tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75467442586191721812024-03-13T16:22:39.151-04:00The Unqualified SeamstressAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721996029077015534noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7546744258619172181.post-65857476293287647222014-05-29T10:33:00.001-04:002014-05-29T10:40:19.523-04:00Spending freeze and wedding countdown!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I totally got yelled at for how much money I've been spending on supplies lately. I knew it was going to happen eventually. It's probably a good idea to do that spending freeze that I was thinking about doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting in June, I will go on a spending freeze until the end of August. I will allow myself to purchase essentials (like adhesive), my subscriptions (no add-ons though), and things that I will need for wedding DIY, but that's it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This includes not buying stuff to do my wedding album! I have kit subscriptions for a reason so I can use those (and I have quite a few untouched kits right now). I have placed my final order before the freeze starts for adhesive and my wedding albums, and I am done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anybody else on a spending freeze? How's it going? Let me know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spending freeze shouldn't be too much of an issue for June since scrapbooking has kinda gone on the back burner the past few weeks. Why's that, you ask?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The past few weeks have been taken over by last minute DIY wedding decorations and finishing touches. I'm really hoping to have everything done and packed up for the wedding by the end of this weekend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It feels weird to tell myself "no" to scrapbooking, especially when I'm finally feeling inspired and motivated! I have a partially finished mini album and a not quite started mini album staring at me every time I sit down at my desk and decide that I need to do something else instead of finish them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After my last dress fitting tonight perhaps I will be able to get a few projects finished. So far I haven't been <i>too</i> stressed and I don't want that to change now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It makes me feel much better that my washi isn't sitting in an unorganized pile anymore. How do you organize your washi?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday was the Carlisle area's Relay for Life. Everybody gathers at the local high school to camp and walk to raise money for cancer research. There were lots of people there, many survivors, and fantastic energy. The walking part was a blast. The camping part was kinda terrible. It was cold and noisy out there. I was quite miserable. My fiance and I gave up and went home around 3:00am. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I attempted to fall asleep (which didn't happen, by the way), I sat down for a little "in the dark" scrapping! Yeah, seriously. Kinda dark. Light enough to see what I was doing but dark enough to not be able to see colors quite right. So I challenged myself - make a layout without seeing the colors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only was this on the ground, it was my first layout made away from my desk. Here's my set up:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the May Studio Calico Camelot kit for this layout. I wasn't a big fan of the travel theme cause I don't really travel much right now, but travel themed stuff doesn't really go out of style so I'm sure I'll be glad to have it someday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a thing for using full packages of things - like the diecut stars. They seem to be on watercolor paper, but I really loved the "not quite white" color of them (that I didn't realize was their color until this morning anyway). I also didn't have watercolors with me so it didn't really matter <i>what</i> color they were, they were staying white anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway. On to the layouts! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had so much fun making this background. I used the Daylight stamp set for the string of lights. I had a hard time finding the right color for the light bulbs so I just stamped white over top of the yellow - and now it looks like they're shining! I probably should have done this layout as a 12 x 12, though. It looks kinda busy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet again I love making this background. I got to use 2 of my recent obsessions - machine stitching and vellum. I might have gone a little overboard with the stitching...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a hard time not putting on every embellishment that worked for this layout. It would have been so incredibly busy. I also did a little hidden journalling on a tag that I have slipped into a pocket on the back of the layout. I had a lot I wanted to say but no space to say it. I am pleased with how it turned out and will probably do hidden journalling again some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I have a question for you all. I'm considering diving into the world of process videos. I love watching them and I have a list of favorites that I subscribe to, but I wonder if it's the right move for me. I'm a slow scrapper. I'm also easily distracted. So here's my question: do you make process videos? And if you do, how did you get started? I'd really love to hear from you!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will admit - keeping up with blog posts while working full time and planning a wedding (which is less than a month) is kind of a challenge. Is it OK to admit that I wrote the last 5 blog posts on the same day and scheduled them to upload at different times??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't think I would like this kit. I actually really like the papers in this!! It's not my favorite, but I can see why people love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />This layout is one I'm rather proud of. Not only is it my first real 8 1/2 x 11 page, I also stamped the background. I love how it turned out, so I hope you enjoy it, too!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks so much for looking! I love it when people stop by :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm in the process of cleaning up the pile of layouts on my desk and getting them blogged, so I have a few more layouts to share. These were made the the February 2014 Studio Calico kit "Sugar Rush". I did use sketches for both of these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the first one, I used the following sketch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is my take on the sketch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a sketch for my next layout, also:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is my take on the sketch: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for looking!