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: