Creations With Kathryn: June 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Graduation Layout

Well hello to all of you wonderful people. I hope you all are enjoying your summer. I can say here in Northern Califronia it is hot and a little bit unfriendly, but it is summer. LOL

Well on to my project. I did this 2 page layout using stuff that I had from my left over stuff. I even used background paper that is at least 4 years old from a company that is no longer in business.

I did a Graduation Swap back in 2008 and 2009. I used all the left overs to make this layout.

Page 1 of Layout.

The Journaling box is large, cause I have a lot to say, and the picture is for a 4x6 which I will cut down from one of the 5x7 I have.

Page 2 of the layout.

There is a space for 3.5x3.5 photos or whatever I decide to put there.

Sorry the poem isn't read able, but I will make a seperate post with that this evening.

Well, I hope that you like my recycled project. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Winner of the Summer Begins Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Hope you all are having a wonderful week. Sorry this didn't get done on yesterday, but my daughter didn't get home until 9pm. So we had to eat, bath and get her to bed. So she pull a name out of the bag this morning. So the winner is:

Tracey ~ GardenOfGrace said...

What a beautiful card. Thanks for all the instructions too.

http://gracescraps.blogspot.com/

June 11, 2011 11:15 AM

So congrats Tracey! So give me a shout at creationswithkathryn@yahoo.com.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Summer Begins Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to the 2nd day of the Summer Begins Blog Hop. I hope that you enjoyed your the hop yesterday and enjoy again today. My post is late due to my youngest having a Birthday party today. It was 20 girls at my house swimming and bouncing in the bounce house. It was a fantastic party, but I just finished cleaning after everyone left (which was 6:30pm). So almost 5 1/2 hours of cleaning. YIKES!!! Not sure I will do that many again next year. Well enough about my wild day and on with the hop.

I do have blog candy for this hop and it is a Stampin' Up "Punch Border Scallop Trim". You have 2 chances to win by leaving a comment on yesterday and todays post. I will be drawing a winner Monday night.

Now on too the project part. I was going to put my daughters Summer Journal I made, but she was adding to it and said that I wasn't allowed to take a picture till it is finished. So my project is one of the invitations for a BBQ party that I am having the end of this month. It is going to be mostly adults, so that is why the CHEERS. LOL

I am still going GREEN by using only my scraps and mismatched odds and ends of paper that I have been collecting through the years. It was one of my main goals this year was to use as much of my scraps as possible. Plus I am trying to get better at making cards, so here is another of my attemps at it. LOL

Insturctions:

Papers Used:

Scraps from my Misc. paper file

Stamps Used:

Stampin' Up - Cheers to You

Inks Used:

Stamped Images - Memento - Tuxedo Black

Inked Paper Edges - Stampin' Up - Certainly Celery and Perfect Plum

Copics Used:

Fruit Drink - YG07 Acid Green, YR18 Sanguine YR65 Atoll, YGR67 Moss, R46 Srong Red

Strawberry Drink - YGR67 Moss, YR31 Light Redish Yellow, RV32 Shadow Pink, R46 Strong Red

Punches Used:

Stampin' Up - 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Extra Large, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Extra Large

Scallop Oval Extra Large, 1 3/4" x 7/8" Oval Large

Hope you enjoy this hop and my try at a card again. I hope to post that summer journal this week if my daughter ever finishes her special touches. LOL It is now time to head over to One by One the Flamingo's are Stealing my Sanity.

Here is a full list of the blogs that are in this hop.

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Kathryn

http://www.creationswithkathryn.com

Karel J

http://karelj.blogspot.com

Yolanda

http://www.craftyscentiments.blogspot.com

Nicolette

http://www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com

Scraps To Treasures

http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com

Janice

http://www.cricutconfessions.com

Jen M

http://mccalleyhouse.blogspot.com

Michelle

http://peanutbutterandjellydesigns.blogspot.com

Jessica

http://thatzuneek.blogspot.com

Lissa

http://somanycrafts.wordpress.com

Leah

http://leahscarddesigns.blogspot.com

Jen P

http://roxybonds-scrappin.blogspot.com

Sigrid

http://lovescrapreflect.blogspot.com

Hope you have a wonderful weekend and God Bless you all.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Summer Begins Blog Hop Day 1

Hi all and welcome to the Summer Begins Blog Hop. I did have another project planned for this hop, but my computer fried on me, so I am using a friends and have another project that I am putting up for the first post of this hop. There are some wonderfully talented ladies on this hop and know that you will enjoy peeking all that they have created. Please be sure to come back on Sunday to see the other creations that we have for you to view.

I am offering blog candy for any and all that post. You can get more chances to win if you post on both days, so double your chances. The blog candy I am offering is a Stampin' Up Punch Border Scallop Trim. It is a great punch and I do love how easy they punch and store.

Well on to my first project:

I am sure you all are going that has nothing to do with summer. Well here in California (Northern) we have just in the past 4 days had good weather. The birds are finally singing in the morning and flying around my trees. We have been so cold and wet that we really had one of those soggy Spring Seasons. This is a card I made for a friend of mine who has been really depressed about the weather. She has some type of bird that during the warm days takes out with her on the porch and he sings like crazy to the other birds outside. It is a wonderful thing to hear. Well finally on Wednesday her little Pepper sang, and boy did he sing his little heart out. My friend was in tears, cause she said it had been to long of a Winter and she truly missed his singing. Well this is what the begining of Summer means to me this year.

Instructions:

Papers Used:

Misc. scraps from my scrap files (still trying to go green).

Stamps Used:

Bird Cage - Stampin' Up - Chic Boutique

Here for You - Stampin' Up - Friends 24-7

Punches Used:

Label - Stampin' Up - Curly Label Extra-Large

Border - Stampin' Up - Eyelet Border

Stamped Images Inks Used:

Bird Cage - Memento - Tuxedo Black

Here for You - Stampin' Up - Pacific Point

Image Colored Inks Used:

Bird Cage:

Chrome Orange - Copic YR04

Lilac - Copic V04

Emerald Green - Copic G05

Tahitian Blue - Copic B04

Glitter Pen - atyou Spica - Peach 15

Well I hope you liked my project and return on Sunday to see the special Summer Journal I made for my youngest to journal all the things she will do this summer. Your next stop is One by One the Flamingos are Stealing my Sanity

Here is the list of blogs you will be hopping over to: