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what I know ( @ 39 )...Little Black Dress Kit September

 

For the last couple years I have been doing a LO with the

theme "What I Know"...at whatever age, i.e. getting older. 

I barely squeezed this one in before my 39th year ended!

 

 

But I am ok with that since I actually planned the page

and wrote the journaling about 5 months ago, just got

caught up with all the great pictures from the summer &

the beach!  Anyway, I love the Polaroid style of this paper

from American Crafts and it sort of inspired this quilted look

of separate pieces...which is REALLY hard for me to do

lately, because I have been using layer on top of layer...

 

 

Anyway, as my neighbor would say..."It is what it is".

And at 39, well now at 40, I am ok with what IT is!

summer blues?

This was for the the Studio Calico Sunday Sketch from 09/16:

http://studiocalico.typepad.com/studio_calico/sunday-sketch/

The first day of school the kids got coupons to the candy shoppe 

that just happens to be their obsession right now.  Called "Sugar", they 

have every kind of candy you can imagine as well as about 40 flavors of

shaved ice...the syrups are on these back lit shelves are are like a modern

stained glass confection!  Beautiful alone, but with ice and sugar...mmm.

Crack for kiddos...The only problem is trying to decide which flavor to pick!

Sofia usually always goes for cotton candy or blue raspberry...Sam always

chooses something different and this day it was "Tiger's Blood"...?

Don't know about the title, but it tasted good...

I have been trying to clear out space for new products, ahem!, and 

these colors were just too bright and summery for anything fall-ish!

I used up a lot of my scraps from the August Scrapbook Circle Kit.

Perfect for this layout!  I had tried this technique before, but was re-inspired

after Ania-Maria's tutorial on her blog & Lily Bee's website.

It is a great way to use up little pieces to make a big impact.  

I think a whole page of these colors would be too much but as a 

background peeking out, it was just enough...

love. that's all.

I love the new Kit from Scrapbook Circle "Talk of the Town"!

It has a lot of the new Amy Tan pieces from her new collection with

American Crafts...I love the die cuts from it...had to use that camera right away.

The linen heart is part of the Kit and I wanted to use it with that wood decking

patterned paper but I didn't want it to be too girly since this was a LO 

about my father-in-law and my son.  So, I cut the gear shaped using my Silhouette

out of watercolor paper, which worked great!  I had been meaning to try that, 

but just never got around to it...Then I watercolored them trying to get an ombre effect.  

I also cut out the little paper doll people holding hands and just lightly painted them.

READY OR NOT...

Finally, got a chance to play with the September Scrapbook Circle Kit,

which is AWESOME!

I have been looking forward to so much of it since CHA...woohoo!

Anyway, this is using the Scrapbook Circle September Sketch Challenge:

http://www.scrapbookcircle.com/2012/09/september-sketch-challenge

I love the word bubbles are just hearts, like thoughts...and considering that 

we weren't talking and the photo subject, they were perfect!  I love that 

Amy Tan reddish-orange paper from the new Ready, Set, Go! collection, 

but I didn't want too much to take away from the photo and bubbles 

with too vibrant a color.  That is why I layered the vellum and then tore

 it a bit to let some of that beautiful color peak through!

I am definitely NOT ready, but it is already here...and gaining momentum!

My babies are growing up...They are little people with their own dreams, fears 

and opinions...lots of opinions!

and know they love you...

In avoiding the garbage that was on the radio this morning, I turned

to our local oldies station and the song "Teach Your Children" by 

Crosby, Stills & Nash was on...That is a great song and fits with 

our recent pre-tween dealings with my 8 year old.  

I do just look and her and sigh...and as my husband says, 

know she loves us...now.  She may not want anything to do with

us or her little brother in 5 years, but for now, she is still our little girl.

This was using the October Afternoon Thursday Sketch from 

last week and most of the Woodland Park Collection along with some

other bits and pieces of previous collections.

Here is the link to their blog:

http://octoberafternoon.typepad.com/october_afternoon/2012/09/thursday-sketch-challenge.html#comments 

ikea...STEP 1

I used the Lily Bee Monday Sketch Challenge from September 3rd

for this LO about our last adventure to Ikea!

Here is the link to their post:

http://lilybee.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/monday-sketch-challenge.html

In moving my craft room from our, let's face it storm shelter, 

into the adjoining room which served as our office...we made a big

trip to Ikea in Atlanta to buy file drawers, a table top and the 

seemingly obligatory "Expedit" wall shelves!  I had planned out what

I needed, or thought I needed, got my in-laws to watch our kids for 

the day and we drove forth to conquer.  No matter how many

times we go to Ikea, I am still overwhelmed...I still never see everything 

I want to and yet, we still leave buying more stuff than intended.

At any rate, it is such a deal, and for the $, good quality...

I couldn't wait to get started and had moved everything out into giant

piles in the hallway, insuing more chaos that usual.  I started opening the 

boxes and putting things together, not wanting to wait until my husband

could help, and began the process of sorting out ALL the pieces.

For everything we bought there were only a couple missing, which is a record for us!

I thought it would be funny to use these gears I die-cut with my Cameo and
make the confetti seem like it was flying out from the photo.  And I used the vellum
underneath the patterend paper, to symbolize the packaging we had everywhere!

I still have a long way to go, and it seems like Scrapbookers are in a constant state 

or organizing and reorganizing...Gotta find a place to store all the new goodies!! :)