November ScrapStreet

Hey, everyone!

The November issue of Scrapstreet Magazine is now published. There are tons of fun layouts and great inspiration in it this month. I also have 2 layouts in it this month. One you've seen before and one is brand new. Here they are:

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Thanks for stopping by...happy November! :-)

Happy Halloween!

Hey, everyone! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! What fun plans do you have tonight?

Just C & S had a bonus challenge this month: make a Halloween project. I made a quick layout:

Thanks for stopping by...hope your day is full of treats, not tricks ;o)

Lucky number 5

Hey, all! Happy, HAPPY Friday...so glad that it is finally here!

There is a new challenge posted over at the Just C & S blog today - use a number on your project, any way you want. I kept my layout really simple (hence the S in "Just C & S"). Here it is:
Head on over to the Just C & S blog to see what the other lovely ladies came up with. Have a nice day!!

Again?!?

Hey, all!

I loved the Just C & S sketch #14 so much that I made another layout with it...almost identical to the first one that I made. I just really liked the way the first attempt turned out so I decided to use the same basic concept and just use slightly different embellies. Here it is: Happy Thursday {c'mon Friday...get here fast :o) }

Just C & S sketch #14

Hi, everyone! I hope that you had a nice weekend...mine was way too short...oh well :-)

Just C & S has a new sketch posted today...and honestly, it is one of my favorites. It is simple, but cool. Here is my layout:

I think the Sassafras paper whimsies were perfect for this sketch. And isn't that picture hilarious? Eric is always making funny faces in photos and I am always totally oblivious...

As always, thanks for stopping by...enjoy your work week!!

♥ my lazy Saturdays...

Hey, all! Sorry I have been absent so much this month...it's been a combination of me being busy with work and me being too lazy to do anything productive in my freetime.

Anyways, I did have a layout that I wanted to share. I used the newest Creative Scrappers sketch (#126) to make it. Here it is:

Am still loving that fun Echo Park paper and decided to do something I don't normally do: make patterned paper my background. I usually only use patterned paper as accent pieces, but this paper is just too fun...

Thanks for stopping by....hope you have a lovely weekend!

Just C & S Sketch #13

Hi, everyone! I hope that you had a nice weekend. It was rainy here, but that made it all the more relaxing.

The newest sketch is up at Just C & S. Here is my take on it:

I used some more on Toni's fabulous blooms, found here. They are so fun!

Thanks for stopping by...have a good week!!

Creative Scrappers Readers' Reveal

Good morning, everyone!

All this week Creative Scrappers has been celebrating their 125th sketch by posting guest designers' take on the sketch. I was lucky enough to be one of the ladies selected to have my layout posted today. Here is my take on the sketch:
Thanks for stopping by and be sure to bounce on over to Creative Scrappers to see the rest of the layouts from this week (I think there are 70+ layouts posted!).

Love those high heeled shoes!

Hey, all! I hope you had a happy Sunday. I was highly productive today when it came to my scrappiness...I was mainly working on some DT projects, but I did also do a layout just for fun. I decided to play along with The Studio Challenges current prompt: to scrap a guilty pleasure. My guilty pleasure really is buying high heels when they are on sale. I don't even wear them a lot because I can't wear high heels to work, but I still have about a billion pairs. Oh well. A girl's gotta be happy with her shoes! Anyway, here is my layout:

I started off with a plan for my layout and ended up scratching it. I wound up just throwing different things down on the paper...I had a lot of fun with it. It may not be the prettiest layout ever, but it was cathartic :-)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a nice week!

Rain, rain go away...

Good morning, all! It is rainy and icky where I am. I hope it is nice and sunny where you are. I actually LOVE rainy days, just not when I have to go to work. Rainy days make me want to snuggle up with a good book or take a nice long nap!

I have a quick layout to share with you:
You are going to be seeing a lot of Sassafras on my layouts, as I bought one of their mystery boxes and it was chock full of yumminess. Also, see that cute felt flower in the top right corner? That is one of Toni's lovely creations. I used this one because I wanted it to look like concentric circles and not necessarily a flower...Max is a boy doggy after all. Check out more of her fun creations here.

Have a good, dry day!

CS #124

Happy Sunday morning/afternoon/night (depending on what part of the world you are in). This morning I played with the newest sketch from Creative Scrappers. Here's my take on it:

Not my best work, I know. My "scrapitude" has been off a little bit lately. I still had some of purple products laying out from the monochromatic challenge over at Just C & S, so I kept to that color scheme.

Thanks for stopping by...have a nice work week!

Monochromatic challenge

Hey, all! Today it was my turn to post a challenge at Just C & S. Yay!

The challenge: scrap a layout using only one color. You can use neutral color alphas and tiny accents like bling or pearls, but try to keep everything else to different shades of the same color. For an extra challenge, use a color that you are not entirely comfortable with. Mine is purple…I love the color, but I don’t use it in scrapping a lot. Here is my layout:

Thanks for stopping by...and head over to Just C & S to play along with the day's challenge!

