Sunday, August 30, 2009

A Barrel Full of Monkeys

I have been working on this layout off and on for two months. I won this KNK file in a wishlist giveaway from That's Scrap, Inc. It's a fun file by ScrapbookCircus that fit nicely with the activities of my son when he was 4 years old playing at the park and picking cherries @ his Uncle's house. I played with my new Koh-I-Noor pencils on this layout and have to say that I just LOVE them!

Karon


Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Learning Lessons

Earlier this summer I signed up to host (and participate in) a 25-card swap with members of the That's Scrap Inc. forum. All 25 members had 3 months to complete their cards and the deadline is quickly approaching...it's August 31. So I didn't think I was procrastinating since I started these cards the last week of July. That's a whole month early, right? Well silly me, I found the coolest idea for a card and decided to scraplift it. Did I consider what this would all entail????? That's a big fat NO. I am almost done but thought I'd give you a sneak peek of what I've been playing around with. Kathy whined because this is all I showed her....you probably will too LOL!

Karon



Monday, August 17, 2009

design do or dont?

When I was designing these, I wondered about the layers...Is it ok to layer below..not on top? So the eyes and nose are actually below the other layers.
Ok, what one do YOU like better? One has a lot more layers and the other is so much easier to put together. Do you see a difference? I have 3 examples below :O)
Ignore my darn lamp glare







You really cant tell when they are so little, How about these..LOL








So?? Your thoughts?

Friday, August 7, 2009

Birthday Cupcakes!

I really think that scrapbooking has encouraged me to try new things, even with food! I have made some cool cupcakes and cookies over the past several years. My daughter, when asked what she wanted to take to daycare for her birthday, said "Frog cupcakes again!" Well, like a scrapbook layout, I have a very hard time bringing myself to do the same thing twice. So I surprised her with cupcakes decorated to look like her favorite fruit....watermelon! These were soooo easy! I got the idea from the Wilton website (sure wish I was talented enough to do some of those cool ideas).
Here's how I did it: I frosted the cupcakes white and dipped them in a bowl of red colored sugar until they were totally coated. Then I piped green frosting around the edge (I used a ziploc bag and snipped the end off) and poked 10 miniature chocolate chips into the top of each one. The only time consuming part of it was the chocolate chips...I had to poke 240 in them before I was done because I made up 2 dozen. Still, it was worth it....she loved them! Here she is at daycare with her happy smiling face! Happy 5th Birthday Ashlynn!!!
Karon





Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Well summer is almost over and I have done hardly any crafting..whats new..huh..lol
I did manage to make some invitations for Neohemiah's birthday and the big swap at the TSI forum though. I made Neo's invites two different ways. I used my sewing machine on some an then I decided it would be fun to imitate sewing with my KNK. So which one do you like better?
Its gotta be straighter through the cutter than it is my sewing machine. Hahaha


Here are the other cards I am in the process of working on. I am a bit afraid to stamp on my orange/green ones.. I have terrible stamping skills...lol I may just make a title on the KNK and put it on instead of risking stamping and ruining the whole card..LOL
This was really fun to do, well, the transparency card was pure torture, hahah, but making all the parts of the cards in the KNK software was a blast! Can you see how the stamp matches the flowers on the above card. Now to actually find some time to get a few scrapbook pages done.
:O)