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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Designed A Logo: Who Knew?


A friend of mine does college advising for high school students. She needed a logo for her business cards, letterhead, and advertisements. I said I'd give it a whirl and I ended up working for a few days on it. After about 20 drafts, here is what it ended up looking like:
See, who knew, right? I had fun experimenting with photoshop and trying to interpret her ideas and translate them to the design.
In other news:
I uploaded this cute T-Rex baby explosion brag book to my etsy page a few days ago. I just love his googly eyes.
That's all for now. Thanks for looking,
Sue

Sunday, August 28, 2011

We Scrapped 810 Pages!Kindergarten Memory Books

My fellow scrapbooking friend and I worked on the kindergarten memory books for our sons' kindy class last school year. She coordinated (and I helped coordinate) the entire process including taking photos, uploading them, printing them, and scrapping them. We organized nights where just she and I scrapped. Other nights we had coordinated times that mom's from the class could come and work on their children's books. After a whole schoolyear of photographing and scrapping (including A LOT of Cricut cutting), we completed 27 scrapbooks that were about 30 pages each!!!!

Let's see...that's about 810 pages!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every child went home with their whole kindy year documented (including the teacher)!

So these pages look pretty basic, but they are really a labor of love. These were some of my favorites. We had to conserve money and time, so we came up with a plan. We just used basic cardstock as the backgrounds in bright colors, lots of die cuts that we Cricuted ourselves, lots of hole punches, and lots of decorative scissors. I am proud of how they turned out, especially since my friend and I and a few other moms did the work mostly by ourselves.

Popsicle Party and Candids Spread:


One of our first spreads: Fieldtrip to Fairyland!

The Owl Visit and Fieldtrip to Tilden Farms:

School Friends Spread:

Monday, January 10, 2011

Clipboards at Bauchercon



I helped my famed mother in law, Penny Warner (with me above left, then me with a fan/student from our class), when we taught a class at the Bauchercon-by-the-Bay San Francisco this year. It was actually on my birthday, Oct. 16th, at the annual mystery writers converence. We taught everyone how to make a mystery themed, altered clipboard. We thought this would be a practical gift for everyone to make and then actually use! They turned out adorably, if I do say so myself!


Holiday Boutique


I really cut down this year on doing the holiday boutiques because I wanted to focus on being home with my family more. I just wanted to share one photo of my brother and me at this year's boutique for my mom's club. He was so sweet and totally came by to visit!!

Scrap Party was a hit--Again!!


What a great time we had this year. We had about 20 people and they all came away from our party with at least 10 cards, gift tags, and other projects!! I would like to give a big shout out to our host, Penny Warner!!! Thank you! (Visit her website at http://www.pennywarner.com/)


Tuesday, November 23, 2010

It's Scrap Party Time Again!

Just thought I'd throw in a little preview of our next scrap party that my lovely mother-in-law Penny is throwing again this year! (http://www.pennywarner.com/)

I designed some cards to hopefully inspire lots of card-making this year:

The "Kraft" (brown paper-bag-looking) paper is big this year in all the crafting magazines, so I thought I'd give some of them a try.

I also tried some paper ornaments, but they were just ok:



In other news:

I recently made some cute stuff for my hairdresser, that I hope she'll feature and sell at her salon (DOLCESALON1@gmail.com):
These are the explosion albums that I make. This one features Katy at Dolce Salon's adorable daughter Reese.
I made this sign so it can hang in her salon.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sue

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Scrap Party





My mom-in-law, Penny Warner (pennywarner.com), threw a scrap party. I taught everyone how to make a paperbag scrapbook mini-album. Penny opened up her home, fed us tons of yummy treats, and wrote a column about our day for the local paper. Here are some pictures of the Christmas-themed paperbag album and the women who made them that day. I'm so lucky to have a mom-in-law who does kind things like that for me!!! She's an awesome person. (And the paperbag albums were pretty cute, too.)