on a roll

Well...look at that big ol' typo. Oops. Luckily I had another one of those journal spots to redo it.

Two cards from the leftover MME glitter paper. Trying to use up a lot of my preprinted die cuts.

Used the leftover craft paper from my scrap used for the flower card to make a bunch of little 2" square cards. Started with the pink butterfly in the back and then went, hey I have butterfly punch. These are what made me realize I needed a little thank you stamp.

Paired some old Daisy D pattern paper with a Bobunny sticker for an easy layout.

Used up the rest of the paper for these. I think my lemon looks a little wonky.

Love this airplane paper.

The green is the backside of the airplane paper and the black is leftover from framing the pic.

This was the layout that I was orignially going to use different alpha stamps on, but they were sticky. I like this better, anyway. The stripy strip is the backside of the cream notebook paper that is the background.

Two quick projects using the leftovers. Still have half a sheet of these sunflower stickers left. I'm going to use the tag on a layout.

No leftovers on this one. Pages are 6x6 squares directly out of the MME pad from M's last year.

Hey, look what I did!

Used an Alison Davis sketch from her blog and some of my MME Stomp paper. The title actually says "Dino Spike" but it's really hard to see the smaller letters. It's been a while since I really used stamps on a page, but I'm having fun with it. No misc. small products with the leftovers, since the leftovers are still pretty large pieces that can be used on other pages.

BG paper. Blue swirl is the front, brown/blue polka dot is the back. K&Co. glitter snowflakes.

Used some of the leftover strips of paper for a card and a tag. The card is ok. Like the color combination. Not sure what I'll use the tag for. Discovering that pigment inks really don't work well for my acrylic stamps and have been sticking to dyebased inks.

K & Co. paper, LYB title, and MM felt "25" and holly leaf. Glitter borders are from HL. Adapted a Becky Higgins sketch.

I really kind of stink at cards. The polka dot pattern is the backside of the present paper. Bracket labels are from the Anna Griffin Valentine journal pad. Stamp is one of the little $1 stamps from M's. Flower was part of a huge MM set from Target that I got on clearance a few years ago. Almost through them all.

The 6" squares of paper are from a sheet of WRMK paper. Just set the other two aside to use on a different layout, so no leftovers.

MME paper, LYB die cut journal box, old AC rubons and Wubbzy cut from a DVD sleeve last year and set aside. I think I may have to ditch the rubons; at this size they look fine, but IRL you can see how they cracked during application. I think time and too many temp changes are taking a toll on them.

I really liked the green paper for how versatile it was. I think it was part of a more vintagy/hertiage stack, but it looked good with just about everything. I traced a tag onto some script paper and tried to go for a slightly shabby feel. I was thinking of adding a pic to use as an accent on a future page. Next was a little brown bag tag hidden journaling thing. Had them forever. Out of 10 in the package, I think I've used about 4 now. Added a MM felt poinsettia and some gingham ribbon. Going to use it for journaling on a page in the Christmas album from 2008. The two easy cards. The first one is a MME card from the big Peachy Cheap order paired with some Prima flowers, and the second is a just a BoBunny stickers. Easy, but I like them.

Closing Out July

After I spent the morning cleaning and then cutting my foot, Rick wanted me to not walk on it, so I snuck some scrapbooking in. Quick little layout about Jacob's love for the stuffed snake he bought on vacation last year. July challenge item: cricut (Animal Kingdom cartridge)

I'll have to figure out how to make the letter stand out better. It says "The secret to a happy marriage". July challenge item: October Afternoon paper, cricut (Base Camp cartridge)

Really quick layout, mostly because Jacob kept trying to steal the pictures from me. July challenge items: Cosmo Cricket paper, metal (staples).

I don't normally scrap in landscape mode, so I was suprised to do two in one sitting. July challenge items: Cosmo Cricket paper, metal (brad, staples).

Ah, my cutie. July challenge items: stamps, ink, metal (brad).

July challenge total: not even worth counting.

"Birthday Dinosaur!"

