I bought a new punch

Like I really needed a new punch.

And if you'll notice those little leaves....

that's my new punch.

And I love it.

You may be over it after awhile.

LOL.

 Had a bit of mishap with flinging white paint around.

The drips were really huge so I sort of

blotted them out. 

And figured I might as well point them out with some mist.

 Finally used that little deer that's been rattling around me desk for 

a really long long time.

A bow and some butterflies and those

really pretty sequins from

the Paper Issues Swag bag.

 I adore those little bags.

And wa-la basically an "all about me" page.

I haven't figured out what to journal.

Yet.

It was awhile ago and the brain needs to be addled

as nothing about this photo brings

anything special to mind.

Those were the days.............

Studio Calico, Echo Park, my new MS leaf punch, butterfly punch and 

the snappy edge punch and also some die cuts.

Love pink and grey

I don't know why but its one of those cool

color combinations.

And the little Martha Stewart doilies. 

I had 3 in my stash and time for them to be used up.

The MS butterfly punch - best purchase ever.

And look at those 4 photos.

I have done one or two separately on pages

long time ago, but in rifling through the wayback box

I found four.

And it shows the progression of my little snit.

The majority of the supplies are Studio Calico and

the papers are from this month's kit.

Just delivered on Monday.

And I couldn't wait to break into it.

I have been watching Kittyscrapper's videos and she's 

a freaking hoot - not to mention a very fun scrapbooker.

So my background pages reflect that.

She uses a back paper - cuts a hole out - mats the photos with that

and adds a "front page". 

I decided to try it and its a great time and it does use up supplies and 

adds a bit of a pop.

I love her English accent - she makes everything sound cool.

I have also signed up for May Flaum's use your stash

and I have been wanting to use those

transparent alphas FOREVER.

They finally worked although I had to frankenstein some letters.

May's class is fun and informative and

actually have done the last few pages with those tips

and tricks in mind and forgot to mention it.

Why? I've just been feeling off my game lately and now

having "A DOH" moment.

Sad, really.

Ever feel like that?

Now I have to figure out how to link her up.

The color white has many different shades

I decided that I wanted to challenge myself and do an all white 

scrapbook page. I do have the perfect photo.

How hard can it be.

Well. I knew I wanted some flowers on there, but I wasn't loving the flower dies that came with the branches. It took a long time to find "white" ones. There is soft white, grey white, off white and only 2 white white. I tried to paint an off white flower and it looked "off white. 

After I put it mostly together on a design I had going on in my head I decided it looked plain and I wasn't sure how to fix that. I found that white enamel paint isn't "white white" nor gesso and I was afraid to slap it on there because I had a limited amount of this white bazzill cardstock.

WHITE RUBONS! Now I had to find them. So digging around in the old stash I found some Making Memories and did a sample that really looked good.

Embossing might have done it as well only I wasn't sure how to apply it to the majority of the page. 

I then discovered I had some "white white" puffy stickers from MAMBI as something more was needed. Also the corners I felt were a little bare.

I filled in the corners trying to not get real carried away.

Found some "white white" rick rack and from the scraps I punched

out some butterflies.

I also agonized over the alphas because I pulled out the ole white white thickers and didn't both sets  lack some important vowels with no way to frankenstein any of them soooo..... *head slap* 

I do have alpha dies. 

QK Emily came to mind and its perfectly girly for what I wanted on this page and eked out the letters, again from scraps.

The only color other than the shadows are Amelia's pretty blue eyes.

And yes..I went with angel eyes.

I couldn't be helped.

I used bazzill cardstock from my Studio Calico stash, Tim Holtz birdcage die, Sissix dies, Martha Steward butterfly punch, Paper Studio rick rack, Mambi puffies, MM rubons, Michaels wedding ribbons, Bazzill flowers and QK Emily alphas.

Another challenge: DO an all white page. 

Simply Irresistable....

This page actually started without a picture.

My mojo took a little hiatus and I decided that maybe playing around would help. I did pick up a 6x6 My Mind's Eye pad at M's. I'd say new but at M's is all um...relevant.

I started with an edge punch, a couple of stamps (the bottom left is mostly covered up, an onion bag and a white dauber - that I had to hunt for.  I did some messy stitching to cover up some um.... things. OOO OOO and I flipped some glitter on the white paint too. I also sprinkled some mist about.

I found the flowers from Studio Calico Josephine Kimberling and they matched really really well. The heart doily was under my glass mat - very convenient.


Then I went to the wayback box for a photo and decided a portrait orientation worked better and actually found a couple of promising photos - but I loved this one.


When I got to the photo corner I took a break because the paper was eluding me and it needed something blue in the corner. After cleaning the dishwasher, reloading it and scrubbing the sink out, I strolled on back and lo and behold I found the paper I was hunting for.



And then I had to find more of the Bo Bunny I used for the photo corner because I wanted to use this QK label. And then of course that needed something. So I used my new butterfly punch that can punch anywhere. Swoon. And that fountain from Dusty Attic literally fell out of a basket I was hunting through for more do-dads. And then I decided that some washi was required to cover up seams. Then I had to find pearls.

The title from Making Memories actually jumped out of the bag too and I was kinda eh about it but when I put it on the label - I liked it much better and it goes so perfect with their pose.

Then after I adhered everything - I couldn't remember if I took a picture of the picture. Heavy sigh. Because of course I used permanent adhesive. I carefully yanked it off and took a photo in case anyone in the family would love to have a copy because I used the original.

Calgon take me away...

You just don't see that commercial on anymore.
Is it even sold?

I'm a shower kinda gal so I don't know.

I was getting tired of 8x8 squares so I decided

to go round. I even broke out my sewing machine with

a funky edging. It took a few times around because the thread

got tangled up a few times.

I left it that way.

I then picked out papers and just started laying it on.

And then I found the die cut piece just laying about.

And it seemed to work.

Then I had to find the perfect photo for the page.

It called for a photo that was not quite swanky

and not quite tooo laid back.

I also stamped on the photo with my new Studio Calico stamp.

I know. I can be quite the rebel unexpectedly.

There's some Bo Bunny going on with Basic Grey, KI memories,

Little Yellow Bicycle cork alphas, Tim Holtz word strips, prima and

I got to use my new butterfly anywhere punch by Martha Stewart.

Wooo Hooo!!!