I'd like to live here...

A quick cozy little house that I made with LYB Twig from Your Scrapbook Stash online store.  I got the bird house at the dollar store!  I love it!  It really gets me into the SPRING mood!

I'm SNR's Featured Artist this week!!!

I was so honored to be asked to write an article as a Featured Artist at Scrapbook News and Review Magazine!!!!!!   Here is a page that I created that goes along with my article, which is about getting out of your scrappy rut!  Head on over there and check it out!!!!!!

Created with the February Cocoa Daisy kit!

WOW...fastest scrapping EVER!

In four hours last night I made 2 pages and 2 cards.  That is a TOTAL record for me!  It helped that I knew exactly what photos I was using and with what papers because I have been thinking about it all week.  But I just sat down and started working, and BAM!  I'm done!  The other good thing is that I used up a lot from my stash, too!

First up are two cards that I created using some of my scraps from the LYB  Twig layouts that I made from Your Scrapbook Stash Store. I'm not much of a card maker. The designs of the cards were inspired by some challenges at some different sites.

On this card, I added an October Afternoon Bingo card for a Bingo Card challenge for the Jenni Bowlin message board online crop.  You just had to use a Bingo card on your page.  I think this Bingo card goes perfect with these papers.

This 2nd card was based on a sketch for the A Walk Down Memory Lane Birthday Bash Crop. You had to use 8 panels on the card.  I added a ticket from Maya Road and the sentiment sticker from Making Memories.  The butterfly is Jenni Bowlin.

Next I did a page based on an add at the Jenni Bowlin MB crop, which had lots of pink circles and a vintage look.  Coincidently, the challenge at AWDML was to use 8 circles, so I combined these as well!  I LOVE how this page turned out!

I actually used a vintage/70's photo action on my photo first before I printed it to give it an older look.  The colors went perfect with a pink and grey combo.

I went through some of my stash and actually used up a few things!  I had some older MME papers from the Lost & Found collections and So Sophie collections that had great pink patterns on them.

I added some blue stitching for contrast to all the pink.

I don't usually use pre-cut titles, but I thought this one fit perfect!  The flower is from K&Co. and the heart trinket is new from MME.

And last but not least, this page is a combo of challenges, too.  I love doing the monthly MME's sketch challenges, so this page is a loose interpretation of that sketch.   I also used it for a challenge at Memorable Seasons to use soild background, a diecut, and RED.  And finally for a challenge at JBS message board to use an oval on your page.  OH, and for a challenge at AWDML to do a celebration page for something other than a birthday or holiday.  PHEW!  I don't usually combine challenges like this, but they all just seemed to fit!

I used papers, brads, chipboard accent, and ribbon from MME, oval from Jenni Bowlin, clear heart from Fancy Pants, and letters from LYB and American Crafts.  Oh and the numbers are from a MME paper and the red flower is from AC, too.

I love the combo of red yellow and blue on a page.  I used a program called Poladroid to make some polaroid-like photos celebrating the day.  It is fun and free!!

Got a lot more planned for this week and a SPECIAL post on Wednesday!!!

Some projects with LYB "Twig"

Erica from Your Scrapbook Stash sent me some Little Yellow Bicycle "Twig" to work with this month, and let me just say that I LOVED working with these papers and embellies!

First I did this two pager about our favorite park in our community.  We go 2-3 times a week at least!  I love the contrast of the blue and green papers against Charlotte's pink shirt.

I did a straight stitch with my machine around the outside of the patterned paper, and then a zig zag around the edge of the cardstock. The big chipboard letters are some old Cosmo Cricket ones which I painted.

I made this flower with some circle punches and just misted and pleated them and glued them together!

I added a bit of glitz to my page with some stickles.  I LOVE these little birds on the patterned paper (which I fussy cut out, of course!)

I am also using these page for a crop at A Walk Down Memory Lane, and for the GREEN challenge at The Paper Variety, whom YSS just so happens to be sponsoring this month!  You MUST go check out these sites, and see all the fun challenges and contests going on!!!!

The next page I just love, too! These photos were from our trip to Lost Maple Park near San Anotnio last fall.  I can't believe how much Charlotte has grown since then!

I did a lot of fussy cutting on this page for the twigs and the leaves and the bird!  Again, these papers are just perfect for fall pages!

I also used a Martha Stewart punch that I got on sale after Christmas with the "twig" or pine needle pattern on it.  It is an edge punch, but I cut off bits of strip and added them here and there on my page.

I used a lot of pop dots of different heights to layer my leaves and my photos, and then I stuck some leave pins in the foam dots behind the leaves!

I have one more project I am almost finished with using these papers, and I can't wait to show you!  TFL!

My First Clip it Up PROJECT!

Please visit the Clip It Up blog to see what I did to make this layout!  There is also a sketch, too!  Would love to have some love, too!  :)  THANKS friends!

Some new lines....SEI and Bo Bunny...

Wanted to share another layout I did with the Corrinne line from SEI!  This page is up on the blog, today!  The colors in this line are SOOO bright and cheery, you just HAVE to do pages about being outside!

I just LOVE this shade of kelly green in these papers!  YES, that is hand stitching around the outside...haven't done that in a LONG time!  :)

My other favorite thing are all the adorable die-cuts...there are SO many in the pack, and they all are double sided with different colors, so you can pick which side you like best!

