Sup Santa?

Hey Friends!

I know, a Christmas page, you say? Well, to be fair it is *almost* Scrappy Christmas in July! I just had to get a head start on SCiJ when I saw today's prompt from Lasting Memories. The prompt for today is to create a red & white scrapbook layout in honor of Canada Day - and immediately I thought of doing a Christmas layout.

I used a Page Map from this month:

I wanted to do mixed media, but red mixed media tends to have a bloody look, so I decided to do white texture paste instead of patterned paper. It's a bit hard to photograph, but you can tell a bit below.

How about that large snowflake die?! I got that beaut on sale at the Hob Lob and it's more intricate and beautiful I even expected!

I was using up this foam thicker sheet, but I thought it was kinda fun to leave the A's as at signs and the t was a plus. Lends to the feel of the title anyway.

My boys have had their photo with the same Santa for their entire lives! I love that tradition for sure, and I document it every year.

I hope you'll play along with our Lasting Memorie's challenge this week!

Thanks for looking!

Beach Adventure with Lasting Memories

Hey friends! It's Sunday, so time for a new challenge at Lasting Memories!

Today's summer challenge is to scrapbook vacation photos & I'm SO CLOSE to being done with my vacation album from last year! I really hope to be able to do a flip through so soon! We leave for another trip in a week, so I"d love to have this album done before then.

I played with my new Crafty Jen Schow stamps on this page, and I love them!

I also love that not every page in a vacation album has to have a ton of journaling or a story, I'm just displaying the overall fun we had! I feel like it makes my pages come together quicker when I'm not figuring out where to input journaling.

I also am loving my new organized craft room - it's allowing me to pull bits and peices so much more easily. I love that I found the heart and label to match this paper so well.

I hope you'll play along with this week's challeng at Lasting Memories - there is an A Cherry on Top gift card up for grabs!

You're a Peach!

Hey friends!

Today is my last stamping challenge over at Lasting Memories. I hope you've enjoyed the prompts and found fun ways to incorporate your stamp stash into your scrapbook pages!

Today's challenge is to pick any of the stamping techniques we have used all month and use them on your page!

I stamped a sentiment and a cute peach icon. I cut the sentiment with a fun tag die cut, and I fussy cut the peach icon.

I love how distress oxide inks cover and show up so well! They look like little printed die cuts.

This little 6x8 page came together so quickly! That's why I love a 6x8 or 8x8 album for a vacation album, because it's totally doable to get all the week's fun photos together!

I hope you'll play along with this last stamping challenge at Lasting Memories!

Thanks for looking!

Sandy Toes, Sea Water NOSE! with Lasting Memories

Hey friends!

I hope you're enjoying our stamping challenges this month at Lasting Memories.

This week's prompt is to use a tiny stamp on your layout. I didn't have many papers in the color scheme I wanted for this photo, so I just created my own with a tiny cross stamp!

I stamped in Navy, Seafoam and Rose Gold, then added splatters.

I used Concord & 9th Alpha Dies for my title.

The mermaid scales is a Momenta die, as well as the little sticker embellishments.

I hope you'll play along with this week's stamping challenge!!

Thanks for looking & Happy Mother's Day!

Spring Flowers with Lasting Memories

Hey hey friends! I'm so glad it's officially spring around here in Tennessee!

There is a new prompt today at Lasting Memories to scrap the spring goodness you find in your yard.

This gorgeous, purple hiacynth came back this year, and spread around the yard! A thrill for someone like me who has a brown thumb. I made sure to get a photo of it with a new pair of spring shoes I busted out the other day.

I have a Deathly Hallows tattoo on my foot, so I carried that theme throughout my page with the florals and purple. Ha - the persistence stamp is perfect because I continue to plant flowers even tho I usually kill them!

I got the Deathly Hallows wax seal at Universal Studios in the Harry Potter section when we went a few years ago.

Of course I had to use my IRS Bella Flora dies, you know they're my faves. These tiny flowers from Bun Intended 2 are amazing too!

I love the hallows and floral combo - I will definitely revisit that!

Play along with us at Lasting Memories this month! There is a prize up for grabs and fun, new inspiration every week.

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Thanks for looking!

Georgia on my Mind - Lasting Memories

Happy Sunday, friends!

There's another great challenge over at Lasting Memories today. It inspired me to create the title page for our July 2018 vacation album.

The challenge was to use this photo as inspiration for the layout:

I used the circles, the colors, and the butterflies within my page.

I layered this green map transparency over a watercolor pink background to soften it up. I actually used the transparency backwards because the green was too lime for the southern belle look I was aspiring toward.

I sewed my circles down. I cut them from Maggie Holme's Crate paper and a Webster's pages floral piece.

I used these Pink Paislee's Thickers by PTE as a tiny title - GA on my mind. 

I hope you're inspired to create something fabulous with this week's challenge over at Lasting Memories. There's tons of great inspiration on the blog!

Thanks for looking!

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Oh So Jolly with Lasting Memories

Happy Sunday, friends!

Today is the last monthly prompt over at Lasting Memories "This or That" challenge & the idea is to use at least two different alphas on your page. 

