Another layout!

Ok, so I was going through my PP stash and found this My Minds Eye paper.. I love it, but always struggled with how to use it without covering up all of the pretty glittery swirls. This is what I came up with. I am not thrilled, and I think that I need to add something to the top left of the page.

Fun in the Fountain

This is another layout that I completed for the Chinese Whispers challenge at Scrap Happy. I used My Minds Eye PP, some book paper punched with the Butterfly Sizzlet for Stampin Up. I sprayed some Mister Huey through a mask made with the PTI Happy hexagon plate, and added some stamped butterflies and little scalloped pieces using the coordinating stamp set (Purchased from MyCraftChannel.com) using PTI inks. 

I love how this one turned out!

Happy Day

Please forgive the blurry photo.. I need to retake this one! This layout uses the Simple Stories Summer Fresh Collection. I created this for the Chinese Whispers challenge on the Scrap Happy boards.

LOAD512 Days 17-21

Day 17 - Play - More October Afternoon and washi tape!

Day 18 - I was bad... I did not do a layout on Friday. We had a great time with good friends though!

Day 19 - My favorite photo of the girls using the Everyday Moments collection

Day 20 - Playtime with Papa - October Afternoon!

Day 21 - Sisters - Simple Stories Fabulous Collection

LOAD512 Days 12-16

I have been keeping up.. I promise! I just have not been good about posting the layouts here. I have been using a lot of the October Afternoon- Sidewalks collection and the Simple Stories - Fabulous Collection this LOAD. I think that I will try to use every bit of the two collections during this challenge.

Day 12 - Valentines Day 2010. Horrible lighting but cute pictures!

Day 13 - Bowling Fun using more of the October Afternoon - Sidewalks collection

Day 14 - Megan's 1st grade photo using Simple Stories Fab-U-lous Collection

Day 15 - Spring using October Afternoon - Sidewalks collection

Day 16 - Lauren's pre-school photo. This layout will go next to the one of Megan above in the album

LOAD512 Days 10 and 11

Day 10 - Missing Emily. I used the same supplies as the Bubble Fun page since this photo was taken on the same day and will likely face the other page in the album. I added my fav. Martha Stewart butterfly punch and some washi tape and bling.

Day 11 - Observations of homework time. This layout took me forever to do! Well over an hour at least. I struggled with it until I decided to just stick stuff down and not think so hard about it. After that the clustering helped to pull the photos and title together much better than I had thought.

LOAD512 Days 7-9

I have been keeping up, I promise! Apparently I have been on a kraft and inking kick this month.

Day 7 - Another layout using the Simple Stories Fab-U-lous Collection by Memory Works

Day 8 - I am not done with this layout. I have a 6X12 page that will go to the left that will have the story of how my Grandparents met and married. I just have to type it up in the correct format and print it out! The sheet music is vintage, and the white flocked damask square is from a gift bag! Prima bling, and I made the flowers myself from some fabric in my stash. The lace is from a thrift store.

Day 9 - October Afternoon and Thickers, with some vintage sheet music as mats under the "bubble" photos.

LOAD512 Day 6

This layout uses the Simple Stories Fab-U-lous Collection by Memory Works. I love this collection!

LOAD512 Days 4 & 5

LOAD Day 4 I decided to make a layout of meeting Evan. Sira was the first one to get to hold him when we went to visit Sarah and Evan in the hospital.

Day 5 I really wanted to play with these October Afternoon papers so I pulled some pics of the girls with Jäger. Now I just need to look up the date and add it.

LOAD512 Day 3

Last night I decided to make a page about Sira's 16th birthday party... and managed to fit 11 photos on a single page layout! The bottom right photo pulls out to reveal an accordion type section with an additional 9 hidden photos! Now I just need to figure out how to rig the page protector so that we can get to these pictures easily but still keep the accordion in place when not looking at the photos. I made the mistake of having the front photo flip down instead of up which make setting the layout up for a photo a challenge! Maybe I need to add a decorative paper clip to the side...

LOAD512 Day 2!

Day 2 LOAD layout is done! I used the Everyday Moments collection from Teresa Collins. I love this collection!

Another LOAD begins!

Load 512 started today and I was not prepared! My island was a mess, I was not feeling well, and I had not even pulled out the pizza box that I store my LOAD layouts in until the end of the month! This LOAD will end for me on 5/24 since we leave on the 25th for our cruise (yay!) but I still want to participate!
Today's prompt was to scrap a photo of yourself. I pulled one out that Sira took and pulled out my DCWV paper pad and started layering! I actually had one of Shimelle's starting points sketched out on a post-it on my island so decided to use it as my starting point! After I finished this layout tonight I cleared off my island, pulled out the pizza box, and even started a Mother's Day gift!

Using Scraps

Before cleaning up my workspace from the mini album I decided to make a coordinating card to go with the gift. The CS, stamp and ink is from PTI. I misted the Melon Berry CS with some homemade perfect pearls mist and ran it through my cuttlebug with the Damask Impression Plate. I layered the Teresa Collins PP, a sticker form the collection and a strip of CS that I stamped the sentiment (also PTI) on. I added a couple of the butterfly die cuts from teh collection and some SU Pearls.

On the Scrap Happy forum someone started a "Chinese Whispers" challenge of sorts. We each start with a Sketch which we send to the coordinator, and then we complete a layout based on that sketch. We then send that layout to the next person on the list who will complete a layout based on it. The layouts will keep getting passed around until they reach the "end" and then the original sketch will be revealed. It will be interesting to see how the layouts progressed compared to the original sketch!

