Curl UP SUNDAY!

Hi friends. So today is just one of those days...you want to stay inside all day and watch movies and bake cookies-in your PJ's kind of day. It's super wet and rainy out, and staying at home all day is really what I'd like to be doing but, I have my bridal shower this afternoon! So I will have to get out in the weather unfortunatley, but I think it will be worth it! This weekend has been full of scrappy time and girl time, I was at Scrapping Frenzy's convention Thurs, Fri and Sat and I did this page for my own personal book, non-DT related! So that is good...I also was able to complete 2 of the 3 posts that are due for Oct which is good, I need to get ahead and get all my ducks in a row the next 2 weeks, cause we will be getting MARRIED on Oct 19th and I start my 3 1/2 week vacy on Oct 14th so, it will be a crazy next 2 weeks for sure! Ok enough of my blabbering... wanted to share with you a cute layout I did about our kitty, Carmella, these are some instagrams I took of her a while back and I finally had some printed so I thought I'd do a soft, girly layout about her. Here are pics:

okay, well that's all for now! I gotta get going to this bridal shower... guess it's ok cause I get presents, right?! Until next time my scrappy friends, Peace Y'all~ VV

Supplies Used:

Pink paper by American Crafts, Smooch in Tea Party and Pralines n' Cream, Grey cardstock, lemon cardstock, scraps of Basic Grey paper- 'pink lemonade' line. Basic Grey Element stickers 'pink lemonade collection. Prima flowers, vintage buttons, mini pearls, heart apoxy stickers, kitty stamp by Micheal's, Amy Tangerine turquoise Thickers, cheesecloth, Tim Holtz distress ink in antique linen, UTEE and watermark ink.

{Star Quality} with BG 'Out of Print'

Hi everyone! I am here today to share a very special layout I did this month using one of my favorite paper lines, Basic Grey, the 'Out of Print' collection. This is my last post this month for my LSS, Scrapping Frenzy. I think the name of this line is really very fitting since I swear I own probably every sheet in double but I can't seem to get enough of it when I see it I always buy more! LOL! So now you know why it's called 'out of print'!! Another special thing about this layout is that I used a very old photo of my Meemaw sitting on Orange Street pier in Fairhope, Alabama. I love this photo and the expression on her face, even though I didn't know her back then it really shows her grace and personality!! I knew it would be perfect for the type of layout I was wanting to do. So, here's a peek of the whole thing:

 To start the layering under my photo, I first matted it with one side of the BG paper and distressed the edges, then inked that. Under that I layered a piece of black cardstock to make the photo 'pop' off the page. I didn't want alot of dark colors going on but I knew I would have to tie in the black somehow into other elements of the page so I used a black paper flower, the black cut out words from the Carte Bella paper, and the black also came in on the Echo park paper with the film reels.

This photo was a sneaky-peek I took with instagram! I love that app, just need a figure out a cheap way to order some of my prints from them that will be printed square!!

I would have to say my favorite thing about scrapping is 'building' my cluster, to me it's the best part about working on a page, digging through your stash and combining just the perfect mix of embellishments to get the look you want. For this cluster, I started off with a grey tulle flower from Webster's pages 'Florettes' then I added some color- drawing most of my color scheme from the flower paper behind the cluster. I used the yellow, pink, and pale green to complement the grey flower and off course topped it off with some stickles and pearls! My fav :D !!

For the title, I used some Tim Holtz type-writer looking salvage stickers to add to the vintage look. I underlined each one with stickles in 'platinum'.

And this is my favorite shot! The light was really great in the window when I snapped this one :)

 Well, that is all for today. If you don't already have this line, Basic Grey 'Out of Print' stop by the store today and get some! It is really so versatile and by far probably one of my favorite paper collections. Until next time my scrappy gal pals~ Peace Y'all~VV

Supplies used: Basic Grey 'Out of Print'- storyteller and , Echo Park 'Note to Self' 6x6 papers, Black cardstock by Bazzil, Colorbox pigment inks in blush, lipstick, and black. Smooch Spritz in 'Pralines and Cream', Tim Holtz distress stickles- 'dried marigold' and 'scattered straw' also Glitz stickles in 'platinum'. Webster's pages Florettes-grey tulle flower, Queen &Co twine-brown/white and yellow/white. Carte Bella 'life is beautiful' word sentiments. Crate paper cardstock cutouts-American Beauty and stamp, Sticky Thumb pop dots, paper flowers/roses- Prima and Recollections, pearls-Michael's, vintage buttons, rhinestone ruffle- Prima, Tim Holtz salvage stickers 'crowded attic'. Pier 1 paperclip flower, vintage buttons, cardboard piece and fabric from my stash.

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. 

