Monday, June 15, 2009

Episode #2 Give Me a Shove

Well, episode #2 finally made it to the podcast. I talk a bit about the technical difficulties I've had with the podcast, as well as about what's new with me. I also discuss my tendency to scrapbook the way I program. I like to look for a book, magazine, or sketch to give me a shove in the right direction and get me started.

The book I mentioned in the podcast is "The Joy of Scrapbooking" by Kerry Arquette, Andrea Zocchi, and Darlene D'Agostino.

And of course, as promised, here's the cute enormous buttons I picked up at the store. They are manufactured by Blumenthal Lansing Company. I so can't wait to use them!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Cadillac Tent

Camping has always been a big thing in my family. We camped alot when I was a kid. Most of it was RV camping, though I did camp a handful of times in a tent. When Hubby and I got married, I knew I wanted to go camping. I also knew an RV was WAY out of the picture for is. It was tenting or nothing. I created a layout to chronicle our first camping trip, with our new tent....our HUGE new tent.


Cadillac Tent is so named, because it's ENORMOUS. Hubby can fully stand up in the center of that thing. It was more like a house than a tent. (Well, except for the canvass walls.)
My color and cardstock choices were practically primary colors. Camping like this just seemed all retro to me. So I went with colors that screamed 70s to me. The buttons were kinda wooden-looking to me, which made me think of trees. We were camping in the woods, after all.
Supplies: I believe the cardstock is all DCWV. The buttons...are buttons. The dragonfly punch was a Whale punch. Circles were punched from a Marvy Giga punch (I love that thing). The alphas are foam Thickers, which I then covered liberally with Stickles. It came out with a neat effect, but took a very long time to dry. I had to hide the layout in a plastic box to protect it from cats bent on making a mess.