Lucky Girl Crafts August Kit

I'm so excited that my first kit is up at Lucky Girl Crafts.  I can't wait to share some projects with y'all from it - but I'm on vacation and until I get home and actually work with all I can share is what is in it!  Check out all the stunning details here.

Two oldies but goodies

Practical Scrappers is celebrating our 2nd Anniversary.  In honor of that I asked each designer to pick their two favorite projects that they have made for Practical Scrappers. Kerri counted up that she had 147 projects to choose from, I'm sure mine is that or higher so  I decided to go way way way back to projects from the first few months of Practical Scrappers.  Although my style has evolved some since I made these, I still think they are fun!  It's kinda fun to see how much my style has changed since 2009 :)  I hope you'll join in on some of the fun this week!

I Love You Because...

 I saw an idea for something similar to this on Pinterest and wanted to make it my own using some scrappy supplies.  I'm all about finding ways to build up my kids and make sure I'm telling them about the ways I love them. 

 I put the paper inside, but made a line on it so that I can write on the outside of the frame with a dry erase marker.  My plan is to erase it every few days and change it to say something new.  

Another pinterest inspiration...using pinholes to add some design to something.  I traced a big heart on the back of the paper and then poked holes randomly all over the outside of the heart.  I didn't fill in where I put the words because I thought it looked cool to just have it on the outside :)  Next up, a second one for Lucy...maybe with different colored letters so it's not exactly the same :).

Supplies Used:

Pebbles Felt Heart Embellie

American Crafts Thickers

LePlume Black Pen

White Cardstock

U R Tweet Momenta Card

It's my day up at Momenta!  I made a card using the Emily's Garden line.  This is my favorite of all their lines, I love the jewel tones combined with the bright colors.  I also love the doodling style that the line is drawn in.   Erin, Kerri, and I are doing regularly challenges together on Practical Scrappers where we use something unexpected (items you might find at a dollar store) on a project.  Tomorrow all three of our popsicle stick project there - you're getting the early preview of mine :).  Here's what I learned from doing this, it is very easy to stamp on popsicle sticks!

Supplies Used:

Emily's Garden Album Kit

Emily's Garden Paper Kit PK 2045

Non Momenta Items:

Bakers Twine from The Twinery

Sentiment Stamp from Close to My Heart

Happy Birthday Card

This card features the deal of the month for July from Creative Charms and is full of lots of great summer products.  Today I'm showing you some of the orange flowers from it.  They coordinate beautifully with the products I used from Pebbles and Fancy Pants.  Best of all it's an amazing deal at just $6.99.  I am loving the color combination of the orange, turquoise, and beige - so summery and fun!  The frame from Fancy Pants is actually a transparency - you can't tell in the photo but it adds so fun to it!
Supplies Used:  Pebbles felt hearts, Creative Charms Flowers, Fancy Pants Transparency Frame, CTMH stamp, Robin's Nest Dew Drops

One Layer card

A nice, simple one layer card utilizing all Close to My Heart stamps and ink.  Love the rainbow with the black ink combination.

Tried paper weaving on a card awhile back and decided to try it on a layout in a grander scale.  I did a tutorial for Momenta on how to make the paper weaving a little easier...you can find that here.  Most of the supplies in this come from the One Fine Day line...I must love that one because I am using it a lot!  This is the first time I created a polaroid style frame, very easy and adds a fun touch to a layout!

Bakers Twine Card

This week the Cards Gallery Challenge was to use Bakers Twine.  Since I pretty much use it on everything, this wasn't too bad for me.  I've been secretly hoping Paige would choose this for awhile now :).  I am so into rainbows and wanted to try making a rainbow with bows...after playing for awhile I decided a CAS approach would work best.  I used my little butterfly punch to add an extra kick.

In honor of being named a Lucky Girl Crafts Team Member

I thought it would be a good time to rerun some of my projects that I made from their kits.  But first a little info:  Lucky Girl Crafts is owned by Jessica, a designer also on Practical Scrappers who's been with me since day one.  One reason she started Lucky Girl Crafts is because she lives far away from a local scrapbook store (sounds familiar huh!).  She was finding that getting her hands on great scrapbooking products and combinations that she liked to work with was a challenge and knew her area friends felt the same way.  So she started putting together these great kits and has taken off with them!  She does a great job of providing a variety of products from different companies and in a range of styles.  Her kits don't confine you to a specific style but open up several different ways you can go with the kit.  

All of these projects are over 6 months old...I have never brought back anything before, it's kinda fun to see how I've grown some!

This is actually one of my all time favorite layouts - totally (at the time) out of my normal style...it awakened something in my creativity that needed to be brought out!

Hee hee look at all that snow :)

 This kit was awesome because it included both cutesy papers as you see here and some shabby chic style papers that you saw earlier.  It also included a lot of great romantic trims.  And no I didn't cover up this poor girls head with trim, it's just the angle :)

This is an old one that I did over a year ago...thought it'd be fun to show how my style has changed a bit.

