{QUENCH} @ the I.P.

Hi friends! I feel like I have been on hiatus for entirely too long...well no actually I have just been really busy! Started my sabbatical from work on Oct 14, got married on Oct 19, went to Costa Rica for our honeymoon on Oct 27 and we just got back yesterday!!! So there are LOTSSS more pics and layouts and posts to share for the next few months... I will be attempting to start scrapping all these photos as well as make lots of  crafty/photo gifts for family for the holidays! So it's gonna be crazy around here, but the good kind of crazy- the creative kind! I am even going to start posting on my fb page a few items I will be selling for the holidays, so stay tuned for that! I am so excited things will kind of be 'back to normal' except that.... I am now Mrs. James L. Hollister!!!!! :) soooo happy:))

Ok. so enough newlywed mushy stuff. I was able to do 3 layouts last week after the wedding and this is the first one I will share up today. These photos are from my scrapping girls weekend in Biloxi, MS with 2 of my very favorite ladies...Carmen and Leanne. We went to an all weekend crop retreat and spent the next day at the spa and pool all day at the casino...it was fabulous!!! Here's my layout:

 Here is another photo of the whole thing:

A close up of one of the clusters. I used one of the Tim Holtz fragments that Monica and I made/ played with at convention. They are so fun to make, will have to share up a tutorial on how to make those on here soon maybe...or maybe we'll have a class on them at Scrapping Frenzy! Also I used a large yellow fabric rose, some raffia ribbon underneath, tickets, paper flowers and a button and resin rose.

I don't know why but I have this thing with taking pictures of my feet lately :) lol

  And for my journaling, i used a basic shipping tag that i inked and then tied a bit of teal colored tulle on.

A close up of the stamping near my title and the cool fiber piece i used to underline it.

 Ok, well that is all for today, short and sweet! Stop back in tomorrow for another fun layout and keep checking in with me this month as I share up new projects, layouts, and handmade items I will be selling for the holidays on my fb page...thanks friends! Until next time, Peace Y'all~ VV

Supplies Used:

royal blue wave paper- Basic Grey 'lime rickey'

teal/white polka dot paper-unknown from stash

yellow cardstock- Bazzil

Smooch Spritz in 'river mossy'

raffia ribbon

paper/felt flowers, mini pearls and bling- Michael's

yellow tickets- Purple Pumpkin

Thickers- Amy Tangerine "Goodness"

Tim Holtz paper distresser

Tim Holtz distress marker- bundled sage

manila shipping tag- The Paper Studio

Colorbox chalk ink-mint

light colored teal tulle

Tim Holtz 'fragments'- decorated @ SF covention

Back into the Swing! {Frosted Designs Sketch #45}

Happy hump day everyone! It doesn't feel like mid-week to me though because I start my 6-day stretch in my retail life today, so my next off day is next Tuesday. But the good thing is that I have mostly evening shifts which allows me to stay up late scrapping if I want and sleep in!! For the next 3 weeks, I will be working about 5-7 more hours per week because my boss will be on vacation, and the asst manager and I have to run the store without her! But I think it will be fine...not the first time we've done it! I have to admit I don't mind getting some overtime, any extra money I can get right now will just allow me to check some more wedding things off my list!! So I am here today to share a layout I did the other night, I started the process of organizing my photos and a bunch of layouts I've done recently and I realized that I need to print more pictures that I have taken this year. Everything else I have printed up is from 2011 and 2010. So I started that process and I found these pics of my visit to Santa Cruz, CA for our annual management meetings in March 2011. I used the sketch over at Frosted Designs, I am trying to get back in the swing of sketch challenges as well as DT stuff because I find that I get more scrapping done when I have deadlines! LOL! ?Here is the sketch: 

So here is my layout:

 Another full page shot:

 For my cluster, I dug through my stash and put together lots of different things, including a pink crochet doily and fabric buttons from Purple Pumpkin, some vinyl embellishments, chipboard flowers, and pink fibers. I layered the 'women' symbol from a Crate paper sheet on top of a chipboard sticker that didn't match my papers and then added stickles to out line the edges of it. 

 The large tag is from Me & My Big Ideas and I outlined it in stickles as well.

 For the dots, I used Pebbles Crystal Candy dots.

Well that is all for today, I hope I have inspired you to get back into some scrapping... I know when I get home from work tonight that is what I will be doing!! And I don't wanna go to work right now but I have no choice...so off I go! Have a great Wednesday, until next time, Peace Y'all~VV

Supplies Used:

Basic Grey papers, misc embellishments and vintage buttons from my stash, Me&My Big Ideas sentiment tag, Ranger Stickles in fruit punch and tropical tangerine, misc fibers from ebay, Crate paper 'women symbol' embellishment, photo corners and flower, American Crafts white vinyl-townhouse, Purple Pumpkin Crafts fabric buttons and pink crochet circle, Pebbles crystal candy dots-green and pink, K&Company alphas. 

