What a perfect day it was today! My New Catalog Open House took place beginning at 11:00 am and ending at about 3:30 pm. I had three time slots and everyone had a wonderful time! I've been working on the projects all week and wishing I could share them here, but I just had to wait until everyone who came to the open house could see them!
Now that it's over though, I just couldn't wait to share. I'm starting first with my scrapbook page that we did. It's my favorite of all the projects for many reasons, which I'll share below.
Here's Project #1. It's a 6x6 scrapbook page of my new niece, Maya Lynne Cerbo, out in California. I cannot wait to meet her when she and her parents visit here in September. She obviously is the first reason I love this project, because I love her! After I got more information about when the photo was taken, I added the words "Week one: June 2009" to the journaling under her name. But, I'd already taken the picture of the page before I did this. I sent a copy to Maya's mommy my sister in law and fellow stamper/scrapper. I also made her a page for her scrapbook.
I love this page because it uses some of our new In Colors, specifically Rich Razzleberry which so far is my favorite, and Crushed Curry. I used the textured card stock also, and I just love the rich look and feel to the paper.
I also love this page because it uses gorgeous Designer Series papers. These are from the Level 3 Hostess Bundle on page 18. The paper is called Lovely Flowers, and it truly is lovely. The funny thing is that originally, before I cut the photo to fit the page, there was a tall plant with pink flowers on the side table behind the baby's head. I thought how well those flowers would match the flowers on the paper, until I realized, I'd cut them right out of the photo! So they were part of the inspiration, and part of the reason I chose this particular photo out of the 100 photos I have from Maya's first few weeks of life.
Everyone at the open huse made this page, but they were going to go home and put their own photo on, obviously, so I offered them the chance to use a button or a brad in the center of the flower, rather than the Hello Baby stamp from the new Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set, that I used. This stamp set is fabulous, it contains every single holiday all in one set, plus additional greetings such as the Hello Baby stamp. I loved that little greeting though, it was a perfect match for my page and it fit perfectly on the 5 Petal Flower punch. Several people chose to do a Crushed Curry flower instead of white, with a green or lavendar rhinestone brad in the center, or a button. They were beautiful!!
This scrapbook page was a very versatile page, any photo could go in the middle since I chose not to use "baby girl" colors. Some people did all of the DSP with the flowers facing up, some did all with the Curry side facing up, some did half and half like I did, and some did three floral and one curry. Every single one was beautiful.
I always try to include a 6x6 page because you don't have to own a scrapbook to use it. You can use a plate stand to display it on an end table, as I often do before putting them into my scrapbooks, or you can put it on a refridgerator, or you can take a 6x12 piece of card stock, adhere it to the front, and make a card for someone. There's so much you can do with a 6x6 page without being a scrapper. I also like 6x6 pages because they're quick and easy.
I hope you've enjoyed seeing the first of the projects I shared today. I'll be sure to post some more over this next week!
I'll also being posting sign ups for some of the product sharing clubs that I'll be starting in August. I always give first dibs to those who come to the open house, and make them public after that. So, be on the lookout for marker clubs, ribbon shares and in color clubs coming up this week as well!
