Six Month Review

At the beginning of the year I had made a couple goals for my scrapping. The first was to scrap all my 2006 photos by the end of June. The second was a tentative goal to scrap a page a day to help me reach my first goal. Well, 182 days have passed and I still have a 2 inch stack of photos for 2006 left to scrap, but I have done 187 pages to date! Here are the pages I did today that caught me up (I was only 2 behind but I thought I was 5 behind).

This is my favorite layout of the bunch, mostly just because of the colors. They are so vibrant and just make me happy looking at them. This pattern paper was a scrap from the next layout.

Here was the layout I started making. I tried to match the colors in the pattern paper to the closest possible cardstock colors I had. In the above layout I didn't worry about perfect matching and I think it came out cuter ^_~. Hodge Podge and Extreme Alphas used for the title. Anyway, these were done using the Reflections book. Quick, Simple, and a lot of pictures!

And this was the quickie card I made from the scrap of pattern paper and the glistening snow stamp set. The added plus is it's flat so no extra postage when I mail it! My goal this year for Christmas cards is to make flat ones so they will mail out and not get destroyed.

This is another lotsa pictures layout. I used a page maps layout for this one but had to alter the picture sizes to fit better. Plus the sketch posts for 10 pics and I only had 9. These papers seemed to just go so perfectly with that costume dress Caitlyn had. Boomdiada Creative basics papers and a small bit of the Boomdiada paper pack paper used for this layout. Homestead Alphas and From Me to You used for the title.

A Bella card I made from some Boomdiada scraps. She's also flat and mailable as well ^_~

Here's my life delights paper layout. I think if I can do at least one layout a day that uses up my old papers I should be doing good. As it is all these layouts used some of my older papers! This one used another pagemaps layout.

I made this card from the last scrap of this stripedy paper. I finally used the piggies in the nursery bash set! I love this stamp set which is funny since I don't use it too often. The animals are just adorable though!

And this is my last layout. I'm not ecstatic about this one but I think it's just because the colors are pastels and everything else I worked on today was rich and bright. They match the photos perfectly so I have no complaints. I even love the little lady bugs and buttons! So that's what I did today... a ton, lol! Luckily for me the girls were content to stamp with their own stuff during some of the layouts.

Lastly, here is my bella card for the #35 sketch challenge this week. Simple lil' cakeabella and a scrap of cutie pie paper. Thanks for dropping in ^_~

Color Challenge #25

And of course this week's color challenge is inspired by the 4th of July coming up on Friday!!! To play make a new project using at least 3 of the colors and comment me here with a link to your artwork so I can add the link here on my post. And most of all - Have Fun!!


Cranberry
Moonstruck
Lilac Mist
White


Sue's Circle Inspired Summer Cards
Sparkle's Fun July Sparkler Card
Jenn's Lovely Birthday Flower Card
Stacy's Sweet Sending My Love Card
Barb's Layered Summer Time Card
Ramsey's Cheery Happy Everything Card


My Sample:



Just a simple thank you card using SCS's 181 card sketch (SC181). I used the With Love and Say it in Style stamp sets. The red cardstock isn't technically cranberry since I've run completely out of it. It's marachino red for bazzil, I believe. But it is extraordinarily close to cranberry, plus it's textured ^_~ Anyway, have fun with the challenge and thanks for stopping by!

The Weekend's Layouts

Or mostly just Saturday's layouts. I didn't get to scrap at all Friday, but Saturday I tried to make up for it after the girls went to bed. Needless to say both my hubby and I were up until 2 am that night, him doing homework and me scrappin' away ^_~.

This one is my simple scrapbook page since this layout reminds me of the layouts in that magazine, the no fuss kind that go together in a snap and have that minimalist look to them.

I used a Pagemaps layout on this one that I used before on the Hey There Cupcake layout. This layout was the one I did today and was completely unexpected since I was trying to find photos to go with the Life Delights paper. But I pulled these out and felt a 'hey you should scrap these now' feeling. The papers I pulled out seemed odd but still flowed together and the embellies seemed to just tie everything together magically. It came out way cute even though I was so skeptical while making this. I just kept thinking, "I don't really like these papers right now", and "these colors are way too dark", but in the end it matched the photos and theme perfectly!

Using up some of the Sonata papers and a pagemaps book layout. I LOVE these papers, the only thing is they are kind of music themed. Now don't get me wrong, I love music. I listen to music, usually instrumental or piano, all through the day. I play piano as well though not as much as I should since Caitlyn was born, BUT I don't have any pictures of this. Bad me, I know. Anyway, I love the colors and thought the background didn't look too musicish, so let's try it. And I adore the papers with these pictures!





