FileKutz Design Team

I am so happy to announce that I was selected to join the Design Team of FileKutz.  Filekutz is a great site for those of us who love to embellish our scrapbook layouts with SVG cut files on our Cricut machines. 

There are a couple of great giveaways right now on the site.

First of all, there is a great pair of Teddy Bear's all dressed up for Saint Patricks Day.  For details on how to enter this giveaway, please visit the FileKutz Blog.


There is also a wonderful freebie cut file called Backyard Bubbles.  Visit the FileKutz site to download this great free file.

Stay tuned for some great layouts featuring some of these great cut files.

Greeting Card Workshop at American Bald Eagle Festival

We have added another class during this year's annual festival at the American Bald Eagle Foundation (ABEF) in Haines, Alaska.  I am so excited to be able to share some card creations with festival goers.  More information on the festival and these classes can be found by visiting the ABEF's website.

In each workshop you will create 5 unique greeting cards that will fill your stash for the upcoming year.  Sign up to attend all 4 classes and make 20 different cards using a variety of stamping and die cut techniques.

Examples of Cards you will create:

1 - Birthday

2 - Get Well

3 - Holiday

4 - Friendship

5 - Spring Seasonal

6 - Thank You

7 - Anniversary

8 - Congratulations

9 - Summer Seasonal

10 – Love

11 - Sympathy

12 - Wedding

13 - Fall Seasonal

14 - New Baby

15 - Graduation

16 - Winter Seasonal

17 - Just a Note

18 - Apology

19 - New Home

20 - Thinking of You

American Bald Eagle Festival Class Schedule:

 * Nov 9 - 12:30pm to 2:30PM - Create 5 Unique Cards

* Nov 10 - 12:30pm to 2:30PM - Create 5 Unique Cards

* Nov 11 - 12:30pm to 2:30PM - Create 5 Unique Cards

* Nov 12 - 12:30pm to 2:30PM - Create 5 Unique Cards

SS Graveyard

I decided to take a break from the Bald Eagles and try to finish up the last couple of remaining pages for last summer's trip to Alaska through Canada.  I have just 2 sets of double page layouts to finish up before getting into all our Alaska photos. 

I loved the sketch over at Let's Scrap this week and decided it made a great starting point for these photos.

SS GRAVEYARD - July 6, 2010 - Dawson City, Yukon, Canada

JOURNALING: It's hard to believe that this town of 1,500 was over 30,000 in 1898. The SS (Steamships) were a huge factor in the movement of people and goods but when they were obsolete, they were brought to this graveyard to slowly decay into the river. Such a sad farewell to these unique riverboats.

SUPPLIES USED: Tim Holtz Lost & Found patterned paper, Zutter Distrezz-It-All, Sizzix Tim Holtz Notebook embossing folder, Bazzill Just the Edge borders, The Paper Company Kraft cardstock, George & Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge, My World Cricut Cartridge, Life is a Beach Cricut Cartridge, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists, Stampabilities ink, Diamond Glaze, DCWV Neutrals cardstock, Font: AKADora, Hero Arts Circular Designs stamps, 3-9-11 Sketch by Cheri ONeill at http://letsscrap.ning.com

I was so lucky to be chosen as Let's Scrap's Inspiration of the Week.  Below is a copy of the sketch in its original form.  I modified the number of photos and the journaling area to make it fit my needs a bit better.  I also decided to use some different embellishments in place of all the circles so I added some faded clocks and some ships wheels to those areas to help create the feeling I wanted in this layout.  I used Tim Holtz's Lost and Found paper collection which is one of my favorites but I always find it hard to use as it is so colorful.  I think it plays into the mood of the photos.  Let's Scrap is a great place for weekly inspiration if you like sketches, I would encourage you to become a member of their site and play along.

Sketch courtesy of Let's Scrap at http://letsscrap.ning.com

Here are the closeups of each page.

Born To Be Wild

As you can tell, I have been working almost exclusively on scrapping some of the wonderful Bald Eagle photos that Matt took last year in Haines, Alaska.  Below is another layout that I did for a challenge at Back Porch Memories. 

BORN TO BE WILD - October 20, 2010 - Haines, Alaska

JOURNALING:  This Bald Eagle contributes to the chatter of 3,000 eagles as they converge on Haines, Alaska, each fall for a late salmon run.

Photograph by Matt Shetzer of Shetzers Photography {http://www.shetzers.com}

SUPPLIES USED:  BasicGrey Granola patterned paper, Sketch by PageMaps for Back Porch Memories, Fiskars Border Punch, Ranger Nick Bantock Charcoal ink, Hampton Art Artsy Edges Stamp, Bazzill Stitch Template, EK Success corner rounder, Ranger Enamel Accents, Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge, SVG shape tag, Sure Cuts A Lot Software (SCAL), Creative Cafe Just Write stamp, Hero Arts Circular Design stamp, Diamond Glaze, Hampton Art Border stamp, Tim Holtz Fragments

Here is the wonderful sketch that the layout is based on. 

Becky Fleck PageMaps Sketch courtesy of Back Porch Memories

Eagle Eye

I wanted to share the newest layout that I completed showcasing some more wonderful photos of our photography trip last year to Haines, Alaska.  While we captured some wonderful images of the Bald Eagle, I can't even begin to explain how amazing it was to be surrounded by thousands (Yes, Thousands) of chattering bald eagles. 

This page means a lot to me as it features the image that my dad picked out as his favorite.  It now graces his walls in a very large print.

EAGLE EYE - October 13, 2010 - Haines, Alaska

JOURNALING:  When I asked my Dad what his favorite Bald Eagle photo was, he selected this Eagle crying out.

PHOTOS:  Bald Eagle images by Shetzers Photography at www.shetzers.com

SUPPLIES USED:  Granola patterned paper by BasicGrey, Sketch #210 by http://sketchinspiration.ning.com/, Ranger ink - Nick Bantock charcoal grey, Rubber Stampede ink - Iris, Stampabilities Ink - Brown, Fiskars border punch, Hero Arts - Graph Stamp, Font - Showcard Gothic, Puffy Pens - blue glitter

The layout was based on this week's sketch over at Sketch Inspiration.  Its a great site with weekly sketches to challenge our creativity.  I'm not a big circle layout fan, so this one definitely challenged me!  Here is the original sketch.