Hey there. It's my reveal day over at ScrapStuffz' Inspired by.  We've changed things up and are offering two inspiration photos this month with a verbal prompt as well.  I created a layout for each photo.

"let it go"

 I'm pretty much out of snow pictures, and I thought "let it go" to be quite funny.  I grabbed some blue card stock, a printed neutral paper and some funny pictures, and "Let Her Go" was created. All of the embellishments further the silly theme of the page.

These photos were taken right after we got our first dog. We had a feeling that our younger son would  love playing with her, but wee not expecting this. He would not leave her alone. Thankfully, she was very tolerant of him.

The second photo

"words to live by"

From this photo I took the whitewashed frame and ran with it. I used a whitewashed paper as the background for this LO. The sketch is based off a sketch at Stuck?! sketches. I thought it was a fun one and slightly different form what I usually see. But I was able to use it within my style. That's what it's all about.  I used different blocks of paper at the bottom instead of a triangle, but kept it angular in nature. I did leave the triangle at the top though.  The rest is all humor. Again.

I loved the paper in this collection that had the old newspaper and magazine clippings. I though they were amazingly supportive of a photo of my 91 year old Grandma. Feminine with some attitude. Just like Nani. We had taken her out for her birthday and when we were ordering drinks, she said, "i'll think I'll have a term that sounds good." and right out of the bottle she drank. But really, she is 91. Who is going to tell her otherwise?

Thanks for stopping by today to look at my creative view. Come again soon. I have lots to share.

Ler her Go:CS-Bazzill, PP-Bo Bunny, Fancy Pants, cork-Freckled Fawn, Fancy Pants, chipboard-Freckled Fawn, Crate paper, Brad-Freckled Fawn, die cut stickers-Crate paper, 7 gypsies, sequins-Studio Calico, clip-Queen & Co

She is 91: PP & Die Cuts-Famcy Pants, wood pieces-Freckled Fawn, Studio Calico, resin flowers-Freckled Fawn, mist-Heidi Swapp, washy-scotch, sequins-Hazel & Ruby, Doodlebug Designs

Inspired By...

We are trying something a little different this month at ScrapStuff'z Inspired by. Instead of one inspiration photo, we have two to choose from.

I created a layout inspired by each of the photos.  This first one is my interpretation of the office supplies photo:

Nope, it's not a first day of school photo. It's the last day of school. If you don't know me by now, I have to do something a little but off the beaten path...So really, all of the items in the photo are put away for the summer, not to be seen for 3 months!

 I used some of the items in the photo on the page such as pencils (stickers at top and bottom), paper clip (yellow arrow) and notebook paper (the background) and of course, lots of letters and numbers. (Isn't that washi tape awesome?!?) Ideas for this page also came from Scrap Our Stash  and My Scraps & More, use two collections from the same manufacturer, but at least 1 1/2 years old. I used Basic Grey- Hey You and Bowties. I really like when I can pull inspiration from several different sources.

And now for the second photo:

And my super fun layout:

There are a lot of photos on here! I couldn't eliminate any one of them. He tries so hard! Each photo shows how hard and how motivated he was to get to these balloons! He was only supposed to take one, but he wanted them all. The salesperson saw how happy he was and sent us home with the whole bunch. Did I mention this happened twice???

How did I get to balloons from a Ferris Wheel? They both go up in the air! He's also looking up in the photo much like a spectator looks up to see who is at the top of the Ferris Wheel. I did choose papers with bright colors inspired by the bright colors in the photos as well.

It's a lot to read today so I'll sign off here. Thanks again for taking a look at my creative view. It's an odd one sometimes. But I like it that way.

Supplies-School's Out: PP-Basic Grey & stickers-Basic Grey, Washi, paper clip, epoxy and mini flair-Freckled Fawn, mist-Studio Calico, Tattered Angels, Ink-Colorbox, Alphas-Autentique, Sassafrass

Supplies-Balloon Thief-CS & Twine-American Crafts, PP-Pebbles, Doodlebug Designs, alphas-MME, Simple Stories, American Crafts, enamel dots-MME, punch-EK Success, Stamp-Hero Arts, Die cuts-Silhouette, sketch by Scrapbook Generation

Masterchef Jr

Oh Hello. I have been looking forward to sharing this layout for a few weeks now.  This month at Scrap Stuffz' Inspired by, we changed it up a little bit. We were asked to be inspired by this sketch, as well as to use a title from ScrapStuffz' by Stacia.  

I wanted to tell this fun story of my son and my Dad making home made pasta. My son and I watch both Top Chef and Masterchef on TV together. Because of this, he has taken an interest in food and cooking.  The title came to me immediately and I was excited that ScrapStuffz' by Stacia was able to  create it for me.  

As for the sketch, I had many photos I wanted to use, so  turned it into a 2 page layout.  I kept the general design of the sketch, changing a lot of the background elements to make it my own. Doing this enabled n=me to keep the focus on the photos and the title.  

