Part of my job at the magazine (AKA Scrapbook Trends/CARDS/Simply Handmade, etc...) is recreating about eight projects for each issue of Simply Handmade. Every other month I gather said projects and head to Robert's (it's a Utah/Idaho craft store similar to Michaels), Archiver's and Jo-Ann's to purchase all of the supplies to recreate them. Today was one of those supply gathering days. At 11:30 we headed out and about 10 hours later I'm ready to start shooting with the photographers.
These are some sneak peaks of the projects I recreated for the August/September issue. Depending on the complexity of the project, we spend anywhere from a half hour to five hours shooting a single project.More than once I've been "repremanded" because of the state of my hands. What can I say, they're the hands of a messy artist :) That's my hand in the top left picture below. I hope it's up to par!I have a huge box full of projects that I've recreated that I don't know what to do with. I can't sell them because they're not my ideas. I can't display them cuz we ain't got no room. I don't want to give them away because I like them too much. So for now, they'll just sit in my box, gathering chinchilla dust :)
I’m from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in Nauvoo, IL. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship and then we were stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany for 4 years! We visited 43 countries while living in Europe and miss it every day! We now live in Littleton, CO where Chris works at his dream job as a dentist at Old Town Dental. I’m a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have my own signature collections with Pink Paislee calledFANCY FREE, TAKE ME AWAY, OH MY HEART, TURN THE PAGE, PICK-ME-UP, WHIMSICAL, HORIZON, & TRULY GRATEFUL. I’m a teacher at Big Picture Classes, on the Scrapbook & Cards Today design team, I make and release 10 new Silhouette cut files every week, and I have an Etsy shop on the side. I love teaching in-person scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops whenever and wherever I can! Thanks for stopping by!
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I'm so jelous of your job. Can I come work with you?! PLEEEEEEEASE! ;)
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That cup cozy is super cute, let me know how it turns out.
ReplyDeleteIf You'll just make that dress a little bigger, and out of fabric inseatd of paper, you can send it down to Avery!
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