Someone's Having a Birthday!

Today is Younger Daughter's 29th Birthday! How did that happen? It seems like just yesterday she was getting her driver's license.

If you have been reading my blogs for a while (see me also at Gene Notes), you will know that my younger daughter is still a resident of Michigan, although we hope to see that change really soon. I don't know why but it seems that the week of her birthday is always her busiest week. In an attempt to spend more time with her, we are celebrating it just a couple days early this year.

I thought I would share pictures of the card I made for her. Andrea and I used to have girls' night. One memorable evening we had Margaritas. For the life of me I can't remember the movie at all. So this birthday card reminds me of that night.

I used white cardstock for the backing, 8.5 x 11" scored and folded. The paper on front is from Paper Studio's All Seasons stack. The Margarita glass is an image I found online that I converted to an SVG and created my own cut file from it. I used red glitter to make the strawberry Margarita, white glitter for the salt. I used a scrap of the paper on front and Amy Chomas' glitter pens & holder to write Happy Birthday.

Be sure to hop on over to Gene Notes to see what else I have to say about her!

Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational

A Year in Review

I can't believe it has been almost a whole year since I got going in scrapbooking - I mean intensely interested in it.

It started last year at the MOPS Scrapbooking Luau here in town. It started at 9 a.m. and went to 8 p.m. I can't tell you how tired I was by the end of the night, but I got so much accomplished that evening and knew this was something I really wanted to pursue.

Last year I didn't know what an SVG was - Scalable Vector Graphic; I thought cart meant shopping cart (short for cartridge) and just barely knew what a Cricut was. Or a .cut file.  To me stack meant all the stacks of photos I had to sort through not paper stacks. And paper stack is not very descriptive either. What I learned was that a paper stack was a collection of coordinating papers/cardstock bound together like a giant note pad and that they came in all different sizes, from 4 x 6 up to 12 x 12. I discovered that vinyl was not an LP (these predate CDs) but a material with many different uses from scrapbooking to home decor.

That first scrapbooking luau has created a monster. I have this urge to collect paper. I love making cards. We have one craft store here in town - Hobby Lobby - and a scrapbook store in Algood. I'm anxious to visit Michael's again when we make the trip to Michigan, and see what stuff I can find.

Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational

SVG Blog Launches on Saturday

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Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational