Feeling lucky

A recent trip to Archiver's found me feeling lucky. Lucky to find this great page kit from Echo Park called Grand Slam. I knew it would be perfect for scrapping some baseball pictures from last season. Sometimes a kit is just what I need to give me some quick and easy layouts. Complete with double-sided baseball-themed papers and a big sheet of cardstock stickers, this kit is a home run!

You know with this heat, sometimes the creativity brainwaves are a little sluggish. With a twist on a sketch, some stamps from Close to My Heart, and the "Ticket Please" Fiskars border punch, this two-page layout came together with minimal brainwaves needed. The journaling under the photos describes how my son was lucky to end up on the championship team his first season of playing Little League. We are both lucky!

Stay cool!

~Kelly

My Little Shoebox and Twinery layout

My Little Shoebox and the Twinery are doing a blog hop this week (read prizes).  I just wanted to share this layout that I created for the blog hop. I used my crop-a-dile to punch notches at half inch increments around the blue paper and then I wove pieces of twine, securing in the back. I used the Keepsake collection from My Little Shoebox. I just love the colors in this line. This page is about Passover Seder, but would work great for Easter photos too. Or any other happy kind of theme.

you can read more details on my blog. 

Wedding Day

Hi again, Veronica here and I wanted to share a layout I created.  Since my anniversary is right around the corner I have been going through my wedding pictures.  I loved my wedding, we had a great time.  I really enjoy reminiscing when going through my wedding album.  I especially love this photo of hubby and I.

I used the Trinity Paper Arts "Sincerely" collection to make this layout because I thought the colors and patterns were perfect.  I added Magenta chipboard butterflies that I distressed.

I used "frantage" mica flakes by Stampendous on the black butterfly, I embossed with "Lindy's Stamp Gang" powder for the center butterfly; and lastly I covered the 3rd butterfly with the Trinity "Dots A" paper and added some more "Lindy's Stamp Gang" embossing power.  Then I filled in the space inbetween with Petaloo flowers and Basic Grey buttons.

I used the "Noteworthy A" paper to cut out this tag, "I carry your heart with me".  I love this saying, I thought it was perfect to add to my wedding day photo.

I loved sharing my wedding pics with you today, I hope I've inspired you to try a little distressing and some different techniques to your layouts and please go check out this "Sincerely" collection by Trinity Paper Arts!

Happy Scrapping!

Lazy Summer on the River

My husband went camping recently to Peace River which is in Florida with a group of our friends (mostly the husbands).  I never go camping ... well that is not true I did go camping once before I got married to my hubby man, but never again.

I purposely faded out the photo because it was too green for the color scheme I was using.  I used the Paper Loft "Huckleberry Pond" collection.  This paper collection worked out perfectly for my photo. 

I also used the Basically Bare Pennants embellishments.  I love this set because you get banners from chipboard, canvas, felt and acrylic.  I love all the different textures.  I covered the chipboard with the paper loft collection, I painted a dot pattern on the felt and I stamped on the canvas.  I was very happy making that banner.

Basically Bare has a really cute set called celestial shapes that have clouds in the set.  Unfortunately for me I didn't have any at the time so I compromised by using the tree top from the Basically Bare Happy Tree embellishment set.  I stamped my felt cloud then I glimmer misted it with Tattered Angels.

That is it for now, happy scrapping, and hope you have a Lazy and Happy Summer.

Double Page My Little Shoebox layout

Today I wanted to share with you a double page layout that I created for My Little Shoebox using their Up in the Trees collection.

I don't often do double page layouts, but I had a ton of photos from our egg hunt, so I kind of needed to make this one into a double. For the center strip, I wanted to break up the yellow, but then the white cardstock looked too stark, so I used a graph paper background stamp dipped in glimmer mist to create a subtle effect.

Grab your jacket! A book jacket, that is!

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go. ~ Dr. Seuss

Books are great not only for learning, but for inspiration too! For the next issue of Scrapstreet, Graffiti is looking for your creations based on a book cover.

The cover of Dr. Seuss' book, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" was the motivation for this layout, both in color and shape. Using paper from October Afternoon (Schoolhouse) and patterned paper from Colorbok, I re-created the swirly patterns found on Dr. Seuss' book--which also happens to be a popular read around Graduation time--a perfect match!  One only gets to wear a graduation gown so many times in their life (unless you are my husband, he's worn one a few more times than the average).

Now it's your turn, "grab your jacket". A book jacket that is! I'm looking for your projects inspired by book cover art and there is a whole load of other submission calls for the next issue of Scrapstreet, just click right here to check them out. You, yes you (well, actually, your project) could be in the next issue coming out July 1st. Get going! Deadline for submission is May 19th.


~Kelly