Scraproom Tour!

I love, love, love my current scrapbook room. I am blessed to have a dedicated space (except for some other home office type uses) that I can use for my creative endeavors. I don’t know about you, but I really enjoy seeing other’s creative spaces, because it inspires me!

I learn a lot from seeing how other crafters organize, display, and of course create on a budget! So, since I have watched like a million craft room tours, I am super excited to share mine with you. I hope it inspires you as I have been inspired.

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Here is the video! 

Scraproom Tour Video on YouTube

(I’m working on embedding, I’ll update it as soon as possible)

A Chilly Easter

It was a cold and snowy night…

Just kidding.  Ha. 

But it was Easter, and it was freezing.  Life winter coats and see-your-breath freezing.

So this presented me with a dilemma.  Bright red coat dominating Easter photos.  What’s a scrapper to do??

Create an Easter page with Christmas flowers, of course.

Since the photos were fighting back with any traditional Easter themed products, I dug deep in my stash and found some Christmas papers (The Paper Studio) that had colors that worked with my photos but weren’t too holiday looking.  Proving, of course, that there is an answer to every scrapbook challenge. 

I decided on the white background, then used gesso and a stripe stencil to add some texture and a graphic element to the page.

While the result isn’t overly Easter-y, it does work for the photos and I’m happy with the final result.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Bless This Mess (Cute)

Oh that face!  There;s something about that expression on his face that just has me…  all wrapped up.  I couldn’t NOT go girly with this page.  It just didn’t fit that sweet face to pair it with all rough and tumble papers.

So, Maggie Holmes for the win!  I did, however, keep to more masculine colors, and anchoring the page with that buffalo check really helps.

I derived partial inspiration from Shimelle’s Layer On Layer class.  There’s a video where she shows taking a sticker book and just layering things up, one on top of the other.  I did this with the Maggie Holmes sticker book- almost everything here that isn’t paper of enamel accents is from that book.

I actually started this layout with a full circle of enamel accent dots, and then most of them got covered up.  That’s just how it seems to go sometimes!  Because of that, though, I ended up adding a few more as embellishment at the end.

Thanks for taking a peek!

24 Yards

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You know how sometimes you start something, convinced it’s a really good thing… then 3245 hours later, you’re wondering why on earth you ever decided to do that thing? 

Me either.  Ahem. 

Except, there was this once when I ordered 24 yards of amazing fabric to make drapes for 3 very large windows.  Thankfully, I finished them, and when we moved a year later, they worked in the new house too.

I scraplifted myself for this layout.  The original, From 4 to 5, is from all the way back to 2010, and featured Cosmo Cricket.  Sadly, Cosmo is no more, but the style of this layout is still perfect.

The new version tells the story of those 24 yards of fabric.  Ironically, I used supplies from BasicGrey, another company that is no more.  I mourn. 

The collection is called Clippings, and I used the chipboard, the 4x6 journaling stack, and the 12x12 sticker sheet to create this layout.  Oh, and that red polka dot?  Totally a My Mind’s Eye Christmas paper!  You never know what might come in handy!

Mist spatters are Heidi Swap Color Shine, the numbers are BasicGrey’s Milk & Honey Collection, and the Thickers are Rockabye Foam in blue (my fave font ever!).

We Live In a City

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We recently moved across country and we’re adjusting to living in the city again.  So, when we were visiting the Alamo and a squirrel willingly came within a few feet of my daughter’s stroller, it reminded me again that we’re city folk again. 

She loved it, and I got this cool photo!  I used the Maggie Holmes Open Book Collection for several of the papers, and then turned to my currently most-used stash of Elle’s Studio Labels and amazingly versatile alphapbets (I need them ALL!) for the finishing touches.

I started with a few layered banner pieces matted my photo, and then of course fussy cut pieces.  I jazzed up the background a bit with a bit of mist in my current favorite mist, Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Tea.


Thanks for coming by!

Let’s Just Play All Day

So back in April 2016 (which just happens to be where I am currently scrapbooking. Ahem.), we were in the middle of a major home renovation.  There was dust, and dumpsters, and wallpaper to strip (it had GOLFERS on it!).  There was also shopping!

This layout uses mostly the 6x6 paper pad from Echo Park, called Happy Camper.  I passed over the line when it first came out, but when I found the 6x6 locally a few months later, I decided I NEEDED it.

And apparently I did, as I have used it a ton since then.

The photo is of my 3 checking out the tractors in Lowes, while we shopped for light fixtures.  They were bored, other than this 5 minute interlude.  Still need to write in my journaling though!

I mixed in some October Afternoon Farm Girl ephemera and some random bits I had out, as this layout was made while we were in temporary housing and I was limited to 2 Iris cases and a box.  It’s amazing what you can do with a little, right?

See ya soon!

Boys Will Climb

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Hey!  Welcome back.  Thanks for stopping over to take a peek. 

I’m a mom of 4, 2 of them boys, and I can tell you for sure that my boys have been climbers.  Like, climb the library shelves to the ceiling climbers (true story).

So…

The fact that my boys love climbing walls should be no surprise.  Ha.  This layout is documenting my son’s recent climb.  Thankfully, this one involved a helmet..

I used a couple of practically ancient American Crafts papers for the background.  Then I made “bricks” with my distress oxides, a stencil, and some water.  I LOVE Oxides and all the fun affects you can create.  Next time I do this technique, I’ll whip up a quick tutorial for ya!

There’s another theme to this layout… ancient supplies.  There are some leaves from Prima Marketing, some clock rub-ons from Maya Road, and some stickers from 7gypsies (remember them?!).  I love using up old stuff to make room for the new!

Thanks for coming by!

Happy Birthday!

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Anyone else buy something because you love it… then realize that you have nothing else in your stash that coordinated with it?  Yeah.  Me neither.  HA.

Except, of course for these journaling cards from Studio Calico.

It’s possible, you know… in theory… that I’ve had these for about 5 years and never used them.  So I decided it was way.past.time.  So I picked another oldie (remember Double Dot from BoBunny??) as a background and layered on the cards for the majority of my patterns.

I also use some October Afternoon punch-out tabs from October Afternoon, and some woodgrain alphas from Studio Calico.

My biggest challenge with this page was the complete lack of coordinating embellishments.  So, I ended up cutting out some bits from the cards themselves, like the bottlecap style images and layering them up.  Sometimes you just gotta work with what you’ve got! 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Heeyy!! I’m Back.

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I have missed this blog!!  There’s a reason I’ve been gone, but it’s boring (moved across country, no space, things packed, new business, etc.).  Instead of boring you with the why, let’s just get to the fun stuff.  I’m creating again!

This is a layout I made recently to try to document the special bond between my girls.  They are 11 years apart, and they love each other to pieces.  In fact, I think the little would be quite fine without me as long as her sister was there for her.

The papers in this layout are from Jen Hadfield’s collection called Everyday. (for sale now at Scrapbook.com).  I adore the bright colors and fresh patterns in this collection!  I fussy cut a bunch of lemons and layered them along the horizon line.  I don’t think I’ve use lemons before so this was kinda fun!



On the white cardstock, I covered it with gesso, then some Distress Oxides in Fossilized Amber and Bundled Sage.  I smudged the inks on with my distress tool… but it didn’t quite turn out the way I was hoping… so yeah.  I need to work on that some more. 



The other bits on the page came from here and there… mostly really old stuff!  I love getting some of the oldies out and used up.

Thanks for taking a peek!  See you soon.