Happily Ever After

Because at the end of every good fairytale is a kiss ;) Even a fairy tale where Supergirl rescues Batman, lol. This is probably my favorite layout with these papers and not just because of the hilarious pictures. I love the punched circles and have seen it quite a bit lately - punching shapes to make your own pattern paper. After getting my circles on the page though they just needed something extra and a little horizontal stitching through the middles totally gave them that. Even though it's made from scraps I love how it kind of showcases all the different prints, like a fun quilt. The inspiration for this page actually came from a couple Studio Calico designer layouts. One was using this punched circle background but a bit more dense. The other I used a reversed version of the same basic picture placement because it fit so well with my photos. So loving these colors together! Wouldn't a little girls room in this palette be divine? Pages like this really make me want to sew something fabulous ;) I hope you enjoy and have a terrific Tuesday!

Green at Heart and Lime Rickey Paper by Basic Grey
Paper Doll Collection Paper by Crate Paper
American Crafts Cardstock
Kraft Cardstock from Roberts
Lush Decorative Brads in Green by My Minds Eye
Mini Type Alphas by Jenni Bowlin
Thickers Letter Stickers by American Crafts
Journal Cards by October Afternoon
Rubons from Valentines and Dear Lizzy Lines by American Crafts

Copy Cat

I'm back to scrapping with the Green at Heart stash shopping stuff I was using a couple weeks ago. This is one of the very few times I've sketched out a page before making it. I think I've maybe sketched out my layouts twice before. It was fun to experiment with where to put stuff before cutting and being committed to it ;) My girls are such hams, they copy cat each other so much. Here they were making the most horrible faces. Isn't it terrible that they can make such gross faces and still be cute, haha! They do this all the time and now A has had the habit of smooshing my face because she thinks it's funny. I'm sure I don't look half as cute as they do. By the way they laugh when she squishes my cheeks I certainly must look funny though! Hope you have a great Monday!

Green at Heart and Lime Rickey Paper by Basic Grey
Green Paper by Scenic Route
American Crafts Cardstock
Kraft Cardstock from Roberts
FieldHouse Flocked Boutique by American Crafts
Lush Decorative Brads in Green by My Minds Eye
So Sophie Savvy "Best Thing" Alpha stickers by My Minds Eye
Journal Cards by October Afternoon
Free Bird Beauty Title from Penny Lane by My Minds Eye
Buttons by Papertrey Ink
White RicRac Ribbon by CTMH
Mini Type Numbers by Jenni Bowlin

Rainbow Zinnia Pillows

Those rainbow gumdrops gave me a wonderful idea to do the same kind of rainbow design with Amy's Zinnia Pillow. I have been staring at this pattern, wanting to make it, being intimidated by it, and coveting the day I would actually make one for myself (note that this day still has not come since these are for my daughters and not for me). As for the camera strap cover, it will have to wait. But I did manage to get the strap on my camera just for safety sake and Audrey has been loving taking pictures, which is great because I really haven't been doing much of that this month!

This has by far got to be the most cutting intense project I've done! Each pillow has 27 petals and each petal has 3 parts - front, back, and interfacing. For two pillows that was 162 petals to cut! Though I did get to cut the backs 4 at a time since I simply used white for that, the rest were cut individually (I'm certain there must be a faster way - I'm just not that advanced to have figured it out yet, lol.) These pillows took me 3 days to make which is quite the accomplishment because for me if I don't get something done in one sitting, it usually doesn't get done at all. The first evening I pressed and cut all my petals. And then the next day I sewed them together then turned them while watching a movie, and finished pressing them before hitting the hay. The next evening I assembled the final pillows.

The finished result - darling Rainbow Zinnia Pillows! I heart them so very much and yes even though they were a lot of work I'm still planning on making one for me out of the lantern bloom fabric which will go very much faster I'm sure. I did a lot of new things with these pillows - my first circle pillow, covered buttons, pleats, and first pillow tufting (I am so glad I got that long doll needle!) I am wondering though if I should make the smaller 14" pillow which is what these are or to make the bigger pillow which is a whopping 24". The smaller size is a perfect little accent pillow so I'm debating whether the big one would be all the more fabulous or become the huge flower pillow of doom. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed. Thanks for visiting and have a lovely weekend!

