Making progress!

Well it has been a few weeks since my last post. As time goes on these will become more regular. 🙂 In the last few weeks alot has happened with my website! It has come a long way… not quite live yet but nearly so. If you found this blog & want to check it out while it’s in progress the temporary link is www.scrapsbyheather.com/anna. Once it goes live the /anna will be dropped.

So what’s new with me? I have been working on the website – putting together a price/product list is alot harder than I thought it would be. Do I want to go fully custom – how much for different sizes? Where do I want to print my digital prints at etc.?

That said – here is some of what I have done. I have found a very awesome professional printer that is the largest in the country & also a semi-local – Kansas anyway – business! I have also been researching S4H, S4O policies – and if you don’t know what those are, S4H – Scrap for Hire; S4O – Scrap for Others… very slight differences but most policies cover both. In the card making world these are referred to as Angel Policies. What I have found is that many of my favorite digital products have great S4H/S4O policies. Unfortunately, in the paper world it’s much harder so I have decided to utilize Stampin’ Up! exclusively for my paper products. That’s great because I am a demonstrator already & I have alot of supplies, not to mention they are top quality. So due to some of the restrictions I am looking at 100% digital for my scrapbook pages for sale – Stampin’ Up! has a great line of products for making cards, but for scrapbooks it would be too limiting for me.

Project I have been working on range from a Superman card for a friend to take to Vietnam to give to his son in July to a few projects for my husband. The Superman card has me worried – my friend doesn’t see his son often so I feel alot of pressure to make the card AWESOME!

Here are a few completed samples. I have a friend who is moving and asked for “We’ve moved” cards – I jumped right in without any idea of what she wanted because I had some ideas for a card I had wanted to make & now a ready-made use. She has decided on a style similar to the Van Gogh card I posted on 3/26/09 so I am adding the card I created to my digital “stock” collection online – I think it would be suitable for Thank Yous, as designed, or many other uses.

I also created a Birthday card and a Sympathy card this week. Here are those examples.

Sympathy card – the interior has the statement – “Praying for friends to comfort you, faith to uphold you, and loving memories to heal your heart.”

Thanks for visiting!

Heather

Happy Saturday morning!

Well it is Saturday and I was expecting to wake up to a blanket of white covering up my already green grass and blooming daffodils. The weather forecasters say it’s still coming – they just had the time wrong but we will see! It is cold however…. brrr!

As I am working on my website and setting up my business offerings one area that I thought I needed to put some effort into was taking one set of pictures and making multiple layouts to show just how different a page can look with the same content & in this case – very similar layouts. This is scrap-lifting at it’s best for scrappers out there – for potential customers – this is why I am here – to help you take your pictures and make them great and within your personality (and cost because time is a factor & these don’t all take the same amount of effort to make).

Option1 – Simple B&W layout.

Option 2 – traditional paper layout (or paper-look)

Option 3 – The shabbier the better (embellishments & fun stuff)

I also wanted to share a larger size of one of the pages so that you can see the journaling & the actual picutres. The longer I have been scrapping the more I LOVE journaling and this is one area I hope my clients come to love – I will take your pictures and make a layout that you can see via a proof gallery on my website… then you send me your thoughts on the event/situation and I will incorporate those into the page.

I hope you like them – I am still working on taking more of my existing artwork and editing it for my website. The site developer should have the basics loaded Monday at which point I can start adding my pictures & arranging the site.

Have a great weekend!

Heather

Credit goes out to Meryl Bartho from DSP and Natali of Natali Design for the use of some of their images in these layouts.

A few project teasers

I can’t resist sharing a few recent projects with you.

First, this is a card that I made for a friend who is in hospice and also a fellow card maker.

Next are a few recent digital scrapbook pages that I have made for myself – these are the start of my new son Andy’s baby album (well one of his albums anyway). 🙂

Thanks!

Heather