Currently 1.22.16 - SBC Trend

   This month's trend at Scrapbook Challenges is around all things tribal inspired. 

   

   For my tribal choices I went straight to the Wild & Free collection from Glitz Designs. I am happy and sad to say I used up that paper pad on this page. I have been on a mission  to use up my older stash before I can get something new. I am happy to say I already killed 9 bags of paper collections.

Supplies: cardstock (Die Cuts With a View), pattern paper (Basic Grey, Carta Bella, Echo Park Glitz Designs, American Crafts and Little Yellow Bicycle), stickers (Studio Calico),  resin flower (Studio Calico), washi tape (The Paper Studio), paperclip (Pink Paislee), transparency (American Crafts), die cuts (American Crafts), manual die (Studio Calico), doily (Doodlebug Designs) , icon (Studio Calico), electronic die cutter, cartridge and software (Cricut), manual die machine (Spellbinders) and pen (Project Life)

   I just love this transparency from the True Stories collection from Shimelle. It was perfect for this page. 

   The journaling and photo was taken from my Instagram account when I did the #thursday3.

   I couldn't do a tribal page without feathers.

 Don't forget to link up your creations on the Mr. Linky at Scrapbook Challenges to have a chance at winning this month's prize.

Celebrate The Memories - SBC #FBF

   This week's flashback Friday #197 sketch from Scrapbook Challenges is a great one. I love the simplicity of it.

   Here is my take on it. I used less photos but added a lot more layers. I love layers because they allow me to use up all those little scraps that I have been holding onto for years, I think all the scraps on this pages is about 8 years old. 

Supplies: cardstock (Bazzill Basics, Canvas Home Basics and The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Canvas Home Basics, Crate Paper, Glitz Designs and Karen Foster), stickers ( Studio Calico and Authentique), flair (Basic Grey), wood veneers (American Crafts), watercolor crayon (Faber-Castell), doily (Doodlebug Designs), enamel dots (My Mind's Eye), die cutters (Cricut and Spellbinders), manual die (Spellbinders), cartridge and design software (Cricut), 

   I can't believe I didn't have a manual die machine before. I use it almost on every project. Now, I need to get more dies.  

   Since the beauty of wood veneers are easy to alter I colored them with gelatos to match the color theme of the balloons at the party.

Just Be You - SBC #471

   Last week's Scrapbook Challenges sketch #471  but with dealing with a sick dog over the weekend which led to saying bye to him that Monday I never got it onto the Scrapbook Challenges blog or shared here. 

   Here is my take. The page is of my dad when he was about 20.

Supplies: cardstock (Bazzil Basics), pattern paper (Fancy Pants Designs and Glitz Designs), die cuts and tags (Studio Calico and American Crafts), chipboard (Studio Calico), wood veneers (American Crafts), stickers (Prima, American Crafts and Studio Calico), washi tape (Scotch Brand), marker (Faber-Castell), and pen (Project Life)

   Here are a few close-ups. 

   I love the canvas alphabet stickers from Prima. They are super easy to color to match your project.

After Gifts on December 24th - SBC #468

   This sketch is a fun to work with and super easy to fit your needs. This is Scrapbook Challenges #468 sketch reveal. 

   Here is my take on it.

Supplies: cardstock (Bazzill), pattern paper (7 Gypsies, Canvas Corp Brands and Anna Griffith), journaling card (Studio Calico), marker (Bic), chipboard (Studio Calico), stickers (Studio Calico and Glitz Designs), stamps (Inkadinkado, Stampin' Up!,  and 7 Gypsies), tag (Pretty Little Studio)

   The title of this page was easy to come up with since our family tradition is opening of gifts on Christmas Eve. This all started back when my mom was a little girl. 

Rough Crowd - SBC #463

   Where did the weekend go? My to-do list barley got touched. Hope you all had a more productive week. 

Today is sketch #463 reveal for Scrapbook Challenges. 

   As you can see, I kept this page super simple.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Glitz Design and KaiserCraft), stickers (American Crafts), embossing folder (Sizzix), ink (Momenta), electronic die cutter, cartridge and software (Cricut)

   I ended up doing one of my favorite techniques on the title letter die cuts. It is called faux letterpressing. That is when you ink up an embossing folder before you place the paper in it and run it through the embossing machine. I came up for the title of this page because that was the first thing that popped in my head about this photo of my mom, grandpa, uncles and cousin 

Catching Up Reunion - SBC #455

   Over at Scrapbook Challenges I ended up doing the sketch #455 but it never made it to the SBC blog's post, so I want to share it here with you even though it is over a month from the reveal day. 

   I ended up scrapping almost the last of the Bid Red One reunion pictures of 1990s WWII gathering.

 Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (My Mind's Eye and Simple Stories), stickers (American Crafts, Glitz Designs), doily (doodlebug Design), wood veneers (Studio calico and Maya Road), flair (Basic Grey)

   Since I didn't have enout letters in one color family for "catching" I mixed it up. 

Mini Album Hop

Welcome to the mini album blog hop. If you didn't arrive here from Charity's blog please hop back to the start from Kelly's blog and start the hop from the beginning because you wouldn't want to miss any of the great mini inspiration.

   This might shock some of you but you are about to start a hop for mini albums. I only do one a year (that is a dec. daily) but I decided to join in on the fun since I had a clear mini album that I have had for years and knew I should use it soon. Plus, seeing my friend's, Kelly and hop host, amazing albums she creates it inspired me to jump in.

