Author: Connie Hanks Photography

• Blessed Easter Card & Video {Feeling Crafty}

  

  I love making cards for loved ones, and decided I’d use inspiration from the Happy Spring tags I made here to create Easter cards for our family. This card can definitely be considered clean and simple, but I love how colorful and elegant this turned out! And would you believe it took less than 15 minutes…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  April 19, 2014

  cards, Feeling Crafty, Tutorial

  card, card making, chevron, ColourQ, crafting, cross, DIY, Easter, Easter cards, embossing, gradient, Heidi Swapp, how-to, ombre, stencil, tutorial, video, youtube

• Meet Dyan {Feeling Crafty}

  

  Every industry has it’s share of trade shows, with at least one big daddy show that *everyone* has to go to. The crafting industry is no different and CHA (Craft & Hobby Association) is the huge trade show that everyone travels near and far to get to. It’s usually in January in Anaheim, California, and I was…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  April 17, 2014

  Feeling Crafty, LOAD, scrapbooking, supplies

  butterflies, crafting, Dylusions, Heidi Swapp, ink, spray, stencils, templates, The Crafter’s Workshop, vellum

• 10 on 10 – April // Engagement at Mercado with Rey & Gina

  

  I had the amazing privilege to photograph this gorgeous couple for their engagement session, not once, but twice! We actually broke their session into two sessions – you might remember this post from last week of our sunset beach session? For our first session, we actually headed to a Mercado to get some local flavor and colors in…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  April 15, 2014

  10 on 10, client session, photo session, photography

  blue, brown, couple, diamond, engagement, ferris wheel, fun, glasses, hat, high heels, holding hands, inspiration, love, maracas, market, Mexico, playful, ring, rocks, Rosarito, session, sexy, shoes, sneakers, sombrero, texture, turquoise, village, wheel

• Happy Spring Tags {Feeling Crafty}

  

  Of course when I heard our ScrapHappy family was having another tag swap, I signed up to play along and make a spring tag! I’m totally going to out myself right now… I watch The Bachelor (oh, the horror, I know!!), but during one of the last episodes earlier this year, I noticed how pretty…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  April 14, 2014

  Feeling Crafty, scrapbooking, supplies, tags, Tutorial

  #tcwstencils, crafting, dinosaur, DIY, egg, embossing, happy, Heidi Swapp, how-to, ScrapHappy, spring, stencils, swap, tag, The Crafter’s Workshop, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, tutorial, video, youtube

• Monument // Eiffel Tower (of course!) {Photo Challenge}

  

  My version, March 2013 My 7 year old daughter’s version, February 2014 Couldn’t resist posting these both for the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument. I think I went a little nuts buying Eiffel Towers for my girls when I was out there last year! To check out more interpretations of “monument” click here. To…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  April 13, 2014

  Photo Challenge, photography, travel

  Eiffel Tower, kids staging photos, monument, Olaf, postaday, The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge

• Sunny & Colorful Layout using Stencils and Gelatos {Feeling Crafty}

  

  Check out this layout I created highlighting a recent Crazy Hair Day photo! Any guesses who inspired the look?! My girls have such colorful personalities, I wanted to make the page bright and bold to match them… and of course getting creative time is always a pleasure : ) Do you like creating your own backgrounds for your…

  Connie Hanks Photography

  April 11, 2014

  Feeling Crafty, scrapbooking, Tutorial

  #tcwstencils, bright, butterflies, Cindy Lou Who, colorful, crafting, crazy hair day, DIY, doll, enamel dots, Faber-Castell, Gelatos, glitter, home made, how-to, layout, process video, scrapbooking, stencils, sunny, sunshine, templates, The Crafter’s Workshop, Thickers, tutorial, video, youtube