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! 

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!

Scrap Your Story - On the Go

A new challenge is up today at Scrap Your Story! It is a sketch challenge. I started with the sketch and really tweaked it to get what I was looking for. I used the new kit from Scrapbook Circle!

sketch:

Be sure to play along this week!! 

Dress Yourself in Love

I am going to keep plugging away at all of these wedding layouts! I had these cute photos of 3 of my bridesmaids helping me put on my wedding gown and they were black and white photos. I am loving the look of gray/white/black with one other color and turquoise is really hot right now! I was able to use the super fun Heidi Swapp transparent letters and the Amy Tan transparent letters. 

I love layouts like these where I just pick a color scheme because I just go through and get out lots of different products that might work on my layout and end up using a whole different array! Its so fun! 

Amy Tangerine, American Crafts, Echo Park, and Jillibean Soup to name a few! I do really like how this page turned out. Another wedding page done! I am actually really enjoying scrapping them, which I didn't think I would!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for 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! 

Scrap Your Story - Luckiest People Alive

Good morning! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Mine will be spent at work for 36 hours! Yay, not!

Be sure to play along with this week's challenge at Scrap Your Story! It is a fun and easy one. This week the challenge is to STAMP! I'll admit... I really didn't use stamps at all until the fun roller date stamps came out and now I use them ALL the time!

For this layout I used the super fun Everyday Eclectic collection by Echo Park. I have just had it sitting around for a LONG time and finally pulled it out to use it! I love the colors and all the fun elements it comes with. I used my [many] roller date and phrase stamps around the outside of the starburst and I also used the "true story" stamp from Studio Calico. Definitely an easy way to get stamping on the page!

I had some fun with my title work and I even found those adorable little crocheted flowers in my stash! I love using up old stuff!! 

You are able to see my stamping better on the close-ups! Be sure to play along this week at Scrap Your Story! :) 

Scrapbook Circle Challenges

I have two layouts to share today! Both are for challenges over at the Scrapbook Circle blog! I know I've said it before.. I love Scrapbook Circle! It is hard to believe, but BOTH of these layouts are from the current  Scrapbook Circle kit! The SAME kit!

This first challenge is to mix up patterned paper! Sometimes it is hard for me to mix patterned papers from different collections and other times it is easy! The papers in this month's kit made it pretty easy! 

I really like how this page turned out! It was fun to do the paper tearing and the cut on my Cameo. I went through my stash and picked out some embellies in the colors of the patterned papers. And again, I love that MS punch that makes those cute hearts! :) 

And oh my goodness.. those Maggie Holmes bows! ADORABLE! I can't believe I hadn't bought those before! I am so glad they came with the kit so I got them! :) 

This one is the current sketch challenge. I stayed pretty true to the sketch. I used lots of goodies from the Fancy Pants Trend Setter collection. The kit came with some goodies, but I added a lot from my stash as well.

I love when I can get more than 2 pictures on a page! Those cute little baggies came with the kit. I used one to house my hidden journaling. Here are some close-ups and the sketch by Diana. 

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Thanks for checking out my layouts and for your sweet comments. Be sure to come back tomorrow for another Scrap Your Story reveal! Have a wonderful weekend! I will be working the entire time....Can't wait for Monday! :) 

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! :) 

Thickers, Thickers, and more Thickers!

I have a very lovely layout to share with you this afternoon! I will start out by saying I got the great inspiration from Paige Evans, Garden Girl at Two Peas in a Bucket. The challenge was for the Scrap your Stash challenge to use your Thickers for a long title. Paige also used the Thickers in a heart shape, and if any of you pay attention to my layouts, I LOVE hearts.. so I had to do the same!

I have slowly been starting to scrap some of my wedding photos. As of now, I am not doing an official album or anything, just scrapping them as I feel like it. I have over 2,000 photos, so I will never scrap them all. This layout consists of one professional photo on the bottom by Behind the Lens Photography and then the top shot was snapped by Ryan's cousin.

This LO was tons of fun to create. I came up with the Bible verse that I wanted to use (btw, I ended up adding 1 Cor 16:14 underneath the black wood veener heart, I forgot!) and then found enough Thickers to use a different one for each word. I used a lot of the new Glitz Love You Madly collection. I love the colors in it! 

Some close ups. Please ignore my giant piece of hair in the photo. As you can see I used the Glitz heart washi tape. 

I tried digging back into my stash of stickers on this page. I kind of hoard the 12x12 sticker sheets and I need to be better about using them. It seems as though they are all very versatile and you can always fine something to go with something else! On this page I used some from the Everyday Eclectic collection by Echo Park and from last year's Valentine's Day collection by Jillibean soup. They were the perfect colors! 

And finally... those adorable little punched hearts! Yesterday when I was at Mike's I found a cute MS punch for 30% off that does the punching on these hearts anywhere on the page! I had to have it!! Thanks for looking and I appreciate your comments! 

Right Now

One of my favorite things about the scrapbooking world is letter stickers! They are just SO much fun and I love when I get to use a lot on a layout, like on this one! :) I used a gray, black, white, and red color scheme with turquoise as my background. I found this cute saying on Pinterest and thought it would go well on this page. The photo is of my husband and I from this past weekend. TFL!

Uh oh.. wrong girl!

I LOVE the papers from Glitz Cashmere Dane collection! I only have two of them that I got from kits and I love their patterns. I will have to get my hands on the entire collection. 

For this page, I wanted to use black and white/gray with teal! I thought that the pop of the red would help explain the title. As always, lots of layering! I LOVE the arrows stamps from Studio Calico, so fun! TFL! 

Thankful for you and a Card

Yes.. you read the title right.. I made a card.. ugh! Not my thing at all!

But first! One of the challenges at the My Mind's Eye blog this month is to create about something you are grateful for! I chose these two photos of myself with my grandmothers from last Thanksgiving. I sure am grateful and thankful for these two beautiful ladies. They both have battled and fought cancer and I am so glad they are here with me today.

I used mostly the Follow Your Heart MME lines. There are only a few things on this page that is not MME -- the "Thankful" (Elle's Studio), twine, butterflies (Studio Calico), and the "family" pennant (OA). I think I did well!

Up next is the card (ugh) that I made for the blog hop going on right now at ScrapFit. The challenge was to use the color inspiration they provided and turn it into a card! If you know me... I HATE making cards. I don't know why..there is just something about it! But! I wanted to be entered for the prize AND I need a card for my niece's baptism this weekend! 

Instead of the burlap, I just used the kraft paper and then added browns, greens, and yellows! Good enough for a baptism card, right? :) She is my niece..so it can be. :) TFL!