family|ScrapMuch?!

Hey everyone! We're sharing a Sketchy Friday on the ScrapMuch?! blog today! This one is a sketch with three small photos and I loved making this page. Here's the sketch:

TJ's nephew and his girlfriend got a puppy and he is adorable. Growing so quickly! Here's my page:

Thanks for stopping by today!

We're hoping you'll play along with us. Here's how: Link up your creations HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize. You have until January 29th, at midnight to participate in any of January's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!

supplies
patterned paper: Chickaniddy Craft (multi); Fancy Pants (heart)
washi: Glitz Design (heart); Studio Calico (dog, ampersand);
cork: Elle's Studio/Sycamore Lane
label stickers, die cut shapes: Lily Bee
alphabet stickers: Basic Grey/Hey Boy!
chipboard shapes, shaped paper clip: Studio Calico

the best is yet to be || Scrapping Turtle Mini Crop.

Hey everyone! Today I have a mini crop challenge at the Turtle Soup forum.Our theme is celebrations! Head over to the forum and see what other challenges there are. 

My celebration theme is graduation and my challenge is to use sequins! Here's my page:

This is from Jodi's high school graduation earlier this year. Their mascot is the purple tiger so I used a KP stencil with some purple ink blending. I added the polka dot bag from a Scrapbook Circle kit (October 2014/On This Day) and the stamps are by Unity Stamp Co. 

For the 'happy' sentiment, I stamped with StazOn ink, then used the distress ink for some ink blending, and then I pop dotted it up off the page. My other stamp 'the best is yet to be' is inked onto a Lawn Fawn circle die cut that I cut with my Spellbinders Grand Calibur Die Cutting Machine.

Thanks for stopping by today and I can't wait to see your sequins projects in the gallery!

supplies
stencil: Kelly Purkey (zebra)
inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (shaded lilac); Donna Salazar Mix'd Media inx (indigo); VersaFine (onyx black); StazOn (jet black)
dies: Lawn Fawn (circle stackables)
stamps: Unity Kit of the Month Feb 2011 ("the best is yet to be"); Unity ("life"); Unity Kit of the Month May 2009 ("happy")
patterned paper: Elle's Studio 
alphabet sticker: Lily Bee

thank you for your kindness|Stick It Down.

Hello and welcome to our first card sketch of 2015 at Stick It Down! What I love so much about using sketches is they are just a creative starting point. You can interpret the sketch however you want! Here's our January card sketch:

January Stick It Down card sketch

On the sketch, you see all these layers behind your sentiment. I chose to use ink blending for my background of the card to re-create that layered look.

I heat embossed my title using Ranger's Super Fine Detail powder in silver. This was a true test to see if it really was "super fine detail" because this stamp set is a really thin handwriting font. Look how beautiful it turned out! I'm a fan for life.
 

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to visit the Stick It Down blog to see the reveals of the cards from the other design team members and to link up your own card for our sketch!

supplies

ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (peeled paint; broken china; evergreen bough; shaded lilac)

embossing powder: Ranger Super Fine Detail embossing powder (silver); My Stamp Box (white)

stamp set: Simon Says Stamp (Handwritten Greetings); Hero Arts (Cling Dots)

twine: October Afternoon

chipboard heart: Studio Calico 

 

Christmas Day.

I know Christmas is becoming a distant memory, but I have these photos of my cousins and I love them and I've really wanted to scrapbook them. Actually I have not scrapped any Christmas yet at all! So I used mostly my Teresa Collins Tinsel and Company line. I got the idea to use the tags like this from YouTuber Jen Schow. She did a video flip through of her 2014 album and I got so many ideas from seeing her pages!

I worked with the Scrappy Friends challenge for January using Kelly's color challenge + Rochelle's tic tac toe challenge. I used die cuts, three patterned papers, and gold.

I really like the way this page turned out and it was fun to do a Christmas page!

supplies
patterned papers, chipboard buttons, chipboard: Teresa Collins (Tinsel and Company)
rub ons, die cut labels and tags: Chic Tags
puffy stickers: Evalicious 
mist: Heidi Swapp Color Shine (gold)

Abe Lincoln|ScrapMuch?!

