Scrapblog Creations

The past year or two I have loved using Scrapblog! Here are a few of the different ways that I have used it.



This is a few of the 10 pages I made for a "quiet" book for Anni for church. She loves it and it really does help her to be more reverent! (a little bit :))









This is a Mother's Day card I made for my mom last year. I love being able to make a personalized card, yet doing it on the computer is cheap and mess free!!





This is Annika's birth announcement I sent out. The photos were done by Rachelle Cooper, and Tess did use Photo shop for me after I had done it in Scrapblog for inserting the photos. I recommend doing this when using it for something special, as the quality of the photos when printed from Scrapblog are so-so.




These next two are ones I did recently for my bro-in-law and his soon to be wife. A simple but cute way to do invites! I just used my little photo printer to print these.
Tess did the actual invitation for them, which turned out great. She used Photoshop, though. I'll have to get her to post it, as long as everyone doesn't show up to the wedding!




The best part is all of these were FREE to make! I love them because they make personalized gifts, cards, or invitations! Did I mention they were all free?
I just save them as JPEGs and print them on my handy dandy little photo printer, or you could burn them onto a CD and take them to your favourite local photo centre (Walmart, Costco, etc...).

We'd love to see what you all create!

Rice Krispie Easter Eggs

Tess made these the other day for a get-together. As cute and yummy as can be!
Just good ol' Rice Krispies formed into eggs and dipped with some chocolate, then decorated with sprinkles, and whatnot.....

 

Design Blog

My cousin and interior designer Danielle Oakey has just started up her design blog. She is good. She is one creative gal!
Check it out!
http://danielleoakeyinteriors.blogspot.com/

Cruisin' Away in Taber

The ladies down in Taber have been busy decorating and creating their cruise ship atmosphere in the church gym for the upcoming stake dinner dance. These pictures are courtesy of my talented mom, who made all of the giant palm trees! Good work ladies! It looks like it's going to be one fun cruise!

House becomes Home--the Burrs

Here are some recent pics from my sister Tess's house.
Tess is a great decorator and is one of the most creative people I know!
I still remember when she was probably 9 or 10 and she got to restyle her room.....she went with lime green paint and big polka dots! You can see from these pictures that her taste has maybe matured or calmed a bit, but she still has her own little unique flare!

Here are some highlights of Tess & Bryan's work on their home:

*the chair was found for $10 at the Bissel Centre in Edmonton, and the fabric was from Fabricland. Ma-in-law Bev helped recover it!

*the dressers were bought second hand for $75 for both, and Bryan painted them white, and the handles black.

*the window above the master bedroom bed was found in the shed.......good find! She just washed it and hung it! free ninety free!

*a new light fixture was hung in the kitchen. makes a big difference! she found it at Homesense for $25 bucks in the clearance. It replaced a dirty greasy old black ceiling fan. haha (these are Tess's descriptions)

*kitchen table from liquidation centre for $120! Gotta love that place!

*curtains from ikea, mmhmm.

*coffee table-found in the garage! Don't we all need garages with that kind of stuff just sitting there! free again!

*couches- courtesy of some nice people found on kijiji (can you tell we are related?!) white couches for $300 and black leather couch for $100)

*living room curtains from army and navy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Time

Here's my little Easter display! The flowers are dollar store that I have had for quite a while, the eggs are dollar store (new this year at Dollorama), and the white metal tree thing (I don't know what to call it?) is from Pier 1 (new this year as well). I love getting into each season and holiday! Now all I need is a little dish of mini eggs, but that could be dangerous for me! I don't think they would last too long.

Curtain Experiment

So as previously mentioned....I am not much of a sewer. I would sure love to be, but I chose sports over learning things like sewing and piano. What was I thinking? Ha!
I have been wanting to have some curtains for our bedroom, but the price of those things are just too much to swallow right now, so I got brave on Friday (as I had the evening to myself as Darin was away) and made my first set of curtains! I went for the simple tab panel style, which is the only style that would work for our corner windows anyway! I had some material that I thought might work, and it did! I used every square inch of that stuff and it happened to be just enough!
So if you don't think you are much of a sewer and think you can't make curtains, I am here to say YOU CAN! If I could do it, anyone could do it!
I just pressed all the edges, made some tabs, did some measuring, sewing, and about 2 hours from start I had myself some curtains.
Should I have lined them? Yes, probably. Did I? No way! Maybe on my second attempt at curtains I will go for the lining.
All in all I am really happy with the results, and my husband is even happier! He is proud of his little sewing wife and wants to show everyone who comes to our house the curtains I made! What a guy...

Before:


After:


They just finish it off nicely :)