Cypress Scrapbooking - Kendra

Kendra is our digital friend, which means she now carries far less scrapbooking material and tools with her. She sent me these layouts that she completed while at Cypress. Her photos are so beautiful. She has such an eye for perfect photos! You can check out more of her layouts and photos on her blog too. The link is on the sidebar.

Cypress Scrapbooking - Jennifer

Here are a couple of my layouts from Cypress. I tried to do some stitching on my layouts. This takes a bit of time, but is worth the effort.

Cypress Scrapbooking - Angela

Here are Ang's layouts from Cypress. Ang has two little boys, but that never stops her from using flowers and bling on her layouts. If you double click on the black/cream family layout, you will be able to see her embellishments better.

Cypress Scrapbooking - Janette

These are Janette's layouts from Cypress. One of my favorite layouts from the weekend is her Family layout. The colors are fantastic and her picture was taken at such an interesting angle.

Cypress Scrapbooking - Robin

I am finally finding time to update and post some layouts from our girls scrapbooking weekend at Cypress. I asked each girl to pick her favorite 3 or 4 to post on the blog. The following layouts are from Robin. Her beautiful boys are so inspiring.

Happy Halloween

One of the reasons I am posting to a blog is to keep track of some of my cards and designs. I find it hard to sent away cards that I really loved making. By taking pictures of them, I can send them away and still have an image of them if I want to recreate the card or use it as inspiration. This is one of those cards. I think the characters are to cute and I love the color combination. This was one of the first times that I used my watercolor pastels on colored cardstock. It seems as if the colors are glowing. This is using the Good Fiends stamp set from Stampin' Up. A classic Halloween stamp set that I was sad to see retire. 

Heartfelt Thanks

A few of my scrapbooking friends and I are heading to Cypress for our annual scrapbooking getaway next weekend. I am pretty excited to scrapbook for myself and dig into all my new wedding proofs. As I began thinking of packing up my room of treasures, I thought it best to clean house and organize. I have been taking 15 or 20 minutes here and there to empty and clean out little boxes and piles throughout my room. This leads to the following post of long lost cards. The cards above are cards that I created for a Heartfelt Thanks sampler a couple of years ago. It is always interesting finding old cards and layouts. You notice how your style has changed over the years. On some of these cards I would have used a background stamp to add texture behind the images. I still love the Sage Shadow card with three matching images and a vellum overlay. I remember making that card and thinking it was fantastic. Finding it again, I still feel like it is a fantastic! I don't use this set very often, but it is truly a classic.