They Say it's your Birthday...

Happy Birthday to one of the most creative, innovative, funny, inspiring women I know...Heidi Swapp!  She's influenced and inspired many creative women including me.  We've HSMediaTeam have hijacked her blog to give her one full week of a birthday surprise by showcasing our card we've created just for her.  Here's my card.  I used this wood frame from Michaels, the starbucks card was perfect for it because it was a birthday one.  Color Magic Big tags and 8x8 polka dot paper from Michaels which I sprayed with Gold Lame and  Georgia Peach. I also included some Silhouette cuts.

 I created this QR code to link to a birthday song from the Beatles.  

 Hope you're enjoying our special week celebrating the very talented MS HEIDI SWAPP.  Don't forget to post or use #heidiswapp or #happybirthdayheidi on Instagram of any of your card creations.  Thanks for coming by.

Reuse, Repurpose & Recycle in an organized way

In Honor of Earth day, Heidi Swapp is having a series of Reuse, repurpose and Recycle posts this week.  So I created this mini drawer organizer using empty toilet paper rolls, campbell soup can, Heidi Swapp product clamshell and an empty 5x7 cardboard box.

I love reusing packaging from scrapbook products into my projects.  I created a mini organizer for my Heidi goodies.  Check out Heidi Swapp's blog for more details.

Here's how I covered the box.  It's sort of how you would wrap a present.  I cut the corners like so and just adhered to the box.

I misted the clothespin with Mustard Color Shine and adhered the digi cut out "love this" to it.  I used the clothespin to group the Color Pop frames together.  I also store my Serendipity instaframes together too.

Here's where I store my Color Magic Butterflies and flowers.  

Hope you get to reuse your packaging and boxes to get organized.

Join us on an Adventure.

Along with Heidi Swapp on a Memory File Adventure.  Every week on her blog every Monday we will share an inspiration, instructions to about 4 pages of her NEW Memory File Album.   This album is 34 pages and is packed with lots of interactive pages which includes some variety of page protectors, clear pages and banner type pages.  So every week there will be some tips and tricks and other inspirations that will help you add photos and journaling on this awesome album.  It's not too late.  Come on and join us.

  

To kick off this adventure check out Heidi's The "LAST" list.  Here's my cover of my Memory Album.  Taken from my iPhone.

I used a Watercolor pencil to color the "this Beautiful" and the arrow.  Used some of the gorgeous and fun Color Pop Banner Delights.  I'm addicted to these.  

Thanks for looking.  I will post as soon as I'm done with my pages as I progress.  

Who likes to Paaartay?!!

 I do!  But I would rather have someone else plan and host them.  Although, when I do I love to plan on how I want the Color scheme and the style of it all.  I love to put some creative touch to the parties I throw so that it's a little bit more personal and it adds a little love to it.  So since in our world now it's all about the media. We connect and communicate through texting, Facebook, Instagram (my fave), Twitter and photos that we take from our mobile devices.  Teens especially have all these at their fingertips.  So I decided I'd create an Instagram inspired birthday invitation.  Check out more details on Heidi Swapp's blog.

To begin I opened Photoshop.  I then opened my Heidi Swapp Instaframe in Vintage from her Digi Shop.  Then open your photo you'd like to place in the frame and drag and drop with in the instaframe.  I then added her name and the "heart" digital element. (the writing is all made up.  I didn't want to put our true info)  Save then open your Silhouette Cameo.

In your Silhouette Cameo, OPEN your invite and duplicate it however many times it'll fit onto the canvas.

Then you'll want TRACE it to PRINT AND CUT.  So on the top right hand corner you will see a yellow and blue box.  Click onto that and then highlight your elements.  Adjust the low pass filter , threshold or scale as needed to get a solid yellow.  Then you'll want to click on TRACE OUTER EDGE.  

You'll want to print then cut make sure the Registration marks are checked off prior to printing it.

After it's been cut on the Silhouette Cameo I added the "liked" sticker from the Instaframe Vintage to finish the invitation.  Pretty simple, right?

Next, I created some Thank You instaframe cards.  I used the Vintage Instaframe or you can use the digitial version too.  I cut some Pink Zebra paper from the Sugar Chic Paper Pack.  The label stickers are from the digital Instaframe Vintage.  Just follow Heidi's tutorial on how to convert the png file to print and cut.  I then added the rub ons.  I cut the "thank you" from the Silhouette store on white cardstock and misted with Black Velvet Color Shine.  I then added the Color Magic Banner Delights and sprayed with Gold Lame.

These Label Stickers were cut with my Silhouette Cameo for these cute party favor boxes you can get from your local craft store. 

These seam binding ribbons were sprayed with Color Shine in Tropicana Teal.

Lastly, are these cute cupcake holders that was cut from the Silhouette using the pink zebra paper from the Sugar Chic Paper pack.

Hope that these gave you some ideas to add a little touch of you on your next party.

Hawaii Project Life style

 Ok, I know that I'm not the only that hasn't scrapped their vacay.  Here's an idea that's pretty simple to get those vacation photos out of the computer and into your albums..Project Life way.  As you may or may not know Heidi Swapp had product release at Michaels stores.  Here's one using the NO LIMITS Paper Pack to document our Hawaii trip.  What's great about this pack is that it has some 3x4 and 4x6 journal cards that's perfect for Project Life. It also has some elements where you can cut them to add to your pages as well as some alphas too.   Along with Heidi Swapp's Clear Stamps and some other stamps from my stash you can customize them.   I also used some Color Magic Letterbox Alphas,  Black and White Letters,  Vintage Chic Buzz Words and some Black and white Buzz Words.

Here I created a fold out with white cardstock and adhered "that was awesome" journal card.

I also used my Silhouette Cameo and some No Limits Note Cards from Heidi Swapp's Digi shop.  Watch Heidi's tutorial on how to convert PNG file to Print and cut in the Silhouette.

I created an extra 4x6 flap using AC 4x6 page protector to add more photos.

Here's a cool thing I've discovered awhile back and have been incorporating it into my scrapbooks.  It's called HP LIVE PHOTO APP for the iPhone.  How it works is that you create a short video, upload it to the app.  It then saves it.  Then create a thumbnail photo so you can share it.  Here I sent it to my email and printed the photo.

After you've printed it making sure that symbol "HP Live photo" is on the bottom right hand corner. You open the app and hover your phone over the photo.

By hovering over the photo with the symbol it begins to play the video. See it come to life!   How AWESOME is that?  Pretty cool, huh?  Now you have an interactive documentation of your photo.  Woohoo for technology!

You can see here as it starts to play the video of one of the beaches we went to in Hawaii when there were high swells coming in.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you were inspired to document your vacation.