Monday, March 1, 2010

freebies!!!!


Look what Jill over at scrap-pit developed and is giving away free over at her blog!!! They are awesome! She made some back a month ago to that I am going to go find and put up for everyone to use!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Let It Snow

This layout was done following Liz Qualman's sketch from Sunday February 21st. I absolutely fell in love with this sketch when I saw it and thought of something whimsical.
The pictures are from our recent snowstorm last week, when we got between 26-30 inches of snow. I loved how my camera, for some weird reason, turned the pictures of the pine trees blue. And the other picture is of our two dogs Max and Ghost Boy, outside.
The paper if from Moxxie, and this is part of the kit for April for my Scrapbooking club.
This snowflake was made using Bazzill chipboard shapes. then I painted it white and when that dried I applied glossy accents and poured some micro beads on top for a crystallized look. I love the way it turned out.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Forever

This is a picture from the summer of 1999, of me and my husband at the first tractor show he attended, we look so young here.
The paper and embellishments came from the main kit from My Creative Scrapbooks, February reveal. I also added the pink Thickers and the Pink Pearls from Prima's E line.
The Sketch is number 116 from Pencil Lines.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ball Time

This is my youngest son, he loves to play with this sensory ball, at this point he was just feeling it and rolling it on the ground, now he kicks it and throws it, boy do I wish I could go back in time!
I used Cosmo Cricket's Jack's World, for this layout with the paper, ribbon, rub-ons (on buttons) and chipboard. I also used the Little Yellow Bicycle line of journaling tags, which are so cool.
If you look at the red and blue ball I did something different with it. On the red I mixed red paint and red glitter together (a lot of glitter) and it gave it a rough texture with some sparkle. Then for the blue i again mixed paint and glitter but not a lot and then covered it with glossy elements to give it a shinny finish.
This layout was based off of layout 1.21 from Sketchy Thursday.
I hope you enjoyed looking!

Monday, February 22, 2010

Love You

This is a picture of my husband and I back in 2000, when we were in college, on a mini vacation to Lake George. It seems like it was so long ago. I again used the Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook's February bundle. I also used sketch 110 from Pencil Lines.
To complete the layout I used my cricut for the flourish and the scalloped circle and I did some hand stitching on the side, with a simple x pattern. I also used some Stampin Up embellishments.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Page Pebble Tutorial

Page Pebble Tutorial:
Page pebbles are a decorative accent that many people use on their pages and can give you layout a little more dimension. However companies like Prima Marketing that make these can charge upwards of $6.00 for 6 of these pebbles, which can get very expensive, so using some info that I have found on the web I have developed a tutorial on how to make these, so you will not break you bank to use them on our page.

First gather the following supplies:
  • Paper, stickers, or small thumbnail size pictures
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Glossy Accents
  • Pebbles (the ones you can find in a bag at the dollar store to decorate with, just make sure the have a flat back, not the marbles)
Pick your size of pebble that you would like to use and trace it onto your paper or image.

Cut out our image, it helps if it is a little smaller then what you traced. This will allow there not to be an paper showing when you mount it onto our layout.
Apply a small drop of the glossy accents to our paper.

Then push it down onto our image, making sure their are no air bubbles. (These two smaller images were stickers, from the February Kit from Addicting Paper)
Theses are the finished pebbles. The two large ones and the longer one were done with regular patterned paper, and the one of the accorn and owl were stickers.
I incorporated the page pebbles into this layout. Of my children and their grandmother.
This layout uses a larger page pebble in which I used a thumbnail size picture of a tractor similar to ours that my son is riding on.

Friday, February 19, 2010

I Love Pancakes


My oldest son lucas loves chocolate chip pancakes, sometimes I swear he could eat 20 of them. These are just some pictures of him when he was eating them, becasue he was being so silly.
I used Cosmo Cricket's Jack's World for this Layout, including the ribbon, paper, cardstock stickers, rub-ons, and chipboard. I also used some Scrappers Floss, miscellaneous journaling tags, and my favorite things......Thickers.
The sketch is 2.11 from Sketchy Thursday.