White Plus One

Good Morning bloggers! 

I just wanted to pop in and share another quick layout I made on National Scrapbook Day. I managed to get 3 done all together on Saturday, which wasn't too bad considering I actually had to do other grown up stuff too! lol

I made this using the sketch over at Studio Calico, and the challenge at Scrapbook Nerd (White Plus One)

I've tried a couple times to get a decent picture of this, but this is as good as it gets! 

Well, Linden just woke up, so I'm off!

Blessings

Why Fit In?

Good Afternoon my crafty peeps! We're home today having a pajama craft/game day today because we're all a bit under the weather. I can definitely tell you I am ready for spring!! I think I might protest for sure if we get any more snow!

This weekend the wonderful ladies over at Scrapbook Nerd are hosting a Dr Seuss inspired crop! Did you know that if he was still alive he would have celebrated his 110th birthday this month!! That was why we decided to crop in honor of this fabulous author!

I made this layout last night to play along with Michelle's challenge to use all or part of this quote on your layout or card: 

"Why Fit in When You Were Born to Stand Out?" -Dr. Seuss

I thought this quote would be perfect to document my funky new haircut!

I used my fabulous Daylight Savings Scrapbook and Mixed Media Kits from Paper Bakery for this layout. I'm totally loving the Amy Tangerine Plus One collection, so I had to use the Thickers to go with the patterned paper (even though they weren't in the kit!)

I was inspired by the March Sketch from Life.Paper.Scrapbook.

               The small grey alphabets are from the February Umbrella Rain Scrapbook Kit, and the white paint splatter is from the February Umbrella Rain Mixed Media Kit. I LOOOVE how that paint splatters!! It's amazing stuff!!

I had some extra mist left over after misting the piece of canvas that came in the Daylight Savings kit, so I sprayed a shipping tag  with water and then sopped up the Dylusions mist with it. After I dried it, I used the "art is in me" exclusive stamp from Paper Bakery and some grey ink and randomly stamped it all over. ***TIP*** When I'm doing something like that and I want it to look really random, I never put my stamp on a block. This way I can kind of bend it and shape it when I'm putting it on my surface and it doesn't come out looking like a square design on my stamp. 

When I misted the canvas I made sure I got it nice and wet first and that way I can get a more even look because the Dylusions mist reacts with water so it wicks out and blends. I sooooo love these mists! 

There's still lots of time to play along with us at Scrapbook Nerd!! You will have until next Friday to link up your challenge entries to be eligible to win some shop credit!! Who doesn't want to win a gift certificate to buy scrappy stuff?! I know I do!! 

Well, I'm off to clean my house (somebody has to do it!) I'm hoping to get some more challenges in tonight, so stay tuned and I'll post them here!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Be Blessed!

The More That You Read, The More Things You Will Know ...

It's started everyone!!!! I can't wait to get my crop on this weekend with the wonderful gals over at Scrapbook Nerd!! I'm so excited about this crop because it's themed after one of my absolute favourite authors: Dr. Seuss!! I LOVE his books and so do my boys! 

That's what my challenge for the crop is based on...reading...we love to read in our house and I am big on sharing our love of reading early early early in our boys lives! My challenge to you is to scrap about your favourite book, your kids favourite books, pictures of you reading, or your kids reading! 

This is the layout I made about Caleb "reading" (he can't read yet) to Linden. 

I decided to play along with Elle's Studio for this layout too and I used their fabulous sketch!

I really hope you join us this weekend for our Dr. Seuss crop!! It's going to be so much fun, with prizes to be won and inspiration by the tonne!! (Did you see what I did there?! With the Seussical rhyme?! hehe)

Pop over to Scrapbook Nerd now and if you haven't already, register in the forum to see the rest of the Nerd's challenges and play along!

Can't wait to see you there!!

Blessings

Cropping with the Nerds!!

Good Afternoon my crafty peeps! I really hope you're playing along with us at Scrapbook Nerd this weekend for our online crop!! I was up until 2:30 am scrapping away last night! I got three layouts done though! (One I can't show you yet though!)

This first one was inspired by Joy's WInter Games challenge to make a layout about our families favourite winter games. Sledding is definitely our favourite!

And I made this layout based on my "Olympic Stash Raid" game: you guessed it, use up that stash! I have to admit I was quite impressed with my stash usage on this layout! I used old Prima and Basic Grey papers, some tags that I won and I can't even remember what brand they are, old MME alphabet, banner and die cut, and I dug into my button stash and used some of those too! The only things on here that I bought in 2013 are the camera veneer, the stamp and washi tape! 

These pictures were actually taken last night! Chris thought he'd try out Ritz crackers with Nutella...it was delicious, but then it just got silly! It started because he put a cracker covered in Nutella on Ethan's face, then it just snowballed from there! We had quite a fun and messy time! lol I just new I had to scrap them! I have to say though it was really hard to put my own pic on there, because I reaaallly don't like it, but I want to make sure that down the road my kids remember me in the fun too! So, I sucked it up and put it in there! I almost thought I might have to do a 2 pager to get all of these on here, but I squeezed em into one! Phewf!! It's been so long since I made a double page layout that I honestly don't know how it would go!! lol

I do hope you come and play with us! We're having a lot of fun over there!! You have some time to finish the projects too!

Blessings