Lucky Charm

Super excited to have been assigned the Lucky Charm line from Dear Lizzy for my April design team projects at the Scrapbooking Studio.  It had me scrapbooking like crazy.  I finished almost all my design team projects within a week of picking it up. Love that!!!

Also, did you know Elizabeth Kartchner now has a scrapbooking only blog, called Lizzy's Paper Party?  Lots more Lucky Charm ideas there.

An old, new friend

 

Recently one of my friends who had moved away about 10 years ago moved back!  I've had a lot of friends move away over the years and am excited to have one actually come back. I also love doing "then and now" layouts and posed us in similar positions for our "now" snapshot (it's all about the scrapbook page right?). 

 

You may notice that I'm doing more 8.5x11 pages. Since I like to use single pictures or smaller pictures, I'm finding I like this size better.  Don't be afraid to mix up the size of your scrapbook pages. It can really kick your creativity in to gear to use a different format now and then.

 

As with my other recent posts, paper and die cuts are from my LSS, The Scrapbooking Studio, and include My Mind's Eye Collectible (really loved all the springy colors) and letter stickers are from Oct. Afternoon (brown), Jillibean Soup, and Studio Calico (grey).

 

There is no someday . . .

I am a huge quote person and periodically scrapbook quotes and display them to remind me of the sentiment. You'll see more quotes in future posts (stay tuned for a very sparkly one).

This quote is a reminder not to put anything off until "someday".  I was inspired to scrap it from the days of the week rectangle.  In my stash, I was psyched to find an oldie, but goodie Heidi Swapp "Today" stamp. The little letter stickers fit perfectly in and around the stamp. 

Paper and days of week are from the My Mind's Eye Collectible line, and letter stickers are from Jillibean Soup and Oct. Afternoon.  All to be had at The Scrapbooking Studio.  I have to note one awesome feature of this paper line is that the paper was really thick and the pattern was deeply embedded into the paper. So I was able to move things around a lot without tearing the paper (something I am terrible about doing).

Sew cute!

 

More goodness from My Mind's Eye line from my design team projects this month at The Scrapbooking Studio.

 

This is a little pincushion I made, which was inspired by all the cute stick pins that come with this line.  I had seen a pumpkin done this way in a magazine and decided to try it for the classic tomato style of a pincushion.  I cut the paper into half inch strips and curled them slightly, folded them flat in the middle to form the base and then stuck them together until I felt like I had enough.  The top I cut freehand using a real pincushion as a guide.

 

Then I used the wooden buttons that came with this line to form a spool and rolled up paper to stick between the buttons as "thread". 

 

 

 

This card could be used for a birthday or congratulations. To make the butterfly, I used the negative portion of one of the butterfly stickers. (I kept using butterflies on everything so I had to improvise.) I cut it out roughly, stuck it to the cardstock and then cut around it with detailed scissors.

One Winter Day

It's snowing and blustery outside today, so it seems appropriate to post my little Winter mini book.  This is a record of a day back in February when I went on a "Winter Discovery Day" program.  Basically it was a day to appreciate the beauty of winter.  I had fun taking a bunch of snapshots of random things as I hadn't done that in a while.

My book was made from cutting apart the little 3x4 journaling cards from My Mind's Eye Collectable line.  Most of the embellishments are from that line as well (except for a few things from my stash). Letter stickers are from October Afternoon (brown) and Studio Calico (grey).  I also used a fantastic product from Stampendeous, called Mica Fragments.  Perfect for a snowy effect!  All products (and tons and tons of other new stuff) can be found at The Scrapbooking Studio.

 

 

 

 

Thirtysomething

Being in my 30s has never bothered me.  But I can tell you that when 40 comes, it will be challenging. Not necessarily because it's "old", but more so because I feel like I don't really have my life all figured out yet. And it feels like I'm starting to run out of time to start new things.

Anyway, this layout celebrates being 37 and looking great and not being 40 just yet! 

The paper is from Simple Stories (which I always LOVE) and also uses a My Mind's Eye name tag die cut. Something that's hard to see is that wherever the paper looked as if it was layering things on top of one another, I actually cut along these lines and arranged the paper so it was actually overlapping.  I liked that little extra bit of dimension it created. 

If you want to make your own custom calendar page, the Scrapbooking Studio has a great selection of these blank calendar pages with coordinating month and day sticker sheet.  Perfect for making calendars for holiday gift giving.

Indie Chic card

The name of this line is called "Indie Chic" (from My Mind's Eye) and I used the "waste strip" at the bottom of the page for the below card. I layered strips of paper and a border sticker on the card and then trimmed out the center of a journaling for the "frame". I also used the part of the large journaling card that got cut off when I adhered it to the Daisy kitty layout shown in a previous post.