This is the layout that I sent to the next person on the list. The PP and banner is from Little Yellow Bicycle. The butterflies are cut from the SU butterfly die, in both blue (PTI) and a printed vellum that has been in my stash for years, and layered together. The sketch that I started with is Sketch 288 from Scrapbook Challenges. As you can see I already deviated from the sketch by moving the title to the top instead of under the photos, and using the curly frame instead of a circle.

Mini Album for Aunt Rose Marie

For Christmas this past year I gave my Aunt Rose Marie an IOU for a mini album of her grandchildren. I wanted to have the pictures first so that I could build the mini around them.. but I have not been successful in getting good photo files from my cousins. So I decided to go ahead and make the mini album without the pics. I did get a few pics printed (that I need to pick up from Wal Mart!) but the quality is poor so I think that I will use temporary adhesive so that we can switch out the photos later.

I used the same album format as I did for the baby album I made last month. This time I used another Teresa Collins collection - Spring Fling, and PTI CS and Ribbon. The pearls are from SU.

Shimelle's Weekend Challenges

I decided to play along with Shimelle's Craft Weekend posts this weekend. I made 3 pages based in her challenges, and plan to do a few more of them before the deadline next weekend.

The first page "Great Grandma" was created for Challenge 11 - Two Patterns. This Teresa Collins - Spring Fling PP was still on my workspace after finishing a min album for my Aunt this week. I added some Thickers for the title, but the rest is from the Spring Fling collection.

The next layout that I completed was created using Challenge 2 - Mixing Papers. The pink PP in the background is a really old piece of baby themed paper from American Traditional. The black floral transparency is from Ki Memories, and the pink and white chevron is from the Bella Blvd - Spring Flings and Easter Things collection. This challenge was really outside of my comfort zone as I typically use all of 1 collection, or a kit that has been prepared by someone else. I am not that good at putting them together myself!

The rub-on frame around the focal image, the heart button in the title and the camera brad have all been in my stash for years. I also used some 7 Gypsies stickers, Thickers Alphas, Tim Holtz washi tape and the black swirly border sticker is from Queen and Co.

The last layout that I completed today is for Challenge 10 - Something Bold. I have had these patterned papers from Stampin Up (I think??) for years. My daughter Megan took this picture after her last ballet class of the year, and her note in the picture says it all. I could not come up with a title, so I decided to leave it be. I can always add one later if it really bothers me.



Lauren

I have been trying to keep the layouts pretty even when it comes to layouts that focus on just one of the girls. I started with Shimelle's starting point for last week and the Echo Park - Yours Truly collection.

After I had everything layered the way that I wanted I lightly tacked down the squares to each other and then took the entire stack off so that I could mist the background. I used some homemade glimmer spray and a Tattered Angels Glimmer screen on the background. After I reassembled the starting point on the new background I matted the black and white photo of Lauren on some pink CS from my scrap bin, punched some circles using the Martha Stewart scalloped circle punch and added some heart stickers from the collection. There are also some pink Stickles dotted on the page, and more stickers from the collection as a title and sub-title. I do not typically use black and white photos, or this color scheme. I am glad that I stepped outside of my comfort zone and I love the result!

More Shimelle Inspriration!

I used another Shimelle sketch/ class as inspiration for this page. This time from the September 4x6 Photo Love. I have had this Hambly transparency in my stash for at least a year now.. but could never find the "perfect" way to use it! I had a lot of photos from a water gun fight last summer that I wanted to scrap, but I did not want to go the double page spread route. I used this same layout last month as well, but it was for a different album so even though it is pretty distinctive I thought that it was safe for me to use it again.

I broke out the Echo Park - Summer Days collection again for this page. I am in a bright color mood lately! I am not really loving the "water gun fight" title, and will probably switch out the letter stickers for something a little cleaner, most likely white, since there is so much going on on the page. I also need to track down the date to add to the Fun in the Sun journaling spot, and add the journaling to the pull out cards. I was losing the light and wanted to take a decent picture before it got too dark!

She is a natural

The girls did not have swim lessons tonight, so after they got home from school I went down to play in my craft room! For this layout I started with a sketch from Shimelle Lain and a Penny Lane collection pack.

I flipped the sketch since I wanted my photos to face into the page, but kept everything else the same.

After I adhered all of the base pieces down I started to play with the stack in the middle. I am not so good with the stacking that Shimelle does. I love how it looks.. but it takes me forever to commit! I started (well.. not really started but it ended up on the bottom) with a journal page from an old MM journal page book., and then I added a large white tag that I have no clue where it came from. I Distress inked the edges, added a random pink tag from my stash, another journaling piece and some elements from the Penny Lane kit. The title uses American Crafts Thickers, the pins are from Maya Road, and I used the MS butterfly punch and some pink stickles to add some movement to the page. 

One More Thing

Ok, the title of the layout does not really match the picture, but I liked the little post it note as a journaling block! I decided to challenge myself. For every layout I make using a new collection, I have to make one using some of my older stash. For today I broke out some old Basic Grey PP, and used Shimelle's starting point for last week. I started my journaling stack with the post it note and the green Prima packaging. The little blue scalloped piece is actually cut from an MM frame from the Noteworthy collection. The butterflies were punched from some DCWV CS, prayed with Party Pink glimmer mist and have some Eucalyptus Stickles in the center. The blue flower border sticker is from the Basic Grey- Urban Prarie collection. The pink scalloped circle border was cut out of the same pink DCWV CS using my Cricut and an SVG file from Krisi's Kreations. I also used some Hambly Washi Tape and a Basic Grey tag, and fussy cut a bird from the PP used on the top, and added the Eucalyptus Stickles around some of the birds for dimension... and sparkle!