A Book Of Lists

Hello my scrappy friends. Recently I've heard a lot of ideas for capturing all the fun and excitement of the upcoming holiday season; daily journals, a picture a day, etc. And while I like all of those projects, they don't seem attainable for me...I'm just being realistic. But I found another fabulous and interesting way to document the joy of the season, lists!

Yep that's right, lists. Now I will admit I love to make lists, yes it's part of my Type A personality, but these list are more fun than the general "to do" lists. Topics included in this file are:' The perfect Thanksgiving meal does not include', 'The people in my life who are probably the most thankful for me', 'The perfect winter day includes', 'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas when', 'Childhood Christmas traditions I'll always remember', and many more. You can find this ebook at Ella Publishing and lots of other great stuff.

Now confession time, I had to scrap the idea of a tutorial today when I realized I didn't really know how to use my Cinch. It turns out I need a little more practice, lol. Anyway, here is the final product.


I think it will be really fun to not only answer these questions myself, but to ask family members to do it as well. I can either add pictures to this book and create a "real" mini album or remove the lists and add them to my scrapbook.

Details:
Pattern Paper: My Mind's Eye "Holly Jolly"
Cricut: Kate's ABC's (book, lists) cut at 1.25-inches and Martha Stewart All Occasion Cake Art (A, Of) cut at 1-inch
Fancy Pants Rub-ons
Aqua Mist Grosgrain Ribbon from Papertrey Ink
White Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot
Prima Eline Pearls
Twine from Papertrey Ink
Star Charm: My Mind's Eye Bits and Pieces

I hope you enjoyed this project. Perhaps you can create something similar to store all the wonderful memories and traditions that we create during the holidays. Thanks for stopping by!

Fall Blog Hop

Hello scrappers! I'm so excited to be a part of The Bugbytes Blog Hop! Today you are going to see so many amazing and inspirational projects from my fellow Design Team members. For my project I decided to go out of my comfort zone and create a fall inspired home decor project.


I purchased the wreath and leaf collection at a craft store, I'm sure you can find something similar near you. I love those little pumpkins and berries!


Then I pulled out what I believe to be the best Cricut cartridge made in a VERY long time...the Close To My Heart Art Philosophy cart. This cartridge is packed with all kinds of images, 3-D flowers and a font. I haven't done any quilling before but I really wanted to try it and I figured this would be the perfect project to do that.


The flowers were cut at 3, 2.75, 2.5 and 2.25-inches. The longest part of this project was rolling all the flowers. I would cut several and then roll them while watching TV. After I finished that I started adding them to my wreath, usually in little groups of 3. Last I added the leaves and some of the little pumpkins and ta da, you have a fall home decor project...pretty simple, right?!


I finished my wreath by adding the 'FALL' banner. I used my Crop-A-Dile to make the holes and add eyelets.

Details:

• Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge: pennant and layer cut at 2.75-inches, FALL cut at 2.25-inches
• Pattern Paper: American Crafts
• Imaginisce Petal Roller
• Divine Twine
• Martha Stewart Hot Glue Gun
• Colorbox Brown Chalk Ink
• Stampin' Up Eyelets
  

If this is your first stop I encourage you to go to The Bugbytes and see the rest of the projects from the design team...there's even a giveaway! Here's the list so you can hop along!

Jen from 3catsandabug

Lori from scrappinmystressaway

Jeannie from nonnasscraps

Audrey from cuteandsome

Kymberlee from thepapermidwife

Allison from goodybagdiva

Kelly from kamscraftyplace

Debbie from debseclecticthoughts

Carole from onmycraftroomwall

Kate from sassyandscrappykate YOU ARE HERE!

Amylynne from amysscrappyspace

Mila - M&M from milamemories

Dayna Sabrina from sabrioletdesigns

Elizabeth from 217creations


I hope you enjoyed this project and I appreciate you hopping by! I look forward to seeing you again. If you have any questions please let me know.