The Day he PROPOSED!! {6x8 mini chipboard album}

Good evening, everyone! I am here tonite a share a project with you that I made a few weeks back as part of my submission for the Scrappin' Frenzy Design team. Well, this particular mini album has been up at the store since it's submission and I only got the chance to take some pics of it when we had the meet the DT party back on June 2nd. They aren't the greatest pictures, and for whatever reason I still can't get them to rotate right, so sorry if reading this post makes your neck hurt :( I just wanted to share cause I was so happy with how it turned out. 

First, I started with the turquoise lush album kit with coordinating papers, brads and journaling blocks from My Mind's Eye. I won this kit a while back at a weekend crop and I have been saving it for something special! I figured that documenting the entire day of what we did from morning to night that Jimmy proposed to me would be perfect! On top of what came in the turquoise lush kit, I added some recollections flowers and cabachons, as well as stamping and stickles, of course!!! So here are some pics, have a lookie:

That's all for tonite! Hope your neck doesn't hurt too bad cause of my messed up pictures! Sorry blogger is just not cooperating at the moment. Until next time, Peace Y'all~VV

Supplies List:

Turquoise Lush flocked chipboard album- My Mind's Eye

Turquoise lush flocked journaling blocks/ coordinating papers/brads- My Mind's Eye

Recollections- teal and orange paper flowers

Recollections- teal and orange flower cabochons

mixed ribbons and fibers, vintage button- from stash

Stickles- metallic copper, crystal

mini 'sweet love' stamp by Studio G

Tim Holtz distress ink- tea dye and antique linen

blue decorative key- Martha Stewart crafts

Resin elements- Recollections

Brown Zig writer

brown/ tan flowers- Prima

Woodshop letters 'sawdust' by Pink Paislee

'a creole christmas' {mini gift album}

happy Saturday everyone! it's an especially great day today since I was able to take an extra day off and end up with an impromptu 3-day weekend!  I'm hoping to get alot done in the craft room the next few days:) got some Xmas projects in the works and of course more scrapbooking! I just wanted to take a minute to share an album I did a few weeks ago as a gift for my sister. I didn't put it up on here at the time because it was supposed to be a surprise for her bday! But I'm giving it to her tonite at dinner so I figured I would go ahead and share it. It turned out really really cute and the best part about it was I used stuff that I already had in my stash, not one thing bought! I have a growing stash and craft room so whenever I am able to complete a project using all things I already have, it's super great! Makes me feel really more accomplished for some reason! LOL okay, so here are a few pictures for everyone...some really good lookin' Xmas eye candy on these pages...:lol

 here is a side view of all the ribbons and scraps I added!! Love the Christmas color combo with all the black too!

 and here you can see the album standing on it's side, it turned out super fat!!

 Okay, here are some close ups of the pages so you can see what stuff I used. It didn't take me all that long to do, just 3 late nights in the craft room to complete it all, and like I said I used all stuff from my stash! This is the first 2 pages, highlighting our beautiful hotel room!

 This is always one of my favorite things about visiting New Orleans, all the iron gates and lamp posts everywhere!

 One of my favorite Christmas songs!!

 This pic is kinda blurry, but it was my fav meal while in town, and also a cute little tag explaining the Creole Christmas tradition of the 'Reveillion' dinner.

 a close up of that tag, along with a cute cluster of an ornament, green button, black tulle, and fabric button. 

 My daddy and my sister!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE them both.

 Dad posing on the bench outside the Southern Food and Beverage Museum at the Riverwalk mall.

 not the cutest pic of me, but I HAD to try on the crawfish hat! LOl

 The back page of the album, I combined a pic I took along with one I cut out of a brochure, I really liked all the decorations we saw it was really something to see New Orleans all dressed up in lights!

Okay,  that's all for today folks! hoping I complete another project or challenge tonite or tomorrow to share :) I will also be submitting this in the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge, the challenge this week was to use GLITTER on any type of layout, album, craft project, or page. I used glitter all over this album, not just stickles, but mainly the letters in the title on the front page of the album, as well as a few other places you can see the diff colors of glitter I used. In a bit, we're heading over for a night of dinner and games with my family on the other side of Mobile Bay. Should be a good night, lots of photo ops!!! And I get to see my niece and nephew :) Eveyone, enjoy this weekend and stay warm! It's even quite chilly here in south Alabama, getting in the low 30's tonite I think. Until next time, PEACE Y'ALL~ VV

Supplies List:

paper, stickers, and flat embellishments- 'holly holiday' activity pad Me&My Big Ideas

red flowers, paper ornaments, holly leaves- Prima Marketing

 Fleur de Lis- Jolee's 3D embellishments

jumbo black sharpie

black chipboard spiral bound album (this was from a prize)

fabric colored old world Christmas buttons- Oriental Trading Co.

Colorbox chalk inks- black and lipstick

Stickles- gold, platinum, silver,stardust

Stickles, Suze Winberg collection- tiara and sequins

Stickles, Tim Holtz distress collection- fired brick

adhesives- glossy accents, glue stick, tape runner

fleur de lis brads, black tulle, glitter sticker letters & stamp; other from my stash