Desktop Love- SCIC63

Wow!  It is February 1st already and that means Stampin' Celebration Inspiration has a new challenge for the month!  We also have a new addition to the challenge coming mid- month, so be sure to check back here on the 15 or stop by the Stampin' Celebration Inspiration  site to see what we have in store!!  Here is what I made this month:

It is a desktop background for my computer I made in MDS!  You can see in the picture above that it is "in use".  It was real easy to make.  I just opened a blank page in MDS, designed my background, saved it as a .jpeg and then set it as my desktop background using the "personalize" menu on my computer.  I think I may have gotten luck with the proportions being right and it working just fine size wise.

 Here is the inspiration box for this month.  Bet you can't guess what picture I was inspired by?! :)  The background DSP comes from the Lemonade Stand Digital Disc (free when you spend $50 during Sale-a-Bration!!) that I re-colored Cherry Cobbler to go with the love theme and the letters "L", "O", "V" and "E" are Timeless Type Alphabet punches and the ribbon is a bow from the Taffeta Trimmings.

We would love it if you played along with us!  I look forward to seeing what you were inspired to make by using this month's inspiration pictures!  Be sure to link it up to the main Stampin' Celebration site here by February 25 to be in the running to be our "Pick of the Party"!

If you have been on the blog hop, you're probably visiting me from Erin's blog.  Your next stop along the way is Jenny's blog.  I can't wait to see what she created!!  If you get lost anywhere along the way, here are the other Stampin Celebration Design Team Members' blogs.  Make sure and check out all of these talented ladies!

Stampin' Celebration Blog Hop:
Allison Ohran -Sweet Impressions

Cori Kozak - Creative Chat

Erica Cerwin - Pink Buckaroo Designs

Erin Gonzales -Hand Stamped Style

Rochelle Gould - I stamp, I create, I have fun! (you are here!)

Jenny Peterson - Lakeshore Stamping

Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge

Thanks for looking and don't forget to come back on the 15th! 

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7!

Emery's Journal

I love making journals!  They are always quick to make, but will hold memories forever!

Front and Back of Journal

After I gave this journal to Brook's mom, she loved it so much she asked if I would make one for her friend (Emery's mom).  She told me not to use too much pink and not too girly.  So I came up with this.  I used the chalkboard background DSP from the Convention 2012 Photo Book kit and the flower is from the Soft Bloom's embellishments kit.

I made a journal for me to write in for my daughter when she was born and it is already full of her first year!  Time to make a second year journal for her!

Thanks for stopping by!

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7!

A Box and an Ornament- SCIC61- Mid Month

It's mid month, and that means there is still time to join us over at the Stampin' Celebration site for this months inspiration challenge!  And I have a little mid-monthsperation for you!  Here is what I made:

A box made out of one sheet of 12x12 card stock!  And....

 And ornament to go inside of it!























I used the Naturals Composition Specialty DSP to make the box and gave it a clear lid so you could peek at the glittery rosette style ornament that is inside.  I used Sahara Sand card stock for the ornament and added some Champagne Glass glitter, a large button and some linen thread to finish it off.

Here is a peek at our inspiration pictures for December:

 

We would love it if you played along with us!  I look forward to seeing what you were inspired to make by using December's Inspiration pictures!  Be sure to link it up to the main Stampin' Celebration site here by December 25 to be in the running to be our "Pick of the Party"!

Thanks for stopping by!

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7!

My Pregnancy Journal- MDS Blog Hop

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop!  This week out theme is Summer Vacation!  I may have stretched the theme a little bit this week, but I really don't have any summer vacation pictures and have been wanting to share this for a while now.

While I was pregnant last SUMMER (that is where I think my project fits this weeks theme! :) ) I kept a journal of my pregnancy in My Digital Studio using an 8 1/2" x 11" album.  I would right in it every few weeks and always answered the same 16 questions and then wrote out the birth story at the end of the journal.   

Here are the first few pages...

(Click on the pages to see them bigger)

And here are a few pages from the middle of the journal...

(Click on the pages to see them bigger) 

And here are the last few pages...

