All the feels - a Stuck?! sketch

Happy Monday, all!

Today I bring to you my favorite layout I have created so far in 2017! I know it's still early, but I'm super happy how ths tunred out! haha!

I used a lovely sketch from the Stuck?! blog.

Here is the original sketch:

The colors just kind of came together, as I was startng with just the doily and the black and white. But when I decided to cut the layering photo paper to show the other side, I had to incorporate that bright pop of yellow too!

A dear scrappy friend just sent me a lovely happy mail with these GORG sequins and the beautiful doilies & I didn't wait long to use them!

 I love distressing my paper, but I get a little wild with it sometimes. Luckily, I love the look of the WeRMemoryKeepers fastner, so it serves dual purpose!

The journaling was supposed to be written on the page, per the sketch, but this journaling needed to be hidden. I loved bringing the pop of colors to the tag ribbons tho!

I have said before I'm too impatient for much mixed media because of the whole waiting for it to dry thing, but I feel like I may want to get into it more. I'm not sure where to start though. If you have tutorials you love for mixed media scrapbooking, post the links below, por favor!

Supplies:
Textured white cardstock - DCWV
Pocket card and chipboard stickers - Me and My Big Ideas
Heart strip - Amy Tangerine
Blue dot strip - Studio Calico
Black cross strip - Studio Calico
Tag paper - Studio Calico cut with Cricut
Windo paper - Dear Lizzy
Yellow/song sheet paper - Chickaniddy
Sequins - Teresa Collins
Splatters - Tattered Angels glimmer mist

Thanks for looking!

A boyish happy mail

Well I know it seems like I'm wearing out this Authentique paper collection, but I promise they just seem to show up in sequential blog posts & none of these pages or projects appear together in a scrapbook!

Today I'm sharing a happy mail envelope flip book I created for a sweet lady named Fatimah in a swap group I am a part of on Facebook. She surprised me with an amazing happy mail all the way back before HALLOWEEN! And I unfortunately just had time to finish this response. These holiday times were super busy!

Fatimah and I both have two boys, so I created a boy themed flip book for her. Here I embossed a stamp on an old dictionary page, and I added some little boy themed/colored trading cards cut from the Authentique Darling Boy collection.

On the opposite side I made the paper clip with a chipboard piece from American Crafts.

 In the middle I have a quote card with a vellum envelope of sequins. One the last opening there is a shaker pocket.

The last envelope contains a few goodies for Fatimah to use in her crafting & some tea.

On the back I have a brown paper bag containing my note! The quote came from the branding strip off the paper.

Thanks for looking!

Jeep Fun - a LGS sketch!

Hey everyone!

I'm working on my "be more prolific" goal for the year, and it's going well. Today, I have a layout created with this week's sketch from Let's Get Sketchy - they always have inspiring sketches!

Here is the original sketch:

I'm really loving this boy themed paper from Authentique!

Here you can see a few orange shimmery paint splatters. I also folded my wood grain washi tape back on itself to create a little dimension and I really like how it turned out!

I cut the top cute little camera from some kraft stickers, and the green camera from a Pink Paislee travel collection paper pad.

Supplies:
Green paper & camera - Pink Paislee Atlas
Gray and orange papers - Authentique Darling Boy
Kraft stickers - Studio Calico
Cork stickers - Journey by Crate Paper
Kraft alphas - Colorbok

Thanks for looking!

Happy New Year! - Start it off right!

Happy New Year, friends!

Today I am happy to bring you a creation for the most recent Lasting Memories challenge. I feel like this is a great way to start off the new year - with a sparkly page, using a new technique I haven't tried. I have also included a couple of other pocket pages I have created for my Disney album, which is another good way to start the year - by being prolific - one of my 2017 scrappy goals.

This week's challenge at Lasting Memories is to use punches or die cuts. I do not have any punches, but I do have a cricut I love to use, so I created some die cut words for my title page for my Disneyworld vacation album.

I've actually had this idea in my head for a while for my title page. I enjoy watching the sequin usage of Sarah McLellan on YouTube, and  I saw her create a fun title page for one of her albums a while ago, and I loved the idea. I just had to add a photo of the castle because it is just so beautiful!

I have a fuse tool, but I wanted to sew through the letters, as is the current style, and to keep the sequins from going atop the photo, so went ahead and just sewed the top of the page shut too.

I painted the little wooden at sign and added some glitter and just used some super sticky tape to adhere it to the glitter ribbon.

I'm super happy with how my title page turned out! I hope it gets the viewer ready for the Christmasy, scrappy goodness within the album.

I recently put out a facebook post in the Scrap Gals group looking for some pocket page inspiration, because I struggle with my pocket pages. I recognize I will never scrapbook all the photos I wish to scrapbook if I do not use pocket pages, which is why I do them. But I feel like 12x12 layouts are definitely my strengths. I realized I struggle particularly with pocket pages with multiple 4x6 pockets which do not contain photos.

