Inspiration Alley

Already booking 2011

So the first scheduled appointment for 2011 is already on the books.  It's Winter Retreat with Hilltop Memories which will be January 7,8,9 over in Sarasota.  Now since I'm already starting to schedule stuff, I had to have a place to put the details, so I bought one of those pocket planners (you know ... the ones that are like $1 in Michaels).  

I just slipped the planner out of its plastic case, applied paper over the front and back cover, then applied stickers, paper, and bling to dress it up a bit.  The papers I used are from BoBunny's Petal Pushers Line.  This was a simple project and took less than 20 minutes.  The hardest part for me was getting the letters on straight, but that's just me.

At the Crop

This weekend I'm at a scrapbooking crop hosted by HilltopMemories.  Now when I go to these things, I usually spend the whole time catching up with all the happenings since most of my scrapbooking friends live on the West Coast of Florida.  This crop however, I've actually been scrapping - I mean "real", "authentic", scrapbooking pages.  It's funny, because I set out by bringing kits expecting only to work on those, but ended up doing a couple of layouts.  Here's two, and I'll post the rest as soon as I can.

   

This first one is for one of my employees - she recently got a new motorcycle and I had taken some pictures for her "me" wall.  This is using one of the Spring BoBunny lines called Block party.  It's sort of a patrioticish theme  but I liked the color combination for these pics.  The blue is close to the color of denim.  Ont he red sqare there are stars in the paper printing that the photo didn't pick up - I'm thinking I'll go back in tomorrow and add some crystal effects to make it pop.

This one is using another spring release for BoBunny called Peacock Lane.  I picked this one because the purples and teals "went" with the teal of the car and the purplish hues of the sky.  This was from February when Frankie's Pizza was celebrating 55 years.  Their celebration took place on Valentine's Day and we took our 1955 Buick Century to the show because it was also 55 years old.  The car needs some work, but we really wanted to take it because it was new when Frankie's first opened.  (If you weren't aware, you can order half baked pizzas and have them shipped direct to you - just in case you live out of town but love those square pizzas.)

I've also done some card kits, another layout, and some other cards, but I can barely keep my eyes open much longer.  If I don't get some sleep I wont be able to make the drive home.

Cat Layout

So, I totally missed the Thursday Thirteen yesterday.  I had a topic all picked out, but work was just too busy, so I didn't make it online to post.  Check back next Thursday because I'll be here.

I started working on my kittens album, so here's a layout with one of their first photos.  That's Mattie and Michael (the terrible). Hard to believe that they are almost 4 years old.  This one is done with Scenic Route paper.  Enjoy!