Happy NSD 2013!

I am excited to share a fun project with you that I worked on this week!I am up with a layout created for National Scrapbook Day 2013, and a scrappy challenge over at Shimelle/AKA Glitter Girl's blog! Hint: it's all about using a mood board!

Head over there to see more!

Scrapping With a Page Kit Like Glitter Girl

 

For the last couple of weeks at Two Peas In a Bucket, Glitter Girl has been talking about making scrapbooking easier by scrapping with a page kit, and since this is one of my favorite ways to scrap, I had to play along! Here is my page kit, using Glitter Girl's formula:

 

And these are the pages that I came up with using this kit:

I am so in love the Teresa Collins doily paper...so pretty! The first layout is based on one of Shimelle's sketches, and the second one is based on this sketch from the Paper Bakery:

 

All in all, a fun and relatively quick scrappy challenge!

What’s On Your…

I saw this on the fabulous Ali Edwards blog and decided to play along!

Here’s what’s on my…

 

VANITY |  Don't have room for a vanity...but if I did, it would hold my make up and jewelry

 

PERENNIAL TO DO LIST |   LAUNDRY...laundry...and more laundry...with a family of 6, I do it every day, and it is never ending! Any tips?

REFRIGERATOR SHELVES |  Leftover pizza, pickled veggies, milk, lunch supplies

 

ITINERARY |  planning a weekend trip for Father's day

 

FANTASY ITINERARY |  A European adventure...I would love to stop at all of the big stops...Italy would be at the top of my must see list- so much art and history there!, France ( I dream of stopping at a market for fresh bread, cheese, fruit, pastries, and wine,  and having a picnic in front of the Eiffel tower), England-so much history and ceremony there that I would love to see, and Ireland and Scotland to see the castles and sample the cuisine.

 

PLAYLIST |  I need a new one-any recommendations? What do you like to run/work out to?

 

NIGHTSTAND |   Several scrapbook magazines, Johanna Lindsey-Let Love Find You

 

WORKOUT PLAN |  I really need to get back to running...

 

IPHONE |  Don't have one. When I get one, the first apps that I will download: Feedly, Instagram, Tim Holtz, and Gardens Of Time

 

TOP 5 LIST | (1.)Prayer-it really does work! Had a big one answered this week!

(2.)Kids sports-I love them, love watching my kids play them(especially basketball!)

(3.)Time to relax with the hubs

(4.)Scrapbooking and making kits

(5.)Progress on Home Improvements!

 

BUCKET LIST | Travel, move into a bigger house...did I say travel?!

 

MIND |    Laundry, scrapbooking, home improvements

 

BLOGROLL | Shimelle (great sketches,videos, and all around inspiration!), Tim Holtz (So much fantastic art and inspiration, great tutorials and videos), Studio Calico (they have some amazingly talented designers, so it is always inspiring to me)  Paper Issues (inspiring and fun challenges, great layouts from their designers), Mama Laughlin (love her fitness story, she is very funny and real), Walking In Memphis In High Heels (She is a local {to me} girl, wears the cutest outfits, and has some fun giveaways), C.S.I. (Color, Stories, and Inspiration-A fun and unique challenge, with free printables, too!), and Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog (I love the inspiration for making kits from supplies you already have, and they have tons of tutorials and links, a truly great scrapping resource for me!).

I have hundreds of blogs that I read frequently, but these are some of my favorites!
 

WALLS OF YOUR FAVORITE ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE |  My living room-sand colored side walls with a red focal wall-it wreaks havoc on my living room photos though!

LIQUOR SHELF |   Wine for me, vodka for Bloody Mary's and Screwdrivers for the hubs. And some leftover Peppermint Schnapps that's been there forever

 

LAST CREDIT CARD STATEMENT | Home improvement supplies (Do you see a theme here?)

 

SCREENSAVER |  An Indiana University screensaver

 

TV EVERY NIGHT |  Dancing With the Stars, Elementary, and New Girl are my favorite shows right now. And I can't wait for Suits to come back!

 

 

Another Day, Another Scrapbook Page...

This time, my layout was inspired by a sketch from the Scrappiest:

Again, I used my March kit (I am loving this kit so much! One of my favorites of all time!!):

 I used some of my favorite paper from Dear Lizzy's Lucky charm collection, and other bits and pieces from the kit (the banners were perfect for using up some of my scraps!), an Elle's Studio journaling card, a piece of washi from the washi tape sheet from Maggie Holmes, a few of the Maggie Holmes cut out tags, a few little Jillibean Soup letter stickers, some of the chipboard pieces from the Dear Lizzy chipboard Thickers, and some Gold Lame and Primrose Color Shine from Heidi Swapp.
I backed the cut-out letters with some Lucky Charm striped paper:

I love the yummy Color Shine mist too! I need more colors!
I am linking this layout up to: Simon Says Stamp: Cityscapes or Travel, since the photo is from a trip my family took last year, Layout Love Linky, The Scrappiest, and the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog
 Now...off to see what I can do for this weeks' Glitter Girl prompt...it's right up my alley, since it involves kit-building/scrapping from the limitations of a kit! Ta-ta for now!

Another layout from my March kit...

Just a quick post to share the page that I made using Shimelle's Sketch 12 and my March kit:

 Love the papers-Maggie Holmes, Pebbles, Amy Tangerine...and I added some of my new Heidi Swapp Color Shine mist, a Tim Holtz mask, some Want 2 Scrap pearls, a Basic Grey Canvas tag, pink chevron washi tape, a flocked Doodlebug brad, a heart from the Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm set fit in the fussy cut camera perfectly, and I put a coating of Glossy Accents over it to make a "lens".
Here is a closer look at the embellishments:

Thanks for looking-I always love to know what you think!

