I have a new LO to share today inspired by challenges at Scrap Our Stash, Paper Issues. It is also my DT application for an opening soon challenge site called Picture This. DT Call ends on 12/1. There is still time to get your application in! This LO has been finished for almost a week, but due to Thanksgiving, anything scrapbook related had to take a back seat.

This is the Scrap Our Stash Sketch that I started with. The other requirements are someone I am thankful for and to use 5 of my 'go to' stash items.

For the Picture This application, I had to use one photo, a flower cluster, and a frame.

For Paper Issues, I used the 'together' part of "birds of a feather flock together"

Here is my LO

I try not to overlap to many challenges, but these challenges all worked really well together. This Scrap Our Stash sketch was a fun way to use the Picture This requirements. The flower cluster is at the top, the resin frame at the diagonal corner of the single photo of my sister and I together, which is a treat. We live far apart. The truth is, i'm thankful to have her in my life.  The other elements I used are shaped paper clips, die cuts (both pre-made and cut on a Silhouette, resin shapes, sequins, mist and washi tape. 

So there you have it. Almost short and sweet. Thanks for taking a look at my creative view today. Check back again. I will have more to share soon

Supplies: PP-Crate Paper, Pink Paislee, Heidi Swapp, BoBunny, WRMK, die cuts-Heidi Swapp, Silhouette (circle shape by Brenshevia Baker), washy-heidi Swapp, resin shapes, flair & clips-Freckled Fawn, sequins-Hazel & Ruby, Mist-Heidi Swapp

New Smile means New Lips

Please go here for today's Child's Play Challenges post.

Hello! Just a quick one today. I'm sharing for Get it Scrapped today. Creating layouts with still life photos. I do this a lot. More than I thought. Most are random and silly like the color of my toes after a pedicure or a pretty flower I saw on a walk. Some though, are random, but really have a lot of meaning to them. Like this one today. 

In a nutshell. I celebrated getting my braces off with a trip to Nordstrom to buy new lipstick to show off my new smile.

Why is this significant?  I have an irrational fear of the dentist. I have since I was 19 after a bad experience getting my wisdom teeth out.  As a reward for being brave,  I would buy myself a treat each time I go to the dentist.  The fact that I had braces was a milestone in over coming my fear.  Here, the lipstick is my treat, and a representation of my story.

A quick tip: When I take still life shots, I play around with the angle of the photo to give it a little interest, as I've done here.

Thanks for taking a look at my creative view today. Head on over to the Get it Scrapped blog for more tips and ideas on creating layouts with still life photos.

Supplies:-CS-Bazzill, PP-Basic Grey, My Minds Eye, die cuts, chipboard & brad-Basic Grey, enamel dots-Doodlebug designs, Metal shapes-My Minds Eye, Pearls-Freckled Fawn, Alphas-American Crafts, Basic Grey, Mist-Heidi Swapp-Ink-Prima, Pen and adhesive-EK Success, Sketch by Scrapbook Challenges

Water Play

Hello, Hello! I'm back with another creation that I think is super cool!  Today I am sharing another page created for Get it Scrapped. The assignment? Water Play.  I pondered this idea for only a moment. Beach? Maybe. Pool..Oh Pool! I have a swimmer!

In these photos, my son is racing the 100M Butterfly at a recent swim meet.  

The title is a play on words. It's something I like to do in my titles.  I had never seen him swim this race so well and so fast. He really was "fly-ing".  I chose to use colors and products that are motivating for an important event, rather than swim or water themed products.

Everything on the page has purpose and intent. The blue paper has silver 'bubble' like print. vellum with dots, wave print tape, motivational sayings, silver paper, paint drops, blue vellum title and paint drops. All to push the idea of the swimmer in the water.

Supplies:Papers-Doodlebug designs, Fancy pants, Bazzill, SEI. Washi-Queen & Co. Stickers-Simple Stories, Doodlebug Designs, Freckled Fawn, Alphas-Freckled Fawn, Mist-Tattered Angels, Heidi Swapp. Sketch-My Scraps & More.

 

...And the Braces are Off

Happy Monday! It's the first Monday of Summer! Mondays also mean it's reveal day at Let's Get Sketchy.  This week I am using a one photo sketch. 

I decided to use the photo I asked the dental tech to take right after she removed my braces. In the dental chair, no filter, just me literally grinning ear to ear. 

