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Playing catch up, sharing older Halloween projects I haven't shared before, and here's a page for you! Half the supplies came from Stampin' Up! (some while they were partnered with Becky Higgins' products) but the other half came from a scrapbook store, where this boy bought me scrapping supplies for a Christmas gift! So yes, I'll be using that!
I think it made for a fun page!
Supplies:
Paper: Basic Black & Pumpkin Pie card stocks, LSS DP
Accessories: Seasonal Snapshot 2015 SU/Project Life
Happy October to you! Let the holiday season begin!! Hopefully it will cool all the way down very, very soon!
Today I have a layout. The first page was a CASE for a challenge. It took some time but it was fun to make! that circle is all stamped! Then I stamped the border of the second page to match.
The photos are the oldest part of this layout. My husband was making pie with a fresh pumpkin, and let the kids try fresh pumpkin juice- just like Harry Potter drinks! it was not a hit, haha!!
The pie was much tastier than the juice. I intend to add the pie recipe in the empty rectangle space.
Today's card uses the latest challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches.
I liked these colors together, I just wasn't sure what direction to go in... I recently rearranged some of my craft room and remembered this set. It was a Sale-A-Bration freebie, in 2019. I was surprised I only used it once- I used it to make a card I really like! But here's something new with it!
I inked up a stamp block to get the strip of blue on there. Then I tore off a corner and threw some Mossy Meadow card stock under it, ha.
Supplies:
Stamps: Girlfriend Accessories
Ink: Soft Suede
Paper: Basic White & Perfect Plum card stock, Soft Suede Paper Patterns DP
Accessories: Everyday Enchantment Brads, Colored Pencils, Square Punch
Journaling Font: Bell MT
I did this layout a couple weeks ago and am finally sharing something here, lol...
I wasn't kidding- LIFE! There's just too much going on.
Supplies:
Stamps: Happiest Day (retired)
Today I have a super quick layout for you!
This one is a page for my daughter. The paper almost matched her shirt so of course I had to use that, ha. And the title was kinda fun too, haha!
Hello again! Today I have the digital images of some scrapbook pages I've been putting together.
A couple years ago, two of my children loudly complained that "we didn't even do anything fun all summer" ...and they got a LOOK, and handed our list that we had come up with to maybe do over the summer, and all the things crossed out with a highlighter were things that we had done! Sheesh!
With that in mind, I made a four page layout for my youngest (one of the complainers) of the fun she had this summer. I chose one photo a day (two photos, twice), and skipped some days, including our big trip, and it looks like she did lots of fun stuff to meeee! This does not include countless afternoons out with neighborhood friends, nor a few bigger activities she went to elsewhere without me, that I don't have pictures of.
I also used a lot of images of the sun to fit Challenge #1 on Splitcoaststampers.com to put the sun or flames on a page. It was a perfect match, ha!
I didn't mean to drop off the face of the earth. We spent an amazing week in Oregon, and then came home to me "having" to make peach jam for two days and my husband and big kids started framing the rest of the basement. We have two bedrooms finished down there and the rest is unfinished. But it's on it's way now! Also elementary school started this week and college starts next week and there's just been a LOT going on!!
Today was the first time in a while I've gotten to be crafty! I made some more pages of a trip we took last year, because of course I really want to do the latest trip, haha!
This was our second stop on this trip. We found several panels of petroglyphs, and the internet says they are from four different times periods, so that's pretty cool to me. We couldn't find the mining ghost town, but we did find it's cemetery.
Supplies:
Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Whimsical Alpha Lower
Ink: Basic Gray, Smoky Slate
Paper: Basic White, Soft Sky, Basic Gray card stocks, Peaceful Place DP
Accessories: Neutrals Candy Dots
And actually, this is the second time I scrapped these photos, ha. The above layout is for my older daughter, and the one for my younger daughter was done in April and hasn't yet been shared. I used the same pack of paper, but differently, and I used different stamps.
I always like that you can use the same layout or supplies and make something quite different from the last.
