Catching up!

Hi everyone!
I know it has been a while. With the move, it was kind of crazy! I haven't done much creating over the past 2 months other than my monthly pages but that will change this weekend (hopefully). I plan on going to get the shelves I want to finish my craft room and everything will finally be out of boxes! YAY! Once that happens, I will post picture of my new favorite room :)

So I am going to play catch up today and tomorrow to show you the last 3 months of my club pages. I have opened enrollment into the club so you can join anytime, not just at the beginning of the year. I am now up to 28 ladies a month! So I am making 34 kits a month! It is starting to really be a huge project every month but it is always something I look forward to doing.

My June kit was a wedding themed page, but if you just switch out one of the pattern papers you could really use it for any pictures. I used my favorite color combination: red/black/white. And my mom just got the butterfly punch from Stampin Up! so I had to use it!

I always put together a page of extras for someone to win in class to take their page to the next level. You can see on this page, I added bling and pearls and a love sticker on page 2. These were not included in the kit, but you could win the extras. And it is nice to show the ladies how they can take the page to the next level on their own at home!

For June I saw this great paper at Joann Fabrics and knew I had to do something with it! Since I did such a girly page for May, I did a guy page for June. I included a "s" in the kit so you could make the title Mr. or Mrs. depending on what pictures you have. I know some females who do all the work around the house! I had taken a class at the Mega Meet and they used this foil tape which is just great to emboss on. You can get it at at home improvement store. It was by the duct tape. I got a whole roll (the size of a duct tape roll) for like $7. And still have a ton of it left! I also picked up some nails and washers while I was at Home Depot and some thin measuring tapes from a discount home improvement store to cut apart and use like ribbon!

I found an online tutorial to make the tool belt you see on page 2. I will post the dimentions for the toolbelt and July's page tomorrow.

Have a great day and stay in out of the heat!!!!

~Liz

Phase II

Wow, I keep starting out strong on here, then falling off the edge!

So I am vowing to try to start up once again. Although, you may have to deal with less-than-great-quality photos since I lost the cord to my camera months ago and still haven't ordered a replacement. Crazy, I know. It is on my to-do list for this weekend.

Also on my to-do list is to create the sample and kits for my March class which is a wall clock. Should be very fun to do. And my boyfriend will quit complaining about how loud my current living room clock is when I replace it with my oh-so-cute home made one.

This was the January page. "All that Glitters is SNOW" I thought it came out very cute. It uses Bo Bunny's new Midnight Frost line which I just fell in love with when I saw it. The "Glitters" font is from Hannah Montana cart. Never would have guessed that one would you? Turns out I LOVE that cart. Lots of great fonts and really cute if you know anyone into music.

Here is the first page of my layout for February. I used an actual ruler on the page which I saw someone do online. I thought it was great to use some everyday stuff on a layout. I used bakers twine to string the banners onto and then tied them right onto the ruler. The calendar page was something someone was throwing out at work that I confiscated! lol

I added more things to this page after I took the picture. I will have to get them back out tonight and take a proper finished picture

Hopefully you will be seeing more of me again soon!
~Liz

Travel Book

When I posted all about the Scrapbook Ministry here I mentioned in March and October we do big weekend crops. I wanted to share the 8x8 Travel theme album I did as a (2 1/2 hour) class for this last one in October. The class was not sold out so I still have some extras. I am working on setting up an esty.com shop and plan on selling the rest of my kits as finished products for $30 with tons of extras left over once the album is done. The pattern paper is from a (I think discontinued) DCWV travel stack. The solid papers I purchased at a local paper store. The emblisments are from lots of different places and most from bag sales of discontinued product. I used the street signs, tags bags boxes and more, and graphically speaking carts from cricut. (there may be a couple more I used but I have to check my notes at home lol)

Here are the pages

I didn't decorate the cover on this abum so that you could personalize it to the specific place you went to. It is an SEI album. The first page is what I called a vacation calendar in class. There are 5 tags in the pocket for you to journal what you did on the days of your vacation. You can add more tags or use less of them depending on how long your vacation was.

Page 2 and 3 come with a die cut of both a car and an airplane. Use one or both depending on how you traveled during or on the way to your vacation.

Page 4 and 5 I planned to use for all my tickets during the trip. Plane tickets, theme park tickets, mini golf or movie tickets. Both pages are pockets behind the red "admit one" line of tickets.

Page 6 and 7 will be custom to you as well. There is a US map and a world map for you to choose from. I am using my album for a trip to Florida so I used the US map and placed my star in Florida where I was visiting. You can do the same.

Page 8 and 9 look simple but are a lot of fun to put together. Page 9 is created from different size papers glued together to create a 8x8 page. This helps you see more of your paper and not "waste" it behind other patterns. I did this a lot for this album.

