2 more layouts to share

Hello all! I hope you had a great weekend, I sure did! This morning I had a THIRD interview for the place that I would LOVE to work. She said that she was very impressed with my experience, our meeting today, as well as what everyone said about me last week... So I am hoping that means good things! She said they will let me know by the end of the week. I can't wait!! Ugh!

Anyways, here are two layouts I did a couple weeks ago!

 

This layout was from a Creative Scrappers sketch that I never got around to entering! I used a lot of Amy Tan Plus One as well as some of her Sketchbook collection since they go so well together! :) This is a different kind of layout for me, but I really like how it turned out!

 

I put together this layout very quickly of my husband and my niece. I love to scrap those two! I used papers from the Maggie Holmes Flea Market 6x6 pad and some goodies from my stash. 

 

Thanks for stopping by! Keep your prayers coming! THANK YOU! 

2 Layouts to share

The last time I shared on my blog was March 13 -- so I think I am due! So many crazy things have been happening lately -- AGAIN! I can't seem to get out of the rain and thunder, but I have a feeling my rainbow and sunshine are coming soon! I am praying for that anyways!

Here are two layouts that have been waiting to be shared for awhile!

 

This layout was made with a cut file made by Paige Evans for Studio Calico. I loved it and HAD to get it! I used the Amy Tan Plus One collection! 

 

A layout from my best friend's wedding! I used a Cameo cut file for the hearts and the "mr. & mrs." and did lots of heat embossing and ink splattering! 

 

Thanks for stopping by! Its my Saturday off and I am going to go scrapbook!

 Please send good thoughts and prayers my way!  I lost my job almost 2 weeks ago and last week I had to interviews for the same place and I go back on Monday to chat with someone else about it as well. I am SO excited that this is the job for me! :) Thanks!

All My Heart

Here is a layout that I had originally planned on using Amy Tan's Plus One collection, but I used scraps from Sketchbook instead! Yes, I STILL have pieces of that collection. I just love it and I have been hoarding it, but it is slowly being used up!

 

The hearts, "always card," and "Heart" die cut are last month's TwoPeas cut files. I really like their cut files. I hardly ever buy cut files from the Silhouette store, so I find these worth it. I only buy them if I think I will use them multiple times! 

 

Everything is from the Sketchbook collection except for the number paper and the "All My" transparent letters. 

 

Thanks for looking! 

Love Love Love Love

Another "me" themed layout with things about me this month (er well, last month)! I am doing the monthly "me" themed layouts with inspiration from Corrie Jones. I've said it before and will never stop saying it -- she is my scrapbooking idol! She just put up an amazing layout today for Crate Paper. Swoon!

 

I found a random photo I took of myself at work last month when my niece wanted to Facetime with me, but I wasn't able to. I used Studio Calico's Print Shop collection and the fun new cut files from TwoPeas and went to work! I really wanted to do a black background and have the whites and other subtle colors pop. I did 6 facts about me right now. I feel like they are always the same!

 

Wild & Free

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! I worked Thur-Sun evenings and will go back tonight to work the night shift! Uffda!

I completed this layout for the Bokeh challenge at Scrapbook Circle. I am really missing getting their kits, but like that I can still participate in their challenges.

I didn't really have any bokeh paper, maybe one or two pieces. So I went with a bokeh picture instead! This was the perfect photo to add bokeh to.

 

I used the wild and free collection from Glitz Design and a couple other pieces from my stash! I just love that background paper! 

 

Its definitely not my favorite layout by any means, but it turned out cute! Thanks for looking! 

I Love U

I am here today with a layout I created for the Hip Kit Club layout challenge. The challenge was to use their inspiration mood board. I used the I <3 U poster from the mood board and a layout by Ashley Horton.

I have been saving that Elle's Studio paper for quite some time and found those black Thickers in my stash. They were all falling off the sticker page so I thought it would be a good font that I had to use almost every letter of the alphabet from!

 

The patterned paper that I used was scraps from my stash. I used the new Elle's Studio stamps and lots of enamel dots! 

 

The red Thickers are a newer set from a Christmas collection. 

 

The photos were from my husband's 30th birthday party. Thanks for looking! 

Lake Superior Love

Happy Monday everyone! I had a good first weekend back at work and I work again today at three and tomorrow at 7am. Then I will have 5 days off.. yay! :)

I am here to share a layout I made with inspiration from Paige Evan's again! She did a lot of paper tearing on her layout. I tried to do it like her's and just could not make it work, but I made it work in my own paper tearing way!

I used Crate Paper's The Pier collection. Last spring/summer I couldn't WAIT to get my hands on this collection and ever since I did..... I have had a hard time using it! I don't know. There is bits and pieces of it I really like.. and parts I don't like. I don't like all the kraft that it came with I guess, but I was able to make one piece make due!

Most of the torn pieces came from the 6x6 pad, but a few came from 12x12 sheets as well. I used different pieces from the sticker sheets and the ephemera pack. 

 

The gold stickers come from The Pier sticker sheet and the brown thickers are Amy Tan from her Ready Set Go line. "This is the Life" tag is from Chic Tags. 

 

I love to tuck in fun elements! Thanks for checking this out and don't forget to check my other posts from this past weekend! 

From Happiness to Heartbreak

This layout was extremely hard for me to do. The design was easy, but the courage it took to write down my feelings was very hard. I wanted to make a design in which I had a lot of room for journaling and thought that a heart that was going off the page would be perfect. A heart because it symbolizes love and the sunburst that shows that even though going through this rough time, the sun is still shining in our lives.