 (Click on the pages to see them bigger) 

The finished project is a 42 page soft cover album!  I decided to get the soft cover album because I had never seen one from Stampin' Up! before and wanted to see one.....it is so nice and perfect for my journal! 

We did not find out if we were having a boy or a girl, so I started out with a very neutral color pallet and kept the entire journal simple and uniform.  You can kind of tell on the individual pages as they get later and later into my pregnancy the baby image from the stamp set All in the Family gets darker and darker representing the baby in my belly getting bigger and bigger! :)   

I think this will be great for me to look back at and also for Hannah to look back at when she gets older!   I am SOO happy with the way this project turned out!

Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? The easiest way to do so is to click on the name right below mine, so that would be Mandy and then from her blog hop on over to Julie's blog and so on until you have hopped a full circle back to here! 

1. Jeanna Bohanon
2. Rochelle Gould (that's me!)

3. Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 

5. Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls

12. Holly VanDyne

Thanks for stopping by!

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7!

Stamp Sets Looking for a New Home!

Hello! 

Just letting you know I am still here!  I have been busy for the past four weeks being a new Mom!! :)

I just updated my "Retired Stamp Sets for Sale" blog and wanted to let you know.  Here is the link to them: For Sale.  Please contact me via email if you have any questions or would like to give any of them a new home!

I will be back soon with some actual projects!

Yumm!- My Digital Studio Blog Hop

Welcome to week 9 of the MDS blog hop!  This week we have a color challenge!  The colors we used were So Saffron, Night of Navy, Cajun Craze, Old Olive and a neutral (I used Crumb Cake and a little bit of Very Vanilla).  I used pictures of my cousins kid eating pancakes and enjoying them!

(Click on the page to make it bigger!)

I used a sketch from Got Sketch? for my page.  Pretty simple, but a fun layout to use for many occasions!  Check out the title...those are the new-ish alphabet punches from Stampin' Up!  What fun they are to work with and the possibilities are endless for ways to use them! 

Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? The easiest way to do so is to click on the name right below mine, so that would be Mandy and then from her blog hop on over to Julie's blog and so on until you have hopped a full circle back to here!

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2. Rochelle Gould (you are here!) 

3. Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 

5. Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls


Have a good Hop and Thanks for Looking!! 

New Baby Alex- My Digital Studio Blog Hop

Welcome to week 8 of the MDS blog hop!  This week's theme is Let's Get Organized!  This really could be anything!  I used pictures from my cousins little boys photo shoot his aunt did for him...I think we all know that it takes organization to make a photo shoot work and it worked well...look at all the cute pictures they got!

This is a double page 12x12 layout....it may look a little weird becasue you can see the white space in the middle, but that is for the book spine so none of the pictures get cut off when the pages are printed and in the book! 

(click on the page to see it bigger!)  

Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? The easiest way to do so is to click on the name right below mine, so that would be Mandy and then from her blog hop on over to Julie's blog and so on until you have hopped a full circle back to here!

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2. Rochelle Gould 

3. Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 

5. Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls

Have a good Hop and Thanks for Looking!!

So Bear-y Cute- My Digital Studio Blog Hop

Welcome to week 5 of the MDS blog hop!  This week it was my turn to pick a theme for the week and I picked a nature (doing something outside) theme using at least two pictures.  I used my cousins cute boy, Alex, again on my page.  This time he is sitting outside in the grass.  

When I started this page I had a cute idea in my head and then when it got designed in person, it didn't go as planned....I am not sure about this page, it feels like it is missing a thing or two?

I made my own strips of DSP using the Fury Folks stamp set and the opacity tool to go with the cute bear shirt he is wearing. 

Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? The easiest way to do so is to click on the name right below mine, so that would be Julie and then from her blog hop on over to Amber's blog and so on until you have hopped a full circle back to here!

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2. Rochelle Gould (you're here)

3. Julie Leblanc

4. Amber Meadows

5. Terri Mongeon

6. Aly Schilling

7. Cindy Schuster

8. Erica Shaw

9. Heather Summers

10. Alesha Walls

Enjoy the hop!

and thanks for looking!