 Page 10 and 11. In class I had everyone do the all over stamping and cutting and inking shown on page 11. I will complete this part for the rest of the albums. This was one of the favorites in class.

Page 12 and 13. The teal road signs can be used for journaling or small pictures. There is a large chipboard arrow behind the "scenic route" phrase that adds some dimension to the page.

Page 14 and 15 The flags on page 14 are created from the stampin up! scallop square folded in half to make a triangle and glued with a toothpick in the middle. They spell "travel". Page 15 is a collage of vintage rubons and vintage stamps.

Page 16 and 17 I used 2 of the 8x8 white sheets that come in all the page protectors in an album.

Page 18 and 19 The rust paper squares on these two pages I had the students cut apart in class based on a chart I gave them. They are all cut from one 11x8 1/2 piece of paper. This will be done for you in the finished album.

Page 20 this last page I thought looked like some luggage tags hanging down. Great for lots of journaling or some pictures on the way home.

Scrapbook Ministry

Hi everyone! No new projects today.... I just wanted to share some new information though!


I live in the Northeast Ohio area and have been fortunate to find a wonderful group of ladies who also scrapbook! My friend Joan started the group through her church and we call it Scrapbook Ministry. I think that puts some people off, but its not a super religious group or anything. We just hold our monthly crops at a church, in the youth center. We have a group on facebook. Go here to "Like" us!!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrapbook-Ministry/125911364108351?ref=sgm


We started 3-ish years ago with about 10 ladies... we now have an email distribution list of over 80 ladies and continue to grow! We hold a monthly crop on a Saturday from 9am-4pm with 1 or 2 optional additional classes. The cost to come is just $1 for your space! This goes towards food since breakfast and lunch are included for your $1!!! Can't beat that anywhere! Twice a year (in March and October) we hold weekend crops. There are many more optional classes offered, including some free classes. Those are all day Friday (8am - midnight) and longer on Saturday (8am-6pm)


I hold a class every month of a 2 page 12x12 layout for $5. The theme is always different and I try to teach something new in each class. I have a club called, Liz's Layout Ladies (the name was choosen by the members not me! lol) which are ladies who have commited to purchase my class kit every month. I do this in 5 month groups. At the end of your "term" I give a special gift. The benefit of being a member is that you are guaranteed a kit for that month, even if you can't make it to the crop. I hold them for up to 3 months.

Starting in November, I am going to hold a challenge on the facebook page. It might be a theme challenge, a certain kind of emblishment to use, color combination or all kinds of other things! To enter you will have be a fan of the scrapbook ministry on facebook and upload you picture to the gallery there. I will post the challenge here as well, but to enter you must do it on facebook. Each challenge will run for a month and will have some sort of prize/gift for a random winner.


So, if you are stopping by and happen to live in the area, comment with your email address and I will get you added to the distribution list.


Here are some pictures of layout classes I have done in the past

 Best Friends - August 2009 - Page 1

 Best Friends - August 2009 - Page 1 moveable piece

 Best Friends - August 2009 - Page 2

Summer - June 2010

 Family - July 2010 - page 1

 Family - July 2010 - page 2

Party - August 2010

Key to my Heart - September 2010

Happy Scraping!!!

~Liz

MegaMeet Convention

Last week I went to the MegaMeet scrapbook convention in Novi, Michigan with my mom and crafty friend Joan. We had such a great time. I got lots of cool stuff for super cheap and took 5 classes while I was there. The sales were great. And to top it all off, the best part, was that I got to work at one of the booths! Quick Quotes was going to be there and sent out an email looking for people to help run their make-and-take and I happened to be the first to respond. It was a great time and working with Stacy and Andy was a blast. I hope they contact me in the future for other conventions if they need the help. I love the company and they have great stuff. Check them out at www.shipquickquotes.com and see what I mean! The stuff really sells itself. So here is a picture of Stacy Andy and I at the booth and one of me and my mom in our matching Quick Quotes t-shirts






I also wanted to show you guys a picture of the next class I will be teaching. I teach a monthly scrapbook page layout to a group at a local crop on the third saturday of every month. Its a ton of fun. I love teaching and coming up with something different every month for the ladies to learn and take home. So here is this months page:




I did this for 2 techniques. First, a good way to get use out of the white pages that come in the page refils that everyone always takes out. Second, while up in Michigan my mom bought this cool flower punch template that I just had to use (page 1) with just regular DMC floss. I left the title blank and will cut custom titles for the ladies who take the class. I am going to use mine as a Mother's Day layout but I thought a spring one could be cute too.

Thanks for stopping by!