Recycle!

Hey, all!

The Friday challenge is now posted at Just C & S. The challenge this week: recycle! Use at least two recycled products on your layout/project and use the colors brown/kraft, green and white. Here is my take:

My recycled products are the Prima packaging and the newspaper. I stuck to the color pallete, except cheated a tiny bit with my touches of black (oopsies...). Hop on over to Just C & S to see what the rest of the design team did.

And...have a HAPPY WEEKND.

Paint splatters

Hey, all...

I realized that it has been awhile since I did a "random inspiration" post. Today, I am going to share the art of the paint splatter. If you've been following me for awhile, you know that I LOVE paint splatters...and here are a few examples of how paint splatters can work on almost anything:

dress found here

shoes found here

cake found here

backpack found here

desktop wallpaper found here

Just C & S sketch #9

Hey, all!

I hope you had a nice weekend...there is a new sketch posted at Just C & S to get your week started off. Here is my take on it:

I had fun with this one...I've missed doing my "grid" layouts and I love that I got to use some of my old Crate Paper "Lemongrass" collection. I love the colors in it.

Head on over to Just C & S to see the other takes on the sketch.

Have a nice work week!

Sequins and Paint, oh my!

Hello!

I have a quick layout to share with you this morning. I originally made this for a Scrap Outside the Box prompt asking us to use sequins, but since our work was never posted for that challenge, I decided it was okay to finally share :o) Here it is:
I really do love scrapping with sequins...and paint. I always get fun results when I combine the two.

Thanks for stopping by...and have a lovely weekend!

Puzzling...

Hey, everyone! Happy, happy Friday (thank goodness!).

The newest prompt is up at Just C & S. The challenge: create a layout where you cut your pictures. I had a lot of fun with this challenge and knew instantly what I wanted to do:

Head on over to Just C & S to see what the other design team members did!

CS #121

Good Sunday Morning to ya! You know what Sunday mornings mean! A new sketch is posted over at Creative Scrappers, which is pretty much one of my favorite scrapping sites ever. Here is my take on the newest sketch: This layout is a little weird for me because it is totally not my style. But I think I like it...I'm still a little undecided, though. I've had that Sassafras "Amplify" paper for a while...and I really like it; I just never use it. So, I decided to branch out and just go for it. You'll have to let me know what you think... Have you scrapped outside of your normal box recently?

Happy B-Day, America!

Wait...what? It's not America's birthday....no, it's not, but that is what my layout is about. The newest challenge is up at The Studio Challenges and the challenge is to scrap about a birthday...so I decided to scrap about the cake that Eric and I tried to decorate on the 4th of July. Here it is:

And there are those awesome stars again from the Perfectly Precocious Etsy shop. They were perfect for this layout. You should seriously go check out Tessa's shop for some other fun products. I know I sound like I'm putting in a pitch for her shop, but I literally have no tie to it, so I'm a reliable source...I promise! :o)

I also journaled on this layout way more than I usually do...I guess I felt the need to explain the terribly decorated (but yummy!) cake. The journaling reads, "For A.J.'s 4th of July party, Eric & I were assigned to bring the dessert. We got the big idea of buying an ice cream cake and decorating it ourselves. As you can tell from the picture, our cake decorating skills leave a lot to be desired. Our "lovely" cake just proves that the people who decorate cakes for a living are way more talented than Eric or I will ever be. The dessert was delicious, though...and it served its purpose - to say "Happy b-day, America!" I'm glad that I scrapped this picture, because this is such a fun memory for me. And to be fair, only one of us was actually bad at decorating the cake - me! Eric was great at writing with the icing, while I struggled quite a bit. Boys and their weird hidden talents...has anyone else noticed that?? Oh well...

Have a nice day...thanks for stopping in!

Shirts and haircuts

Hey, everyone!

What have you been up to lately? I have been making a shirt! That's right...making my own shirt. Well, I didn't make the actual shirt part - I bought that at Target, but I did embellish it. I have been taking Elizabeth Kartchner's online class called "Piece by Piece." We took a shirt, cloth flowers and butterflies and begin putting everything together piece by piece. It has been a great class. I have never embellished an article of clothing before so it was fun to learn something totally new. Here is a close-up of the shirt:

The other thing I have been up to is getting my hair cut. I'm sure you do not care at all, but I got 7 inches cut off my hair! I feel so much lighter. Haha. Although, I am having a really hard time remembering how to style my hair when it was shorter. It was easy when it was long...I just curled the ends or threw it up in a messy bun. Oh well...I'll figure it all out again soon. :-)

As always, thanks for stopping by... And if you get bored, stop by Elizabeth's blog for some fun inspiration and ideas. I, personally, am a fan of the balloon in a box.