Mermaid

Supplies : Paper - Sassafrass, October Afternoon, My Minds Eye, and Scenic Route; Bazzil and CTMH Cardstock; Thickers letters by American Crafts; Cuttlebug with swirl and bubbles embossing folders; scrap embellies ;)

Embossing! That's the challenge over at Practical Scrappers this week. It was fun to use my bug with something other than my nesties and I remembered a layout I saw in a scrap magazine forever ago so pulling the inspiration from memory I created this page featuring Caitlyn's Ariel doll. When Cait saw me making this page she kept asking over and over if we could go to the store and get her a new Ariel since this one has been gone for a couple years. Ms. Purple, Scissors, in the Bedroom ;) I started pulling scraps from my blue pile to compose the page and then added the stripe in there for some fun color. Then I embossed the two blue cardstock pieces in the swirl and bubbles folders for a water theme. A fun easy layout! The panels are all 3.5" x 5.5" in case you're wondering and the strip across is about 11"x1". I simply rounded the corners for a smoother feeling to the layout and added the premade embellie and some scrap strips to journal and finish it off. Enjoy and have a terrific Tuesday!

Trim the Tree

Supplies : Paper and Elements Colorful Christmas by My Minds Eye; Remarks Letter Stickers by American Crafts; Black Rhinestones by Kaiser

And here's the layout I made with which the scraps I used in the last two cards were made from. I had actually cut the papers out weeks ago for the Inspired Blueprints #38 sketch and never got around to actually putting together the layout. And I had even made the cards before I finally glued everything down on this page, lol. These are of Audrey the Christmas before last. It was her first year getting to hang the fragile glass ornaments and she was so excited, I could tell she felt like such a big girl. The pictures weren't that great but the sketch's smaller photos made them look a lot better since it focused in on her. I love it when I can make funky photos look better on a layout ;) I've enjoyed the comments on whether or not you'd redo any of your pages. I think for me I'm going to consider redoing some of them, especially since a lot of them didn't have the journaling that they should since back then I didn't journal on the pages. I don't mind if I get further behind since I know with scrapping you're never really caught up, lol. And I think it would be fun to go back and do something different with the baby pictures. I don't want to take apart any pages though, so I think I might put them in books for the grandparents since neither Paul or my mom scrapbook but they love the albums ;) To answer Kim's question, the daughter title on my baby girl layout is a sticker from Pebbles Inc baby line. Thanks for popping by and have a splendiferous Monday!

Tis the Season to be Freezin'

Supplies : Paper and Snowman from Colorful Christmas by My Minds Eye; Black Rhinestones by Kaiser; Pop Dots

Here's my card for Sparkle's Christmas Card Challenge. The week #7 challenge is a fun sketch and I started by following it pretty exact, but without the outside mat. But my pieces weren't meshing well together that way so I turned my card horizontal and smooshed all the elements of her sketch together toward the bottom right corner. Much better fit for the chilly little snowman and his catchy matchy papers, and I didn't even have to trim anything! I added black rhinestones to his eyes and the sentiment for a little bling ;) Took me less than 10 minutes even with the rearranging. Love those little quickie cards! Don't forget to stop by Sparkle's blog for her darling card and tag! Enjoy and have a lovely Sunday!

An Orangey Cuppy Cake Card

Supplies : Paper by My Minds Eye; Raspberry Fizz Ink, Twine, and Cupcake Collection Stamp set by Papertrey Ink; CS, Orange and Ocean Inks by CTMH; Buttons by Doodlebug; Ribbon by Pebbles Inc.

I had this darling Anya image with a cake on her head partially colored with the blue, orange, and raspberry. It must have been months ago that I started coloring her and I never got around to finishing since I didn't have any particular card in mind at the time. Then when I was browsing through my scraps of these papers I remembered her, because the colors matched so perfectly. So I cut my panels and set up my card base, cut a mat for her and went about finishing the coloring and... I ruined her! My skin tone marker leeched some of the black and got on her face around the edge. I wiped off the marker thinking to save her and started in the middle of her head, I know what was I thinking? Anyway, you can image what a big mistake that was! There was still some black left over so she had a greyish peach smear in the middle of her forehead. So I thought it's just for a kid maybe I can divert the attention to her mouth and figured red would be cute.... another disaster!! Alas poor Anya though her dress, hair, and cake hat were cute, she ended up so badly colored that I cannot even bare to take a picture to show you, lol. So here we come to where I saved my card base (thank goodness I hadn't glued her mat down to the card yet!) and I went with quick and simple since I was still recovering from my coloring loss. I think it turned out pretty cute. Inside I stamped three star candles in the raspberry and then over it Make a Wish in ocean. This card was sent to my little niece along with one of those cute dolls I made for her 3rd birthday. My how time flies! It shouldn't surprise me that she's three. She's only a year younger than Audrey and we've been sending her Audrey's hand-me-downs since she was born but everytime I see a pic of her I think, 'Oh my gosh she's getting so big!' Anyway, enjoy the card and thanks for popping by!

Baby Girl

Supplies : Paper by October Afternoon and Basic Grey; Daughter and Heart stickers by Pebbles Inc.; Premade Embellies from scraps;

So as I was looking through my misc photo file I came across these two pictures of Audrey and Paul. Look how little she was! I didn't think I had any unscrapped baby pictures left but I've found a few in this file. I probably put them there because they weren't the best pictures like these. I had to crop a lot of the background out mostly because the house was just a mess, lol. I used the Inspired Blueprints sketch #39 and shrunk it way down to fit the photos. And I even got to use some of my premade embellies, too fun! It made the layout go by super quick too, I love it when I can finish a page in 20 minutes! Anyway, I thought it was funny that I was just talking about wanting to redo baby pages and I found some spare photos hanging about ;) What are your thoughts on redoing scrapbook pages? Would you ever remake some of the ones you've done? I'd love to hear your comments! Thanks for dropping by and have a fab Friday!

Pretty Flowers

These flowers remind me of sorbet and baby girl nurserys, of sweetness and innocence. With two little girls I've done plenty of pages with the yellow and pink theme over the years ;) So I just had to make some of those lollipop flowers with those same scraps I used for the embellies. I used one of the blooms nestie sets as well as the scallops. I'm hoping to get the pinking ones soon since they look like fun too. Instead of just popdotting the buttons on with jute like I usually do I did a little extra and sewed them all the way through the flower with embroidery floss for stability. These make me want to redo baby pictures. I was looking through one of Caitlyn's old scrapbooks and while there are definitely some favorite pages, a lot of the pages I did back then I cringe at, lol. Maybe I'll start pulling photos and doing some here and there for a change of pace ;) I put the flowers on acetate with glue dots which I will warn you adheres them to the acetate. Really adheres them. I am having quite the time trying to get these babies off. I'm assuming I needed to use repositionable glue dots or something but I think from now on just to be safe I will just be leaving them loose ;) Thanks for stopping by and have a terrific Thursday!