Disney World Layout

It's been a loooooooong time since I've posted anything but I admit, I'm not doing much scrapping these days.  However, I agreed to teach a class on Saturday with Flip Flaps and I choose a Disney theme since my family will be taking a trip there in June.

The first 6 x 12 Flip Flap is located on the bottom half of the left hand page . . .

 . . . it opens up to hold fifteen 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 pictures.  The frog, crown, and castle are also tiny little flip flaps and open up to hold an addition two 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 pictures per flip flap.

On the right hand side, the first 4" x 12" Flip Flap folds open to show a 10 day itinerary for the trip.

Underneath that is another 6" x 12" Flip Flap that opens up to hold an additional fifteen 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" photos.  

I plan to put ten 4" x 4" photos on the main layout, unless I get  really cute one, then I'd like blow one up to be 8" x 8" with two 4" x 4"'s on the side.  However, when all is said and done, I figure I can get a whopping FORTY-SIX pictures on this layout!!!  No matter how long we're gone, I only put one layout per trip in each child's album.  I hope this one will do the job for my kids and the others who put the page together on Saturday.

This page is almost ALL cardstock . . . Black, Slate, Ruby, Honey, Lagoon, and White Daisy.  There is also quite a bit of the new Glitter Paper on various places.  The Ruby polka dot paper I made with a 3/4" punch. The few pieces of B&T paper came from the brand new "For Always" packet as well as the brand new "Surf's Up" packet.  The title is Cork Alphabet and various stamp sets were also used as well as a few brads, waxy flax, and even some toothpicks for the little pennant flags.

New Catalog Goes Live Today!

I spent the month of January playing with the new CTMH papers and a few stamp sets as well. I'm lovin' them! Here's a preview of what I've been working on:

I had almost all of Anna's formal baby portraits to scrap yet and this paper packet worked PERFECTLY with these 6 month photos. This is Superhero. Although there is a good amount of comic/superhero patterns, there is also some great Americana papers as well.

This paper packet is Lucy. Those large 8 x 10 and 10 x 13 photos are hard to scrap but when you have pretty paper to help carry the page, it makes them much easier to work with. I've been avoiding these 3 month pictures for, well, 3 3/4 years and I'm glad I finally found something I like!

I believe this paper packet, Stella, is my favorite. I used it for not only Anna's one year pictures, but also . . .

one of my favorite pictures of Ella. This is nearly an exact duplicate of the catalog cover.

This page is also taken directly from the catalog with only a few changes. The paper packet is Florentine and works awesome with this fall layout but would be great with beach photos and all types of pictures. It's very versatile and so pretty.

This paper is the new Footloose packet, which features patterns perfect for the beach and summer. I can't believe I never scrapped a bath photo of Anna either . . . man, am I behind! I couldn't resist the stamp set, either. LOVE IT!

Finally, I have my only interactive layout so far . . . a trip we took to Chicago in Summer of 2008. The paper is called Cruisin' and is perfect for road trip layouts. And how much do you love that argyle?

I have several more layouts done but lent them to a friend so I can't post them today. I also have every intention of having more done for the Sabre Crop on the 17th so come join us and take a look at everything you can do with the new catalog!

An interactive page for Nikki's Home Gathering

I created this page for Nikki's home show last weekend but am planning to multi-purpose a non-interactive version for our upcoming Baby Milestone workshop.

This page is entitled "Best Buds" and I thought it would be absolutely adorable as a sibling page or cousins or a child with pet. Or, even to celebrate grown-up best friends! I used the You Rock paper packet (which is retiring at the end of the year, much to my everlasting dismay!!!) The layout is from the new Magic Interactive book. I actually added two interactive elements to it.



The first is this file folder-style photo mat. To get the look we folded an 8" x 6" piece of cardstock in half to 4" x 6". We attached the bottom of the folded cardstock to the layout and let the other half flap open. We then inserted the page into the page protector and cut around the file folder to allow viewer to open the flap.


