Scrap your stash!!

Friday is here and it is going to be a busy weekend for me!! I have projects to finish up, I am shooting maternity pictures for my dear cousin Isabel Saturday, a baby shower to host Sunday and cookout for my cousins birthday! Fingers are crossed for some nice weather! Well lately I have been building my own "kits" from my stash! I often forgot about a lot of the product that I already own! I start with what pictures I want to use and then pick one 12x12 for my base and then build my page kit around that! Once my page is done and I have all this out I might as well make a couple cards or another layout! Great way to use up my stash! This is what I have recently pulled from my stash and I will share my layout soon!

 

So what I would love for you all to do is build your own kits from your stash and create a layout, altered item or a card!! Use up those papers you have been hoarding and the embellishments that have been collecting dust and share your layout with me on my Facebook HERE!  I will randomly select one person who posts a project to my Facebook page to win a sweet little prize of goodies from me!  Now get to work!

 

 



Let's Scrap Challenge160

Hello Crafty Peeps!!!  Hope everyone is doing well today!  Today I have a layout to share with you that I created for the Let's Scrap Challenge 160.  For this challenge we had to include the following elements in our project

1. A mixture of colored and black and white or sepia photos.
2. Flowers(can be on the paper, embellishments, stickers or the photos themselves)
3. Buttons
4. Hand written journaling.

I knew which photo I wanted to use and what I would be doing with it when I read this challenge!  I was so excited to get busy on it!  Here is the Let's Scrap sketch that I used

Let's Scrap has some great sketches and fun challenges so I hope you all get a chance to head over and check them out!  I of coarse did a one page layout and did the right side of this sketch.  Here is my take on this sketch!

I used Amy Tangerines Sketchbook papers in this layout and the flowers are vellum flowers that I cut out and put brads in the centers.  For my pictures  I started with my original photo and faded in the black and white effect.  I love how it came out!  Handwritten journaling on my layouts is something I do not do much of beside maybe a date or I will hide my journaling on a tag and stick behind my photos so for this layout I went ahead and did my journaling directly on my layout.  Please let me know what you think!  Thanks for stopping today and I hope you get a chance to head over to Let's Scrap!

Embellish Me Happy Challenge

I am so excited to be on the Embellish Me Happy Design Team and when I found out what the first challenge was going to be I could not wait to get started!  I went right to work pulling product from my stash!  This is what I pulled to get started on my project

Embellish Me Happy is a new challenge blog that will host challenges on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month!  You will have 11 days to complete your project and link it up for your chance to win!  This month our sponsor is The Paper Nest !  They offer amazing digi and rubber stamps and we are using some of their digi stamps in our projects!  This month our challenge is to create a Monochromatic layout or project.  We could use different shades of the color of our choice but we could only use one color and include a stamped or digital image.  We used the images from The Paper Nest Dolls  The winner of this months challenge will receive a $25.00 gift certificate to The Paper Nest

 

Here is my Monochromatic layout I created for this challenge

 



 

I used a plain cream colored 12x12  and built my layout around that piece of paper.  I pulled all my embellishments to go with that one piece of paper and I was surprised to pull all the product I did.  I am always creating bright and colorful layouts it was fun to do one a lot more neutral!  I hope you all join me at Embellish Me Happy and have some fun with this challenge! 



Favorite Tools

Happy Monday everyone!!  The sun is shining here and I hope it is here to stay!  Today I want to share with you another one of my favorite tools in my craft room!  The Tim Holtz Vagabond!

I purchased this shortly after they were released and I absolutely love it!  First of all it looks like a vintage suitcase when it is closed up so it stores away nicely or you can leave it out and it looks fabulous!  This machine can cut and emboss different types of materials and thicknesses!  It works with a huge range of dies so you do not just have to use sizzix dies in it which is what I love about it.  Another thing I love about my Vagabond is its electronic and all you have to do is push a button and feed your plates through and it pulls it through on its on to cut or emboss!  If you do not have a die cutting machine and have been interested in getting one I highly recommend the Tim Holtz Vagabond!  What die cutting machine do you use?  Leave me comment and let me know what you love about your machine.  Thanks for stopping and have a Happy Monday! 

Ladybug Hug

Today has been so cold and rainy here in Illinois and I am so ready for Spring!  I do not know how much longer I can take of this weather!  The good thing about rainy days is I get a lot of cleaning done and time at my desk!  I received my club member stamp set from The Stamps of Life the other day and I am so very happy with the quality of these stamps!  This is my first stamp set from them and I am very impressed!  Of coarse I could not wait to use this stamp set so I wanted to share one of the cards I made with you today.  The stamp set is called ladybugs2love and it is super cute.  Here is one of the cards I made

I am loving this ladybug stamp and love how great it looks!  For a clear stamp I think it turned out fabulous especially with all that black!  If you would like to see the full stamp set please visit The Stamps of Life HERE.  I love that the polka dots are a separate stamp and it comes with 3 other fill in stamps!  My sentiment did not come out as clear as I would have liked but my embossing powder has not been my best friend lately!  But I kept it anyway because after all it is a hand made card so perfection is not what I am going for.  I hope you enjoyed my sweet ladybug card and thanks so much for stopping by today!

Busy Busy Busy!

Well track and baseball season have started for my boys so that means busy, busy nights for this family!  Lots of running around, practices, late nights, meal planning and crock pot meals are in store for us!  On top of all this I am very excited to be on the Let's Scrap Design Team!  Today I would like to share with you the layout I sent in for their DT Call.  I used the new Park Bench line from Fancy Pants Designs and I am so in  love all the colors and prints in this line!

And here is the sketch we had to use as inspiration for our layouts.  We could either do a two page layout of just a one page and of coarse I did a one page:)  I have challenged myself to complete a couple two page layouts soon so I will share them with you once they are completed!  But for now here is the Let's Scrap sketch I used when submitting for DT.  Enjoy and I would love for you to come join us over at Let's Scrap !!

Favorite Tools

How is your Monday going? Well mine has been filled with a little coffee, scrapping and grocery shopping! Came home and realized I forgot to publish my post! Yikes! Today I would like to share another one of my favorite must have tools and that is my heat tool!

I use the Stampin Up Heat Tool  and I love it. I started out with the Ranger Heat It tool that my mom passed down to me but it stopped working:( I really did love the Ranger Heat It Craft Tool but I had a Stampin Up Workshop and used my hostess credit to get their heat tool and i love it!  Heats up quickly and has two heat settings! I use it mostly for heat embossing but sometimes when I am impatient with my mists I will use to speed up the dry time! What is your favorite heat tool? I would love to hear! I hope you all have a great rest of the day! Thanks for stopping!