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!

You Color My World.

We’re having a blog hop over at Practical Scrappers this week and yesterday one of my recent scrapbook pages was shared.

The call was for using sunshine on your page, and mine was actually inspired from another design team member Kylie Drake from a page she did a while back for Practical Scrappers.  I loved her rainbow she made from buttons, so I did my own version.

My favorite parts of this layout are the little details.  Especially my clouds.

I used a My Favorite Things cloud die through my Cuttlebug and then I ran it through the Cuttlebug again with a swirls embossing folder.  I really liked the look of it, but then I decided to outline the swirls with some Diamond Stickles and I loved it!  Stickles is the answer for everything.  ha!

For this part of my title, I took some white American Crafts thickers and covered them with Stickles too!

I really like bling and sparkle on my pages, so I jazzed up this sun with a ton of yellow jewels from Michaels I got for a buck!

This page is actually part of a scrapbook that I was hired to make, so I hope my customer likes it as much as I do.

Nikki Sivils giveaway!

Just wanted to mention here real quick there’s a giveaway going on over at Practical Scrappers of a Nikki Sivils prize pack!  It ends June 1st and you can find all the details here.

Practical Scrappers features butterflies.

One of my recent layouts featuring butterflies is on the Practical Scrappers blog along with many other inspiring layouts with butterflies.

Here’s mine:  (you can click to see in larger format)

Here’s a closer up look:

These are pages from a book I was commissioned to create recently and I’ve been working really hard to get it finished.  The young lady is getting married and her mom wanted a book of her childhood years to display at her bridal shower.

You can click over to the Practical Scrappers blog here to see more butterfly goodness!

Bella Blvd giveaway

Hey scrapbookers, just wanted to let you know real quick that Practical Scrappers has a Bella Blvd feature going on at the blog today and we’re giving away a prize pack of Bella Blvd goodies, so come over and check it out here if you like Bella Blvd stuff!

Enjoy Life.

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This is a recent layout I made for the design team at Practical Scrappers.  I used a digital stamp from one of our sponsors, Robyn’s Fetish Designs.  Isn’t the penguin a cutie?  I made him extra cute by covering his feet and beak with orange Stickles and his body with black Stickles (my favorite thing).  Here’s a closer look at his sparkly-ness:

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I used some Magic Scraps glittery flaky “stuff” for the snow on this page.  Just rubbed my Uhu glue stick onto the paper and then sprinkled my flakes on there.  I’ve never used it before, so I’m not sure how well it’s going to stay on the page.  We are in the middle of winter here, so this page is appropriate to show you today.  But I would rather be on the beach!

Creating with kids.

I was part of a new feature this month over at Practical Scrappers called creating with kids.  We were asked to have a child help us make paper for scrapbooking. 

Well, my kid is the resident “artiste” at our house as I’ve mentioned before, so I gave her a sheet of white cardstock and said make me something.  ha ha!  She had this idea that she was going to paint a rainbow and make leopard print on it to match these crazy socks she loves.  And I thought that was great because I had taken a photo of her wearing those crazy socks and wanted to make a scrapbook page with it!  But then somewhere in the making of the paper she went off course and it looked nothing like her original plan.  (she must be related to ME…)  She was very excited at one point and came into my studio to tell me about her painting and that she had wondered how it would look if she flung paint onto the paper so she tried it and liked it.  When she was done I went in to check it out and I liked it too.  But then I realized she had flung paint everywhere ELSE also.  Splatters of paint were on my dining room table (her work surface), the floor, the chairs, homework on the table, etc.  We’re still scraping it off some places.  So anyway here is what she ended up with:

(pretend the lighting in here doesn’t totally suck and that paper really looks WHITE, ok?)

And this is what I did with Summer’s lovely painted paper:

You can see what the other designers at Practical Scrappers did here.  They’re taking submissions to do this every month, so have your kids help you and submit your projects!

Scrapbook Studio Organization.

My studio was recently featured on Practical Scrappers where I shared tips and photos on how I organize my “scrap crap.”  Here are my 2 favorite shots.  I love the rainbow of color!

I love my jars photo so much, I think I’m going to make a scrapbook page with it!

You can go here to check out the rest of the article and see more organization photos!

Game Face.

Here’s a layout I did recently that was on the Practical Scrappers blog on Friday.  The challenge was to use the colors orange and black on your page but not for Halloween.  This was easy for me because I had this collage already made with black borders of our time at the U of I football game last year and it was sitting here waiting to be made into a page.  I did throw a bit of blue in here because the U of I colors are orange and blue, but I think the first colors you notice are orange and black.  Here’s a closeup:

(those felt footballs are from Queen & Co and the fabric tab letters are OLD from Scrapworks)

The face painting was Summer’s favorite part of the whole game, of course!

Winter Wonderland.

Oh, I hate the thought that it’s coming near….but we were asked to do projects using an 8×10 photo and I had this one on hand so a winter page was what I made.  This is an 8×10 photo on an 8.5×11 piece of cardstock, so it’s all photo really!  I just put my letters going up the side and added a Mary Engelbreit snowflake bling sticker on the bottom with a bit of journaling and called it done!  I really just wanted the focus to be the photo that I took because I love it.  It’s featured on Practical Scrappers’ (new magazine format) yesterday.  Come check me out over there.

Here’s the page I made:

And on Friday a bunch of my cards made with photos on them were featured with a little “article” Christine asked me to write for Practical Scrappers!  Go check those out here.