Scrapp'n Savvy Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Scrapp'n Savvy Blog Hop! During this hop, you will learn about each teachers classes at the store and be eligible to win FREE class sessions. To enter, you must leave a comment on EACH teachers' blog and then return to the Scrapp'n Savvy blog and leave a comment that you have completed the hop. We will also be sharing with you information about our classes and techniques and tips that we used to create our "HOME" banners!

I teach a regular monthly class at Scrapp'n Savvy called Everday Layouts.  In class we complete two single page  layouts and one double page layout.  I provide tips and ideas for coordinating pages.  We do lots of different and fun techniques including painting, misting, sewing, distressing, and much more!  The pages I create are general in theme so that you could use them for a bunch of different types of photos.  I tend to scrap "moments" rather than "events".  Here are some pages that we have created in class in the past few months:

I will also be teaching a SPECIAL technique class in May called "Misting Magic".  I will be discussing different types of mists, and we will be creating three pages with a bunch of different mist techniques.  You will learn a LOT about this medium and also get a bottle of mist in your class kit!

Now onto my banner:
I decided to go with a bright color palette that would be perfect for year round and that could brighten up my space.  I went with a bright sunshine yellow, teal blue, and moss green.  Then I added some pops of red with paper and paint on the hearts.  On each tag, i typed up some quotes about "home" and glued them in strips.

I covered each letter with paper, inked the edges and outlines the letters with a black pen.  Then I added some crackle medium here and there for some texture.
For the muslin flower, I stamped with with a texture stamp with black StazOn ink (so it would run when I misted it) and then misted it with yellow mist.  I also wrapped each letter in some areas with black embroidery thread.

This felt bird I misted with green mist and covered the wings with paper.

On the acrylic bird, I stamped with with StazOn and painted the wings blue.  Both of the birds came from a Basically Bare pack of bird embellies.

More tags and detail of the crackle on the letter.

And finally the twine butterfly...

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Be sure to comment on each of the blogs listed below for your chance to win a free class!  Winners will be chosen April 4th.

Scrappn’ Savvy Blog- http://www.razzilldazzilltime.blogspot.com/

Millie Jones- http://generationswithmillie.blogspot.com/

Audrey Yeager- http://www.audreysreflection.blogspot.com/

Heather Leopard- http://www.thespottedleopard.blogspot.com/

Terri Burnette- http://thepaperassylum.blogspot.com/

Leslie Parlette- http://designsdessertdisasters.blogspot.com/

Too Shabby?

For my class this month at Scrapp'n Savvy, I decided to do something different for me!  Last month I used the American Crafts Chap line and did some boy pages. This month I decided to go all girl and do a few "shabby" pages using the Bazzill line Vintage Market Place, by Margie Romney-Aslett.  I just loved the piece of paper that had the large chevron prints alternating newsprint and girly colors.  So I cut the whole piece of paper into the chevron strips and made two pages with it.

While working with these colors, I couldn't stop thinking about Charlotte's birthday last year, so I decided to use some photos that I hadn't scrapped yet.  We made this birthday hat together and also the cupcakes, so nothing was really a surprise for her.

I cut some circles out of some of the patterned paper and folded and stitched them to make this banner.  The flags, die cuts, and sequins all came from some old Girl's Paperie stuff that I had...it matches perfectly with the Bazzill line (of course b/c it is the same designer!)

On the chevron strips, I machine stitched down the middle to show off the zig-zags a bit more.  I splattered the background with green mist and then threw some pink sequins on the page.

So on this next page, I used the newsprint pieces of the chevron paper to create the layered piece below.  On Saturday, Charlotte attended her first birthday party (for a friend).  It was a batman theme party (whom she doesn't really know), but wanted to get all dolled up with her glasses and bracelettes.  We had a great time!

In keeping with my "shabby" style, I added some lace under the chevron pieces. I fussy cut some roses from the paper and added them peeking out from the chevron and at other places on the page, too.