I love this challenge, as it's something I do quite often. I'm still telling my December stories, so today's page is about my little one stealing the show (at least in my eyes) at his Christmas school program!

I used a vellum envelope to slide in the program for the Christmas show. Then I did the title and journaling over the top. I used some of my favorite Christmas stamps to embellish, along side stickers.

You can see more detail shots on the gram. I hope you'll play along with us at Lasting Memories this week!

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! 

Finishing past DDs

Hey friends!

I am not falling prey to the tempting, glittery December Daily this year, but I am finishing up past albums I started!

This week's challenge at Lasting Memories is to use a wreath on your page! I used this awesome Bo Bunny winter paper to match my photo and make a snowflake wreath.

This is a 6x8 page of my youngest laying in my Nana's lap. That was a tough year, and he only got to know her a very short time, but I'm glad she got to meet him. This is a sweet photo of him with her.

 I used a snowflake border die and just separated the snowflakes individually from the line it cut to adhere them in a wreath pattern. Then I sewed around them for added texture. 

There is not much room on these 6x8 pages, so I kept it fairly simple!

I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week at Lasting Memories - wreaths are always a gorgeous go to for a page design!

Thanks for looking!

Christmas Throwback with Lasting Memories

Hey friends!

It's Sunday and time for another challenge at Lasting Memories.

Today's prompt was to use and "old timey" photo on a Christmas page. I have actually needed this prompt for a while, since there is a story I've been wanting to tell about my favorite Christmas tradition growing up.

I used the new Pebbles Christmas collection & the banner punch I won from their IG background. There I am circa 1990ish and 1994 (age 9)! These photos are so special because we no longer have my grandmother or my aunt with us, which makes my memories with them so precious. The journaling talks about our baking day we did every year around Christmas and all the delicious "retro" foods everyone would make. It was always one of my favorite days of the year!

You can catch more details of the page on my Instagram account. I hope you will play along with this fun challenge at Lasting Memories this month!

Thanks for looking!

Pumpkin Patch with Lasting Memories

Good morning, dear friends!

Today I'm bringing a traveler's notebook spread I created for this week's prompt over at Lasting Memories. This month is all about Fall Harvest! Scrap about your harvest or favorite plants/flowers/etc.

My spread is about the TWO pumpkins we grew in our yard this year. LOL - pitiful! At least they're pretty.

I love how these Echo Park die cut, Carta Bella stickers and striped paper from CraftSmithCo all fit together so well with my pumpkin photo.

As always I used my Rock Your Notebook custom insert.

I layered a vellum envelope behind the photo with some adhesive cork to pop it off the page.

I cut little notches in the sides of my background paper to keep the twine in place.

Here's the story of our sorry pumpkin patch! haha!

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

You’re so Fly - Lasting Memories

Happy Sunday! There’s another new challenge on the Lasting Memories blog today. The theme this month is transportation & today’s challenge is to use a hot air balloon on your layout.

I also have a process video on my YouTube channel - please check it out and give a thumbs up.

I scrapped my son's pre-K graduation. The color palette kinda happened due to the alcohol inks and infusions at my disposal, but I LOVE it!

You know I almost always have to add a bit of glitter! 

Check out the video for how I colored my own Thickers to match!

I have had this Studio Calico paper in my stash for a while, and I"m super glad I finally found a way to use it. I have trouble with full pages of a full photo like this, but as Missy says, don't be afraid to cover it up!

Please play along with us at Lasting Memories!

There are so many ways to incorporate a hot air balloon on your page. If you don't have supplies with hot air balloons - use a cut file! You could also draw or paint one super simply.

I love all the pattern on the balloon. Since the pattern was busy, I kept it to only two colors.

Alcohol inks are super satisfying. If you haven't tried them, treat yo'self! They're fun to use.

I hope you'll play along with the challenge this week!

Thanks for looking!

Hola Mamacita - a LM page

Hey friends! Today is the last challenge I created for a month of scrapping YOUR story at Lasting Memories, and I am loving all the participation! I cannot wait to see what you all come up with for the last challenge.

Today's challenge is to scrap YOUR favorite! You can scrap a page about your favorite hobby, food, trips, movie, book, anything that YOU love. I want to hear a story about it and why you love it!

I scrapped about my love for TACOS (what else?) and I adore how the page turned out!

One of our favorite restaurants is called Taco Mamacita, and it was about time I documented it. I thought the fun, llama paper pad from DCWV would a fun way to document tacos. And I LOVE this taco stamp from Ink Road Stamps - you can change the faces!

MMMMM tacos.  I colored the stamped tacos to match the DCWV papers.

I journaled a little about the place and visiting a new location. I love these tiny taco stickers I found at Michaels recently.

 I cut the title from a 6x6 paper pad. Since it's obviously longer than 6 inches, I just split the word in half and glued it together, one can barely notice!

The subtitle says "the only woman who can come between me and my man" LOL!

Here I used the negative space from the die cutting for the title as an extra embellishment element & I LOVE it! I'll do more of this.

But really tho - go getcha some tacos here if you live near one. Street corn off the cob is your side, it should be the only option. Deliciousness!

One last plea to play along with our challenge! I hope you will tell some of your own important stories, your scrapbooks should definitely include YOU.

Play along at Lasting Memories!