Custom Background Paper

Hey scrappers! I have my third and final layout to share with you today inspired by a class from boot camp last week. This class focused on creating unique and custom backgrounds with stamps from home. I have to admit, I don't know how often I'll do this because I have so much pattern paper that I need/want to use, but it's a great technique. And depending what your stamp and ink stash looks like you can have a lot of fun and express your individual creativity.

I started by picking out the stamps and colors of ink I wanted to use. I stamped a light polka dot background and then the flowers over that. I tried to layer colors and flowers in order to fill in most of the white space.

Details

• White Cardstock: Bazzil (smooth)
• Pink Pattern Paper: Fancy Pants 'Wishful Thinking'
• Pink Houndstooth, Black Stripe and Polka Dot Pattern Paper: My Mind's Eye 'Blush'
• Stamps: Polka dot-Inkadinkado, Sweet Threads Set-Hero Arts and Basic Grey
• Apron Lace Border Punch by Fiskars
• Stickers: Crate Paper
• Buttons: Papertrey Ink
• White Embroidery Thread

Thanks for stopping by, I hope to see you again soon.

Scrappin' and Stampin'

Hi scrappers! As some of you may have seen in a previous post, this past week I took part in an online scrapbook boot camp. I got a chance to learn some new techniques and wanted to share one of those with you today. The class I'm referencing today was taught by Nichol Magouirk and it focused on incorporating word stamps inn our layouts. I have done this in the past, but I wanted to share what I created for this particular challenge.

I started by picking out stamps that I thought would be appropriate for my pictures and the story I wanted to tell. Since this layout focuses on my nephew's birthday party the sentiment 'celebrate' was perfect.


In the picture above you can see the 1.5x12-inch border strip in the middle of my layout. I started by stamping in the middle and then worked my way out on either side. For this particular layout I wanted to use my stamps as a subtitle. I think in the future I'd probably make the strip thinner. Or perhaps the layout just seems too busy, but either way it's still fun...and it's done! LOL!

Details:

• Kraft cardstock: Bazzil
• Pattern Paper: Echo Park 'Little Boy'
• BIRTHDAY: Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art cut at 1-inch with shadow
• BOY: Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art cut at 1.75-inches
• Stars: Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art-cut at 1, 1.5 and 1.75-inches
• Stamps: Technique Tuesday 'Real Life By Ali Edwards' and 'Kids Are Cool by Ali Edwards'
• Ink: Jenni Bowlin-Seed Packet, Spice Tin and Chili Powder
• Vellum: Papertrey Ink
  
• Buttons: Papertrey Ink
• Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have been inspired to create! I always appreciate feedback and I'm happy to answer any questions. I hope to see you back here soon.

Smore Fun

Hi scrappers, how are you? I hope you all have been enjoying your summer, I certainly have! Although it took awhile for summer to show up here in the NW it eventually came around and it's been beautiful. My family, which included myself, my parents and my brothers and their families spent an amazing week at the beach. Oh and how could I forget my beautiful girl Ellie? She loves the beach, especially running, jumping and cooling off in the ocean. The sun was shining and we had a blast! Our evenings were filled with games, a movie and a fire every night...yes, every night. And if you have a fire, you have to have smores!

This layout tells the story of my nephew creating his own "perfect" smore. Personally I like a nice crispy brown smore that's nice and gooey on the inside, but Micah just likes to burn his!


For the left side of my LO I cut that cute little car and sign post from the 'Campin' Critters' cricut cartridge. Instead of cutting out sentiments on my cricut I decided to use stamps. I love how my sign post turned out. To rough it up a little I crumpled it, used my Tim Holtz distressing tool and then inked the edges.


The die cuts on the right hand page are from 'Campin' Critters' as well. I created a chipboard effect on my title by cutting multiple layers of each letter and adhering them together.


A side view of the left page. Here you can see the dimension and texture on the car. I used buttons for the wheels and rhinestones for the lights on the front of the car. I also adhered some vellum to the car to create windows.


A close up of my sign post, didn't it turn out great. I'm really happy with it. I thought about embossing it for more texture, but decided against it. I was afraid the embossing might make it difficult to read the stamps.


