Susan Farrant

Fun Weekend cropping with the girls - and finally Uncle Rod

I went to a scrapbooking crop this weekend..it is a twice yearly habit I am happy to indulge in. My friends form Scrapaholics and others head out to Timberline Ranch on Friday and crop our hearts out until about 3 on Sunday. This time I did have to sleep a little bit as I was driving and had to be sure not to be too tired on the way home LOL.

26 pages completed!!! My most productive crop ever! There must have been something in the water as Iris also completed a full album and Hayley finished her wedding album!

For my scrapbooking I allow myself to use products from other companies other than SU..it is my guilty pleasure and I love it :-) I have a weakness for Prima Flowers. This year is the third year that I tried to make a "memorial" page for my friend's little girl's album..of her Uncle Rod, who passed away a few years ago. On previous years when I took out the photos I would just tear up and couldn't get the pages done. Uncle Rod was the funniest man you will ever met and he adored his little niece so much..and she adored him right back. His passing touched so many lives, he was a teacher, father, husband, uncle, bagpiper extraordinaire and all round comedian. He once  won a prize on the radio for the funniest answering machine message in Canada. Their phone would ring all day long with people just wanting to hear the message. LOL

Here is what I came up with, my favourite layout of the weekend..with some guidance from my buddy Iris (thanks Iris)

Love you and Miss you Uncle Rod!!! Hope they like it :-)

here is the beautiful setting of the Ranch..

Next crop is in November and I can't wait!!!

but there is NO Blogging God!!! ARGH

I just did a huge post loaded with pictures..and it just disappeared into thin air...I can't believe it.

I don't have the time to go back and do it all again so if you would like to see the little album I did about Carlo that I made for my friend check THIS ALBUM out .

I'll post one picture here so the post at least looks interesting! LOL

Thanks for stopping by...Frustrated Sue

There is a Scrapbooking God!

Today I had a scrapbooking class. I wanted to the girls to try collage scrapbooking using many photos and I have also been wanting to try my hand at using circles..so decided to combine the two....and what about a little glitter too? LOL

So I will upload the photos of the girl's pages into the scrapbook page album on the side bar. Bernice did her granddaughter's grad and Colleen did her sister-in-law's 4-th birthday. I did Easter. here is what happened to me...did i mention I had a LOT of pictures..in fact...if you have ever scrapbooked more than 40 photos on two pages let me know! LOL Yes I said 40!!! (OK I printed them small...) This is waaaay outside my comfort zone (see Carlo's album pages on the next post for something more my style). I  also used a LOT of glitter! Again not me. But I got the pictures scrapped! LOL

The Easter Bunny was obviously telling a very funny story to my friends Linds and AnnLise! LOL

Here are some of the details.

This is where the Thanking of the Gods of Scrapbooking comes in..I spent at LEAST 10 minutes trying to the get the backing off the #7 to finish this page...the number 7!!!!!! I think I would have died....yes...I would have slipped off my chair and passed away on the floor of my new stamp room! LOL I got frustrated with it and threw it down on the table..and looked at it and my eyes grew big and I let out a huge gasp of relief that I did not get the backing off! All the other letters, numbers and the flower were not a problem!! PHEW!

I'll have to save this guy for another page sometime..just no room for him! He is just paper torn out and inked around the edges...how cute huh? I made it YEARS ago at some class I took and came across it in the big clean up!

I would change one thing if I started this page again..I would not have stamped the petals around the images on the second page...bit too busy now.

Thanks for stopping by. I have another post to share with pictures of the pages I made on the scrapbooking retreat I went to last weekend.

Sue

Scrapbooking Class

I have uploaded some pictures of the pages the ladies made at my last scrap-booking class. I don't do a cookie cutter page at my scrapbook classes. What I like to do is plan the first page layout and then provide the assistance to the girl as they create the second page themselves with extra supplies I provide.

Some more info on how we created the Faux designer paper is on my post of March 7th (or there abouts) They really enjoyed getting their creative juices flowing and everyones layouts turned out totally different.

You can view them in THIS album, click on the photos to see the full two page layout. At my classes we put the photos in and get the pages totally finished so there is no procrastinating when you leave here to get them completed! If you would like to come and try one of my classes please contact me surich@shaw.ca for more info, my class next month is on the 13th.

Thanks for stopping by. I am off to vote in our local elections now..hubby is TOO sick...(he really is sick I should not tease him poor guy! LOL)

Sue

Westcoast Fall

This was the layout at my scrapbooking class today. I love Fall so had lots of fun doing these pages. I used stickers I had recently won for my own pages this evening but they used stamps in the class. All supplies are otherwise Stampin' Up!