I had planned to try my hand at a 3-d, sitting triceratops, but while at Hobby Lobby for something else, Jacob grabbed this Wilton pan and marched down the aisle, saying "Birthday Dinosaur!" and that was that. I'm sure it was actually much easier, especially since I cheated and used the tubes of the Wilton premade icing for almost the entire thing. The downside? The cake is really, really sweet. But that's probably good, because it means little pieces.
Rick is not a fan of chocolate cake, but the boys always pick out chocolate cake mixes, so I thought I would be sneaky and purchase a 6 pack of white cupcakes at the store, pull the character rings off of the bright frosting and stick a dinosaur in them. But....I had taken Rick's car to the store, which has absolutely no trunk space (thanks to some enormous speakers that make him very happy), so I had to pile the groceries in the front seat so Jacob wouldn't eat them on the way home. Somewhere between Kroger and home, they slid sideways and all the frosting went everywhere. In my desperation to salvage them, I scraped off all the remaining frosting, and piped on some matching green frosting for grass and stuck the little dinos in them anyway. They're all gone, so apparently I did ok.

Title page for Tiger cubs. Practically just used the paper as embellishment since I hated to cover up the tiger. Will make a similar one for each level.

First camping trip. Used Wild West for the title, and cut the alligator with Animal Kingdom. Got points for using WW for the first time, and more patterned paper.

I actually like this one a lot. Used Stand and Salute for all the cuts, and some PP that I've had laying around forever. Plus, I really like the journalling in the frame from Stand and Salute. Thought that turned out good. Also, I had the LO finished and thought it needed to be backed, but didn't have 2 big sheets of the same blue, so totally cheated and cut 6 - 1/4" strips of blue paper and just glued them to the edges. It looks like I matted it with blue, but used a lot less paper.

A page and two cards

House warming card I made for my sis. That's the SU border punch and it has a matching corner. Watercolored the card with water color crayons.

OK, it's doing it again and I don't know why. So, tilt. This is what I wanted the invites to look like the whole time and finally got the shape off the cupcake wrapper cart you gave me. :) I rolled the paper with the ducky roller in yellow, then lightly inked around all the edges to give it a little more dimension. Nice when you only have to make 4 of them! LOL It's just the yellow, the blue is a folder I have it sitting on for the pic.

Really, really busy LO. That scout paper was just overpowering, but it's done. I also realized just now that I took the pic with the LOs on the wrong sides. It looks OK, but I want the title on the left. I was glad to use my stars felt ribbon from M's $1 bin.

July challenge 1

Huh, guess I could have used the medium size picture option, rather than leaving it on small from the other blog. Anyhoo, I couldn't actually remember what I put down for the July challenge, so I had to look on here and was pleasantly surprised to see that I got a few points.
Can I just say that I love this one? I've been moving these pictures around for a couple months, because I had no idea what I wanted to use. For the challenge, I can claim Doodlebug product and metal (metal rimmed tags).

No points for this one. I think I originally intended to hang something from the left hand side of the mat and jumped the gun on calling it done. I'll have to think about what I can come up with.

No points for this one, either, but that's ok. The BoBunny paper was easier to cut down than I thought it would be. The red heart and the little flowers on the trees are from some Reminisce things back in January. No point here, either. Cut the huge flower out, because I thought it needed something and otherwise the paper is really busy if you try and use the full sheet.

I thought this was a cute idea. The mat is supposed to look like a cookie. It was looking a little top heavy, so I added the swirls to the bottom. July challenge item: Doodlebug stickers.

The title makes more sense if you know that Jacob spent the entire time saying, "Hair!", as in brush the hair. The paper doesn't really match, but I kept going back to it so that's what I used.

Love Imaginisce stuff. I'm not entirely sure I'm done with this one yet. If you click on it, you can see that I used Heidi Swapp ghost snowflakes in three spots. I'm thinking I might use the itop to make some brads to go in the center of them. For now, one point for the rub-on title.

