A New Adventure/Red,White & Blue Lay-Out

For this lay-out I chose to have an 8x10 picture and I wasn't too crazy with the way the design was turning out.  It  was tough for me as it really needed to be simple and tell the story. BUT, then I discovered the "boing" factor as the tiny metallic threads curled beautifully (and" boinged") haha :) when I pulled it from this braided trim.  It added the little extra flair I needed after trying to keep this page from looking too busy. I do love this picture of my girls with their best buddies!
  (The extra embellishments will finish the lay-out on the opposite page as well as the rest of the title.."With our Best Buddies")

This is for the  "word challenge" over at "About a Girl" We are to use the word New somewhere on the page.

This project is also linked to:
Scrap Our Stash, Red, White&Blue Challenge
 Scrapbook Obsession
Scrap It Girl: Red,White&Blue Challenge 

Bold Colors/Patterns/Chipboard Embellishments

 

I won this super flower stamp from last week's challenge. Click here for  This weeks challenge

"anything goes". Keeping up with a few challenges really helps to get caught up with my scrapbooks. At least one page a month at this point is my goal!!

2 Cute

A little sanding, stitching, cutting out flowers and lots of layered chipboard, my girls have a few more fun memories in their book. The twins are their best buddies!

The lower left picture has layers of bubbles as a tag to open for more pics.

 This link has some gorgeous girl lay-outs!
"About A Girl" Bold Colors/Patterns Challenge

Scroll down to see my last post for the first June challenge with doilies, for About a Girl.

Lay-out with Doilies,Stamped Clay Embellishments for All Crafts Challenge, Dies Challenge/June Challenges

 This lay-out was created for 

SpeedyTV's Monochromatic and Black and White Challenge 

Scrap It Girl Use your Dies Challenge check out the goodies for the winner!

and Tone-Lil's Doily Challenge at About a Girl Scrapbook Challenge Blog 

The flower on the lower right is layered scrunched up doilies sprayed and inked. I also folded them into triangles for additional embellishing within the other white flowers.

There are so many beautiful lay-outs within this blog...go check it out for some "Girly" inspiration!

 I made the 3 black and gold squared from baking Perfect Pearls into polymer clay. The dies are the Sizzix branch and Bigz Lattice.

Here is a set of my little polymer clay squares stamped with  Pearled Powder and sealed.

 These were really fun to make! It was a new challenge away from making my faux clay seals...a new way to work with clay

Please see My Etsy for Clay Squares/Seals/Button Embellishments

My Clay Embellishments are linked up to Elaine's party at:

All Crafts Challenge  

Sunburst Lay-Out

To continue with the May challenges with  About A Girl I finally finished the SunBurst design.

Today I thought was last day for this challenge..but it's June already! But I love how it came out for my little animal lover.  I added the girly girl touches but I really wanted to reflect who she was at this age.
Check out the link for some beautiful end results and the tutorial on how to create this design. It's so easy, I actually go two pages done this week!

This layout has some cool crinkly mulberry paper, vellum pieces and Petaloo flowers.

This project is linked to:

Inspire Me Friday

"Little Ladies" Scrapbook Pages

The May challenge is to introduce the Little Ladies 

in our life for the super About A Girl blog. 

 

These are my beautiful girls. My lay-outs are for Sears pictures that you
never can say no to when you pick up your pictures and they made up extra sheets for you to purchase!

 Introducing:

           

  Isabella

(When I took this picture, it left a bit of shine from the protected sleeve)

Gabrielle

I used my Sizzix Flower Layers and Sizzlits Branch w/Leaves dies in the BigKick to create this page. The flowers are layered with some lace backing the largest flower.

I then dotted the Glossy Accents to adhere the Twinklets Diamond Dust to give sparkle to the flowers and some branches.

Winter Reminisce Scrapbook Pages

Winter Reminisce 

 Paper, Flowers and Paper Frames by Creative Memories

is my favorite design right now.  Especially with my handsome hubby and baby girls as the center.  The inked leaves/branches are a die cut from my Big Kick.

