Blatant page lift

I love doing lifts and learning different styles, don't you?
The best way to do that is lifting either in bits
and pieces or doing the whole darn thing.
Well.........
This page is a blatant lift of Eyoung Lee.

She has a beautiful, clean style and I happened upon

her on Google+ and started following.

My page isn't "pretty" or "romantic" like hers (the original) but I like how 

mine turned out all the same. It's fun.

Love these strips and I've been slowly working my

way through them - almost gone. 

 This transparency is fun and the last one

from the Studio Calico kit - Love that I'm using all the supplies.

Do you find that you save some embellishments and paper for "good". LOL.

("For good" is a saying for back in the day when you

dressed in your best for special occasions - that dress or

shoes you keep in the closet for only then.)
And didn't I just date myself there.

I seriously have a need to work through that.

 My elements didn't exactly work the same

on the page as hers but I still like the design.

Mixed into this page is "shades of Soaphousemama" and

the Embellishment DIY Class I took from her.

(upside down houses - a whimsical twist).

I like that.

Ashli has a very unique style as well and she's alot of fun to follow.

I used the glassine packages to mat the photo-

love the packaging and neeeeed more.

Everything Studio Calico except the heart
which is Bella Blvd.

Throwback Thursday scrapbook picks

from the 2011 CK tips & tricks issue.

I love this one because its cute. 

 And the banners are starting already. And flowers - I've always adored flowers and have tried to get away from them but they do add something to page.

I really love the colors and the design.

And the flowers that make the Christmas tree. I'm so going to try and remember that this year.

I love the colorful, artsy feel of this.

More flowers and very girly.

Love the design.

And this one too. Different colored papers that at first look odd but really mesh together.

An 8.5x11 2 pager. I love how the flowers shine.

Again the design rocks.

Love the flower clusters and journaling strips. Very pretty.

This was part of a 2pager and I liked this page better. I love the mists and again the flowers make me swoon.

Finding some inspiration

So a couple of weeks ago I purchased the 2013 101+ ways to use your 

scrapbook supplies by Creating Keepsakes.

I miss the magazines as I loved poring over them while watching TV

with a lovely glass of wine while dog earring pages.

Raise your hand if you love doing that.

So while I was doing that I had my phone in hand and began to photograph the ones I really liked

and then sent them to my pal April - who liked them as well. I believe she lifted the one with journaling strips already. So now I'm behind. Of course we're keeping score. LOL!

And the reasons for my choices were all different.

 And I just go with what intrigues me. It could be the journal strips above.  Or maybe it could be the fun title and the old school design on the married one. Or  just the film strip below.

I love the rounded corners on this.... and the large mat.

And the orange ribbon. This is April's style. I like to be an equal opportunity dog earrer.

Love the use of the maps, the arrows - this page was just plain fun.

And the banners - loved the banners and the way the journaling was done. I tend to be real conservative on my banners. Putting 5 on a string is over the to for me. Just sayin......

This page is just plain awesome and totally speaks to me. Love all the embellishments and touches - especially the mists and splats.

And I loved the photo on this which was perfectly showcased. Again this is more April's style than mine.

I informed April she had  no need to purchase a copy LOL! Actually I believe she'd enjoy a copy. However, I don't just pore over this mags once or twice. I do it quite a bit because maybe something else will speak to me that didn't the first 19319348318 times I looked.

 I also didn't realize it was 2013 until I really got into it and honestly, it doesn't matter. I still look at magazines I bought 5, 10 years ago. I really miss them.

And with all this inspiration, I have nada. 

And that's okay- 

I have the 2014 Spring Somerset Memories.

And I'll be sharing that too.

I know you're excited.

QUESTION: Does it not boggle your mind that there are 1039410394139481384 bazillion scrapbookers out - and honestly, unless you are doing a lift - ISN'T IT AMAZING how all of our pages are totally unique and different.

A straw and a lift

My pal April and I were cyberscraping and she chose the page we should lift. She got it from pintrest and I traced it back to this blog; Teacher Jessy's blog. 

I took liberties of course to make it my own. I broke out the gelatos and went to town. I love the background which is a Studio Calico geometric pattern. I pulled out some old Basic Grey tags from all their collections -not worrying too much about colors since all BG's collections work together and the gelato colors I picked were sort of neutral. I love the whimsey of the straw and the pop of color. It brings your eye right to the title and photo and also the emblishment to the left of it. I believe I jacked the straw idea from Ashli over at Purplemailbox - she used one awhile ago.

I had to plant a flower over to the side because somehow I managed to put an inky fingerprint over there and there was no covering or cleaning it up.

Miss Amelia came to Florida to visit me and of course lil miss was photographed much to her annoyance I'm sure. She shouldn't be too traumatized since she's still being photographed. This is totally a flash from the past and she needs to visit again.

Parents optional :)

Cyber scrapping rocks

Especially when its with a pal that loves a challenge.
April chose the lift - upper right corner in a 2008 Simple Scrapbooks Jan/Feb issue. It was a fun challenge. My page as you will recognize my favorite eldest son and my amazing granddaughter. I used patterned paper (studio calico) vellum, washi, and cutout card with some mist going on. I kept the title because it fit. Didn't do alot of journaling because it really doesn't need it.

April kept to the spirit of the page changing up the title and location of the heart.  We both kept to the 8.5x11 size.

The challenge of it was fun and I find it amazing that pages that were created "back in the day" still resonate today. They have a classic look, like the little black dress. Trends come and go but that little gem somehow continues to rule the day. The same in scrapbooking. I love the trends, but I feel it sometimes "dates" my pages. (Think 80's hairdos).

However, in 100 years from now, I'm hoping those next generations prize and cherish the pages I created and they will never know that A. The latest and greatest products weren't used, and B. Trends may or may not have been followed.