July challenge total: 4 points

July Challenge

Ok, here are my challenge items for July:

1. 10 layouts using the Cricut
2. 10 layouts using October Afternoon paper
3. 10 layouts using stamps
4. 10 layouts using rub-ons
5. 10 layouts using Doodlebug Design products (paper/stickes/brads)
6. 10 layouts using Cosmo Cricket paper
7. 10 layouts using paint
8. 10 layouts usng brads
9. 10 layouts using metal (photo corners, frames, photo turns, charms, letters, etc.)
10. 10 layouts using die cuts

Cricut Handbook Storage

I found this divided bin in the 4th of July section at Target. It has six cubbies, so I've divided my cricut books by basic font, fancy font, mixed (font and image), holiday/seasonal, and two for images. It's getting full, so I'm torn about checking other Targets for another white one. I'll probably add some patterned paper and some ribbon to dress it up a little; I'm thinking Cosmo Cricket Early Bird, since it's one of my all time favorite lines to look at.

June challenge #3

Easy card that is only showing up because it has a flower on it.

Challenge item: Basic Grey paper. It's kind of sad, but this layout took me longer than most. I'm always kind of proud of myself when I can fit 12+ pics on a layout and still have it look nice.

challenge items: MME paper, flowers and chipboard

The paper doesn't seem so overpowering IRL. I used the SU ink pads to color the chipboard and at first I didn't like it because it was so dark, but after it dried it was more true to the color on the lid. The texture of the stamp pad gives a little pattern on the chipboard, but that's ok by me. I'll remember it if I want some chipboard to look like denim.

Total for June: 47

Not quite what I hoped for, but still pretty good.

Autograph mini albums

Our Autograph albums from the first trip we went on, finally finished. The inside is just a large pic on one side and the signature on the other. No embelishments other than that.

Hollywood Birthday Party

Here's a few pics of the Hollywood party. The chandalier (sp?) looked awesome but I could not get a great shot of it. I think it counts for crafty b/c I made the cake, the fruit sculpture (the white things are half dipped chocolate covered marshmallows), and the HOLLYWOOD letters, plus it's almost scrapbooking b/c I did the little photos in the film strip we got at M's. Ha! :)

July daily album (Heather)

(For my mom: Once a year we do a page a day album for a month. In 2008 it was December, and last year it was October. It just ends up being a cute little slice of life snapshot.)

As soon as I saw this piece of paper at the store in Utah, I knew I was going to cut it down for my cover. I had to ink the two new sides; I think it turned out ok. I had to dig for the chipboard letters and then hope that I had all the letters, because I had my heart set on using them for the title.

A few inside shots: this is the 4th of July area. There is the backside of the 3rd, a transparency sheet, a tag sheet, and then the right hand side. I was excited to finally use my Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty paperkins!

One of my favorite inside pages. the color stip is one of those little KF "paint swatches" and the title, sun and ants are felt from that ScrapBuck order.

Jacob's birthday section. It's actually the left side, a bingo card for a pick of the cake, a sheer page, and then the right side.

Can you tell I like red and green together? The sun is on a tag insert. With my luck, since I put a "BBQ" border stip on here, it will rain that day.

This shows a couple days. I used the "10 things I love about summer" stip pocket that I just got at Archivers. The sun is really old.

Just for fun: my October album cover from last year. (It's gauze wrapped around the chipboard cover and googly eyes and rickrack for the mouth.) I'm thinking of stapling a small tage with the year down in the lower corner or on a metal rimmed tag added to the binder rings.

And the December album: sheet cover over paper. The hats sticking up the top are "wish lists" that the mall gave away when we were visiting Santa. I had the boys fill them out and they are opposite pictures of what they wanted most that year. I have some little red circle numbers in gold frames numbers to attach for the year, but not sure what kind of adhesive I want to use, since it will show through the back of the sheer cover.

June challenge items: Terri's album used My Minds Eye paper, Basic Grey paper, tags and ribbon. Mine used MME paper, BG paper, tags, ribbon, chipboard, border stips, buttons and themed stickers. I just now added the ribbon to the other two albums. So that's 13 points, and about 100 sheets of paper used up from my stash.

June total so far: 42

There is no way I'm going to make 100 points for this month, but I'm pretty happy with the progress and product usage so far.