First Easter- cqc100

It's Tuesday and a very special one at that...it is colourQ's 100th color combo celebration!! This week we have a SKETCH and we got to pick a past colourQ color combo! I made a page using My Digital Studio and colourQ#45's colors. If you want more info on this fabulous program...let me know! And if you think you are not a digital scapbooker...there are WAY more things to do with this fabulous program that to scrapbook!

(Click on the page to see it bigger!)

As you can see I flipped the sketch. This page features my cousins little boy Alex having fun with some Easter eggs on his first Easter. This was such a fun sketch to use for a scrapbook page! How about you give it a go by making a scrapbook page or a card?!?! Head over to the colourQ site and join us...there are 99 color combos to choose from, I bet you can find one you like!

Thanks for looking!

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7!

Toes-My Digital Studio- cqc98

It's Tuesday and that means I made a scrapbook page using My Digital Studio with this week's colourQ colors! If you want more info on this fabulous program...let me know! And if you think you are not a digital scapbooker...there are WAY more things to do with this fabulous program that to scrapbook!

(Click on the page to see it bigger!)

This week's colors are Soft Suede, Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay, Lucky Limeade and White. These colors were fun to work with! I made a page using pictures of my cousins boy Alex nommin' on his toes! I had fun putting this page together. I had a ton of ideas flying through my head while making this page and finally settled upon this design.

We would love for you to play along with us this week! Need some inspiration? Make sure to check out the design team members projects on the colourQ site too!

Thanks for looking!

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7!

Alex's Birthday-MDS Blog Hop Week 2

Welcome to week 2 of the MDS Blog Hop! Thanks for stopping by! This week our theme is Birthday! Again I don't have any kids of my own....yet....and taking picture of my husband and I's birthdays just isn't the same as cute kids, so I scraped my cousins little boy on the day he was born...his birthday!

This week I made a two page layout...weird I know :) ...but I just couldn't make a single page using the new digital download Tickets and Tags kit! I love love the colors and the papers and everything in this kit! Check it out here!

So here is the page that goes on the left. (Click on it to see it bigger!)

I really couldn't stop playing with all of the elements that come in this kit! There are a TON of them.

And here is the page that goes on the right side. (Click on it
to see it bigger!) I used Alesha's ScrapSketch59 sketch as my starting point for the pages, but made it into a two page spread.

I added stitching and lots of laying and shadows to the pages to make them just right!

Here is both of them side by side so you can see the full effect.

These pages were a labor of love and I know my cousin will enjoy them too!


Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? The easiest way to do so is to click on the name right below mine, so that would be Mandy and then from her blog hop on over to Amber's blog and so on until you have hopped a full circle back to here!

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2. Rochelle Gould (you're here)
3. Mandy Grant
4. Julie Leblanc
5. Amber Meadows
6. Terri Mongeon
7. Aly Schilling
8. Cindy Schuster
9. Erica Shaw
10. Heather Summers
11. Alesha Walls

Enjoy the hop!
and thanks for looking!

Non-Winning Artisan Award- Vintage Love Page

Here is the last scrapbook page I made for the Artisan Award this year. It features my parents on their wedding day.

(Click on the page to see it bigger!)

This page has a vintage feel to it which was fun to create because the more distressing (tearing, ripping, sponging) the better!

In this close up you can see some of the distressing and laying I did on the page. If you look close you can see a few of the pearls on the corner of the picture.

I used the Love Letter (retired...boohoo) DSP as well as some Early Espresso card stock, satin and lace ribbon, pearls, vintage trinkets (mini safety pin), the Take a Seat stamp set, the Big Shot and the Timeless Type alphabet dies.

Here is another close up of some of the details on the page.

It is always so fun to create "real" scrapbook pages, even though I don't do it enough.

So this is the last project for Artisan Award for this year! I hope you have enjoyed them all!

Thanks for looking!
if you were at convention you may have seen this on the display boards...it was there!

Non-Winning Artisan Award- Raspberry Branches Message Board

Here is my second 3d project I submitted for Artisan Award. This one took a lot of time! It is a cork board/magnetic board all in one! (click on it to see it bigger!)

