A Spring Wish

Hello friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day today and a great iScrapbooking Day yesterday; it sure was a nice weekend to be a crafty mama!!! My husband and kids were way out of their way to make today absolutely perfect so this post is a bit delayed.

I'm very excited to share with you that this week I'm a guest designer over at Creative Scrappers, a weekly sketch challenge blog. I was fortunate enough to work with a fabulous sketch designed by Amarilis Doria and created this layout:

This photo of Emily was taken last year on Easter. I titled the layout Wish because every year she has the same wish, to be able to peek at the spring fairies. I wish I could bottle her innocence! I used Pink Paislee's new Butterfly Garden collection along with lots of Dusty Attic goodies, which I distressed just enough to maintain the shabby-chic look found in the design of the paper as well as lots of hand stitching. I'm really loving my Sew Easy tool by We R Memory Keepers and I use it any chance I get!

The sketch we're using this week is #155, check it out,

I hope you find the time to swing by Creative Scrappers and play along with this fun sketch. There is a prize package sponsored by Scrapbooking Sussies up for grabs!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a great scrappy time!!!

Sweetness

Mother Nature has been teasing us lately! Last week temperatures reached almost 70 degrees but yesterday we woke up to 7 more inches of snow! Either way, I can't wait to see the grass again! As I think of the sweet spring season that takes its time to arrive, I pulled the beautiful Sweetness collection by Pink Paislee and created a layout for my daughter.

I liked theses papers so much I pre-ordered them when they were first released about 3 months ago, I can't believe it took me so long to actually use them! Love this photo of Emily and thought the lush foliage on the paper complemented her smile just right.

I did do a lot of fussy cutting and hand stitching. When my husband saw me come over to watch a movie with him with paper and needle in hand, he just laughed! It took me more than an hour to stitch around the base page and the die cut paper! It was worth it though, I'm very pleased with the end result!

 

Don't thow away your packaging! I used the back of the rub-ons packaging to cut out the name of the paper collection and used it as my title. The beautiful green lace is by Cheep Trims available at Flamingo Scraps.

I also used some pink acrylic paint and Distress Ink to add color to my Artisan Element. To see the tutorial I shared earlier, click here.

To hightlight the beautiful flowers, I cut them out, inked the edges and adhered them using pop dots.  I also scattered a few rose leaves by Prima in between the flowers.

Hope you liked my layout! Thanks so much for stopping by, have a very creative week!

All Done With Christmas

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to have finally finished my Christmas layouts for this year. Am I the only one still working on holiday pages? I had purchased the Father Christmas collection by Pink Paislee and would have felt really guilty if I had not used it. Love these distressed papers and thought they were perfect to whip up a couple layouts of my son. I made two layouts, one for our 2009 album and one for his first year album as well.

Pink Paislee Artisan Swirls were so much fun to work with! I painted them with acrylic paint to get this olive green shade. I also inked all the edges with my Pumice Stone Distress Ink. Love the smoky look without adding too much black.

Thanks for joining me today, I hope you liked these projects. Have a great weekend!

Halloween Mini Album

Happy Saturday everyone! Today I'd like to share a Halloween mini album I made for Flamingo Scraps using the Hocus Pocus collection by Pink Paislee. I had so much fun putting this together! The colors are bright and vibrant, not too spooky for kids photos.

In this album, I plan to include pictures from our trip to the pumpkin patch as well as photos of the kids carving a Jack-O-Lantern, acting out their costumes, trick-or-treating, and enjoying their candy. I needed lots of space to have room for all of that so I made plenty of pockets and tags. In total, this album can hold 27 photos!

This haunted house was cut on the Cricut using the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. At first it looked like a sandcastle but I manipulated it on my Gypsy to make it longer and disable the lower windows. I also cut off part of the image.

I had fun making the cover! The spooky net was adhered with Mod Podge. I then filled a small bottle with water and Tim Holtz re-inkers to make it look like blood and hung it from the binding.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed this mini and feel inspired to create one of your own. Have a nice weekend as we prepare for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday!

Coordinates Collections Reveal Day!