On the right side of the picture, I used my Zacto knife to cut around the design for an overlay. (and yes, mommy is a freak about helmets...they were posing for me :)!

Challenges for Everybody

Heritage Lay-Out/Faux "Sealing Wax" Seals

1925 Photo of Hubby's Great Great Grandmother

I scanned and printed the back of the picture postcard which had my husband's grandmother's handwriting.  I wanted it to be part of the lay-out.

Isn't this a great purse! I would love to have that today...from 1925.









Here is a close up of the clay seal I created in the flower center. I added the brad, painted and sprayed glimmer mist after baking.

I wanted to show you another way to use the clay seals. I created this pocket to add to a scrapbook lay-out. A sneaky way to add more pictures, journaling or memorabilia to a page.

These project is linked to these challenges:

Tammy's Scrapin' Corner Homemade EmbellishmentChallenge

"Stamped Background" Challenge

This is my page for Stamped Background Challenge at Scrapbook Sisters:

 I stamped leaves and stems on the pink background paper with the same green that is in the girls pink shirts. I cut out stamped flower images and placed them directly over the matching stamped flower image on the background paper to create the dimension.   I added a pre-made scrolled butterfly and bling to the flower centers.

The tag is vellum with a stamped image.


I had two of these pictures so I made one for each of the girl's scrapbooks. This time used my leaf/branch die along with the same stamped cut out flowers. I also stamped the upper left corner with a very pale pink. It was pretty simple as I didn't alter the leaf branches like it did in my last post's scrapbook page. I hope to inspire someone who would like to use their stamps more like I need to do.

Paper Flower Layers with Branches Scrapbook Page/Text and Tulle Challenge/Flowers Challenge

 Here is my favorite scrapbook lay-out from the crops I went to this spring.

I used my Sizzix Flower Layers and Sizzlits Branch w/Leaves dies in the BigKick to create this page. The flowers are layered with some lace backing the largest flower.


I then dotted the Glossy Accents to adhere the Twinklets Diamond Dust to give sparkle to the flowers and some branches.

I found a wonderful new blog with new challenges at Scrapbook Sisters:

The above project and the scrapbook page below  is linked to Scrap it Girl May Flowers challenge.

The 3 pinwheel flowers are made from pink lace then centered with layered, punched out flowers and a brad. The large flower is a 12inch piece of lace that I dyed with perfect pearls before making the flower.


Text and Tulle Challenge at City Crafter 

This is a special lay-out for me. I wore this flower girl dress for my Aunt's wedding when I was 4.  The tulle and flowers are part of the vail but this is the last of the tulle.   I made other pages of  my older daughter in this dress and 2 other projects. I guess I have really cherished the outfit and wanted it's story to be told.

Faithbooking "You Are Who You Are For A Reason"

I finally had a chance to check out several Faithbooks created by a Creative Memories consultant friend of mine. I have used verses and quotes in the past within my pages but I have never designed an entire scrapbook specifically for the sake of the inspirational message. The book is designed around the quotes instead of the pictures. This makes it really fun to match up any picture you feel coordinates with the quote for that page.

You start with a smaller book, I used an 8x8, and one pack of pages if you are using the Creative Memories book.

There are several quotes, books or messages you can design your Faithbook around. Here are the directions to the one I just recently finished.

The first page is for centering Psalm 139:13-16 with some special embellishments. I chose not to include a picture on this page.

Then there are 21 lines therefore, 21 pages... not including your first page with Psalm 139:13-16.

The first full lay-out starts the 20 lines of quotes. It works out perfectly as the backside of the last page, number 21, is for the author's name with another picture of your choice.

Here are the 20 lines. See below for my examples of how to incorporate them into the lay-outs.

You are who you are for a reason

You're part of an intricate plan

You're a precious and perfect unique design

Called "God's special woman or man"

You look like you look for a reason

Our god made no mistake

He knit you together within the womb

You're just what He wanted to make!

