Birthday Scrapping

I have done something to my foot. Or ankle... Really, its the space below the ankle bone. I don't know what- but I'm pretty clumsy, so really, anything is possible. Also I'm over 40 so maybe I just slept wrong. Anyway, it makes it difficult to stand for a long time, which is how I craft, lol. So there's not a lot of new stuff.... 

But I did recently get some scrapping done for my youngest, so I can share that!

This one is quite simple, but I stamped strawberries on the pink card stock, because her pink shirt has dark pink strawberries. And the greeting isn't something I would usually think goes on a page, but in this case, it totally works. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sweet Strawberry

Ink: Magenta Madness, Memento Black

Paper: Magenta Madness & Basic White card stock
Accessories: Iridescent Pearls, Oval Punch
Journaling Font: justbeautifulsimplicity

A different kind of calendar - part 4

Finally Friday! And Friday night at that! I'm showered and ready for bed even tho no one else in my house is, ha. Some people are still at work! 

School is nearly out, and there's just a few more days before my girl flies away- literally! We have to have her at the airport about 630am that day. blah. So here's the next few pages from her calendar! 

May:

June: 

July: 

And August!

A different kind of calendar - part 2.

Good evening!
Today I have the second section of this calendar for you. Yes- the whole blog looks like her right this second, don't worry, my youngest has said the same thing. But when you leave home for the first time, you need a lot of stuff. And a lot of people come to wish you the best. Hooray for good friends and loving family! 
And this silly older daughter of mine actually asked if I would do a scrapbook of her mission. I'm sorry, have we not met?? 

But in the meantime, here are four more calendar pages she will take with her. 

August: 

September: 

October: 

November: 

It's still a surprise btw. I took a flash drive over to our local printer to get it put together...! waiting excitedly!!

A Day Trip

So, I'm part of a little scrapbooking group on Splitcoaststampers, and this month they had a virtual scrapbook night month with a handful of challenges. This single day trip was scrapped using two different challenges, and still all goes together! 

First up, a wordplay challenge, with the letters L-O-V-E.
For this page, I chose Letters, Oval, Violet, Embellishments. ha. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Alphabet Appeal
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Basic White, Wisteria Wonder card stocks
Accessories: Oval Punch, Subtles Candy Dots, Neutrals Candy Dots
Journaling Font: Janda Elegant Handwriting

Then the second part of the day fit a challenge to try the smooching technique. I used the two purpley inks and spritzed them with water. Then I laid a small piece of white card stock on the ink, and cut out a scallop circle from it. Then I cut that circle in half for the layout. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Alphabet Appeal
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Subtles Candy Dots, Neutrals Candy Dots, Circle dies, Big Shot

Journaling Font: Janda Elegant Handwriting

And! with that third page, I finally (HA!) finished my pack of Subtles Candy Dots!! That was the green Stampin' Up! label, which came before the black label! haha! In some ways, it's about time! But in other ways, I like dots- they're so easy to use, and the adhesive stuck to those! 

Trains! Round Two...

Hello again! Two days in a row- and the same thing, just scrapped a little differently.
This layout one is for my son, and I let him select which photos to scrap, and which DP to use. The first bit of DP is so old it's single sided! ha! The second one, I cut out the part of the map that applied to this engine. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Traveler, Just Perfect Alpha
Ink: Memento Black, Crumb Cake
Paper: World Of Good DP, Timeworn DP (single sided!)
Journaling Font: Courier New

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Another big project that has been keeping me from paper crafting was that we redid our main bathroom. Nine years ago we put together this Batman themed bathroom. What you don't see here are some metal signs we put in there later, next to the shower, and Batman cabinet knobs. You also don't see the Batman trash can hiding around the corner. Astoundingly, no photos exist of these things....which boggles my brain. But it was a whole thing.

It's been fun, but the fan has never been effective and it's a very small space with no actual ventilation, so it's gotten mildewy and smelly and not great. We knew we had to repaint with Kilz, and we needed to replace some things that had started to rust, so we went all out!

The biggest reason I'm sharing it here is that the paint color was created with a scrap of Seaside Spray card stock because that's my favorite shade of Stampin' Up! blue, ever! And it worked so nicely with the shower curtain we planned to return to! 

Cool, huh?? It's a dark room now, darker than we intended, but the people who use it the most love it, so that's good enough for me! 

Trains! Round One...

Some of my kids love trains. lovvvvve trains.
A few years ago the Big Boy engine 4014 was on display in our area, so my husband and I took our youngest to check it out. We decided it was totally worth our son missing a little bit of school to come see it the next day, ha. That meant we got a lot of pictures, which finally got scrapped! 

