She is Awesome.

The other day over at Practical Scrappers was masting and misting day and there are some really pretty projects over there if you want to check them out.   (go here)  Here’s mine!  I used Echo Park’s “Little Girl” line of papers and stickers and some American Crafts thickers (love! you can buy these in my shop here).  I sprayed blue Tattered Angels mist on the right hand side of my page. 

See that accordian folded or crimped up flower in the top left corner?  That came in a package with others of varying sizes and colors marketed as Halloween embellishments (from American Crafts).  This one didn’t have a specific pattern that screamed Halloween, so I decided to use it.  It did, however, have a brown button which I removed and added a blue one instead.  So there’s just a little reminder that you don’t have to use everything for the holiday or occasion it’s intended for or marketed as!  Lesson over.  ha ha

 
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Misting and Masking on cards.

The feature today over at Practical Scrappers if showing cards done with glimmer mist or masking.  And here’s a great tutorial video by Kerri on how to make your own glimmer mist!  Check it out at Practical Scrappers here.  One of my cards is included!

Authentique giveaway on Practical Scrappers.

Have you scrapbookers out there seen the new company Authentique?  They’ve got some pretty lines and there’s a giveaway going on over at Practical Scrappers here for some Authentique goodies.  You can also see some gorgeous examples of layouts and cards made with the Authentique products.  Here’s one from Christine.  How cool is this?

So if you want to be inspired and win some stuff, head on over and check out the PS blog here.

Jack O Lantern Fun!

Here’s a scrapbook page I made recently for Practical Scrappers for our anniversary week.  This was for the 2-page challenge.  The photos are OLD, from when Summer was 3 and it was the only time we have ever carved pumpkins with her.  I used white cardstock and some orange Maya Mist sprayed onto it.  The doilies were sprayed with Tattered Angels yellow.  ((I only have 3 colors of mist sprays and used 2 of them on this layout!  ha ha))

Here’s closer look at the right side:

My favorite part of this is Summer’s little sweet heart-shaped face in the pictures.

I also used these cute chipboard pumpkin pieces (can’t remember where I got them) and I glued little googly eyes on them just for fun!  Aren’t they cute?

Welcome to the Practical Scrappers blog hop!

Thanks for joining us for the Practical Scrappers Blog Hop.  We’re sharing projects that relate to the number two since it’s our second anniversary!    Today I’m sharing a project with you that incorporates the number TWO.   I’ve also got a prize to give to one of you who visits me.  You get TWO chances to win.  One way is if you are a follower of my blog and the other is if you are a follower of the Practical Scrappers blog.   Just leave a comment here letting me know for each one.  

Here’s my project for today:

I incorporated TWOs by adding two telephones, two photos, and the word hello two times! 

Here’s the prize that I will mail out to the winner!  It’s 10 yards of assorted ribbons (1 yard each of 10 different designs) from my etsy shop.  TWO yards sounded like kind of a skimpy prize.  ha ha!

Forgive me for this terrible photo.  There was no time to haul out the camera, so I threw them all onto my scanner!

Okay, we have an extremely talented group of designers, so I know you’ll enjoy checking out their blogs!  Now you can head on over to Brenda’s blog here as your next stop!  Thanks for visiting me! 

If you didn’t start at the beginning but you WANT to, you can go here:   Christine

There Goes Summer Cottontail!

There are still anniversary festivities going on over at Practical Scrappers, and today’s project showcase using cotton. I took a cotton ball and tore small pieces off of it and used a glue dot to stick them directly onto the photos in my scrapbook pages.  Here’s my project:

Summer was in 4 year old preschool the year these were taken and she literally had a cotton ball stuck to her butt in the photos! The kids were so cute!

I really went crazy and used up a LOT of old stuff in my stash for these pages.  The striped and polka dot patterned papers are from an old Die Cuts With a View “stack”, I think I got the ribbons at Michaels years ago, those cute little bunnies from Paperbilities I’ve had forever, the little pink Easter tag from Pebbles Inc I’ve had for years, and the fabric letters that spell out Summer are from Scrapworks and are super old!  but I also mixed in some newer stuff too, like the black letter stickers from GCD Studios and the tiny little blue stickers for the 2005 are from Making Memories. 

You can go over to Practical Scrappers here to see other projects using cotton.  Our designers got pretty creative with this challenge!

Happy Anniversary to Practical Scrappers!

Practical Scrappers, the blog whose design team I’m on, is celebrating being 2 this week!  So Happy Anniversary!  We’re having all kinds of fun challenges over there all this week and a designers blog hop at the end.  Today the challenge is to make 2 cards using the exact same thing. 

I used this sketch for both cards:

It’s from Skipping Stones Design.

Here is my first card:

 And here is my second:

I did the same sketch, but I turned the card horizontal!

You can go here to the Practical Scrappers blog and see the other designers’ projects, how they used 2 of the same things for cards.  Check it out.  There are prizes being given away this week!

Dance to the song in your heart.

This was a layout for the commissioned scrapbook I made recently.  Our theme over at Practical Scrappers Wednesday was using a lot of brown, so this page was a good example for that.  And now I can show you here!

Since there was so much brown, I wanted to girlie it up a bit so I outlined a lot of the swirls in the paper with Stickles.  This is a cheap and easy way to add bling to your layouts.  I LOVE Stickles!  Here’s a closeup look:

You can see all the other brown projects featured at Practical Scrappers here.  Lots of different examples to see!

Maddy.

The Tuesday challenge over at Practical Scrappers this week was to use wood-grained papers.  I literally only had ONE single sheet of wood-grained paper (from American Crafts) because I don’t tend to like them very much, but this one was pink so I bought it a long time ago and was inspired to use it for this challenge!  Here’s my little cutie niece Maddy 8 years ago at Easter in 2003.  WOW, looking at this made me remember again how much time flies! 

I used my new favorite Thickers, bumble.  They’re yellow and glittery.  LOVE.  In fact, I love them so much I bought a unit of them so I have extras here in my etsy shop if you’re interested!

I love the sugar dusted Prima flowers.

I added some pearls to my sun like I’ve seen Jennifer McGuire do a lot.  Love it!

You can see all the other wood-grained projects featured on Practical Scrappers here.

Super husband.

I whipped this card up super quick on the morning of Father’s Day (those who know me won’t be surprised by that!).  I used a super hero digital stamp that we were given to use for a design team project over at Practical Scrappers last year.  It’s from Stitchybear Stamps.  And you know the best part?  It was designed by Kent Clark!  ha ha !

And because I can’t seem to make anything without a bit of sparkle and shine, I even made him have sparkly clean teeth using my Stickles!