I've been reluctant to use the last few pieces of this Fancy Pants, Be You collection, but decided now was the time. The colors and patterns were exactly what I was looking for. The general design of the sketch is there, but I changed many of the details. I wanted the photo and papers to be the focus, so the embellishments are a minor focus here. I love that gold butterfly. It goes well with the papers and the page.

Come join us this week at Let's Get Sketchy. You'll see my LO as well as my teammates. I'm sure you'll find some great inspiration.

Supplies: PP, chipboard, rubons-Fancy Pants, Stickers-Fancy Pants, American Crafts, Pearl-Prima, Resin Flower-Freckled Fawn, Ink-Studio G-Mist-Heidi Swapp, Studio Calico, Butterfly-Jenni Bowlin, Pen-EK Success

Finally some Scraptime

I guess going on vacation for a week really threw me off my game.  Ok, back to scrapping and blogging. Yup, Fridays are my day to play. And play I did last week. My Scraps & More has a sketch-a-thon going on. I can't think of a more perfect way for me to get back into a scrappy groove. Now to show you what I did:

Sketch #7, twist-use block alphas:

Oddly, I don't have very many photos printed that could be used for a one photo LO. I am going to have to go searching for more. Anyway, I did have this one.  After he pulled out his tooth, he walked around with a big sideways grin so we could all see the empty space in his mouth. And every chance he had, he asked us if we could see the empty space where the tooth used to be.  Crazy kid. 

I liked this sketch. It was a good way for me to proactive my layering skills. I'm beginning to find my way in layering paper. Now I'm moving on to layering die cuts and embellishments. I have a ways to go...but I did get to continue to play with patterned papers from the same collection. Also an easy way to get started after not scrapping for a few weeks.

Supplies: Simple Stories papers, die cuts, stickers and alphas, Heidi Swapp Mist, bling-Hobby Lobby, wood veneer-Studio Calico

Sketch #11-twist-use flowers

I have one LSS that I shop at, Ben Franklin. They have a class called Paper Mania. Each month I am given papers and some embellishments. I create a project, bring it to the flowing month's class, and share.  Last month we were given Doodlebug Designs papers. Bright and colorful. Oh, and a twist-use a photo from the 80's. ok. sure. Let me did those out. then let me see what goes with these papers. How I came up with this photo I'll never know, but it works!

The sketch uses a 'shelf' design. Great for these bright and busy papers. I used a punch to soften the lines a bit. Flowers are fun to use on pages about me. A fairly simple page with lots of little bits for details.  

Supplies: CS-Bazzill, PP, twine, epoxy and sticker-Dooddlebug, punch-Fiskars, journal card-Project Life for AC, flowers-recollections, prima, sequins-Hero Arts, Citrus Twist Kits, mist-Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp, bling-Hobby Lobby, alphas-Freckled Fawn, American Crafts

The Pipe

Good Wednesday morning to you! It is reveal day over at Child's Play Challenges. Our first challenge this month is a crafty one...Pipe Cleaners!

I went in a more serious direction for this challenge. Yes, as a child, I played with pipe cleaners. But the truth is, pipe cleaners make me think of my Grandfather, whom I called Momo.  As far back as I can remember, Momo smoked a pipe. I used to watch him clean them, fill them with tobacco, then light them. When I got older I even bought him tobacco for Father's Day and other special occasions.  For whatever reason, the smell of his pipe tobacco never bothered me. But I never liked the smoke. These photos are older, and not great quality, but in all the photos, Momo has a pipe.

I chose a simple design for the photos. I had a really hard time finding colors due to the discoloration of the photos. White was too stark, so I settled on ivory card stock matte.  The photos still got a bit lost, so I doodled a frame around them. My memories of Momo or happy, so I chose red as the foundation.  I added a small strip of striped paper, as well as some other scraps to balance the patterns. There are some small details around the page; the photo corners, small pieces of washi tape and the paint splatters.  The journaling is hidden under the matter on the right. The piece of washi is the pull tab on the card.

I hope you can created a project based on pipe cleaners.  Come by and join us at Child's Play Challenges, and show us what you did.

