Just My Size

I created this page for Creative Scrappers sketch #261. Honestly, the sketch didn't really appeal to me, but I made it work. I have a hard time with sketches like this. I tend to scrap in one big cluster.. so for this one I just did two big clusters.

I used the really old line Summer's End by Fancy Pants and went to work. This line has been sitting around in my stash for a long time and I've always really liked it, just never used it for anything. Done! I used it! I also pulled in a few pieces from Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm collection. That is still one of my favorite collections!

 

I am not a fan of how I did the title, but I am just going to go with it! 

 

Thanks for checking it out! :) 

You + Me = Love

Hello everyone! I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend (even though it is already Wednesday evening now)! I worked all weekend and Monday and Tuesday so today felt like the first day after the weekend! :)

I finished this layout last week. It was actually just a quick one that I threw together. The longest part was cutting out the files on my Cameo and gluing them down! They got sticky!

I used a cut file from my Cameo and cut them all out on white cardstock and used different red and pink gelatos to water color them. I had some left over white hearts from another project that I added. The cards were from the Simple Stories 4x6 pack and I used a few tags from Elle's Studio, added some enamel dots, and some misting!

 

This one had a lot less layers than I normally do, but it is still really my style! 

 

Thanks for checking it out! 

Every Single Moment With You

Happy Weekend! I am pretty excited for tonight. My husband turns 30 next week (bummer) and I am throwing him a big 30th birthday party tonight! Complete with a DJ, food, and beer! Yay!

I am also excited because last night I finished our wedding albums! We got married on 9/22/12. I'm not too far off, am I? :)

Here is a pretty simple, but pretty layout that I made using the photo of him after he saw me for the first time on our wedding day. I love that background woodgrain paper from the original Maggie Holmes collection. I used a lot of woodgrain elements and through in some pops of color. Thanks for looking and your great comments.

A Few of My Favorite Things and Kalahari

I am going to share two layouts with you today before I go off to scrapbooking! The first one I created for Mercy Tiara's challenge on YouTube to create a layout about your favorite scrapbook things. Well, I just took a picture some of my goodies piled high on my desk and called it good. If I added all my favorite things to that picture, well.. it wouldn't all be in one picture!

I used Amy Tan's Yes Please collection and went to work! In the journaling I wrote that I love the creative outlet that scrapbooking brings me and I love all the cute supplies as well! Some of my favorites are my Cameo, patterned paper, enamel dots, and roller date stamps. I didn't even mention Thickers and wood veneer! The list could go on and on... 

I love those fun Thickers and I used an old stitching template from Bazzill to create those stitched letters! 

This next layout I created on a whim one night when I had a free hour. I put it together so fast! I just cut up strips of Amy Tan paper and put it all together! 

It was one of those layouts where I just could NOT come up with a title so I just went with a really generic one. That works sometimes, right? 

Lots of layering behind the photo as always and a wood veneer arrow to top it off! Thanks for looking and for your great comments! 

Two Layouts to Share

I am back! It has been a few days since I have posted. I worked my weekend this past weekend where I work 9a to 9:30p Fri - Sun and I have worked each day since as well, so I have not had much time! :( I have tomorrow off, so I am excited about that!

I have two layouts to share today. The first is a photo of my cousin and I from my wedding. I took a photo with each of my bridesmaids like this so I am going to scrap each one so that I have each one in my scrapbook! I used the April Scrapbook kit and played along with the challenge, Springtime Hues. It sure wasn't hard with the kit!

Here are some close ups: 

I filled the Amy Tan die cut with MME enamel dots and added some Echo Park stickers. The smaller letters in the title are Studio Calico and October Afternoon. Speaking of OA, are they EVER going to release their Winter CHA collections? UGH. Get with it. 

My next layout comes all the way from last summer! It is two photos from my husband's bachelor party that I knew I wanted to get in a scrapbook. It is such a cute picture of Ryan and then a great group picture. 

I looked in my stash for lots of grays, whites, and blacks and found all of these goodies! I also used some of the die cuts from the Pink Paislee collection.

