Being 1 is Fun!

I completed this layout about a month ago and I am finally sharing it! I used Dear Lizzy's previous collection and did lots of layering in this grid design. Thanks for looking!

 

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! 

Glow of Christmas

Here I am with a fun Christmas layout featuring photos of my darling niece and a sketch from My Scraps and More.

I didn't like how stark white plain the background was with all of the photos and layers focused towards the bottom, so I added all of the watercolor marks using my red and gold gelatos! I love how it turned out. I used papers from the Studio Calico Christmas line, which I fell in love with right away (and I normally don't like their Christmas lines). I finally opened up the Maggie Holmes overlay frames and used two of them on this page. They have been sitting in my stash for TOO LONG! 

 

I cut my title using my Silhouette Cameo. I originally just had the one layer of the gray, but it was blending in too much so I added the red background to it to make it stick out more. I LOVE those wood veneer stars from Studio Calico and embossed them with gold embossing powder. 

 

I added some sequins and washi tape to finish it off! I also used a roller date stamp for the current challenge at Scrapbook Circle. Something I use all the time!

 

Thanks for looking and I appreciate your comments! 

sketch:

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!

NSD Layouts

I did these two layouts for two of the NSD challenges at Two Peas in a Bucket. The first one I love and I hate the second one. The first one was for the challenge to be inspired by a Garden Girl. Corrie Jones is my fave garden girl and I love her work! She just made an awesome page like this and I had to scraplift! 

I hand cut the hearts and added a bunch of other fun bits! I tried to use a lot of my Crate Paper 6x6 Valentine pad. 

Close-ups!

I really really don't like this next layout so I do not have much to say about it! It was for the TwoPeas focus on photos challenge. TFL!

Scrap Your Story - I Carry Your Heart

The challenge this week at Scrap Your Story is all about your FAVORITE! It can be your favorite anything, we just have to know somehow that it is your favorite. Mine is all about one of my favorite people.. My Sister.

This photo comes from my wedding day after my sister gave her amazing speech. I will say it again.. Amazing. So heartfelt and true. I love my sister so much and I wanted this page to show my  true feelings. The title really says it all. No matter what.. I will carry my sister's heart..in my heart. What she goes through.. I will go through.

Once again, I used a lot of the Dear Lizzy collection. I had it in my cart at TwoPeas to buy more, but I am refraining from doing that. There will be so many other collections for me to love.. I don't need to buy much more of this one. I cut the "heart" out on my Cameo and used those cute gold Glitz letter stickers for the rest of my title. 

Love is also cut on my Cameo, but see that arrow?! That is a wood veneer arrow that I embossed with gold embossing powder! Yay me! I always wanted to do that! The "You" stickers are Jillibean Soup. 

All of the cute little hearts are from an all over the page Martha Stewart punch. Love that thing! I need to get the star one as well. Thanks for looking and be sure to play along with Scrap Your Story this week! :) 

You Are Lovely

This is the last of the layouts that I needed to catch up on posting! Surprise, Surprise.. I used the Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm collection again!!! :) Love that line. Have I said that before? :)

I went a little butterfly crazy on this one, but I think it is perfect for the layout! This is my niece and I on my wedding day. I used all Dear Lizzy papers and many of her embellies. I really like the look of the torn 3/4 page. I layered some goodies underneath the photos, as always. I did a layout a couple weeks ago with the journaling on the side and I really liked the look, so I did it again!

I added a few little punched butterflies with sequins and those cute stamped hearts are Amy Tan stamps. Love them.. they add the perfect little touch! Thanks for looking! 

Our Crazy Love

I was able to get 8 layouts done last Friday and Saturday when I scrapbooked with my mom and aunt. It was so fun! I love doing that.

This layout today comes from inspiration by Corrie Jones on Two peas in a bucket. One of her prompts was to cut your own die cuts. I followed her prompt and inspiration from her layout and cut my own hearts! I love how real and hand cut they look instead of all looking so perfect! I also used all washi tape to create the background... no pattered paper layers.. can you believe it?!

I had a hard time coming up with a title for this because well, you know ;) I used pink and turquoise as accent colors and just dug through my stash to find stuff that worked! 

It is one of my favorite layouts lately! I think I would like to replicate it for another layout. Different pictures always makes a layout look different! Thanks for looking! :) 

Scrap Your Story - Home Run Love

I'm back with another challenge at Scrap Your Story! This week's challenge is a sketch challenge .. and a great sketch!  I stuck fairly close to the sketch, but instead of circles I used hearts!

These are photos from our wedding day. We stopped at the ball park and took a few photos! It is hard to see, but our wedding party is in the stands cheering us on in both of the photos! :) 

I have been doing lots of hand stitching again lately, which I love! I also used Glitz Madly in Love on this page. 

And here is the sketch! Be sure to play along at Scrap Your Story for a great giveaway! 

Scrap Your Story - Hippity Hop!

Have you been playing along with the challenges at Scrap Your Story? This week's challenge is an EASY one! We challenge you to make a layout about anything SPRING! Spring colors, spring pictures, spring events, anything spring!

I decided to work on this challenge right after Easter, so I had a good amount of photos to work with! I decided to use this ADORABLE picture of my niece with all of her Easter goodies (most of which mom and dad will partake in). We let her dig through her big Easter basket and she found that huge chocolate bunny that she has her mouth on. I tried pulling it away from her.. well, she pulled harder! She held onto it so hard that when I would pull it from her... I would practically pull her bottom off the ground because she was pulling it so hard too! So cute.

First off, this layout is based on a wonderful sketch by my friend Missy Whidden. She has been offering up quite a few sketches lately and I have been loving using them! I stayed close to her sketch, as well as her layout inspiration. I used the March Scrapbook Circle kit and added a few of my own bits and pieces. How cute is that little Easter bunny?! 

I love all the new Thickers that they are coming out with. I wish I could have them all! To do the stitching I used a Bazill stitching template that I bought probably 3 years ago. I am proud of myself for using an old supply! 

This LO uses lots of Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm goodness as well as some Alison Kreft! TFL! Be sure to play along this week! 

Missy's Sketch: 

Matchbook Mini

A couple weeks ago, Kristina Nicolai White posted a tutorial on Two Peas in a Bucket on how to make a Matchbook Mini. I was hooked! I thought it was the cutest little mini book ever, and I had to make one! Now that I've made one... I have to make more! Not long after she posted the video, my mom told me that she wanted me to make her another mini book... Oh all right! :)


Just like the example, I mostly used the Amy Tangerine Yes, Please collection with other little tidbits! :)

The book contains pictures of my family. As you can see, my almost 8 month old niece makes it onto all but one page :) 

This type of mini book is so easy and quick to make! All of the pages are stitched together with a sewing machine. I used washi tape to cover up the stitching. 

 The only page without a baby.... how long will that last??? ;)

Amy Tan's lines are just so versatile! There are also so many other lines that match with it as well. This  two pages use Amy Tan, Bella Blvd, Glitz, and MME! 

This is my favorite page. Makes me smile! :) 

This is actually the second page, but it got out of order! I love that you can see the other pages behind it.

And the very back of the mini book with a note to my parents. 

I hope you have enjoyed and you are inspired to create a Matchbook Mini! They are really fun to create :)