I think I may have mentioned before that my favorite (current) stamp set is The Open Sea.  Well, here it is again… this time used on a Scrapbook Layout that we did at my scrapbook club in May.  I just LOVE the versatility of the set and of course the vintage look is very "me'.

Here's a closeup of one of the tags…

So I was doing a little creative searching online a little while ago and found these popcorn and movie inspired projects on a blog.  I immediately knew I was going to translate them into scrapbook pages for this month's scrapbook club.  I need a third "movie thing" to add to the layout with the popcorn and director's so I did a quick google search for movie images and found a movie reel.  After SEVERAL attempts at making a movie reel it finally hit me to just simply punch out some circle in a larger circle! DUH!  I was trying all sorts of different shapes and not loving what I was getting.  I don't know where or why I finally thought of the circles but I think it works!  And I also think it would be super cute to put multiple pictures in those smaller circles… your own little film strip if you will!

I used the ticket corner punch (of course) to make the tickets.  The two on the left are for a title or journaling.  You could also put some black letters on the popcorn bucket for your title.  I used the star punches with Daffodil Delight card stock and added shimmer with the Champagne Mist shimmer paint.  It's the PERFECT amount of shine for these stars!  And of course the spiral punch was used for the film strips. 

So, who knows what I used to make the popcorn?

So as promised here are the projects the girls did at Emma's birthday party!

An owl card good for any occasion.  The girls loved being able to "dress" their owl!

They decorated journals with some retired DSP (sad we can't get this beautiful paper anymore but yes, I KNOW we have loads of other DSPs.  I'm kind of a DSP junkie.), retired grosgrain ribbon, a retired alphabet set, and a current spiral punch that coordinates beautifully with our spiral journals.  They also had fun making a beaded pen to go with their journals.  Because really, what's a journal without a coordinating pen? 

And now my Lauren is loving her new journal!  I'm sure Elizabeth will be whining she doesn't have one very soon.

Emma is a frequent stamper of mine and she's 9! She and her mom come to most of my mom & me classes and she is such a love.  I've actually known Emma and her mom for about 7 years now and remember her toddling around with this headful of adorable curly hair and now she's 9!  Crazy.
So, Emma's mom approached me and told me that Emma wanted to stamp at her birthday party.  LOVE IT!  How could I say no?  So first, every birthday girl needs a birthday present, right?!  So here was my present to her…a scrapbook layout to scrap her 9th birthday party.

A row of 9 (of course) cupcakes with some sugary cherries on top!

Here's the journaling block.  This cherry has a dab of crystal effects on it to make it look super yummy!!

Tomorrow, I'll show you the projects the girls stamped!

Hope you enjoyed this absolutely gorgeous weather this weekend!!

Get your calendars out stampers and scrapbookers!! 

Come have tons of fun with me, your friends, and family on Saturday, March 26th.

Can't wait!

Click on the pdf below for all the details and don't hesitate to contact me with any questions!

Take care,

~Katherine

So as promised here is a picture of the pages we created at Scrapbook Night last night.

So, as usual, my pictures never do anything justice.  Someday I'll get a light box!

But these pages have a great vintage feel to them.  The colors are Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, and Chocolate Chip.

I love, love, love the 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbons these days and I LOVE fraying it!  The frayed edges just add to a fabulously vintage feel.

And of course the shimmer paints are favorites of mine.  I used silver shimmer paint on the edges of the snowflakes and the Decorative Label punch (from the Occasions mini).

The edges of the pages have snowflakes stamped in Chocolate Chip and Craft Whisper White ink on the edges of the textured Baja Breeze card stock.  I frayed the edges of the striped ribbon and added some glimmer brads and Crochet Trim ribbon as well.

You may be wondering why the title of this post?  Well, remember the kids winter pages?  Those were great pages and I used them as inspiration for these pages but was able to add the fun snowflake embellishment, shimmer paint, the snowflakes from the Big Shot, fraying the ribbon, the glimmer brads, and Crochet trim ribbon.  Hope you all enjoy adding your pictures to these layouts!

