Altenew Enjoy the Ride Scrapbook Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

 

Welcome to the Altenew "Enjoy the Ride" Blog Hop!  "Enjoy the Ride" is a brand new scrapbook collection from Altenew with gorgeous florals, leaves, and artsy backgrounds!

You can start the blog hop at the Altenew Blog HERE and see the new collection in the store HERE. 

I have TWO pages and videos to share with you today with this release.  In my first video, I do a run through of all the products for you to see.

I decided to work with the dark green paper for my background and have the bright florals and leaves pop off the page.  I decided to fussy cut these elements instead of using the die cuts because the die cuts have a white border on them, and I liked the look of just the colors on the dark background without the white.

Instead of using mixed media, which I often do, I opted to use the washi tape to get a mixed media look.  I made an area to ground my photo, and also added a bit on the left to draw the eye across the page.

I just added some of the chipboard pieces and letters for my title, plus a few splatters of blue paint to pick up on the blue in the camera icon.

You can watch the process for this page here:

For my 2nd page, I also started with one of the "artsy" painted background papers, this time in a light blue.

I fussy cut MORE flowers and leaves from patterned paper, and this time used some inks and mists on my background.

I layered my flowers and leaves so that they flowed diagonally across the page.

And the chipboard icons were perfect for my photo about our long bike ride!

Watch the process here:

Giveaway Prizes:

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog or Altenew Mixed Media Blog by 9/1/2020 for a chance to win. 

We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Winners Page on 09/03/2020.

Altenew Card Blog

Altenew Mixed Media Blog

Bea Valint

Virginia Lu

Patricia Roebuck

Maryam Perez

Elsie Robinson

Erum Tasneem

Amanda Baldwin

Nicole Watt

Kelly Janes

Lilith Eeckels

Raquel Bowman

Tania Ahmed

Audrey Yeager <---YOU ARE HERE

Kim Jeffress

Special Offer:

We are running a special promotion to celebrate the release.

• Promotion details: Receive a FREE brand new Washi Tape Mini Inspiration Guide with *every order from 8/26/2020 at 12:01 am EDT until 8/28/2020 at 11:59 pm EDT or while supplies last. The free gift will be added to cart automatically. Shop here --> https://altenew.com/collections/all-altenew-products  *Not valid on Altenew Academy class and workshop orders. 

Thank you so much for joining me today and stay scrappy my friends!

Almost 5!

If you have followed my blog for a long time, you may remember that every year around Charlotte's Birthday I do an "Almost _" layout, lifting the design of the page every year.  So here is this year's installment of an "Almost _" layout: Almost 5!

I was inspired by a color combo at Color Me Scrappy.  The green of my daughters shirt was perfect for this combo.  I don't usually use such a bold color for background, but I loved this ombre paper from Glitz "Finnley" and the shade of green was a great match!

I was browsing through some cut files in the Silhouette store and loved this one (cut out of white cardstock). I backed some of the open spaces with patterned paper (Crate Paper Styleboard) and gold vellum (MME Necessities).  Then I stitched around the circle with pink thread.

I fussy cut a LOT of flowers from some MME "Now & Then Mildred" paper, and used some other die cut and vellum flowers (Crate Paper MH Styleboard).

A few other stickers and vellum bits here and there on the page.

Just for fun, here are the other 4 layouts from the past years!

Thanks for stopping by!  Stay Scrappy My Friends!

What's In Your Basket?

Last Easter, we spent the day at Grandma & Grandpa's and the Easter Bunny hid some eggs and baskets there!  Of course the thing the kids were most interested in in their baskets were the candy filled plastic eggs.  And of course you have to compare to make sure you got the same thing as your sibling.

I used the Dear Lizzy Day Dreamer collection for this page and it is based on a sketch by Melissa Elsner.  You can see on my title letters above that I tried to create an ombre effect by using a stamp pad on the white letters, and stamped darker from right to left.

I used an egg cut file from the Silhouette store to create my eggs from white paper and vellum.  Since the flower paper was so busy, I decided to keep the eggs white.

Finally, to ground the photo more, I stitched a large circle in the background.  And for embellies, I fussy cut out some of the flowers and leaves from that floral print paper...yes, it took a while!


Hope you had a wonderful Easter!!!