On this layout, I used an old Simply Scrappin' Kit for a few bits here. It's actually more postage themed than train, but somehow, in my brain anyway, it worked. 
Oh, the journaling is typed up in a strip on the top of the second page, but I took the picture before typing it. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Traveler, Just Perfect Alpha
Ink: Always Artichoke, Tip Top Taupe
Paper: Basic White card stock, Tailor-Made Simply Scrappin' Kit
Accessories: Tailor-Made Simply Scrappin' Kit, Chocolate Baker's Twine from a PP Kit
Journaling Font: Courier New

Our fence was finished last week! Check out the change in view! haha...! 

We're all very excited. We have a gate in the back as shown, and a gate on each side, and a fully fenced backyard! No more wandering pets or visiting wildlife leaving their deposits in the yard. Even me and my internal reality-check that putting in a garden means a lot. more. work. come fall. ha. It's gonna be awesome! 

Seeing Elk!

Good morning! Today is a big day at my house! Our back view will change because we are finally getting a real back fence installed! We had a temporary one for a couple years, but it was finally time, ha. I'm excited because it means we can plant a couple more trees and have a small vegetable garden. We've wanted one for yeeears but there's so many deer here! They won't jump where they can't see they'd land, so this will be really good. Not to mention privacy........ haha. Anyway, I'm excited.

And I have a scrapbook layout for you today! This was a snowy winter, unlike the one we're living, lol. These pictures are really old, so I'm glad I got it done. 

Supplies:
Stamps: In The Meadow, Just Perfect Alpha
Ink: Pecan Pie, Gray Granite
Paper: Basic White card stock, All Is Calm DP

Witchy Halloween!

Happy Wednesday, apparently, ha. It's been a while! And I lost a day or two or something... 
But I'm back today with more Halloweeny scrapping! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Just Perfect Alpha, Greeting Card Kids

Ink: Memento Black, Soft Seafoam
Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Light & Dark Highland Heather, Light & Dark Granny Apple Green, Bronze, Light Basic Black, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Petal Pink

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green card stocks, Halloween Memories Two Tone card stock, Halloween Spells DP

Accessories: Shades of Green Hexagons, Pool Party Ribbon, Blending Brush

I stamped the pumpkin girl on a post it to cover my colored image. I used the Blending Brush to surround the girl with Soft Seafoam ink. It didn't turn out perfectly, but it's fine. The Granny Apple Green Hexagons are so transparent, they don't look at all green on the Gorgeous Grape base... Oh well. This kiddo loves Halloween and will be happy to have a new Halloween Day scrapped! 

Trick or Treat!

Happy Monday to you! It is definitely getting to be autumn! Cold mornings and evenings, and the mountain tops have snow for a second time! 

Here's another Halloween night layout. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Alphabet Appeal Lower
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Bumblebee & Basic Black card stock, Monster Bash DP
Accessories: Amber Gems

More scrapping...

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: Skinny Mini Alpha (retired)

Ink: Misty Moonlight

Paper: Pecan Pie, Misty Moonlight, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Flowers For Every Season Ribbon (retired), Tinsel Gems 3Pack (retired)

Scrapbooking Dance

Hello again! 

This afternoon I have a scrapbook layout for you. I had the idea to cut out little squares like the sequins on her costume. I used some long-retired glimmer paper, and another shade of pinky-purple for the squares- I just cut strips and then cut them into squares, and glued them down in a pattern. 

Later, I'll add some journaling to the second page, across the middle. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Just Perfect Alpha (retired!)

Ink: Petunia Pop
Paper: Bubble Bath, Petunia Pop card stock, 6x6 Glimmer Paper Asst Pack (retired, I used Bermuda Bay & Sweet Sugarplum)

Cactus Scrapbooking

Happy Thursday! Still hot here.... soooo wishing for autumn to arrive on the tenth of October....! But we have Halloween decorations up now, so that much can feel like autumn. 

Anyway, I have a scrapbook layout for you today. These photos are several years old, so it was way past time to get them scrapped. This is the last time we went to my grandparents house, it was the trip for my grandmother's funeral. And then her kids went thru all the things and that was that. My grandparents lived in Arizona so these retired cactus stamps were absolutely required. I just fussy cut them all out and layered them on the page.

Supplies:
Stamps: Flowering Desert (retired), Desert Details (retired)

Ink: Pebbled Path, Mossy Meadow, Garden Green, Peach Pie, Flirty Flamingo, Parakeet Party(retired), Cucumber Crush(retired), Soft Succulent (retired)

Paper: Parakeet Party (retired), Peach Pie card stocks

Journaling Font: Garamond

I "need" to print hundreds of photos, because we just keep living life and doing things, but I also still have hundreds of photos printed from years ago for my older kids... And since I was in a scrapping mood, that's what I worked on. I did a few pages for my son and then discovered all of his books are full and his shelf is stuffed. Annnnd then after just setting the pages in one of his books to keep them flat and safe....his shelf collapsed. super. haha..... Guess what I'm asking for for Christmas? 

