Always Curious

This is my last layout of the strawberry picking photos. I think it's one of my favorite pictures of that day! Elizabeth always wants to explore and see everything around her. One reason I love this photo is how clearly it shows the height differences of my daughter and her friend. Her mom and I were college roommates and best friends. There's quite a bit of height difference between the two of us. We find it funny to see the same friendship blossoming between our daughters with that same height difference.

This was one of the first 6x6 challenges I set for myself. It started with the purple and white striped paper you see in the layer stack. It's a Dear Lizzie paper from 5th and Frolic. However, I couldn't find another sheet with purple to combine it with! Super frustrating. Going through my other stacks, I came across Studio Calico's Lemon Lush line. It has that same purple on some papers including an orange with white, purple, yellow, and blue flowers. That was the color inspiration for the entire page. I ended up using that as my photo mat. You can see a bit of the pattern in the tab by the title too. I used six sheets plus the cut apart for a total of seven papers used on this layout. The background 12x12 sheet is from Crate Paper's Storyteller line called Tomorrow.

Out In the Fresh Air

Here's the second page from the strawberry picking trip. This was my second page Studio Calico South of Market 6x6 paper pad. My 12x12 base is from Lily Bee Design Double Dutch Hopscotch. I used five new sheets of paper, two off cuts from yesterday's layout, and more of the cut apart sheet. That's eight different sheets! I included stickers from October Afternoon's label/word stickers from their Sidewalks and Fly a Kite collections. Oddly, I pulled the Farmhouse label stickers and then never used them. I couldn't seem to get them to work well.

With this page and yesterday's page, I cut one of the 6x6 pages in half and used it like a strip across my pages.  That gave me a good spot to start building my layers. Because I wanted to use as many sheets of 6x6 paper as possible, I decided to go for lots of layers and keep the other embellishments minimal. 

Thanks for visiting! Come back tomorrow for the final layout from this trip. 

What A "Pear"!

Hello Scrapping Mommies!

It's a chilly day in NC. We got snow Friday night and yesterday! It's quite lovely to look at though all the teachers are discussing the possibility of school tomorrow. Black ice seems to be a distinct possibility. It's a waiting game right now. 

Since it's no good to go outside, I've spent today scrapping inside. On Friday night when the snow started, I got a wild hare to see about making some pages using as much as I could of a 6x6 pad of paper. I seem to have accumulated a lot of these pads! I believe I was a member of a kit club that included them each month. I don't tend to buy them myself. Of the over two dozen I have, I think I've purchased maybe five of them on purpose. It's time to get some good use out of them!  

The first layout I have for you today uses a base of My Mind's Eye Indie Chic Relax as my 12x12 base. All of the other papers you see come from Studio Calico South of Market collection. This farm fresh collection had bright reds and greens mixed with yellow, navy blue, and light blue. There were cows, fruit, and flower motifs as well as polka dots, print/text, and stitching throughout the designs. 

My layout is from a strawberry picking trip many years ago. I had the photos developed in "true digital" size so they're not quite 4x6. It made matting them with the 6x6 paper easy. I've come to really enjoy cutting up the cut apart sheets that have been shrunk down. They provide perfect sized accents! I added some miscellaneous wood veneers that I've collected and even added some bakers twine. I have a ton of that stuff! I just had to have every color. Now, it's time to get it used! 

I believe I used five sheets of 6x6 paper plus bits from the cut apart sheet for a total of six sheets! Stay tuned. I have two more pages from this trip including one that used more papers from this pad. 

Thanks for visiting!

Happy New Year! Planning and Scrapping to Start off 2017

Happy New Year, Scrapping Mommies!

Best laid plans and all that...The day after I returned home, I ended up with the flu.  Yeah...so much for my scrapping challenge.  Needless to say, my plans have been pushed back.  I did finally get my planner done for this week.  My printer has been giving me fits.  We switched to a new internet plan and had to change routers.  Ever since, my printer doesn't always communicate well with my laptop, phone, or iPad.  It's gotten to wear I will have to turn my phone off just to get it to see my printer!

Even with the flu though, I managed to get my planner stickers printed (finally) and cut.  They're even in my planner now!  I used these stickers from Ashley Lynn Impression on Etsy. I love her store and her new ECLP layout is amazing!

I joined Cathy Zielske's Fit class for 2017.  I'll be taking some pictures of that album soon.  Well, maybe just the pages.  I don't exactly have an album for it yet.  One of my 2017 goals is to walk an intentional mile each day.  I did that after the rain stopped yesterday.  Not my best idea with the flu, but I'm blaming the steroids. It's still damp and rainy today.  I may do my one mile walk at Target instead.

Other scrappy plans include finishing up JYC 2016 and PL 2016.  I need to print the remaining JYC pictures.  I think I've decided to forgo the remaining prompts for the most part and just get the last bits that I loved about this Christmas in my book.  I have printed all my PL 2016 pictures and even have them in their pockets.  I just need to add cards and journal.

I did get one layout done yesterday.  I had a photo that I printed for PL that I forgot was the wrong orientation.  The story behind it though was something I wanted to record so I used it for a traditional layout.  My daughter (as well as her parents) love the British sci-fi show Doctor Who.  They do a Christmas special. A few years ago, Santa himself was on the Christmas special.  My daughter started setting out a Jammy Dodger for the Doctor with Santa's cookie since they were such good friends.  She's been doing this each year now.  The first year she did it, Santa left behind a special gift from the Doctor - a fez, bow tie, and sonic screwdriver. I wanted to document her putting out the special treat this year.

Supplies used include Bo Bunny paper from their 2009 line Tis the Season, Stickles, and some random wood veneers, washi, 6x6 pads I had laying around.  I need to remember to use more Stickles.  They add a bit of sparkle and I have a huge color variety - more so than my rhinestones!