Practical Scrappers.
This week our mission was to use a white pen or marker on our projects. This was good for me because it’s not something I do a lt. I have a Signo Uniball white gel pen and I absolutely hate it so I don’t ever use it. Here’s a sneek peak at my layout which is shown today (Tuesday)
and you can go to the Practical Scrappers blog here to see the rest of my layout and the other girls’ projects.
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (1)My latest project for Practical Scrappers.
Tuesday is the day my project goes up on the blog at Practical Scrappers, so today’s the day! This week’s assignment was to use chalks or inks. Go here to see the layout that I did this week.
And now that last week is over, I can show you what I made for my design team assignment. Our mission was to use stamps, which is not something I do very often. Instead of just stamping one image to use on my page, I decided to use it to make my background on my paper. Here’s my page:
I used a Unity Stamp Co. circle stamp and ink in every color of the rainbow to make te background!
Isn’t my little bunny the cutest?
Easter Egg Hunt.
I figured there were enough cards being shown around here lately, I’d show you a new layout I made a couple weeks ago. I’m currently trying to slog through my 2003 photos whenever the urge to scrapbook hits me and I always look in my 2003 file to find a photo first and see if inspiration strikes. I happened to come across these from the March 2003 section and decided to make an Easter layout.
This was a special egg hunt because it was the first one we ever took Summer to. How adorable was this kid at 3 years old? Oh, I love this kid. That dress she’s wearing with the little cardigan was one of my favorite outfits from that year and I actually saved it to somehow incorporate it into my scrapbooks one of these days.
Of course, you know I had to use Stickles somewhere so I made the title sparkly:
The journaling that’s hidden behind tells about how this was her first egg hunt and how scared all the children were because it was held by our local sportsman’s club and for some reason they thought it was a good idea to have TARGET PRACTICE that day…..Really? With tons of little boys and girls running around you want to shoot your guns? Somebody finally asked them to just stop for 30 minutes until the kids were done, and they did so. Geesh. Yes, I live in redneck country. ha ha
Filed under Scrapbook Layouts | Comments (3)She’s All That…
and a bag of chips. Where did that saying come from? Here’s another project I did for my design team assignment last week for Practical Scrappers. Our mission was to use flowers, so I broke out my Primas. I love my Primas.
And here are some closeups:
See that title? It’s a rub-on from Memories Complete. Now, I don’t know if it was because my package of rub-ons was VERY old or whether they’re all just crap, but I will never purchase these again. My layout actually started on the other side of the paper but due to the crappy rub-on that I tried to use for my title the first time not rubbing on sufficiently and only a third of it ending up on the paper and making a huge mess, I had to flip my paper over and use the smoother side. Yes, I know I could have used Undu or something similar to get the rub-on off of there if I really wanted to……but I didn’t really want to. ha ha Anyway, it was irritating. And I will remember it the next time I buy rub-ons, ya know?
This tag is one of my favorite items in my studio. I got it from an etsy shop called Deejan here. She has got some of the THE cutest tags in her shop and I have others I have bought from her with cats and dogs on them. I love her stuff!
It’s true; there is no one like her……
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (0)All Star.
These photos are from a few years back, my daughter’s first year of playing softball. It drives me crazy sometimes how all the sportsy sort of scrapbooking supplies are in green, black, yellow, brown colors. Yuck. I wanted my page to be GIRLY. ha ha So I pulled out this paper from The Paper Studio (from Hobby Lobby–one of my faves) and the title instantly popped into my head.
Closer up views:
I don’t know if you can see that well, but some of the stars I cut from extra paper and popped them up with foam squares so they are 3-D.
Our Wedding Day.
