Peepathon online crop

Our message board held a Labor Day "Peepathon" online crop, with 25 challenges. I hosted one, and was able to complete 13 other challenges (2 were a selfie challange, and  clean up challenge)

My sample for the "Fall papers on a non-Fall themed project"

Back to School challenge:

Specific SG/Create Magazine sketch:

On the Grid challenge:

Any SG/Create Magazine challenge:

Oldie But Goodie (use your oldest supplies) challenge:

True Colors (monochromatic) challenge:

Old, New and a Brew (combine old and new from a specific list) challenge:

Say Goodbye to Summer (back up and order photos and create a layout that sums up your summer):

STAMPTASTIC! (create a stamped background) challenge:

Let's Get Scrappy (use only scraps) challenge:

Disney: Anything Goes challenge:

50 layouts challenge, weeks 22-26

week 21:

 

 week 22:
This took forever! I was playing around with some scraps and started die cutting some diamonds. Then I decided I wanted to do them across the whole background. It took a couple hours to cut, place and glue them all down. After that, I wanted to keep the layout simple so I didn't cover up all that work!

week 23:
Super simple, since I had started boxing up all my supplies.

week 24: made just before I packed the last box and took the table out.

week 25: first layout made in my new room.

 

And can you tell I like wood veneers? I used at least one on every single one of these layouts.

 

2014 in 2014 total: 881/2014. I need to step it up, lol.

Labor Day weekend online crop

At the scrapbooking message board I hang out at now, a bunch of us decided to have an online crop over the holiday weekend, complete with live chats, a hilarious and fast paced game of scrapbook bingo and challenges. Anyone who wanted to could "host" a challenge and provide a small prize. My challenge was to use the colors of the rainbow and the prize was a rainbow selection of Thickers stickers. I couldn't win my own prize, but this is a layout I did for it.



And the rest of my pages:

Challenge: football (or any sport)

Challenge: use hexagons

Love that it combined one of my favorite paper lines (Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer) and the hexagon nesting die set that Terri got me for Christmas :)  I also used a sketch that I pinned on Pinterest.

 

Challenge: scraplift the given layout:

It was almost a direct lift; same background paper, same placement, and a mat made of ribbon.

Challenge: pink and bling:

Challenge: pick 6 (from a list of 11). I chose patterned paper background, thickers title, block sticker subtitle, wood veneers, handwritten journaling and enamel dots.

Challenge: use up leftovers

I had originally cut out the heart for the pink and bling page, and the pink paper for cupcakes is leftover from the same layout. I've been waiting to use the Silhouette title cut for awhile :)

Challenge: Patriotic

I actually one this challenge, by virtue of being the only one to submit. Oh well, I like the layout and received a lovely SG page kit set from my friend Debbie (challenge host).


100 projects total: 61/100

MME Lost and Found

I've used most of my papers from this line, so I just had a few left.

 I'm envisioning using this one for either some pics of Jacob with his beloved cowboy hat, or from the rodeo.

The tan and black polka dots reminded me of Halloween, so I dug through my scrap stash and found some orange and some burlap that looked good.

365 Layouts total: 370 layouts, 2 cards, 5 mini albums.

quick and easy card

While watching a video with Brandon, I started playing with some paper scraps on my desk and came up with this easy and quick card.

365 Layouts total: 340 layouts, 2 cards, and 5 mini albums

February 1

Relatively quick and easy one. The paper is 6x6 square from pad, some really old suede photo corners from MM mixed with some new accents from MME. Jounaling is on a hidden libary card, and talks about his personality and interests at age 12.

This is not how the Merry Christmas card was supposed to look. Between the time I started it, and the time I finished it, Jacob had wandered into my room and decided it was his personal coloring playground. I think it turned out ok, though.

I left this one sitting on the desk forever, trying to decide if I wanted to add the crystal swirl or not. It's been fun to mix old photo layouts in with current ones.

Two quick cards from the leftover background paper. This was the last snowflake from that embellie set. Stamp on the second one is from that set we got for dirt cheap at Target last year. I like the open snowflakes in it.

This should have come after the layout, but oh well. The little leather "smile" tag was part of an old EKSuccess set from a batch at Tuesday Morning.

One of my recent favorites. I don't normally use this color blue, especially for a background, but this combo kept speaking to me while trying to pick papers. Love the KI Memories word stickers, and that I can snip it in half to make it look like it spans two pages. It wasn't until I was flipping through the bluebonnet pics, trying to decide which ones to use, that I realized that Brandon managed to avoid having pics taken of just him. I'll get him this year.

Again with the backward photo placement. I didn't plan that very well. I'm blaming 5 hours of sleep out of 48. The "a little hello" stamp is one of the Paper Studio clings from HL. It didn't cling to the acrylic block by itself, but it was ok with a small strip of double sided tape that came off easy afterwards. Totally didn't plan it, but it the stamped image fit perfectly over the flower.

No real reason for this layout, other than I promised myself that I would include more photos of myself in the albums. Finally got to use my BG Stella Ruby paper. I like them, but uh, pink. I may eventually incude some journaling.

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.