If you're curious, my girls share the bottom shelf, altho my youngest's current album is the sideways one at the top of this photo....
and my son has the collapsed shelf all to himself. 

Yeay scrapbooking!! 

Sale-A-Bration Scrapping!

Happy March! annnd it's finally winter at my house! ha! 

Sometimes life is just so busy, and Sale-A-Bration goes by so quickly, that we don't always get to play with the things while they're current!
That and I was sick for over a week...blah!
But this past weekend included my birthday, and the TWENTY year anniversary of me becoming a demonstrator (nope, cannot believe that!!), so I played with some new paper and scrapbooked, which is my favorite!

In this case, I used some very old photos with this new (and already retired! sniff!) DP and made an almost matching layout for each of my two kids who were there, ha.  

Supplies: 

Stamps: Whimsical Alpha Lower (retired)

Ink: Copper Clay

Paper: Copper Clay, Very Vanilla, Sunny Days DP SAB 2024 (retired)

Accessories: Embroidered Ribbon (retired)

Font: Aptos

Supplies: 

Stamps: Whimsical Alpha Lower (retired)

Ink: Pebbled Path

Paper: Crushed Curry, Pebbled Path, Basic White, Sunny Days DP SAB 2024 (retired)

Accessories: Embroidered Ribbon (retired)

Font: Aptos

These photos have been printed and sitting for over a decade so I was super glad to get them scrapped!
And yes, I know which photo is "missing" from my daughter's layout- it is already in her scrapbook, as part of things she shared on a school poster, back when the photos were current, haha! 

Paper Pumpkin Scrapping!

Clearly, I've spent some time lately trying to use up Paper Pumpkin kits! 
This was the same kit I posted about HERE on Jan 8, and I still have the leaf stickers and the little flower die cuts... so I made a couple scrapbook pages with it! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017

Ink: Starry Sky, Flirty Flamingo

Paper: Basic White

Accessories: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017

Ink: Fresh Freesia, Orchid Oasis

Paper: Basic White

Accessories: Paper Pumpkin Aug 2017

And even after using some up, I still have lots more! 

2024 September, October & November!

Since I opted to share the calendar covers by themselves, I'm finishing off the whole calendar in this post. 

For September I usually do a back to school theme: 

October is, of course, Halloween themed: 

And then November was all about family: 

And that's the calendars we gave our families this year! 

2024 July & August

July is usually one of my favorite pages to do.
This first page, every photo came from the morning of July 4. I also recolored the paper, it's usually multicolored, but I made it all blues! 

The photos from this page below span the year, but I still kept a July look for it.

This time the August trip page did happen in August, haha...

and most of these photos came from a family even in August too! handy!

Thanksgiving layout

After Halloween comes Thanksgiving! This is also a different year than the jack o lanterns or Easter, haha. 

I can't remember how old this DP is, and I know it doesn't use Merry Merlot, but I decided the card stock was close enough. And I like the corn and the apples. The ink I used also does not coordinate with that paper, although the Cajun Craze washi tape does. But coordinating is not the same as matching and in this case I think it all works. And if it doesn't, she's really the only one who will see it so it's fine! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Skinny Mini Alpha

Ink: Pebbled Path

Paper: Merry Merlot, Orchard Harvest DP

Accessories: Old Washi Tape

Jack-o'-lanterns

Happy Monday! Sharing some more pages I made last week.
On to the next holiday in a completely different year, haha... I think this paper was from 2016, and I really love it actually. And that's literally all I did for this page. 

Supplies:

Paper: Halloween Night Specialty

Accessories: 2016-18 In Color Enamel Shapes 

Simple and quick is great because it didn't take all day and I got it done, haha. 

And when I did those 17 pages, my real goal was to use up patterned paper. So I would select an event and go find a paper that would work with it and glue it down! Done is done! 

2024 January & February

Since there was practically no crafting in December, and hardly any so far for January, I'm going to keep sharing these calendar pages. The pages are simple, keeping the focus on the photos. 

So here are the January pages: 

This page below was really about cramming the grandkids into one page. 

And February:

And this page below was each of the couples, and then siblings together.

Christmas Play!

Happy Monday! I have more projects for you this week! 

Today I have an event from last December, but for my younger daughter. This page was made in June. The children in our church congregation did a bit of a nativity play for a local assisted living center, and my little one was asked to be a sheep. She was terribly upset about that, and then decided she could be a lamb. ha. Whatever it takes! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Alphabest, For Unto Us, Joyful Nativity, God's Peace

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Delicata Gold

Paper: Very Vanilla & Cherry Cobbler card stock, All is Bright DP

Accessories: Cherry Cobbler & Gold Metallic ribbon, Festive Pearls

Journaling Font: Fairwater Script

and a smidge of a close up