I added a couple of orange pearls and twine to the title.


I'm hoping you can see the dimension of the marshmallow in this picture. Aren't those little guys around the fire just too cute! Such a fun cartridge.

Details:

• Pattern Paper-Fancy Pants 'Beach Bum'
• Solid Cardstock-Papertrey Ink
• Campin' Critters Cartridge-bear cut at 3-inches, porcupine cut at 2.75-inches, car cut at 3.75-inches
• Create A Critter-fire cut at 2-inches
• Mickey Font Cartridge-"smore" cut at 2-inches
• Holiday Cakes Cartridge-"fun" cut at 2-inches
  
• Stickers-Crate Paper
• Brads-Sassafras
• Stamps-Technique Tuesday 'Get Outside' and 'A Date With Ali' by Ali Edwards and 'Noah Alphabet' by Maya Road
• Scallop Punch-Stampin' Up!
  
• Old Lace Glimmer Mist
• Buttons-Stampin' Up!
• Ink-Jenni Bowlin
• Deco Art Snow Writer (white) on marshmallow
• Glossy Accents
• Pearls-Prima
  

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you've been inspired to create a layout of your own summer fun. See you soon.

Following A Scrapbook Layout

Hi scrappers! I'm so happy and honored to tell you all that I'm a Design Team member for the Bugbytes now! I feel honored to have this opportunity. Please head over there because all the DT members are so talented and I know you will be inspired.

For my first post I thought it would be fun to work with a sketch, so I chose the layout below from Page Maps. This is my take on the layout, of course there are multiple variations. The great thing about sketches is that you can switch things up to make it work for you.

Below is a picture of the sketch:


This is a picture of my finished layout...well finished as it can be without my pictures and journalling added. I normally include both of those, but this page was made in anticipation of the photos I'll take on my vacation. I'm really looking forward to spending a week at the beach with my family!


Alright, here you can see the die cut pieces I created for my layout. On the right is a rough idea of how I thought I would lay out my page. I didn't end up using the flip flops and sunglasses (but they are too cute and I know I'll use them for something) because I just couldn't find a good place for them.


I tried something new on this page. I stamped the sentiments on my journalling page and then colored them in with some Copic markers. I really like the idea of combining coloring and scrapbooking, so you'll probably see more of this from me.


To create another embellishment I used my circle punch to cut out one of the pattern circles. I love this paper and will probably use a bunch of these circles in the future to create a funky background for another layout. I have to admit that cutting up this paper was kind of difficult. I'm sure some of you can understand how difficult it can be to cut up paper you really like.


Okay, so my take on the sketch...I cut a similar "top note" shape to mat my pictures on. I placed my journalling card on the right just like the sketch, and stamped my title. Instead of using a scallop-edge on the horizontal piece of cardstock, I chose to use more of a wave shape, this helps to continue the beach theme of the layout. I added two embellishments, same as the sketch. A sticker page was included in this paper pack and it had a wonderful blue flourish, so I added that to the top of my page. Again, this image reminds me of water and continues the beach theme.

Details:

• Brown Polka Dot Pattern Paper-October Afternoon "Fly A Kite"
• Pattern Paper-Simple Stories "100 Days of Summer"
• Solid Cardstock-Papertrey Ink
  
• Pack Your Bag Cricut cartridge Seagull cut at 3-inches, Whate cut at 2.5-inches
• Elegant Edges-Top Note shape cut at 6-inches
  
• Peachy Keen Critter Face Assortment (medium size)
• Brads-My Mind's Eye
• Twine-Papertrey Ink
• Stamps-'Perspectives' by Technique Tuesday and Ali Edwards, 'Kite Tails' by October Afternoon, 'Schoolhouse Backdrops' by Lawn Fawn
• Ink-Jenni Bowlin
• Copic Markers-R27, R29, Y15, Y19
  
• Glossy Accents
• White Sakura Gelly Roll Pen
• EK Succes 1 3/4-inch circle punch

Thank you for taking the time to look at my scrapbook page today, and thanks to Pam for adding me to your incredibly talented design team! Please visit my blog to see what else I'm working on.

