
I am a stay at home mom {who is practically never home!} with 2 boys; Drew age 12 and Christopher who is 7. I have been married for 15 years to an extremely patient and understanding husband, Rob, who supports {and puts up with!} my scrapbooking addiction.
I have been an avid scrapbooker for over 12 years. For the past 7 years, I have been an instructor for several of the scrapbook stores here in my hometown of San Antonio, as well as a guest instructor at a few stores around Texas.
I am currently a member of several manufacturer design teams, and work as a freelance designer as well.
I am very excited to be joining the Prism Design Team as a Guest Designer for October!

I just LOVE fall with all its deep, rich gorgeous colors… reds, oranges, yellows, greens and browns. Unfortunately, we don’t have much of a “fall” season here in Texas, just a few fleeting weeks {or sometimes just days} where I can enjoy all the wonderful autumn colors. I remember the first time my youngest son Chris noticed the leaves changing. The wonder in his voice has remained fresh in my mind; he was awed by the beauty of it. And at the time, I remember stopping to take in the view with “fresh eyes”; seeing it as he did.
But even when autumn ends, I can still capture the colors in my fall scrapbooking and paper crafting. Prism Papers has hundreds of beautiful cardstock colors to help keep the season around a little while longer. I had some photos from Connecticut a friend {thanks Dee!} had taken that I wanted to use on a layout. The colors were AMAZING! While trying to decide which photos to use, I found I kept coming back to the same 4 photos. They each depicted a different color of fall, and I thought they would be beautiful grouped together. So, I got the idea to pair each of the photos with a cardstock. But could I be able to find the “right” color for each photo? You betcha’! With Prism cardstocks it was EASY! I was able to find cardstock colors that matched my photos perfectly; Lifeguard, Avana, Light House and Tropical Green. The photos and colors in them was the starting point of the layout, after that it just all came together.
I wanted to use a “neutral” cardstock for the background so I selected Kraft. I also wanted my colors to “pop” off the background, so I chose to mat them in dark brown. The mats of the color cardstock blocks are done in Coco, and the photos are matted in Chocolate – which is just slightly lighter that the Coco so that they don’t fade into the matting on the color blocks.
For the “colors” portion of the title. I matted narrow strips of the four “autumn” cardstock colors on a piece of Coco cardstock. Then I adhered that strip to the Husk cardstock and diecut the letters. {You have to be careful to cut them out along the same line so the stripe lines up}.
I inked the “FALL” chipboard letters using Dark Brown chalk ink, and the “of” using the Peach Pastel. I had a few scraps of cardstock left over, so decided to use them as tabs along the left side of the layout.
I think the key when doing this type of “simple” layout, is to keep everything crisp and clean. Spacing is important too! I penciled in light guidelines to keep everything lined up, then erased them after I’d glued all the pieces down.
Enjoy YOUR colors of fall!
Prism Papers used:
Coco BR360-E
Chocolate BR340-F
Kraft BR270-D
Husk BR040-B
Lifeguard M403
Avana OR101-F
Light House M405
Tropical Green G430-B
Other:
Accucut – diecut 4” roman numbers – lower case
Rusty Pickle – chipboard letters
Basic Grey – White Chocolate Chip Chipboard Letters
Clearsnap – ColorBox – Fluid Chalk Ink – Dark Brown and Peach Pastel
EK Success – corner rounder