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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Smokies in a Pocket Page

Hey Friends!

This weekend ends Spring Break, but we had a blast on our little getaway, and I've already scrapbooked some of it!

I recently got some of the new Pinkfresh Studio line Out & About in the A Cherry on Top store which mixes and matches so perfectly with some old school Pink Paislee Outfitters, and newer PP Wild Child (boy).

I need an entire pack of these National Park tickets, please!

Loving this bug paper from Wild Child!

So glad to have this gorgeous, fun day documented! You can see more in the ACOT gallery, and more to come on their blog and even some new video on my YT channel - whhhat?!

Have a wonderful, scrappy weekend!

My Lucky Home

Happy St. Patty's Day, friends!

I have a new layout today, inspired by a fun inspiration board at Lasting Memories.

This month we're using inspiration photos for our pages, and today's inspiration was this collage of all things Irish:

Man, I love Ireland. We went once, and it was much too short, and we will be back some day!  I used the inspiration photo to tell a story about my new house and how I've decorated it for the "holiday."

From the photo I used the clovers, hanging vines, old brick buildings, and overall theme of Ireland.

I used shimmerz to make a green, partial wreath, then I cut some foliage out of glitter cardstock.

My Nana passed a few years ago on this day. Her last words to me were, "take care of those boys." I try to honor that every day, of course. They think St. Patty's Day is so fun. I buy them tattoos and hats and necklaces and they love to dress up. When my youngest was small I had gotten away from holiday decorating, but I'm trying to move back towards it. My Nana loved to celebrate all the holidays and had decor for all of them, so I will follow in her footsteps and hang some green and gold for a  week or so.

Glittery leaves are my jam! 

These sentiments from Pebbles were perfect for my page about our decorated home.

I hope you can be inspired by today's photo. It can even be the inspiration for you to go out today and take some corresponding photographs.

Thanks for looking!

Stay Golden with IRS

It's almost St. Patty's Day and you know I LOVE a good rainbow layout! So I was inspired to create a rainbow page for Ink Road Stamps today!

You can read all about it on their blog, but here's a peek.

See the rest on the blog and buy some stamps!

Rainbow Sunset with Momenta

Hey Friends! Are you ready for St. Patty's Day this weekend!?

Not that I need an excuse to get in the rainbow mood, but I was inspired by the upcoming holiday to create a rainbow layouts using my new favorite Momenta product - the Mermaid Scale die!

I used the die to cut from a rainbow array of papers from the momenta watercolor paper pad, then I randomly shaped the die cuts and overlapped to match the shapes.

How cute is that wooden sunshine sticker!? New to Momenta!

I added splatters in corresponding colors for each rainbow section, and added my pink sunset photo in the rainbow's pink position. It really was that gorgeous IRL!

The wood veneer printed stickers are such a fun accent, and the basic wood makes them versatile for so many types of layouts.  I love the blue hibiscus flower, it was perfect for the beachy layout.

This Mermaid Scale die is my new favorite background layering tool!  I hope you've been inspired and may the luck of the Irish be with you!

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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Beautiful Soul with Momenta

Hey friends!

I'm here today with a fun, spring page created with Momenta products.

This pic of my pup smelling the yellow daffodils was the perfect Spring photo to use with this gorgeous new Momenta watercolor flower paper pad.

I used some gesso to blend away a few flowers and apply some distress oxides in lemon and spritzed with water to add some yellow to the page to compliment the flowers in the photo.

I used the Thin San Serif alpha dies to cut the title of "Beautiful Soul" out of corresponding watercolored pink paper.

I also fussy cut some of the florals to create my own die cut ephemera.

I layered some water color papers and a die cut from the Mermaid Scale die for additional texture.

I used the Nested Rectangle Border to create a journaling space, and bordered it with additional fussy cut florals.

This pup and I, myself, are quite ready for spring! I  hope I've inspired you to create a spring page today!

Thanks for looking!

