Speed Racrers!

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE this Found A Boy kit from Scraptastic Club yet?!?!?! Well I do! This is my 2nd layout with this kit and I am having oh so much fun. I love the high quality paper and Jessica coordinates them so well, taking form a variety of different lines.

 

 

With this layout I used the Elle's Studio Cameron High Five paper for my back ground. I Just love all the little sayings on it. The orange arrow strips and the stars strips are the manufacturers strip at the bottom of the High Five paper and the Big Dot's paper. I love how they match the elements stickers from Echo Park Photo Freedom Volume 2 and the Elle's Studio Cutouts. I sprayed some wood veneer stars and added them along with some enamel dots for more embellishing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of fun embellishments on this page. I had so much fun adding and adding to it. I even added more after I took these pics :)

 

If you havent' yet, go check it the Scraptastic Club!! They are great!!!

Kissing Cousins

I finally did it!! I finally got a scrapbook kit. I've been wanting to for awhile now and have checked out a few different ones. I really liked the Scraptastic Club's kits so I purchased the August Found A Boy kit. It came so fast and I couldn't wait to start scrapping!!!

 

I love how they offer 2 different main kits and I'm not sure if it's like this every month but there was a boy one and a girl one. I obviously picked the boy one and it is just perfect for my summer pictures so far. I used the white cardstock that came in the kit. The chevron paper is from My Minds Eye Kate & co, the light blue paper is Studio Calico Nantucket, and the gorgeous tiny dots one is from Carta Bella Hello Again.

 

 

 

The alphas from the Echo park elements sticker page are so great. They are their Photo Freedom Volume 2 line. The colors of all the stickers match so great with all the paper in this kit.

 

 

Here's a close up of one of the fun embellishment clusters. That photo frame was perfect for the pic of my son smooching his cousin Tayler. He's such a ham!!! Check out the Ormolu flair!! LOVE!! And who hasn't fallen for the cork arrows from Fancy Pants Designs!!!

 

 

I'm not a fan of my own hand writing but the story must be told right?!?! I added some splatter with Mister Huey's Water Cooler and some enamel dots. And that arrow stamp is from Heidi Swapp.

 

Getting this kit was so exciting that I signed up for the subscraption. Now I'll get a kit evey month!! I love Scraptastic because you can skip any time you want and there is no cancelation fee. I dont' plan to cancel any time soon though cuz after your 12th kit, your 13th is FREE!!!

 

I have so much paper and embellishments left that I may be up all night scrapping!! Come back soon to see more layouts from the Scraptastic Club!!

 

New Do'ed

I finally did a layout for a challenge. My craft crush, Mercy Tiara aka Tracy Banks from Scraptastic Kit Club posted a challenge on the Scraptastic Kit Club blog on July 4th and I was dying to try it out. She challenged us to use Journalling strips on a layout. I did a layout about my son Gus' new haircut. I used the chalk board tape from Fancy Pants for my journalling along with a chalk pen.

 

The paper is from a Fancy Pants paper pad I got at the Craft Warehouse Tent Sale recently. I am in love with the Fancy Pants cork shapes lately.

 

 

 

Here's a close up of the journalling strips. I cut them in a couple different ways to add interest.

 

 

 

 

Here's a shot of the title and journalling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little detail in the bottom corner. I stamped the date and added an arrow and enamel dot. Love those little boogers!!

 

I am a huge fan of Mercy Tiara on youtube and have learned so much from watching her videos. She has posted challenges before but this is the first one I've tried. Wish me luck!! I might win a $20 gift card to Scraptastic!!!!

 

Thanx for stopping by!

Mini Book

Can you believe I made another birthday gift with my Heidi Swapp stuff?!?!!!! I went to Eugene to scrapbook with my dear friend Kelly and we went to Michael's first thing. I have been wanting Heidi Swapp's No Limits paper pad and my Michael's has never gotten it in. So that was the first thing I put into my cart, along with one of her stencils which I'll share in another post :)

 

I made this book for my besties daughter Averi for her birthday. She loves taking pictures with her ipod and is planning on getting a fancy camera soon so I thought I'd make her a scrapbook to keep all her memories in.