   I decided the theme for it will be about the trip my dad and I are took to Ohio so I can get an eye surgery done. The album has no pics or journaling in it at the moment but once my vision is better I am heading to my studio to finish this up. It is made from one of the Clear Scraps album bases.

 Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Echo Park, Glitz Designs, Crate Paper and Fancy Pants), photos filters (Crate Paper), doilies (Doodlebug Design), chipboard (Prima), sequins (Hazel & Ruby), mist (Tattered Angels), diecuts (Jillibean Soup, My Mind's Eye, Studio Calico and American Crafts), washi tape (Target. Queen & Co., Bella Blvd., My Mind's Eye and Doodlebug Design), stickers (Prima, Echo Park and Carta Bella)twine (Timeless Twine), journaling cards (Project Life), mini album (Clear Scraps), hole enforcers and punches (We R Memory Keepers and EK Success).

 I used the We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board to create this giant envelope page. This will house little mementos of the trip.

 On the back cover, I built the page under the plastic base so there will be no wear and tear on it.

1.   Kelly Jean - kelsterjean designs

2.  Amanda - Random Sweetness

3.  Nubia - The Papercutting Nerd

4.  Beth - Scrapping Wonders

5.  Heather M - Heather's Crafty Heart

6.  Lynn - Lynn's Everyday Ideas

7.  Charity - Scrappin' Chaos

8.  Mandi - Kraze of MJ <<<

9.  Heather S - Coffee and Pretty Paper

10. Kristin - rukristin papercrafts

Little Gentleman - SBC #Flashback

Scrapbook Challenges is offering two sketch reveals a week now. On Friday's it is a updated sketch from our sketch archive. This reveal day is called flashback is from sketch #159

Here is my take on this. 

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Carta Bella and Teresa Collins), stickers (Glitz Designs)washi tape (My Mind's Eye), sequins (Studio Calico) and electronic die cut machine, software and cartridge (Provo Craft)

Love That Bottle - SBC 442

    Remember me? I am the girl that shares her work on this blog, who set up a weekly routing on posting and who epicly failed at it three weeks ago.  I am happy to say that this week I am remedying that problem. To kick that off, I am posting this week's sketch reveal from Scrapbook Challenges. 

The sketch #442 is a great one to eliminate some of those odd scraps that we scrappers like to hold on to for something special. 

   Here is my take on it. 

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Fancy Pants Designs, Studio Calico card kit paper pad and Glitz Designs), doily (Doodlebug Design), stickers (Jillibean Soup and My Mind's Eye), twine (Timeless Twine), stitching template (American Crafts), mists (Tattered Angels), pen (Project Life) and washi tape (Scotch Brand).

   I love to add a little extra depth to my flat alphas by just outline them with a 05 pen.

   Thanks for dropping by and I am sure there will be more posts. I am thinking about adding some food posts. 

Building My Card Stash

   Like, I really need to build my card stash. I have boxes full of them. 

  Well this one I will be using next month. I am sure my mom will like it. 

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (My Mind's Eye), journaling card (Project Life), twine (Timeless Twine), stickers (Elle's Studio), stamps (EK Success), wood veneers (Studio Calico), gelato (Faber-Castell), punches (EK Success), ink (Memento), and diy enamel dots

   The next two cards our ones that will go in my stash. 

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), journaling cards (Project Life), washi tape (Studio Calico), die cuts (My Mind's Eye), sequins (Studio Calico), stamps (Studio Calico), ink (Memento and Close to My Heart) mist (Studio Calico), punches (EK Success) sewing machine, thread and ric-rac. 

Supplies: (cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Glitz Designs and Studio Calico), stamps (Studio Calico), twine (Timeless Twine), sequins (Hazel & Ruby), punches (EK Success), doily (Doodlebug Designs), marker (Faber-Castell) and journaling card (Project Life)

   On this card I did something a little different I even decorated the inside. The reason was I used a double-sided pattern paper to make the card base. To make the spot for writing a message I just added a journaling card. 

Today Look Mischievous - SBC #430

Happy Monday, everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. Besides being the first day of the work week it also the day Scrapbook Challenges reveals their latest sketch. Today it is sketch #430. 

   At first, I scratched my head trying to figure out what photos I wanted to scrap because I knew I am low on ink for my printer. I decided to go with baby photos of my mom that I had sitting in an album. I picked out these four pics because in all of them she looks like she is about to do something mischievous. I heard a lot of stories from my mom's childhood and all I have to say was that she was a little mischief maker. 

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Webster's Pages. Glitz Designs and Fancy Pants Designs), die cuts (American Crafts and My Mind's Eye), cabochons (Studio Calico kit exclusive), journaling cards (Webster's Pages and Project Life), marker (Faber-Castell), doily (Doodlebug Designs), enamel dots (My Mind's Eye), electronic die cutter, design studio software and cartridge (Provo Craft), border punch (Fiskars), washi tape (My Mind's Eye and Scotch Brand), twine (Timeless Twine) stitching templates (American Crafts), and wiggle eyes.

   This was the first time in quite a few projects that I did hand stitching on a layout. I am loving my new vision as you probably will be able to tell with my upcoming projects. There will be more hand stitching. 

    Here are just some close ups of the clusters.