This year I did a silver and red themed tree so I just had to make a layout to go with it.  Now to get those pictures printed….

Anyway – I used the printed snowflakes acetate, the Delightful Decorations stamp set and coordinating Ornament punch all from the Holiday mini.  I added some vellum paper snowflakes and added our Duo Silver Beads to the center (I have to have bling!).  I also dabbed on some Frost White Shimmer Paint (did you know all 3 shimmer paints from the Holiday mini are STILL available!!!!) on the ornaments and the edges of the Kraft cs.  A special shout out of thanks to my friend Teresa M for the inspiration of these pages!

And here’s our tree.  Not sure if you can tell the red/silver going on on the tree.  I really need some photography lessons!  I have this great new camera now and no idea how to use it!  Silly!

And here is Christmas morning (bear in mind we have 4 kids!).

So, here’s a scrapbook page that I did that I think can be used for many different occasions.  Perhaps Christmas, Valentine’s Day, a wedding, and an anniversary, maybe even a birthday!  I used the Charming stamp set and the new scallop punch from the Sale-A-Bration brochure along with the matching Scallop Trim corner punch from the Occasions mini.  I also used the Chocolate Chip satin ribbon that is in the Clearance Rack right now.  I like how it came out… a little sophisticated, a little Holiday-ish, a lot of fun! 

Other colors used: Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Whisper White, and the Christmas Cocoa Specialty Designer paper from the last Holiday Mini catalog.  What do you think? What type of pictures would you put on it?

So I did some more (a lot more) playing with My Digital Studio today!  The deadline for SU! demos to become certified in My Digital Studio was today so I watched a lot of webinars and took some quizzes.  Phew!  I’m beat!   This software can do sooo much more than I had thought it would do.  To try to absorb it all in one day (with the boys home) was a bit overwhelming but really, really great!  Another requirement to become certified is to create a project and have it printed.   I hadn’t yet made Drew’s thank you notes so this was the perfect chance to do so!   (You may remember his birthday invitations and then his cupcakes!)  I’m excited to have those made and not have that in the back of my mind anymore and I’m excited to see the MDS printing quality and be able to share them with you!

Here’s what I came up with.  The first picture is the front of the card, the second picture is the inside left and the last picture is the inside right of the card.  It’s a little challenging to get the whole effect here because the card is a Whisper White base and this post has a white background!  Hopefully you get the general idea.   You may click on the card front to see a little movie of the card.  (I’m so fancy, huh?!?)

I {heart} scrapbooking!  And I love having the scrapbook club back in action cuz it helps me get more pages ready to go!  So here’s some ‘before’ shots of the pages for this month.  And hopefully VERY soon I’ll get some ‘after’ shots with pictures on them!

I used the new Night & Day Specialty Designer Papers as well as a LOT of punches on this layout.  I love how versatile the Baroque Motifs stamp set is as well.  Who would’ve thought it would be a great stamp set for Halloween??  But when I pulled out the Night & Day designer paper I immediately thought of Baroque Motifs.  Hope you like it too! 

Here’s the second layout for the scrapbook club members and guests.  Again, I used the Night & Day Specialty Designer paper.  This time I pulled out my Medallion background stamp, inked it up with Frost White shimmer paint and stamped it half on each page.  I also did a ton more punching to make that spider (scallop circle and photo corner punches) and used the Big Shot to get the Build a Bear.  I used a marker to color a toothpick Elegant Eggplant and used that as the holder for the Happy Halloween banner the little bear is holding.

Hopefully you’ve heard about Stampin’ Up!’s new My Digital Studio software.  Well, I’ve had it a while and just opened it tonight (finally) thanks to Cheryl and Vicki asking me questions about it!    Thanks girls!!  So, I downloaded it and came up with one quick page to share with you all.  Funny, I said to myself, I’m going to digitally scrap the first picture that comes up and lo and behold one of my naked belly shows up!!  So… here you go… lucky you… haha!  Of course I can’t figure out how to get the image on my blog without some distortion, but that’s totally user error (me) and not related to the My Digital Studio software at all!  It took me about 10 minutes to do this page and it was the first thing I’ve ever done.  Imagine how quick it will be when I know the ins and outs and what everything does?!?!?!

(in the oval it reads: being loved before you’re even born.  Elizabeth & Drew July 17, 2007)

These breads/muffins sound just perfect for a fall day!  I hope you’ve been enjoying all of these recipe cards.  I’d like to say THANK YOU again to all of those who stamped these recipe cards… there are still so many to share with you all!  Remember, if you see yours posted, let me know, and I’ll put your name with it to give you credit!  And also, if you don’t cook (like me!!) you can use these to help you get some scrapbooking done!  Just place a picture where the recipe is and voila!

I cannot believe how long it snowed today!! Thank goodness none of it stuck or I’d be really, really depressed!  But it was a great day for corn chowder… if only I had some of these ingredients in the house!  Well, enjoy the recipes and enjoy the recipe cards!

The above corn chowder recipe card created by Vicki L.

Don’t these sound (and look) good?!?!

Are you enjoying these recipe cards?  I hope so!  There are so many more to come!