Summer Card Camp-Week 4

Hi scrappers! This is a super quick post because I'm leaving for vacation in the morning. It's week 4, the final week of card camp and I wanted to give this color combo a try...even if I didn't have a lot of time to work on it. The colors this week remind me of the beach, which I love!


Fun combination, right?!


The card is 5 x 5-inch card. The small square are 1 and 1/2-inches. I also used a 1-inch circle punch.

• Solid Cardstock-Papertrey Ink
• Pattern Paper-Basic Grey "Sweet Threads"
• Thickers
• Buttons-Papertrey Ink
• Martha Stewart heart punch
• Brads-My Mind's Eye
• White embroidery floss
• Mini Paperclip-Papertrey Ink
  

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week and I'll see you all very soon. Oh and next Tuesday, July 25 I have a fun announcement. I love comments!

Design Team Submission

Hi scrappers! I hope you had a nice weekend.I've got a really fun card to share with you. I decided to "throw my hat into the ring" and submit a project for a chance to be on Robyn, My Pink Stamper's Design Team. I'm sure she will have lots and lots of entries, so my chances are pretty slim, but why not give it a shot?! She gave us the following guidelines:

Challenge: Make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite Cricut cartridge using the following colors......

Orange
Brown
Turquoise
Green

I just happened to get an order in last week from Two Peas In A Bucket which had a stamp that was perfect for this color combination. We are also able to add 1 color of our choice, so can you guess what I picked? Red, of course!


Aren't they the cutest little monsters?! I colored them with my Copics. The card is 3 and 3/4-inches squared. I created it by welding 2 postage stamp shaped images together on my Gypsy. I colored the balloon twice so I could cut 1 out to pop up on the card. I also added Glossy Accents to the balloon.

Details:

• Kraft cardstock-Papertrey Ink
• X-press It cardstock for Copic coloring
• Pattern Paper-My Mind's Eye "Fly A Kite"
• Tiny Tags Die-Papertrey Ink
• B is for Boy-welded card cut at 9-inches
  
• Stamp-My Pink Stamper and Stamping Bella "Monstahbash"
  
• Copic Markers-sorry I forgot to write them down
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and Jenni Bowlin
• Spellbinders Nestabilities-Large Labels
  
• Glossy Accents
• Sakura Gelly Roll Pen-white
• Twine-Divine Twine (I think, sorry)

I'm happy with my card, even if it doesn't get me a spot on the design team. I'm also pretty impressed with my ability to stay within the color scheme. Color challenges can be, well, challenging! Lol! If you're interested in submitting your own project or want to see what everyone else has created you can check it out here.

Hello...and cards

Happy Easter scrappers! I'm so happy to be back in the blogging world. I picked up this cold/flu nastiness that's been going around and it really wiped me out. And then I had to get back in the swing of things after being out of it for a week or so...what a pain. Needless to say, I'm over it!

It seems as though I lost a lot of creative brain cells while I was sick, so it has taken me longer to get any of my projects done, but at least I managed to complete my Easter cards. I cut out a few people though, lol! What they don't know won't hurt them, right?! Since I had to make quite a few I kept them very simple, but I'm pleased with the results.


I used Kate's ABC's and Elegant Edges to design my Easter card. The card is a standard A2 size.


Solid cardstock (except brown) and ribbon are from Papertrey Ink, the brown cardstock is Bazzil. Pattern paper is from the Echo Park 'Springtime' collection. The rabbit and layers were cut at 3-inches.

Next up is a card for my cousin. She is celebrating her 16th Birthday! Wow, time really flies. Once again I used Elegant Edges on this card. I love that cartridge! The base and frame layers were cut at 4-inches. "16" is from Kate's ABC's and sized at 2-inches.


The solid cardstock is from Papertrey Ink. Pattern paper is from the My Mind's Eye 'Ooh La La' collection. The twine is 'Caribbean' from The Twinery.


