More Pages from the Lodge

Just a few more pages from my weekend at the Lodge.  I have wanted to do the Daddy page for a while.  It is my goal to scrap all my daughter's first year.  I keep on saying I am getting close.  I have to break out of the habit of wanting to scrap every single picture.  It is just crazy.  I don't have the time for it.  I have already gotten Project Life for this year but have not printed off my 2011 photos yet.  I got the turquoise edition but I am thinking of getting the amber edition to do my 2009 photos.  Perhaps for my 2009 photos of my daughter.  The amber edition does kind of have a girly feel to it. 

Growth Chart

I made a growth chart for my daughter's room for a project we were challenged to do for Paper Pals.  I got to use the Claudia Hellmuth's Stamps-Bloom.  They come as a foam stamp set and then a clear stamp set. You can use them together or separate.  I have been looking at a growth chart at Land of Nod for a while and thought this would be a perfect replacement. 

I am not much of a stamper so it was a challenge for me.  I made a few mistakes.  The stamp set is designed to look like off register printing.  The red flower that I stamped is a bit too off but I got better on the other red flowers.  I stamped the flowers first with the foam stamps and some acrylic paint I had.  Then when the paint was dry I stamped over it with the clear stamp with black dye ink. 

I save my cardboard backers.  I cut 3 of them down to 8x12 then taped them together on one side.  As you can see one piece of cardboard has been used under a paint project.

I then glued 2" strips of cream paper to the entire length with the Yes glue.  I wanted it to have a decoupaged look.

I just spread this glue on with my fingers.  Washes off with no problem and it doesn't leave your paper bubbly.

As you can see I had too much paint on my stamp and it slipped when I pressed it down.  I also had a bit of paint on my finger that got on the paper.  I will show you how I fixed that.

If you spread the paint out well and make sure you don't get too much on your stamp it works out well.  I spread it out on wax paper.

Here is another mistake.  As I was lifting up my clear stamp I dropped it and it fell here.  I tried to restamp it to see if I could do something with it but I ended up covering the whole thing up.

Here is what I covered my little boo boo up with.  The little blue dots I painted on were to cover up the paint that had gotten on the paper from my fingers.  I just circled them with a black pen.
This was one of my favorite leaves.  It was a learning experience.  I just marked the numbers on the side with a pen and painted on the measurement marks.  I tried not to get too fussy.  When I was finished I painted around the edges with black paint and then mod podged the whole thing.  I punched two holes in the top and threaded some ribbon through.

More from the Lodge

Here are some more pages I did whilst at the Lodge.  I know they look so simple you are probably saying:  "Why didn't she get more done?"  Well I didn't so get off my back.  We got a cute package of paper goodness that I made one of my favorite layouts with.  It is the memories one.  Those little birdies make me happy.  Along with chocolate mini eggs.  Oh I could eat my weight in those little goodies.  Then I would have a migraine the size of Texas.  Would it be worth it? 

Palouse Divide Lodge Retreat

In February I got to go to a scrap booking retreat at the Palouse Divide Lodge.  It was wonderful.  I got 31 pages done.  I had a misguided belief that I could do more.  I don't know what I was thinking.  I am pleased with what I finished.  When I say 31 I am counting each of the pages from my two page spreads of course.  It takes a while to upload so I am thinking I will post a few at a time.  There is nothing very elaborate about these pages.  I just wanted to get them done.  I am happy with them. 

Let's get something on here

Well I have been kind of out of the blog world for a while.  If I get busy in one area of my life then another part falls apart.  I need to find a good balance.  These are a couple pages I did for Paper Pals as well as some cards.  I am starting to think that My Mind's Eye is one of my favorite.  I still love Cosmo Cricket. 
These two pages are actually going to go in my Project Life album.  If there are pictures that I really like and want to scrap separately then that is what I do.  I have one more cute photo to do for last years album.  I still haven't started on my 2011 Project Life album but I also haven't gotten any pictures for this year developed.  I need to get my act together. 
The Paper Pals Design Team also did another project using these really cool stamps but I am waiting to post that till it is posted on the Design Team blog.  Oh boy.  Something to look forward to. 

I WANT OUR LAPTOP BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am feeling so unconnected right now.  This is helping with my resolution of spend less time on the computer but I am missing out on keeping up with my emails and my blog.  I have a few things to post.  Some of them are already posted on the Paper Pals Design Team blog and others are not.  Angela posted my bio on there and then her and Karen said such nice things about me.  How uplifting to have people say nice things to you.  I should pay it forward.  Okay enough of my gum flapping.  Here is some stuff to look at.

This was a scraplift from Scrapbooks etc. pg. 33-August 2010. 

This was my latest Paper Pals assignment.  Of course you know what I am going to say.  I love this paper.  I especially love that orange honey comb.  There was a full sheet of banner stickers and I tried to use them on everything and there was still a lot left over. 

 Such a fast and easy layout. 

Okay if I was better at Photoshop I could blurr out my daughter's naked body better than that.  Sorry.  It looks like my 4 year old scribbled on there.

I am still here

Our laptop is still sick.  I am using our computer downstairs but I don't get down here as much.  So I won't be posting as often.  I got my photos for some of December so I will do some December Daily stuff soon.  I am also doing Ali Edward's One Little Word class at Big Picture so I will have stuff to post for that. 
I had just uploaded some photos on our laptop before it crashed so some of my December photos are gone gone gone.  I am trying not to think about it too much.  We will see what happens.
Happy New Year.