I hope you had a safe and happy weekend, and if you live in the United States, I hope you had a great Independence Day!
Today I have a softball layout! And some memories.
The year I was 10, my mom signed me up for softball and my brother up for baseball. Same city league. He had an actual grown up coach and got a shirt and a hat and this style of picture. I got three 8th graders as coaches (big sisters of some of the team..) They wrote bubble letters in puffy paint on tshirts for our team. The contrast was stark, to say the least. But that was our only year playing this kind of sport. Actually...I took dance a few times but that was the only paid sport for me (that was FINE!). The only thing I remember "learning" was that forfeit meant you have to have enough players, otherwise your team loses by default. (we lost every game except the time the other team had to forfeit.) Also, I don't enjoy anything about softball. Please don't ever throw the ball at me, or expect me to throw it back. I'm not good at batting and I am a *slow runner, ha.
Several months ago, my kiddo informed me she wanted to try baseball. We don't sport at our house, other than some soccer. She never seen a game, we didn't own a single baseball related thing. She has seen the movie Sandlot, but not for a few years... haha! We bought her a ball and glove, and she was on a team that got a tshirt and a hat, ha, and pre-named teams. Her coach was a real grown up, (ha- altho he was younger than I am...) and he did a great job. My kid learned a lot! She improved at all of it! But she didn't love it. It was a HOT season and most of her games were played between 95* and 98*, with the late afternoon sun beating down on all of us. I don't know that she'll do it again, but it's good to try new things!
I created these in the long-retired MDS. I knew I had a softball image there, ha. I "filled" them in with a dot image that honestly looks like scribbled gum drops. I added a little stitching, and the Texture overlay, which makes the edges look like canvas. And I took my colors from her team shirt and her ball. And the season is scrapped!
Supplies:
MDS
Stamps: Great Sport, Lemonade Stand dots, Texture
Ink: Basic Black, Barely Banana, Night of Navy
Accessories: Stitching Thread
Journaling Font: Brush Script title, Book Antiqua notes
Happy stampy Saturday!
Since I finally got my new catalog order, I can play along with the latest SUO Challenge to use the new In Colors! I only chose three of the colors today.
(Also I didn't even get Darling Duckling ink... It doesn't strike me as a yellow I would like and at this point, I'm only buying what *I like most. I do really like the other four colors, altho I never purchased the Strawberry Slush ink pad when it was originally an In Color...)
Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies, Elements of Text
Ink: Timid Tiger, Cloud Cover, Secret Sea
Paper: Timid Tiger, Cloud Cover
Accessories: 2025-27 In Color Flat Pearls
I hope you're having a good Saturday and maybe doing something you want to today!
I got a thank you card made!
I don't know about you but I intensely hate cleaning the bathroom. I am deeply grateful for indoor plumbing, but man, oh man ... I hate cleaning it.
We have company coming so it had to be done and it had to be done now... So I bribed myself that if I would hurry and get it done I could make a card, haha!
Today's card combines the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, with the inspiration photo from SUO Challenges. Although I just realized that I accidentally turned the direction of the sketch...
I even know who this card is going to!
Supplies
Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Simply Said
Ink: Memento Black, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Country Woods DP, Peach Pie, Basic White cardstock.
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Layers of Beauty dies, big shot
Still no time to make something, but time to share something!
This is a hybrid page. I scanned in this long-retired DP for the digital background! It was more than perfect, and I needed to fit a bunch of pics, so that's what I did! I actually then started scanning in all my DP for just such a reason and then stopped after two packs....I need to find a LOT of free time to work on that, ha.
Anyway, we came upon this cute little spot and decided it was a perfect time for a treat, and here's the result!
Look! A post two business days in a row! Crazy! Both are scrappy, ha.
This was a chill night at a motel in South Dakota. Yep- we got personal sized pizzas from Pizza Hut, and then played some family games before bed. But it was a fun evening together.
I'll share other close ups another time, but for today, I'm sharing the one I based on the current sketch from SUO Challenges.