I did this layout with a PageMap sketch from Becky Fleck when she was having a call for an upcoming book or something, and since it didn’t get picked I can show it to all of you now! I decided to use some wedding photos that I took of my step-granddaughter’s wedding in November of last year. The whole thing started because I got that nice circle title diecut from Pebbles, Inc. and wanted to do a wedding page but I had done my own wedding album years ago, so I used Zach and Danielle’s photos instead! This is usually what happens to me. There’s one element that becomes the basis of my scrapbook page, the starting point for me that makes me WANT to make the page. It’s always different. Sometimes it’s the photo, sometimes it’s something else, like in this case a title circle.
This is what I came up with using Becky’s sketch:
You can see below where I took some Stickles and traced the outlines of the flowers just to add to sparkle (cause you know I’m all about the sparkle!)
She had 2 little birds on her sketch and I figured since I was using photos that were all about L-O-V-E that I would put a heart between the little lovebirds. I used more Stickles to outline the heart because it’s a “ghost” heart and is clear acrylic so not real noticeable.
The flowers were cut out of My Minds Eye paper (I think) and I added just a bit of Stickles to the middle of them, and here you can see where I used gorgeous fabric covered brads from K&Co. These brads are really nice quality.
I’m going to put this in a frame (somebody sells 12×12 frames somewhere, right?) and give it to the bride and groom to hang in their new home. Does anyone know where I can buy a frame for a 12×12 page? It seems like I’ve seen them somewhere but can’t remember where. Steer me in the right direction if you know!
Filed under Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (0)I believe I can FLY….
This is the second project I came up with as a design team member over at Practical Scrappers. Our mission was to use brads this week, which is something I rarely do anymore for some reason. I based this layout on a sketch by Heidi over at CropStar. She’s got a sketch contest going on. Sketches are also something I don’t use a lot, so it was nice to get out of my “comfort zone” this week and this is what I came up with.
I used my Martha Stewart butterfly punch to make a butterfly from an old music book page (painted with watered down acrylic paint and Stickles) to tie in with my FLY theme.
I used a Fancy Pants straight pin to coordinate with my butterfly and the whole FLY theme of my page.
You can’t tell it here, but those little Imaginisce mini brads are sparkly!
Title is done with my all time favorite American Crafts thickers (LAX). I LOVE these!
Stop and Smell The Tulips…
I showed you a sneak peek before of my first design team project for Practical Scrappers, and today I’ll show you the whole layout since we’re onto another project over there. Our assignment was to use a diecut machine, so I used the Pazzles and used the Paper Lace CD to cut the butterfly background paper.
What I love about the photo in the layout is this was during Summer’s “Elmo phase” when she absolutely adored him and she’s having him “smell” the tulip…..but it’s actually in his mouth, so it just cracks me up cause he’s eating it instead of smelling it. Strikes me funny, I don’t know why. ha ha
This was the first time I’ve ever used Heidi Swapp ghost letters. I think I like them. I used lime green Stickles to just outline the edges on these.
I can’t resist tying a ribbon (American Crafts) and sticking in some pins (those are from Fancy Pants).
Of course, if you’ve been hanging around here any length of time you know by now that I can’t call it done until I’ve added some sort of bling, so I randomly put some jewels from Michaels and some Kaisercraft pearls onto some of the butterflies.
Do you like?
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbook Layouts | Comment (0)My first project for Practical Scrappers!
Come on over to Practical Scrappers and check out my first project for the design team! Yay! This week’s theme is to use your diecut machine. Go here to see my contribution and make your own layout and link it up!
Here’s a sneak peek:
I Love School.
Here’s another scrapbook page I did using Imaginisce products. AND another way I incorporated my daughter’s schoolwork into a scrapbook page. This photo is her first day of first grade, and you can see that I cut off the top of one of her school worksheets where she wrote her name and included it in my design. So now I can look back and see what her “signature” looked like when she was 6 years old. I love doing this kind of thing in my scrapbooks.
The yellow patterned paper and the chipboard pieces are from Imaginisce’s Teacher’s Pet line.
One of the things I just love about this Imaginisce line is the cute little smiley faces on the chipboard apples and the little notebooks in the patterned paper. Here we have a trio of smiling faces. So cute!
