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Hello from the IRS side

Another car for the IRS and SMS card hop today. Check out the details on the Ink Road Stamps blog.

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Spreading Cheer with IRS and SMS!

You can find me over on the Ink Road Stamps blog today with another card for the card hop with SpeigelMom Scraps!

Pop over to the IRS blog and check it out. You can read all the details and find out how to participate.

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Mermaids! IRS and SMS Instagram hop

Hello friends!

There's tons of fun making a SPLASH over on Instagram today! Ink Road Stamps and SpiegelMom Scraps have teamed up for an Instagram hop.

There's tons of inspiration in the hop featuring the IRS mermaid stamp sets and the exclusive sequin mix from SMS. These ladies have seriously blown my mind with their creative projects!

I used these adorable sets to create a fun 6x8 pocket page. The mermaids fit perfectly in these 2x2 squares.

I used alcohol inks to create some aqua mixed media and stamped the mermaids on top..

I added some sequin clusters with these ladies.

The MERMOM stamp was just perfection with these photos of me playing with my boys in the ocean.

Of course I had to add some glitter! I did two sequins pockets with my fuse, and embossed the Mermaid at Heart stamp with some light blue glitter and adhered it to the outside of pockets.

Some lightly stamped bubbles made a great journaling square for my page.

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Make sure to complete the IG hop for your chance to win tons of fun prizes and see some beautiful inspiration.

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The J-O-B - a Lasting Memories page

Happy Sunday, friends!

Today we have another fun prompt over at Lasting Memories for our month of telling YOUR story. Today's prompt is to scrapbook about your job, an old job, your dream job, anything about your work.

This is actually a page I've been meaning to do for a really long time, so I figured if I created the prompt I would have to do it! Many times people tell us their jobs and we really have no idea what they do in the day-to-day activities of those jobs. So, I think it's a super idea to journal your specifics for the future generations.

Here is my page:

I thought the WRMK Urban Chic collection was perfect for this page, since my office is downtown & when I go there it's the only day of the week I'm guaranteed to put on make up LOL!

I just received my Ink Road Stamps Snarks & Recreation stamp set, so obviously some Lesley Knope quotes are perfection for my page about my government job!

I changed out my machine thread to black & I'm loving it!

 I also used this sweet sequin set from Spiegal Mom Scraps to add some texture and interest to my page.

While it's not the most exciting of pages, I'm glad I finally got this story down! I hope you'll join us over at the Lasting Memories blog, as well as the rest of the selfie challenges this month! I cannot wait to see what everyone creates!

Thanks for looking!!

You Make My Heart Go Boom - a Momenta page

Hey friends!

I wanted to make sure everyone was inspired for our American Independence Day holiday, so I'm bringing you a fun, firework page created with Momenta products today!

I used the star fish dies from Momenta in a patriotic way. I die cut some beautiful pages from my favorite paper company, Pink Paislee. I gessoed the background of this embossed Kraft to brighten it up, and sewed the stars in a firework pattern.

This glitter arrow is also from a Momenta puffy sticker pack & went perfectly with the glitter alphas in my title.

Then I added the wood grain Momenta stars with gold accents to tie the page together. And we can't forget the splatters!

This star tab is a pull for a hidden journaling card that documents the story of this layout of my hubs and me on the 4th of July.

I used felt around the edges of my layered photo to pop up the picture, which left room for a journaling card without messing up the aesthetic of the page.

The entire title says "You make my heart go BOOM."

To add interest, I ripped small sections from the border and backed the openings with patterned PP paper and some embellishments. I love how it turned out!

This is the back side of my pull our journaling card. It's a super simple way to make sure you tell your story while not interrupting the artistic flow of a page. The embossed paper didn't lend well to journaling on the layout, or I wouldn't have been opposed to writing on the page.

Repeating a die cut is one of my favorite ways to create a page with an impact. It really is easy to do, but makes a big statement!

Supplies:

Star Die - Momenta

Wood Stars - Momenta

Gold Arrow - Momenta

Patterned paper - Pink Paislee Sweet Freedom

Navy Puffy Alpha - Fancy Pants

Red Puffy Alpha - Studio Calico

Navy block alpha - Illustrated Faith

Gold Alpha - MAMBI

Gold Stars - Studio  Calico

Star Stamp - Studio Calico

# Stamp - Heidi Swapp

Embossed Kraft - Bazzill

Thanks for looking!

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!

