Well I've been scrapping

I felt the need for something different.  So I went back to some childhood pictures that I had waiting for pages.  So here they are.  The first one is actually the last one I did (this evening) I used BG's Color my Silly papers.  I used Tim Holtz's foam stamps, ranger paints, cardstock, and watercolor paper.  I used a paint brush as an embellishment.  It was a fun a different page!

The second page is the first one I did two nights ago.  I used a Close to my Heart paper and embellishment kit that I got free awhile ago.  I love how the softer colors work with the picture of me as a toddler.  I believe the dress I'm wearing in the photo was one of two I wore for my Great Grandma's wedding.  She choose one dressed and her Husband to be My great Grandpa Jake choose the other. 

The last page is the one I did yesterday I used the new Grace collection from Close to my heart.  I paired it with some prima flowers, making memories brads, and American Craft Thickers that I recolored with  Close to my heart Twilight ink to match the pages.  I had fun doing something a little different and I am happy with the out come.  Pin It Now!

Minnie and me

This is another layout that I completed over the weekend. I was excited to do this one so excited I bought the Mickey Mouse gems about a month ago thinking I developed the picture with my last batch of pictures. I was highly disappointed when I found out I didn't, but it worked out and I created a pretty good layout.

Materials: Patterned paper (sandlion, Making memories), Stickles and paint (ranger), Ribbon and thread (unknown), Gems and punch (EK success), Cardstock (unknown and Bazzil), Letters (Cricut Jasmine)

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Actually Scrapbooking

Well I have been very busy over the last couple of days getting ready for a Labor day picnic my mom was having on Saturday, but I had gotten some new pictures to play with and yesterday I had the day to work for the most part undistrubed in my scrapbook room. So I put some finishing touches on some layouts that I will show at a later time and started and finished this layout of my last ATC group gathering. I took inspiration from the group and what its about to create this layout. The vintage looking paper, the vintage ribbons, the over all feeling of friendship and that feeling I get from creating something for the group ( I used the title and the crowns to demonstrate that). So here are the Queens of the Vintage Room. A wonderful group of ladies that have accepted me as an artist and a friend. They are a truly amazing group of women. I can't wait to see then later this month.

Products used: Patterned paper (prima marketing), vintage buttons (unknown), Vintage Ribbon (unknown), Key, metal butterfly, paper embellishment, gold bird(making memories), Mini Masks, distress inks, distress stickles, grundge board letters, metal "altered" charm (Tim Holtz), exopy stickers (unknown), Heart (chatterbox). Pin It Now!

Memories of Papa?

My Papa died when I was very young so I took a moment today to complete this layout and journal about not being able to remember him. I couldn't think of any other direction to go with this picture because I don't remember anything. I don't remember how he smelled or laughed, or how he sounded and it was holding me back from creating so when all else fails write what you know and I know the pain of not remembering someone who was so dear to me. The man who spent everyday with me while my mom was at work. My papa. The layout itself is based on a sketch for a contest on Page maps . I love sketchs and contests are pretty cool so wish me luck. Pin It Now!

Awesomely 80s mom layout

Well I have been trying to do something with these photos for awhile and then last night I was bored out of my mind and went into the scrapbook/art studio and stared at this for awhile. I had these pictures on a paper from the same line which was neon pink with blue and green splat marks. I liked it but didn't love it so I kept moving it to another sheet of background paper. Until I fell on this one pictured below. I liked it but didn't love it yet. So I took out my Tim Holtz distress inks my mini misters and my blending tool and went work.
This is what the background looked like before.

Then here it is after I went to work. I chose blue and greens because the chair my mom is sitting on has blue and green in it. After I used the mini mister to allow the ink to blend and travel I dried it using my heat gun and then iron it flat with an iron on a low setting.

Completed page

This is an altered prima flower. The flowers were oringally white, but that didn't work with what I was doing so I took my ink pad smeared it on my non stick craft mat. Used my mini mister to get the ink to bead up then put the flower in face down. I then dried it with my heat gun and repeated the process until the color was where I liked it. I then stamped in black soot ink a design from a stamp set. Added a brad and done.

And lastly this is what I enjoy most about my scrapbook room. It is a place were my pets (most oftenly the cats) come to relax with me. When I completed the page I looked to the window where Raven had been sleeping most of the morning and I found him and Kricket curled up together cuddling. It brought a smile to my lips. Pin It Now!

Mother Layout

Let me start off with this is one of my all time favorite pictures of my mom and I. I knew as soon as I saw it that it was going to be an 8x10 so I sent it to cvs along with some other childhood photos and it was the first layout I did yesterday at my Former boss lady and one of my favorite creative lady's house. I kept looking at it and knew something was missing that I didn't have with me so I put it aside and moved on to another layout. Then I this morning I went to Morethenjustscrapbooking.com and saw that they had a sketch challenge for this month that looked really close to my already partly done layout. So I put the sketch into paint and flipped a couple times to get something closer to my layout then added some key elements (the swirl from Tim Holtz after being inked and the flower and button from Prima Marketing). I pretty please with the final product!! Enjoy below are the original Sketch and the one I got from playing around.
Original





Papers from Adorn It
Flowers from Prima Marketing
Button from my Button Jar
Ink from Color box
Grunge Board from Tim Holtz Pin It Now!

A very special gift

I'm proud to complete this. It is a special gift that I'm going to send to my grandparents in NC that I haven't seen in over 15 years. I just got back in touch with them a week ago and I thought this would be the perfect little gift that I could send so they can enjoy. It was all done with Basic Grey Papers, and the album is about 3 1/4x 3 1/2 very small but perfect to mail. It is from Close to My Heart. Pin It Now!

Inspired

Well I met this wonderful woman through one of my atc groups. And she sent me this awesome box of scrapbook stuff. I couldn't believe some of the stuff that was in it. She said she wanted to see what I created using the stuff. So a day later i created this page. I don't have very many picture from when I worked at the scrapbook store, but I found this one amoung my stuff and wanted to do something with it. So this page was born. The patterned paper was from my gift box the rest was from my stuff. I'm finally using stuff that I insisted on buying probably over a year ago. I'm a pack rat. Thats all for today. I have to take pictures of another layout to share. So more yet to come. Pin It Now!

Cat Crazy

Well it has been a little while since I have done actual scrapbook pages, but I say down today and did some!! Which is exciting for me cause I have been feeling scrap block for a while now. Today the pages I did were awesome!! I should introduce my newest muses while I'm at it. Meet Raven (my black cat) and Smokey (my brother's cat). They were found last spring with their two sisters in our shed last year. Their mother was a stray I had seen hanging around our yard. I was pretty sure she was pregant but I need thought she would have her litter in the shed. My brother went into the shed and heard scratching around on one of the top shelves we have found oppsums in our shed in the past so he when he found the box it was coming from he was extremely nerveous of what he might find, but he opened the box anyway and found four tiny kittens. He brought them in and claimed Smokey the only grey cat (because he was different). The rest were black. I fed them, taught them to potty and protected them from the rest of my crazy animals. Basically I bonded with them!! I kept bugging my dad trying to convince him to let me keep one. I know that I have a zoo and part of me didn't really want to take on another animal but I fell in love with Raven and I am sooo glad I kept him, because he is my best buddy. He cuddles with me all the time. When I'm in scrapbooking he sits with me sometimes he even sits on what I'm trying to do. He is mine which means when I move out he leaves with me, unlike the rest of my animals which are really my parents. So alot of my current pages are my newest buddy!!










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Finished Project

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My lastest layout

Here is a layout I did for a sketch challenge. I won the last one so wish me luck!!

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