I told you I wouldn't show you any more pages for this Brag Book but I am going to share with you the outside cover. I love the linen albums that Stampin' Up Offers, they are high quality and they look so nice and you can stamp on them. Make sure if you do decide to stamp on the cover that you use the Craft pads and NOT the Classic pads because they just fade where the Craft pads hold their color SO much better.

Here is a close up of the tag. I used my Timber Brown Stazon Pad and stamped the ship and used my blender pen, of course, to watercolor the image on a tag that came from SU!'s Tag Sheets. I then sponged around the edges in Close to Cocoa ink and glued the tag on Blue Bayou CS and cut a border. I took 3 little tags and sponged around them in Soft Sky, River Rock, and Blue Bayou and stamped on them with Everyday Flexible Phrases, sweet, little and boy. I tied them all on with Taupe Ribbon and Hemp twine.

I Finished . . .

My pages for the Brag Book I have been working on, all 10 of them! Since they are all not so exciting I thought I would just share my favorites of the ones I did. I used the jumbo wheel Matey's Map with an uninked cartridge inked in versa mark. I love wheels because they make projects look great and they go so much faster.

I really like how the treasure chest turned out on this page. I used my 2 way glue pen and I sprinkled dazzling diamonds for behind the treasure and then I used my New rhinestone brads ( the tiny ones) and used them as jewels in the box. I cut the top of the box off so it would be open. I also used some of my silver cord and made a necklace and put a "ruby" on it.



This page is the other side of the layout for the treasure chest page. It is simple but to bring the two pages together I added some rhinestones to the corners. I just love how pretty they are.

So here is another page with the jumbo wheel. I used a black ink cartridge with this map and then I colored the map with my blender pen and then I sponged around the map with Close to Cocoa ink to give it an older look. Don't worry I won't bother you with any more of the pages from this baby book. This is just what I have been up to the past couple of days. Maybe I will be able to do some cards now that I have finished the pages. I still haven't done the outside of the album. We'll see what I come up with next.

More Pages for my Brag Book Gift

I got a bit of scrap booking done this morning after I cleaned my house. Okay so my house isn't spotless but it is tidy! I was able to get most of my stamping done while my kids were sleeping. On this page I didn't want the safety pin, since this is a pirate themed baby book, so I covered up the safety pin with a bit of a post-it note and inked up the image in the Blue Bayou ink, then I removed the post-it note and stamped the image on whisper white CS. Then I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to position the anchor in the right place.

On this page I used my SU! tag punches and I made a tag that can have a sentiment stamped on it or something written about the picture.

I took the ship image and stamped it on whisper white, Soft Sky, and River Rock Card stock. I used my blender pen to color in the image on the WW CS and then I cut out the body of the ship out of the River Rock and I cut out the waves from the Soft Sky CS.

This was a very simple page to do. I stamped Ahoy, Matey in Close to Cocoa and then a bird in Soft Sky. Punched out the sentiment with my 1 1/4" circle punch and then I punched out another circle with my 1 3/8" circle punch. I then punched a 1/8" circle out of my makeshift tag and then I added some taupe grosgrain ribbon.

I inked up just the bird for this page and I used my blender pen to color him in. I used my square punches and then I put the bird on an angle when I went to glue the squares together.

This is a technique called spotlighting. I stamped the image of the pirate in Close to Cocoa and I did not color him in. I stamped him again on another sheet of card stock and I colored him in with a blender pen. I then took the smaller of my two square punches and I punched out the part of the pirate I liked best and then I framed it in Soft Sky Card Stock. I glued the two squares together then I lined them up with the image on the scrapbook page. I still have at least 10 more pages to go so I can post them later when I have done them. I hope to get them all done tonight. That would make me happy!

Ahoy, Matey!

My brother and sister-in-law will be having a little boy sometime in August so I am making them a brag book to add pictures to. Here is an idea I thought up while I was stamping last night. If you want to make a scrapbook for someone and you don't have their photos you can use a sticky note and write the size of the photo that will fit in the designated space. Then when they get the scrapbook they don't have to go and measure out how big the photograph has to be.

I had a lot of fun doing this map. I used my blender pen to color in the map on River Rock paper. I sponged around the map to give it a worn look and then I crumpled again and again until I got the look I was going for.
Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Ahoy, Matey!, Headline Alphabet, Euphoria Alphabet

Paper: Designer Series Paper Prints Soft Sky, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, River Rock, Whisper White

Ink: Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, River Rock, Real Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Summer Sun

Accessories: Matey's Map Jumbo Wheel, Basic Black Jumbo Cartridge, Hemp Twine,

Where have I Been?!?!

So my sister came into town this week! Yeah! I picked her up from the airport on Tuesday and we have been hangin' out and having fun. Last night I was able to get some scrapbooking done and she started making some thank you cards to send out to all the people she got a graduation gift from. She picked out one card that takes a bit of time to do so she isn't finished yet and I will post those when they are done. I was able to finish a two page layout for my brother and sister-in-laws wedding scrapbook. Two more down, a million more to go! Ha ha. So these are some pictures of all the people waiting for the bride and groom to come out. They were married in the San Diego Temple, it is one of the most beautiful Temples in the world. I mostly used my coluzzle to cut out all the circles. The smaller ones were punched out with punches. All of the buttons have linen thread tied through the holes. I had a lot of fun with this layout. I was able to fit a lot of pictures on one page.

Supplies:

Stamp sets: So Very

Paper: Simply Scrappin' Summer Sketches, Mellow Moss, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Very Vanilla

Ink: Mellow Moss, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum

Accessories: Ivory Organdy Ribbon, Linen Thread, Buttons Soft Subtles, Mini Glue Dots, Coluzzle, 1 3/8", 1 1/4", 3/4", and 1/2" circle punch.