Throwin' it back

Hey hey hey!

Today I'm bringing you a layout I created for the last day of the SMS iNSD challenges. This one was created for my friend Ali's challenge to do a throwback layout.

You can also see a time lapse of my process to create this page. Please let me know how yall feel about the time lapse/videos without sound versus the videos that explain the process! I'm not sure which are more what people enjoy.

I found these sweet photos of my husband at Disneyworld, about the same age as my oldest is right now, and I had to create a layout with them! I adore the color pallette and the sweet baby smiles.

I used a Felicity Jane kit we got at a Scrap Gals retreat and added in some Simple Stories.

I added some star sequins to the banner to tie into the star theme I had going on.

I love mixed fonts for my title. I find it hard to just use one at this point in time!

 I also can't seem to make a page without mixed media these days. Which is so funny because not that long ago I thought I couldn't do mixed media because I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to dry. I was recently looking at my 2015 scrapbook and thinking how far along my designs have come. I definitely think that some of that is owed to mixed media!

These SMS challenges also inspired a couple of other pages I have posted on Instagram lately.

This page was created for the "back it up" challenge to use multiple shapes on the background:

Annnd I threw in a little sarcasm! LOL

This page was created for their grab 5 challenge to use stamps, flair, sequins, paper and die cuts:

My jam for sure! I'm working on trying to get my vacation album from our cruise last May finished!

Thanks for looking!

Neon Man Card - Scrap the Boys

Hey friends!

Today I'm bringing you a card I did using the mood board at Scrap the Boys. My son also wanted to create a card using the mood board! He kept gasping and giggling as he was creating it, enjoying how it was coming out. It was adorable!

We didn't have exactly the right colors for the mood board in paper, so we inked ups some white cardstock, and it worked perfectly!

We were definitely inspired by the leaves and the bright blues and green. The tropical feel was great too.

Heath loved creating the die cuts with my Big Shot.

I'm putting sequins on a card, I don't care who ya are.

I think I will definnitely be using this color pallette again for a scrapbook page - I love it!

Wild Whimsy - GDT @ Wild Whisper

Hey friends!

I'm super pumped to announce that I am the guest designer over at Wild Whisper Designs for March and April! I am so honored the girls are having me, and the entire group is so welcoming and sweet, not to mention crazy talented! I love meeting new people that share my passion.

I want you to see all the details on the Wild Whisper blog, but here's the finished product!

This Wild Whimsy collection is something else! I love how unique the color pallette is, and the whimsical mermaids are my fave.

I highly suggest grabbing the collection for your spring break or upcoming beach trips! Head on over to the WW blog for details and a small photo tutorial on how I made the waterfall feature on the layout - you pull the tail & the photos flip!

Thanks for looking!

Reckless abandon - a LM challenge

Happy Sunday, friends!

Today I'm bringing you another Color me Happy layout from Lasting Memories challenge. I have been on a roll creating white background 8.5x11 layouts, so I decided to stick with that style for an entire album of beach layouts from our last beach vacation. I'm really happy with how today's layout turned out.

Here's the mood board from which I drew inspiration:

I used papers from Pink Paislee's Citrus Bliss collection - they're one of my favorite companies and this is one of my favorite collections! I'm a sucker for kelly green these days. It's always been one of my favorite colors.

I used Recollections shimmer watercolor crayons  and some alcohol packaging technique to creat the yellow background. Then I stamped with a lemon stamp and made some green splatters with another watercolor crayon and alcohol.

I wanted a big title to convey how much FUN we had this day. It was probably one of the best days of our lives so far. It was glorious and perfectly tempered. We just played in nature and enjoyed one another and I almost tear up just thinking about it. I know it's just a first of many to come - it's one of the first, if not the actual first trip the 4 of us have taken together without any other company.

I had a poll going on my Instagram stories about sequins being the new enamel dots, but there actually some who don't agree?! I'm aghast! Haha

It's always nice when a die cut you've been saving turns out to work perfectly on your page! This little "be grateful" bit was the perfect shade of yellow and sentiment for such a great memory.

I'm so glad God blessed me by being his Mommy! My sweet, fun-loving, adventurous, gorgeous boy who cooperated with my seemingly endless photo taking in exchange for  jumping cold cold waves this day!

I hope you will all go over to Lasting Memories and play along with this week's green and yellow challenge. It's a unique color board, and I love it! I can't wait to see what you make.

Thanks for looking!