Butterfly Kisses - Scrap Our Stash May Challenege

Today on the Scrap Our Stash blog is my take on the new May Stash Challenge...

Since there are so many wedding around this time of year, including my own anniversary coming up, this challenge is particularly clever!

 

Here are the details of exactly what they mean:

Something Old: Patterned Paper or Embellishment that has been in your stash 6 months or more.  Something New: Patterned Paper or Embellishment that you purchased within the last 6 months.  Something Fussy Cut AND...Something Blue: Patterned Paper, Cardstock, Embellishment, Alphas, Ink/Paint, your choice!

My something new, was the piece of patterned paper from Heidi Swapp's new collection called "Favorite Things."  Also, lots of the embellishments and the No. cards are new  from Studio Calico.

I LOVE this piece of paper, I have several pieces because I knew I would be able to use it in lots of different ways.  It was basically the inspiration for this rest of the color clusters.

For something old, I used this tag sticker from one of the first Dear Lizzy collections

as well as a couple old stamps from Studio AE, the 'life' one and heart stamp.

Obviously, my something blue was one of those cards and a couple other embellishments.

I decided that it would be fun to take advantage of the colors in the paper

and group everything in line similarly to the circles...I also printed out my photo as a circle.  

My fussy cutting also came from a fairly old 6x6 paper pad from Amy Tangerine

that had little scrolly frames, and I chose ones that went with my colors

and used them to layer on top of.

I love the way it turned out and am excited to see the entries for this challenge!

Check out the Challenge Rules HERE and make sure you look at the other DT layouts.

These were some of the best of the year, to me!

If this fun challenge isn't enough to inspire you, the prize should be!

It is a $30 gift card to Scrapbook Circle, which has the MOST awesome kits

as well as add-ons, cardstock, etc.!  I mean seriously, check it out!

*Make sure you note in your write up, what items you used for each part of the challenge.

National Scrapbook Day Play!

I love National Scrapbook Day, especially because it is near Mother's Day 

and I can lobby for an early gift from my super supportive husband!

A day in my craft room, with no distractions, a nice supply of caffeine, an Aveda candle,

lots of fabulous music and I in heaven!   Well, that isn't exactly the way it went down,

but there is that whole life thing that is hard to put on hold.  So, there were a few

loads of laundry and some other interruptions, but it was a lovely day and I managed to 

get a few LO's finished and lots of inspiration absorbed!  

I didn't get to photograph everything until yesterday, trying to make up for Saturday's fun on Sunday.

The first LO was for the Two Peas NSD Challenge by Celine Navarro to use the March mood board.

Here is what I cam up with:

The second LO was from a combination of the Two Peas Challenge to of use their printable

designs and the Studio Calico NSD Color Challenge:

This was my LO for that, which is special now, because it was 3 years ago, our first baby went to heaven...

I have a couple more I am trying to finish up and get photographed for later in the week! 

Thanks for stopping by today.

LIFTED - Kreative Koncepts May Sketch Challenge & DT Inspiration

I can NOT believe it is May 1st!!  Seriously, where has the year gone??

The new Sketch Challenge at Kreative Koncepts (formerly Scrapfriends to some of you scrappy peeps)

is up today and has inspired the DT to make a very inspiring and vastly different take on it.  

Here is the lovely sketch and you can get to the original post by clinking HERE!

I wanted to use this paper from Studio Calico and it just so happened to go with the Instagrams my husband took that night.  We went to see John Legend and the tickets were a gift to each other for Valentine's.

It was at one of the coolest venues in the city and the lighting was just spectacular!

Even though this is officially called the "All Of Me" tour, I used Lifted, since his song 'Get Lifted' is one of my favs!  I followed the sketch pretty close, some stencil misting and modeling paste on the background first.

I stamped a text stamp in silver ink onto a light blue vellum and cut the strips up as a banner across the page.

I opted for these instaframes and square photos instead of the round because I didn't want to

cut too much of of the photo...and I had wanted to include the tickets as well.  Lots of chipboard

and glitter dots, some stitching and this butterfly die cut I painted on top of finished it off!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out all the fabulous pages from the DT as well ans the Guest Designers this month!  And upload your take on the sketch to the Blog so we can all share in your creation!

Happy May and have a fabulous day!

CLOSER - Scrap Our Stash April Sketch Challenge { & Video! }

Guess What Day It is....?? Hump Day...woot, woot!Sorry, that is what my kids say every Wednesday morning...they love that crazy camel.

This is the LO I did for the latest Scrap Our Stash Sketch Challenge on their Blog!

This is the sketch which I stuck too pretty closely,
although it may be hard to see since I had so many patterns going on!

I also made a video showing my process from Start to Finish.