Finally using up some of the life delights papers. I was trying to use up my paper packs one at a time and it worked for a little bit but I think the monotony was starting to hit me and so I've been mixing it up. As long as I'm scrapping up my supplies it's all good right? ^_~ And using up my old stuff is an added plus, I think.

I adore this page. The basic grey I got this past winter, the bo bunny late spring, and the other bo bunny just about a month ago I think so it's fairly new stuff. I figure I should get to play with my new stuff if I'm also using up the old, you know? I think the best part is the pictures on this though. Poor Audrey and that crazy hair of hers!!

Speaking of hair, Caitlyn had decided this week to give Audrey a hair cut. She only gave her bangs, thank goodness, and I think it was because that was the way her cousin's hair was. She had her last visit with us before going back to Colorado two days before Caitie did this. I am still too mortified to take pictures as I hate bangs. Everyone says she looks adorable with them, but all I can think is they are going to be a pain to grow out, lol. We will probably get her a cute a-line bob to help cutify her hair. And that way I don't have to keep putting it up, which could actually be nice. It's been nice not having to put up Caitie's hair (she had it cut last month a little longer than chin length), so it might be doubly nice to not have to put up Audrey's as well. Anyway, next up in a few minutes is my #25 color challenge!

Bella Color Challenge #34

I usually stamp an image a few times when taking it out to play, so this one was already waiting for me by the time I got around to making my card for the bella color challenge. I wasn't sure the colors would really 'match' the theme of the card at first but now I think it went pretty well. Not all undies are pink, right? ^_~ Anyway, to answer a question a few ladies have been asking, all my images lately are colored with CTMH markers. I do wish I had copics :D But they will have to wait for now. Water based markers like to leave streaks, so to get that to not happen I just make sure I color slowly and smoothly to let the ink saturate the paper. It may look really dark while it's wet, but when the ink dries it usually looks the color it ought to be ^_~ HTH!

Let's Get Together Paper

I'm using up more paper again ^_~ This time I finished using up all my Let's Get Together paper. I did this layout first using that stick and go method. I just grabbed all my big scraps, layered the ones I decided to use and then went from there to add pictures, title, then journaling. It went together in a snap, about 40 minutes, and I used up some of the odd scraps I had.

I used a PageMaps book layout for this one. I've used this layout before, but this time I flipped it horizontally. I've been also trying to use up the matching ribbon with this set as well. I actually used up all of this dotted ribbon now :D. This layout came together in about two hours with interruptions. I've been trying to scrap during the day more often since I've gotten behind on my page a day goal.

Using some of the small scraps I just threw together this card. I got a couple new images and some new sentiments from stampingbella in the mail today that I just had to use. I love this line of lingerie ^_~

Also using the last of my scraps, this card was made for Em's b-day challenge on the bella forum - to make a birthday card for Em! She's doing free shipping on orders over $45 to celebrate and she has some new releases on there (halobella, she's a doll!!) :D It goes until the 1st of July, check out bella's blog for the details :D I've already made my order, lol. Anyway, I used Bettina Buttercream, who I also just got today! I was a little sick of this paper until I started making the cards, then I actually fell in love with it again. It was so much fun to color in my images with the colors from the paper, but I'm glad it's all used up now. Next up is the Bella color challenge!

Sparkle's Bella Bridal Shower

What a fun time I had a Sparkle's Bella Bridal Shower. I had actually never been online during one of the bella parties before so this was a real treat. And wow do those ladies post fast on the forums!! I felt like such an amatuer, lol. Anyway, my hubby stole the computer back for a few hours which gave me time to work on the challenges hosted on the shower. There were 4 challenges (one of them was trivia) and here are the three that were cards.

SSBC1 - use something each old, new, borrowed, and blue. You know, just like the saying ^_~. The floral tapestry pattern paper was my old, the blue acrylic flowers was my new, the image was my borrowed (from a bella image swap/RAK), and of course there's plenty of blue :D I colored the bella like it was my MIL and I since she and I like to go out to lunch every once in a while. It's hard with kids and crazy schedules, but we try to fit it in every now and again ^_~

SSBC3 - This challenge was to put some 'sparkle' on your project :D. I went kind of crazy with bellas dress not only putting glitter but rhinestones as well, lol. She's another image I got from the bella swap. I wanted her dress to be really special since I only had this one image of her.

SSBC4 - Use Sparkle's wedding colors - Cranberry, Bamboo, and White. I love how this card came out, I think the colors just look fabulous together! Using another of those RAKed images up. Fun preggo trivia - I loved red, khaki capris, and jeans when I was preggo with Audrey and my hair was long so you could say this one is me back in my pregger days ^_~