Birthday card - one year old

Grandbaby first birthday needed a fun card.

I love this QK monkey so easy to put together.

Using some fun embellies I premade with 

watercolor color papers and leftover inks and/or paints.

and Martha Steward alpha punch (wish I got the numbers punch)

but alas.....

Love the monkey shines font!!!

The alphas in blue are QK calvin.

 

Homemade project life card

Because I do have limited supplies and storage, 

I don't have a lot of room for pre-made project life cards.

And I love them.

However, making my own and customizing them

is a lot more fun and I've gotten so much

better at making them.

This is a Sissix thinlet die that has a bunch

of sea creatures on it.

I use it a lot.

As you may know if you read my other posts

I have a love/hate relationship with

those dies that have ITTY BITTY pieces.

Like a puzzle 😐

I am not fond of puzzles.

Oh that "stitching around is a Technique Tuesday stamp.

They have 6 different ones - A fav!

I found because of the way I do things that 

whacking everything out all at once

and then trying to figure out 

where everything goes.

That is not a plan you want to employ.

When I made these I cut ONE CRITTER at a time

AND THEN,

I actually put it together RIGHT THEN.

Of course you have the packaging close at hand to

check out the photo of more than occasionally.

IT WORKS WWAAYY BETTER.

And don't get me started on those itty bitty little dies. 😐🤣🥸

 

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 - Let's go

Using up them PL cards and when it's perfect, well there ya go.

24/7 - 365

Why yes, my darling sweet hubby (99% of the time) spend

all that time together.

We live full time in our RV and travel 6-7 months (more or less)

out of the year traveling.

Which is such a blast, we have a lot of fun.

Then because I could I made another page that turned out really cute.

TH butterfly, Art-C, Studio Calico, TH, Dear Lizzy stamp.

On the backside I glued this envelop and tag because

I really didn't want to have to embellish another couple of sides

only because I feel I have too LOL.

It's a thing.

So I really wanted to write more about our adventures a bit 

more so that worked out really well.

I have chatted about us being together 24/7. You can read about that here.

A fun time we had before leaving was getting to hang out with the

grands in which was a lot of fun and good food.

It worked out well with journaling on the left and photos on the right.

Used some TH on it - Studio Calico PL & stamps, MS alpha punch, oh my

new dragonfly stamp. Had to work that in.

 

Mixed Media - Twelve and then some

This was a fun page to make, however, if you skim

down, I made it for the photo of my favorite, fearless eldest son

jumping out of a perfectly good airplane but the colors

didn't work. At. All.

However, this page of Owen turning 12 is perfect.

It turned out really fun.

Lots of TH - using the oxides sprays.

I'm still trying to get the hang of the sprays, etc.

stamps, but the embellishment side of it.

I still scrapbook it LOL.

However, it turned out using the packaging technique

and some stencils from Art-C and some

Tim Holtz tags and embellies.

The title was done with stamps I bought from M's

and even though I have the packaging - there's no name.

I also use some same stamps from the Art-C.

Thanks to my pal Holli who gifted me with this

TH die cut of flowers.

Love the colors!!!

Those butterflies are made of wax paper. I find

that if you layer in wax paper when die cutting

intricate dies - it helps pop them out easier and the

wax paper does make a cool embellie.

This was a premade page - using watercolors.

Had a lot of fun making these pages and as I said

I'm feeling my way. 

I also found these pages are sticking together so I'm

only doing one side with photos in this album as well.

In this album which is a mixed media watercolor album I gessoed

the pages and I think that is the sticky culprit.

I'll keep you posted.