Scrapbook Process: So Fun // Follow a Sketch Friday

Do you ever have a page where you just love it? Yeah. That's me with this bad boy.

Glitter paste, distress ink, mulberry paper, vellum. That's a good time, y'all.

I used the November 1, 2017 sketch from Stuck?! Sketches. 

Check out the process video below:

Scrapbook Process: Mermaid Fun

Today I am working on the Disney Girls Trip Album. This album is mainly blue, pink, and the neutrals with other pops of color thrown in.

Usually, I work a Disney album until it is completed, but for this one, I am mixing it up and scrapping it while I am scrapping other things.

I do have a kit that I have put together from my stash, but I am still pulling things that are not in the kit. I hope that will make a really well rounded album that still feels cohesive.

The kit lives in a basket on my table

Funny how the title is Mermaid fun, yet there are no photos of mermaids on this layout. We all know Ariel is a mermaid, though, right?

Where is her tail?

This layout was created with:

• Across the Waves Patterned Paper - Hustle & Heart, Amy Tangerine / American Crafts
• Make a Wish Patterned Paper - Stargazer, Dear Lizzy / American Crafts
• Pinwheel Afternoon Patterned Paper - I Love Sunshine, Lori Whitlock / Echo Park
• Picked Raspberry Ink Pad - Distress Ink, Tim Holtz / Ranger
• Chipped Sapphire Ink Pad -  Distress Ink, Tim Holtz / Ranger
• Hot Pink Puffy Alpha - Flutter, Fancy Pants
• Die Cuts - Joy Parade, Fancy Pants
• Bits & Pieces - Little Moments, Elle's Studio
• Word Stickers - Small Talk, Tim Holtz / Idea-ology
• Die Cuts - Crush, Authentique
• Stickers - Capture Life, Allison Kreft / Echo Park
• Stickers - Everyday Eclectic, Allison Kreft / Echo Park
• Bakers Twine, Recollections / Michael's
• Puffy Hearts, Recollections / Michaels's

Check out the process video on my YouTube Channel:

They Love Summer // Follow a Sketch Friday

Oops. Forgot to post this last Friday.

I used a sketch by Khristina Sorge, who is the force behind The Secret Not Secret Kit Club. This was a challenge in the private Facebook Group for those of us who receive kits. Each time you receive a kit, it is personally curated just for you! You can check it out here.

On to the pretty stuff.

This is the FINAL, yes FINAL layout for the 2 Seconds of Summer concert I took my girls to last year. HOORAY!

I had explicit instructions to NOT scrapbook either ticket that belonged to the girls, but "Could (I) please make sure to scrapbook (my) ticket so it makes it into an album?" Of course, I would. I definitely didn't need or want to memorialize this ticket any other way.

This page was a lot of fun to create. I used gelatos and glitter paste. Anytime I can do those kind of things, it is a win!


Heres's the process video for it:

Sweet Moments // Citrus Twist Oct 2017

The kit arrived! The kit arrived! Hooray! In case you were not aware, I decided to continue with this subscription. I even upped it to 6 months!


And now to get down to business with it! So far loving this kit more than last month's. And that really isn't fair. I LOVED about half of last month's kit.The parts I didn't love? Well, they are in a new "Great things other people might love" pile for the next crop/retreat I go to. I love when there is a swap table like that!

Okay, on to the kit:

And get this! I actually used the stamp set that came with the kit! This is the 4th stamp set and the very first time I have used it! I had an epiphany why I don't use a lot of my stamps as well. I mostly have Distress Ink. You and I both know they do not give the clearest stamped image-that isn't really their purpose anyway.

"sweet" was stamped with the CT stamp set

This page was created for the Disney Girls Trip in 2016. That album is going to be teal, pink, black, gray, and white with tiny pops of color thrown in for fun. I pulled plenty of supplies from my kit and added a few things from my stash.

This layout included:

Citrus Twist Kit:

• White Cardstock (American Crafts)
• Patterned Paper - Help Clear the Table, Mind Your Manners (Bella Blvd)
• Patterned Paper - Summertime, Carousel (Crate Paper) August 2017 Kit
• Patterned Paper - Dazzle, Carousel (Crate Paper)
• Stickers - Carousel (Crate Paper)
• Ephemera Pack - Turn the Page (Pink Paislee)
• Stamp Set (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
• Cut Apart Sheet (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
• Epoxy Stickers (Citrus Twist Exclusive)

From My Stash:

• Self Adhesive Pearls (Want to Scrap)
• Puffy Stickers - Life's Sweet V2 (Evalicious)
• Twine (Lawn Fawn)
• Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry (Ranger)
• Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers (Ranger)

Want to see this page come together? Check out the video below:

Mo's Tic Tac Toe Challenge

Good afternoon, crafty friends! Today I was able to scrap this page using the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge posted by Moira in the Mercy Tiara's 27 Day Scrappy Challenge Facebook group.