My journaling almost always goes on a 3x4 card because I do not write enough for a 4x6 card. So, if I use a 4x6 card with a phrase or word on it, I feel as though a second phrase card would take away from the rest of the page and leave the reader wondering where to rest the eye. For this reason, I tend to try to use a card with some type of image, of which I do not have many. So with as many pocket page cards as I do have, I find that I end up making my own 4x6 cards so very often! It seems so silly, but for a cohesive page look and to satisfy this rule of not using multiple phrases, it is what I feel I need to do.

So, due to the amount of photos from our Disney trip, I am attempting to overcome this aversion to pocket pages (I always leave them as last to work on!) and I have completed quite a few so far in my album.

Another festive, Christmas page - here is the story of how our elf, Tinsel  found us! Haha - I had 4 4x6 photos to work with here, which I find much easier than the delimma I described above.

Have you ever embossed stamping on photos. I did the first, the red only, and wondered why I didn't see it much - I loved it!

However, when I did the top photo embossing, I realized why it probably isn't common when some of the photo began to bubble up after too much heat. It returned to normal when I quickly removed the heat, but I could definitely see it causing some problems!

I created a journaling card here by framing it in some festive, Christmas washi.

The first park day, we visited Epcot. I used this page to document my baby's first Disneyworld ride ever - which he promptly slept through!

I am happy with the balance between the 4x6 cards, and of course, I ended up making the bottom card.

Well, here's to a wonderful 2017! I hope you get all your crafty goals accomplished and then some! I also hope I can offer a bit of inspiration, as I know this community inspires me to be a better crafter and scrapbooker.

Supplies:
Shaker page - table scatter from the dollar store
Die cut paper - Pink Paislee
Glitter ribbon - Dollar Tree

1st pocket page
Red papers - American Crafts
Green card - Me and my Big Ideas
Stamps - Studio Calico
Fun sticker - echo park
Red washi - American Crafts

2nd Pocket page
Top card - Echo Park
Bottom card sticker - Echo park
Bottom card paper - American Crafts
glitter ribbon - Dollar tree
3x4 cards - Me and My Big Ideas
Disney Washi - Simple Stories

Thanks for looking!

So Goofy - Farewell 2016!

Hello, friends! Welcome to my last blog post of the year.

I know they have been few and far between these last couple of months, but I hope that will be changing here soon, as life will (hopefully) slow a bit and allow for more crafting, scrapbooking and documenting!

I'm glad to say goodbye to 2016, as it has been a diffcult year, although goodness happened too. Including a fun trip to Disneyworld the first week of this month. That's what I'm documenting today! I've finally gotten to begin on my Disneyworld album, and it will be a big one - over 2000 photos were taken between myself, my father and photo pass.

For my first page, I used a lovely sketch from Let's Get Sketchy. They are using this sketch for a call to find guest designers for their Design Team in 2017. I would be very honored to be chosen to work with the talented ladies of this Design Team. I throughly enjoy using the sketches from this blog!

Here is the application sketch:

To fit the photo I wanted to use, I rotated the sketch.

I really love how it turned out! I enjoyed using mostly non-Disney papers and embellishments, but throwing in a bit of a Disney stack my hubby put in my stocking.

The doily was a last minute addition that I found in my drawer and matched the Goofy color scheme, and I'm so glad I discover it becasue I love it!

 I used a mix of Authentique, Studio Calico and My Mind's Eye papers for this layout. The white alphas are Jasmine Jones' for a past December Daily kit.

More photos from this character dinner are below!

Here is the double page spread.

I used my Disney paper pad from Christmas, with some other paper scraps and happy mail bits. The stickers are Me and My Big Ideas and Echo Park.

Ha! My big boy is smiling the same smile in a lot of our Disney photos.

Sometimes I struggle with my pocket pages. I know I cannot realistically actually full-page scrapbook all my photos, so I use pocket pages, but I feel like they stifle my creativity staying within the pockets. However, I am quite pleased with how this page turned out. Hopefully it is a sign of good flow to come for this Disneyworld album!

Don't worry - the little one definitely warmed up to meeting characters during the week. The Woody & Buzz photos made me cry to see all the joy these two boys had upon meeting them. I am not even sure my scrapbooking can do them justice!

I hope you have enjoyed some scrapbooking inspiration from me this year. I have defnitely enjoyed growing my online prescence in the scrapbooking community this year, and I have made some lovely, crafty friends! 2017 will be great - we'll see!

Thanks for looking & Happy New Year!

Celebrate the holidays!

Today I bring you the last of my completed 2015 December pages. I will complete more later. Also, expect many, new, Christmasy, DISNEY pages soon!

Scrapbook binders have their pros and cons, and the gap in a double page spread is definitely one of the cons, but I do enjoy all the photos together on this spread. I'm a big fan of the red, white and turquoise color scheme too! I like separation the title like this fam + ily, as ILY is also I Love You! <3 p="">

This time last year I was on maternity leave with nugget. Man how I miss those days! It's quite unfortunate that we do not have planned leave for parents as other countries do, but I was blessed to have a couple months off with him.

