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.

If you enjoy the video, I’d love for you to subscribe to my channel, and pin the graphic above so others can find it too! Thanks!

Here is the video! 

Scraproom Tour Video on YouTube

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

Lego Festival

There are a few things in life that are very easy choices.  Having coffee every morning, for example.  Also, when the local mall puts on a free Lego Festival, you go!  Especially if you have Lego lovers in your home.  And I do!  As a mom of 4, I’ve been a member of the Lego injury-in-the-dark club for at least 8 years.  Ha!

Seriously, though, this festival was pretty cool.  Amazing life-sized Lego creations that took thousands of legos to build (and must have weighed a ton)!  We took a couple of trips there during the month-long event, and I use a few of my favorite photos on this layout.

I started with the idea of bold colors to accommodate the colors of my photos, and chose the background paper from Echo Park and the flowers from some ancient Jenni Bowlin that has been in my scrap drawer forever.  Some leftover arrows from a recent Silhouette cut brought everything together.  I like that it’s an unexpected combo.

I used some white acrylic paint on the background to highlight and soften, and a few droplets of mist just for fun. 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Smiles, and Lots of Them!

Ok, so… I’m apparently a negligent blogger.  I’ve been creating, but we added a new baby to the family, renovated a house top to bottom, and moved twice all in the last 18 months.  Somehow, the blogging never fit into this crazy year!  Imagine that!

So now I have 4 kids, a house that is 95% finished but needs constant cleaning (refer back to the 4 kids), and a tiny scrapbook nook that is fully functioning.  No more excuses!  I am stretching my blogging legs as we speak. 

This layout is one that I created for my albums a few months ago.  I mostly scrap in chronological order, and I’m about 18 months behind, so I’m reliving 2015 with each layout. I started this one with some white cardstock and mist, then dug into my scrap drawer for some bits to form the two columns along the edges. 

This photo is of my kiddos and husband on a 3 wheel bike we rented for a Saturday outing in Sofia, Bulgaria (where we lived at the time).  We had done this before, and when it was time to move back to the USA, we let the kids each choose one final activity.  My oldest chose these bikes (and not to worry, the baby didn’t actually ride.  He only sat there while the bike was still.  I needed my photo op!)

The die cut doily is hard to see in photos, but I tried to highlight it with some Enamel Accents from Inkessentials.  These might be my favorite new things to add as a finishing touch to a page.  The flowers are from Echo Park and Crate Paper, and the bicycle is BasicGrey. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy the lovely weather and pop back in again soon! 

Alyssa

2 of the Good Guys

This photo was taken just weeks before Ezra was born.  It was right before I went from have 2 main guys to 3 (layout coming soon of my 3 guys). 

This layout is a scrap-drawer layout.   I love those!   However, that means I’m not exactly sure who made this paper or where it can from.  The gears I cut for another project using an ooolllddd Ranger stencil.  

This page started as something completely different and morphed until it was this.  I’m good with that.  I like the end result.  Hope it brings a little inspiration to your day!

~Alyssa~