It's my turn up on Creative Charms blog.  I really wanted to do a layout this time and I had this idea in my head - I was really pleased with how it came together.  Believe it or not it didn't take a crazy amount of time - I got it done during Cooper's two quick naps today!  

Creative Charms has such great variety available for color choices in all sorts of embellishments.  For my project today I set out to showcase that variety.  Rainbows are all over the place in papercrafting now, so of course I wanted to get in on the action!   I created my rainbow using all old scraps of paper.  I pulled out three or four of each color and just started tearing and placing them where I wanted them.  After I placed my picture and title down I pulled out my pile of Creative Charms goodies.  I started by picking one bigger flower in each color and putting those down on the rainbow.  I then added gradient gems in various sizes.  I love the variety of dimension all the fun Creative Charms goodies added.  This was also a great way to use up some of those packs of flowers that I had just one or two left of!  I have to mention that I used my last yellow Groovy Petal - originally looking at those I wasn't sure how much I would use them.  But they match so many manufacturer papers out there and it has a unique look it's been the easiest to use and become a favorite of mine!  I've actually just used them recently on a Nikki Sivils project and an Authentique project.

I love this picture of Lucy - it shows off her pretty dark eyes and one of her more serious looks.  

Supplies Used:

Braided Daisy Flowers

Groovy Petals

Gradient Gems Stickers

Pure Blossoms

Vintage Jewels

Countryside Mini Kit

Authentique Blissful Card

I'm completely in love with this new line from Authentique!  I love the combination of the grays, browns, blacks, yellows, and a splash of red...very out of my normal color loves :).  I've been itching to try making a super dimensional paper bow and this is what I came up with for the Practical Scrapper Challenge today.

This months specials at Creative Charms

Creative Charms has all kinds of fun kits and deals this month.  Here's some info on a few of them, but they also have the Simplicity line on sale!  This weekend they have a fabulous giveaway - head on over and check it out!

This kit is perfect if you are working ahead on your Christmas projects or if you are working on stuff for magazine publications...you know the papercrafting publishing world...it's always 6 months ahead :)

Winter Chipboard Stickers - 6 Pieces

Christmas Vintage Metal Frames - 6 Pieces

White 3D Sparkly Garden Butterfly - 12 Pieces

Christmas Twinkle Stickers - 10 Pieces

Winter Seasonal Sparkles - 21 Pieces

Red & Green Vintage Jewels - 12 Pieces

Red & Green Gradient Gem Stickers - 76 Pieces

18" Red Wide Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

18" Green Wide Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

The 145 Pieces July Kit of the Month includes:

Everything for only $14.99

This 151 Piece Deal of the Month includes:

• Sunburst Daisy - 5 Pieces
• Yellow Braided Daisy Medley - 4 Pieces
• Amber & Green Gradient Gem Brads - 12 Pieces
• Orange 3D Sparkly Garden Butterfly - 12 Pieces
• Yellow Groovy Petal Medley - 8 Pieces
• Green Gradient Gem Stickers - 76 Pieces
• Summer Medley - 21 Pieces
• Palm Tree Brads - 12 Pieces
• 18" Green Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

All this for only $6.99!

This 96 Pieces Dream Garden Wedding Mini Kit includes:

• White Sparkled Butterfly Medley - 5 Pieces
• White Sparkled Flowers - 6 Pieces
• White Gradient Pearl Stickers - 76 Pieces
• White Vintage Pearl Brads - 9 Pieces

All this for only $6.99

Front Porch Kit Layout

This is the great kit I got to work with for a feature on Practical Scrappers.  I really enjoy this monthly feature and this month was no exception. I am always amazed how different each kit is...you can see how owners really put their own spin on things.

 I used some of the fabric to create rolled flowers (first time ever!)  I also used some of the yarn to create the smaller flowers that mimic the rolled ones.  This paper from My Minds Eye and Crate Paper is gorgeous and I had to find a way to use as much of it as possible :)  I really really love My Minds Eye Stella and Rose line.  I haven't always been a huge My Minds Eye fan, but their stuff lately has really been appealing to me!

If you know me, you know I don't do a ton of altered projects stuff.  But this idea was too cute to resist.  This family tree wall hanging was based on a project from their cd-rom.  The corrugated cardboard actually came from the box they sent the kit in.  The tree die-cut is a special feature in this kit as well.

 Some more of that paper...I fussy cut it to show off the flowers from it.  I love this picture of me and Cooper, I know I am totally cut off, but I love that you can see in my face how much I love that little guy.

I used some more of the fabric to create the yellow flower.  The blue flower is from their build a flower template...I bent it a little too much.  

This layout showcases all that texture...mesh, blue netting trim, flowers, buttons...As you can see I barely used patterned paper!  I always think it's cool when texture provides the depth for a layout.

Would you like to get your hands on a Front Porch Kit?

