Hello / 12x12 layout

Good morning everyone!! 

This is my newest little one here. Shes cuddling with my hubby, pre-hair cut lol, and I thought it was sweet that she just kept staring up at him. So I wanted to capture that. She would just sit there and stare at him, still dose now that shes a few months old, but now she jabbers more and simles, LOVE that!! lol.

Well I used my September Hip kit to make this layout. I had made it when I was still on the design team, but never shared it. I was in my craft room cleaning up and found it, so I thought Id share it. I love the nice soft colors that are mixed in with the new Maggie Holmes Gather collection, but I also like the yellow and blues! 

Here are a few close ups for you to check out!

My loot Crate baby/ 12x12 scrapping my stash

Hey everyone! I am out running around today but I wanted to share a layout I created playing with stuff that's been in my stash for a few years.

Me and my hubby are our own kind of nerds lol and proud of it! Well he started getting his loot crates last year and loves them!! They always come with cool shirts, sometimes socks, collectabl toys and all kinds of stuff. It made him really happy when this showed up on our door step, I guess it's his equivalent to me getting my scrappy mail lol so I decided I wanted to document it.

I had fun playing with the cut files and mix of patterned papers. Ashley Horton created this cut file for Hip Kit Club for the month of August2016. And this was another layout that I created playing along with some of the prompts from a Victoria Marie online crop.

I really did like the fact that I dove into my stash with this one and used old Crate paper, old I believe American crafts paper, some Basic Grey and Pink Paislee Memorandum. I really did have fun. I definitely say you need to join the Victoria Marie facebook group, everyone is amazing there, lots of crafty talk, fun and goofyness and just plain fun!!

Well thanks for stopping by, I hope you come back to see more!

So the adventure begins/ 12x12 layout Hip Kit DT

Hello everyone, Im sharing a layout today that I created for the Hip Kit Club Design team with the August 2016 kits and cut-files.

My kids have great minds and I love how they show it. My daughter is 3, we were helping my parents pack up their house and she commandeered this box. She drew on it some and then informed us that she was going to the zoo to see the giraffes, So I loved that that was in this months kit!! lol  Anyways, she also told us that she was going to the movies and to Alaska to visit her aunt and a few other places.   

I cut the cut-file out on a piece of American Crafts white cardstock and added pop dots on the back of it after I had chose all the paper strips I wanted to use, a mix of Dear Lizzy, Amy tangerine and Crate paper all from the main kit. I used my water colors and painted some of the cool little flower cut-files and layered them with flowers ad stickers. 

I'm working on my issues, but I dont like having my journaling on my layouts, not showing at least. So I made a little pocket up to the left of the photo and journaled on a tag and stuck it in there. It was either that or on the back and I was happy with it here, lol. I see so many people journal on there layouts and it looks fantastic and then I do it and its like, oh did she let her kid do the journaling for her? lol I mean I guess my handwriting isnt that bad but I'm working on it lol.

I hope you enjoyed my layout and I hope you come back and check out more of what I create! make sure to head over to the Hip Kit blog and check out what all those lovely ladies are coming up with and make sure to grab your kits while you can!!

Hello Lovely mini album / Pretty Little Studio DT

Good morning everyone!! 

I'm here this morning to share a mini album I made for a friend of mine. So this one wont have any pictures in it yet. But I enjoyed making it. I thought the Woodland collection would be perfect for this, So I grabbed it and started.

I actually created this whole mini from things in my stash and the Woodland collection from Pretty Little Studio.

I took 2 pieces of chipboard, cut them down  and scored a 1 inch binding on both pieces and adhered them together and place a Tim Holtz large ring binder on the spine inside and placed them with eyelets and covered the entire album in papers from the Woodland collection. I just love that wild rose paper!! I think I could use that over and over and even better, it comes where the background is in different colors!! Love!

The page bases are little Paper Studio favor bags from Hobby lobby, some foiled in gold others just kraft with polka dots! I love polka dots too! lol

The inside cover has a 2 layered pocket, I thought this way it can hold more tags, journaling or ephemera that my friend wants to keep for her little one. Each page is also a baggy/envelope for storing more things, this way everything is in one place.

I added labels threw out the mini so that dates and things could be kept track of, little snippets of journaling and all.

Most of the labels and tags are adhered down to where pictures can be slid under them if wanted.  

And I like the gold foiled envelops with this collection and the Cambridge doilies, to me they make it look a bit more dainty. lol

I made sure to add a extra little pocket in the back with tags so there would be even more places to journal or add pictures. I always feel like there can never be enough places to put pics or keep your memories.

Thanks for stopping by and checking my mini album out!!

Paper Studio Products used:

• Woodland Collection: 6x6 paper pad, Wild Rose-White 8x8, Vellum tape-Petals, Clover leaf labels-cut a parts, Rose Bush Tabs, Caterpillar green 8x8, Limb 8x8, Cambridge 6 in doily 

Hip kit club CT/ Sing your heart out!!!

Good morning everyone!!! Im here and up on the Hip kit club facebook page this morning sharing a layout I created with the March 2016 main kit, embellishment kit, paper add on kit and some bits and pieces from the February 2016 kits! Thats one think I love about all these kits, they all go together so well so you can combine them too!!

My layout this week is of a goofy picture of my youngest daughter singing her little heart out! I was so happy to catch this pic cause she always comes in doing things but runs off just as fast,lol, but I actually had my phone in my hand and caught it! She loves music and loves to sing all the time and this was no different, she was singing at the top of her lungs and getttin it!

I took inspiration from this months mood board to create this layout. I went with the pinks, bright pops of yellow and little touches of blue. Along with the great American Crafts cork thickers.

I grabbed a few doilies from my stash to add to the layers and dimension to my layout.

I love the all these Pinkfresh Studio, Felicity papers and embellishments!! The colors are fantastic and the 6x6 paper pad that came in the Embellishment kit was fantastic and wow does it make the kit go even further!

I concentrated my layering and cluster to the doilies. They seem to draw my eye more, is it the same for you?

I really do like how this layout turned out and I'm so happy to have gotten it scrapped. Sometimes I think some of my photos are a bit odd and I wonder if i should scrap them but I'm getting to where it doesn't bother me anymore. I took the photo for a reason, even if it doesn't have a big story behind it, its something I wanted to remember and keep.

Well I hope you liked my layout and make sure to visit the links I have above and check everything out!! Thanks so much and make sure to come back next week for more layouts, inspiration and other things!