Pixie Dust with IRS

Pop over to the Ink Road Stamps blog today to see another Disney pocket page I created!

I love the story I told about this magical experience with Merida. :)

Thanks for looking! 

Beachy Vibes with IRS

We are having the rainiest February of all Februarys in Tennessee, and I'm dreaming of the beach!

You can find this layout on the Ink Road Stamps blog today, along with all the details of how I created it.

Thanks for looking! 

My Love with Momenta

Valentine's Day is almost here, friends!

Today I'm bringing another fun page using Momenta products to document our 10th anniversary trip to the Grand Canyon.

I used these awesome nested rectangle dies to cute different sizes from this gorgeous paper pad.

I used Heidi Swapp gold shine for splatters to compliment the golf foil accents on the Moment wood veneer stickers and the gold glitter sentiment stickers.

I used a poem from one of my favorites, Attticus. The glitter words formed part of the poem perfectly!

This paper pad has some really great spring florals! I cannot wait to use it again.

Thanks for looking! 

Pointing to LOVE with Momenta

Happy Hump Day, friends!

Are you getting ready for Valentine's day? I made this layout with all the lovely feelings toward my boys using the arrow dies from Momenta.

I decided to try something new and create a 9x12 layout! It's kind of like doing an 8.5x11 but on a slightly  larger scale. I liked it!

I used my distress oxide ink in Blueprint to color this wood veneer piece from Momenta. I love how the color stuck!

I used the Momenta watercolors paper pad to pick shades of yellow, green and blue and cut my arrows out on my Big Shot.

I did some splatters on my gridded background before I stuck down the arrows then sewed around them with gray thread.

I carried the blue down the page for my journaling and I threw in random enamel dots and jewels from my stash to add to the color blocking in the page.

I love filling the page with these gorgeous, textured die cuts! I hope you're inspired to grab your dies and create with Momenta products!!

Thanks for looking!

The Month of Love with IRS

Pop over to the Ink Road Stamps blog today to check out all the details on my February TN cover set up!

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You can also find my referral link for a discount there!

Thanks for looking!

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!!

Whiskey Hot Tub with IRS

Pop over to the Ink Road Stamps blog to see this layout of my wild boys today.

Make sure to use my code natalie10 for 10% off your order!

Thanks for looking!

Christmas Cookies

I'm still plugging away at those Christmas layouts! Today I'm using a prompt from Lasting Memories to use more than one photo on a layout.

I sewed a grid design in red thread and embellished with mostly Pebbles dies and stickers to tell the story of our Christmas cookie making this year.

That stamp is one of my favorite hand-lettered sentiments from Ink Road.

I've been wanting to try a grid design, and I'm super happy with how it turned out!

These were cookies "for Santa" because you know they ate most of them! SO. MANY. SPRINKLES! Fun Christmas memories were had.

I hope you'll play along with this week's Lasting Memories challenge to use multiple photos on your page! There's lots of great inspiration on the blog. Thanks for looking!

Shine so Merry & Bright with Momenta

Happy Hump Day!

I'm still working on some of my favorite Christmas photos from 2018, and I had to tell this story about how sweet my youngest son can be. The Momenta Christmas mixed media stickers were perfect to compliment my Christmas story!

I used red thread to sew around the green border, and green fruit packaging to bring a pop of green behind the photo! LOL Whatever works, huh?

How about these new skinny alphas?! I adore them! They're already in stores now.

I cut this Merry & Bright wreath out of two different papers to achieve this two-toned look & I love it! The wreaths alone did double duty as part of my photo background as well. Dissecting dies is a good way to get more mileage out of them!

This wooden Joy sticker from the Christmas set was complimented well with the wooden stars with gold accents.

I typed my story in red to compliment the page, and I love the look! Sprinkled some more wooden stars to tie the top of the page to the bottom.

I cannot wait to see what Momenta new products are coming in this new year, but what I've seen so far is so FAB!

Thanks for looking!