{an unbreakable bond}

Good evening, friends!I hope everyone enjoyed their Friday the 13th!! Since my last post was SUPER LONG, I have a nice little short one for you this time!! LOL! Tonight I am here to share with you a new LO I did a few nights ago for the sketch challenge over at Frosted Designs. 

It is for Sketch Along Tuesdays #32. This was the original sketch:

And this is my take on the sketch:

  and without a flash...can't see colors as well.

 and a better shot with the flash. This photo is of my Aunt and Cousin, Debbie and Kate. They both are such beautiful women and I'm very grateful to have them in my life, also they remind me alot of my Mom in many many ways and of course our genes and the dark hair...runs in the family!

 and here are some closies:

 for the paper roses I folded some punched circles that I inked in 2 different colors. Then I attached them to strips of Basic Grey paper. I thought it was a cool effect and added some visual interest to the top of the page.

 I used several different sticker hearts and doodled swirls around them in Glitz stickles in sequins.

 some closies of the fussy cutting I did on the flowers I used along with some small red prima flowers.

 I like this shot, it shows all the different textures going on in the background overlapping papers, the quote block, the crochet doily from PP, and the buttons and brads. Very girly colors but I wanted to tone it down so I used just splashes of green and the background paper is dark brown cardstock.

That is all for tonite! Just got to finish watching my new fav show, Grimm because we DVR'd it earlier and now since this post is finished I think I'm gonna VEGG out for the rest of the night... ( as Julia Roberts) would say in  Pretty Women! LOL "lay like broccoli!! Until next time, Peace Y'all! ~V V

Supplies List:

cream& brown cardstock- Recollections Holiday Traditions paperstack

pink heart paper, polka dot paper- Me & My Big Ideas Valentines Kit

fuzzy cut flowers- paper from stash?

pink and brown cheetah print ribbon- Celebrate It 'fit to be tied' ribbon Michael's\

brown sheer polka dot ribbon- Making Memories trims in 'animal crackers' collection

vintage floral paper- Tim Holtz paper stash 'Lost and Found' collection

quote/sentiment- Melody Ross designer inspiration cards 'Homespun Chic'

pink crochet doiley- Purple Pumpkin Crafts

med red fabric covered button- Purple Pumpkin Crafts

Tim Holtz distress ink in 'fired brick'

'Glitz' stickles in 'sequins'

Colorbox chalk ink in dark brown

green flower stems- Basic Grey 'Origins' collection

Smooch Spritz in 'cherry ice'

mini stapler and staples

Glossy Accents liquid glass

Tim Holtz paper distresser tool

tape runner & glue stic

small red flowers- Prima No.9 Essentials collection

pearl brads, vintage buttons, heart stickers, metal heart brads- stash

Inspiration Wednesday....2 Sketch Challenges!

Good afternoon all my friends out there in blog land! Today, so far has been a really great day. I got to sleep in again, after staying up until almost 2am in the craft room I needed it! I was off yesterday and today so I was able to get some much needed stress relief/ crafty time in yesterday afternoon. From about 4:30 until about 8:30, then I took a break to cook dinner, then from about 11:30 until almost 2am! But it was much needed... I swear I could have stayed up all night scrapping! I really had the mojo going yesterday...listening to my fav music station on Comcast, scentsy pot smelling up the room, a big glass of iced sweet mint tea, I was ROCKIN! I am very proud though, I completed 2 total layouts for 2 different challenges, so I will be sharing those with you today. SO STAY TUNED FOR A REALLY LONG BLOG POST!!!! The first one is for the Basic Grey sketch challenge. Have I told y'all how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE Basic Grey?! By far my most favorite paper line...all of them are so versatile and easy to combine too for lots of different occasions. The winner of the sketch challenge gets to select a collection pack of their choice!!! OMG I would just die if I won. Here's hoping! This was the original sketch:

I actually stayed pretty true to the sketch on this one, the only thing I really did differently was put my journaling on top of the block below the butterfly. I really like how the colors I used aren't really the typical 'girly' colors but it's still a really girly layout!  The photos are from last Thanksgiving, of me holding 

my niece, Zoe! This is what I came up with:

 And another shot:

 this time standing up, trying not to get too much flash in there!

 And of course, some closies of all the good stuff! This layout is loaded with it!!

 This butterfly I had in my stash, I didn't really like it cause it was kinda plain, so I glued it on top of a scrap of lace acetate paper to fill in the wings, then I inked the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink in antique linen. Of course the body of the butterfly I just drew on with Aqua stickles once I folded it and glued it to the paper. 

 For the title, I used some pink paislee woodshop letters which I covered in 2 different kinds of glitter. The 'girl' part of the title is stickers that I outlined in brown pen from the Basic Grey 'Origins' collection sticker elements sheet. 

 another closeup of the lovely flowers! For most of them, I used some plain white and black flowers from my stash that I inked and sprayed up to make them kind of monochromatic. I used Glimmermist by Tattered Angels in Lilypad as well as some Smooch Spritz in gold glow, then on top of that I inked the edges with TH antique linen again. While the glimmermist was still wet, I actually drugg them through the remainder of glitter used on my title and it stuck to them!