I completed my line with frames, tone on tone patterned paper, and wood veneer or cork. As you can probably guess, I used cork since I am trying to bash my stash of it away.

For this page I used:

• Patterned Paper - Summer Vibes, Yellow Wood/Grid (Simple Stories)
• Patterned Paper - I Love Family, Family Time (Echo Park)
• Patterned Paper - Border Strips, Family Time (Echo Park)
• Frames - Summer Vibes (Simple Stories)
• Word Phrases - Small Talk (Tim Holtz, Idea-ology)
• Thickers - Hello (American Crafts)
• Chipboard 'Hello' - Recollections (Michaels)
• Die Cuts - Flower Scak, 9 to 5 ( October Afternoon)
• Puffy Stickers - Studio Puffs (Citrus Twist)
• Die Cuts - Chilled Cucumber Soup (Jillibean Soup)
• Ephemera Pack - Good Fellows (Fancy Pants)
• Arrow Stickers (Freckled Fawn)
• Cut Apart Sheet (Citrus Twist)
• Cork pieces (Unknown Stash)

Bread is Beautiful // Citrus Twist

Bread IS beautiful. I love bread. Especially a nice crusty, but oh so soft on the inside type of bread. I hope that my love of bread came through on this layout, as I was not loving the products so much.

I am using my Citrus Twist kit from September 2017 for this layout. This is the first page I have created from this kit. I decided to go for some of the products I was not loving as much and just scrap!

There are loads of great things in this kit...and a few that really aren't my thing. But that is the beauty of a kit club; it kind of pushes you to use something that you wouldn't normally purchase. Either that, or you stick it way down in the depths of your stash never to see the light of day again.

 

One of the things I did to try to make this kit more "me" was to take the mountains with a motivational saying under it and turn it into a banner strip that hangs from the top of the page. I used a label from the cut-apart sheet and sprinkled some pearls from my stash.

So while this page is definitely my style, it is not the usual products I would have chosen. The goal was to not flip through my album and have a jarring "WHAT IS THIS?" moment when you got to this page. In my mind, I have done it. 

From the kit I used:

• Patterned Paper - Escape the Ordinary "Search" (Pink Fresh)
• Cut-Apart Sheet (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
• Mini Word Stickers (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
• Ephemera Pack - Escape the Ordinary (Pink Fresh)
• Thickers - "Swing" (American Crafts) August 2017 Kit

From my stash I used:

• Gray Cardstock - Hot Buy Paper Pad (Michaels)
• Patterned Paper - Travel Stories (Carta Bella)
• Distress Stain - Evergreen Bough (Tim Holtz/Ranger)
• Enamel Triangles (Freckled Fawn)
• Pearls, Water drops  (Unknown Stash)

You can check out the process video on my YouTube Channel:

Always Fun // Follow a Sketch Friday

Today I am playing along with the gals over at Stuck?! Sketches.



I used a ton of scraps and some bits and baubles from my Rediscover Your Stash kit as well. Really love this sketch and it pushed me a little outside of my comfort zone as I am not a stacking up scraps kind of scrapper...usually.

See that little bit of meshy stuff? That has been in my stash for over 15 years. Crazy! And it has been used on at least two pages so far in the Rediscover Your Stash challenge this go-around. HOORAY!

Scrapbooking IS always fun, right? It should be! I have always enjoyed playing with paper. What a relaxing hobby for me. Thanks for sharing in it?

You can see it come together here:

Scrapbook Layout: Citrus Twist August 2017 // Follow a Sketch Friday

Today, I used my Citrus Twist August 2017 kit to start documenting a trip to Muir Woods. If you haven't been to this National Park, I highly suggest a trip. The beauty and magic of the woods are definitely not to be missed.

Today I used a sketch that was provided by Citrus Twist in the August 2017 kit. I used two of my favorite photos cropped down to 4x4 squares. This page doesn't move along the story, it is just a pretty page for my scrapbook.