So most of my customers know I'm not opposed to cutting out my stamped images (in fact I quite enjoy it!) but I know there are LOTS and LOTS of you who do not like to cut!  So this is one of those stamp sets made just for you!

Introducing Punch Bunch…a stamp set that you can for FREE… where each image has a coordinating punch!  Now maybe you already have all the punhes (yeah you!) but if you don't here's your chance to get some punches and a free set.  Perfect, right?  Well, let's figure it out…

(The images above are shown smaller than the true stamps.)

So "whooo" doesn't love owls right now?  They are seriously everywhere!  (Check out these links if you don't believe me!  Target  Zazzle  Kids Clothing  I actually couldn't believe everything I found!  From ipad and itouch covers to mouse pads to clothes and much, much more!)

So anyway… my point is they are trend on right now!  We have an adorable owl punch and now this great owl stamp to go with it!  A versatile 'for you' stamp image goes with our scallop circle punch (a must have for all stampers).  A circle punch is an essential tool for any papercrafter and the tag punch is super fun!

So…

owl punch   $16.95
1 3/4" scallop circle punch  $16.95
1" circle punch   $10.95
Large Tag punch  $16.95
Scallop square punch $16.95

So, add two of the $16.95 punches together, add a package of cardstock and you'll get the stamp set for free!  You choose your combination of ANY products from the current catalogs and earn this set (or other items) for FREE!  Really, who doesn't like FREE?

Here are some photos of samples from the display boards at Leadership all using the Punch Bunch Stamp set….

If you have any questions about the samples above please don't hesitate to contact me! 

My Scrapbook Club meets this Monday night.  We talked last time about doing a winter page so I decided to use the pages I did for my young girls as inspiration.  Of course I am able to spice it up a bit for my adult stampers not only because they're adults, but because they obviously have a love for stamping (or they wouldn't be in my club, right?!) and there are 8 of them (versus 16 young girls!).

So… here are the upgrades. After the club meets I'll show you the completed pages.

Here's some more stamping I did in December!  (See, I was just too busy to post!  Sorry! But aren't you glad to see them now?  Maybe? hehe)

Anyway, you may have seen that I stamp with 16 girls ages 5-8 years old each month.  They create a 2 page layout each month and when we are finished they will have a 20 page scrapbook!  Well for December we focused on winter (we had already done Christmas in November!).  The layout was inspired by a project I saw in our monthly Stampin' Up! demonstrator magazine.   (I know I've mentioned these publications before – I really do love them!  They provide oodles and oodles of inspiration!  So, first, here's the project that inspired me.  (Created by Carol Gensweider of Pflugerville, Texas)

Isn't that pretty?  I thought so!  But clearly it's not a scrapbook page… Here's what I came up with for the girls (ages 5-8).

So, as you might be able to tell, I copied the stamping of the trees with Night of Navy ink and Whisper White craft ink from Carol's card.  The girls then stamped snowflakes on the Baja Breeze card stock edges.

They then stamped various titles like "Skiing Fun" and "Skating Fun" to make the page their own in Night of Navy ink.

Other supplies used:

Card Stock: Night of Navy, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Night of Navy 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon, felt snowflakes (retired), and basic jewel rhinestones (in the center of the snowflakes).

Hope you like them!  The girls and their moms did which always makes me smile BIG!

You may have seen me mention that I'm doing scrapbooking classes every month for 16 girls ages 5-8.  Yes, 16!  It's a lot but they are a lot of fun and doing really well!  Here is the layout we made last time:

The ghosts were made with the infamous Owl Punch and some googlie eyes.  The girls wheeled the Haunting Hill jumbo wheel and then colored it in with regular crayons.  The green card stock along the bottom of the pages will serve as their journaling area.  The alphabet is one of my most favorite retired ones and I prepunched all the circles for them to stamp on and then the green layers as well.  Can you imagine how long that would've taken if they all punched their own circles!  LOL  They added a couple of bats and voila!  They were ready to add their Halloween pictures to their pages.

If you have a group of girls (young or young at heart!) who'd like to get together and scrapbook regularly please let me know!  I'd love to help you treasure your favorite memories.