1st "REAL" Haircut - layout

Yeah! I got a 2-page layout done yesterday and I was able to use one of my stashed away kits from The Scraproom. I haven't done a 2-page layout in quite awhile, so this was lots of fun. I tried taking a picture of the first page several times and it just doesn't want to come out nice. We are having another cold and gloomy day here, so the light coming in my window is pretty sad!

I picked up some lace card stock the other day and I am hoping to get to play with it later this afternoon.

It sure feels great to be creative! I hope that you are finding some time each day to be creative, too!

official - layout - Practical Scrappers weekly challenge

I am so excited to get this layout done today! I stumbled upon the blog, Practical Scrappers, a couple of weeks ago and it's been so crazy around here.....I seem to be lucky to get the weekly challenges done before the weeks over! Not this time. The new challenge was posted last night, a day early, and it was top-priority scrapping for me today!
The challenge this week is to use lace card stock. I can't believe this, but I don't have any! Not the super, detailed kind anyway. But, I did have this sheet from Making Memories and I'm hoping that it counts as lace card stock. It does remind me of eyelet fabric. You can see the dark blue card stock peeking through the lace-like flowers in the light blue card stock. Oh, and I blurred out our last name....that's what that icky white spot is, if you're wondering....... ;-)
I actually started working on this layout last night, when I was trying to get to sleep. lol Once I get an idea in my head for a layout, it can be hard for me to finally go to sleep because I want to get up and start working on it. lol So, last night when I was in bed, I thought of the idea of making something like fabric quilt binding, but out of paper and putting that around the edge of the circle of card stock that I cut the lace paper into. So, that's what I did. I cut strips of 3/4-inch paper and adhered them together, crumbled that up in my hands real well, and then folded it in half. This idea used a ton of adhesive! I ran it across the front and back edge of the circle before putting the folded binding on. I didn't want it to come undone! Then, I added faux scallops around the edges, using 3 different patterns of paper cut with my small circle punch (and lots more adhesive! lol).
I made the flower by cutting 4 circles of patterned paper and then I took some very rough sand paper and really rubbed like crazy around the edges to wear the paper down and even tear it a bit. I stacked them up ontop of each other and there you have it, a distressed flower! Then I added one little, light blue rhinestone, just because..... ;-)

I had so much fun using that lacy card stock, I think I just might go by my local scrapping store and pick up a few more sheets! I can't wait to see what everyone else does with their lace card stock!

sweet - layout

Here's one for the challenge at Practical Scrappers (my new & most favorite scrapping blog around!). If you have a stash, and even if you don't, Practical Scrappers is the place to be! The challenges are awesome and really get you using up the things that you already have. I need all the help that I can with this, because I'm ashamed to admit that I have quite the scrapping stash! This one was to use your decorative edge scissors. When I first say that challenge, I thought, oh boy....I have a TON of those darn scissors and I don't ever use them. Ever! I remember when they were the hottest scrapping tool around and you just had to have every one, or you weren't a cool scrapper! Well, I'm not so cool now. I have a bucket full of them and what are they doing? Nothing. Sitting in my cabinet. They do looking kinda pretty though, don't they? But, looking pretty isn't functional and I believe that at $5+ a pop, that's a lot of money to be just sitting there in a bucket looking pretty in my cabinet! lol
So here's what I came up with, using some of my deco scissors. Four different designs actually! Pretty good for one layout and considering that I have about 20 more in that darn bucket waiting to be used! I used one design on both edges of the blue paper and then rubbed the edges with light brown ink.

Now, for the flower, I know that I saw this idea somewhere while I was surfing around and I'm pretty sure that it was while looking through all of the other entries for using deco scissors for the Practical Scrappers challenge. So, whoever thought of this idea, THANK YOU! Because I love it! lol First, I cut out 4 circles, large to small. I used 3 different designs of scissors around the edges of the circles. I then used a small wooden skewer to help me roll up the edges around the circles. I smashed down the edges on the circles, rubbed some light brown ink on the edges and then stacked them up to make my flower. After adhering the flower together, I added a small circle that I had glued some seed beads onto. Top it off with a little piece of folded ribbon and that's it!
Now off to hopefully work on another page. And, to use some more of my deco scissors!