I had a lot of fun with our inspiration this month. I hope you will join our challenge at Scrap Stuffz' Inspired by.

Supplies-CS-American Crafts, Washi-Darice, Freckled Fawn, wood pieces-Freckled Fawn, American Crafts, Basic Grey, Cork-Freckled Fawn, Fancy Pants, Enamel& Epoxy-Freckled Fawn Doodlebug, mist-Tattered Angels, Studio Calico

Dodger Blue

Hi there.  Today's LO is courtesy of ScrapStuff'z Inspired by...It's my turn to share.  Here is our inspiration photo.

I have to admit, this was a hard one for me. No birds, not even any photos of wine bottles.  But I loved the color blue of the bottle.  I came across some photos from a family party, where coincidently, BLUE was the featured color of the evening....

Yup. Dodger blue! We celebrated my Grandfather's 90th birthday at Dodger Stadium. Everyone was wearing Dodger blue. It was a fantastic evening and celebration.  

Inspired by the blue bottle, I chose to do this LO in a variety of blue patterned papers that were deeper shades of blue than in the photo. I added little bits of red and yellow for contrast, and just a few baseball themed embellishments.  

The page came together quickly thanks to this fantastic sketch from Boys Rule Scrapbook kits.

I kept the concept the same but added a few layers, changed the shape and size of some of them and moved the corner detail to the top of the page. I also moved the title.  

Thanks for looking today at my creative view. Now it's time for you to create something  Inspired by. the photo.

Supplies: CS-Bazzill, PP-Theresa Collins, Reminisce, Sassafrass, Echo Park, unknown, washi-Recollections, enamel dots-MME, clip & epoxy-Freckled Fawn, Wood chips-Freckled Fawn, Basic Grey, Mist-Studio Calico, Alphas-American Crafts. 

Summer Picnic

Good Morning. This month has been all about team reveals for me. Today is no exception. I have been trying to finish up that big project. Between that and my team commitments they're hasn't been room for much else. I'm not complaining. I still get to make the creative time, and that's really all that matters.

Today's LO is my reveal for Scrap Stuffz' Inspired by.  It is inspired by this colorful Summer Subway Art.  Subway art has been a trend everywhere, but I have not yet embraced it or used it. Well, here's my chance. 

I looked at the art and saw it as art. But I also saw the colors and the theme of the art: summer. I decided to use the subway as it is on my page. I chose a photo of my boys having a picnic in the backyard to represent some of the simple pleasures of summer.

Every now and then, I enjoy putting a page together like a puzzle. Pieces of inspiration can come from many different places.  The inspiration for the design and product choices of the page came from both Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #398/Full House and Scrap & Play. I saw this fun sketch at Scrapbook Challenges. I used all the flags that came with the paper collection to create the burst. I divided some of them with pieces of washi tape. This particular tape has all the colors in the paper. Bold, yes, but fun and striking as well.  Scrap & Play challenge #3 is a tic tac toe board. I used Fancy Pants, Buttons and chipboard, and all from the same collection.  This particular Fancy Pants collection screams summer, and was a no brainer choice for the overall theme of the page.

Thanks for stopping to take a look at my creative view today. Head on over to Scrap Stuffz' Inspired by and add your project. Surely you much be inspired by Subway art as I was today!

Full House: 2 wood veneer-people, 2 mist-yellow & white, 2 alphas (date on subway art), 5 buttons, 5 strips of washi, 

Supplies: CS-Bazzill, PP, flags, chipboard, stickers and buttons-Fancy Pants. Washi-Freckled Fawn, Wood Veneer & Mist-Studio Calico, pen-EK success

The Path

Good Morning. It is my turn to reveal at Scrap Stuff'z Inspired by today.  First I'll show you the inspiration photo.

When I fist looked at the photo, I immediately saw circles. Then I changed my entire train of thought. Here is what came from the photo. In a very round about way....

 I made a decision earlier this month that I am only going to work on Bar Mitzvah photos this month. It's been almost a year and the album is not finished.  I knew it would be a challenge to have a project in mind combined with this particular assignment.  I took a second (third, fourth) look at the inspiration photo. This time I saw shapes within shapes. More philosophically, I saw a path, like the path my son took to his Bar Mitzvah.

I did use a Scrapbook Generation Sketch. I chose to use arrows. They represent a path. I stamped images onto small squares, shaped within shapes. I did also use buttons as circles.  the corrugated paper has texture like the mulch on the ground.

So there you have it. My somewhat deep translation of the photo to the page. Head over to Scrap Stuff'z Inspired by and link up your project over there.

Supplies:

CS-Paper Accents

PP-Fancy Pants

Buttons-Fancy Pants, Unknown

Stamps-unknown

Ink-Stazon

Other embellishments-Fancy Pants

Alphas-Fancy Pants, Thickers

Just Us

Good morning and happy April 1. Are you a big April Fool's prankster? It was never a big deal when I was growing up. I'm not about to change that now.

