The Simpsons Meet Jurassic Park Layout

For this Universal Studios layout, I needed to figure out how to combine Simpson and Jurassic Park photos, so I elected to use some cute dinosaur stamps along with a couple of the brighter colors from the Simpsons photos. I didn't need a big title area like the sketch called for, so I used that space to create a little dinosaur scene, and added a popsicle sticker to the T-rex's hand so the triceratops could breathe a sigh of relief that he wasn't going to be eaten . . . at least, not right away - LOL!

Recipe:
Roar & Grown With Love stamp sets
Moondoggie papers
Cranberry, Bamboo & White Daisy cardstock
Garden Green, Olive, Saffron, Goldrush, Indian Corn Blue & Chocolate ink
Black marker
Fern thick twine
Field Trip ephemera (American Crafts)
Emoji stickers (American Greetings)
Heart to Heart Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug Designs)
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge 99

Challenges: Heart 2 Heart Flora or Fauna (I added a little of both); Allsorts Challenges #674 Anything Goes with option of Scenic (I created a little scene with my dinosaurs to tie in the snack break with the Jurassic Park theme)

Stash Busters October Week 4

I am hosting the new Stash Busters challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers for anyone who has tons more scrapbooking supplies than she could use in the next 10 years - LOL! I would love to have you create a layout using the listed items and then link up at SCS using the link below.

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If you are anything like me, you have tons of older product stashed away in corners of your scrapping area, gathering cobwebs while you concentrate on newer items. This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash. I'll post a new list each Thursday this month (except the 31st), and you have until the last day of the month to scrap your layouts using the products. If you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month! Sound fun? Let's get started.

Since this is our final challenge this month, I'm mixing it up by giving you two options from which to chose:

Option 1
• 2 Patterned papers that are older than one year
• Felt or fabric
• 3 Buttons
• 1 Rub-on

Option 2
Find a layout that you completed at least a year previously but never put pictures on, and get some pictures printed and onto the layout!

You can use additional products, but you must use at least one of each of the items listed. If you don't have an item in your stash, please don't rush out and buy it! Just substitute a similar item from your stash. Happy hunting!

I went with Option 2 for my layout and used an incomplete layout that I've had in my stash for several years. Woohoo!

Recipe:
Chocolate Alphabet Large, Grown with Love, Thoughtful Seasons & Picture Perfect stamp sets
Twitterpated & Magic Moments Level 2 papers
Crystal Blue, Chocolate, Bamboo & Colonial White cardstock
Chocolate, Crystal Blue, Sorbet, Sweet Leaf & Versamark ink
Chocolate marker
White embossing powder
Sorbet brads
Chocolate ribbon
DE In Color - Organic (chipboard)

Elliot's Bad Hair Day Layout

Both 4 Crafty Chicks and Heart 2 Heart had challenges this week to use critters / creatures on our artwork, and Little Red Wagon was asking to see puns, so I put these three challenges together with this funny picture of my son Elliot when he was a baby and came up with the title for this layout. Hopefully I do not have to explain the bunnies on the layout. If I do, it's just not as funny as I thought it was! Oh well, at least I used up some old CTMH supplies . . .

Recipe:
Hodgepodge Alphabet, Holiday Hoopla, Welcome Baby & Grown with Love stamp sets
Animal Cookies Level 1 papers
Dutch Blue, Goldrush, Creme Brulee & Colonial White cardstock
Dutch Blue, Chocolate, Tulip & Clover Meadow ink
Dutch Blue marker
Chocolate striped ribbon
Tulip Bigger Brad
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: scalloped frame, photo corner

Planted with Love Layout

I was able to finish up quite a few challenges for National Scrapbooking Month. Here's the last of them,  finished right at the end on May 31st! Denise over at Let's Scrap gave us a photo she found on Pinterest to use as inspiration, and I lifted the color scheme and the tree. I used quite a few of the retired Mayberry papers, with a tiny bit of Dotty for You thrown in. All the hearts are punched, the tree was stamped, then cut out by hand, and the flower was paper pieced. Since I included branches, I'm also entering this layout in the Branching Out challenge from 4 Crafty Chicks!

My Layout:

Inspiration Photo:


Recipe:
Grown with Love, Flower Pot & Polka Dot Alphabet stamp sets
Mayberry & Dotty for You Level 2 papers
Honey, Sky, Sweet Leaf, Smoothie & Colonial White cardstock
Honey, Sky, Sweet Leaf, Smoothie & Cocoa ink
Honey, Sky, Smoothie & Olive markers
Colonial White ric-rac
Cocoa grosgrain ribbon
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: bracket
Pattern: Let's Scrap Sketch 12-7-11

Deer Sighting Layout

This may very well be one of my all-time favorite layouts. I just love the sweet little felt deer, especially after I added some embellishments inspired by Tresa Black. I started with a sketch by Sally at Split Coast Stampers, which I rotated until the orientation worked for my pictures. I turned Sally's sun rays into tree trunks, and finished with a title cut using my Wishblade and an adorable font I just discovered, CAC pinafore. Hope you like!



Recipe:
Grown With Love stamp set
Twitterpated Level 2 papers
Sweet Leaf & Colonial White cardstock
Sweet Leaf, Chocolate & Sorbet ink
Heartfelt Wonder die-cut
Dimension Elements in Color - Organic
Sorbet Ribbon Rounds
Colonial White embroidery floss
Black brad
Chocolate mini brad

Splendor Card Workshop

Good morning, everyone. I want to start my post by giving a shout-out to my cyber friend Lela, who used this week's EMS Sketch to complete a page. Way to go, Lela! You beat me to it. Here's a link to Lela's page. She used the sketch on the right hand page of her layout, and it's fun to see how she adapted it to fit her photos.