I cut the stars out on my Cameo and outlined ...everything! :) Thanks for checking out my pages and your sweet comments! 

Baby Got Back

Literally. Cutest. Baby. Badonkadonk. Ever. :)

I love this photo and I love this little girl! I decided for this layout that I wanted to get together as much pink stuff as I could! I have a mix of both old and new patterned papers as well as the new triangle mask from Studio Calico. I then used black elements in a few paces throughout the layout to add another color to the mix!

I just can't get over how cute she is. And look at those thighs! Sigh.. adorable. :) 

The "pretty girl" sticker is from the AC My Girl collection and the dark pink flowered sticker is from Amy Tan's Sketchbook collection. I used Heidi Swapp Primrose for the misting. 

Annnd my FAVORITE thickers.. The black journal font. Love them. I need to get more of them! Thanks for looking and your wonderful comments! :) 

Full of Sweet

I have an adorable layout to share of my adorable niece. I am going to say right out.. I did NOT come up with this idea! Corrie Jones made a layout like this and I fell in love with it. I knew it was the perfect and ONLY way that I wanted to use that cute mason jar paper by Dear Lizzy. I couldn't resist.. I had to scraplift! :)

I started with a blank white slate (something I do so often now), misted a little Mr. Huey's Custard, and then fussy cut all those cute mason jars. I then placed them on my page where I wanted them and started embellishing the jars and around my photo. I added stitching, stamps, wood veneers, and stickers. The letter stickers are even super old! If you haven't realized yet.. I get SO excited when I use stuff from my stash. Maybe it lets me justify buying new stuff? :) 

Addition of the jouranling in one of the mason jars of course! 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! :) 

I will Always be there for You

I am back for another layout to share today! Today my layout takes inspiration from the 213 in 2013 TwoPeas video posted on Monday. Two of the prompts were to cut a die cut and to use bokeh on your layout.. so I did both!

I used the Boy Crazy line from MME and cut out the fun colored arrows to put randomly throughout my page. I used gray mist from OA to make the bokeh effect on the right side of my layout. I also used the sketch made by the wonderful Missy Whidden. Be sure to check out her blog!! 

Here is a close-up of the layers and fun embellishments! Thanks for looking! 

Best Friends

Need your day a little brightened?! Check out this super bright and colorful layout that I made with the Amy Tan Sketchbook collection!

I got my inspiration from Paige Evans and her Tutorial at Two Peas in a Bucket a little over a month ago. She had a wonderful idea for this "paper weaving." She used a lot of those super fun extra strips that come at the bottom of patterned papers where the manufacturer's label is. Be sure to check out Paige's Blog. She does some amazing work with patterned paper. I am amazed every time!

I also used many of the manufacturer's ends for these strips as well as cut a few from the patterned paper to get a wide variety of colors. This just shows how *much* of that collection I still have left! I love it so much, but it really is dwindling down.

I weaved the papers over and under just like in the tutorial. I used some of the die cuts and stickers from the collection for my clusters around the photos. Looking at my scrapbook.. I have noticed that all of my bachelorette party pages have used this collection! :)

A set of Thickers and arrows always does the trick! 

And a final close-up. I have to say that I am obsessed with the roller date and phrase stamps. They are so cool! And I don't even have as many as some people! I only have 5.. with one on the way ;) Thanks for stopping by and I hope you get to have a scrappy weekend... because I will be at work! 

A Scappy Day!

It was my weekend off and it was amaaaaazing! I covet my weekends off. I truly wish I didn't have to work weekends, but oh well. I got two layouts done today and had a great weekend. I shouldn't complain!

Looks like you get a close-up of my layout first! I used my February Scrapbook Circle kit and made a super cute layout of my niece, Alaina. I found that cute heart/circle cut in the Silhouette store and used it all over my page. The kit had some awesome goodies from Glitz and MME as well. 

The next layout that I did today I had to stop half-way through and take a break. I was going nuts and I did not know how I was ever going to finish it! Everything came together perfectly when I came back to it later on! 