I made the cork and magnetic checker board using Stampin' Up's cork and magnetic sheets. If you look closely you can see that I stamped the magnetic sheets using Black StazOn and the raspberry image from the Clearly for You stamp set. I also made thumb tacks using cork sheets, a big shot die (to get the circle shape from cork) and also stamped them using Black StazOn and the butterfly image from the same stamp set.

You can also see in this picture that I edged the checker board with a "rope" I made using some thin gauge electrical wire wrapped in Early Espresso Taffeta ribbon. There are also hooks at the bottom with a custom SU! key attached....you can't see the key...oops, it got chopped off!

And here is a close up picture of the raspberry branches (that is what I called them at least!) that took the majority of the time to make! I made the branches using the same wire and taffeta ribbon as the "rope" and then added some leafs. Then I made the raspberries using about a million (maybe not quite) of the Cherry Cobbler punched four petaled flowers from the mini punch pack. They were attached to half of a mini craft foam ball. Everything that was paper on this project was sponged using the appropriate inks.

I seriously had fun making this project and making my own raspberry branches!

Thanks for looking!
if you were at convention you may have seen this on the display...it was there!

Lucky Limade Grass-My Digital Studio- cqc96

It's Tuesday and that means I made a scrapbook page using My Digital Studio with this week's colourQ colors! If you want more info on this fabulous program...let me know! And if you think you are not a digital scapbooker...there are WAY more things to do with this fabulous program that to scrapbook!

(Click on the page to see it bigger and to see all the little details!)

This week we have some refreshing colors to work with and I found these amazing-ly perfect pictures that my cousin took of her nephew to use with them! The colors are Tempting Turquoise, Bashful Blue, Lucky Limeade (brand new color!!!), Basic Gray and White. The font I used was CAC Pinafore.

We would love for you to play along with us this week! Need some inspiration? Make sure to check out the design team members projects on the colourQ site too!

Thanks for looking!

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7!

Non-Winning Artisan Award- Whoa MDS Page

Here is another scrapbook page I made for the Artisan Award contest. It is a 100% My Digital Studio page. (Click on the page to make it bigger!)

It measures 8" x 8" and features my cousins cute little boy Alex playing and discovering a new dump truck.

This page came together quickly as I used some DSP from MDS and then added a few extra "stamped" elements, embellishments and lots of shadowing. I also played with the color of the pictures to make them more muted to make them go with the DSP.

I am so happy my cousins have cute kids for me to use to scrapbook with! :)

Thanks for looking!
if you were at convention you may have seen this page on the display boards...it was there!

Non-Winning Artisan Award- Sew Mini Products 3D entry

Here is one of the two 3d items I made for the Artisan Award contest. It is a wooden thread spool holder that was altered to make a cute display of some of the sewing themed products that were in the Occasions Mini catalog. (Click on the picture to see it bigger aka more detail!)

I had a BLAST putting this project together with all the little details and elements. I used fabric, buttons, pom-pom trim, linen thread, designer series paper, designer fabric brads, stamps, ink and a few non SU! items (the wooden thread spool holder, the mini clay pots, the wooden spools in different sizes, the bobbins and the mini straight pins) oh and don't forget the millions :) of mini glue dots used to hold everything in place so it will never move!

Here is a close up of one of the mini clay pots filled with tiny rolls of the Sweet Stitches fabric pined together using the mini straight pins.

Here is another close up picture of another mini clay pot. This one acts as a pin cushion adorned with a matching brad on top as well as linen thread for details. You can kind of see it on this pot if look very closely...I stamped all the clay pots with images from the Sew Suite stamp set (retired now) in crumb cake classic ink to give them a little more interest and aged look. In this picture you can also see a bobbin that is wrapped with linen thread.

In this close up picture you can see some more fabric wrapped up in mini bolts tired up with the hemp twine. You can also see the pom-pom trim wrapped around a spool and that I stamped the tops of all of the spools using the Button, Button stamp set.