I documented those sweet moments we had last December. One of them is here. Also, my husband got me tickets to two Christmas concerts for our anniversary last year. Here is concert one, JohnnySWIM at the Ryman Auditorium. It was a great and fun show!

I have also shown this page before, but here it is again. I love a good gold and black color scheme for a New Year's page. And I'm still proud of that amazing charcuterie, so check out that eye candy too. The full page is quite simple, but I really love how it turned out!

Stay tuned for Christmas pages from Disneyworld soon! Disney + Christmas is sure to be amazing, as these are two of my favorite types of pages to create!

It's December 1st, so let's see those December Daily pages!!

Thanks for looking!

Holiday Fun!

Even though I do not do my December album in a Daily format, I tend to have photos from almost every day in December!

Here we have another Santa photo op, as well as documenting seeing the lights at Jellystone in Nashville.  I love to collect ephemera to go in my scrapbook with photos and the Santa and "Santa's Village" bits on the journaling card are from a little ephemera business card we received at the campground.

 I love using the pocket pages with 2x2 photos to document days when I have lots of scrap-worthy photos.

We had a super fun afternoon & evening. After seeing the dancing lights at Jellystone, we went to dinner at Santa Fe, then we went to Build-a-Bear, and my oldest son made a bear for his baby brother for Christmas. Then we headed over to see the lights at Opryland Hotel! Definitely some traditional, Nashville Christmas fun!

It's always nice when you can trade photo ops with strangers - so we have a family photo from our Opryland trip. Another shaker pocket needed to be made.

The last spread for today shows photos from one our family Christmas celebrations, which we always have the weekend before Christmas. I posted these pages previously, but enjoy them again with this compilation.

I cannot wait to see December Daily creations popping up on Instagram! Thanks for looking!

Sparkle & Shine!

Back again today with more Christmas/December Daily inspiration!

Is there anything sweeter than baby's first time on Santa's lap?! These sweet newborn photos are too much!

I used a carmine filter for these, and I love how they turned out. I'm not so happy that my glitter from my shaker pocket come around to my Joy to the World card, but it's there now. Still works!

This may be my favorite spread in the album! I adore this Stampin' up Santa stamp. I made the pocket cards with an American Crafts 6x6 paper pad, and I put the cheers sticker on the outside of the pockets. I cannot get enough shaker pockets, and I made my own mix here of reds, black and whites with a couple snowflakes thrown in!

More Christmas magic to come tomorrow! I hope you draw some scrappy inspiration here. 

Thanks for looking!

Getting in the Christmas Spirit!

Happy Monday!

I hope you're enjoying my December album share, and getting a little bit of magical, Christmas inspiration!

Today I have a few more pages for you.

Our elf's name is Tinsel & he went a little overboard last year...

The dogs were the only ones that ended up on the naughty list!

Sorry about the glare here. My boys were dressed like Buzz & Woody (a recurring theme this year, it seems). I love their love for each other. That top small pocket is cloud paper, like Andy's bedroom!

Lachlan wasn't too sure about being held by big bro - he's since gotten past that.

I love that my boys see the same Santa every year - great tradition! (Sometimes we see him at Cracker Barrel too LOL!) I love capturing all the sweet faces of the boy when he has serious Santa discussions. Pocket pages are a great way to fit in all these photos.

Tiny album calls for tiny fringes. I love it!

I hope you enjoyed today's pages, and come back for more tomorrow!

Happy Christmas!

Getting Ready for Christmas!

Hello everyone!

Today I'm bring you a layout I created for Lasting Memories Best of 2016 Challenges. They've picked the best challenges of the year to bring back for one more round of inspiration. This week we're bringing back Glitz & Glam from the Oscars theme, which we all know is right up my alley!

Honestly I could pick probably any page at all from my December 2015 album to include in this category. I love the Glitz, y'all!

Today's page includes a photo of boys by my glittery tinsel tree. I used some stamps to create my own background paper for the title. I stamped the title - these boys are MY Christmas magic.

I just love these little glitter trees from Michael's!

I picked up these cutest ever little 6x6 paper pads from Tuesday Morning a while back, and they come in super handy for a 6x8 album.

That glitter ribbon is from the Dollar Tree! What a great find. I bought 6 rolls! LOL!

This week my family & I are enjoying some amazing Christmas magic. So, I've decided to share the Christmas love & show some of my pages from last year's Christmas album. I don't do a December Daily perse, as I cannot keep up with the daily printing. But my 6x8 album dedicated solely to December and mostly all things Christmas is basically the same thing, just not necessarily in the daily format.

So I hope to offer a little inspiration to those of you doing December Daily.

And to those of you who are not - a bit of inspiration to think outside the box & make your project work for you!

Here is the opening page of my album. I have shared some of these pages  before, but this week plan to compile them all together as a glimpse into the completed album.

I'm a little obsessed with acrylic shapes right now, so this little sparkle pocket at the beginning of my album is one of my faves!

Merry December!

I hope you come back this week to see more December scrapbook pages & get into the Christmas spirit!

Also, go play along at Lasting Memories this week with one of my favorite challenges of the year!

Thanks for looking!