Today is the reveal day for the DT projects made with the November kits at Coordinates Collections. This month I used the gorgeous Just Dessert kit to create these three LOs. The neutral colors in this kit lend themselves for classic pages that can be either child or adult themed.

For my first LO, I used the My Mind's Eye papers and stickers. The photo of my husband holding Dylan was actually taken on Christmas Eve last year, but I didn't want to make a seasonal page so I printed the photo on sepia tone and cut out the background; I then used pop dots to make it pop off the page. For the frame of the photo, I cut out the paper and rolled the edges back. The argyle background I used behind the photo was actually cut on my Cricut using the Wild Card cartridge.

For the title, I added the Tim Holtz charm alphabets and some hemp over the banner included in the kit. All of the stickers had beautiful glitter accents which I covered in Glossy Accents to keep from flaking off.

I actually used the shipping tag included in the Feastive Feast kit to print my journaling. It reads, "Be such a man my son, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life such as yours, this earth would be God's paradise". The little bird at the bottom is a clipart image from The Graphics Fairy.

For my second LO, I used more of the My Mind's Eye papers included in the kit, this time, with a black and white photo of Emily and a paper doily behind it.

The flowers you see here are actually handmade using  pages from an old book, Glimmer Mist and Distress Inks. I will be posting a tutorial on how to make these if you're interested.

My last  LO was was created with the gorgeous resist papers by Pink Paislee. These are just so fun to work with! They can be inked or misted to give them any hue you'd like. I loved the simple but elegant images embossed onto the paper so I couldn't resist scrapping a wedding photo. The music note paper inspired me to use this particular photo of our first dance as husband and wife.

To add color to the papers, I used  Distress Ink in Weathered Wood, Broken China and Old Paper. I added some of the Pink Paislee Artisan elements and other embellies.

The tickets were distressed a bit with my Tim Holtz paper distresser and rolled with the back of a paint brush to make them  more dimensional. I also misted them with Wheatfields Glimmer Mist to tone down the bright white color.

To see what the other DT girls created with this wonderful kit, visit the Coordinates Collections blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a creative week!

Summer into Fall

Happy Monday! Just a quick post to share a couple of LOs I worked on during the weekend. My first LO documents a very special moment; it was Dylan's first time at the beach. We had a wonderful time in Point Pleasant, NJ. These papers by Webster's Pages were just perfect for the project. I cut the frame out of chipboard on my Cricut and added crackle paint and Glimmer Mist to give it that weathered look. To add more dimension and texture, I used sand, crushed shells, tiny starfish and cheesecloth. It was the first time I combined these mediums and had a blast doing so!

 

For my second LO, I busted out my Queen Bee paper collection by Pink Paislee. These papers are so beautiful, I have been hoarding them for quite awhile! This picture is a couple of years old, I was pregnant with Dylan then. To add softness and tie in the colors together, I placed a crochet doily on the background, love doing that, makes such a difference!

Also don't forget to visit the Coordinates Collections blog. I posted a challenge for our monthly Blog Hop. Check it out, you could win a  gorgeous kit!

Hope you enjoyed these projects, have a great week!

In the mood for Halloween

Fall is in the air! We had a fantastic day today at the farm pumpkin picking, the house is decorated and now I can't wait for Halloween! Today I'm sharing a fun home decor project, a Halloween banner made with the Maya Road Mixed Scallop Triangle Book and Pink Paislee's Twilight collection. I had these papers since last year and this was a great way to use left over sheets from that collection pack. This is now hung on my entryway mirror, hope you like it!

Kind of abused my Cricut here! The circle and marquee were cut on the Storybook cartridge, the spider is from Lyrical Letters and all of the other cuts are from Paper Doll Dress Up. My favorite one was the cute ghost, which I cut on white glitter cardstock and inked with Black Soot Distress Ink. The Halloween ornaments are from Michael's. I hung them using Fancy Pants garment pins. After painting the naked chipboard letters black, I applied Crackle Accents and that made them extra spooky, loved the result!

After finishing the banner, I still had paper left so I made this LO. This is Dylan's last year's Halloween photo. Isn't he cute?! I also added a Jenni Bowlin calendar sheet and a Maya Road canlendar number.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, hope you enjoyed my projects. Have a happy-scrappy week!