Stay scrappy my friends!

You Are Just TOO Cute!

Charlotte does this funny thing where she will come up right to your face, point her finger and say "You are just TOO cute" in a very serious voice.  She's a riot...

I used the Wonderful Day collection from Fancy Pants.  I spent a LONG TIME fussy cutting some of those flowers (and some are die cuts).  I actually started the design of this page by just simply cutting elements from the papers and scattering them on the page.  The rest just fell into place, really.

 Do you see those???  I actually busted out some BRADS from my stash!  And I am just loving the Fancy Pants cork elements....

I love the depth that flair adds to a page. Oh and those arrows are fussy cut, too!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have been loving just using pre-made titles for my pages!  You can also see some stitching around the edge of the inside paper.

So this is another page I am entering for the Fancy Pants and Gossamer Blue guest designer challenge!  Wish me luck!  :)

Stay Scrappy my friends!

24 @ 24

On July 19th, my little guy turned two.  TWO!!!!!!!   I can't believe it.  I still feel like he is just a baby.  Yes, birthday pages are in the works...

When Charlotte turned 2, I made a list of 24 things that she could do at that age and made a page about it.  You can see it HERE.  So I had to do the same for Kyler:  24 @ 24:

I used the Fancy Pants Memories Captured line.  I fussy cut out all the circles and layered them from large to small down the page.  I clustered the large ones together, but let the smaller ones fall.  

I LOVE the cork pieces that FP came out with.  I just dabbed some black distress stain on these ones and let them dry.  It's awesome that they are self adhesive, too!

My design didn't allow for a lot of journaling space, so I went around the outside.  After each item, I doodled a little star "bullet" and then added a few more doodled stars around the page.  I had meant to machine stitch with black thread around the pattern paper in the center of the page, but forgot, so just faux stitched (can you tell?).  

Stay scrappy my friends!

15 Years

A few weekends ago I had my 15 year college reunion!  It felt like just yesterday that I graduated.  When I got back together with the girls, we hadn't missed a beat!  :) (That's me in the blue!)

I used the Crate Paper DIY Shop on this page.  This collection is SOOOO different.  You can get some many looks on your pages because the patterns are so versatile.  I went for a more feminine look on this page.

I fussy cut out a lot of flowers and the doilies.  Its easy to make embellishments just by fussy cutting papers, and i love the calm that comes over me while I fussy cut and think about my page design.

I used some gold glittered cardstock and cut a few circles and a heart and tucked them here and there to add some sparkle.  I added a few buttons, too!

My numbers I also cut from patterned paper and I used a small vellum envelope behind my photo to add my journaling!

A somehwat simple page for me, but I'm loving it!  :)

Stay Scrappy my friends!

Let's Take a DIP!

The water in the lakes is still really chilly in Mid-June, yet that didn't stop Charlotte from trying to jump on it! These photos were from last year, on this same date, and the water is MUCH colder this year still!

I used the "Atlantic" collection from Studio Calico for this page.  You should really check it out in the My Scraps & More store!  It is a really great summer/nautical line!  I based this page off of today's sketch at the My Scraps & More sketch blog.

On my background, I wanted a bit more color, so I painted a large yellow circle with some watered down mist.  Then I splattered some Navy and aqua mists.

I had a third photo that just wasn't working in the design of the page (I always have a hard time mixing up portrait and landscape photos on a layout!), so I decided just to tuck it behind the larger photo with a little tab and clothespin to pull out!

I fussy cut out the anchor from patterned paper and added some flair.  I also used a vellum garland from my stash (Crate Paper) and cut apart the stitched circles and glued them around the page here and there.

As you know, I am trying to use up bits of my stash, and the journaling card, flair, and garland all came from my piles!  Last week, I spent a few hours purging and reorganizing my stash so that the things I want to use are close and I can just flip through the bins to see what I want to use. LOVE that I am making myself do this!

Stay Scrappy My Friends!