We're revealing our first Sketchy Friday of 2015 on the ScrapMuch?! blog today!This is our sketch:

I actually followed this sketch pretty closely, which I don't always do. These photos were taken last May, right before school was out for the summer. TJ's nephew's class had a "wax museum" of historical people and he was Abe Lincoln. He actually memorized a lengthy speech and then other classrooms came down to go through their wax museum and they recited their speeches. It was a neat little event to attend and he was so happy to see us there!

Stop by the ScrapMuch?! blog today to see how the other girls interpreted this sketch!

supplies
patterned paper: Teresa Collins (navy); My Mind's Eye (yellow); Studio Calico (grey)
stamp: Technique Tuesday (Real Life)
ink: Donna Salazar Designs (indigo Mix'd Media Inx)
rub ons: Chic Tags
label die cuts, gold stars: Studio Calico
label sticker: My Mind's Eye (Collectable)
puffy alphabet stickers: twine + ink

my favorite || PWP link up party.

I'm sharing a card today for the Paper Wings Productions link up party. This month the theme was anything goes and I've been wanting to work on some ink blending so I thought the mermaid would be a great opportunity to use some distress inks. I paper pieced the mermaid, working on her tail and her hair separately. Both are done using distress ink blending. 

I stamped the mermaid onto some white paper and starting blending her hair. I used walnut stain + gathered twigs and I fussy cut her hair. Then I stamped the mermaid again, this time to work on her fin. I used peeled paint, faded jeans, broken china, evergreen bough, and scattered straw. Then I fussy cut the fin. I stamped the mermaid a third time and this was my base image. I lightly added skin tone using gathered twig ink and then I attached her fin and her hair. All that was left to do was color her eyes and her cheeks with Copic markers and add drops off glitter glue for her top.

I also used inks to make the 'ocean.' For that I blended evergreen bough and broken china.

Isn't it pretty?! I am falling in love with distress ink blending.

Thanks for visiting me today! This was definitely something new and different for me and it was a lot of fun. I'll be posting this at The Aviary link up party. Have a great week!

supplies
stamp: Paper Wings Productions (Mermaid)
inks: Tim Holtz distress inks (evergreen bough; peeled paint; faded jeans, broken china, scattered straw, walnut stain, gathered twigs)
glitter glue: American Crafts Zazz! (pool; marine)
markers: Copic RV21 (cheeks); Copic B23 (eyes);
glitter tape: American Crafts

you're special || Scrapping Turtle.

Hey everyone! I have a new card challenge posted today over at the Turtle Soup forums. My challenge is to use twine on your card (or you can use ribbon if you don't have any twine).Here's my card:

I used a background stamp from the Sweet Stamp Shop + white heat embossing. Then I did some resist ink blending with an orange and red ink. My sentiment is stamped with the same orange ink and then I added some twine.

ALSO: check out the January store flyer!

supplies
patterned paper: Studio Calico
stamp: Sweet Stamp Shop (Drops Background); Paper Smooches (Sentiment Sampler)
twine: The Twinery (mandarin)
inks: Hero Arts shadow ink mid-tone (Just Rust); Tim Holtz distress ink (Barn Door)

Dylan|Stick It Down.

Today we get to do a unique thing at Stick It Down. Since it's the fifth Tuesday of the month, the design team gets to choose any sketch that has been previously posted and create a project. I'm on the card team, but I chose a single page sketch this time. Here's the sketch I used:

I used 8.5x11 size for this page and used hexagons instead of triangles. Here's what I made:

Visit the SID blog today to see the sketches and designs the other design team members used. Then stay tuned for a fun 2015!

supplies
mist: Studio Calico Mister Huey's (Bazinga; Shine)
stamps: Sweet Stamp Shop (Pattern Craze)
sequins, mask: Studio Calico
label sticker: My Mind's Eye (Cut & Paste)

Christmas tree party [link up].

Merry Christmas Eve! We're going to my Grandma's for Christmas with my dad's side of the family in a little bit, but I wanted to quickly share our Christmas tree. I put up two big trees. This year may be the last one for our living room tree; I really want a tree with colored lights. Here's how the living room looks:

before we had any gifts wrapped

Here's the "mantle" downstairs:

I'm linking up with Thrifty Decor Chick's Christmas tree party - lots of pretty trees to see! Thanks for stopping by :) Merry Christmas!

special traditions.

