RandomScraps

First grade

Here's another layout to share from the awesome scraplift challenges at Scrapperie earlier this year. There are so many things I love about using bright colors and fun papers! Sierra is especially good for this, because she is quite the little fashionista. Coupled with me working at The Children's Place, this kid has an awesome wardrobe! I have to say, it comes in super handy for first day of school pictures and matching scrap products. So, yes, she was homeschooled this year, but we do co-op and that is her 'school' in the sense that we picked a first day outfit and did the standard back-to-school supplies shopping trip for her classes, so that's where this comes from this year.

Big bonus- my ScrapRoom kit included this awesome Crate Paper bliss line that perfectly matched the feel of the lift layout and the colors of her outfit, and I just LOVE Crate Paper anyway. So here ya go, some inspiration for today!

First Day of First Grade

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Crate Paper; Journaling Tag & Butterfly Diecuts: Crate Paper; Mist scree: Maya Road; Mist: Maya Road; Jewels: Basic Grey (swirl) and KaiserCraft (singles); Alphas: American Crafts (Thickers) and Making Memories (tiny alphas); Ribbon: Unkown.

Busy, busy, and a sketch challenge!

Busy busy here this last week, with one kiddo down with the chicken pox. Luckily it was a pretty mild case, but we're still waiting to see if the others are gonna get it. The weather here has been absolutely gorgeous, so being cooped up hasn't been so much fun, but we spent most of the weekend in the back yard. Grandma Mary was here for the weekend too, spoiling the kids like crazy and helping Mark & I get some projects done. We built a new chicken coop to add the new set of chicks we got, recovered the kitchen chairs (badly needed), and restuffed the couch pillows. Yay for progress!

Anyway, this week's sketch at Scrapperie was so much fun to work with. I took these pics of Venice at the park the other day (and it was a nice warm day, but we have sooo much wind here that winter hats are still a must!) and I was happy I got a chance to scrap them. Venice is totally in love with the swings!

Swing Swing

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: Bella Boulevard; Thickers: American Crafts; Flowers: Fancy Pants (Crocheted), K & Co (Stitched Paper); Ink: Ranger; Jeweled Butterflies: Unknown.

If you want to work with this fabulous sketch by Amy Teets, please post it here at Scrapperie!

Happy Monday everyone!

 

Loves of my Life

Here's another one of my pages for the Scrapperie scraplift challenges. This one came from February. I had a lot of fun crushing up the background heart and sanding the creases. 

Tomorrow my baby girl turns 2, so tonight we're doing a birthday party with our friends and Sierra's friends are spending the night. We didn't get to celebrate her birthday in December since we were in Arizona, so this is to make up for that. Happy weekend everyone!

Loves of My Life

Supplies: Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye; Canvas Flowers: Shabby Green Door by Daisy Bucket; Thickers: American Crafts; Jeweled centers: Prima.

Monkeybar Superstar

Jana gave us another fabulous sketch this week for Scrapperie's sketch challenge. I couldn't resist using these pics I got of Sierra doing the monkeybars at the park this summer. This girl is so strong, it's crazy! I couldn't belive she made it all the way across.

Monkeybar Superstar

Supplies: Patterned Paper- Fancy Pants (clouds), My Little Shoebox (green circle, orange); Alphas- Doodlebug (brown), Making Memories (blue); Die Cut- My Little Shoebox; Flowers & Flower Border- Creative Imaginations; Buttons- Basic Grey; Brads- Making Memories.

The Girl Behind The Camera

There is a challenge going on right now at ScrapRoom to use the oldest kit you have. I found this one from August 07 that I still had every piece of! Not the most specatacular layout, but I really challenged myself to use only the kit and nothing else. The only thing I added was the alpha stickers! Enjoy!

The Girl Behind The Camera   

Supplies: Patterned Paper- Fancy Pants; Alphas- American Crafts (black), Making Memories (red); Rubons- Fancy Pants; Rain dots- Cloud 9; Ribbon- ?;

So Grown Up

Bo Bunny is doing a sketch challenge on their blog right now, so I decided to join in. I have a few of their lines sitting here that I've been meaning to use. For this one I used Alissa, which was my favorite release from last CHA.

So Grown Up

Supplies: Patterned Paper- Bo Bunny; Cardstock- Bazzill; Alphas- American Crafts; Ribbon- Queen & Co; Paint- Making Memories; Punch- Fiskars; Buttons- ?

Authentic

I posted awhile back that there was going to be a free photo editing class at JessicaSprague.com, and it started on Monday. The first few lessons were about layering PNG files and using brushes on your photos, so I was inspired to play around with some. For this one, I used a square PNG frame and the 'authentic' brush on the photo before I sent it out for printing. Then I used a sketch from a challenge at Scrapperie and my new July ScrapRoom kit.

Authentic
Supplies: Patterned Paper- Bo Bunny; Cardstock Stickers- Bo Bunny; Journaling Card- Fancy Pants; Ink- Colorbox; Digital Frame- House of 3; Authentic brush- Sande Kreiger;

Frontier Days

The Scrap Room is doing a LOAD (layout a day) challenge, which I love because it makes you actually think about creating something every day, and sometimes it forces you to just glue it down already. I have these pics of Sierra from Frontier Days at school, and the colors were making it pretty hard to work with. On top of that, portraits are so much harder to scrap than everyday pics. So this time I used a May PageMaps sketch and just got it done. It's not my favorite, but it's another picture scrapped (and another sheet of cardstock used! I have WAY too much cardstock that I hardly use, but more on that another time).

Frontier Days 2009
Supplies: Cardstock- Bazzill; Patterned Paper- We R Memory Keepers; Ribbon-Offray; Alphas- Making Memories; Flower- Prima; Jewels- Prima;

Laugh

This week, I got my fabulous June kit, Salon de The, in the mail from Scrapperie. LOVE this kit! I also got our pictures from Snapfish & saw this challenge on the PageMaps blog right at the same time! I love it when that happens.

Laugh
Supplies- Cardstock- Basic Grey*; Patterned Paper- My Mind's Eye*; Alphas- American Crafts; Die Cut- My Mind's Eye*; Ribbon- American Crafts; Jewels- Prima (swirls), Me & My Big Ideas (singles);

(*- from Scrapperie June kit)

Hybrid- Miss Attitude

I did this one for the scraplift challenge over at Scrapperie this week. The inspiration layout was amazing, and I didn't stick with it as much as I originally hoped to so I may still do it again, but this also happens to be my very first hybrid layout ever. The whole center block was printed straight from Photoshop with the photo, title, journaling and swirl brush image onto AC cardstock. It gave the photo a really cool texture. I added two blocks of patterned paper and a flower accent I made from the same paper & a jewel center. Super easy!

Miss Attitude
Supplies: Cardstock- American Crafts; Patterned Paper- Kaisercraft (background, dotted stripes), My Mind's Eye (bright green, dark purple); Jewel- Me and My Big Ideas; Ink-Ranger; Font- GeosansLight (text), Bleeding Cowboys (title); Digital brush- Tia Bennett;