tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30463110352525588292024-03-13T13:53:50.308-07:00Love to Stamp & ScrapSharing my love of stamping & scrappingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046311035252558829.post-60342802750065422042014-09-07T14:55:00.001-07:002014-09-07T14:59:06.746-07:00Please Consider a Donation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One year ago, on September 11, my dear mother lost her battle with lymphoma. On October 4, I am participating in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk. Please consider making a donation. It's tax deductible and for a good cause. <a href="http://pages.lightthenight.org/calso/InlandEm14/CWilcox"><b>Click here</b></a> for a direct link to my fundraising page if you'd like to help.</div>
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Wow, can't believe my last post was in November of 2011!! I took on being yearbook adviser at school starting the 2011-12 school year, and just haven't spent as much time stamping and scrapping as I have in the past (too busy proofreading yearbook pages!).</div>
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Last day in Hawaii (currently on Maui) and I've been doing some digital scrapbooking that I thought I'd share. First up is the cover of my album. I'm using My Digital Studio to create it. The image was taken from the Kona by the Sea resort on the Big Island.</div>
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Still messing around with the title page, but this is what I have so far:</div>
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I've finished three spreads so far. The first is a page featuring snorkeling on the reef in front of the condo we're renting on Maui. We did the snorkeling during the first six night stay here. The girls and I were in the water on four different days, having the waterproof digital camera with us the last three times. I sure am glad we spent the money several years back on the waterproof camera - it has come in handy!</div>
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The next spread is from our trip up Haleakala, the larger of the two volanoes that make up the island of Maui. First time we've been up there with fog and rain, so there wasn't much to see this time, unfortunately. This part of our trip started out wet with a storm the night we got here, and it's taken several days to get back to things being sunny again.</div>
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I was working on this spread last night and finished it today. After our visit up at Haleakala, we stopped in at the Maui Golf & Sport Park and played two rounds of mini golf in the wind (it was windy up at head level but not a golf ball level).</div>
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I'll have to post the rest of the album once I finish it. Might also show you the album I did two summers ago when we did a roadtrip to Carlsbad Caverns, Yellowstone, and the Redwoods. I've also done some stamping in the last two and a half years of my absence from Blogger, so I should round up a few of my favorites to share. Thanks for stopping by! </div>
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I made this card to give to my nephew who is turning 11. I hope he likes it. I think I need to invest in a sports-themed cartridge to give me more options for male cards... we'll see if Joann's has their great Black Friday deal ($27) on them again this year so I can add to my collection!<br />
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I have far more than I need, but it's a nice feeling that I don't have to make time to make any more Christmas cards this year!<br />
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I've got one more post for you tomorrow, but this time it's a birthday card. See you soon!<br />
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They're based on a card made by <a href="http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2011/11/freaky-kiss.html">Jan Tink</a> for the November Control Freaks Blog Hop (and she was inspired by <a href="http://darlenedesign.com/wordpress/?p=1751">Darlene DeVries</a>), although I made thank you cards several years back using the same masking technique. My box of 2011 Christmas cards is in the background, bursting at the seams! Tomorrow I'll share with you the last batch, the November cards. Hope to see you then!<br />
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I used Mary Brown's trick for <a href="http://stampercamper.com/cardpost/making_bows">making bows</a> using brads, and I love how it looks! The inside of my card is a repeat of the bottom stamped layer (my DH loves it that I design the inside of cards instead of leaving them plain card stock).<br />
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Thanks for taking some time today to visit my little blog... I'll have another post for you tomorrow!<br />
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I wanted to use a thicker ribbon, and feature the new <b>Hand-Penned Holidays</b> stamp on my version of Debra's beautiful card. I cut out 12 card kits for my September stamp camp, when along comes a need for a swap card for my upline's September meeting. We had to feature products from the Holiday Mini, so I changed the <b>Autumn Days</b> stamp set and used <b>Gently Falling</b> once again. Here's how the card looks with the stamp change:<br />
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I had hoped to share this one with my stampers last month, but it just didn't happen - never had the time to sit down and prepare the card kits, so I'll save it for next year!<br />
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Today I'm sharing a swap card I made for a Stampin' Addicts swap a while back featuring the stamp set <b>Gently Falling</b> from the Holiday Mini catalog. I stamped each maple leaf and then used a dauber to add some champagne mist shimmer paint to the rubber before stamping (first time I've used it). I really like the effect and hope you can see it in the second picture. The sentiment was created using My Digital Studio and printed out onto vellum. As Jan Tink always says, lookie...<br />
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Hope you like it! That's Cajun Craze for the box - sure looks like Tangerine in the photo. Have a great week!<br />
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Punch stockings first using scraps of holiday DSP; assemble with glue pen and allow to dry. Add a loop of baker's twine to back of stocking using clear tape.<br />
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Card base: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Very Vanilla, scored and folded as a standard greeting card.<br />
DSP: Well Worn, cut 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; adhere to front of Very Vanilla card base.<br />
Cut black card stock 3 7/8 x 3 inches. Center over DSP, aligning bottom edge of black with bottom edge of DSP. <br />
Top of card - two pieces of Early Espresso. One cut 1 x 4 1/4 inches and sponged with Early Espresso ink along bottom and side edges only (adhere directly to DSP layer, aligning top edge). Other is cut 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches and sponged along top, bottom and side edges. Add silver brads at 1 3/8 and 2 7/8 from left edge of this strip. Before pushing brads all the way through, add loop of stocking over brad. Pop up Early Espresso with dimensionals along top edge of card. Add dimensionals to back of stocking and adhere to card.<br />