Hugga Bug

I'm starting to bring in some other scraps now to try and use up the most of these papers. The cute main print on the right is the other side of that green crate paper. I used this side on the Sweet Bubbly layout as well which is funny because when I bought it I was for sure that I would only use the green side. I didn't much like the floral when I first picked it up but I guess now that it's lived in my stash a couple months I've changed my mind, hehe. I love that about double sided papers ;)

This layout was inspired by one in the Studio Calico designer's gallery. They have such gorgeous kits. I think if I ever end up subscribing to a kit system it would be theirs, but I'm not planning on doing that anytime soon. I really want to get my stash waaayyy down first. It's hard when I want to go out and see what's new in the stores. I have to just not look otherwise I end up picking up stuff.

I love how A was sort of hugging herself in this pic. She is my little huggabug and I adore it. Of course she's getting quite heavy now so when she wants me to carry her I pretend I can't hold her for long and slowly droop, droop, droop her back down to the ground. She lifts up her feet and giggles so I have to go even lower to get her to the floor ;) It makes her laugh that she's getting 'too heavy'. Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful Monday!

Paper Doll Collection paper by Crate Paper

Green at Heart, Lime Rickey, and Urban Prairie paper by Basic Grey

Green floral and Blue dots paper by Scenic Route

American Crafts Cardstock

Lemonade Ladybug border by Basic Grey

Dear Lizzy Details by American Crafts

Scallop Border Sticker by Echo Park Paper Co.

Fieldhouse Flocked Boutique by American Crafts

Remarks Letter stickers by American Crafts

Lush Decorative Brad in Green by My Minds Eye

Orange Zest Button by Papertrey Ink

Rainbow Gumdrops

I have been watching Design Sponge for a few months now and one of the posts that caught my eye in May was for sewing a rainbow pouf. There was even a downloadable pattern that you could print to make the cute mini ottoman. While I probably could have used that pattern I thought, I love the gumdrop pillows so much (my big ottoman) that I could just use the smaller 18" pattern to make the girls mini rainbow ottomans using the same 1 fabric per panel concept.

You can make an 18" rainbow style gum drop using Amy Butler's pattern with 1/4 yard of fabric each for the 8 panels but they need to be cut a 1/4 yard (long and skinny) and not a fat quarter (short and fat). I used mostly 1/2 yard pieces so I could make two ottomans, one for each of my girls (there is still quite a bit of fabric left, it's just funny shaped). You can see on some of the orange-green prints that I had to use different patterns since I only had enough room to cut one panel piece from each. It was a great way to use up some of the fabrics in my little stash.

The tops were made with different fabrics so they could easily tell theirs apart and I am loving the rainbow theme. Makes me want to sew some quilts and not just the simple square to square ones which are the only quilts I've ever done ;) I'm leaning towards a pinwheel or banner design. Not sure if my sewing skills are that far yet though so I'll keep with patterns and pillows for now! Thanks for popping by and I hope you enjoy!

A little bit About Me

Like with the last set I was hoping to get some of the hubby or I scrapbooked as well. We don't have too many photos of us but that doesn't mean I shouldn't let them sit and not scrap 'em ;) What I really need to do is make a list of pages I want to make about us. Then I can search through our photos and if we don't have one to go with the story than we should plan a few photo poses just for those. This page uses the #32 sketch on Inspired Blueprints

I would like to see more of us together and individually, as well as with the girls. The more pages I scrap the more I realize I really need to be in some pictures with my kids. I've always been there behind the camera and I need to be in front of it more often. I know I say that a lot, but each time I do I get slightly better with it. Baby steps, right? ;) With A and C taking pictures every so often now I think it might get a little easier to do this.



A was actually taking some pretty good ones this last week and since that day I first let her snap some shots I hear 'I can be careful with the camera' all the time. That's her way of saying she wants to take pictures. Even though I still have a mild heart attack whenever her tiny hands hold up the camera she's never dropped it and does a pretty good job at keeping it safe. And now that I've taught her how to hold my camera she doesn't get any finger shots or finger prints on the lens anymore. I should make a cover for my camera strap (because it's too ugly to be on there by itself, lol) so that I can avoid those mini heart attacks ;)

Green at Heart and Lime Rickey Paper by Basic Grey

Transparency by Making Memories

Cardstock by American Crafts

Fieldhouse Flocked Boutique by American Crafts

Adobe Remarks Stickers by American Crafts

Lush Decorative Brads in Green by My Minds Eye

Buttons by Papertrey Ink

Rubon by Bo Bunny

So Sophie Savvy Alpha Stickers by My Minds Eye

Mini Red Alpha Stickers by Jenni Bowlin

Apron Lace Punch by Fiskars