Supplies-

PP, rub-on-Fancy pants

CS-Bazzill

Twine-Recollections

Washi-Jenni Bowlin

Mist-Heidi Swapp

buttons-random

photo corners-Queen & Co

Alphas-American Crafts

A LOAD of pages

I had such an awesome weekend! I made 10 pages, and spend time with my family! I am in such a groove, I'm sad tomorrow is Monday and I have my family stuff to do! Im not going to share them all now, but will over the next few days.  Both of these pages are also for the Love is in the Air challenges over at My Scraps & More as well.

I had a lot of help from some fabulous sketches. The first one I used is from a new challenge site called Stick it Down.  Here is the sketch.

Here is my page.  I used lots of different wash instead of a chevron. I still achieved a feeling of movement with the colors and patterns

This is my son as we got of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. To put it mildly, he did not like it...I wanted to convey this with bold, loud and chaos on the page, but in a contained way of course!

This next is a sketch from Stuck?! Sketches.   I liked this sketch a lot. It's something I can use again.

This is how I used the sketch. I flipped it around and added some extra stuff.  I love when I can use a sketch as a starting point, but you can still see the original sketch in the finished page.

My son loves to show off and when he does, he makes funny faces. I like capturing them and asking him what the faces mean afterwards. This time, he just said "I don't know"...Silly boy.  So, I called it the Smirk.

That's all for tonight.  I'll have more to share tomorrow. I'm not going to make my 28 posts,  but I definitely will meet my 28 pages this month!

Supples- Did you...

CS-The Paper Company, Washi Tape-Recollections, MME, Bella Blvd, WRMK, Queen & Co, OA, Darice, Jenni Bowlin, tags-MME, Jillibean Soup, Pebbles, Buttons-Random, twine-Doodlebug, brads-MME, mist-Studio Calico, felt circle-Basic Grey, Alphas-Simole Stories, American Crafts, Cosmo Cricket

Supplies-Smirk

PP-Basic Grey, mist-Heidi Swapp, Alpas-American Crafts, washi-Queen & Co, arrows, Citrus Twist, Fancy Pants, Bling-Hobby Lobby

Loving all these Challenges

I am in a creative GROOVE right now! I would love nothing more than to lock myself away in my room for the weekend and just scrap until I'm all scrapped out, but, no, that won't be happening...

I have two pages to share today. Both use sketches from My Scraps & More. They both qualify for today's LOAD prompt-do pages have to be 8.5x11 or 12x12? The idea is to take yourself out of your comfort zone and try something new. I have tried and done 6x6, 8x8 and 8.5x11 as well as 12x24 (a 2 page 12x12 spread) and know that 12x12 and 12x24 are the way to go for me.

This first page uses My Scraps & More sketch #68. It is also my entry for the Love is in the Air Challenge #9-The Pinterest Inspired challenge. I was inspired by the wood in the blocks. I used papas with a woodgrain pattern in them as well as wood veneer embellishments. Bold? yes? Celebratory? Also yes!

Our first date night after he was born was to a sushi restaurant. We took him with us in his carrier and he was fantastic. He even let us eat. Somehow, since he was 5 years old, he has always requested to go out for Sushi for his birthday.  We went to that same restaurant every year until we moved. This is birthday #12, at a new restaurant, but still Sushi.

This next page is using My Scraps & More sketch #69. hot of the press today. Works for me. I reserve Fridays as my day "off" before the weekend.  Also my entry for Love is in the Air challenge #8-My favorite things--My scrap room is a favorite place of mine...I flipped the sketch to be able too use a vertical photo, moved the title and used larger embellishments. Love the way it looks!

Not a great photo, but I had a leftover piece of Simple Stories PP that says "this is my happy place" I decided to tape it to the door of my scrap room. Silly, I know, but it seemed appropriate at the time. now when I look at it, I smile.  Notice all the pink? A page about me requires a color other than red, blue and green!

I have to say, I have been so inspired by all these challenges. I don't think I will get to all 18 by Sunday, but so far, there are 5 more pages finished, so thank you My Scraps & More!

Hopefully I'll see you again tomorrow when I post yet another LOAD page. 7 more days of my quest of 28 pages this month...