I used teal, black, white, and gray for my color scheme and I love it! I cut the heart out with my cameo and made the lines for where I wanted the sunburst pieces to go. Then I traced them onto the patterned paper I wanted to use and then glued it all down to a piece of cardstock! I sewed around the heart with black floss to emphasize it. I found some gray and black scraps of paper and layered the beneath my photo along with an Elle's Studio tag and washi tape. For the title I used the new alphas from Elle's Studio and some older ones from Jenni Bowlin. 

 

I stamped an embossed a heart from the new Elle's Studio Love You More stamp set and used an arrow paper clip to point towards the title. 

 

I used two of the die cuts from the Studio Calico Print Shop collection. 

 

Thanks for looking and for your comments. This page means a lot to me and I am glad that I did it. I am back to work tomorrow! 

Keep me in your Heart

Good morning! Today I am sharing a layout that I created using a sketch from Elle's Studio. I kept the basic concept of the sketch, but kind of went off on my own as well.

I used quite a few elements from the Elle's Studio Love You More collection including two stamps and the frame, note card, word snippets, and teal heart. Oh! And their new alphas! I keep forgetting about those. I used papers from the Pebbles and Crate Paper Valentine's lines. I cut the background paper (Amy Tan) with my Silhouette to be able to layer the hearts underneath the paper and then pop some up on top of the paper with pop dots.

 

The title comes from that little Pooh quote - "If ever there comes a day that we're not together, keep me in your heart and I will stay there forever." I absolutely love it. I love those pink Thickers too -- and they come with HEARTS! Very cool. 

 

I found some embroidery floss and ripped it all apart to make a cluster underneath one of the Elle's tags and threw some enamel dots in there as well. I still had those Pink Paislee mistable hearts sitting out from my last project so I found a place for it on this layout too! Great way to use up my stash. 

 

I added another embroidery floss, tag, and enamel dot cluster and outlined the entire page with my black marker, as well as used the neat heart/arrow stamp from Elle's Studio on each side of page. Thanks for looking and I appreciate your comments! 

Here is the sketch:

 

Capture Hope

One of my greatest scrapbooking designers is by far Corrie Jones. Her work is beyond awesome. Each month she completes a layout about herself and what she is feeling. This month I wanted to do the same. Better this month than any of the previous 5! :)

I had fun with this layout and actually completed it pretty quickly. I started with the star background that I cut with my Cameo. The cut file came from the Silhouette store. I used all Studio Calico Print Shop papers for this layout and didn't want to use one of the the 12x12 sheets as the full background so I went to my old stash of DCWV paper pads and found one that matched. I really need to dig into those more often! I am even thinking about using the back of some of them, which is white, to get using them! 

I put different papers from the 6x6 pad behind all of the different sized stars. I layered the leftover pieces behind my photo and found the black and white word paper and used my exacto knife to cut out the word "capture" from the paper. I wrote 5 different facts/feelings about me right now and added some other fun embellishments such as Freckled Fawn stars, new stamps from Elle's Studio, sequins, and those older mistable hearts from Pink Paislee.

 

I am loving the new "Love You More" stamp set by Elle's Studio! 

Thanks for checking out my layout and your comments. Have a wonderful day!

Sisters

Just poppin' in to upload a layout that I completed of my sister and I.

I used the Amy Tan Sketchbook line and put my Cameo to work to cut out a bunch of hearts! I kept the embellishing pretty simple since the hearts provided such a great background and I didn't even layer a bunch of papers underneath the photo!

 

It was a great way to use my 6x6 paper pad! Thanks for looking! 

Lovely Moments

Back again with another wedding layout. Once again I am using up old collections! This one is using Echo Park's Everyday Eclectic. I used to buy every collection and practically the entire collection from Echo Park and now I hardly buy any. I do still like them lots though!

 

Thanks for looking and your great comments! 

Wedding Pages Project Life Style

I have been super busy working on finishing up our wedding albums and doing some layouts for some design team calls. I am almost finished with our wedding albums and hope to [will] have them finished by my husband's 30th birthday party this Saturday.

Many of the pages (since there are so many pictures) I have completed using the divided pocket pages and it has worked out so well to compliment my 12x12 layouts! There are many to share! Check back for more tomorrow. Thanks for looking and all of your great comments!

Layouts to share

I have a few layouts to share that I have done over the past month. I also wanted to thank all of you for your wonderful prayers and thoughts. I appreciate them so much. The school board approved my resignation on Monday night and as of next Friday, I will be done with this job. I am so excited. I am so ready to get back to how life used to be. It will be hard to work weekends and holidays again, but I would way rather do that than go through what I am right now. THANK YOU. :)

I made this first layout about a month ago when I scrapbooked with my mom and aunt. I used a credit card and paint to make those fun lines. I love that Crate Paper line [that I bought last summer and finally got to use]! 

Another layout that I did that weekend. I only made two layouts. My mom could tell that I wasn't happy -- I didn't even want to scrapbook! I love those Crate frames!

This photo is from my best friend's wedding at the end of October. I love this big Silhouette cut and thought it would be cute as a background. 

I just did this layout last weekend based on a sketch from Elle's Studio, but of course I didn't get it uploaded in time for the contest. Ugh. I love this cute Crate holiday line.  I wish I would have bought more of the embellies. 

I am so excited to get back to scrapbooking. I am so excited to be happy again. I have faith that 2014 will be a good year for us. :) Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers! :)