The parents you had were the ones He chose

And no matter how you feel

They were custom designed with Gods plan in mind

And they bear the Master's seal

No, that trauma you faced was not easy

And God wept that it hurt you so

But it was allowed to shape our heart

So that into His likeness you'd grow

You are who you are for a reason

You've been formed by the Master's rod

You are who you are beloved,

Because there is a God!

by Russell Kelfer

Here are a few examples:

I kept the pages simple and didn't do any "wallpapering". I didn't want to take away from the point of the book. This lay-out above has pre-made frames but none of other pics had matting. Simple.

The last page

This scrapbook is for my 10yr old. I'm in the process of starting another for my 8yr old using a different message. I will share it with you hopefully by Easter.

Another idea for you...Max Lucado has a children's book, "Just in Case You Ever Wonder", this concept could be created on. It starts out "Long long ago, God made a decision"..."He made the decision to make you". What a special little book that would make.

This post also made it over to the Creative Scrapbooking Divas blog. It will be February's Special Guest Post in their Faithbooking link of their blog. Thank you so much Luisa for posting this for all the Diva's!!

"Change It Up" Paper Challenge

I can't stop with the lay-outs now that I have started. The second of my two October "Change it up Paper Challenges" is explained in the last post. Please check out the technique by scrolling down to the last post. Here I used the same "watercolor look" technique to create the other half of the winter day full lay-out. This time I used blue snowflakes. The green in the vellum ribbon will make the bit of green in the first page show up better.

I'm so excited to see 10 comments between the two challenges. This should be fun seeing all the results. I'll keep you posted and let you know who wins the prize!!

Check out my challenge posts at Creative Scrapbook Divas to get in on the fun and I would love it if you left me a comment on these posts here as well so I know who is checking out the techniques :)

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Will it ever stop raining here in Maine??? My May flowers need sunshine :)

Big sister is trying to make little sister smile for the camera. She is crying because she is...WET.

This page was created by using a template for slicing then folding the design. Underneath the folds there is a different paper showing through. I used the template during a scrapbook store class.

Lace Flowers/BlogHop

It's time to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day this Saturday May 7th with our fabulous:

Divas Mansion Tour Blog HOP!!!

There are so many ways to make homemade flowers, I'm going a little crazy. I have quite a collection just waiting for the right lay-out.

The 3 pinwheel flowers are made from pink lace then centered with layered punched out flowers and a brad. The large flower is a 12inch piece of lace that I dyed with perfect pearls before making the flower. Check out http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/ for great flower making tutorials!!

We Have a Story To Tell

These are the first two pages to our family album going back to 2003. (Separate from the kids albums).

This is my niece, Stephanie.

About Me

One of the challenges last week was to create a page about myself. Hmmm! Not the kids?? So I took a lay-out about my first weekend away to a scrap and turned it into a page that I otherwise would not have taken the time to do. I also used my "life mission statement" I created a couple years ago. I hadn't done anything special with this statement until this challenge came up (it's in the envelope). The lay-out also includes my favorite quote from John Eldredge and a verse from a song about friends.

Thanks for the inspiration Creative Scrapbook Diva's!

Postcard Friendship Friday

Time to check out all the beautiful vintage postcards and travel back in time. Today I am sharing a postcard I framed. It's from the same time frame as most of the others I have which is early 1900's. Most are 1908-1916. I found them in my husband's grandparent's very old farmhouse in a box ready to be thrown out!!

This is one of the delicate vintage lace doilies from my husband's grandparents house.

Below are this week's flea market finds.

This is a jar filled with small buckles. These will be great for scrapbooking or artcards.

This key is quite a treasure. It is the "Key of Heaven".

It quotes:

"What does it Profit a Man to Gain the Whole World If He Lose His Own Soul"

Here are some great buttons. I will probably use them for centers of my homemade clay seals.

This is the back of the key. Such beautiful detail. "Saint Christopher, Be My Guide"

Here are more of my Vintage postcard projects if you are looking for ways to display your cherished treasures!

My last post has a link to the Creative Scrapbook Diva's Bloghop. It was pretty successful for me. It helped me finish 4 pages. Here is one of them. This challenge was using a sketch of a lay-out to help with the placement of pictures, journaling and embellishments.