This second page, which I gave to Nikki as a gift for hosting, is also interactive. It features a vertical 6 photo storage page cut in half and then accordian folded to hold 6 photos (3 on each side). I then attached the storage page to the page protector with brads and added a photo clip to help keep the accodian fold in place until you're ready to view the pictures.



As I mentioned earlier, this page will come back as a sibling page in the Baby Milestone workshop, which we plan to unviel SOON! In the workshop it will be non-interactive but you can easily add these elements yourself.

Enjoy!
Tanya

September Workshop Choices

Holy macaroni . . . there are A LOT of workshop choices for our September Playdate!!! If you are free on September 11th there is absolutely no reason not to join us :)

First up is a back to school page by Marla. My kids just went back to school this morning so it's a subject that's especially near and dear to my heart today. Marla used papers from the Stardust paper packet and lots of school themed-stamps and paraphernalia. With the title "School Rules", this layout is absolutely perfect for pictures of the first day of school or any school day!



Next up are two single pages by Colette . . . aren't they adorable? This first one is ready for your s'mores pictures. Come on - I know you have the perfect pictures for this page. If you don't, time to go take some just so you have a reason to scrap this awesome little page.

As a complimentary or stand-alone page, this next page is super cute as well and just begging for your BBQ pics to be attached. Don't have the perfect pictures? Not to worry . . . there's still a few days of summer left!

Oh, and there's Flip Flaps on this one . . . right there in the burger layers. I LOVE IT!

Here's my contribution for the month. My kids have some Packer pictures just waiting to be scrapped and I thought you might have some too. If you don't, skip down to the next choice!

See, when I designed the Packer page I forgot about a very important group of ladies . . . the Aurora, IL girls! Yeah, they don't have any use for Green and Gold and so Caryn graciously designed a layout for them and she's more than willing to share! Put ANY sports pictures in this layout . . . Caryn's ready with stamps for every sporting occasion so bring it on!

Simply let me know if you'd like something other than a football in the middle and it's as good as done!

If you made it through the layouts, then you're a real die-hard. Next up is the 5 card workshop by Marla. Marla used the beautiful Grace papers for all these cards. All the parts and pieces can be yours for the bargain price of just $10 for 5 cards.

FINALLY . . . my second contribution to the month is an interactive workshop layout. The workshop will include these two layouts for $20. With your $20 fee you will receive not only all the parts and pieces for this workshop but also the page protectors, a full pack of Basic Brads, a full pack of Alphabet stickers, and a full pack of A-door-ables. What a deal!

These layouts will take quite a bit of time so make sure to allow yourself plenty of time to complete them.

Whew! That's it. Colette's calendars for the month are listed in the post below. I hope you found a few things you can't live without!

Tanya

It's a Zoo around here! Another interactive page . . .

I know this layout has a lot of glare because of the page protectors but it's the nature of the beast with interactive layouts. So, here's my latest:

"It's a Zoo Around Here" was designed for a consultant creative day in my unit on Saturday and my assignment was to create a page using the new A-door-ables. Since I love interactive pages, I really enjoyed creating this page. Under each of those flaps is either a little zoo animal or a spot to put a picture from your trip to the zoo. To create the flaps in the page protectors to make the A-door-ables usable, I lightly traced around each A-door-able with a craft knife to cut through the protector. I then used ribbon and a brad to make a tab to lift each flap.

Here are a few close-ups . . .

I haven't posted an interactive page in a while so if you like them too and would like to see more, please check out the catagory called "Labels" on the right hand side and look for "Interactive Pages".

Thanks for looking!

Tanya

How Pig-culiar!

I've been waiting and waiting to share these following two layouts with all my cyber-scrapping friends. They are both part of the package I sent in to Close to My Heart's corporate office along with my teaching proposal for our convention in July. I'm hoping to be chosen to teach interactive pages as they are truly my passion right now.