Practical Scrappers is doing a giveaway...click here to check it out.

  

Cards Magazine Bling Challenge

I decided to bling up a flower and went crazy with my Creative Charms Gradient Gems.  Here's what I have figured out about bling clusters...you have to have multiple sizes or else it looks to rigid.  This is such a Clean and Simple card for me, but couldn't go too crazy with that much bling!

Faith Layout

In religion class this year Timmy wrote a prayer.  I have been looking for the right opportunity to scrap that.  This Faith "Bingo card" provided the perfect jumping off point.  I did my journaling with some tiny Cosmo Cricket letter stickers...it took a lot but there was plenty in the pack!  I'm finding I'm using a lot of ivory in my layouts right now...very new for me!

Supplies Used:  My Minds Eye Patterned Paper, Jenni Bowlin banner stickers, Cosmo Cricket Letters, Jenni Bowlin bingo card, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Lucy's Birthday Party

Another day up on the Momenta blog for me and today I am sharing a multi-photo layout with you featuring lots of bright and cheery Momenta products.  I created this layout based on a sketch from Pagemaps.  I have never used this color combination before, but will definitely come back to it, I'm loving that green, pink, and red combination!  Don't you just love it when you can get more than one picture on a layout and not have it be a jumbled mess!  Have you had a chance to check 0ut the Momenta blog yet?  It's full of great designers and we'd love to have you as a follower!

Supplies Used:

ST2066 Wonderland  Puffy Stickers

PK 2370 One Fine Day Super Paper Pad

PK2369 Kaleidoscope Kit

ST 2037 Puffy Letter Stickers

PK 2337 Family Forever Album Kit

ST 4200 Glitter Treatment Family Forever Word Stickers

ST 4079 Glitter Treament Family Forever Border Stickers

 Bella Blvd Patterned Paper, The Twinery Bakers Twine, Fiskars Border Punch

Masking Tape on Cards? Yup I went there!

Last month I did coffee filters on a card to complete a project for Practical Scrappers new frugal finds feature.  This month it is all about tape.  I know you could run into all kinds of archival issues with tape and I don't have any spray to help with that, so I stuck with cards.  I came up with three using masking tape and one using electrical tape...if not for time I probably could have come up with more, I had a lot of ideas!

For this one I wrangled and twisted long pieces of masking tape and made them into little rosettes.  I think this one is my favorite!

For this one I attached electrical tape in stripes and then, you guessed it, did some embedded embossing.

Here I folded over pieces of masking tape and then curled the strips under and started layering them to make a big fluffy flower.  She topped it off with a big button and another masking tape rosette.

For my last one, I started with a circle and then starting from the outside pleated the masking tape along the edges, finishing one whole rotation before moving inwards.  It was a little tricky and definitely sticky, but in the end came out pretty cool.  

My Premiere Layout at Momenta

Although you have seen other stuff I have made with Momenta, this was actually the first thing I did with their stuff.  I've just been saving it :)  When I saw this darling paper from the One Fine Day line, I knew exactly what I wanted to use it for!  As a mom, first smile pictures are some of the most important pictures around and definitely need some fabulous paper to commit them to.   I fussy cut some clouds to add some extra dimension and had some fun overlapping banners and offsetting the frames.  The original paper only had one monkey in a hot air balloon and I added the smaller two using stickers and die cuts.  I absolutely love the foil stickers on this.  They have the crimpled look that we are seeing a lot of now, but kicked up a notch with foil!  I don't know if you can see it or not, but his onesie even says "Son of a Scrapbooker"

Momenta Supplies Used:

PK-2370 One Fine Day 12 X 12 Page Kit

PA-2330 One Fine Day Super Paper Pad

ST-2042 Crimped Red Alphabet

Clean & Simple Patriotic Card

It seems like everywhere you look in the scrapbooking industry (esp online) you see the CAS initials...CAS means Clean and Simple and it has exploded in popularity.  Inspired by all the simplicity I decided to pull out our June Deal of the Month from Creative Charms and try my hand at at CAS card.  Isn't it amazing how sometimes doing less can be harder!?!  Seriously...it was hard to just stop and let it be.  Here's the card I came up with today:



All the blingy goodness you find on this card is in the June Deal of the Month.  The little butterflies are created using pieces of the vintage jewels.  Just because it's Clean and Simple doesn't mean it can't contain unique embellishing or bright colors!  I enjoyed this venture into trying out a different style and I hope you did too!

Dad Layout

I created this layout for  the Momenta blog as part of a Father's Day Challenge.  Such a special picture of Ben and teeny tiny Cooper.

Momenta Supplies Used:
PK 2337 Family Forever Album Kit
ST 4200 Glitter Treatment Family Forever Word Stickers
ST 4079 Glitter Treament Family Forever Border Stickers
PK 2361 Kaleidoscope Paper Pad
PK 2110 Summer Page Kit
ST 2037 Puffy Letter Stickers