Page one is of my dog Cara at the beach in the leaves. She loves Fall when the temps cools down. I used a little strip of leather from a recent book binding class on the page also. The large eyelets are used along with the bling brads. Here is a close up of the detail. The Crop-a-dile was amazing going through the leather!

The second page uses pictures of the trees and a kite flyer homeward bound and my hubby with Cara. I had seen this kite flyer before on the beach when I didn't have my camera so was thrilled to get this cool image of him as he walked off with his kite.

Used the Build-a-Brad for the center of the flower image, which was cut from the designer paper.

You can click on the images to enlarge them.

Thanks for dropping by!

Hey!

I know it has been simply ages...life is just a little too hectic at the moment...if I am not traveling for work I am traveling for pleasure..in a nutshell..I've been gone a lot! These were studio shots of Emma taken last year.

The good news is that I was able to take a little creative pleasure trip to a wonderful spot in Washington State to meet an on-line buddy and her two friends and we scrapped away a weekend! So I thought I would share the pages I made. They are for a friend for Christmas...of her daughter Emma, their dog Angus who had to be put down last year (we still cry over him) and their new Leonberg puppy Elsa. (Yes she IS a puppy...a VERY big puppy!)

Em's Mum and Dad take awesome pictures so it makes my job a very pleasant thing to do..Enjoy!

Emma Loves to do "Pedis" with mum. The blank is for mum to journal in.

Emma with a lady bug on her finger and arm.

Angus at the beach with a starfish. Under the pictures I have the following

1- "Wanna Play" as he sits there quietly

2-"C'mom...play" as he tries to entice the poor starfish to play

3- "Now we are talkin'."..as he helps the starfish play!

Miss you big guy!!

The new Baby ...remember..just a puppy still!

What can I say....such cute pictures! This was my favorite page.

Emma and Mum...I love this page for many reasons. The picture oozes their love and joy. The letters are a new addiction...Ghost letters..thank for introducing me to them Anita..NOT! I already own about 6 different fonts! And thank you to Analiisa for inspiring me with the X&O at the bottom..just what the page needed!

Two page layout of Emma taken by her dad while they waited for Mum's flight to arrive. Such a goofy girl! LOL

I'll try to get back more often...hope you like the pages...most supplies are Stampin' Up!

Scrappin' Class

The family who scrap's together stays together I think! Thats what it seems like with this fun class. Bernice on the left, granddaughter Em next followed by Em's mum Colleen, sister-in-law Bridie (and daughter-in-law to Bernice) and missing from the picture is Kim Bridie's daughter who is visiting from WAAAY up north in the Arctic Circle (or so it seems when she tells us about it!)...really it's Norman Wells. She showed us pictures of the midday sun...right on the horizon!!! YIKES!

She loves her visits into town and we always try to get a stamping or scrappin' day in for her! I think she is in the kitchen eating the heart shaped scones that Colleen made for us! YUM! I forgot to take a picture but will be back today and hopefully they didn't eat them all!

The theme today was Snow Much Fun...here are some more pictures of the pages they worked on. We used the new Flair background with Iridescent Ice EP. Bridie kept the birds in hers the rest used a q-tip to remove the ink from the birds and then to add snowflakes in their place so make it look like a snow flurry!

Check back tomorrow to see picture's of Em's Valentine's Creativity class she is having with her friends...again Colleen is kindly letting me hold the class at her home as we are in the middle of renos and cannot host anything here for a few more weeks! Thanks Colleen! You're the best!

Bridie works away at her Snow Fun!

Kim's pages come together..back to front but together! LOL

Check back soon...I'll post the pictures of the Valentine's class later this evening or tomorrow!

Scrap 2007!

Had my first class of the year on Saturday. We did Christmas pages. Colleen and her MIL Bernice came and both worked on their layouts and completed two pages.Here is what they came up with based on my basic design for them. I used the old Christmas Simply Scrapping set as it was still hanging around. Bernice loved it so much she ordered the new Set in the catalogue!

This is Colleen's layout. Both ladies had  loads of pictures they needed to include so we played a lot with the position of the pictures. The little tags at the edge were fun... Colleen cut out each of the heads, layered them onto the white tag and then onto the red/blue background layer.

This is Bernice's layout. Some of the picture's are the same as they spent Christmas together LOL!

Using the Simply Scrappin' accents made this so easy to do! Gotta love these kits!

I'll be teaching the Scrapbooking class on the second Saturday of every month. Sign up for my e-mails above in the top left hand corner for all my info! We would love to have you visit!

Both girls purchased a second kit and last night I received an e-mail with the second layouts completed..and this is what they got done at home on their own. I am not sure if they will show in the right order...so lets hope so!

Here are Colleen's New  Year pages.

And Bernice's did more Christmas Pages... 

Thanks for stopping by! Sue