Another page created without a photo

And since I plan on doing this for awhile

I shall not bore you with that title anymore.

Anyhoo, in stalking the u-tube - one of my favorites

is Ashli (Soaphousemama) so 

this is a sortof loose lift.

 Watercolors went on first - shocking I know.

Then whacked up some scraps again.

(I think I'll be giving Tori a run for her money over

at Scrap your Scraps LOL)

So I tossed on some do-dads and then went

on a hunt for a photo and found

one of these two cuties - Sam & Lou.
I used punches to make circles, cliche I know,
but it totally fits.

Love how it turned out.
And it turns out to be fun!

Again, Studio Calico, and some other unknown do-dads.

Creating a page without a photo

I have been a little bored with my scrappy pages lately,

so I've been doing some skulking on u-tube and

I decided to go back to making a scrappy page without a photo in mind.

 Love how it turned out. 

Just plucking scraps out of the box and some

do-dads and wa-la.

 Since this was so much fun.

I did it again and tomorrow's page turned out to be

a lot of fun too.
Using some stamps for background and to make
my own embellies, as well as a couple touches of washi tape
here and there.

 This is my favorite eldest son with a plane bigger

than he is. And today he still takes to the skies

with those glider thingies and is an adreneline junkie.
 Not something a mom needs to dwell on.

Studio Calico and some unknown stuff

because I destroyed the package.

Fun birthday page

Using ledger paper from Studio Calico.

I love ledger paper.

Did some background stamping using a block

dot stamp and TH distress inks - spiced marmalade

and peeled paint. 

 Also used stars stamp from a SC pack with black ink

and I don't remember the MFG on the birthday candles and "presents".

There's some old Basic Grey in there too.

Owen turned  9 - this past September.

That went really fast and it wouldn't hurt my feelings

if all the grands slowed this down a bit.

Using up Pink Fresh

I pretty much used up all the Pink Fresh

from the mfg box I purchased a couple years ago.

Love that.

 Got some layers going on and used some

Heidishine all about

 Little layering clusters..

 And the kidlets jumping.

Such excitement going on.

Love how it turned out - 

Pink Fresh, Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp gold mist.

Birthday card for a friend

It was fun to do and easy.

Watercolors, stamps and buttons.

My friend loved it.

Studio Calico, Buttons Galore.

Another Mini Album

It appears when the mojo hits the road that

doing a project such as a mini album

helps getting back on track.

Sort of.

I picked this mini up at Michael's for $2.50 😊

I know RIGHT.

 It is a gardening album, but, in my humble opinion, it doesn't need
to be totally about flowers, plants, etc.

It's gonna be a gift for someone at sometime so shhhh!!!

 I did add some of my own die cuts and

used cardstock for mats for consistency throughout.

 The mat sizes are 3.5x4.5 and 2.5x3.5

shaking it up a bit with two on a page - but can also

be used for one big photo

if so desired.

 Everything is adhered in such a way that a photo

can be slid under.

 Two tags just hanging out and why not.

I really miss this style.

Used to be my go to until I had boy grandkids.

Styles do change.

 The seed packets can be used for extra photos

or journaling on the back since it's plain white.

Those little charms came with the kit.

Don't they make you swoon.

Recollections.

Pink Polka Dotted Paper

 Say that 3 times fast LOL!!

Anyhoo, managed to work in my homemade tag

with the pineapple and flamingo.

I neeeeed to make more.

 Splattered some mists about and using tiny

wooden and enamel stars, dots

and just for fun threw in some nuvo dots.

Amelia being goofy - love it!!

She's growing so fast. 

Momma captioned this photo that Amelia

wants to donate her locks.

She does have gorgeous long hair.

We'll see how that goes.

Love the transparency letters for a title.

Not as hard to see in real life.

And a doodled border.

Studio Calico, Studio G Stamps

Rustic mini album

I believe I mentioned that I had a bunch

of these sunflowers Holli stamped for me and

that you'd see more of it!!!

 I wanted to make a mini album as a gift for my pal Tobie

who is my boxbuddy for workouts.

And pulling all my papers out I didnt' really have a "theme"

going on. Not that a theme is necessary

it just helps when putting things together.

 In the process of trying to pull out papers and figuring things out,

I decided that in using the sunflower it really

wouldn't go with anything I had, but, I really wanted to use it

and then a lightbulb went off -

 Why did I have to cover up this chipboard with paper.

Hmmmm????

 A challenge!!!

 I did find some "rustic" cards, tried my hand at a "shaker"

we'll see how well that works LOL.

 Employed a bunch of stamps (fussy cutting), punches and buttons galore.

I really love how it turned out.