You can check it out here by clicking the video above...or on my YouTube Channel HERE.

For the stash part my papers included the large background piece fromDear Lizzy, the piece of striped paper from Amy Tangerine that I stampedon and the 6x6 My Mind's Eye behind the photo.

For embellishments I used several pieces of ephemera from Heidi Swapp,

the vellum hearts slide frames from Crate Paper and the gold banner flag from Studio Calico.

I used a couple chalkboard labels from American Crafts to help make my title pop!

The title letters are with the awesome gold foil alphas from Pinkfresh Studio...

my DT reveal for the Pinkfresh Blog is in a couple weeks!  Very excited!

Check out the Challenge specifics and Rules on the Scrap Our Stash Blog.

You have until April 29th to link up your entry to be eligible for the prize!

Thanks for stopping by!

FRESHFULLY - Be Real at Scrapbook Circle

This is a page I shared on the Scrapbook Circle Blog last week.  I am sharing a page I created using some of my recent Instagrams and the April kit, Bucket List.  I don’t do Project Life, not yet anyway, but love Instagram!  I love my DSLR camera and admit I should carry it with me more, but my phone hardly leaves my side.  So, I use Instagram a lot and love all the apps and filters too.

These photos were great because it was the first piece of Spring from our garden that I cut and brought into our house.  I love going to a florist shop or getting flowers from my sweet husband, but there is nothing like growing your own blooms to enjoy!

I knew I wanted to use these photos and the piece of Amy Tangerine paper, that has some watercolor like areas on the corner in a green and yellow.  I tried to add onto that and match the colors by watercoloring yellow up the paper.  I wanted to keep the page light and crisp, so I kept the colors to white & grey, yellow and a bit of green.  I wanted to use one other color to really give an impact and chose the bright pink to help tie in the acetate letters.  I wanted just a touch of the hot pink, so little punched butterflies were the perfect amount.

Finally, I stamped one of the phrases in the roller stamp, part of the ‘Places To Go’ Add-on kit several times under the photos.Thanks for stopping by!

TREAT? - Scrapbook Circle Recipe Challenge #73

Scrapbook Circle has a new challenge!  It is a Recipe Challenge where the

'ingredient' amounts are the part of the challenge to meet...so much fun and a great jumping

off point for a layout!  This was my take for the DT Gallery using the April 'Bucket List' kit.

The"recipe" for the Challenge is  large photo 3 patterned papers a pinch

of wood veneer a dash of die-cuts!  There are so many fabulous patterned papers 

included in this months kit.  It was hard to choose, and at first, I was afraid it 

might be too much!  I do think the larger picture and printing in black and white was the

right mix for the page...I used the 3rd patterned paper to make the paper flower.

I cut out a large circle from vellum and added the wood veneer on top of it to point

towards the photo.  And I really had to hold back from adding more die-cuts...

I maybe had more than a dash, but there are so many lovely choices!  I love the way it

turned out and the fact that Lola actually "posed" and held still long enough is a miracle!

One of my favorite parts of the kit are the acetate letters...I love the font and the colors and

the package comes with so many in each color,it was perfect for making an ombre title!

  

Check out the original post on the Scrapbook Circle Blog and all the details about the Challenge!

You have until April 30th to enter your project to be eligible for the prize.

I can't wait to see the creations that come out of this fun idea!

you make me HAPPY - Kreative Koncepts April Color Challenge

The 15th of the month marks a new color challenge up at Kreative Koncepts/Scrap Friends!

One of the best things about a color challenge like this one for April, is that you can decide how

much of each color to use, which will dominate the page, etc.  I think this is a great way

to make a powerful statement with one of the colors...

That is how I tried to use the purple color from the color chart, as a punch for the hearts and raindrops.

Click HERE for the original Blog post with the Challenge details and all the other DT takes on the challenge

I had decided at the beginning of this DT that all my color challenges would be using a black and white photo...that makes it easier to me to not be limited by pattern or colors in the photo.  In a way, this background paper is a bit of a cheat since it has 3 of the colors in the pattern itself.  I wouldn't normally do

that, but I love the way the colors are washed together and it felt Spring-ish too.

I was inspired to use the clouds and raindrops from this Pink Paislee stamp set.

I chose the phrase "you make me happy..." and I heat embossed it in white in the middle of the page.

I used other hints of the blue, green and yellow in the cluster of chipboard frames under the photo.

I didn't want this to be sad because obviously, my son brings so much sunshine into my life,
so I decided on purple raindrops...they would provide that punch from the one strong color
and something a little unexpected.  I also wanted to add the hearts like it was raining love...
sappy, I know.  That is what my little man does to me.

Go check out the BLOG and be sure to link up your project for everyone to see and to enter the challenge!
Thanks for stopping by today!