Thank you all for hanging in with me. I hope you all have a wonderful Easter. I will be spending the day with my family, both immediate and extended. I'll be at church celebrating and then off to my aunt and uncle's house for food, egg hunts, karaoke, lots of laughter, and then some more food!

I'm on the countdown to the release of the E2! I'm so excited and I know I'll be up all night watching HSN. Thanks for visiting my blog, I hope you saw something you liked and I love to hear what you think. See you back here soon.

Chocolate Easter Bouquet

Hey scrappers, this is Kate from Sassy and Scrappy. I'm happy to be sharing this fun project with you today at She's A Sassy Lady. Wow, haven't the projects around here been amazing! I gotta tell you these ladies are so talented.

Originally when I came up with this idea, I was going to use a tin basket that I found at Target in the dollar section. And then I remembered the picket fence box on the Wrap It Up cartridge and I thought it would be really cute, so that's what I went with.


I sized the box on my Gypsy and basically fit it to page on a 12 x 12 mat. When assembled it makes about a 4 x 4-inch box.


I decided to emboss my fence with the Cuttlebug folder Distressed Stripes. I could have let it be a perfect little white picket fence, but this seemed a little bit more fun and of course adds texture and dimension.


Here's a picture of the box as I sent it through the CB. I basically folded the box and lined up the folder to the edge of the fence and sent it through. It worked perfectly. After embossing I used brown ink around the edges and a light layer over the stripes.


The green layer cuts the grass. If you look closely you'll notice that not all four sides line up correctly. Only 2 of the 4 sides line up. That kind of drives me crazy! Instead of cutting more pieces I decided to just use some green ink around the edges.

A picture of the flowers before I layered and assembled them. As you can see, two of the flowers are cut with pattern paper. I embossed the lilac colored flowers using the Swiss Dots CB folder.


Here are the supplies I used. I found the sticks in the children's art section at Michael's. I applied crackle paint to create a stem. To adhere my flower layers, chocolate candy, and flowers to the stick I used my glue gun. Make sure it doesn't get too warm and melt your chocolate, lol. In order to create added dimension to my flowers I sprayed a little bit of water on the paper. This helps the paper to "move" better which is especially helpful with the thick Papertrey Ink cardstock that I use. Then I just rolled the flower petals around a thin embroidery needle.

Once the fence and flowers were all assembled, I placed some flower foam in the box and created my bouquet. I'm not the best at floral arrangements, so keep that in mind. To finish off my project and add a little more "Easter" to it, I placed some paper grass in the box. I thought it would be fun to put more chocolate in and around the basket as well. I mean, you can't have too much chocolate!


Here is a better look at the fence. I really like the way it turned out.


I love how this picture came out. It just doesn't get much better in my world than flowers and chocolate! Although you can see in this close-up that I probably went a little heavy with the glue gun, but the I wanted that chocolate to stay up there! I really love all the color and layers.


Details:

• Box-Wrap It Up cut at 11.25-inches with layer
  
• Flowers-Mother's Day Bouquet cut at 2, 1.5, 1.25 and 1-inches
• Pattern Paper-Echo Park Springtime Collection
• Cardstock-Papertrey Ink New Leaf and Royal Velvet
• Embossing folders-(Cuttlebug) Distressed Stripes and Swiss Dots
• Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint-Peeled Paint
• Glue Gun
• Flower Foam
• Wood Skewers
• Egg Shaped Chocolate Candy
• Easter Grass
  

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my project today. I hope it inspired you and perhaps you can create an Easter or Spring home decor projects yourself. I'd love to see what you come up with. Thank you Sheila for allowing me to post today, and as always I enjoy your comments! If you have any questions please let me know. Stop my my blog anytime, I'd love to see you.

Happy Happy Everything

Hello scrappy friends! I recently got this paper stack in the mail from Papertrey Ink and I wanted to use it right away. I love the color combination and patterns. These patterned papers match perfectly to PTI's 'New Leaf' and 'Spring Rain'. I love the combination and I thought it would be fun to make two cards with the same color combos and images, but change the background pattern.