If you love these pages, too, and want to see more, simply scroll all the way down and click on "older posts". I have several different interactive pages posted since last October or November. (P.S. - Someone had e-mailed me a request for more information on my coconut tree page. Can you please resend the e-mail? I accidentally deleted it and haven't been able to respond!)
So, here it is . . . a working barn-door page dedicated to preserving my daughter's very pig-culiar passion for pigs.

So, here is the layout as you'd find it in Ella's album. The barn doors are made with 9 x 9 page protectors that have the holes cut off. I then adhered them to the page protector with hinges that punch through the layout but not through the back of the page protector. The barn paper is handmade using reinker and a toothbrush to get the woodgrain and a ruler and marker to get the board and nail marks. The glare is covering up one of the more fun details, a little pig-butt walking off the page with a curly tail made of ric rac.



Here is the layout with one side flipped over . ..

and then both sides. Plenty of room to document this obsession.

Sorry about all the glare . . . it's definitely a challenge to photograph pages with page protectors on, but, in my case, it's a necessity. Check the next post for my next interactive page unveiled and thanks for taking a look!

Tanya

A Fun, Little Clipboard Layout

Have an entire season of soccer photos laying around? How about loads of school pictures like I do? This layout could be your solution! See the clipboard . . . with my son's school picture underneath? Well, it's a working clipboard with more pages underneath!

Underneath I'm storing his report card for the year and a couple of fun art projects along with a few miscellaneous pictures from his year.

Here's a close-up of the clipboard top so you can get a better idea of how it works.

It's actually a lot simpler than you might think. I started by cutting my "clipboard" out of Desert Sand cardstock and adhering it directly to my scrapbook layout. After embellishing the rest of the page, I put it into a page protector. From there I stamped my clipboard metal-thingy using Close to My Heart's "Confidential" stamp set. I cut that out, laminated it, and cut it out again. Next I took a few page protectors from an office supply store, 8 1/2 x 11 like you might use in a binder. I cut off the holes on the side and trimmed a bit from the tops of the protectors so they fit nicer on my page. Then I put the sheets of paper in the page protectors and held them in place underneath the clipboard top. Using a Cropodile or piercing tool, I made holes through all these layers plus the top sheet of the 12 x 12 page protector and the layout itself. I then put the Bigger Brads right through the layers to hold them together. Finally, I took two foam squares and layered them on top of each other and stuck them under the metal-looking-thingie to give it some height and realistic dimension.

Don't you just love these interactive pages? The idea for this page came from my neighbor and scrapping buddy, Marla. Thanks, Marla!

I hope you enjoyed this last batch of pages!

Tanya

Holy distractable scrapbooker, Batman!

So, the first week of the month is terribly busy for me on account of ALL of my monthly groups meeting that week. Stupid, stupid, stupid . . . I know. But I like it that way. Anyway, I should be working hard but I found some inspiration and I couldn't help myself from doing a layout this morning. The inspiration comes from Lisa Stenz, a favorite scrapper of mine because of her simple style. Here's what caught my eye: http://lisascreativecorner.blogspot.com. A very simple card with a very simple flower. Here's what I got from it:

I just added a little black and green for fun and tackled a picture that's been sitting around here for a year and a half.

Now this next layout is really the brainchild of my daughter's babysitter, Becky. Becky came over to watch Anna last Friday (she comes once a week so I can get some work done) and instead of watching Anna, we ended up scrapping some pictures that she wanted some advice on. Becky knew exactly what she wanted: a huge bus with windows and doors that popped up and over and every which way to reveal hidden pictures of her class' trip to Washington DC.

To get the bus window to be interactive, we cut out page protectors from CTMH's mini-album, which were perfectly sized at 3 x 3. For the door, we cut right into the page protector so it popped open to reveal journalling and a seriously ugly lamp.

Like I said, I can't take credit for the idea but this layout has some great interactive features so I thought I'd share with you. Not a bad morning's work, even if the work was not what I had been planning to do :)

Alright, now to distract myself even more, I'm going to feed Anna, put her down for a nap, and clean the house. I can't work when it's this messy!

Until next time,

Tanya

Dana's a Star!

