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!

Sports Nut.

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Once again I’m sharing a page from the girl’s book I was hired to make recently.  I ended up with 45 pages in this book, and that was after sorting through the photos in the beginning and not using half of them!  I went with a sports title because the photos are showing her at different ages doing different kinds of sports, kinda cute I thought.  I used older Basic Grey paper and some rub-ons that I’ve had forever from I don’t know where.  I’ve really been trying to use what I’ve got lately and haven’t bought anything new in a while and don’t plan to (unless I win the lottery).

Sing Your Song.

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Here’s another layout for the girl’s book I was hired to make recently.  The photos of the girl show her playing her music through the years, so I used some old sheet music as patterned paper.  I inked the edges of that so it would show up better against my neutral background.  The other paper is from My Minds Eye.  I also did something out of my usual zone and used some game pieces from an old Songburst game.  They’re supposed to be vinyl albums (is anybody here too young to know what those were?)  and I covered them with a sort of white/clear button and then put a rub-on on top of that (again from My Minds Eye).  Speaking of those rub-ons, I also used the same set to add stars and words directly onto the photos too. 

Those green stars are foam and I got them at Michaels. They had packages of them different sizes and different colors for a buck! Score!

Ever since I’ve seen tickets really come into the scrapbooking world as a hot item, I’ve been saving them from different events where my daughter has gotten them for playing games or whatever, and that’s where these green ones came from I think.

What do you think?

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.

Get off the sidewalk!

This is another page in the girl’s book I was hired to make recently.  This page is meant to be funny because the girl really has been in several accidents since she began driving so I thought these photos of her “driving” as a young toddler were cute.  I used a lot of My Little Shoebox stuff for this page.  I love their cute designs.

Brighten the World with a Smile.

Here’s another new layout I did recently for the book I was commissioned to make of a daughter’s life.  I loved her dress in the photo so I went with lots of pink to complement that. 

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I love the little JOY tag but don’t know where it came from. 

I used lots of things on this layout that I’ve gotten recently and really like, such as the pink swirly sparkly border on the left side from GCD Studios  and the scalloped borders on the right are from GCD also (all from Melody Ross, who I love!), and the 3-D butterfly is from K&Co.  

 The chipboard heart and flowers are from an old Creating Keepsakes kit I bought in 2008!   The patterned papers are from Echo Park’s new Little Girl line.

I found the poem on the internet and printed it onto vellum and attached with 2 brads.  It says:

How long is a girl a child?  She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she’s a different woman and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.  Louis L’Amour

Soooo….what do you think?

Daddy’s little girl.

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Here’s a scrapbook page from a book I was hired to make recently.  The girl just got married in April and I made the scrapbook for her mom of photos from when she was a baby to her engagement photo. 

I used some of my favorite things on here, like the Heidi Swapp circle of jewels to highlight the daddy and daughter, lime green Stickles on the little heart, and Heidi Swapp acrylic clocks to symbolize the passage of time.  I also threw a couple of paper doilies on there that I inked up with Tim Holtz alcohol ink in teal.  Really love these lately.

I delivered the book on Saturday and she cried. That’s how I know I’ve done a good job! ha ha!

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.