Birthday Card and a Video

Happy birthday to my awesome sister, Melanie!

Card supplies: Scrapbook Circle Fresh Picked Kit, Glitz Designs Teeny White Alpha

With the new month, comes a new Scrapbook Circle Video showing what is coming in the October Kit. I'm really not one to enjoy being in front of the camera, but it is fun sharing the kits. We just do one take of the video and roll with it. I'm thinking it's best to keep it casual and unscripted. What do you think?

30 Things We Love About You Album

When I turned 30 a few years ago, my siblings started a tradition of creating an album for the birthday person filled with photos and things they love about them for a gift. Pretty cool, right? We've continuted the tradition as my sisters Michelle and Melanie turned 30. (I wasn't blogging when Michelle turned 30, so no photos of her album. 

This weekend our youngest sister turned 30 and it was her turn for a birthday album. I started the process about a month ago by emailing my brother and sisters and asked them to email me their favorite memories about Kristen. They also sent some of their favorite photos.

For the album, I cut 16 chipboard pieces for the pages of the album. I kept the design pretty similar for each page so that it would be faster to put together.

Once the pages were finished, I punched two holes in the top of each page and tied it together with twine. Originally I thought I'd bind it with large circle binding clips, but the album ended up being over 2 inches think and twine was a better option.

My brother and one of my sisters live nearby, so they came and wrote their memories in the book. I liked having everyone write memories in their own handwriting to add more of a personal touch.

Kristen said that she laughed and cried while looking at her album, so I think it was a success!

Album supplies: Precocious Paper Embellishment, Scrapbook Circle The Good Life Kit, Scrapbook Circle Anniversary Kit, an assortment of tags from Scrapbook Circle Printables, Amy Tangerine Bits.

Fancy Pants Card Challenge

Hope you are having a relaxing weekend and enjoying World Card Making Day. Fancy Pants has a card challenge starting today. Simply create a greeting card with any theme that you'd like—make sure to use at least some Fancy Pants products—and post it to the Fancy Pants Facebook Wall between now and Oct. 8, 2011.

The rest of the challenge details are on the Fancy Pants Blog.

Here's a look at a few of the cards I've created with Fancy Pants products. Love the variety of colors and themes offered by FP.

Happy card making to you!

Busy, Busy!

Things have been extra busy around here this week, so I haven't been the best blogger.

What been going on around here?

Making a secret project for my sister for her birthday. This was a several day project and I'm really excited about the finished project. I can show full pictures tomorrow after my sister has opened the present.

Reading through so many amazing applications for the Scrapbook Circle Design Team. The last day for submissions is today, so I'm sure I have more to catch up on this weekend. It's going to be a very tough decision.

Making Buckeyes. Love the recipes from this cookbook. It's not a big sugar bomb like other similar recipes. I like them so much I had two for breakfast today!

Creating scrapbook pages with the new Glitz Dance in Sunshine line. I'll share those pages next week.

Using my sewing machine for the first time EVER. I'm really excited about this. It took me about 20 minutes to figure out how to thread it, but now it's good to go.

Putting together another page with the Scrapbook Circle October Fresh Picked Kit. Yes, this is the first layout where I've ever sewed on the paper. That's been on my list of things to do for a long time and I'm pretty sure many more pages will have sewing in my future.

That sums up a bit of what is going on! Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

The Good Life Kit Winner!

Thanks for everyone who played along with The Good Life Kit giveaway last week.

The winner is...

Congrats, Kelly!

Email me (lisa@scrapbookcircle.com) your address and I'll get the kit right out to you!

Scrapbook Circle's October Kit

The months truly are flying by. It seems like we debut a new Scrapbook Circle kit and then moments later, it's time for the next kit. That's fine with me though because that means a steady stream of scrapbook supplies are always flowing across my desk.

I'm excited to introduce our October Kit, Fresh Picked, to you today! Filled with Lily Bee, Create Paper, Pebbles, Pink Paislee, Elle's Studio and more.

The wood Pink Paislee alphas and the Studio Calico Scrap Pad were two of my favorite new items at CHA and I'm excited to have them together in this kit along with some of my favorite new paper picks.

I've had time to put one layout together with the kit. The photo was taken while we were out of town over Labor Day weekend. One of my kids was taking pictures and took a picture of me. When I uploaded the photos to the computer, I decided that the photo should go on a page since my pages rarely have pictures of me since I'm usually the one behind the camera.

Hope you have a great Monday!

Hello, Baby

Today I get to celebrate the upcoming arrival of a friend's baby boy at her baby shower. It's her first baby and I'm very happy for her.

Here's a look at the card I put together for her.

The supplies are all from the Fancy Pants Off to School line. The colors in the line work so well for so many different topics - even baby cards!

Hope you are have a wonderful Saturday!