I used Nate's ABC's for the umbrellas and boots image. The image reminded me of spring and went perfectly with my color scheme.



Instead of inking my edges, I outlined the umbrella with a blue marker from Stampin'Up.



I initially was going to outline the puddle with glossy accents, but once I started I decided to fill it in all the way. I'm really happy with the results and I think it creates some added interest and dimension.



Here are the two cards side by side. The difference in patterns if fairly minor, but each one really pulls out one of the two primary colors.



A close-up. I love Nate's ABC's, it's a fantastic cartridge! And I'm really looking forward to playing more with Kate's ABC's. I think I'm going to be using it for some Easter cards, so stay tuned for that.

Details:

• A2 size card
• Pattern paper sized at 4 by 5.25-inches
• blue/green layer sized at 4.75 by 3.25-inches
• Images-'Nate's ABC's' cut at 3.5-inches with layers
• Cardstock and Pattern Paper from Papertrey Ink
• Sentiment and Ink (dark chocolate) from Papertrey Ink
• White Twill Ribbon from Papertrey Ink
  
• Sakura Gelly Roll Pen
• Glossy Accents
  

I hope you enjoyed these two cards and will perhaps find some inspiration. I appreciate you stopping by, and as always, I enjoy your comments. If you have any questions please feel free to leave those as well.

What It Means To Love You Blog Hop

Good morning bloggy friends! I'm so excited to be part of my very first blog hop. This hop is all about LOVE and my friend Dawn, aka NurseViper, is the host. If you came to my blog first, please go back and start at Dawn's blog ScrappyRN. You're going to see lots of wonderful projects and of course, blog candy!

Onto my layout...


This layout is all about the people I love and what love means to me. I have learned that even through the most difficult times in my life, my family is always there for me! Their love is unconditional and without fail. The two pictures I chose to use are of my brothers (Jonathan and David), sister's-in-law (Carissa and Hannah) and my nephew, Micah. I wish I'd been able to find a picture of my parents as well because they are truly amazing, but if I added pictures of my entire family it would become a book and not just a scrapbook page, lol!


This is a close-up of the title of my page. I decided to use a button instead of the regular dot for my 'i'. I added a bow with some twine from Papertrey Ink. The stamp is from the set "Turn That Frown Upside Down" by My Creative Time.


I wanted to give you a close-up of the left corner of my page so you could see that grommet/eyelet (which one is right?) I attached to the bottom of the page. I did the same at the top left and threaded twine through. In this picture you can also see a close-up of the heart background piece. I really love how it turned out.


Details:

• Pattern Paper-My Mind's Eye "Love Me Do" collection
• Card stock-Papertrey Ink, except for 12x12 background paper which is Bazzil
• Title-Kate's ABC's font and shadow cut at 1.5-inches
• Layer 1-rounded edge square from 'George and Basic Shapes' cut at 11.25-inches
• Photo Mats-same as above, cut at 4.25 by 6.25-inches and 4 by 6-inches (real dial size)
• Yellow Layer-'George and Basic Shapes' cut at 11.25 by 3.25-inches
• Heart Background Image-'Martha Stewart All Occasion' cut two at 5.42 by 5.26-inches and welded the two together with my Gypsy
• Journal Tabs-EK Success Punch

Well what would a blog hop be without some candy? Included in my giveaway is a "scrapbook girl" journal, rhinestone border stickers, Spots and Dots embossing folder and a 5-page Colorbok chipboard album. In order to qualify for my blog candy please leave a comment at the end of my post. You will have until Monday (PST) at midnight on Monday, March 21. Make sure you leave a way for me to contact you.


I hope you liked my layout. If you enjoy what you see on my blog, I'd love for you to become a follower, it means a lot to me. Perhaps today you can take a moment to give some extra love to those important people around you, and yes, that could include a pet!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Your next stop is the talented Liz at Liz's Lavender And Roses.