Supplies-He Loves Sushi
PP-Basic Grey, Die Cuts-Basic Grey, October Afternoon, Wood Veneer-Studio Calico, Mist-Studio Calico, Tattered Angels, Heidi Swapp, Bling & Sequins-Queen & Co, Citrus Twist Kits, Washi-Bella Blvd, Stickles, Brad-October Afternoon

Supplies-My Happy Place
PP-Basic Grey, Die Cuts-American Crafts, Pebbles, Heidi Swapp, Basic Grey, Sequins-Citrus Twist Kits, clip-Freckled Fawn, Mist-Heidi Swapp

LOAD day6

I love LOAD! I love finding some time everyday to create a page. The most amount of time I give myself is an hour. I love that I make quick decisions and stick to them. I love that this builds confidence to continue this process when LOAD is over. But most of all, I love that I will have 28 new completed LO's.  I also like combining ideas from other sources, as I have done again today.

Speaking of LO's. I have one today to share for the Sketches in Thyme #123 reveal.  Here is the sketch

Such a versatile sketch! I love it!  Here is what I created.

Yes, I knew what photos I wanted to use when I saw the hearts al over the sketch. Also, because LOAD day 6 prompt is No journaling. Use supplies to support the story you tell with your photos. Well, alrighty then.  This works well together!   I started the page by flipping the sketch on its side. I knew in this particular paper collection were these large letters. I cut them out, traced them, hand stitched around them, then used pop dots to raise them within the stitching. Title + photos =story! Throw in a few heart embellishments (which are hard to come by in my stash) and that was about it! I did add the journaling after the fact. There is a cute little statement that works well for a challenge at My Scraps & More...

Thanks for taking a look today. I am on track with LOAD, just a little out of order... Head over to Sketches in Thyme and join our sketch challenge this month.

Supplies

PP-Basic Grey

Washi-Recollections

enamel dots-MME

Hearts-Citrus twist, Heidi Swapp

Mist-Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp

Happiness is....

Pretty sure I've used this title before. It probably won't be the last time either.  Good morning and welcome to post 4 of the month of 28 posts.

Today's LO is for a plethora of challenges. I love it when that happens, and it hasn't happened in a while!

First and foremost, today is reveal day at Child's Play Challenges.  This first challenge for the month is inspired by one of my favorites special shows as a Child...Who doesn't sympathize with Charlie Brown???

I dont do a lot of Valentine pages, so I went with the boy and his dog. If we are on the couch, so is he, as close to us as he can be. I've decided our dog is more human than dog. If we go to the dog park, he goes and says hello to all the humans before running around checking out the other dogs. So yes, happiness is a boy and his dog.

I mentioned this is for a few other challenges as well. LOAD day 4 was to to a page in a short amount of time. Well, this took about 40 minutes.  Thanks to a sketch at Stuck! Sketches (my first time plating there), a recipe prompt from My Scraps & More and a self imposed stash challenge to use a lot of Basic Grey paper this month.  Go check out these blogs!

The recipe is tags, torn paper, an arrow and a frame.  The edges of the striped strips are torn, the frame is tucked under the corner of the photo. The tags are my journaling spot, and well the arrows...Here is the sketch.

So that's it for me in a very large nutshell today.  Please come join our Charlie Brown Valentine challenge at Child's Play Challenges! We want to see what you can create!

Supplies:

PP-Basic Grey

CS-Bazzill

washi-Bella Blvd

Wood veneer-Citrus Twist Kits

mist-Heidi Swapp

Awesome Sisters

Wow, we've almost hit the end of the month already! Time seems to be going by faster and faster these days.  I don't know about you, but it's been a busy month for me.  Swim meets, playoff football games,  lots of kidtivities.

Anyway, I'm here today to share my page for ScrapStuffz' Inspired by.  We have a truly, lovely photo this month. It makes me happy when I look at it.  So many pretty flowers, the sun and shade, and the outdoors!

Well, I went with the feminine aspect of this inspiration piece and created a page of my sister and I using pink! And flowers! Because I don't get to use pink, and flowers regularly! The colors just went with this photo. It was a bright and beautiful summer day and a special occasion.

Once again, everything on this page is from a Citrus Twist Kit. I flipped out a little when I saw the bright pinks and all the frilly embellishments, But when I see this page completed, it's like they were made for this challenge.  I've been playing around with mixing patterned papers and adding more embellishment clusters.  I am proud to day that I've used almost all the pink in the kit.

The background pink was really vibrant. I needed to use complementary colors and a simple design.  The yellow and teal were great accent colors.  The blue flowers just seemed to ground the whole page.  

We want to see how you are inspired by our photo. Please join our challenge. you have until the end of the month to add your projects.

