Sun Fun

Just a simple but cheery layout with some fun accents, I couldn't believe how well the polka dot cardstock matched up with Miss Lucy's swimsuit!

Chipboard Project

This week's challenge at Practical scrappers is to use chipboard. I decided to stamp on raw chipboard to see how it would turn out. I am pleased with the result and it was way easier than painting or covering it with paper! The only tricky thing is to find something that the raw chipboard color will work with (layout wise).

Ding Dong

A layout about our annual traidition of the Easter Bunny ringing the doorbell to bring the kids their Easter baskets. I created the flowers and made a video on how to do it that you can find on Practical Scrappers.

WaHo

I made this layout to tell about Lucy's love of Snow White. The journaling is all about her favorite moments in the movie and her reaction to them.

Her Stars

I love how this page turned out! It looks simple - but the stars and starbursts are stickers and doodles - so that makes it a little more complicated. I saw something similar done on the show "Scrapbook Memories" and liked how it looked. So I decided to give it my own spin :).

Disneyland Layouts

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I've done so many Disney themed layouts that my creativity is tapped out on those! So for this round I decided to go a slightly different route. I was very pleased with how both of these came together!

2017

My husband looks at my layouts when I get done and I knew I had nailed it because he laughed out loud. I saw a layout with similar journaling in Simple Scrapbooks and knew I wanted to replicate it to tell my own story.

Mixed Reaction

Being forced to use a product (Glitz Design rub-on) helped me a lot on this layout. I had no idea what I was going to do I just knew I needed to use the rub-on. Somehow I decided these pictures would work well and it just flowed from there. I love the striking color variations! I've been needing to get rolling (as I said in my last post) - Glitz got me going - 4 layouts done in a couple hours the other night. It felt awesome!

Tennessee Football

This is another layout I made for Courtney's scrapbook. Couldn't help but throw all those orange patterned papers in to match her outfit! I haven't been doing a lot of scrapping lately - pregnancy has zapped all my energy! I am hoping to get back in the groove soon!

The winner of my blog hop stickles is Penny Light - Penny please e-mail me at practicalscrappers@gmail.com
Thanks to all who took the time to stop by!

Practical Scrappers Blog Hop

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog for the Practical Scrappers blog hop! For my Love project I decided to do a layout of my parents. Yes I went a little crazy with the flowers - but I did so with reason. I put 32 flowers on to represent the 32 years they've been married! To make my circle - I used a chipboard circle from CTMH and attached lace cardstock behind it. I then trimmed off the excess.

This is the second stop on the blog hop - if you have just started here you should head back to Practical Scrappers to enter for their prize too!

The prize I am giving away is a 3 pack of stickles! I chose that because stickles are pretty much my favorite product right now! To enter to win - become a follower and leave a comment on this post. I can only ship within the United States. Thanks so much for stopping by!!!!

The next stop on the blog hop is Kerri's blog - Have fun!

Layouts I made for my future sister in-law

I made my future sis-in-law, Courtney, an album for Christmas. These are a few of my favorite pages.

Practical Scrappers Glitter Challenge

This was my entry this week for Practical Scrappers - it wasn't hard to accomplish a layout with glitter or bling on it - it was more a matter of choosing which one to submit since I had done a lot recently with bling. I chose this one because I thought the way I used the glitter was unique. I used a Crafter's workshop to make the heart border. Stickles worked perfectly to fill in the little holes!

Nativity Glass Block

I made the nativity scene from the Paper Dolls Cartridge, the star is from the Joys of the Season Cartrdige and the font is Plantin. I ran all of them thru my Xyron and they attached easily to the glass. The star was placed inside the block for a different effect. I also got some fake snow and put a little in at the bottom of the block (it looks like I put a lot in at the angle of the pic but it's actually just a little). I tried twinkle lights - but they just didn't work for what I was going for -but I've seen them look just beautiful in other glass blocks.

Christmas Paper Wreath

I've been wanting to make a wreath like this for awhile - my 5 year old son and I tackled it on Thanksgiving. I purchased a styrofoam wreath (mine is about 18 inches). I then cut about 15 sheets of patterned paper into 1 X 5 inch strips - you get about 14 from a sheet. Mine are not even all Christmas papers - just some greens and reds that worked well mixed in. Don't go too crazy trying to match perfectly - trust me mine don't and they still blend together well! My son stapled the ends together to make a loop. Then I hot glued them onto the wreath working around one row at a time. In all it took about 2 hours!

Christmas Tree Card

More stickles - yup I'm totally addicted!

Deck the Halls

Another workshop card - I love the Stickles on this one and I really love the bow stamp for the ornmanets - a very delicate addition!

O Holy Night

A simple Christmas card we made at my card workshop. We used stickles on the star - I love stickles!

Christmas in July

Another layout using items from The Robin's Nest - I love their glittery products! The journaling stamp is from Close to My Heart - I'm lovin that set for a quick but nice looking journaling area!

Joy

This layout employs my technique - start it - get frustrated - walk away (in this case for days) - come back and finish and be quite satisfied :). I loved getting to use "dew drops" on the tree and love how they turned out for the garland! The paper and dew drops came from The Robins Nest. The frame is Close to My Heart. Their dimensional elements are rapidly becoming a "must have" on most of my layouts!