Well, after all of that creating last week, CHA has finally started and now I can share what I’ve been working on!
You probably saw the teaser that October Afternoon shared last week of the new 9 to 5 collection but, if not, here you go:
Let me just say that it is above and beyond anything I could have expected! I love the papers in this collection. For the booth I made this layout:
If you look closely at the banners, you can see a pretty good representation of the papers in the 9 to 5 collection. What you can’t see is the Washi Tape, mostly because I didn’t get any to work with before the show (!!). Does that tape look cool or what?
I also made a little card:
Isn’t that little lady cute?
The second collection is called Cakewalk, and it looks like this:
I love, love, love this one…it has some really fun papers that I will be reaching for again and again! For the CHA booth I made a tag and a layout:
The little retro invitation art is adorable…
Those banners are so easy to do because I cut them out from one of the 12X12 papers!
October Afternoon’s third collection is called Woodland Park, and it has some way-cool papers in it – unique florals, rich colors, and beautiful vintage images. When I first flipped through the papers, I was SO excited. Here’s the preview that OA shared last week:
I made two layouts for the booth with Woodland Park – they are really quick and simple because I had a very small amount of time with the paper!
So. That’s what I have to show. I also got to work on a mini album that is so cool. It goes with the 9 to 5 collection, and I wishwishWISH I had remembered to snap some photos of it before I shipped it… Oh, well.
There are lots and lots of other projects made with the new collections on the October Afternoon blog AND on the other design team member’s blogs. If you visit the OA blog, you can click on individual DT members’ blog links in the side bar to see more!
Well, hmm. It has been a while! Hello, I’m Stacey, owner of this blog. I used to be a blogger. Now I just own a blog. I am making no promises, but wouldn’t it be fun to just start over?
For now, I’m just sharing some scrappy stuff: October Afternoon has three new collections that are being released at CHA tomorrow. As usual, OA has come up with some fantastic, gotta-have-it designs!
Here are some sneak peeks of the projects I have been working on this week for October Afternoon’s CHA booth:
I also worked on a mini-album…and shipped it without taking any pictures! Duh. I can’t believe I forgot…actually, I can because I was cutting it pretty close for making it to the shipping place before closing time. I kept reminding myself to GO PUT ON REAL PANTS because I like to be crafty in pajama pants and I didn’t want to show up at FedEx in my PJ’s like I did that one time when I got to the post office in pajamas. That was in 2003, so it has been a while, and I’d like to keep it that way! So, anyway, I did remember to change clothes before zooming off to FedEx, but I forgot to take pictures of my little book. (insert sad face)
Here’s a photo I used in the mini – since it’s all I have to share:
Hey, look, there we are…
I hope you have a great weekend. We have some little-boy basketball planned for tomorrow and maybe some house cleaning.
So if you know me at all, you probably remember that I scrapped these photos several months ago. I used them on this layout because I thought they were just perfect for this new October Afternoon Sasparilla paper. It’s kind of horsey and western-themed… and because I won’t get the layout back, so it won’t be a duplicate in my album.
Please let me direct your attention to the piece of paper in the center of this layout. I think it’s called “Big Sky,” and I think it is the most beautiful paper ever! I love tiny patterns and leaves and brown with green and blue. I just love this piece of paper…
Here’s a card I made with Sasparilla:
I think that these papers will make adorable Valentines!
One more layout:
Oh, my baby boys have grown so much…
I feel like I have accomplished nothing today. Ugh. On the phone all afternoon. Of course, I was talking to lovely people, but my ear is sore. Please don’t call me today…I am done with talking on the phone for a while.
I’m going to get something done. I just cannot end this day without being productive somehow…
Oh, joy, smiles, and lovely, scrappy happiness. October Afternoon has delighted me again. I SO love working with this company! They consistently WOW me with every new release. I. Adore. Sidewalks.
I did this layout for the OA CHA booth. The photos were taken by the sweetest photographer ever, Michelle Boyd of michelle b. photographie. You can see more of the photos from this session here.
I am going to need a whole lotta this yellow gingham paper. Love.
I’ll post more of my CHA projects tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Because I am a daily blogger.
I’ve just been taking some time off.
Lots of time.
Okay…so for the “discoveries” part of the blog. I have made some discoveries this summer.
Some good discoveries, some not so good.
1. Blue Bell Banana Pudding Ice Cream. Soooo good, sooo bad. Yum.
2. The Clutter Diet. What a great website! I have gotten SO much done this summer because of this program.
3. Hoarders. I think have more in common with some of these people than I’d like to admit.
4. Molly. Our new (old) Yorkie. She is definitely deserves her own blog entry with photos. Not really a “discovery,” just someone new to love.