Now, I need everyone's help ASAP. I am holding a card workshop at church in July, and since I will be away on vacation the last Sunday in June, I need to advertise it in church tomorrow. Here are the cards I've designed so far (we'll be making 2 each of 5 designs), and I need some feedback. Are they all winners, or do I need to ditch any and start again? Or even just add a little something to any of them? I can't add too much, however, since I am hardly making anything on this workshop and don't want to spend more than I make - LOL! Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

Card #1 - I used Liquid Glass on the owl's eyes.


Card #2


Card #3 - The middle flower is actually on the inside of the card, viewable thru a cutout window.


Card #4 - Liquid Glass on the candle flames.


Card #5 - no special techniques, but a fun idea to put together.


Recipe:
Dream Big, Dainty Thoughts, Grown With Love, It's Your Day, Happy Birthday, Recipe Box, Tiny Typewriter Alphabet & Noted Backgrounds stamp sets
Splendor Level 2 papers
Colonial White cardstock
Chocolate, Topiary & Goldrush ink
Colonial White brads
Colonial White ricrac
Chocolate Ribbons Rounds
Liquid Glass
3-D foam tape
Scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
Scalloped scissors (Fiskars)

LOAD #19 - Haas Lilienthal House

If you are ever visiting San Francisco, the Haas-Lilienthal House is well worth seeing. It survived the fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and is now open for guided tours. This layout holds a few of the pictures we took of the outside of the house. You can take pictures inside, but are not allowed to use a flash, so those pictures didn't look so great. I finally used my Around the Block stamp set, which was a stamp of the month last fall for CTMH. It was so much fun building a house! I usually do a sketch challenge on Monday, but I am skipping it this week. Hopefully I'll be able to pick it up again next Monday. Sorry!



Recipe:
Around the Block, Grown With Love, Friendship Alphabet Large & Friendship Alphabet Small stamp sets
Twitterpated Level 2 papers
Lilac Mist & Chocolate cardstock
Indian Corn Blue, Chocolate, Lilac Mist & Olive ink
Buttercup marker
White Daisy Just Blooms
Chocolate brads
Chocolate Ribbon Rounds

A Little Everything Card Workshop

A few friends are coming over tomorrow night to make cards. It's a small workshop, only four cards, but I know we'll have lots of fun. I really love the March Stamp of the Month, A Little Everything, and I think it is so versatile, so I decided to use it on all my cards. In the interest of keeping the cost down, I used mostly scraps, and I'm not using major embellishments, but I had fun with the Liquid Glass and Bitty Sparkles. I'm open to feedback, although I won't have a lot of time tomorrow to change anything, so please tell me if you have any minor tweaks that would improve the cards. Thanks to all the ladies who participated in the March SOTM Blog Hop. Their creativity totally inspired me! Special thanks to Annette Green for her Easter card, which was the basis for my Easter card.





Recipe:
A Little Everything, Love You Forever, Star Struck, Connections, Holiday Hoopla, Simple Stitches, State of Mind, Thoughtful Seasons, Grown with Love & Dainty Thoughts stamp sets
Twitterpated Level 2 papers
Sweet Leaf, Sorbet, Crystal Blue & Colonial White cardstock
Sweet Leaf, Sorbet, Crystal Blue & Chocolate ink
Sorbet & Chocolate grosgrain ribbon
White Daisy Just Blooms
Clear buttons
Bitty Sparkles
Liquid Glass

Grateful Layout

I've been really busy preparing for 2 workshops this upcoming weekend. You've already seen the Christmas card one, and we'll be creating this scrapbook layout plus the card at my other workshop. The layout pattern is Clear Dimension from Cherish, and the card is based on the Twitterpated Workshop on the Go. My friend Lisa really wanted me to use the tree from the Grown With Love stamp set, so this is for you, friend! And of course, I had to use the darling hedgehog (he is a hedgehog, right?) on the card.





Recipe:
Grown with Love, Twitterpated WOTG, Chocolate Alphabet Large, Thoughtful Seasons & Picture Perfect stamp sets
Titterpater & Magic Moments Level 2 papers
Chocolate, Crystal Blue, Colonial White & Bamboo cardstock
Chocolate, Sorbet, Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf & Versamark ink
White embossing powder
Chocolate Ribbon Rounds
Liquid Glass
Heart brad (unknown source)

Lady Layout

October flew by, and I didn't post many layouts, but that's because I was too busy to scrapbook. Sad but true! I decided to get out my supplies early this morning (woke up way too early because of the time change) and complete this layout that's been sitting around for months. I tried a new technique - stamping on twill ribbon - and discovered that you have to use pretty dark ink for it to show up. My friend Lisa wants me to use the Grown with Love stamp at a gathering I'm doing for her later this month, so I thought I'd get it out and experiment with it. Fun stamp set, but I'm not sure what I'll have the ladies do with it yet. Creating the foilage for the tree was kinda time consuming, so I may have to get creative. After I scanned the layout, I realized that the bottom of it seemed kind of plain, so I added a rub-on, but I didn't want to re-scan it, so that's why the two pictures are different.





Recipe:
Homestead Alphabet, Grown with Love & Twitterpated WOTG stamp sets
Rustic Trails Level 2 papers
Cocoa, Desert Sand, Bamboo & Colonial White cardstock
Cocoa, Olive & Black ink
Love Letters rub-ons
Twill ribbon
Photo hanger
Olive marker
White gel pen (Sakura)
Scallop scissors (Fiskars)
Circle & Leaf punches