For this page I used:

• Pink cardstock, Bazzill
• Summer Lights #6 paper, Pink Paislee
• Summer Time Paper, Carousel, Crate Paper
• Carnival paper, Carousel, Crate Paper
• Puffy stickers, Citrus Twist
• Ephemera Pack, Carousel, Crate Paper
• Thickers, Swing, American Crafts
• Label Sticker, Freckled Fawn
• Cut Apart Sheet, Citrus Twist
• Tulle, unknown stash
• Mesh ribbon, unknown stash
• Glitter tape, unknown stash

Find the process video here:

Scrapbook Process: No Hashtag // Rediscover Your Stash

First Day of School layouts often contain primary colors and heaps of school themed product. I have never been a scrapper who feels the need to have loads of school themed product. That may be because we have homeschooled. You know, that cute yellow bus die cut just doesn't apply to us. However, I do document the first day of school and random things we do throughout the year in the family albums. 

                                

Here is the first day for our two daughters. Now, I did save this 6x6 paper pad sheet for this particular layout. However, I have no idea where it came from other than it was in a paper pad. And I only know this because some of the paper pad glue was still stuck to the top of the paper! 

 No hashtag, just school. That title came from a conversation I had with my daughters about whether this photo would be hashtagged and what it should be. Well, there was no hashtag when I shared the photo, so it's just school. Had I not received this Thicker word in a Citrus Twist Kit, I am sure the title would have gone in a completely different direction.






For this layout, I used my Stash Kit, along with a few more letter sitckers and that saved sheet of paper thrown in.

• Cardstock, unknown
• Washi, unknown
• Chipboard Stickers - Family & Co, Fancy Pants
• Die Cuts - Family Stories, Teresa Collins
• Color Shine - Black Velvet, Heidi Swapp
• New Bradz - Sunshine & Happiness, Simple Stories
• Enamel Dots - McIntosh, Bella Blvd.
• Thickers - Skylar, American Crafts
• Thickers - unknown, AMerican Crafts
• Stickers - Capture Life, Echo Park
• Baker's Twine - Recollections, Michaels
• 6x6 Paper, unknown
• Letter stickers - Sweet & Sour Soup, Jillibean Soup

If you want to see how this layout came together, check out the process video here:

Rediscover Your Stash // Challenge 3

Today I am Rediscovering My Stash. I'll be residiscovering this stash for the next month or so. Yay! The challenge for today is to scrap a layout without people. Well, here's a layout with a sign and an automobile. Working through the Jelly Belly Factory Tour day trip. I am almost finished with it so that is super exciting!

One of my YouTube friends, Crystal Barret, has been scrapping with triangles. I have noticed them on a couple of her videos, so she inspired me with the triangle on the paper and using the triangle stickers for the banner. Please don't blame her for that awkwardness of the banner, though. That is all my own doing. I don't know if any banner would actually present itself in such a weirdo way. Ha!

Awkward!

Sticker Cluster

For supplies, I dug into my Stash kit. Here's what ended up on the page:

• Triangle Paper, Pink Paislee
• Teal Paper, Fancy Fants
• Cloud Paper, Shimelle
• Copper Thickers, Shimelle
• Stickers, Echo Park
• Star Brads, Recollections
• Baker's Twine, Jillybean Soup
• Die Cuts, Teresa Collins
• Chipboard Phrases, Freckled Fawn
• Epoxy Hearts, Freckled Fawn
• Label Sticker, Simple Stories

Check out the process video here:

Scrapbook Layout: That's Just Lovely // Follow a Sketch Friday

Today I am playing along with the gals over at Sketches in Thyme. This is sketch #289 by Brenda Ragsdale.


Today's layout is made from my Rediscover Your Stash Challenge Kit. This is the 4th layout I have created, so I have a ton of product left to work through. I did not use any cork. Hooray! I thought I was going to end up with cork on every. single. layout. I did use a gelato for the first time. Go me. I am not sure how exciting of a job I did with it and think if I play a little more I can make something cool. Next time!

• Black Dot Paper - Life is Beautiful, Fancy Pants
• Green Paper - I Love Family, Echo Park
• Hexagon Color Paper - I Love Sunshine, Echo Park
• Gelato - Passion Fruit, Faber-Castell
• Stickers - Sunshine & Happiness, SImple Stories
• Enamel Dots - Homemade, Perler
• Washi Stickers - Freckled Fawn
• Word Phrases - Tim Holtz
• Washi - Stash, unknown
• Enamel Hearts - Freckled Fawn
• Enamel-like Circles - Fancy Pants

You can see how this page came together on my YouTube channel:

Scrapbook Process: Scraplifting Shimelle

I totally scraplifted Shimelle and I am not even ashamed of it. Scraplifting is okay in my book. As long as you aren't profiting from it AND you are giving credit to the original creator. I'm definitely not making any money off of this and I am almost a Shimelle Fan Girl, so it's all good.