Papers Issues ftg. Elle's Studio 'Serendipity" *blog hop*

A new theme is up this week at Paper Issues and it is all about "Serendipity" (anyone remember that movie?). Anyways, when I typed in "serendipity" into a google search (because I didn't know how to spell it correctly)  I see that part of the definition says "happy accident".  I LOVE happy accidents when it comes to scrapping, and I wish I could say I had one on this page, but there were no "accidents" this time around...everything was as planned!  Although I did use all Elle's Studio 'Serendipity' products:

I based my page off of a sketch at Skissedilla this week.  I loved the scattered photos on the page, and I had a lot from this little "shoot", so it was perfect! We have a GREAT climbing tree in our new backyard, and Charlotte felt like she was up so high (but she was about 3 feet off the ground) :).

On the background, I painted with a wash of gesso mixed with some light blue paint, then I splattered some yellow and green mists.

Over that, I added some white washi tape and some washi with gold little dots.  Then I took a stamp from Elle's Studio and stamped the "So lucky to have you" sentiment over and over again.

 A few fussy cut flowers and a great scattering of tags and she's done!  Not a lot of paper on this page, but still a lot of little details and colors!

So if you have a project that is "serendipitous", or perhaps one of these other themes, you should link it up to Paper Issues:

Chance
Fate
Destiny
Luck
Fortune
Kismet

OK, now hop on to these other fine ladies blogs and see some more Elle's projects!


Amy T.: http://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/
Audrey: http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com/   <---you are here
Diana: http://designbydiana.blogspot.com/
Leslie: http://leslieashe.blogspot.com/
Melissa: http://www.missygener.com/
Pamella: http://happytobecreating.blogspot.com/





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Oh, and one more thing before I go....another page with the "Lucky You" kit from Paper Issues!  Last time I checked, there was only one kit left!

We have a lot of beautiful gardens at our new house and it is fun waiting to see what is popping up this spring.  I let the kiddos each pick a daffodil and they thought it was the best thing....:)

Sometimes if I am not sure where I am going with a page design, I just start fussy cutting and as I am cutting, I think about it more and more.  That is what I did here:  I just started cutting the flowers and the page took off from there!  I love how awesome the seam binding is for making bows!!

Remember, you can always save 20% off your purchase at the Paper Issues store by using the code AUDREY!

Stay scrappy my friends!

Eeeewwweeee.....worms.....

Yes.  I pick worms.  I have since I was at least 3 years old.  My mother used to take me outside with an old coffee can and a flashlight and we would fill that can!  Then we would use them for fishing.

Well I tried to teach my daughter all about it this summer.  These photos were from back in June, and she pretty much liked the idea, but didn't want to actually touch the worms.  Fast forward to the end of the summer where she is putting worms on a hook all by herself and taking the fish off the line, too.  She even thinks the worms are "so cute".

So I used this months' kit from Scrapbook Circle, which features a lot of the speech bubbles, and am entering this for their speech bubbles challenge, too! I went with a black, brown, and cream color combo because, well, those colors remind me of worms!

I fussy cut the Glitz black hexagon papers and then added strips of the gold airmail washi tape and some strips of the Lily Bee Persnickity papers.  On my title letters, I misted them brown, and noticed the mist wasn't soaking in well.  When I stood the letters up, the mist started to run down and pool at the bottom of the letters.  LOVE the way this turned out...very worm like....

For a pop of color, I used the reddish orange stickers, papers, and die cuts.   I'm having so much fun playing with this kit!  :)

Here he comes!!!!! a new issue of The Paper Cut for GCD Studios

The August issue of The Paper Cut, an online magazine from GCD Studios, is available today!!!!  You are just going to LOVE the projects in there this month.

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

This page featuring the "Flower Child" collection is one of my favorites that I have done for GCD so far! Kyler is *almost* walking, BUT he can get anywhere fast when he crawls!  He darts at me when we are playing, but when its time for a diaper change and I say "get over here", he darts right away!  :)  He is getting so big so fast!

I wanted to show that you can indeed do a boy themed page with papers that may at first glance look a bit girly".  So I picked up on the navy, green and teals in this line and added a bit of kraft for some contrast against the bright colors.

I added a lot of stamped elements from a new stamp set I got from Studio Calico.  I cut the green, swirly elements from patterned papers and layered them together.

On the background, I added some texture with white paint and a scattered square stencil from The Crafter's Workshop.  Then I splattered some bright blue ink that matched the teal in the papers.  The alpha tiled are from The Girls Paperie.

Thanks for stopping by today!!!