And finally, we always do one 2-pager in my class, and I decided to work with the MME Miss Caroline collection.  I loved the soft pastel colors and thought it would be perfect for a page about Easter.  These are photos from about a year ago (look at how much Charlotte's hair has grown from this page below to the previous layout!).   I have so many photos of Easter activities from last year that I MUST get done before this Easter!  :)  This was an Easter Egg hunt that we did with our Mom's Group in a local park.  Charlotte was so serious about going around finding as many eggs as she could!  :)

After I laid out all the papers and photos on my white cardstock, I decided that my background needed a bit more texture.  SO, I bought some lace by the yard at the craft store and just stitched it onto the white cardstock.  I love the texture that it adds to the page!

I fussy cut a LOT of papers, including the scalloped borders and these flower-shaped things.  Other than that, the layout is pretty simple!

I am really in love with these pages, and overall, I think they are "Not Too Shabby".  (Get it?)

I have THREE of these kits left for creating the three layouts above.  If you are interested, let me know! Thanks for stopping by today!

A few oldies to share...

I have a pile of almost finished layouts in my scrap space and I finally sat down the other night and got some of them done.  Most of them only needed a bit of journaling.  Why do I stall so much with the writing?????

Anyways, this first page I actually just created in the past week and we did it at my class the other day at Scrappn' Savvy. I am so in love with this Head Over Heels collection by Lily Bee.

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Charlotte finally started riding her tricycle by actually pushing the pedals and steering instead of using her feet! It takes FOREVER to just get around the block, but we do it!  :)

I found a free bicycle svg file and cut it out using SCAL and my Cricut. I painted it with a little bit of silver paint to give it some sheen.

These next few pages were inspired by a crop at Cocoa Daisy back in November.  I started them during the crop but just finished them the past few days.

This one was based on a sketch by Vicki Boutin.

When we were in Gatlinburg last fall. Keith and I got about a half an hour away from the kids as we went up on the skylift while my SIL and BIL watched the kids.  It was the first 30 minutes that we had been without kids together!!!!  :)  We didn't know if we wanted to go back down, but we did!  :)

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Anyways, lots of fun Studio Calico papers and American Crafts embellies on here.  It's hard to tell, but I have some Studio Calico cloud rub ons under the title.

I also used some of the Studio Calico tissue tape trim to make this flower and used my iTop and some Amy Tan fabric paper to make the brad!

And this lat one I'l  share today is also from the Cocoa Daisy crop.  I think the challenge was to use holes on your page and a grid.  On 11/11/11 I took 11 photos and just did a simple grid design for the page.  Not many papers and embellies here since there are so many photos.  Everything is Lily Bee, except the twine which is from The Twinery.

(yes that's my naked daughter with a bucket on her head right near the edge of the pool)

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OK, back tomorrow with another group of layouts!  And please don't forget to vote for me for round 3 of the layout contest!!  CHECK THE POST HERE.

Lily Bee for my class...not just for girls!

Since I had a little boy, I have really been drawn to boyish lines OR trying to find ways to make non-boyish lines look boyish!  And that was the challenge I had with this Lily Bee Head Over Heels line. 

I chose this line to use in my upcoming class at Scrappn' Savvy.  When I hold a class, I try to do a mix of pages, and I know in the past I have leaned a bit more towards doing girly pages!  But now I have have trying to balance it a bit more and create boy ones, too! 

So here is my first page, which is indeed, girly.  My mom came to visit in October and she and Charlotte were in the bathroom while my mom was getting ready, and they both came out with a whole bunch of "gump gump" on (that's what Charlotte calls Makeup!  :)  ). 

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I put my circle punch to work on this one.  I love all these papers together...the colors are just so bright and fun.  Of course I spent like 30 mins moving the circles around to get the colors distributed like I wanted!  :)

I fussy cut some of the doilies from the doily paper and tucked them in here and there and added some pearls to the center.  For the journaling block, I used some lined paper from the Memorandum collection.

And now for my boy page!  I've decided that you can add the color Navy to anything and it will make it boyish!  :)  I picked the orange, teal, and grey from the Head Over Heels line, added some accents of navy, and *poof*, I had a boyish page (well there was a bit of designing in there, too!). This page is based on a sketch by Liz at The Scrappiest and is one of the sketches we are using for the Sketch-A-Thon at Memorable Seasons this month!

