Hello everyone! Let’s talk about scrapbooking today. While scrapbooking as a hobby is about SO many different things, part of it for me it is about honoring our loved ones. It is remembering family members who have passed as well as documenting our current lives. I personally love looking at older pictures and seeing the way people used to dress or remembering how our house looked growing up. It is also fun to see our loved ones in a way we might not remember them. Finding a picture of a younger version of them is a treasure. This is why...
Card Making
by Machelle Willingon October 5, 2024March 10, 2025
Sketch Saturday #761
Hello all my card making friends! Welcome back for Sketch Saturday #761. Today’s sketch features circles and the twist is to use Orange. While orange is not my favorite color, I feel like it really made my card pop. I remembered that I had a mat pack in my stash that had some bright fun colors. When I checked I found the background paper with a subtle watercolor type pattern. I pulled out the orange and blue/turquoise as my main colors and used my stitched circle die cuts to make the shapes. I added the Thinking of You stamped sentiment...
Card Making
by Machelle Willingon September 21, 2024March 10, 2025
Sketch Saturday #760
We are back again with Sketch Saturday #760. Today’s sketch is all about angles. Just a side note – I have a lot of trouble with angles, it is one of the things I just have always had trouble grasping the concept of. So for this card I used my Creative Memories trimmer which happens to have a handy 45 degree measurement printed on the cutting surface (see the second pic). Easy peasy! Now back to the sketch – the twist was to make a masculine card. For my card I used darker colors in blue, green & gray. I...
Card Making
by Machelle Willingon September 7, 2024March 10, 2025
Sketch Saturday #759
Hello friends! Today is Sketch Saturday #759. We have a landscape orientation with a couple of layers and a swirl embellishment. The twist is to feature a sentiment. For my card, I stayed true to the sketch and used a paper collection that had shades of blue cardstock for the background & main layer for my sentiment. Then I used a coordinating piece with flowers and swirls in white for a subtle accent layer. The pearl embellishment went perfectly under my Happy Birthday sentiment. The dark brown pops and makes it stand out from the other more muted colors. A...
ScrapbookingPhoto Management
by Machelle Willingon August 31, 2024March 10, 2025
Scrapbooking for Beginners Part 1
Good morning friends! I started this blog with a very generalized idea of community. People getting together to talk about scrapbooking, memory keeping and crafting. I know that sometimes I cover a wide variety of topics so I thought maybe it was time to go back to the basics for a little while. I am going to try to alternate my Sketch Saturday Card posts with some very specific posts aimed at those who want to start scrapbooking in some fashion but don’t know where to start. So to that end, welcome to – Scrapbooking for Beginners Part 1. Introduction: Scrapbooking,...
Card Making
by Machelle Willingon August 24, 2024March 10, 2025
Sketch Saturday #758
It’s time for Sketch Saturday #758. Today’s sketch has an elegant feel to it with an added swirl in the corner and the twist was to use sequins. Here is the sketch: I used multiple layers with the last pattern being a butterfly floral paper. I was originally going to use a stamp for the swirl but decided it was too big for the space. Instead I found a thin metal die set that had the smaller swirl shape and I feel it fits better. It also adds dimension and texture. Then I finished with the copper & gold colored...
Card Making
by Machelle Willingon August 10, 2024March 10, 2025
Sketch Saturday #757
Good morning & welcome to Sketch Saturday #757! Today we have a sketch with lots of square layers. I was so excited when I saw this sketch, because I recently acquired a HUGE scrapbook stash off of Facebook Marketplace. In addition to a ridiculous amount of paper, there was a box of small pre-cut squares. Some of them are plain and the others have two different types of decorative edging. This was the perfect starting point for my card. The twist for Sketch Saturday #757 was to use summer colors. I had every color of the rainbow to choose from,...
Card Making
by Machelle Willingon July 27, 2024March 10, 2025
Sketch Saturday #756
Welcome to the weekend! Sketch Saturday #756 is live on their blog, be sure to go check out all the inspiration from the design team. Here is the sketch & the twist is to make it funny. I stayed pretty true to the original sketch this time and tried my best with the “funny” part. Puns are definitely not my strong suit. I started with the blue background paper that has a very subtle tone-on-tone design. Then I found the brown piece that was left over from a card kit. I felt the patterned papers went well together. With all...
Misc
by Machelle Willingon July 19, 2024March 10, 2025
2024 Word of the Year Update
2024 Word of the Year – Progress I can’t believe it’s the middle of July. Half of the year has passed and I thought it was about time for a 2024 Word of the Year update. While I have not been posting like I had hoped, progress has been made. It is sometimes hard to tell while we are in the middle of the day to day, but we can look back over the last few months and see how far we have come. My original post about my Word of the Year – Progress was specific to time management,...
Card Making
by Machelle Willingon July 13, 2024March 10, 2025
Sketch Saturday #755
Hello to all my card makers! Today I have Sketch Saturday #755. Let’s have a look at the sketch: And the twist for this week is Christmas in July. Before we get to my interpretation, let me tell you this was not my first attempt. Or even the second – it was the third. Third times the charm, right? So my original idea was a tower of presents, but I wanted to add ribbon to them. I didn’t have any ribbon in my scrapbook stash that matched my paper. The next logical (?) thought was, well, it is a Christmas...