The 4th Scrapbook Challenge with my pal Brooke

 

It was a fun challenge, again. I find all challenges fun, more or less LOL.

Buttons, tags, stamps, ribbon and doilie and the sketch below.

She totally nailed it.

I think this one is a favorite.  

Love the photo of her son and hubby. 

My "doilie" was a cool thing I had from pink paislee.

Brooke sent Today at 9:29 AM

I love Thickers. The loves part of my title are foam thickers.

Brooke sent Today at 9:29 AM

My tag is the arrow patterned paper....cut it up and used it to layer

 

 

 

 My challenge from Brooke gave me a 2 spread - which I only did one

and thought what the heck - lets do a 2 page.

See that photo with my big mouth open - only a long lost

cousin I haven't seen in 40 years took it.

Love that nothing changed since we were kidlets.

 My challenge from Brooke was the sketch below and 

patterned paper only, 6 buttons, 6 eyelets, ACK!!! 3 stamps different mediums

WHICH IS TOTALLY OVERLOOKED THAT - SO FAIL!

and handmade flowers.

Also FAIL on eyelets - I had NOT A ONE - so I used whatever

brads I had remaining - which wasn't many.

I think I had 7 and they were all different - so I used them anyway

and they totally worked.

I was so worried about brad and eyelets forgot about stamps.

Sigh.

 

You will also see this page in my new 6x8 album that you can

read about here !! It turned out so pretty I think.

Can't go wrong with oxides and stamps.

 

Travelers Notebook as in the "pre-made" booklets.

I found a traveler's notebook - with faux leather cover 

and blank inserts and since I had nothing going on at the moment 

I decided to play around and decorate the covers. 

Front and Back - mostly the same. 

Using a stencil and stamps

 I also wanted the challenge of using this more or less 

as a diary and to not use dimension 

- or just a tiny bit.

  LOL! 

As if, however, I'm gonna roll with that - 

so the first page I decided to make a "filler" page to get things rolling, 

using a roller stamp 

I hadn't used it like forever, and that library card..... 

Swoon. 

Remember when they were really popular? I was all over them.

Except for the buttons, there is noooooo dimension going on.

However, there are still a bunch of pages that are

waiting to be made. 

I want to try and do better on the journaling instead of the

fluffy stuff I add now. 

I used to have a bit of "color" in my journaling and somehow

I got away from it soooo...maybe if I practice

where no one is looking......

 

Remember that adorable raccoon photo - it's scrapped.

 Love the Tim Holtz words and phrases.

They work perfect with this page.

 Got to use more of those precut die cuts and I love that.

Still sort of watching the dimension 

and I'm loving this new book I'm using.

Don't you love that die cut from a flash in the past

when we looked at those viewfinder thingies.

Actually it's the old campground book - 

that had really REALLY UGLY

pages that I ripped out to start anew.

Loving the new look in the book now.

That baby raccoon was so adorable.

Just sitting in the grass at sundown (I was there to

capture the sunset) when an eagle-eyed 

photographer saw him gazing from the grass.

Travelers Notebook - Heceta Lighthouse

Lighthouses just make me swoon.

They are just soooo cool looking, have "romantic" pasts

that involved a lot of work and sometime solitary existences for

the lightkeepers. So yeah my darling sweet hubby 

chases down lighthouses for me.

 I remembered I had some thread so I popped some

in along with some frayed "cloth" for

some dimension and texture.

Some Tim Holtz paper.

Breaking out my MS alpha punch again.

Love that font.

Mixed Media - Make a wish

This page with the black lines was done for the Monkey Man page.

The monkey was going to dangle on the page

and well it looked..stupid.

I abandoned this page until I came upon this photo

of my brother's birthday party rolling around in my embellishment bin.

 I am also using stash from my embellishment/die cut extravaganza and

these primary colored flowers are perfect for the photo.

The photo was actually printed on regular paper because I had

visions of using it in a junk journal. 

Since I'm not doing well with the junk journal thing it was perfect

for this page. 

Sadly, all I know in this photo is my brother (with the black 

suspender look) and I'm the cranky looking one

jealous of the attention he's getting. LOL.

Evidently I'm in trouble because everyone's looking my way.

Love the buttons galore tossed about. I happen to have

a jar in just primary colors.

Shazam.

Love the sequins and those itty bitty red bits. 

Adding a bit of color.

And no page is complete without some Tim Holtz words

topping it off. 

Mixed Media - Monkey Man

If you been following, and I hope you have,

I posted yesterday all my homemade embellishments here

and I have made a page using one of the monkeys.

The monkeys are big and adorable and I love the googly eyes.

 In the background, I used smoke grey ink on

the Tim Holtz stencil "coffee stains"

with some red raspberry ink since the page
turned out to be almost monochromatic - but I wanted
to use red because of the heart in the quote
and it needs the red ink to tie it all together..

I tossed some buttons "galore" around

which have those itty bitty little fun pieces are well as sequins.

I was inspired by these two itty bitty photos

of Shane at 3 months that was rattling around in my
embellishment bin.

I've scrapped this photo before because it's really

a cute story about my baby having so much fun getting

his photo taken in Walmarts and laughing so loud 

everyone in the store came to see the fun he was having.

However, his nickname was monkeyman because he used

to curl his toes like monkeys do. LOL.

