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.

 

Traveler's Notebook - Love this life!

I decided, based on past TN's that it's not a good idea

for me to have photos on both sides.

Therefore, in the midst of the this TN that has been

going on for awhile, I'm changing

it up to have embellishments on the left, photos on the right.

And shake it all around.

😂

Also, I have run out of 4x6 photo paper (gasp I know)

BUT I have a ton of 5x7 so......

It's been interesting working with that size.

Below is a series of fun photos that me and my pal Christine

did looking for that ONE photo that doesn't make

one look goofy.

As you can see it took awhile and since we look goofy

anyway, why not roll with it.

I printed the photos 1.9 square to get them all in and

really like how the series turned out.

You can almost see the fun transparency which says Seriously LOL.

Using up my stash of project life cards is going really well. 

Love the sentiment on this card and the old fashioned lady

and her little bouquet and buttons I fussy cut from a tag. 

We had a lovely Labor Day with family at Ocean Beach. 

Good food and lots of fun.    

Of course one can't be in NJ without having pizza - like a lot.

Nobody does it better.

Love the thin cracker like crust - one can eat more. 

Project life card fussy cut to the rescue again.

We didn't do much sightseeing but we did get to Twin Lights.

Very cool. 

Studio Calico PL, QK spicy chicken, TH PL cards, 

embellies and papers,

thickers.

 

TN - Favorite memes - Field Report

Yea, COVID-19 is awful, serious, deadly, and since

everyone is social distancing, nothing makes

social distancing better 

than humor.

We all need to keep our sense of humor so we don't

go stir-crazy.

Besides a good laugh gets those endorphins flowing 

and your body loves them and they're good for you.

So let's be amused when we can.

 I decided to collect my favorite memes that I'm

sure you have seen on my FB page.

So with Tim Holtz and some thickers, and a transparency

will highlight the warped sense of humor

necessary in these trying time.

All sorts of cards for April.....

It's a busy month - lots of fun birthdays...

so for my granddaughter Amelia who's turning 8.

Love that little girl stamp.

Very fun.

 Pinterest strikes again and love this card for

an 8 year old grandson.

Except for the stamps, the 8 is freehand.

I really need a more talented free hand LOL.

 And Easter is popping up and love this

fluffy duck card for the grands.

Pinterest strikes again.

 A kickin' birthday card for a soccer afficienado.

Scoured the internet and found a soccer ball I could fussy cut.

 A friend of mine asked for a special card as one of

her friends is turning 100.

Can you imagine?

Lots of really old Studio Calico papers going on here

as well as thickers, stamps and Tim Holtz.

Now I need to mail them out.

Travelers Notebook - double page spread

Superbowl Sunday - we had a blast!

Hanging out with our friends and what a delish spread

we had going on.

When I first put the TN together - I whacked up a lot of white pages

and then decided to toss in some colored pages.

I think they work pretty good together.

There is also a transparent overlay "good times" that I've had 

stashed FOREVER.

Watercolor album pages - scrapped!

Well I know you've seen these before.

Several times I'm sure.

However, they were so much fun I decided that

in some cases photos are now required to grace the pages.

Since I had an extra photo of our campsite and since  it

just fit perfectly on this page

that had already been stamped with a title

made it very easy to pull this page together.

 My psychedelic

winged granddaughter was perfect for

this wildly colored page.
Love the sentimentsand I handcut the title.

I KNOW.  

I've been totally watching way too

much of Lisa Fonseca on u-tube.

LOOK HER UP.

She hand-draws 

EVERYTHING.

and everything is stinkin'

ADORABLE.

But it works with the psychedelic vibe
 - LIKE totally.

I cannot express how hard it was for me to put that handmade title out there
because it's not "perfect."
(Like my pages are perfect LOL, but.....)

But I'm over that now and may do it more often.

 And the music man worked because it was already

titled "dream a little dream".

Owen could be a rockstar if

he keeps working at it  and practicing
one day he'll be a gifted musician.

Guitar, keyboard, sax (to name a few).

This book has been really fun.

From creating the watercolor pages to finding

the perfect photos to grace the pages

along with the perfect embellishments.

So stamps and diecuts and thickers and words and stickers.

Oh my........

More entries in my Travelers Notebook

Had so much fun with this.

We were camped in a friend's backyard and

this little groundhog was our neighbor.

Every now and then he'd scamper across the yard

into the woods.

I couldn't resist.

Oh and if you know about the Shadow - you're really old.

My pal Holli stamped and mailed that fun critter. 

