Boom, boom, BOOM!

YouTube process video

 

Selfie Adventure - a Lasting Memories page

I hope you will all play along with my challenges this month at Lasting Memories!

I have designed my challenges to focus on YOU & telling your story. I feel that too often scrapbookers leave themselves out of the albums. Your pages should be filled with your memories and things about you which future generations would love to know. I hope this month of prompts will get you started on that journey if you're not already telling your story.

Today's prompt is to scrap a selfie and tell a story about YOU.

I chose EIGHT selfies for my page - what?! I rarely scrap selfies of just me, but clearly I'm taking them. I looked through my selfies and saw a theme of my love for adventures. I took that theme for my page & scrapped about the types of adventures I enjoy most.

You can find my process video on my YouTube channel. I kept it short and sweet, but more details are below. Please comment here or there with any questions, and I'll be happy to answer!

I chose this loud floral paper I have loved since I bought it from a Project Life paper pack. This cut file I got free from Ali Edwards a while ago was perfect, and I"m about using up my favorite black puffy alpha from Studio Calico.

While peeing in the woods isn't really my favorite type of adventure, I felt this photo just shows I'm up for almost anything when it comes to an adventure, LOL!

These floral dies from Momenta perfectly complimented my favorite floral paper! I always love a good leaf die cut, we know.

Also I definitely had a recent Missy Whidden layout in mind when I created this photo line. You can see the inspiration piece here.

The back side of the floral  paper was too cute and coordinating, I had to show a bit! An we all know my page isn't complete without some sparkle - today, sequins.

I added the yellow label to make my alphas stick out  better, and I'm so glad I did, I love how it turned out. Although I may be the only person in the world distressing the crisp edges of Elle's studio labels, but I gotta do me.

Supplies:
Paper - Becky Higgin's Project Life
Cut file - Ali Edwards
Puffy alphas - Studio Calico
Floral dies - Momenta
Twine - Recollections
Typing - WRMK typecast

I truly hope so many of you play along with this challenge anytime during this month! Tag me on the socials, and I cannot wait to see what you create!

Thanks for looking!

Taste the Rainbow - a Lasting Memories page

Happy Sunday, friends!

I'm bringing you a page with another fun prompt from Lasting Memories today - to use at least 5 patterned papers on your page.

These papers are slightly rugged and distressed from a Heidi Swapp paper pad, so I'm taking that for patterned!

I knew I wanted to use some of my new Momenta dies to create a rainbow layout, and what better photo to use than one of my boy eating Skittles?!

I die cut leaves and flowers from the patterned paper and inked the edges with coordinating colors. Then I sewed them down for some added interest.

I used corresponding paints for the background. I actually didn't have pink or orange paint, so I used watercolor crayons mixed with gel medium.

I added additional texture with  some white Ranger texture paste pulled through my tiny dots laser cut paper. I need to invest in an actual stencil like that because I love it and it's about to be done!

My favorite bits are the little puffy stickers from Momenta that coordinate with my rainbow colors!

 I hope you'll play along with this last June challenge this week over at Lasting Memories.

Supplies:
Paper - Heidi Swapp
Alphas - Elle's Studio
Puffy stickers  - Momenta
Dies - Momenta
Green paint - Shimmerz
Yellow paint - Heidi Swapp Shine
Pink and orange - Recollections
Aqua paint - unknown

We're all Mad here - a LM challenge

Hey Friends!

Today I'm highlighting a page I created for the Lasting Memories Color me Happy challenge for the week using purples!

I have been wanting to create a layout with these teacup ride photos for a while & the purple challenge was perfect! But then I realized - I don't have many purple supplies!?

So I used some purple inks and a purple watercolor crayon with some alcohol spray & created a fun, sparkly purple schmear. Then I used my Cricut to cut an Alice in Wonderland image from the purple paper & I LOVE how it turned out! I will definitely be using this technique again.

I used some new Tim Holtz gears thinlit dies I got for $5 (what?!) to cut some patterned purple paper and dispersed them among the page.

Here's the mood board to get your purple ideas flowing:

Purple is the "color of the year," so I do believe we will see more collections embracing it. I really was surprised at the lack of purple in my rather large stash!

I journaled about how sometimes you just gotta be the fun mom & take your boy for a midnight ride on the teacups! This little memory was definitely a story I wanted to get down.

I topped the page off with some Clearsnap kisses in this beautiful dark purple color.

I hope you will play along with us over at Lasting Memories this week! I cannot wait to see the purple creations everyone will do!


Thanks for looking!

Go With You - An April Mood Board Challenge

Today's layout was super fun to make! I used the April Mood Board over at Jot Magazine.

This photo is from our Hawaii trip. It's at Maui's Iao Valley State Park. Everything is beautiful in Hawaii!

This is the lovely mood board, and I used all but one of the colors.

I saw this adorable "tech tip" over at Scrapbook Circle about how they used a fringe CUT FILE to make their fringe! I said, "Hey! I can do that!" So I whipped up a little fringe cut file, and it made the process SOOOOO much quicker than I had previously done with my little fringe bee. I decided on a sweet little hot air balloon as my fringe shape for this travel page.

I had to use the glitter gold shoes from the mood board - insert lovely GOLD alphas!

The pink really got me too. I had a bunch of pink items from a past Studio Calico kit, so they got put to good use! The I love you ephemera matches perfectly too, even though it is from a Becky Higgins Project Life kit!

Supplies:
Blue, Grey and Pink background papers from various Studio Calico kits
Pink number transparency - Studio Calico
Pink and red stickers - Studio Calico
I love you paper ephemera & clear flower - Becky Higgins September Skies kit
Fringe papers from Studio Calico and Pink Paislee
Die cut - Cricut
Gold Alphas - American Crafts
Pink alphas - Studio Calico

I'm really loving how this turned out & reminiscing about our "babymoon" before our firstborn came along! :)

Thanks for looking!