I used a circle silhouette cut for the background and put all different patterns of turquoise and pink in the circles. I used lots of goodies from Dear Lizzy and Studio Calico to finish this page off. I love the pictures. They were from yesterday of my husband and I and our niece and nephew! So much fun :) 

Some close-ups :) I did lots of outlining in this one. Thanks for looking! 

She Believed She Could.. So She Did

I have been loving all of the fun things being done with mists these days! They really are so versatile. I wanted to create my own ombre look with my mists. To do this, I left some drops of yellow mist and some drops of water onto a plate. I used a paint brush to paint across the page. To make the color fade, I added more water so that the yellow color wasn't as concentrated. As you can see, I did two ombre effects and then added a line of turquoise in the middle as well. I loved how it turned out and it dries SO quickly!

The photo is from my first 5k race that I did last summer. I thought the title was very fitting. I used that very large ombre washi tape in the corners that came with the Front Row Studio Calico kit. My favorite part about creating this layout was going through my stash of paper scraps and finding all the right colors. I like it because its almost rewarding to go back and use those scraps instead of starting with new sheets of paper! 

Here are some close ups. You can see all the dimension I've added with the enamel dots, ombre thickers, and arrows. I also added in some yellow and gray threads that is becoming popular right now. 

Last but not least, I want to promote a new challenge blog! They will start with their first challenge on March 1st and they are offering up a great prize for new followers! You should definitely check it out and play with their challenges when they start! You can find it here... Scrap You Story 

Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm

This morning I am going to share two layouts using the new Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm collection. I was impatient and couldn't wait for 2peas to get it in the store, so when I went to Archiver's on Valentine's Day, I picked up pieces of the collection. Of course, what I wanted most out of the collection, the roller phrase stamp, they didn't have. Oh well!

This first LO is of my niece and I at my wedding. I used the 12x12 papers for the borders on the side and the 6x6 papers to layer underneath my photo. Everything is from the collection except for the heart washi tape (Glitz) and the enamel dots. 

Some Close ups 

Here is a close up of the next layout 

This layout was super fun to make! I put FIVE photos on one page! That is so unlike me right now, but I wanted to get all these photos on one page. They are of my flower girl during the ceremony. She stood there so nicely and entertained the crowd with her silly faces! I am glad that my cousin caught it on camera! 

I used lots of pieces from the Lucky Charm collection, as well as some Snap! pieces, Glitz, and My Mind's Eye. I love drawing with my mists too, which is what I did in the upper left hand corner to make the hearts! Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day! 

Its been awhile...

Well, I am back! It has been awhile. I have gotten some scrappy time in, but haven't gotten a chance to put my layouts on the blog. Lately, I have felt the need to work every single day between the hospital and substitute teaching and school nursing. My weekend off was totally needed and I spent today with my niece :) Be on the lookout for some upcoming adorable layouts! :) Ryan is up at Arctic Blast in northern Minnesota... so I am going to scrap tonight! :)

Here is a layout I put together one morning before work. Nothing too exciting, but uses the super cute Pebbles Seen and Noted line. Definitely my favorite line ever from them!

This next layout is not my normal style, but I still think it turned out cute. It is missing all of my favorite layeredness :) 

Thanks for looking! Be on the lookout for a giveaway in the next couple weeks as I finally get all my new CHA stuff in the house! :) 

A Scraptastic Weekend!

heehee :) Just a dorky play on words! My mom came up to my house (she lives about an hour south from me) and stayed over night on Friday evening. We scrapbooked Friday evening and Saturday morning. I was able to get five layouts finished! Tons of fun! I am glad I am able to share that with my mom :)

The first layout that I completed, I used the Scrapbook Circle "Only You" kit. I was hoarding that background Glitz paper.. I actually have another one of it, that I am sure I will also hoard :) Did you know that Target is carrying some American Crafts supplies? I got a very cute Valentine's 6x6 pad, a roller date stamp, and a package of those cute heart paper clips that is shown on this LO!

The next layout that I completed, I struggled with and I still don't like it! I was able to use the new MME My Girl collection! It is such a cute collection, I wish I would have had a better turn out on my page!