 I love this shabby-chic teal rose from Bo Bunny. 

And here are a few shots of the creative process as it was in the works:

  Supplies List:

background paper- Basic Grey 'Origins' collection "sea salt"

paper strips- Basic Grey 'Origins' collection "paraffin"

teal strip and block- Basic Grey 'Lime Rickey' collection

girl subtitle letters/tiny flowers- Basic Grey 'Origins' collection sticker elements

title letters- Pink Paislee woodshop expressions- "sawdust"

glitter on title- Martha Stewart holiday glitter in 'olivine' and 'tinsel'

paper flowers- Prima No. 9 Essentials collection

white/black dot paper flowers- from stash

Glimmermist by Tattered Angels in 'lilypad'

Smooch Spritz in 'gold glow'

shabby teal rose- Bo Bunny 'ad lib petals'

Tim Holtz distress ink in 'antique linen'er

flower centers- Craftwork Cards 'Candi' in choc-o-mocha

teal crystal flourish- Prima 'say it in crystals'

Large spotty green button- Purple Pumpkin Crafts

3 layer flower- K&Company 'classic margo'

Stickles in aqua, lt. green, and TH distress stickles 'peeled paint'

chipboard flower, butterfly, pearl brads, and flower button-from stash

Okay, are yall ready for no. 2??? I know this is probably my longest post ever! For the second, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do because while I was looking for the perfect Basic Grey paper to do layout #1 I stumbled upon this Lilybee paper that I totally forgot that I had. Don't you just LOVE when that happens? So I knew I wanted to use those 2 papers together and I also figured it was time to scrap some photos of our beloved kitty, Carmella, since she's such a presence in our lives but it seems she never really gets to be in the limelight! So I knew I had these 3 photos of her laying in her favorite afternoon nap spot, directly on top of our cable box, I guess because it's warm!? This LO I will be submitting for the January Sketch Challenge over at Artful Delight. I have really come to love this site, they put together the best scrapbook kits and once I get my BDAY $$$ (January 25th in case you wanted to know) I will def. be purchasing some stuff from Leanne. I won a Nov. kit a few months ago in a sketch challenge and everything in it is GORGEOUS!!! This is the original sketch designed by Abby.

And this is my take:

And a few close ups, lots of yummy goodness on here, I mixed and matched different stuff, cause well, that's just what I like to do. If an embellishment doesn't go I just alter it up! For example, this cute little tag inside it's own envelope actually is a baby-themed tag that I covered with a little rounded square of teal paper and some sticker letters, then I wrote on the vellum envelope.

 One of my favorite things to do is staple ribbon. I totally forgot about this technique until I found this cool teal and brown fleur de lis ribbon and I knew I had to add it to my page!

 The flowers are a mix of vinyl flowers, Prima of course, and some cute vintage kitty stickers that I put on cardstock and popped up with pop dots.

 The title- I LOVE these letters, I wish I could remember where I got them from, don't have the packaging anymore and they are almost gone! :(

 I like the contrast of the yellow spotty button and the teal lace in this shot.

 Overall, I am really happy with both of these layouts and will be happy to submit them both...hopefully for a prize or two :) as soon as I'm done with this REALLY LONG blog post. LOL. But it was worth reading till the end wasn't it? Happy Wednesday Y'all! Until next time~ V V.

Supplies List:

background paper- 'memorandum 9 to 5' Lilybee Design

large paper square- 'memorandum timeclock' - Lilybee Design

light teal cardstock- from stash

large cream circle paper- 'the story of us' collection "I'm Yours" by ATD Momenta

shabby sticker letters (title)- from stash- Mary Engelbriet?

Large spotty yellow button- Purple Pumpkin Crafts

layered tag w/ envelope- Colorbok 'Oh Baby'

Tim Holtz distress ink in 'antique linen'

Tim Holtz Idea-ology 'acoutrements'- large flower button, metal button

Tim Holtz Idea-ology salvage stickers- 'crowded attic'

vintage kitty cat stickers- 'gifted stickers' by Punch Studio

teal lace- Prima 'Say it with Crystals'

white vinyl embellishments- American Crafts Townhouse collection 'elegant'

white/turquoise brad- My Mind's Eye turquoise lush collection

chipboard frame, vintage buttons- from stash

Colorbox chalk ink in Seafoam and Deep Lagoon- chipboard frame

Glimmermist by Tattered Angels in Lilypad- chipboard frame

gem drops by The Robin's Nest (4 lt. blue)

stickles- yellow 

Tim Holtz distress stickles in 'peeled paint'