Supplies:

CS-Bazzill

PP-Glitz, Heidi Swapp, American Crafts

Ephemera embellishments-Heidi Swapp

resin flowers-Freckled Fawn

Mist-Heidi Swapp

Alphas-American Crafts

Sketch by Let's Get Sketchy. Dec, week 3

Tickets for 3

Well, we've made it this far into the month, there are only a few days left until the big day. Are you ready? Or just ready for it to be over? My December was super busy, as I'm sure everyone else's has been as well.  I did find some time to scrapbook. Not a lot of time, but just enough to get some pages finished for some challenges.

Speaking of challenges, here is my second reveal for ScrapStuff'z Inspired by.

The inspiration photo:

 Tickets for 3

First of all, I used sketch #109 from Inspired Blueprints.  I needed a little starting point to get my page going.  I liked this sketch because it had a lot of square elements, like the photo.  When I looked closely at our inspiration photo, I saw that everything in it is related to Christmas, in some way.  I also liked that the photos were overlapping and were matted.  That is how I got to my page. The photos are of us at The Nutcracker Ballet, which is also related to Christmas. I then matted the photos. The washi tape down the center gives them the appearance of being over lapped.

I also chose some design and embellishments from 123 Get Scrappy.  In this months grid, I have a lot of options. So you can look at this page and see the color green (paper), scalloped edges (misted background and tag over photo) and staples (attaching small red heart vellum).  The other way to look at it is numbers (in title), baker's twine (attached to journal tag) and Scalloped edges.  It all worked together to help me create a page I really like, that shares a short family story.

I'm glad you stopped by to see my creative view of our  ScrapStuff'z Inspired by photo. Please, come show us how you were inspired as well.

Supplies:

CS-Bazzill

PP-Chic Tags, Websters Pages

Washi-MME

Stencil-Fancy Pants

Mist-Studio Calico

Ephemera-Heidi Swapp and American Crafts

Alphas-Glitz Designs

Twine-Americn Crafts

ink-Colorbox

brad-Freckled Fawn

staples-Staples

All About the Beard

Hey there. I have a fun page to share today. It's a reveal for both ScrapStuff'z Inspired by and also Child's Play Challenges.  Kinda crazy, but my page is a bit of both.  

We have a really fun photo to get you going at ScrapStuff'z Inspired by .  And the inspiration for  Child's Play Challenges is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!

How fun is that photo? Crazy lights everywhere. And what did I do with it? I went traditional! I don't often do Christmas pages at all. So, when I see Christmas lights, I think of Christmas and all the red, green and trimmings that go along with it. 

While I was thinking about Christmas, I thought about how my parents always let my sister and I watch the Christmas TV shows.  Rudolph was my favorite.  I actually identified with Rudolph. As someone who didn't celebrate Christmas, I always felt different too!   I came across this photo, and voila, a Christmas page inspired by both challenges! 

This is the first and only time my son ever sat on Santa's lap, so it's also the only photo.  It was at a huge holiday party at his school after an exceptionally special fall event.  We weren't sure what he would do. Would he get off, yell, cry? What we didn't expect, was that the would laugh, giggle, then pull the beard all the way off Santa's face!  We had to go help rescue Santa. Then our son tried to do it again! Needless to say, he enjoyed meeting Santa and we have a great story to go along with the photo

I only used scraps for this page in traditional red and green, but I accented with black and gold. I chose to use a black matte, so the colors in the photo would stand out. Red under the photo seemed to work best with the red in  the photo as well.  I did use 2 shades of green, darker at the edges of the page, lighter under the photo, for contrast.  The banner is a direct nod to the lights strut around the truck.  I loved the black chalkboard tape. It is such a stark contrast, it keeps the eye at the photo. I also dipped the edges in gold glitter.  A few added sequin sparkles and sprinkles of gold and green mist and that was pretty much it. 

Thanks for taking a look at my creative view today. Please join us over at ScrapStuff'z Inspired by and Child's Play Challenges.  Show us how you're inspired by our photos.

Supplies:

CS-Bazzill

PP-MME, Simple Stories, Fancy Pants, GCD Studios

Twine-Doodlebug

Tape-Fancy Pants, Darice, 

Tag-MME

Wood veneer-Studio Calico

Mist-Heidi Swapp, Studio Calico

Glitter-Martha Stewart

ink-Colorbox

Sequins-Citrus Twist Kits

Alpha-Lily Bee

White pen-uniball