Making progress!

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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. 

Moving-postcard

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

Birthday Card

 

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

Sympathy Card front

Thanks for visiting!

Heather

Happy Saturday morning!

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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 1 - simple B&W

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

 Option 2 - paper look

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

 Option 3 - A bit shabby

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.

Left half of Shabby Church 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

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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. 

Thinking of you card for MJ

 

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).   🙂

 Left half of a 2page ultrasound spread

 

Right half of a 2page ultrasound spread

Thanks!

Heather