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using my electronic die cutting machine, I cut out my quote (it's a little smaller than the 8 x 10 cardstock). I also cut a strip of gold glitter paper large enough to cover the word "beautiful":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not really sure, but I think this is wall art? Whatever it is, it inspired me to create a cut file. Then I found this sketch. It was a perfect match!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for looking! I'll work on getting the cut file uploaded so that I can share it with you, but I haven't entirely figured out how to yet. Stay tuned!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have 2 cards to share with you today. I am so pleased with how these turned out, too!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This first card was made for one of my best friends for his college graduation. He's always been a big fan of those cute fluffy clouds, so I absolutely had to include them on a card for him! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also spent way too much time watercoloring the sky to actually look like the sky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made this card for my mom for Mother's Day. Again, I watercolored the background. I do love ombre effects with watercolors!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also spray painted chipboard buttons gold and embossed on vellum. I am REALLY happy with this card - it is by far my favorite!! My mom loved it, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I will be sharing the rest of the layouts I did with the March 2014 Scraptastic "Lost In My Mind" kit. This kit was heavy on Amy Tangerine's Plus One collection - which is just an amazing collection. I had so much fun with this kit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After going through a couple months of serious scrapper's block, the thing that really pulled me out of it was creating from sketches. I used to just look sketches up on my iPad or my PC and work from there, but it was becoming tedious. When I finally reorganized my stamps, I realized how much I loved being able to flip through them! So why shouldn't I store my sketches in the same place?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I adhered my sketches to the blank side of index cards (they're not color coded, I just ran out of purple cards), and on the lined side I write what layout I used the sketch for and the month I created it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm trying to finish up my Studio Calico Sugar Rush kit so I thought this would be a great sketch to use to help me use up some scraps. Grid designs are great for using up scraps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A great way to use up strips of paper is to put them together in a woven grid, which worked well for the square element I was going for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the Studio Calico Office Hours card stamp set to make these. This has really become my favorite stamp set. Those clouds are just too adorable, aren't they? My favorite element has to be the Lemon Lush Gold Punchinella vellum. I love this stuff. I'm so sad that I can't get it anymore...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started the card by stamping banners, clouds, and hearts. The clouds were stamped using 2 different colors - Worn Jeans chalk edger by Prima for the solid background and the outline is in Clean Slate by Studio Calico. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I combined my favorite things from the past few layouts: vellum, using a whole package of an embellishment, using lots of different alpha stickers, and stitching on my layout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other brave thing I did was pull out my DSLR and learn to photograph my layouts. I'm still learning, but I think these turned out really well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This layout was also inspired by a sketch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love Creative Scrappers. This place is amazing. HUNDREDS of sketches to choose from, with at least 20 examples of finished layouts for each. This site is invaluable to any scrapper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do want to stop scrap lifting for now. It's served its purpose. So what's the next thing in line on my "get creative again" journey? Sketches. <i>Oh I love sketches!!</i> If I could get away with it, I would always create from a sketch. I do tend to stick rather close to the sketch when I'm creating. Even so, I'm actually a lot more pleased with the layout as a whole than I am with something I just came up with on my own. I tend to do the same thing over and over again if left to my own devices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am also really bad at remembering to use my cut files. So this time, I chose the cut file first and built a layout around it! </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have always loved this cut file from Two Peas in a Bucket. It's really cute and I've loved everything people have done with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, for the record, I am slightly obsessed with teal and mint right now...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I have quite a bit to share with you. Six layouts, a mess, and a bunch of cards. Just like the title warned you! So let's get started!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this experiment was really good for me. It was my first 8 1/2 x 11 layout, I got to use a large photo, and it gave me a chance to play around with paint. I've discovered that I can't paint mirror images, so that's something I need to work on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 3rd is National Scrapbook Day! I'm actually really excited because this is my very first NSD!! <a href="http://www.studiocalico.com/blog/2014/4/16/save-the-date-nsd-2014?utm_campaign=NSD%20Save%20the%20Date%20Are%20you%20In%3F%204/15&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=http%3A//d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20140416/0e/d0/25/c1/99230ef2f23cb982cd18c2e7_600x600.jpg" target="_blank">Studio Calico</a> is hosting an online crop all day on May 3rd, so I hope you're in, too!</span></div>
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