And here come more buttons

So it looks like I'm obsessing between and buttons

and doilies. Aren't you guys lucky LOL.

Anyway on a couple of the buttons are these

transparent sorta stickers.

Makes you look a bit more into the page so see what's what.

 Love that perfect flair pin, and did the same

with those stickers on the buttons on the bottom half.

 Doodled about the page and needed to have

washi tape over the diagonal line.
I seem to need to have something over a line like that.

I put the photo on an angle which sounds better than crooked

mostly because I was in that kind of mood.

I've wanted to use the title word "this" for along time and

finally, one more word left in that pack to go.

It's kind of simple and just realized that I didn't splatter

anything. I may or may not add that.

Studio Calico - candyland kit.

Buttons galore and it won't be the last LOL

So instead of rolling with tags, I've changed to buttons.

Fair exchange.

Don't you find in your creative process that

one item just keeps on giving.

 So the heart and arrow are there because

the blue strip just stops and it made me crazy.

Short trip.

 Who doesn't love a kitty peeking out of a file folder.

I need to cut more folders.

LOL.

Or not, don't want to get obessed with them.
These are their school photos - my kidlets never had
really good photos - you can tell dad is a photographer.
They have those poses nailed.

I have wanted to use 1st and 3rd title ever since

I did their back to school page and

didn't use it. 

I thought of it after everything was nailed down.

That ever happen to you?

Studio Calico.

Using paper scraps whacked

So I've done this before and didn't want to do the same

thing again, NOTHING wrong with doing

the same thing again.

I do a number of things on my pages over and over.

So...I embraced my inner Lisa Fonseco. If you haven't

checked out her u-tube channel sashsay on over.

She has the most adorable, hand done pages.

It's fun to watch them take shape.

So...

 Needing to use up the 999 straws that I have 

I tossed in a "stem and leaves" and

voila a really dynamite challenge done with slim to no

artistic talent.

 Of course I have a ton of buttons that need to be used and

you'll be totally seeing them again mostly

in the same colors because I seem to rolling with

similar colors too.

So how adorable is that.

Seriously.

It's too cute and I love that its BIG.

I don't usually do BIG that often but I'm gonna

figure out some more slim to none

artistic stuff.

Notice the "tag" tucked in the back.

Sigh.
 As I've been rolling with the tags.
LOL!

The other "bloom" on the page is Miss Amelia

who rocks playground.

Studio Calico.

Birthday card for a friend

It was fun to do and easy.

Watercolors, stamps and buttons.

My friend loved it.

Studio Calico, Buttons Galore.

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.

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.

Everyday Adventure

Love this paper with the star cutouts, so I decided

to roll with gold stars.

I especially love the Buttons galore, they come

with those neat sequins and itty bitty red things.

So cool.

 Oh after I glued the sides of the stars back I stitched the stars down.

I even stitched around the page.

 I left the thread wild because its a wild page.

There is Spidey on the loose with his trusty scooter

on the streets of Brooklyn.

Does Sam not rock the look?

Very fun!

Studio Calico, Buttons Galore.

Redoing an ugly page

So prior to leaving on our 3 month vacation I did this page.

Not only did I do it ONCE,

I did it TWICE.

The same way, the same colors.

Who does that? LOL... Twice - shows I

totally needed a vacation,

And its beyond ugly.

 So, I shuffled it aside and knew that I'd redo it.

I really would've liked the same paper so we could

go for a third try but I wasn't quick enough

to snatch it up at Studio Calico.

So..

One of the first things I did after hurricane prep was

redo this page.

I liked the other stuff on the page so I basically

cut off the yellow checked paper

and glued the entire piece on this pink paper

that is actually more fitting because I think at one

time my gram actually had wallpaper like that.

Studio Calico, Tim Holtz, Buttons galore

Everyday photo

Using Studio Calico again and those adorable buttons galore.

And of course, the Heidi shine went berserk.

Sigh.

Used up a little piece of vellum with hearts too.

 AND bonus round, the square with "home" on it

 with its thick chipboard got on the page.

And that camera is sooooo adorable.

 So here's Sam either ready to leave

doesn't want to leave

or doesn't want someone to come in. 

LOL.

He's totally adorable in his winter coat and hat.

Tried something a bit different for me design wise.

I like it.
I tend to really overthink things.

Big Sigh over the splats when I first splattered

but they look quite good now.

Using diecuts for this page

I have an array of sissix and quickutz dies and

decided - why not. (also punches)

There are times - alot of times, actually, I can't find or don't

have in my possession the

premade embellishments that I want

or that go with the photo/page I'm creating so

I've been digging into my stash.

 The generic ones can be precut ahead of time and I do

have a box full of them.

Sometimes they work- sometimes they don't either. LOL.

So I do cut out white - they seem to work best and

then "jazzed" these up with some watercolors because

they appeared too "stark" for this page.

 And these buttons - are sooooo cool.

Love all the goodies you get in the jar.

These are from Buttons galore and this jar

comes with all these colors, the sequins and those

itty bitty glassy thing up on the flower.

Tossed some mist about.

 Here's Annie and Lucy taking a great photo.

They never take a bad pix.

(which is totally annoying to those of us that do LOL)

Studio Calico, Bazzil cardstock.