LOL

 Had that birthday sentiment for a long time and

kept forgetting to use it.

Well.

Stash Bust.

Loved that we could get together and celebrate

my brother in laws birthday.

 Of course I had to document our trip to Hershey and

chocolate covered bacon.

Yum.

There were 4 slices 4 different ways and each

had an abundant of chocolatey goodness.

And for the TH phrase up there - I actually finally

bought a Tsquare ruler and guess who

STILL had trouble making straight lines. 😐

And some of the leaves are changing.

It's going real slow

and I wanted to get our home in on the

leaf peeping action.

I have had that acorn flair button forEVER.

Finally.

There's a mix of a lot of stuff that of course

I don't have the packaging too.

So you'll have to guess. LOL.

I'm also doing pretty good with the no dimension rule.

More or less.

😉

Halloween pages

Instead of stretching them out I decided to

just roll with all of them...

So first up is 8.5x11 of Sam and Lou

(Simba and a witch)

So adorable.

Did you notice the color of the paper matches

Lou's witchy face?

Love that.

 Miss Amelia decided to be a cat.

She has some homemade spiders going on -

buttons, cardstock legs and goofy eyes.

Nothing says spooky like that.

Her paper maybe Echo Park (not sure) I mixed

a bunch of lines here. So my bad.

 Next up is Owen and Annie and if 

they hadn't been standing side-by-side I would've

never guessed Owen as Michael Jackson.

And Thriller is perfect.

They totally rocked that.

Got some G45 going on - Fussy cut the title which is

perfect with MJ's & the witches look.

We are headed out again in the RV - going to see my dad

in Tennessee and then slide up the Mississippi 

River again checking out the blues and food.

Also hoping for some pretty fall trees but I'm thinking

we're a bit too late for that. 

Remembering favorite things

photo 1-1

photo 1-2

Everyone has favorite things -

 things you enjoy

things that make you happy

things that bring you comfort

things passed down.

These are a few of my mom's favorite things

and some were my Gram's and then mine

and I thought it would be fun to showcase and

pocket pages worked it out the best.

Such a nostalgic page for me because some of the items

are not in my possession anymore

so it brings me comfort to see the photos of the items

especially when I see them as they were arranged

in mom's home.

Basic Grey, Bassil, various Studio Calico stuff, Doodle Bug stickers,

and thickers (which I turned the F around to make T's because

I was over finding a font that had letters I needed.

Photos from mom's wayback box

My wayback box is out of control so I decided

to plow through my mom's - it was

a mission for a photo of her and found a treasure

trove of photos of my kidlets as kidlets.

(And I didn't notice that stupid tag moved. Sigh

Says not a quitter under it).

Anyhoo, while I was plowing through the box I found a ton

of photos and these I decided to put together

as a "theme". 

Nick on all of his rides throughout the years.

I thought that was pretty cool.

Of course the pix were all different sizes so putting

them on a mat was necessary.

I put a bit of journaling about his tenacity in learning

to ride, which didn't come easy.

That boy fell off the bike so many times I had to quit

watching because I wanted to make him stop.

But I had to let him persevere and sha-zam - he stopped falling.

Yay!! Go Nick.

A bit monochromatic

Which I love every now and then and it is

perfect for this photo of Owen.

Love the hat, the pose, the smile.

Love this paper from Pebbles and paired it up

with some old Basic Grey and

just a bit of embellishment that went sort of

'old' school. 

It totally focuses on the photo.

Just a smidge off center

And there's a reason - there's this issue I've been having

lately with mists and the packaging technique.

It's been a flat out horror story - in fact there's one page

I seriously can't fix - that I may or may not ditch.

It's that bad.

Therefore in order to cover up said horror that strip

had to moved just a titch to assist in the

cover-up.

Feathers help too.

Now there's just a bit of color popping out 

that actually looks good.

Grands on a rock - they love the outdoors.

Pink fresh, thickers, and die cut feathers.

And mists 😐😐😐😐

Papers from the Smash book

These papers were leftover from the album I made 

for the 2016 Leaf Peeping Tour and were

taking up a lot of room in my scrap basket which

has totally runneth over. (more about that later).

 Love the edges when I pulled them out of the notebook

so I kept them as they add lovely texture.

I have been wanting to do this photo for a long time

and just couldn't decide what I wanted to do.

It totally worked out with these papers

and I got to use some girly stickers I had laying around for ages

The packaging technique helped pull colors around.

Mostly Studio Calico, K&Co, Shimelle diecut, thickers, and no clue on the stickers.

Five photos in sequence

Love those birds and for no reason except for that they grace the page.

