Saint Louis Zoo.

A vintage photo from 1996! This page was inspired by the April sketch at Let's Get Sketchy + the word play challenge at Lasting Memories. This time I used the word SPRING so I used a seal animal, a penguin, ready to use watercolor paper by Vicki Boutin, ink, navy, and giraffe patterned paper. Here's my page:

I have all these cut die cut embellishments from Bella Blvd that I've had for years so when I found this photo of my brother and me with my mom, I had to pull out these little animals and use as many as possible. Thanks for looking!

chicken pox.

Hello again! Two layouts this week:)

I've been trying to do the monthly sketches from Stick It Down this year because I want to support my design team (I think I missed last month's though) and I barely got done with April's sketch!

I scrapped these photos of my brother and I with the chicken pox. I combined this sketch challenge with Lasting Memories word play challenge for April. This time I used the word FLOWER ...so I used florals, Laura Rumble sketch, orange, white space, epoxy flair, and round shaker frame.

I love having my mom's handwriting on the back of the photos and I didn't want to lose that. So I took a photo of her handwriting, then edited it and printed it out so I could attach it as 'journaling' on my page. Thanks for looking!

supplies
die cuts, patterned paper, chipboard frames & sticker: PinkFresh Studios
sequins: Spiegelmom Scraps (Lovely Day)

enjoy the now.

Long time, no see! April has been a weird month of working a lot of overtime + spending some time outdoors since the weather is warming up. I have been scrapbooking, but it's been for upcoming projects that won't be revealed until next month :)

So I had some time today to make this fun page for the April Scrap the Girls challenge. The theme is adventure and this is a selfie from my 'bachelorette party' night. I used the Art Walk collection from Heidi Swapp + some Pink Paislee 5th and Monaco.

I don't do mixed media very often, but I did use the packaging technique with some distress inks on this page. I chose Peacock Feathers and Pine Needles.

I decided to try to combine this challenge with one of the Lasting Memories challenges this month. They are doing my least favorite kind of challenge in April because they're so hard! The challenge is to use an item/technique with every letter from the word RAIN. So I used roses, Art Walk collection, ink, and a napkin to blog my ink:)

Thanks for looking!

favorite (Challenge YOUrself #76).

Hello friends! This month we are challenging you to use a black and white photo of YOU! I pulled out one of our engagement photos from 2016 that I haven't scrapbooked yet.

I loved this Bliss collection from My Mind's Eye. It's from 2018 and this is the last 12x12 paper I have left from the collection. I have a process video HERE of how I used some of the embellishments.

 I fussy cut this diamond from one of the 3x4 journal cards. The 'favorite' sticker is not from this collection; it's from my stash.

 Thanks for looking!