This page was inspired by the Scrappy Friends challenges... Rochelle's challenge to use the Bingo card (I chose flair, snowflake, and red) and Kelly's word challenge (tradition). 

There was a local Thanksgiving 5K that I had wanted to sign us up for, but time got away from me and I forgot. So on Thanksgiving morning I woke up and said, we're starting a new family tradition - we're going for our own turkey trot! It was really cold and actually snowing. Kind of slippery. But the wind wasn't too bad and it felt so good!

Thanks for stopping by!

supplies patterned paper: Glitz Design (Hello December) 
stamps: Elle's Studio (Cheers)
stencil: Simon Says Stamp! (moroccan stencil)
mist: Studio Calico (Mister Huey's Hot Diggity); Tattered Angels Chalkboard (Ferrari Red)
brads, washi: Freckled Fawn
label stickers: Kelly Purkey (Be Happy) 
glitter sticker: Heidi Swapp
flair: A Flair for Buttons Etsy shop

she said/he said|ScrapMuch?!

Sharing a sketchy Friday on this last challenge of 2014 at the ScrapMuch? blog today! Laura made a fun two photo layout for us this week.

I've had this story and these photos printed for probably a year so it was time to get the page done and in the books. Last March (yeah, I mean 2013) TJ and I filled out brackets for March Madness. I thought it would be fun because I don't really follow basketball and I always have chosen my picks based on their names. Like I have a friend who lives in Kansas so I choose Kansas. I have a cousin named Kreighton so I choose Creighton. I graduated from IU so I choose IU. Things like that. I just like the name Gonzaga so I chose them. & I was celebrating that I was actually kicking TJ's ass in the brackets until this happened...
TJ: you picked Gonzaga to win it all.
me: yeah
TJ: you picked Gonzaga to beat IU.
me: yeah and it's gonna happen. just wait for it.
TJ: Gonzaga isn't even in it anymore!

FAIL.
I don't follow basketball, but that's no excuse. These type of things happen to me all the time! I always mess up what I'm saying. Or trying to say. That's the story behind my page. Here's my page:

Here's how you can play along with us:
Link up your creations in our sidebar HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize. You have until December 29 at midnight to participate in any of December's sketch challenges. Each linkup tool will remain open until that date! Good luck!

supplies
patterned paper: Studio Calico; Bella Blvd (yellow star);
washi: Studio Calico
stamps: Ormolu (Word Up); Two Peas in a Bucket (Shimelle Laine)
labels: Elle's Studio (you & Me pennants; little labels); My Mind's Eye

Happy Friday (& a scrapbooking giveaway!)

I'm so glad it's Friday! Yesterday is normally my day off, but I ended up working 5am-1pm so I didn't get to sleep in! Today I'm really tired and can hardly wait until 6pm. I am sleeping in tomorrow!

I've been ordering a lot of stuff lately and I have a little giveaway pile ready to go. To enter for a chance to win, just visit my Facebook page and reply in the comments by tagging a friend. One friend tagged per reply so the more friends you tag, the more chances you have to win. I'll choose a random winner by Saturday 12/20/14 at 8pm EST.

this is a happy day.

I recently received my order from Scrapbook Circle and I've been excited to make some layouts. I got two of their Christmas kits (All is Bright and Favorite Elf) and the only time I do Christmas layouts is around Christmas time so I was impatiently waiting for my order to arrive!

I found an old photo of my brother and me on Christmas Eve and I just wanted to use it immediately! I found the December sketch on the Scrapbook Circle blog and got to work! I loved both of these patterned papers and I added some mini sticker tags from Chickaniddy Crafts and some buttons by Fancy Pants. That Glitz card was dipped in Versa Mark ink and then heat embossed. 

December 24, 1990

Thanks for stopping by!

supplies
patterned paper: Studio Calico (Thataway); Webster's Pages (It's Christmas!)
buttons: Fancy Pants (Merry Little Christmas)
die cut shapes: Elle's Studio (Good Cheer)
mini tag stickers: Chickaniddy Crafts (Jolly Good)
embossing powder: American Crafts ZING! (leaf)
wash from Target

Haul Video: Scrapbook Circle.

Haul Video: Sweet Stamp Shop.