If you follow my blog, or if you scroll down, you'll probably see that this post is a partial duplication. At the beginning of the month I shared "You're a Star" in the "Sue's a Star" post. This page was for Sue's home show. Dana is doing a home show as well and agreed to use this page for her gathering too (the page we are making at the gathering uses Flip Flaps, but they are hard to photograph). However, for both Sue and Dana I made a second page to go with the page we made with their friends and family, and I thought I'd share Dana's with you. I forgot to take a picture of Sue's but I think it was something like this!



Next up . . . I need to create something unique for Kelly and Tanya C's gatherings as I'm getting tired of the You Rock papers!

Thanks, everyone, for hosting shows this month!
Tanya

Mission: Possible!

Well, the big day finally came and went . . .the Scrap for Alexis was BEYOND awesome! Way beyond! I had one of the most hectic, crazy, exhausting, beautiful, exhilerating days that I've had in a good, long time.

Last week I was working SOOOO hard that I didn't post one thing but today I'm making up for it with no less than five posts. This top one is my favorite.

Angie, the coordinator of Scrap for Alexis, really inspired me to think about one of CTMH's product as a challenge to explore. In hostess club last July, Angie was one of the members who made a special page using Flip Flaps. This page was one that I was so very proud of as I could call the idea behind it 100%mine . . . it took me three weeks but I came up with the idea from within myself instead of someone else's blog. Angie told me over and over how she felt Flip Flaps were going to change the way people scrapbook. And finally, one of the times that she said that, I got it. And I realized she was right. And so I designed a series of pages that are interactive. Not all of them use Flip Flaps but they do all use some product that allows you to get many more pictures on your layouts. These pages were inspired from several Close to My Heart consultants including Beckie Lehman, Tresa Black, and Kelly English-Triggs.

Please excuse the photo quality as, by nature, these pages have to stay in their page protectors in order to accomodate the Flip Flaps and other products that make them interactive.

Here is my original "This is the Life" page. On the left hand side you can see that I have 8 Flip Flaps staggered so that when flat, the make a palm tree. These are all spaced exactly 3/4" apart so that I knew how much of each image had to be peeking out of each Flip Flap. The Flip Flaps are all connected directly to the page protectors and secured with brads to ensure they don't fall off over time. The layout underneath hold 4 pictures as well and can still slide in and out of the page protector.

This next page is incomplete . . . I want to add a second page for journalling the story behind the ultrasounds. But since this is the interactive side of the layout, I'm still sharing it today. On the bottom left hand side you can see a group of small 3 x 3 page proctors. These are the guts of a mini-album whose cover has been ripped off and, sadly, disposed of. But my friend Debbie had so many tiny little ultrasound pictures and needed a way to display them and this just seemed like the perfect solution. This idea was taken from my friend Beckie Lehman, who originally used it a few years back to showcase some pictures of her kids at the zoo.

This next page contains two types of interaction. On the first side you'll find Flip Flaps used as they were intended. On the second page, however, I used a 9 x 9 page protector and attached it to the back of the layout to create space for more photos and journalling underneath. This idea is straight out of the playbook of Tresa Black.

Finally, this last layout uses a product made by Close to My Heart called True Fit Folio. This product is essentially a 12 x 12 file folder. This folder is perfect for showcasing your child's school year as I have done here. The True Fit Folios were originally intended to be slipped into a page protector and to hold artwork and important papers inside of the page protector. However, I flipped my page protector upside down and inserted the back of the file folder into the page protector so the front flap still moves. I then cut off the holes on another page protector and slid that on top of the top flap of the file folder, allowing it to be interactive within your album. I saw this idea a few years back and I believe it was done by Kelly English-Triggs.

If you've enjoyed these pages, please keep scrolling through older posts as I have two more interactive pages listed under the posts "December Hostess Club" and "Very Merry Indeed".

I hope you've enjoyed this small collection of interactive page ideas. I've got several more ideas that I'm quite eager to work on just as soon as I have a little free time.

Tanya