindy

You Are A Teenager!!

Still can't wrap my head around the fact that I am the mother of two teenagers, crazy!! My youngest just turned 13 and the new Doodlebug Birthday line screamed for me to use it for these pictures! Even though technically, this is the boy's birthday line, it matched all the colors much better than the girly pink line from Doodlebug. I love mixing and matching the different decorative papers from the line and the 12x12 diecut sheet added so many fun elements, like the journaling bubble, brackets and cardstock diecuts. The left side of the layout is made with a border punch on the brown paper and finished with the every-handy Baker's Twine that you see everywhere these days! The brads from the line also were amazing--the cakes & balloons are actually brads! I love how this layout turned out--I feel like the fun and lively papers really capture the mood of the pictures. It helps tell the story and for me, that is what scrapbooking is all about!
See you soon! Lisa H, aka: Tall Lisa

Avery's card

Meet Avery! Avery is cat #3 of 4 if you can count them from the order in which they arrived in our house. Avery has been with us for 3 years. We adopted him from BARCS animal shelter in Baltimore City. He is another one of my son Duncan's love-at-first-sight pets. Avery was only 5 weeks old when he came home with us and we had to technically foster him because he was too young to be adopted out by the shelter. He is your stereotypical cat...Avery wants attention on his terms only, he hates to be picked up and held, and only wants you when he wants something. Nevertheless, he is very sweet, and when he wants attention he rubs up against your legs or lays in front of you belly-up so you can rub his tummy. Avery also likes to flop bellu-up in front of the dog in hopes that Sawyer will rub his tummy too.

Avery's card uses 2 patterns from the Friends Furever line and uses almost the same layout I did for my black and white Demo Day card last month. I switched it up just a tiny bit by adding some die cut pieces. I hand cut a heart from one of the papers and added some raffia too. My best friend's son does not like Avery and we think it is because he has funny eyes. So to accent the eyes on my card, I used black Enamel Accents.

3 pets down...2 more to go!

Cindy

Sawyer's card

In June, my family adopted a dog from a wonderful Baltimore-based rescue called Dogs XL. Their mission is to rescue large dogs from high-kill shelters and place them in forever homes (check them out at http://www.dogsxlrescue.com/). My oldest son fell in love with Sawyer the first time we met him. After 3 more meetings to make sure he was the right guy for us, we brought him home. Sawyer has now been with us for about 2 1/2 months. He is super cute (he's a Golden Retriever/Chow Chow/Couch Potato mix) and very sweet and has an adorable purple Chow tongue which is really hard to catch on camera because he is quite camera-shy. This photo is from the other day with Sawyer chilling in my stamp room/office.

Sawyer's card is made with 2 patterns from the Friends Furever line by We R Memory Keepers, a Cloud 9 stamp, some pearls, and some raffia.

Cindy

Repeat class: Butterfly Bonanza

For those who were not able to make it a few weeks ago, I will be teaching my Butterfly Bonanza class again on Saturday August 27th from 12 - 3 pm. We will be making 6 beautiful butterfly themed cards using products from a variety of manufacturers. Some butterflies do need to be cut out, so make sure to bring sharp scissors with you!

Cindy

Friends FURever!!

Anyone who has been following this blog knows what a FREAK I am about my dogs, not ashamed of that fact one bit! These two hounds have added so much to our family, most obviously love, affection, and humor!! Myrtle and Daisy make us laugh so much;it's almost on a daily basis that someone in the family is grabbing the camera to capture some ridiculous moment. The line used for Design Team this month couldn't have been a better choice for me, and the papers and colors did not disappoint! I always buy the 12x12 cardstock pad every month that coordinates with the We R Memory Keepers line--I love the quality of their cardstock, the colors perfectly coordinate with the line (duh!!) and it is quite a bargain to boot! I used several stamps this month also--love the "paw" stamp (and yes, it is $1!!) and the phrase & "woof" stamps add a nice touch also. Look for this line at the store and stay tuned to the emails because the new CHA stuff is starting to arrive! See you soon, Lisa H.,aka: Tall Lisa