 

Yes, all smiles. That is what you will have if you ever go to the Jelly Belly Factory Tour. Seriously, people.  There's all kinds of fun history of the Jelly Bean and some pretty awesome taste-testing. It's the ACTUAL factory, too. Not some factory created just for tour groups. Are you sold, yet? Ready to hop on over to CA and do this? I thought so.

There really isn't a purpose to this layout. It doesn't move the story along. It doesn't start a series of pages on a new topic. It's just a fun picture of my husband and me. I had this photo as my Facebook profile picture for an entire year. That's how much I liked it. Just looking at the photo makes me smile because we had such a blast that day.

For this layout, I used my Homemade Stash Kit. Hooray for using up scrappy supplies! You know that just means you get to purchase more after the bash is over!

• Striped Paper - Taffeta, Hip Kit Club
• Teal Paper - Love & Sunshine, Echo Park
• Feathers Paper - Atwell, Fancy Pants
• Cardstock - Unknown, Stash
• New Bradz - So Rad,  Simple Stories
• Cork - Joy Parade, Fancy Pants
• Stickers - Capture Life, Echo Park
• Banner - Irish Farmhouse Soup, Jillibean Soup
• Splatters - Black Velvet, Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Check out the process video for this scraplift here:

Rediscover Your Stash-Challenge 1

Khristina posted an awesome first challenge. It's a sketch by Becky Fleck of PageMaps.

I wanted to go in a slightly different direction with the grid pattern. My layout is less grid and more color blocking. 

I was super glad to be able to use some of all the cork items I seem to have loaded up on. Who knew I loved cork embellishments this much? I surely did not. This layout came together with a lot of help from my scraps folders. I just didn't see the sense in cutting up those lovely 12x12 papers for a 2x2 square of paper. EEEP. Scrappy things that stress me out! There's a couple of Amy Tangerine die cuts, some Fancy Pants embellishments, and some Freckled Fawn embellishments as well. Couldn't even begin to tell you where the paper and cardstock came from as it has been in my stash a truly long time. 

Jelly Belly Factory Tour--Just go and experience it!

If you want to see how this came together for me, take trip over to YouTube:

Rediscover Your Stash-Round Two!

I am again participating in the Rediscover Your Stash Spending Freeze Challenge hosted by Sara Scraps and Khristina Sorge over on Facebook.

It starts TODAY and runs through the end of September. If you are interested in playing along, just friend request one of these great ladies and ask for an invite!

There's fantastic challenges, inspiration, and fun chatter to help keep you motivated to not spend any cash on scrappy supplies. Of course, you can and should buy the essentials. So if you run out of adhesive, please, go buy more! No sense in participating in a use your stash challenge if you can't, you know, USE your stash.

Here is the "kit" I have pulled from my stash. I use the term kit loosely here, people. I stopped pulling things because it felt like I was just moving everything from it's home to a new spot in my scraproom. So there's no letter stickers, ribbons, wood veneer, flair pieces...You get the idea.

Scrapbook Layout: Ice Cream // Follow a Sketch Friday

Today I am playing along with the gals over at Sketches in Thyme. This is the 2nd week of August sketch #288.

Today's layout is simple--meaning it is not loaded with layers or embellishments. AND THAT IS OKAY! Sometimes, my albums need a break. The layouts get overloaded with beautiful scrappy bits.

 It's okay to go back to just photos and paper.

This layout was created with:

• Background paper from an ancient "Stack"
• KI Memories black patterned paper
• Making Memories alphabet brads
• Project Life card
• Simple Stories card
• Echo Park papers
• Dear Lizzy Stickers that are not really stickers
• October Afternoon Flair
• Freckled Fawn chipboard and &
• MME letter stickers
• Spectrum Noir shimmer pen
• EK Success border punches
• Star Gemstones

Check out the process video here:

Let's Get This Party Started, Blogger!

Today, I decided to move my barely started blog from WordPress. It seems to be a great move already as I am definitely having an easier time with the Blogger format.

Hooray for easy to use Blogging tools!

Today, I scrapbooked just for me. No videos, nothing to show off, just some quiet pages that needed to be completed. Not saying I won't share those bad boys in an album share video over on YouTube. However, today they are tucked into their album and waiting for other pages to join them.

Here's hoping you are having a crafty, scrappy weekend as well!