enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: paper projects
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If you've been here awhile, you know my handwritten Thanksgiving invites have become somewhat of a tradition. Here's 2010, 2012, & 2013 (Paul was deployed in 2011 and I went home instead). We just invite our families and really they all know they are coming long before these arrive in their mailbox, but it's still…
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I get questions often about how I organize my digital photos. I always respond that I really don't. This is what I do: I plug in my phone or my camera into my laptop. iPhoto pops up. I transfer all the photos there. I name the event something classy and super specific like like "mid-July…
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I joked awhile back that I am a design one-trick pony. I was sort of kidding and sort of serious. I just really like to stick with what works. This year, that's making invitations out of white cardstock and black ink. And then it's fancying things up with watercolor (or highlighter). My friend, veronica, is…
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Next month a few of my girlfriends are headed to Austin for a bachelorette party. Invitations for this event were not exactly necessary (we'd already booked our flights) but that has never stopped me before. We decided early on that the theme would be neon and I brainstormed the best way to get neon onto…
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One of my bestfriends, Erin, is having a baby girl in April. I'm so excited to be co-hosting her shower at my house in the beginning of March. Early in the process, when we asked Erin what she wanted the shower to be like she responded, "I'm feeling earthtones." So "earthtones" it is. We're going…
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Have you ever gotten lost on Instagram? It starts by clicking on the popular page and the next thing you know, an hour has passed and you're wrapped up in some drama involving two thirteen year old girls, a boyband and a heavy use of emojis. It's never good but always enthralling. This is how…
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You may remember that in May I had a maternity shoot with the fabulous Tara Whitney. Then, in July, after Paul was officially home from deployment we did a family shoot at the house. I have printed and framed a few of the photos from that shoot (hopefully more to come). But I really wanted…
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I am very excited to be documenting our 2014 with Project Life® again this year. This will be my third year using the Project Life® approach which to me means combining photos and journaling into pocket pages and displaying them in an album. In 2012, I just dove right in and worked primarily from what…
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This year I am teaching a class with eleven other scrapbookers for Big Picture called December Duos. You can read more about the online workshop here but the gist is 12 days of inspiration for photo taking and documenting your Christmas season. The theme focuses on capturing pairs (light & dark, red & green, warm…
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This year, Minted reached out to me to see if I was interested in trying their holiday cards to send to family and friends and share here on the blog. I saw the words "foil-printing" in the email and was on board. I selected the "cheers" card because it was simple, gorgeous and totally my…
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