STORY OF THE PAGE: We bought a new car. It wasn’t planned, per se, but with a recent fender bender resulting in an unfixable Hyundai Santa Fe (my favorite car ever), we had to up our game for car shopping. We’ve been looking very casually for a few years so we knew what we were looking […]
Make a Page Monday—Hybrid Page
STORY OF THE PAGE: Cole’s band, Want Slash Need, played their first paid bar gig. If that ain’t scrapworthy, I’m hard pressed to know what is. Plus, it’s appropriate teenage scrapbook material, right? I blogged about it last week, but knew the story needed a home in Cole’s album. Note: forgive my slightly crooked photo. […]
Make a Page Monday—Digital: Hello Ultimate
STORY OF THE PAGE: Ultimate season has begun in Minnesota. Not familiar with ultimate? It’s like soccer but with discs. And it’s freaking awesome and so, so much fun to watch. I took some photos at last week’s game and wanted to use a few on a page to plop into Cole’s album. I’m feeling […]
Make a Page Monday—er—Wednesday (Trust me, it’s all gonna work out)
STORY OF THE PAGE: I made this page for the most recent issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine as part of my Clean & Simple column. The focus of the column was my favorite scrapbooking subject: me. Now I say that with a little cheekiness implied, but what I really mean is this: women […]
Make a Page Monday
STORY OF THE PAGE: I’m guest blogging at Studio Calico this week and created a page based on some digital products from their latest kit. When I saw the card that said , “It’s going to be hard,” I felt it was the perfect piece around which to build a story of transition and change. I […]
Make a Page Monday | Classic Edition
STORY OF THE PAGE: The year was… oh hell, I’m not sure. 2005? Maybe 2006? And this was very likely an assignment for a special issue of Simple Scrapbooks magazine, probably for our Quizzes issue. The idea was simple: come up with a predetermined set of questions to be answered by two people. The twist? You […]