Technique Tuesday

Our latest Magical Memories Design Team assignment was to use one sheet of Technique Tuesday FUNdamentals. It's like chipboard, but "foam-ier" or something. I've been a fan of TT for a long time, and have used the FUNdamentals a couple of times, but mostly I've collected it. So armed with one sheet from FUNdamentals of Snow, and two new stamp sets from Jan, I had two ideas to start.

I wanted to use the biggest circle, with the fancy outer edge, for something different. All the examples using this made it to be a sun. I wanted something a little "classy" so I used it for this picture of Dave and I on our wedding day. I really wanted to see how embossing would work on these tiles, so I painted it black and embossed it sliver after stamping it with a circular swirl stamp. I embossed the outside of the black sparkle paper as well, and tore and embossed the sides of the vellum quote that was the verse that was said in our wedding ceremony. I tried stamping a flower and adding it, but I just didn't like the color of the flower with the stark white of the outfits.






Next, I wanted to use a picture I have of Greg floating in a pool with the two inner squiggly circles. Long story short, I abandoned that after a few days. So I used the smaller circle one for this, Jessa's first day playing outside. I used my Doodlebug flocking for the snowflakes, then TT No Two Alike mini stamps for the silver snowflakes. The blue snowflake border is from the Nature stamp set. I used a wavy border at the bottom and cut the bottom of the paper off. Kinda looks like a snowbank. Kinda. :)





Lastly, I had grabbed the straight border and the stamps that Jan gave us the first night I got it home and made the flower border, not sure if I was going to use it. I grabbed a piece of Fancy Pants, a picture of Sarah in her Snow White dress, and some stickles and ribbon, and put it together. For a quote, I just stamped on a scallop TT tile, and wrote my most profound thoughts. :)




I hope you have enjoyed my Technique Tuesday Layouts, I had a lot of fun doing them, and I will be doing a lot more stamping and maybe even some more embossing! Happy Scrapping!

Something that is pink

Having two daughters, it's a good thing that I love pink! I've had this title in my head for a long time, so when Mixer #11 over at Mix It Up was to have pictures of only "things", no people or living things, as well as a 6 or more word title, it seemed perfect. Then American Crafts challenged to use at least 3 different fonts. PERFECT! (I used Giggles, Remarks, and some blingy Shoe Box) I took some pics of all the pink we have. (including my pink stroller, which I love) Then I realized that I wasn't going to make the Tuesday midnight deadline at MIU. SO I did the LO today and threw a picture of the girls on it! :) I might not be getting under the wire for the AC one either, but I love the LO, so that's really what it's all about! Of course, it's got all the things I love-pink, Thickers, a good title, and my beautiful babies.






Thanks for looking, check back on the weekend when I'll be showing you what distracted me from getting this Layout started until today. ;) I'd love to hear from you, so before you go, click the "comment" button.

A few of the kids

Just wanted to post some of my favorites of the kids, my daughters Sarah (the redhead) and Jessa (the baby). Some of these layouts were created for the Valentine's Day crop at LIITD.

Challenges and Mixers!

I have been trying to get Sarah's chronological albums caught up so I can START Jessa's. I have the pictures and paper and all that caught up until May of last year in Sarah's (when Jessa was born) but none of the journalling is done, even back to her birth album! So I have been plugging away at that, trying not to get mixed up with Jessa's. LOL I did get a few challenges done this weekend from LIITD, and this weeks Mixer at MIU. It's the first one I completed, even though I still have the very first mixer sitting here waiting for embroidery thread. Maybe I'll do that this afternoon.

Here is the Layout I did for Mix It Up. Melanie has created an amazing inspiring blog to get the creative juices flowing. There is a new Mixer every week, with a sketch you can use if you want, and beautiful examples from the Design Team. I used the sketch this week, and took inspiration from the colors and floral theme of the pattern that was the inpiration. I've been trying to get better at embellishing, and clustering. I really like the results I got here.





This is the Layout I did for the Monthly Prize Sketch over at my favorite scrap chat on the web! It was the first time I have shrunk (shrank? Shrinkded??) a sketch, so it was very interesting to do.



This Layout was for the Product Challenge at LIITD. Chelsea challenged us to use glitter on buttons. I thought this would be a great thing to get Sarah to help me with, the glitter on the buttons. It became apparent very quickly that it was going to be SARAH doing the whole thing! SO I made this one 6x12 too, and let her go at it. She wanted to "circle" the corners, so she had a lot of fun doing that.


That's it for now. I havet o get this back room cleaned up before I can do much more scrapping. Hopefully I can tackle that today, I have some pretty intense work ahead of me for the next Magical Memories Design Team project ;) I only have until next TUESDAY to get this TECHNIQUE down. ;) ;)

Hello scrappers!

Hi! I am starting this blog because I want a little place on the web to call home for my layouts! I hope to have fun with it and share my work with others. Not because it's particularily incredible, but I like it. And that's the beauty of the web!

I'm not particularily GOOD at computer stuff, so I am hoping to get better over time. I really want one of those cool personalized headers, but I'm not sure how to make one? Can anybody help me?

I'm going to start off with a few layouts of myself. I took a lot of pictures of myself in my second pregancy, because I wish I had more in my first. Most of these layouts are from then. :)


Happy Scrapping :)
Shanna