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!