 

It was so much fun to make OMG!!! I used a Studio Calico journal and added a bunch of paper from Heidi Swapp's No Limits and Sugar Chic lines. I sprayed the front and back with Heidi's Teal Colorshine and it looks so pretty. The chipboard soaked up the Colorshine great but the glitter in it just sat on top and came off on my fingers every time I handled it. I ended up spraying a thin coat of enamel gloss over it and it worked perfectly.

 

When I punched holes with my Cinch, the guide moved after I punched the cover so all the paper was punched in a different spot. So I cut a strip of chip board and covered it with washi tape then mod podged it. Then I glued it over the holes and re punched them. I had to use the big bite cuz with the chip board glued on, it wouldn't fit in the Cinch.

 

I used one of Heidi's Mini File's as a template to make this first page. I like how it over hangs off the edge.

 

 

 

 

I stamped a few pages here and there and added some tabs for interest.

 

Here's a close up of the tabs and flags that over hang the edge. Fun!!!



 

Here's a look at the back cover. I made a small pocket and wrote my sentiment on a chip board tag I covered with paper.

 

 

 

What a fun project!!  I can't wait to see what Averi does with this book.

BFF Birthday "Card"

My bestie is turning 40 (so am I BTW) and I wanted to make her something special. I wanted to make a mini album of sorts but found that I didn't havs as many pics of us together as I'd hoped for. UGH!! Need to do something about that! Anyway... I decided Heidi Swapp Memory Files would work perfectly for this!!! I LOVE Heidi Swapp! These mini files are perfect for the card I decided to create for Nikki.

 

 

 

We've known each other for 38 years now and have been inseparable since we're were 2!! So I wanted to make something special. I had some photos of us as kids but not many as adults so I grabbed what I had and went to town!! The cover is of us at our 20 year high school class reunion. It worked great for the cover of the card. I used the Sugar Chic paper pack and banners as well as some washi, enamel dots, and sequence.

 

 

 On the inside, I splattered the Mustard Color Shine. Loved how that turned out.

I learned how to make this interactive scrapbook page from Create To Remember on My Craft Channel. Heidi shows how to add more photos to a page easily and creatively. I love this!!!

I added lots of embellishments to this and just had a blast with it. I can't wait to give it to Nikki.

Thanx for stopping by and have a great day!!!

Welcome Baby Colton!!!

After 2 1/2 years, I finally got my baby shower pictures into an album. Man!, when people told me I was going to busy with my second child, they weren't kidding. I never get a chance to scrap anymore. I do it all on my scrapbook weekends away twice a year.

 

I started making this album awhile back and it sat on my desk, unbound with the pages waiting to be filled and for me to figure out what pics would go in it. First it was going to be about my Mom then it was going to be of a girls trip to the beach but I didn't have enough pics for that. Finally after going through my photos and realizing I had way too many pics of my shower for just one scrapbook page, I decided they were the perfect pics for my mini album.

 

I used the mini file from the Heidi Swapp Chipboard Memory Files and covered it with one of the Mini Memory Files. I used her Sugar Chic line of paper for the pages as well so some other paper I had in my stash that went very well. I so love Heidi Swapp's products and used many of her embellishments as well.

 

Here I used the American Crafts DIY Thickers and sprayed them with the Mustard Colorshines. So pretty!!

Here's a close up of the fold out heart. Such a fun touch.

 

 

 

 

After I was done with all the pages, I used my Cinch and bound it all together. I love that machine!! Plan to do more fun stuff with it in the future.

 

Thanx for visiting me today and MAKE PRETTY STUFF!!!

Echo Park Happy GO Lucky

 

Echo park really knows how to make scrapbooking fun!! When I was handed the Happy GO Lucky line from Craft Warehouse and told to make 5 pages I was extatic!! This is one of the Photo Freedom sets from Big Picture Classes. It came with 5 page protectors, 4 divided and one a full 12 x 12. I had a blast with all of it. It's all about spring. Perfect for this time of year.

 

 

I really love the easy of all the different size cards in this line. Great line to grab for those times when you need to get a lot of pictures scrapped.