You can also see the designer series paper that lines all of the "shelves" that the pots, spools and bobbins are sitting on.

What a fun little project to make! I love it!

Thanks for looking!
if you were at convention you may have seen this on the display...it was there!

Non-Winning Artisan Award- Baby Wyatt Page

Here one of the scrapbook pages I made for the Artisan Award contest. It is a 12x12 page featuring my cousins little boy Wyatt just a few weeks old. (Click on the scrapbook page to see it bigger!)

I couldn't make up my mind with this page, I had the basic layout there and then kept adding the different elements to it until I though I was satisfied. I think it came out good.

I used various different mediums on this page including wood sheets, fabric, card stock, vellum and shimmer smooch spray.

I wasn't sure of the butterflies on a baby boy's page, so I added the wood sheet butterflies to it too, I think it added a little bit more of a masculine feel! :) What do you think?

I die cut the "wyatt" letters using the big shot and chipboard covered in Whisper White card stock. The journaling was done on MDS and then printed and popped up using dimensionals on the page. It is super hard to see in the pictures, but the whole page was mounted onto a piece of the Presto Prints Specialty DSP that gave it a little bit more interest and depth!

I was happy with the way this page came out!

Thanks for looking!
if you were at convention you may have seen this on the display boards...it was there!

Convention 2011 Highlights Video

Just returning from Stampin' Up!'s annual convention with my friends/fellow demonstrators Lou and Lindsey....We had a blast! Here is a highlight video from convention this year! This will give you a taste of what it is like to be there! What a fun time it always is....enjoy!



Do you want to be apart of this fun and exciting event Stampin' Up! puts on every year? You can be! All you need to do is become apart of my Stampin' Up! team! Right now they have a fabulous promotion going on through July...you can join for only $99 (a $185 value!)!! Contact me if you are at all interested!

Pool Fun-My Digital Studio- cqc90

It's Tuesday and that means I made a scrapbook page using My Digital Studio with this week's colourQ colors! If you want more info on this fabulous program...let me know! And if you think you are not a digital scapbooker...there are WAY more things to do with this fabulous program that to scrapbook!

(Click on the page to see it bigger )

This week we have some fun colors to work with and they said "pool" and "water fun" to me as soon as I saw them! I found this picture of some of my family during a family reunion a few years ago we had in Ohio having some fun in my Papa's (grandpa's) pool.

I had a lot of fun putting together this page and adding all the little details!

I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Poppy Parade, Brilliant Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Bashful Blue and White crafty things to make a project and share with us over at the colourQ!

Thanks for looking!

Click here to order Stampin' Up! supplies 24/7! Make sure to check out the retiring products as well only available through the end of June....that's coming quick!!!!!

Summer Fun Tracker & Blog Candy!!!

I have got some exciting news for you!! I have blog candy!!! and I was asked by Connie and Mary of Create with Connie and Mary to return as a Senior Guest Designer for their Summer Mini edition and....I said yes!

So you know what that means, it is time for another round of fabulous Stampin' Up! only projects with full blown tutorials (with pictures :) ) to go with them for a full five weeks! That 30 projects and not even mentioning the scrapbook project sheets you get too! All you need to do is subscribe today! Now is the perfect time to do so you will save $5 off the "normal" price! Check out the options here!

Over the next two weeks each member of the design team has a FREE special project (tutorial included) to share with you. This will give you an idea of the type of projects and how we present the tutorials to our subscribers.

Alright onto my project. It is a Summer Fun Tracker! (Really you could name this anything you wanted for whatever you are going to use it for...coupons, recipes......)

I took a Clear Stamp Case from Stampin' Up! and made it into a handy organizer to take with you on the go to keep track of anything you want to!




Here is the inside folders. Wouldn't this be a fun and bright way to organize things for you this summer? I think so! If you think so too, you need to check out the Create with Connie and Mary site for the FREE tutorial I made for you!

Are you ready for the blog candy? All you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post right here and you will be entered into the drawing for a FREE subscription to the Summer Edition!!! How awesome is that? Good Luck!

Thanks for looking!
and I hope to see you over at the Summer Edition soon!