Fall Break Life Crafted

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Wild Air

Hey friends!

I have a new scrapboking process video up on my YouTube channel today for this layout created with products from A Cherry on Top.

I can't get enough of these powdered ink crystal on the mixed media!

You can find the entire process in my YouTube video. I just wanted to provide additional photos here.

The title is a conglomeration of a few phrases I found online, sorry no source.

I love these Jane Davenport dies - so intricate! And they totally go with my #rusticsparkle.

The GO part of the title are large chipboard, silver foiled alphas from Momenta.

I was so thrille to find how well the new Heidi Swapp Wolf Pack collection went with the Prima Zella Teal sticker sheet I'd been planning to build a layout around!

I hope you'll watch my video, like and subscribe!

Thanks for looking!

Show me your S'more's face!

Today there is a new challenge over at Lasting Memories! The This or That prompt today is to use trims on your page. You can choose from paper strips, washi tape, ribbon, lace or anything you'd consider a trim!

I chose washi to compliment this page about my boys and me and our favorite camping pasttime!

I used my new letter dies from Momenta and I LOVE them! I added my sparkle to the rustic look, of course, with my foam thickers from Dear Lizzy.

The gold foil accents on the washi also put the sparkle in my rustic sparkle! For added interest, I used texture paste through a wood grain stencil in random spots on the page.

I just had to fit in this Echo Park 3x4 card!

I felt like handwritten journaling added to the rustic look of my page. We just bought a little camper, so I see lots of S'mores nights in our future this summer!

I love to tear the washi for some texture and rugged looks on my distressed pages. It's probably my favorite way to use washi.

I hope you'll play along with this week's challenge at Lasting Memories! 

Thanks for looking! 

Summer Adventures!

Hey hey hey, friends!

I'm super pumped for July because there is so much scrappy goodness going on! It's my month to host the challenges over at Lasting Memories, and I cannot wait to see the awesome pages everyone creates!

I chose the theme of Summer Adventures, because we all know I love me some adventures!

Today's prompt is to create a page about an Outdoor Adventure. Obviously, I created a camping page, since this is one of our favorite activities. I'll share my page along with companion, coordinating pockets pages.

Boy do I love me some Echo Park outdoorsy collections!? I also super love this fun photo I took of my boys on my birthday camping trip weekend. I super love taking pics of moss and mushrooms. I captured this shot right after we found a fun geocache on a rainy hike!

I just had to use these amazing sequins that I felt really went along well with both the Echo Park collections - Happy Camper and The Wild Life.

It was a bit of a stuggle to be happy campers on this trip because we were so pumped for our first camping trip of 2017, and then it was super chilly and rainy, but we made the best of it!

The opposite page is a 12x12 pocket spread of the same trip, with a 6x8 pocket page in between.

The struggle of my life is photographing pocket pages, AIR? But I do super love how quickly they can come together to document your life!

Here's the backside of these pockets:

The rain let up enough for a fire one evening, so that was nice! My son doesn't think it's a true camping trip without some s'mores!

Rain won't stop our hikes (or naps for some!). It was an all around good, adventurous birthday weekend!

Check out Instagram for tagged manufacturers.

Please play along with my challenges this month at Lasting Memories!! I cannot wait to see what these prompts inspire!

Thanks for looking!

Family Bonding - a LM challenge

Hello friends!

Today I'm bringing you another page I created for a fun challenge over at the Lasting Memories blog! It's apparently Log Cabin day this week, so we're asking you to create a rustic and/or outdoorsy page.

I created a layout about a rustic, outdoorsy adventure we recently had on a canoe-trip gone-wrong.

Lately, I have been loving creating fun watercolor and speckled backgrounds - heavily inspired by the lovely Christin Gronnslett. Check out her work, it's amazing.

I will say, although it looks completely random, there has definitely been a learning curve to this!

I actually cut a title out with my cricut, but then stuck with alphas. It's just so much easier, AIR?

 I need a lifetime supply of skinny alphas, please and thank you!

A few simple word stickers, and my rustic layout is complete.

I hope you will play along with us at Lasting Memories for our last June Challenge. And come back next month for challenges of MY choice! 4 challenges, chosen by yours truly, in the month of July.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Paper - Echo Park
Green alphas - Amy Tangerine
Yellow alphas - Fancy Pants
gray alphas - Webster's Pages
Stickers - Webster's Pages and Echo Park

Go on a Journey - a Scrapbook Circle Sketch

Today I'm bringing you a campking/kayaking layout I created with a sketch from Scrapbook Circle.

Here is the original sketch:

This layout was also created with the lovely prompts from Picture This, use a male in your life & tell a story about him through your layout, and Paper Issue's issue of the Unbeleafable Outdoors! These are my boys & we LOVE to be outdoors. This is from a camping trip.

I really love the Echo Park Happy Camper collection, and I have been saving it for this camping trip we took! This was my boy's first time in the kayak. So fun!

I got this little saying from Crate Paper's Instagram feed a while ago. I just screen shot it and printed it with my other photos.

I layered the title veneer under the transparent letters for a little dimension. Man, kayaking around Reelfoot Lake was so super fun - it's an amazing park. These cypress trees grow up out of the middle of the water and the roots are super cool and creepy. I told my husband I felt like Ariel in the "Kiss the Girl" scene in some of the waterways! haha!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper and camping stickers - Echo Park Happy Camper
Cardstock and geotag brads - The Paper Studio
Cork Stickers - Crate Paper
Vellum, tranparent alpha and wood veneer - Studio Calico

Thanks for looking!!