Winter Prison Blues - digi layout

Here is a fun one in honor of my good friend, Ellen. We always whine and cry when it starts getting cold out and we have to start wearing real shoes. We are both flip-flop girls and start wearing them as soon as our little toes can each spring and then as long as we can after the winds start coming from the north and it gets too cold. She sent me a picture of her feet the other day and wrote "shoe prison" and I laughed about it all day. I felt the same way when I finally had to wiggle my little piggies into my shoes the other day. So, we are both singing the Winter Prison Blues. Shoe Prison that is for our poor feet! lol

Here's what the journaling says:

Well, I finally had to do it. Today I had to put my feet in shoe prison. It has decided to get cold early this year. It’s only the beginning of October, but we have already had some very cold nights and very chilly days. So, into shoe prison my feet went. No more flip-flops. No more bare footin’ around. It’s shoe prison until spring time. Oh, that seems so far away! It looks like until the breeze comes back from the south and the robins start to chirp, my poor feet will be singing the Winter Prison Blues..........

{ornery) -scrapbooking layout

Here's a fun one that I did over the weekend. This is one of the great things about the Library of Memories System by Stacy Julian. As I was sorting through years and years of photos one day, I kept running across photos of my daughter with silly smiles and grins on her face. So, I started stacking them up and before I knew it, I had a great layout in the making! As you can see from the picture below of the large picture in the layout.......the title fits this one perfectly! How ornery of a face is that? lol

ick - scrapbooking layout - Practical Scrappers weekly challenge

Here's another layout for a challenge at Practical Scrappers! I am really loving this blog! The challenge was to use a die-cut on a layout. I don't have a lot of die-cuts in my stash, because I just never really used them that much. But, as soon as I saw this challenge, I remembered that I had a couple of turkey die-cuts. That made me think of a picture of my daughter on Thanksgiving Day one year and I knew that I had to go with these for this challenge.


The first thing that I did was to color the turkey die-cut with chalks. You can see a a plain turkey and the chalked one side-by-side here to see the difference. One turkey is lighter brown card stock, but you can see how much a little chalk can pep up a plain die-cut! I dug into my stash and found some Autumn colored papers and then went to work! I really love how this one turned out and it sure was fun to do this challenge and use up an old die-cut that I've had waiting in my stash for probably over 10 years!

2nd Lost Tooth - layout - Practical Scrappers weekly challenge

I am so excited to have found a great blog called, Practical Scrappers! They focus on using what you have and that's something that I really need to do. I have more than plenty scrapping supplies and now I really need to focus on using them up, not going out and buying more to add to my stash. They have awesome challenges and I am always up for a challenge! This one is for their challenge to use a transparency. I was thrilled to see this, because I bought a stack of transparencies several years ago at a yard sale and I haven't used a single one!

The page is covered by one transparency. Then, I used my Big Shot and a flower die by Spellbinders and I cut flowers out from white and pink card stock. I embossed these using the Spellbinders dies. Then I cut out the same size of flowers from a transparency sheet. I ran those flowers through a Cuttlebug embossing folder. After that, I took some pink acrylic paint and smeared it over one side of the transparency flowers. I also painted one side of the plastic frame, because it was clear and wasn't showing up well, but now that it's painted it shows up great and highlights the tooth in my daughters hand.
I decided to layer things differently, too. I put the pink flowers underneath the big transparency and then placed the white and painted transparency flowers on top of the big transparency. As well as buttons on each flower. I also placed the arrow and plastic frame on top.
I had lots of fun doing this layout and I can't wait to see what other challenges Practical Scrappers has in store!