Stamp-n-doodle Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to Stamp-n-doodle Wednesday, please accept my apologies for not posting Soft Pencil yesterday. We had some plumbing problems in our apartment that were taking forever getting fixed and it had my brain so frazzled I could not concentrate on anything creative. Thankfully they got the problem fixed this morning and I am very happy to say that the toilet and shower are back in working condition. Wow, what we take for granted in life!!! Anyhoo, the challenge this week is to create something with your favorite color!!! What a fun challenge! My favorite color is purple, and the new digi images below remind me of myself when I was a little girl, so I made a scrapbook page. This also gave me the opportunity to use some of the new digi color kits in the Boutique section of the Stamp-n-doodle store!!!! They are awesome, you have got to go to the blog and store and see more of them. Here is my page and some enlarged photos of it as well. Hope you like it!

Now, go visit the other DT ladies blogs and the SND blog to get some more inspiration and then join in on the challenge this week, it is a fun one!!! This is entered in the following challenges for this week: Divas by Design challenge Blog - Flowers on your design. Fab and Funky Challenges - Anything but a card. Until next time.........Blessings, Lisa

Soft Pencil Tuesday!

Welcome to Soft Pencil Tuesday! Stamp-n-doodle Day has been changed to Wednesdays! As you may remember, Soft Pencil Studios has more than just Digital images now, they have stickers, rub-ons, clear stamps! Love them all! I decided to make a couple of scrapbook pages using one of the sticker sheets called "Best Friends" in Blue. I thought it would make some cute baby pages for my nephew's baby pictures. Now that he is all grown up, I am starting a scrapbook of his pictures. Ha Ha, better late than never. I actually already made one of him, but gave it to him as a gift. So this one is for myself. Anyhoo, here is the first page:

Here is an enlargement of one of the stickers:

This is page number two:

Once again an enlargement of one of the stickers:

Last but not least, this is what happens when you try to take photos of your creations on the floor and you own a kitty: Couldn't resist posting this one.

Now, go visit the other DT ladies blogs, and leave them some love, then go visit the Soft Pencil Studios Blog where you will find a link to their store! Look on my sidebar for links to the other blogs! Until next time..........Blessings, Lisa

It's Scrapbook Page Day at Soft Pencil Designs!

Oh my goodness, this is the first time since I have been on the Soft Pencil Design team that we have been asked to create a scrapbook page with our weekly image! I got so excited, I have been making notes on what I wanted to do for two weeks or longer. I got started in paper crafting as a scrapbooker, then a year or so after that I got invited to a Stampin Up workshop to make some cards, and I was hooked on that too. Now, if I can find a way to do it, I will add pretty paper, stamps, digi images, embellishments, etc to just about anything. Sometimes I am amazed at what some of the talented blogging ladies out there will alter with their paper crafting supplies. I know, Blah, blah, blah....... get on with the project. This first image is a snippet with the image called "Molly is giving you a flower". I colored her with a combination of Stampin Up markers, Ink refills, and blender pens. Then, I cut her out with a Spellbinder's Nestibility Circle.




Is Molly cute, or what? I love her and all of her cuteness. I added the sun that comes with a couple of other Soft Pencil Images. To create the background behind Molly, I printed her out a second time onto plain copy paper, cut her out, adhered her on top of the colored image with repositionable adhesive, left her in the Circle Nestibility, and sponged some ink around her. I love doing that! Fun, fun!






This next photo is also a snippet to show you a close-up of another Soft Pencil Digi that I added to the page, actually a handful of times. I simply enlarged the flower on Microsoft Word software, and copied it a bunch of times, and punched them all out with circle punches after coloring them. The bling in the center is supposed to be a bright yellow color, but I had trouble capturing that with my camera. Take my word for it, it is pretty bling!

Ok, now here is the final and complete scrapbook page!

I am a clean and simple scrapbooker, just like my card making style. I just can't help it, I don't like clutter. As you can see there is plenty of room from top to bottom for photos! The white flower border on the left side of the page is from Doodlebug Design, as are the yellow sticky gems on the flowers. The cute little butterfly brads are from Making Memories, all circle punches are from Stampin Up, and so is all of the card stock and designer paper. I used Pretty in Pink , Certainly Celery, Melon Mambo, and of course some watercolor paper. As always, if you have any questions please leave me a comment, or see my email link on the blog sidebar!

Until Next Time............ Blessings, Lisa

A Scrapbook Page Layout?

Yes, you read that correctly, I am sharing a scrapbook page that I threw together the other day! This is the first time that I have ever posted a scrapbook page on my blog, so I want to know what you think! Should I post more scrapbook pages from time to time, or are you more interested in the cards and stuff? You will not hurt my feelings either way. Truth be told, I make way more cards than I do scrapbook pages these days. The reason for this is that 90% of my Stampin Up customers are card makers only. So, I spend more time card making to give them ideas and inspiration. I realize however, that not all of my blog visitors are my customers, so I need their opinion on this too. So, if you have a couple of minutes, leave me a comment. All comments are greatly appreciated every time.



OK, now onto the scrapbook page. I hold my breath as I upload this, because I want you to like it. Here it is:



I first placed three and a half Lattice Bigz die cut shapes (Stampin Up - Whisper White card stock) along the edge of the page. The page base is Stampin Up 12X12 Night of Navy card stock. Next, I laid out the Little Leaves Die-cut shapes (Stampin Up Garden Green card stock), then I placed the flowers with each of the leaves. The sunflowers were made up a while back, and I posted a card using them. You can click here to see that post and instructions on how the sunflowers were made. I left the rest of the page blank, because I don't know yet what pictures and title that I will put on it.

Until next time.................................Blessings, Lisa