 Have a cluster going on that I love and also have a cupcake for no reason.

 Love the cut aparts in this kit and they're the perfect accent.

This is a sequence of Miss Amelia learning to skate.

I think the photo size are 3x3 or close to it.

I highlighted a couple of photos as you can see using insta frames.

This is kind of different for me and I love it.

I really didn't over think it and tried to just glue as I went

that in itself was very fun.

Studio Calico again with some sissix and spellbinder die cuts going on.

Grandkids being adorable

Seriously how cute and fun is this.

I couldn't resist.

I found the star paper (unk mfg) in my scrap box

and thought it perfect.

So then I needed to build something around it.

Something goofy and fun.

I used Studio Calico poppy paint to make the lines

on Recollections cardstock to make

 an American flag.

I wanted it to have that Americana look mostly because I

can't draw a straight line.

 I cut out the stars

from another page where I started the lines

that didn't work out.

So a win-win there.

I googled superheros lyrics and found these.

They are so perfect.

Added a title and wa-la.

Back to preschool

Which is just as important but way more fun.

I find I'm using tags a lot

especially in little clusters.

I like that.

 Another little cluster with some

EK Success words.

Love those.

 And this 'wise ole owl' seems to be excited.

 I have had this 12x12 die cut in my paper box

FOREVER.

Way before the cameos came on the scene.

Finally thought to use it but I have

no clue who the mfg.

At first I thought black cardstock and it popped

but it seemed a bit too much.

Balanced it with some black and dots at the top and bottom.

I think this is kinda fun and works

for the tykes.

Sam and Lou hanging out.

A heritage photo sort of

Actually its more of a comparison photo all in one.

So I started with this wordy paper from Studio Calico 

and some Tim Holtz embellishment pack.

Don't you love that hat.

 I have to admit I got carried away with the layering.

It was like I couldn't stop.

 And I jumped back on the button bandwagon.

And might I point out that itty bitty gold heart.

If you'll remember I posted a page of Quintin with his dad in 

that little mini book for mom.

It appears that the apples don't fall far from the tree. 

How cool is that. 

Triplets.

The title could not be helped

It was just one of those aha moments because

I was really stuck on.....

wait for it.

 Guitar man.

Trite but true.

I found that adorable record in a Basic

Grey sticker sheet and it works perfectly.

I also had that itty bitty note punch forEVER

and trite but true decided to toss that in.

 Ta-da!

After staring at the page for the umpteenth time.

The title came.

Bwahahaha love it because

the adorable guitar man is Sam.

Taking after dad.

With two musical parents you can't go wrong.

Studio Calico paper & stamp,  Basic Grey stickers, Thickers,

QK die cut and punches.

Those gold hearts and stars you've seen bounced

around the pages are homemade.

I bought a 12x12 gold glitter paper from HL

and whack away with punches.

Love having a stash of them.

Really really old paper

I did go with the obvious here again especially

when I found this paper in my stash.

This is really really old stuff - Creative Imaginations,

Marrah Johnson design, Creative Cafe Tag which is really

more red in real life. 

I also broke out the die cut machine.

Love those feathers.

 I paired that 6x6 number paper from Studio Calico

with the striped transparency because 

it seemed like the thing to do.

Even those tabs are big die cuts from Quickutz

long time ago.

 The cuteness factor of this photo is above a level 10. 

LOL.

He  has all the instruments he needs to lay down a track.

No doubt he'll rock it.

Both parents are musicians.

Fussy cut layers

I was really stumped for a title for the blog so work with me here.

This is a Shimelle collection (the first) and it was

fun to work with because while its about travel

it can be used for 2 little dudes walking through their 'hood.

Anyway the layers just kept rolling and I love 

one of her pages that has those clocks, scales and phones and

cups among other things so I just fussy cut them out

and layered them in along with some wooden hearts and papers.

And that ampersand was a new stamp.

 I love the ledger paper and used the preprinted designs 

to set the photo and layers in.

 The bow is not Shimelle papers but it works so well 

with Sam's coat - so another goodie

out of my die cut box used.

And that ladybug peeking out....isn't that adorable.

And man the sun was bright this morning trying to

photograph this page, but it worked.

Mist by Heidi.....

One stamp is Shimelle's the other is Studio Calico and the

title was a bounce off - whenever I am stumped

for a title my pal April always has an idea - she came up

with winter buddies which was fun......

but it led me to baby it's cold and I love it.

We have a great process - 

do you have a scrap buddy that you can bounce things off?

I miss our cyberscrapping days -