All the photo mats are 3.5x4.5 so if my pal uses

3x4 photos there's plenty of room even when I put 

embellishments near the mats.

Studio Calico stamps, various punches, Hero Art stamps, buttons

galore and cardstock.

Apple pickin' time

Love this photo and decided to go old school for this page.

There are times when you just gotta!

 I didn't want typical fall colors - mostly because I

didn't have any in my stash.

 Therefore, keying of the kidlets clothes found

a sort of autumn match.

 Love how it turned out.

Studio Calico

Finding forgotten kid art

Favorite youngest son came home for a few

days this past week and it was sooooo

good to see him.

He had previously dropped a ton of stuff he had

at the house since he became a truck driver

and had nowhere else to put his possesions. So when

he was home we went went through stuff in order to clean

up the spare room.

Well.

 During the clean up we came across this gem that

was in my mom's stuff as we were putting things up-

(he had one of her scrapbooks and we were putting it in one

of mom's many trunks for safekeeping).

Anyhow.

 Shane brought to my attention to this card he made for

his memaw and of course she kept it laying in plain sight

in her trunk. (I need to get in those trunks more)!

 I really didn't want to put the journaling on the actual card

but I couldn't figure out where to put it but

I think it worked out.

Shane would draw things anytime, any place, anywhere

and some of his drawings were kept.

In my journaling, since I didn't really know, I think memaw

at the time was scrapping and gave Shane something to do so.

He loved cars as all boys do, drew the car, fussy cut it out

and placed in on a map and gave it to

Memaw as a card.

If you look close the map is Hawaii. 

LOL.

Love it!

Of course it needed to be scrapped and the story told.

I just wish he had time to keep on drawing.

Studio Calico.

Halloween cards

And for once I'm ahead of the game.

GO ME!

Anyhoo, instead of making the cards exactly the same this year

I used the tons of stuff leftover from prior years;

 a mix of Echo Park and K&Company stickers

and cut aparts.
I'm hoping that I can do that for future cards as well.

I also tried to keep in mind that the age range of grands

is from 3-15 so I'm trying to make

cards age appropriate-sort of LOL!

Now to remember to mail these badboys out in time!

Rearranging things - last photo

 This photo was in the master bath and was replaced by the Crater Lake
that finally printed correctly.

 As a matter of fact, this is one of my all time fav pix that came out just right

so I wanted to keep things to a minimum.

I adore that moose.

Thankfully, Holli made a bunch for me LOL!

Put Yellowstone on your bucket list
(put all the national parks on your list actually).

It was fun replacing the old pix with the new.

I also replaced (while I was getting carried away) the pix of

the grandkids that are on the shelf above my scrappy desk.

Recollections, M's alpha stamp, punch

and masking tape and some netting underneath.

Rearranging things - Another purple photo

Another 8x10 backed on by 8.5x11 kraft paper

that replaced a lighthouse hanging in our kitchen

and yes, another printed purple picture

that I couldn't toss.

 I had a lot of space in this photo and some

stuff that wasn't necessary so I covered it up with a tag

that holds some journaling.

You might remember this photo from our trip

this year and its also in my road trip album.

 Found some oversized title too

and why not.

Also those cute little whale stamps (gifted from Holli)

and seriously when and I'm gonna ever gonna use a whale stamp.

Studio Calico.

Rearranging things & Scrapping with Holli

We both were on a total roll scrapping and sometimes

it's fun with a friend and she has a terrific room

with lots of stuff.

Anyway, this photo was replaced by a deer photo

that is now hanging in our bathroom.

 Holli stamped a few of these sunflowers for me and

I found that they are perfect for this page.

I brought my buttons galore and dumped them in the

middle of the sunflower and used

some watercolors to give it a bit more umph.

These wild horses are from Assateague and

are so beautiful in real life I would recommend putting Assateague
on your bucket list - but keep an eye on prevailing winds.
You do not want west winds blowing - they bring in the biting flies and
the horses tend to not be as available as
they are when the winds are perfect.
 I also decided that

I wanted to do another 8x10 on 12x12 as it
allows for more dodads that don't overwhelm the photo.

Rearranging things - New Printer photo

So from the previous post it was determined that

my purple printing photo printer needed to be retired, 

this photo is the first photo from the new printer.

Much to my dismay it had lines down the photo from the rollers.

 Not what you want to happen with a brand new printer.

So after trouble shooting that, there was a fix under utilities

to  click on paper abrasion and shazam.

I printed a new one that is now hanging in our bathroom.

 Aren't those geckos a hoot.

Again, I couldn't bear to toss it out and decided that it

should be scrapped too and there you have it.

The lines are right under the end of the word beautiful running vertical

down to the mountains.

Studio Calcio, Recollections alphas, and Holli's punch and washi.