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I did some light stamping in the background with a text stamp from Stampin' Up and splattered some paint.  It was a bit plain after I added my papers and photos, so I added some buttons for a bit more fun.

My little guy is getting so big.  He love to wrestle with his stuffed toys on his playmat!  He is rolling over all the time and is starting to get his legs under himself and push....he's gonna be a mover! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Chevrons and Hexagons, and Amy Tan for my LSS!!!

This month for my classes at Scrappn' Savvy (my LSS), we are going to be using the Amy Tan line by American Crafts!  Although we don't have the entire line in the store, I still love the bits and pieces that I got to work with!

At Practical Scrappers today, there is a feature post about the trend of using hexagons and chevron prints on layouts.  I LOVE this chevron printed FABRIC paper in the Amy Tan collection!

The filmstrip element I printed off the internet, then cut the frames out and backed it with a transparency! I love the way it came out! I added this element in for a challenge at Scrapdango this month.

 (don't know what's up with these wonky colors.....)

I also used some polka dot fabric paper, too!  I die cut the title area with my Big Shot and then hand stitched around the outside in orange thread.

This next page is also for my class and based on a challenge at Scrapdango, too!  The Amy Tan line has these adorable little leaves that I stitched onto my page with bright pink thread.

It's hard to tell, but I stamped a few more flourishes on the page to make it flow across the page.

I also love how I did the title on this one, too!

And last but not least, we are doing this page that I posted a few weeks ago!

My class in this Thursday, and even if you can make it to class, call and sign up for a kit!!!  The store phone is 281-288-7289.  There are only 5 left!!!  THANKS!

Lucky, to be 35, and Potty Training....

Kind of a hodge podge of layouts today!

I'll start with a contest going on at Page Maps.  I love her sketches so much, but don't use them enough!  I was really drawn to this sketch.

I used some papers from Niki Silvils and My Little Shoebox that was given to me by the Clip It Up girls....THANKS!

 My birthday was fun this year!  We went to Tarpin Springs (Fla.) which is a Sponging area.  There are boats you can go out on and watch them dive for sponges, plus there are all kinds of sponges to buy.  It is also a greek town, and there are TONS of great restaurants, and that's really why I wanted to go there!  :)  We had an awesome lunch, although it would have been better without the sun drenched, tired kiddos!  :)

These colors aren't ones I would normally choose, but I really like the way they work together with my photo in this case.  I wanted to highlight the title, so I stitched a few circles around it.

The cut outs for this party line are so adorable.  I added some baker's twine to this present and tied a little bow.

Next up I did this page for Color Combos Galore. 

 This was the THIRD try on this page!  I got these new Ranger paint daubers that I wanted to use.  I bought white, yellow, and green, but the yellow and green just weren't matching my papers, so I just used the white to paint my title and the butterfly and journaling area.

I did a TON of stamping on the background with Versamark and then some light black.  The "bee" stamp I actually stamped with the paint dauber and it turned out pretty well.

Did you know that Bazzil came out with patterned papers??  These are a few of them.  They also have these pleated cardstock strips which are very cool to work with. My LSS carries them because Karries' brother is the owner of Bazzil!  :)  I think we are going to do this page in my class next month at Scrappn' Savvy.

Lastly, my LSS got in the Simple Stories Destination line and these papers are SO awesome!  There are cards and blocks of all sizes so you can put them into page protectors of different sizes!  I would love to make an entire travel album with these papers....now I just need to plan a trip!  :)

There was one sheet that just fit this sketch from Sketchabilities so well.

 I decided to use photos of Charlotte reading on the potty.  Traveling themed papers....potty training...it works, right?  :)  

I have no idea where she got the idea to read on the potty.

We are gonna do this page in my class, so people can use whatever photos they want, obviously.

I made some simple layered circles and also stitched some circles with black thread on the paper.  I also used my cricut (gasp!) to make the black flourish at the bottom of the photos. 

Thanks for looking today!  Tomorrow is Sketchy Thursdays reveal!  YAY!!!!