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Cozy Cub - a PI prompt page

Heyyyy everybody!

I had a very scrappy Labor Day holiday, and am bringing you a new layout made during that productive day.  I used the Paper Issues prompt of "let's give them pumpkin to talk about" Ha! I love it!

So I made this fall layout for my little cub.

Ahhh not even a year later and he's so huge now! :(

I wanted the orange to compliment the tone of my photo, but I love a good kelley green, so I couldn't ignore those pjs. I think it's a little bit of a different color combination but I'm diggin' it.

I had to outline the alphas with a marker, as they were not standing out enough for me. I used the sequins to bring the green and orange together within the page.

I also added the orange twine to the green strips as another way to tie the color combination together. I seriously bought this entire pad of WRMK paper at Tuesday Morning, and I've scoured the package, and I cannot find the name of the collection?!

I am just loving this bear stamp! I use it on so many layouts. I embossed him with green to add to the green theme.

I am just sooo ready for fall! It's really felt a lot like fall this weekend, let's hope it stays that way. Watching my favorite team on tv as I type & I used my pumpkin lotion today. Fall is my favorite!

Supplies:
Orange papers - Craft Smith Co
Wood paper - Crate Paper
Green bits - We R Memory Keepers
Alphas - Basic Grey
Stamp - Hampton Art
Acetate piece - Cedar Lane by Pink Paislee

Thanks for looking & Thanks for the Inspiration, PI - I'll probably use that Issue theme as a title some time! haha

Thanksgiving Babes

Hello all! I'm bringing you a double page spread today from Fall 2015.

First of all, I created this traditional layout with a Sizzlin Summer sketch from Scrapbook Challenges.

Haha - I just couldn't help myself! Here's the original sketch:

Lately I'm really loving using textures on my pages, and what is on a turkey butt? Feathers! So I put some feathers on my page. I stinkin' love these wood veneer letters I picked up at the Studio Calico warehouse sale in the spring.

Speaking of wood veneer - that brings me to the second challenge I created this page for - the On Deck Challenge over at Scrapbook Circle. The challenge was to use wood elements on your page, and I certainly did that with this page, and the corresponding pocket page. I love the wood look for the fall.

Here is my corresponding pocket page:

This is why I LOVE pocket pages - all these sweet silly faces the boy is making - I'd never put them all on a traditional layout. But I don't flinch in the least at using so many in my pocket pages, even if they're pretty similar. This documented my baby's first Sunday at church.

I continued the title from the traditional layout on the opposite page - Turkey Butt & a little HAM - b/c that is definitely what my oldest is!

See?! haha!

Supplies:
12x12 page
Wood paper - Crate Paper
Foxes and other ephemera - Cedar Lane by Pink Paislee
Wood Veneer - Studio Calico
Wood circles - Dear Lizzy
Pocket Page
Journaling and Wood grain backing Cards by Becky Higgins Project Life
Chipboard glitter stickers - Me and My Big Ideas

I had a lot of fun making these fall pages to go together.
Thanks for looking!

First Holiday - a Creative Sketch

Today I'm bringing you a Thanksgiving page of when my little dude was only a few weeks old. I know we don't like to say it, but let's all admit they kinda look a little like aliens at this point. Little cute, cuddly alien baby. :) Love that snuggle bug no matter what he looks like!

They have a super fun and beautiful sketch over at My Creative Sketches, and I used it for this layout.

So fun, right?!

I had the circle already cut from a prior page, and I'm loving wood papers, especially for fall layouts lately. I've got my triangle with the gold glitter embellies.

I used just about the last of my Cedar Lane ephemera stash from Pink Paislee (tears) - I love that line!

I think that was as close as he could get to a smile at that time, but he definitely is all smiles these days, 8 months later.

Also happy to report he no longer resembles an alien in any way :)

Supplies:
Wood paper - Crate Paper
Washi & alphas - Studio Calico
Ephemera - Pink Paislee
Orange papers from a cool stash from a yard sale - no name!

I really am grateful for this sweet little guy. He's such a blessing!

Thanks for looking!

Fall Fun - a Let's Get Sketchy Challenge

Today I've created another layout for a new to me challenge. I used a super cool sketch from Let's Get Sketchy, who I found through my love, Freckled Fawn because they are collaborating together this month. Their sketches seem to be super awesome, and a chance to win a Freckled Fawn prize? Come on, it's just too good.

I'm working with photos all over the place currently. Still building my 2015 album chronologically, but also already working 2016... Here we have fall 2015. Please excuse the extremely fat, prego face - this was only a couple weeks out from having a giant baby!

I rotated the original sketch a bit. Here it is:

I like how it was simple & fun. Still able to add in a bunch of patterns and colors.

Here are a couple detail shots:

Supplies:
Background Paper and binder clip - American Crafts
All other Paper from a garage sale stash - no names found
Glitter Leaves - JoAnn's
Alphas and cork arrow - Studio Calico

Thanks for looking!

Blog Hop - The Counterfeit Kit Challenge!

I'm participating in the member blog hop today for The Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. I'm pretty excited about it! You may have arrived here from Sally's Challenge Chatter. After Dillightfully Crafty, you can hop right on over to Snaps and Snippets.

So today I've prepared some photos to document my process of creating a scrapbook page with my March kit, which I named Snappy Pack.

Here's the page I've created for the Challenge "May you Live in Pinteresting Times." The challenge was to find a pin to inspire your project, but it could not be another craft project or scrapbook page.

Here is the pin which I used as inspiration:

The image came from Sarah Hearts.

Now to get a little bit into my process... So I grabbed my Snappy Pack CFC kit and picked out the papers I loved that I wanted to use for this photo. I knew I had to use the chevron with the fall colors, as that is what I had in mind when I printed the photo, so I was working around that piece.

First I grabbed my favorite orange paper:

But it was a bit darker than I wanted, so I decided to save it for a future project.

I liked this neutral (with a little glitter), but it needed something more.

So I added the orange flower paper, which sort of mirrored the flowers in the photo - and I thought, "perfect!"

I had this sweet pocket card that I thought would work well for the kids' photo, but I had to figure out where to place it. The top of the photo did not work...

Boom! Moved to the bottom left corner & it just fit perfectly. I think the black in the top most square is different in this type of palette, so I decided to accent it and add a bit of the black camera paper from the CFC kit.

An extra layer is always a good idea. This orange paper softens the black & worked perfectly.

Then I spotted my new Studio Calico punch that I found on clearance recently, so I figured it needed to be used. This is literally the "process" of my creation - it's always in the process of evolving as I work!

After I punched some chevrons, I inked all my papers. I ink papers a good portion of the time. I just feel like it gives a good dimension, as well as it tends to hide imperfections, so if you have some tattered edges (unintended) or maybe a not-so-straight edge, it's much less noticeable when inked!

Now it's my favorite time! Embellishment time!

I had this cute little veneer circle that I felt needed a little something. (Confession: This stamp was not included in my CFC kit, as it just arrived in the mail the day I made the layout! But it was just too perfect with the Snappy Pack photo/camera/click inspired kit, that I just had to use it!)

These flowers were screaming to be included on my sunflower page!

I stuck everything down once I had visualized where everything was to be placed, then done!

Here are some detail shots:

You can see that I added a couple more punches once I had the paper placed exactly and felt there was still too much blank orange space.

Look at those sweet baby smiles! I love seeing my baby have fun with his friends!

Thanks for looking!

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