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Bottom of card: 4 1/4 x 7/16 inches, sponged in Early Espresso along all sides. Pop up with stampin' dimensionals.<br />
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Make the fire using the bird punch (wing) - Daffodill Delight card stock. Two of the flames curve left with the other curving right. Sponge with Pumpkin Pie ink. Glue together with glue pen, allow to dry. Make logs with word window punch and Early Espresso card stock. Sponge edges with Early Espresso ink and glue together. Glue flames to top edge of logs. Pop up with stampin' dimensionals and place on card just above hearth that is popped up.<br />
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I hope that all makes sense - have fun making these super easy cards! To save some time, you could choose to not sponge the Early Espresso except for on the fire.<br />
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Have a fabulous day - I hope it involves doing something fun and creative!<br />
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I'm already above the number of cards I had hoped to make for 2011, so it will be nice to have some extras for a change!<br />
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For my back cover, I took the image of Arianne's footprints on Kahana Beach and flipped it. If I have an option for the color of the spine when I upload my album, I'll go with the Creamy Caramel which borders the image.<br />
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I thought it was a fitting end to my album. It was a wonderful vacation. We've been to Maui so many times now it almost feels like coming home in a sense. When we retire, I hope to make that a true statement, as my DH and I would like to live there for a year before trying out some other areas of our country, a year at a time. He's lived in our hometown all but one year of his life, so he wants to see what other regions of our country are like. Can't say I blame him.<br />
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Thanks again for visiting my blog - I hope to have some Christmas cards and swaps to share with you soon!<br />
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I thank you for letting me share my Maui vacation with you. I have one last post from our trip scheduled for tomorrow where I'll share our final sunset on Maui and the back cover of my album. I'll return to card making after this for a bit as I've got some swaps to make as well as my August allotment of Christmas cards. See you soon!<br />
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One more regular spread to go, then I'll share with you the last page and back cover of my album. Thanks for stopping by today!<br />
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I finished my album on August 7, so now it's just a matter of looking back over it a few more times to see what needs to be tweaked before I uploaded to the Stampin' Up! print services. I'm so excited - I can't remember the last time I did so much scrapbooking!<br />
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Ok, time for today's scrapbook pages. One of my favorite places to go on Maui is to Big Beach just south of Makena in South Maui. I just love this huge, golden sand beach! The surf can be rough here so not many are brave enough to venture out for a swim. The main attraction are the body surfers and boogie boarders, and this visit to Big Beach found about a dozen boogie boarders trying to catch some air. This set of pages came together quickly as I can now use my desktop system and boy, is it MUCH faster than my netbook!<br />
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Thanks for stopping by today - I still have more pictures to scrapbook, so I should have more pages soon!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While I was working on the title for this spread, I had originally planned to just extend the Island Indigo tasteful trim punch across to the right panel with 'tide' on the left panel of the spread and 'pools' on the right. I created the entire title on the left panel and was about to move the right half part over when our oldest suggested that I leave the 'sqwiggly lines' where they were and put a picture in between them. I liked her idea, so I duplicated the page, popped in two similar pictures, and just moved 'pools' to the right panel. Does that make any sense at all? I love the image on the right with my girls in there - I couldn't have planned that one better than if I'd tried!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm blogging this on our last day on Maui. I'm going to miss being here - having the ocean right out your living room window sure spoils you! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T_Q0EyRplvM/TYL8TqI_eLI/AAAAAAAAB8k/VW3xrxiUq9Q/s1600/BlogSiggyArt.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T_Q0EyRplvM/TYL8TqI_eLI/AAAAAAAAB8k/VW3xrxiUq9Q/s200/BlogSiggyArt.gif" width="168" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vmFX9ASxTdc/TF4tEE6qZCI/AAAAAAAABw0/5ug75ocjTS0/s1600/Blog+Siggyh+Art.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046311035252558829.post-87626629636894404592011-08-05T09:00:00.000-07:002011-08-05T09:00:13.641-07:00Haleakala SunriseDid something on this trip to Maui that we've never done before - finally made it up the volcano to view the sunrise. It was something that Alyssa wanted to do on this trip, and she got her wish on the morning of August 2. So glad now we decided to get up early (2:15 am) to make it up to the summit (10,023 feet) to view the glorious sunrise. Yes, I did a lot of journaling on this one, as I wanted to remember the story of our ride up to document our adventure. I used one of the techniques I learned at Yearbook Tech for my first page in the spread - breaking long amounts of text into multiple columns instead of just one - the reader is more likely to read the story if it's broken up than if it's in one monotonous paragraph. Makes for a more visually appealing page, too!<br />
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Today I'm sharing with you some of the sunset pictures we took on our trip into Lahaina on July 31. That's one thing Maui isn't short on - great sunsets!<br />
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</div>I hope to finish scrapbooking our trip by the end of the weekend after we get home - should go a bit faster by using my desktop at home, and then I can send it off to be printed through the Stampin' Up! printing services. I'll share with you a spread a day until I have shared them all. I hope you have been enjoying the views of our Maui vacation!<br />
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Although it was worth trying another part of the island to stay on this year's trip, my DH and I both agreed while walking down to the tree on Front Street that the Lahaina/Ka'anapali area of west Maui is our favorite area and we'll return to this area on our next stay on Maui.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by and tomorrow I have another three page layout of the Banyan Tree over in Lahaina.<br />
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