I also got to play with some of the new BoBunny Ad Lib line, which I got from the owner of the LSS I work at to create some sample layouts with for when they carry the line.

This page I submitted for the final week of the Crowned Contest at Scrapdango.  You had to showcase a "talent" on your page, use and describe your style, and also use a go-to technique.

Charlotte LOVES pens...not crayons, not pencils...pens.  And she LOVES to doodle all day long!

I actually took some of her "doodles" and framed them in the little frames which I had cut out from some of the patterned papers.

My style almost always includes the following things on a page: thin black line outlining photos and elements, photos with white mats, stitching or other texture, dimension with pop dots or large items, a little dab of a bright contrasting color (in this page it's yellow) and a strong visual triangle using the "rule of three".


The technique I chose to use was fussy cutting. I cut out all the frame and their insides from patterned paper and a whole bunch of small circles from the patterned paper as well.

I really love how this page came out and can't wait to use more of these papers!

I'm SOOOO excited to have my first Clip It Up project to share with you on Wednesday!  Stay tuned!



Where is my little girl, Dancing Queen, and Say Cheese!

Let's see....so much going on!

So glad that Crate Paper is doing their monthly sketches again!  I have been in my scraproom organizing a lot lately, and decided I was going to use up some of my stash.  So I used some older lines to do this page about Charlotte.

All of a sudden, I have this little girl....and I used to have a BABY!  People always say it goes by so fast, but I had no idea.....

I loved the idea of journaling in between the strips on the sketch, so that is what I picked up on.  I really don't use a lot of flowers on layous, but i really liked this patterned paper. 


At Scrapdango, there was an ad inspiration challenge as part of the Crowned contest.  Here is the ad:

I used the ad in MANY ways for this page.

First, the idea of a "queen", ,or someone wearing a crown was what sparked me to use these photos, and hence the title.
I used the color palette and the design of the add with two same sized panels next to each other.

I also used the 4-pointed star shapes, and created my own journaling box the same shape as the text boxes in the ad.
Finally, I use the font and colors of the title to make the word "Queen" on my page (but oppisite colors).

And this last page was created for the Throwdown challenge at Memorable Seasons.  You had to use white space, doodling, a mask, and paint or mists.  LOVED this challenge!  I used my February Kit from YSS to make this page, and I LOVE LOVE it so much!

We went to the outlet mall last weekend, and I didn't get a thing for myself, mostly becuase I am pregnant and didn't want to buy any clothes, and I need shoes and accessories like I need a hole in the head, so I didn't get a thing.  But Miss Charlotte and Daddy made out good!  While we were sitting the the food court, I saw the photobooth and asked hubby PLEASE to sit down and take some pics...he HATES doing things like that in public.  This booth had a video screen on the outside and you could see what was going on "behind the curtain".  It was only $3 for 4 pics.  FINALLY he agreed to it, and it was the best $3 I ever spent at the outlet mall.  OK, maybe not, but it's close....

The pics themselves weren't great quality, but what do you expect for $3?  Plus, I think they are great anyways!!

Can't WAIT to go to Archiver's for the day tomorrow with my good friend HEATHER!  Expect lots of projects to be posted next week! 

Get Picky Sketch...

I'm on a roll...when I don't make my own sketches, I love to follow others!  And I just LOVED this sketch at Get Picky.  I already had these photos printed, so when I saw this sketch, I KNEW I had to use it!

These photos were from our trip in Novermber.  I had purchased the Crate Paper Restoration paper pack to scrap my favorite photos with from this trip, and I think this is only the 3rd page I have done....and I have TONS of photos that I want to use!

Anyway, I wanted to go with a different color palette, and the greys and greens of the papers are in the photos, and the yellow adds a nice contrast.  I layered a lot of the fun emebellies and used some Sassafras alphas and some other old yellow alphas I have had forever.  I am happy with the way this page came out!
TFL!

Sketchy Thursdays, Scrapdango, and YSS....

I lost my mojo in January, but I seem to have found it again!!!!! 

I used my Cocoa Daiy February kit (which hubby got me a subscription for for Xmas!) and this sketch from Sketchy Thursdays to make this first page.

For the background, I used a piece of cardboard (appropriate for a LO about a box) and some paint to stamp the lines.  I also used the fabulous bubble wrap stamp and some white ink to stamp the bubble wrap pattern (also appreopriate for a LO about a box!  :)  ). 

I used papers and stickers from Sassafrass and some artisan tapes from Pink Paislee.

I am still doing the Crowned competition at Scrapdango, and this is my week 3 layout:

We had to use lyrics from a list of songs for our title, hidden journaling, and two fonts in our journaling. 

I'm still playing with the MME papers and LOVE them!  I used some of the cute chipboard pieces for this page which add a lot of dimension!

Lastly, I am using up some of my Feb kit from Your Scrapbook Stash (YSS).  We went to Ikea around Thanksgiving time and had a great time shopping and eating swedish meatballs!   When I think of Ikea, I think of clean and simple lines, so that's how I approached this page: clean and simple!

I cut my title on my Cricut using just the Arial Bold font.  Stickers are Studio Calico and flowers are Sassafrass Lass.

Thanks for looking!