Scrapping up a storm!

Yes, I have been scrapping a lot over the last few days...it's kind of my stress release ;-) So, I pulled out my February kit

 and made a few pages:

 and this one based on Shimelle's Sketch #9:

(the sketch):

And another take, with my March kit, on the same sketch:

 I used Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm, Amy Tangerine Yes Please, and Maggie Holmes for Crate (all of my favorite goodies from the most recent CHA, basically!). I also used Cocoa Daisy and Amy Tangerine stamps from my kit, a white gel pen, and added in a set of embellishments, because I just love these yummy Glitz Giant Rhinestones...

Thanks for allowing me to share with you...now I have to go scrub some floors and do some laundry, to make up for all of my time spent scrapping this week ...

I have Issues...Paper Issues...

I have been following paper Issues for quite awhile now, and I wanted to play along with some of their fun challenges ! So, I pulled out my March kit and got to work on their two most recent ones: "InstaLove" , and "Up In The Clouds". Now, I may be the last person in the world that doesn't have an Iphone or Droid, so I don't have an Instagram account (soon, I hope). But, my brother does, so I pulled an adorable picture of my nephew from my brother's Instagram to make this layout:

 The papers are Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic, Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm, And The Maggie Holmes line for Crate Paper (a lot of which are available at the Paper Issues store-AND you can use the code ASHLEY75 to save 20%!). The ribbon and chipboard pieces are from Lucky Charm also, and, since the umbrella in the chipboard pack was a little too girly for my layout, I painted it with a lovely mint green, and I coated the chipboard raindrops with Glossy Accents to really give them a wet look. I sprinkled October Afternoon Sprinklers and Mr. Huey's mist across the layout on a diagonal, and added a few little drops of Glossy Accents across the layout to really carry out the rain effect-and I love how it came out! Isn't my nephew the cutest thing in this raincoat and boots?

Here is a closer look at the "rain":

 I was also inspired by last week's "Up In The Clouds" theme. When I saw the challenge, I immediately thought of this gorgeous Maggie Holmes cloud paper:

Now, I am not normally a big fan of cloud paper, but this one is just so gorgeous that I can't get enough of it! I love the aperture/bokeh effect that is applied to it-so, so pretty!

Here is my layout:

 I used a lot of Maggie Holmes paper, and a piece of the Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm yellow hearts paper. I loved that this black and cream chevron already had a misted look-I added a little more, because I had some new Primrose Heidi Swap Color Shine that I was dying to try, added some Thickers, Jillibean letter stickers, a doily that I die cut with a Papertrey Ink die from a scrap, some misted wood veneer butterflies, washi, Want 2 Scrap pink pearls, an Amy Tan camera stamped on a scrap of kraft, a chipboard star with a cut out center that I misted with Gold Lame Color Shine, and filled the center with gold Stickles. I added Glossy Accents for "lens" on the camera:

I used this fabulous sketch from Shimelle:

Thank you for stopping by today, I made some more layouts with my February and March kits, so I will be back to share more tomorrow!

March is almost over, BUT...

I did make a couple of kits to scrap with this month! I made them up a couple of weeks ago, but I never got around to sharing them! So, I just wanted to let you have a look at them before I start making up kits for April!
The first kit I made up was inspired by Shimelle's Best Of Both Worlds kit for March. Since I had already purchased most of the supplies that she had in her kit, it was no sweat to pull it all together:

 I made a few small substitutions (the vellum is some ancient Hot Off The Press vellum from my stash), and added in a few other bits that I had, that I felt fit well with my kit. The Maggie Holmes and Crate Paper goodies are some of my must-haves from the most recent CHA! I was lucky enough to win some of it, and some I had to buy... Here is a look at just the paper(my favorite part!):

 My other kit for March was inspired by the Counterfeit Kit challenge, and their choice for March, Noel Mignon's Soda Shoppe kit:

I also had lots of these goodies, so I came up with another huge kit! Here is my kit:

A closer look at the papers:

Lots of Basic Grey, Dear Lizzy, Elle's Studio, Crate Paper, and MME The Sweetest Thing. Now, I just need to find some time to use all of these yummy, spring goodies!! Oh, yeah, and to find my pictures...
I was cleaning up one day, and I "put away" about 5 envelopes of my most recently developed photos. I "put them away" so well that I can't find them...please tell me I am not the only one who has done this, lol.  Guess I'll clean first and see if I can find them!

True Beauty

Today's project was a labor of love, a layout that I created for my oldest daughter. I am using a few current challenges that I wanted to play along with, and my "Hearts And Flowers" kit from February. I followed along with the sketch for this month from Artful Delight:

And played along with Tim Holtz's Tattered Florals challenge:

To be honest, I was a little intimidated by this contest-I have so many great ideas for projects swirling around in my brain, and the projects that have already been submitted are AH-MAZING! But, scrapbooking is what I love and do the most craft-wise, and the time is drawing down to enter. So, I cut some flowers out of paper scraps with this die (I am happy to report it worked quite well in my Cuttlebug with 2 "B" plates), and inked them up with Tattered Rose and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks, and scrunched and shaped them with my fingers.

 

I am also entering this layout in this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Easter/Spring, since the photo was taken in the spring, and nothing says "spring" to me more than flowers!

 

Here is what my finished layout looks like:

 

Supplies used: Basic Grey, Doodlebug, Graphic 45, DCWV,and My Mind's Eye patterned paper, bling by ZVA and Want 2 Scrap, Basic Grey letter stickers and Butterfly sticker, Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, Tumbled Glass and Tattered Rose Distress Ink and Ranger ink blending tool and pads, MME brad, and Mr. Huey's mist.