Birthday Bears - a LM challenge

Hello friends,

I'm here today with another challenge from the fun Lasting Memories blog! This week's challenge is to use the Red Cross as inspiration for your layout.

I used red paper with white crosses - one of my faves. And I pulled some metallic black Heidi Swapp texture paste through a cross stencil.

My brother captured some super great photos of my boys blowing out their birthday candles at their Camping themed party in November, so they definitely deserved their own great scrapbook layout.

My boys have birthdays 3 years and 1 day apart, so they will always share a birthday party. They love each other so much, they don't seem to mind yet!

I backed some of my photos with red and white glitter papers to add to my rustic sparkle theme.

 

I'm super loving this pack of textured Kraft Bazzil cardstock I found at Tuesday Morning. It's great for my rustic, boy layouts.

This birthday party for my bear cubs was a success!

I hope you will play along with Lasting Memories this week for our last March "month of" challenge. I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for looking!s

Chin Up Buttercup! - an IRS layout

Go check out all the fun details of this snowy day layout I created on The Ink Road blog!

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Sleep Tight - a Scrap the Boys challenge

Hey friends!

I'm here today with a layout I created with a fun challenge from Scrap the Boys. What a great blog, and I can't believe I have not participated before.

This layout was based upon a fun sketch from Laura Whitaker:

I had these three sweet photos of my boy with his 4th birthday gift of a big boy bed, and they were perfect!

I used these fun eyelashes from the new Ink Road Stamps Iconic collection instead of E's in the title! I love they look like asleep eyes, and let me tell you - this boy has lashes for day! So unfair lol.

These transparent ephemera pieces from Shimelle were perfect for a layout about bedtime! It is hard to photograph a bit - it says "to the Moon & Back."

I also got these great WRMK dies at Tuesday Morning that were perfect with my star theme!

I also picked up this dot textured Kraft and LOVE it! 

I sewed a circle around my star background staying true to the sketch and I love how that turned out as well.

Only a litte journaling was necessary to tell this story, and accenting with acrylic stars brought the theme together again.

Aww that sweet sleepy baby face is already so much bigger!

I loved working with the Scrap the Boys challenge. I'll definitely be coming back again.

Supplies:

Kraft dotted cardstock - Bazzil

Patterned paper - WRMK

Die cuts - WRMK, Maggie Holmes

acrylic stars -Studio Calico

Alphas - Bella Blvd

Stamps - Ink Road Stamps

Transparent ephemera - Shimelle

Thanks for looking!

Lucky Duck - a Challenge YOUrself page

Hello Friends!

I love green and I love gold glitter, so St. Patty's day is a fun theme for me. I ran across these old photos from our college days, and decided to scrapbook them in my current style with a 10 years + perspective.

I used a fun challenge from the Challenge YOUrself blog.

I used the diagonal line with Stamps, Photo with ME, and Mists or Sprays. I also used Washi tape and a Die Cut.

I cut this shamrock rainbow cut file from my Cricut.

I gessoed the page and did the package technique with my HS Shine spray.

Then I used some gel mat medium mixed with gold glitter with my heart stencil, and stamped the "how you doin'" stamp from the new IRS Friends themed stamp "The One with all the stamps."

We were so young! haha! The glitter AC Thickers worked perfectly for this layout.

I had pulled out some gold washi, but I was not sure how to use it. Until I screwed up my journaling, then I figured it out really quickly! haha!

I was really needed to get my craft on, and this messy, glittery page was just the thing for that! I hope you're inspired to create a super fun St. Patrick's Day page this week!

Supplies:
Background Paper - Crate Paper
Thickers - American Crafts
Star Washi - Freckled Fawn
Triangle Washi - Hobby Lobby
Stamp - Ink Road Stamps
Green spray - Heidi Swapp Shine
Cut file cut with Cricut - Image from google.
Glitter and puffy  Hearts - Hobby Lobby

Thanks for looking!

My crafty space - a LM challenge

Hey hey crafty peeps!

I'm here again today with another layout inspired by a challenge at Lasting Memories.

March is National Craft month, so we are challenged this week to create a page about our favorite crafting hobby or about our craft space.

This worked out great since I recently cleaned and reorganized my craft room to sell our house. It's been looking GOOD! I definitely wanted to document it, so I created this page in my January traveler's notebook, which is the month I cleaned the space to put our home on the market.

The Beautiful Mess stamp set from Ink Road Stamps was super perfect for this crafty spread!

I'm super proud of those rose gold mason jars! Haha! I actually bought more of them to house my letterboard letters.

I stamped one of the sentiments on this little polaroid frame and I'm loving it.

Do it! Go make a mess and play along with our challenge! Make a page about YOU and what you love to do!

Thanks for looking!

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!

Fun @ the Farm - LM #384

Hey friends!

I am here today with another page for a Lasting Memories new month of challenges. March was named for the Roman god, Mars. Mars was the god of War and an agricultural guardian. This week's challenge is to create a page about war or a page about agriculture.

I pulled out some photos from last year when we visited a friend's farm & completed my first pocket page in while & it felt good!

I used a fun WRMK 6x6 pad called Shine for most of the cards & ephemera from Pink Fresh.

I love letting Snapchat filters tell some of my story for me!

I found some coordinating green cardstock & ran it through my big shot with my favorite wood grain embossing folder. I'm loving this green and navy combo!

I used some greenery I had cut for another project with some of the Pink Fresh ephemera. This collection is called Escape the Ordinary &  I received it in a Wild Hare Kit at the Scrapgal's retreat. Definitely my style!

We had a good family day this day, which came at a sad time for our extended family, so it was nice to scrap the happy part of that particular time.

Anyone else's kids obsessed with goats?

Mine LOVE them. lol Goat videos all day long if they could.

Don't let the little one fool you, the snacking was much preferred over the fishing.

I hope you have been inspired to create a fun, thematic page this week based upon MARS! I cannot wait to see what you all make.

Check my instagram for supplies.

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!

High Tides & Good Vibes - an IRS layout

Hey hey hey - another twice on Sunday blog post here again!

Today I'm over on on the Ink Road stamps blog with a bright, sunny layout to combat this rainy, cold February day in Tennessee.

I used the super fun Full Circle stamp set to create this bold beach layout & it was SO fun!

You can read more details over at The Ink Road & see more fun photos of this layout. Don't the patterns have such a fun, Saved by the Bell vibe? Hahha That was my JAM when I was a kid.

Go check out the versatility of these great stamps!!!

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!

Fave Ride - a LM challenge

Hey Friends!

Happy Sunday!

Today I have a layout for you using this week's challenge over at Lasting Memories - a color challenge to use reds and pinks!

Here's the color board for the challenge:

I only used the red and the lighter pink, since I don't have much opportunity to scrap with pink, but I had these Disney photos beggin for  scrap.

The number washi tape represents how many times we rode my son's favorite ride - 1, 4, 10 times? Many times!

That a was a d and that e was a cursive z, my friends - alter your stash for use!

 I used some great acrylic stars from Color Cast Designs to add some depth to my page - they're so cute!

I added a small foam dot at the end of my label to keep it popped up like the photo. I love how this quick little 6x8 page turned out, y'all!

I hope you will play along with us at Lasting Memories. It's a perfect time to create those LOVE layouts with pinks and reds.

Supplies:
Polka dot paper & ride stickers - Simples Stories, Say cheese
Acrylic starts - Color Cast Designs
Thichers - American Crafts
Pink and black papers - Studio Calico

Thanks for looking!