Another art project - Hatcher

Last week we had a birthday party to attend for Aaron's friend Hatcher. I scrapbook with his mom and she had been intrigued by my recent hobby of writing names with doodles. I had the idea to do names on notecards as gifts, so I used her as my guinea pig! Hatcher loves trains so I drew his name with a train car on each letter. I was very pleased with the outcome!

I scanned the name in, then put the .jpg onto notecards. Then I did some "gift cards" by printing several of the names on white cardstock, which I cut into little cards for her to include with gifts.

This is so much fun! Shelly raved about her new stationery and thinks I need to sell it. I can't fathom many people wanting to buy this, and I'm not sure how I would do it, but we'll see!

Because you know you wanted to see...

You know you wanted to see my scrapbook titles I referred to Saturday night. Or maybe I just want to show you! I'm pretty excited about finding new ways to do titles.

This one was fun to do. I just took crayons and made the letters in blocks. So easy! I like the effect.


This one took me a few minutes--I was copying the "Neptune" lettering from one of the books I have. It was fun to embellish it once I was done. I did chalk around the edge for a faded look. Clear beads are scattered around the page and look like water droplets.


This puppets page is one of my favorite. I absolutely love the title! I followed the "Button" lettering in the LMNOP book, then embellished it.

Here's the whole page--I used pieces of yarn that I had actually used as the puppets' hair.

Finally, the journaling box needed a little something, so embellished it with more buttons! They're so easy to draw!


This was the first time I've worked on my scrapbooking in a while, and now I'm very motivated to do more.

Calling all scrapbooking friends--I sense a crop in the works!

Scrapbooking!

This was the weekend of a scrapbook retreat in Arkansas that I had really wanted to attend. I decided not to reserve my spot because of everything going on with my Grandma. So I had some down time today and decided to drag it all out in my bedroom and do some pages!

I had to share, because I had so much fun making titles using these books:



I made some super cute titles! My favorite was one called "Puppets" which is done in a lettering that has buttons and threads going all over it. I colored the buttons with some bright fine tip markers and drew spools of thread and extra buttons all around. I have definitely found a new little hobby-within-my-hobby!

I also worked on organizing which pages I have done and which I have yet to do. I spent an hour and a half last night going through pictures on my computer and creating pages in my head, and getting it all down on paper. I felt less confused about where I needed to start once I started working today. Why didn't I think of that earlier??? (Probably because it took so long!)