Halloween treat

Just realized I didn't post this when I posted pics of the holiday decorations. I made these treat bags for my and Terri's kids for Halloween. The idea is something I saw on pinterest, and then I came up with a topper idea. "boo" is from the Mini-Monsters cartridge. I originally intended to use my grass edge scissors but couldn't locate them, so it finally dawned on me to use the MS fringe scissors, instead. Stamp is from an Oriental Trading Company set.

Halloween decorations

I love the MME Mischievous line that came out this year, in fact, I'd say it's probably been my all time favorite Halloween line. However, I certainly don't need more Halloween paper and such so I limited myself to just the 6x6 pad, which ended up being perfect to cover the chipboard letters of the banner I've been moving around. A few close-ups:


All the accents are from older MM lines. Inked around the edges with TH Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
And these guys...thin wooden shapes that I covered with paper. The purple is the backside of a paper from a Halloween pad (Recollections) and the spider paper is from a pack from the Target $ spot last year.

Caramel Apple Treats

A gift for Heather's family. A Sonic drink carrier covered and decorated, then filled with apples, caramels and chocolate chips.

random layouts

Paper from the dcwv songbird stack.
cricut Winter Frolic and Storybook cartridges. Loosely based on a Allison Davis sketch.
Again, what was I thinking letting them open presents while wearing orange and brown? Must pay more attention this year.
Older MM paper and newer Recollections clear die cuts
Well lookey there, computer journaling. Winter Woodland cricut cartridge. Rick actually picked the paper and embellies for this one.
MS borders and an old CK stamp. Rick also picked the paper and embellies for this one. He does good. :)
Pieces of a Pebbles boy birthday kit I picked up at TJMaxx for $2.99 last spring.
Eh. Not my favorite, but that's ok., Sort of based on an Allison Davis sketch.
Look...pink! Flowers! butterflies! I must have hit my head.
Jenni Bowlin papers from HL. Ran some white paint over the paper and part of the photos for journaling spots.
Quick one. Blues are all off, but Jacob liked it.
Man, there is now glitter all over my table, embedded in my trimmer and transferred from my clothes to my bed...all from cutting those two little MME strips. Stupid glitter paper. Based on an Allison Davis sketch.
My sweet music lover. Really using the QK Chocolate alpha die recently. More of the DCWV Songbird paper.
Another quick one. The paper is MME Lime Twist and actually has a scalloped border. Cutting off the border pieces worked perfectly to cut it down for the page.Used a coordinating die cut to make it look like the photo is in a pocket. Journaling around the edge is just a list of things that described him at age 11.
Had no "D" so I had to improvise. :) Based on a Becky Fleck/Pagemaps sketch.

100 project total: 52

Counterfeit Kit #1

There are monthly kit clubs offered by several companies, and they intrigued me. Boxes of goodies, the latest and greatest products, picked to coordinate and delivered straight to your door...what's not to love? Well, some of them cost up to $50. A lot of them, you have to subscribe for multiple months. And, just because you love what they've come up with the last 2 months, there's no guarantee you're going to even like the next 3 months. And therein was my problem. Enter the idea of counterfeit kits (which was totally not mine). Basically, you find inspiration from a kit, and then go dig through your stash and come up with your own, and you don't even spend a penny.

I have to admit, though, that this is backwards for me. I usually choose pictures, then product. Choosing a bunch of paper and embellishments and then finding groups of pictures to work with...I haven't done so well with it in the past, but I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying it, and liking the layouts a came up with.

I went to several different kit club websites and found 40 or so that I liked, and then took the 10 that looked the most interesting to me, and made up my kits. First up:

Little Red Scrapbook's May 2010 kit. Look at all the happy colors! And, if you look closer, it's all October Afternoon paper. Is it any wonder that I was drawn to it? And is it all that shocking that I had most of it? No. (And that is something that I discovered about a lot of the kit clubs, upon closer inspection, most of them aren't mixing and matching manufacturers anymore). And here's my kit:
Since the bottom row of paper from the kit club papers is the flip side of the top row papers, I had to actually get creative, since I usually just buy one sheet of each design. Not a lot of embellies, since I don't own a lot of birds and such.
I would have never chosen these papers for these pics, but I really like how it turned out.
extra project: a cleaned out container from the Target bakery that was filled with packets of nuts as a gift for Terri. The paper also rings the actual container.
I don't usually use blue cardstock for backgrounds, but since it was part of the "kit"...Inspired by an Allison Davis sketch.
One of my favorites. I've had these metal letters for awhile, but since there is only one of each letter, I had to get creative. The second E is actually an F and an L layered together.
I like how this turned out. The paper on the top half has been a favorite, even if I didn't know what to do with it for a long time.
Some old scans of one of Brandon's books. He declared that this was Rick and me (always cleaning/always causing mischief).
Eh.
Pictures I took of one of Terri's sons while I was watching him. The colors fit perfectly with this kit,which is good, because I have an appalling amount of pink paper for never using it.
I have no idea what I'm going to do with this layout. I was putzing around with the pieces I have left (which is actually a lot) and ended up with this, and liking it, but having no pic to put on it yet. It will eventually find a home.

I should have had plenty of cards from the rest of the leftovers, but my creative mojo for cards is currently hiding. So, that's it for now.

100 projects total: 37

Summer Fun

I had already picked out these papers and stickers for these pics when I bought the EP Splash paper pack, so I had to work to convince myself to use what I had already picked out. I like how it turned out, though.
Mr. Creative himself helped me pick out the paper scraps and place them, so this was a collaborative effort. :)

Banner pieces cut from a piece of Teresa Collins paper (nice and easy!)
The left hand side is a Becky Higgins sketch one of her first books.

Meh. It looked better in my head.
I obviously haven't tried chalking in awhile. My first attempt looked like Mr. Fox had set his makeup gun to "hooker". Oops.
Quick covered composition book with Chatterbox paper, MM trim and glitter flowers. Don't know what I'll do with it.

100 projects total: 28

getting into the groove

Chatterbox paper, with the flowers fussy cut from one of the sheets. Busted out one of my SU! butterfly stamps and coordinating punch. I notice that since discovering Allison Davis, I do a lot more "AD style" paper strips and grouping photos around the middle.

For being line coordinates, these stickers sure don't look like they go with this paper.

Mama's Day 2010 at Rainforest Cafe. Thought the Karen Foster paper and Jolees elephants went well together.

Found these 2 "ABC's of You" Die Cuts and decided to just star playing with paper. The frame is 2 MME frames layered together.
I really love this line from Crate Paper. I think I might have to do a printers tray or something so I can see it all the time.

100 projects total: 19