I like beginning the month with a new LO to share.  We are having a special event at Child's play Challenges this month. We are having a crossover event with ScrapStuff'z Inspired by. What does this mean? You will find the same inspiration photo on both challenge sites as well as a sketch to use. There are prizes available to you on both sites. Create and your project using the sketch and inspiration photo on both challenge sites and double your chance to win a prize.

So here goes!  This week at Child's play it is Craft Challenge week.  We decided SAND ART would be a fun challenge.

here is the sketch we used, created by the talented Laura Whitaker.

this is what I created

I liked the feeling of movement in the jars of colored sand and tried to recreate that with the chevron patterned papers. I did like the colors of the sand as well. Not too pastel, but not overly bright. The papers are in those shades and worked well not to over power the photo.  The sketch was fun and easy ti use. It was a great choice for multiple patterns of paper.  The circles for me are a nice contrast to all of the stripy lines.  Universal themed embellishments seemed like a good choice as well.

Thank you for taking a look today.  I hope you will stop by both Child's Play Challenges and ScrapStuff'z Inspired by this month and join in our crossover event. Head over to them now to see what prizes are up for grabs.

Supplies:

CS-Bazzill

PP, arrows, stickers, stencil-Fancy Pants

wood veneer-studio Calico

enamel dots-Basic Grey

mist-tattered angels

Rising Sun

Good morning! Whoa. I've been lagging on my blog posts. Busy week, not a lot of play time for me.  Enough with that. Time to get back to business.  Today is my reveal at ScrapStuffz' Inspired by.  I really liked this month's inspiration photo

When I first looked at the photo, I saw a rainbow of colors. Bright colors. Colors I like to use. Want to see what I came up with?

Not even close!  I was walking my dog about a week ago. I came around a curve and saw the sun burning through the morning fog.  I knew when I took the photo, what I wanted to do instead. Turns out, it wasn't so much the colors after all. It was the burst that they created.

I applied some knew found knowledge about gained from the Photo Play seminar at Masterful Scrapbook Design/Get it Scrapped.  I extended the colors in the photo out onto the page. I mixed some paint colors, painting lighter to darker around the photo, in between the bursts, mimicking the background of the photo. After painting, I used the same colors to stitch along the lines to give it some texture. My journaling is a six word memoir. the embellishments are subtle, but add some shine, like the sun rising.

This is my new favorite page.

Come take another look at the inspiration photo. What sparks ideas for you? We at ScrapStuffz' Inspired by want to know.

Supplies:
PP & border sticker-Sassafrass Lass
Thread-DMC
paint-making memories
bling-Queen & Co
enamel dots-Basic Grey

You "heart" Watermelon

This is going to be an interesting post.  Once again, as I continue further into the month of LOAD, I find that creativity & inspiration (or as we scrappy gals call it, Mojo) is easier to come by. It's everywhere.  This layout is a perfect example.

It's reveal day for me over at ScrapStuffz' Insired By.  We have a super fun photo to jumpstart your creativity.

I first looked a while ago at this photo and said ooh fun. I decided to wait before starting on it to see where my mind wandered.  I wound up using this photo in a multitude of ways. I loved the circles of the cupcakes, and wanted to find ways to get circles onto my page. The stacks going up became layers of paper, the different colors and patterns are the same with the patterns I chose as well as the color red. Lastly, the photos. They happen to be about food. Red food.

This also was a gray place to start for LOAD day 11.  Today's prompt was a fun one for me. Change your process. If you start with photos, start with product, or story...Get the idea? So, I began with our inspiration photo for concept. I also seem use a lot of challenges during LOAD.  As I browsed some of my favorite places to play, I realized that Scrap Our Stash current challenge went hand in hand with this photo. Putting the two together made the whole page come together in less than an hour.

Bear with me as this is going to get very mixed up.  I changed my process by starting with the inspiration photo, then gathering the supplies I needed. The requirements of Scrap Our Stash challenge,  is a bit of a recipe challenge, but using designated items beginning with the letters of the word SWAK, Stitching, washi tape, arrow,  pre-made kraft embellishment AND the color red and/or pink. All of these led me to ideas on how to put this page together based on the photo.  I started with the embellishment, the garland. The circles like the cupcakes and dots on the teapot, which led me to the printed kraft papers and chipboard that I layered like the stacks and patterns in the photo. That led me to the color red to  use for the background, which finally led me to the photos, of them eating watermelon. Food, like the photo.

I used the arrow to point to the title and photo of my son.  The arrow sits on a  pice of washi that is also placed in two other areas  on the page. Once I came up with the title, I drew a heart, then stitched over it.

This is completely backwards of my usual process that begins with photos. But incredibly liberating.  I would encourage you to try something like this as well. This was definitely a spark to my creativity today. Please join us at ScrapStuffz' Insired By. I want to see how you are inspired by this photo!
Come back again tomorrow. The plan is to keep posting daily...



Supplies
CS-Bazzill
PP, chipboard and garland-MME
alphas-Jillibean Soup
Washi-Bella Blvd
Arrow-Studio Calico

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