5. Analytical Grammar. You know I adore grammar. I’m teaching two classes this school year with this program, preparing the next generation of Grammar Police. 
Here’s one more project from October Afternoon’s Sidewalks collection:
Corey: Eeeew! There’s a person on TV without a shirt on!
Me: A girl or boy?
Corey: A boy. If it was a girl, I’d be going nuts and not looking!
Me: Whew.
Welcome to my little blog! It’s been sort of quiet around here in the last month – it’s about time we had a some blog-hop action to perk things up a little bit…
For this entry, I made a few cards with the October Afternoon Rubber Charms. If I made about 75 more cards this week, maybe I could get caught up on all of the thank yous and welcome babies and hello new neighbors that I need to do…
This first card is mostly 5 and Dime with a bit of Fly a Kite and Modern Homemaker thrown in. I love the details in the Rubber Charms, don’t you?
This next card is pretty small. I used the 8X8 paper pad (love the shrunk-down papers!) and printed my little sentiment on the 5 and Dime grid paper. I love how the label sticker frames the sweet lolly…
I must have had something set wrong on my camera here because the top of the image is a bit blurry…let’s pretend that I did that for artistic effect. Yep. I pretty much make cards the same way I scrapbook: squares and frames. They just work for me. (grin)
Oh, and speaking of my comfort zone…here’s a card just jam-packed with squares and frames:
I adore this bear rubber charm…
Prize! Each design team member is giving away an October Afternoon Rubber Charm Prize Pack. Just leave a nice comment on my blog and I will randomly select a winner on Sunday night. The winner will be posted on my blog on Monday Morning and on the October Afternoon Blog on Monday Morning as well. Thanks for stopping by…
Now it’s time for you to hop along to Lexi Bridges’ blog!
So yesterday at the October Afternoon blog, we had our first Challenge Monday. Lexi Bridges chose the first theme, and she came up with “throw a little vintage on it.” This is my take on the challenge…I used a vintage photo as the focal point for this card and made the flower from pages of an old book. Don’t you just love the looks on those girls’ faces?
Join in the challenge by posting your project at the October Afternoon Flickr Group – I think there’s a prize!
Yesterday was also the day for a sad announcement at Coordinates Collections. You can read the story here. I worked with the CC design team five years ago in the beginning, and then I re-joined the team last summer. It has been a special place, and I will really miss that community! I’m working on my projects with the last kit now. (insert sad face)
On the home front:
Apparently Corey heard a bad word on the baseball field yesterday (a father of a teammate shared it). So Corey decided to try it out…Doug was mortified! We’ll see if I can come up with a layout to remember the special quote. I have to scrap the icky quotes with the cute ones, right? We’ll see…
Today is the only day we don’t have baseball practice this week. Of course, there’s still dance…and Doug has to be at the sale at the county show tonight…but at least we aren’t trying to juggle baseball into the rest of it! Hopefully, Darby will feel well enough to go to dance…she’s had an awful stomach virus (or something like that) since Saturday morning… (more sad faces)
Happy Tuesday!
{For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9}
Okay, so I made the image full size instead of medium size. What do you think? Adele? (Adele is the only person who reads my blog, apparently…) Big photo good? Too big?
I made the layout for the October Afternoon blog...they are introducing the new design team this week. Go check it out if you haven’t already!
Here are some detail photos – I love it when people take these because I am always trying to see all the details up close.
I have a quote I need to remember from today:
“I’m sweating like a beaver nugget.” -Corey, a little hot from playing outside…
It is pretty warm today for March!
I am SO happy to be returning as a member of the October Afternoon design team! The new team was announced today on the OA blog, and here is the list of rock-star scrappers I will be working with for the next year:
Amy Heller
Becky Novacek
Danni Reid
Jaime Warren
Jill Sprott
Kinsey Wilson
Lexi Bridges
Roree Rumph
Vivian Masket
Wilna Furstenburg
The blog is going to be jam-packed with inspiring, challenging content every day with the new team and the new blog!
And because I hate to post without a photo, here’s a layout I did with October Afternoon’s new 5 and Dime collection:
Have a great day!
You don’t have to twist my arm to get me to do some stitching on pretty paper…I love a stitching challenge! I posted another stitched layout yesterday, so scroll down if you want to see it.
And here’s a stitched card:
In case you are wondering, the red rub-on alphas are from Heidi Grace Design…they haven’t been made for years, but I absolutely love them and use my significant stash of them sparingly. Paper, stickers, and corrugated shapes from both projects are from Jillibean Soup. There are a few Making Memories stickers scattered about as well.
I’m looking forward to making some more cards with the scraps that are scattered all over my desk…sometimes the most fun cards I make come from a pile of scraps!
Have a great Wednesday! I hope you are adjusting to the time change better than I am.
